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Welcome to the Pirate History Podcast.

2:33

My. Name is Matt. Thank you for listening.

2:36

We're. Going to be talking about a poem.

2:39

Today. This. Poem

2:41

was written and seventeen o five.

2:44

It was published in Edinburgh and

2:46

we know the. Publishing House

2:49

which released it but we don't know the

2:51

name of the author. Still,

2:53

It might be my new favorite

2:55

poem of all time. The.

2:57

Title is a pill

3:00

for pork eaters or.

3:02

A Scots lancet for an

3:04

English swelling. The

3:07

impetus for this poem was the

3:09

trial of Captain Thomas Green for

3:11

high seas piracy. But.

3:14

A Pill for pork eaters

3:16

goes way beyond just Thomas

3:18

Green. Ever since I

3:20

stumbled upon this poem I knew that I

3:22

was going to have to hang to days

3:25

story on it has such you're gonna have

3:27

to listen to be muddle my way through

3:29

some verses today so I'll do my best.

3:32

Their. A pill for

3:34

pork heaters begins Quote: Heavens

3:37

are we such a survival

3:39

nation grown beneath our ancestors,

3:41

so vastly thrown that every

3:43

English scribbling tool, a late

3:45

base miscreants and vermin of

3:47

the state hired by the

3:49

mob and licensed now to

3:51

prayed Dares does the rain

3:53

our justice and hour laws

3:56

and make three villains lives.

3:58

A nation's cause. This.

4:02

Is Episode Three Thirty seven. Vermin.

4:06

Of the state. The.

4:08

Author there is asking the

4:10

have a week Scotland Grown

4:12

So survival that every English

4:15

pin dares to insult our

4:17

laws by defending these three

4:19

villains. The three

4:22

men in question were kept in Thomas

4:24

Green the first made of his ship,

4:26

John Matter and the gunner James Simpson.

4:30

Seat: This poem was written after

4:32

the trial had wrapped up, after

4:34

a verdict had been reached and

4:36

sentence past but not yet carried

4:38

out. These three men

4:40

were found guilty of piracy and they

4:42

were sentenced to hang. But

4:46

they. Were probably innocent And fact, I'm

4:48

pretty sure they were innocent. So is

4:50

everyone else who has studied this trial.

4:53

Even at the time, England knew that

4:55

they were innocent and you know, told

4:57

the Scottish that the Scottish weren't having.

5:01

The. English knew that John Bowen,

5:03

victorious pirate of the Red Sees,

5:05

had in fact been responsible for

5:08

the piracy for which Thomas Green

5:10

had been convicted. And

5:12

the Scottish looked at this evidence,

5:15

comprehended it, presumably, and then passed

5:17

it out because that's Not what

5:19

this trial was really about. This.

5:21

Trial was about. England.

5:24

And. The English people. To

5:27

the. Author of this poem calls

5:29

Vermin of the State. And.

5:32

The. Conflict. Of

5:35

which this poem was just

5:37

one symptom. It was serious.

5:40

There. Was a real danger that it might. Topple,

5:43

The Government of Scotland. Or maybe

5:45

worse than that, start a real

5:47

war. We. left scotland

5:49

last time after the jacobite

5:51

uprising of sixteen ninety one

5:54

know that uprising failed but

5:56

gigabyte sympathies did not die

5:58

out especially and the Scottish

6:00

Highlands. The Highlands

6:02

were home to something of a long-running,

6:05

small-scale guerrilla war that

6:08

just refused to end.

6:11

It wasn't Vietnam and the Highlands, but

6:13

it was a problem, mainly

6:16

because it forced the Scottish government

6:18

to devote military resources to the

6:20

Highlands. This was

6:23

a real problem because Scotland was

6:25

currently embroiled in the Nine Years'

6:27

War. That

6:29

brings us to the Glencoe Massacre. The

6:33

Secretary of State for Scotland,

6:35

Lord Stair, ordered the

6:37

Argyle Infantry Regiment to march

6:39

into Glencoe, demand a

6:41

pledge of loyalty to King William, and

6:44

if the Highlanders there failed to pledge

6:46

that allegiance, the Argyle Regiment

6:49

was to kill them. And

6:51

that's what happened. About thirty

6:53

members of Clan MacDonald were killed for,

6:56

allegedly, failing to pledge allegiance to

6:59

William and Mary. Now, this did

7:01

not put an end to Jacobite

7:03

unrest in Scotland. If anything, it

7:06

added yet another cause for

7:08

the Jacobites to rally behind.

7:12

But in the next few years, Jacobite

7:14

activity did diminish pretty significantly.

7:18

So what happened here? Well,

7:20

there are lots of possible

7:23

answers, but we're going to focus on two

7:25

big ones. The first

7:27

is political. Remember

7:29

that castle we talked about last time,

7:31

Castle Blair? The castle

7:33

of Marquis of Thole, who went

7:36

down to London for his health,

7:38

leaving his son in command of

7:40

Castle Blair when the Jacobites captured

7:42

it. And then, Athole's

7:45

son besieged his

7:47

own castle. Now,

7:50

both the Marquis of Thole and his

7:52

son were named John Murray. John

7:55

Murray the Younger, the man who

7:57

was, you know, besieging his own

7:59

castle, he was going to

8:01

go on to have a brilliant career. He

8:04

was eventually going to be raised the Duke

8:07

of Aethol and have the most powerful job

8:09

in Scotland, which is

8:11

a bit rich considering what

8:13

I portrayed last time as an outright

8:16

defection to the cause of the

8:18

Jacobites, and I stand by

8:20

that. But

8:23

the King either did not believe

8:25

that was what happened or chose

8:27

to ignore it. What

8:29

Murray and the

8:32

King said happened was

8:34

that the younger John Murray was

8:37

not joining up with the Jacobites, he

8:39

was merely keeping tabs

8:41

on them, shadowing

8:43

their forces, maybe harrying the

8:46

flanks. Those men from

8:48

Murray's own ranks that went on to

8:50

fight with the Jacobites, well,

8:52

according to the story, they were all

8:55

just a bunch of dastardly rogues who

8:57

turned their coats, and

8:59

maybe that's what really happened. Or

9:03

maybe John Murray the Younger saw

9:05

the wisdom in reconciling

9:07

with the Williamite forces and

9:09

King William himself after

9:12

the Jacobites in Scotland had been

9:14

defeated. John

9:17

Murray the Younger was appointed to

9:19

a council that was to investigate

9:21

the Glencoe massacre. This

9:23

council found Secretary Stair culpable

9:26

and it recommended his removal

9:28

from office as Secretary of

9:30

State for Scotland. Now, this

9:33

wasn't a problem. Everyone

9:35

hated Secretary Stair. The

9:38

Jacobites hated him, obviously, but so

9:40

did most of the Williamites. The

9:43

English, the Scottish, even the French

9:45

hated Secretary Blair, so his removal

9:48

was a net positive. In

9:51

1696, about

9:53

a year later, John Murray the

9:55

Younger, now raised to an earldom in

9:57

his own right, Found him.

10:00

Health in the big chair. He

10:02

was the Secretary of State first.

10:05

Know. If you're bit confused about

10:07

what exactly the Secretary of State

10:10

for Scotland means, you're probably an

10:12

American like me. See, our Secretary

10:14

of State is the head of

10:16

what in a lot of other

10:18

countries would be considered the Foreign

10:20

Office. But. In. What?

10:23

Was quickly becoming the British

10:25

Empire. You have a lot

10:27

of these sovereign policies, you

10:30

know. Wales, Ireland, Scotland, The

10:32

West Indies, India, China, And.

10:35

Most of these have their own

10:37

Secretary of State for Wales, Ireland,

10:39

Scotland, what have you. And

10:42

the Secretary of State was usually

10:44

they're kind of defacto head of

10:46

state. Officially it

10:48

was called the Officer. Of State

10:51

which was appointed by the king, But

10:53

in terms of actual responsibilities, it was

10:55

a lot like what you might find

10:58

in a modern prime minister. In

11:00

the case of John Murray and

11:02

the Secretary of State for Scotland,

11:05

that means that he held the

11:07

royal seal for Scotland and said

11:09

as the Lord High Chancellor of

11:11

the Parliament. So.

11:13

John Murray was. The

11:16

boss under King William. Nope.

11:19

He also married Catherine Hamilton.

11:22

Daughter. Of the Duke and

11:24

Duchess Hamilton. The

11:26

dowry involved a huge stake in

11:28

the Bank of Scotland. Another

11:30

in the company of Scotland, which included

11:32

an interest in the Darien skiing. But.

11:36

Back to the point, John

11:38

Murray was much much cooler

11:40

to suspected Jacobites than his

11:42

predecessor had been. This

11:45

leniency. you know, people not marching into

11:47

your home town demand a new swear

11:49

loyalty to the King and than killing

11:51

you if you fail to do so,

11:53

or killing your father or brother if

11:55

you fail to do so well. That

11:57

is the first reason that Jacobite activity

11:59

he began to die down in the

12:02

Sixty Nine. These. The.

12:04

Second big reason. Was

12:06

famine. From. Sixteen

12:08

Ninety four to Seventeen. Oh, one

12:10

or so Scotland was living through

12:13

what they called the seven ill

12:15

years now. We've talked about this

12:17

before, so no need to go

12:19

into real depth here. But.

12:22

The causes of the seven ill years

12:24

were three fault. First, Was

12:26

cold. We're. Right in the

12:29

middle of what they called a

12:31

little ice age and the sixteen

12:33

nine where the coldest decade and

12:35

the last seven hundred and fifty

12:37

years of recorded Scottish history. There

12:39

were record crop failures, especially

12:42

in Ninety Four, Ninety Five,

12:44

Ninety Six, Ninety Eight, and

12:46

Ninety Nine. Things We're not

12:48

going well. But. Other

12:50

than just crop failures, the

12:53

Nine Years War on the

12:55

Continent was preventing the Scottish

12:57

from trading with or receiving

12:59

aid from their second largest

13:01

trading partner. Which. Was France?

13:04

And in turn. Scotland's.

13:06

First largest trading partner.

13:08

England. Was. Buying

13:10

all of their cattle, And record

13:13

prices. I mean they were to a lot

13:15

of money here but the Scots didn't want

13:17

to sell it. At

13:19

least your average Scott didn't want

13:21

to sell it all of those

13:23

fabulously wealthy lords who had joined

13:25

to states and England and Scotland

13:27

and were able to buy up

13:29

all the food they needed. Well,

13:31

they own most of the cattle.

13:34

They preferred making money to feed

13:36

in a bunch of disloyal Jacobites.

13:38

So all of the cattle from

13:41

Scotland, but not all, but a

13:43

lot of the kettle from Scotland

13:45

well, that was traveling down south

13:47

and not selling Scottish belly. Which.

13:51

Makes the title of my new

13:53

favorite poem make a lot more

13:55

sense. The pork eaters

13:57

for whom the author was offering a. Hill

14:00

where the English. Because.

14:02

They stole all the port. And.

14:05

They were portrayed as

14:07

gluttonous. One stanza

14:09

reads quote me England for

14:11

it's luxury be damned. Base

14:14

epicures with pork and pudding

14:16

crammed let sure fits in

14:19

my family prevail still each

14:21

discord just at every meal.

14:24

And. Gorman dies in be the

14:26

cheapest trade still all the sons

14:28

of luxury. Be. Dead.

14:32

And. Basically.

14:34

Saying to other Sat luxurious

14:37

gourmands and England. If

14:39

you're going to steal all of our food, I

14:42

hope you choke on seat it. Until

14:45

you die. The. Author

14:47

then goes on to call London

14:49

the Saddam oh The Aisle, which

14:51

will definitely be the title of next

14:53

week's episode. so I'll stop there for

14:56

now. But. The Scottish

14:58

were starving, the English were taking the

15:00

only food they had available, and. No.

15:03

One was doing anything about at all

15:05

of their most powerful leaders were in

15:07

support of this kind of behavior. The.

15:10

Jacobite movement lost a lot of

15:12

steam here because no one was

15:14

going to support any Englishman. The.

15:17

Scottish Jacobites and the Scottish will. You

15:19

might put aside their differences and decided

15:21

You know what? Our. Real

15:23

enemy. Is England.

15:26

My. Fight each other when down

15:28

south they're eating all of our

15:30

food. But that

15:32

was mostly just working class Scottish

15:34

people. As we said, all of

15:36

those rich upper class lords and

15:39

nobles. They were all doing fine.

15:41

rights? Oh No. They.

15:44

May have had money to buy food, but.

15:47

The wealthiest among them were. Nearly.

15:50

Room. When.

15:53

The Darien scheme failed to. The Bank

15:55

of Scotland lost a vast amount of

15:57

money. The. Company of Scotland was

15:59

on the. Declaring bankruptcy,

16:02

So. The uppermost crust of Scotland Were

16:04

talking about all of those Hamilton's and

16:06

Murray's people we've discussed for the last

16:09

few weeks. Or. They had

16:11

to gamble all of their chips on

16:13

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16:16

Of these ships, the speedy

16:18

return? Well, We. Know what happened

16:20

to her? She was seized

16:22

by John Bowen and turned into a

16:25

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16:27

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16:29

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18:29

Now, I don't want to give the

18:31

impression here that these Company of

18:33

Scotland trading vessels were operating entirely

18:36

above board. They weren't. The

18:39

legal waters tend to get a bit

18:42

murky when it comes to

18:44

trading in India. Portugal and

18:46

the Netherlands had trading rights

18:48

in some East India Company

18:50

ports, not others. But

18:53

Scotland, at least the

18:55

Scottish Company, was not

18:57

permitted to trade in any East

18:59

India Company port. But

19:01

the Scottish Company said, fine, we

19:03

can deal with that. There are, of

19:06

course, plenty of other places we can

19:08

buy our spices, like, I don't

19:10

know, the Malabar

19:12

Coast. There's

19:14

a very good chance that these Scottish

19:17

ships trading in the East Indies were

19:19

trading at the Malabar

19:21

Coast, trading in those very same ports

19:24

frequented by the pirates, you know, John

19:26

Bowen and his ilk, when they were

19:28

at Malabar. It's possible,

19:30

even likely, that these

19:32

Scottish Company ships were buying some

19:34

of those spices that the pirates

19:36

had stolen from the East India

19:38

Company. But is

19:41

what they were doing illegal? You

19:44

know, they were just buying spices

19:46

from independent spice merchants in unaffiliated

19:48

ports that were not associated with

19:50

the East India Company. However,

19:53

the East India Company considered

19:55

India theirs, if

19:58

it wasn't one of the few Portuguese or Dutch. holdouts,

20:00

that is. According

20:02

to the company of Scotland, though, these

20:04

were independent proprietors with whom we are

20:06

free to do business. Then,

20:09

in late 1703, one of these ships, the Annandale,

20:14

sailed into the Thames. She

20:18

had just returned from India and was

20:20

looking for supplies and repairs, and maybe

20:23

to sell some of her spices, if

20:25

the East India Company would allow. But

20:29

on orders from the EIC,

20:31

the Annandale was seized by

20:33

the Admiralty. The crew was

20:35

accused of smuggling and piracy

20:37

and classed officially as

20:39

a privateer ship. But

20:41

she wasn't a privateer ship.

20:44

The problem here is that

20:46

Queen Anne did not recognize

20:48

the Scottish Company as legitimate.

20:51

So, it's a privateer, an

20:53

illegal privateer. Now,

20:56

I can't find many details about the

20:58

Annandale, but it's almost certain

21:01

that her cargo was taken by the

21:03

East India Company, the captain

21:05

likely imprisoned, and the ship

21:07

probably appropriated by England. As

21:10

one of the few ships on which

21:12

Scotland penned her hopes, that's

21:14

not great. This

21:17

was in November 1703. On 19 July 1704, the

21:26

English ship Worcester arrived in

21:28

Scotland. First, they stopped

21:31

off at Fraserborough, then on to

21:33

Edinburgh. The

21:35

Worcester was just returning from a voyage

21:37

to the East Indies, where they had

21:39

traded in spices. Now, the Worcester was

21:41

not an East India Company ship, but

21:44

she did have a license from

21:46

the East India Company to trade

21:49

in India. And I'm not exactly

21:51

sure why the Worcester sailed up

21:53

to Scotland. At

21:55

least, there are differing accounts here. First,

21:57

We have the account given in The Trial Of. On

22:00

Green and his crewmates. But

22:02

as will see, that's. Not

22:04

a very reliable. Then

22:08

on the other hand, we have the

22:10

account given by the owners of the

22:12

Worcester who sued the Scottish company in

22:14

the aftermath of everything that about to

22:17

happen. So. He better can

22:19

a split the difference here because everybody's

22:21

got an agenda. To

22:23

me, it looks a lot

22:26

like this unofficial East India

22:28

Company ship was trying to

22:30

sell their Indian spices to

22:32

the Scottish after the East

22:34

India Company had stolen. A

22:37

ship full of Indian spices. This

22:40

looks like they were trying to circumvent

22:42

the company of Scotland. Which.

22:45

Was probably the point. Know.

22:47

The Company of Scotland had a

22:49

clause written into their charter that

22:51

gave the company carte blanche powers

22:53

of reprisal. Six. Should

22:56

their property be attacked their

22:58

ships a captain's were empowered

23:00

to. Take. It back or

23:02

take back and equivalent amount. Originally

23:06

though, this was intended for use on

23:08

the Spanish mean when they were colonizing

23:10

dairy and they were worried that the

23:12

Spanish would come along and try to

23:14

stop them. But. When the

23:17

English captured one of their ships in

23:19

London, The. Company considered

23:21

that cause for reprisal. It

23:25

took about a month for the decision to

23:27

finally be made. The

23:29

Scottish decided to capture. The

23:32

Worcester. And they did

23:34

so. Winner most piratical manner.

23:37

There. Was a secretary in the Company

23:40

of Scotland mister Roderic Mckinsey, who

23:42

had had some. Unfortunate.

23:44

Dealings with the East India Company in

23:47

his past, he didn't like him. And.

23:49

he proposed a plan quote

23:51

to get together a sufficient

23:54

number of such genteel pretty

23:56

fellows as would have their

23:58

own accord be willing accompany

24:00

me on this adventure." He

24:05

collected eleven men who agreed to help him

24:07

in his endeavor, which was fully

24:10

backed by the company of Scotland.

24:13

On the 14th of August 1704, Mackenzie

24:17

and ten of his fellows sauntered

24:19

down on the docks. Their

24:22

quote, dress and behavior would not

24:25

render them suspected of any uncommon

24:27

design. End quote.

24:29

They were wearing fancy clothes.

24:31

They had ostentatious swords belted

24:33

on their hips. They carried

24:36

jugs of wine punch, and

24:39

several of them had pistols secreted

24:42

about their person. This

24:45

garish-looking crew visited every ship

24:47

in the harbor. They

24:49

shared punch, they told jokes, they sang

24:52

body songs, and just generally

24:54

were welcoming hosts to the men in the

24:56

harbor. Now all of

24:58

the sailors on those other ships were

25:00

having a great time enjoying the hospitality.

25:03

So when these eleven men arrived at the

25:06

Worcester, they were just invited

25:08

on board. The eleven

25:10

men poured out mugs of punch for the crew,

25:13

and then they were invited into the captain's

25:15

cabin. And in the captain's cabin

25:17

they were having a great time, singing,

25:19

laughing, telling dirty jokes. Mackenzie

25:22

called it, quote, a most complete scene of

25:24

comedy. End quote. King

25:27

Thomas Green of the Worcester and his

25:29

fellows really let their guard down, and

25:32

it was at that moment that every

25:34

officer in the cabin had a pistol

25:36

at his ear. The

25:39

gunner, Mr. Simpson, tried to rush for a

25:41

blunder bus that was hanging above the door,

25:43

but one of Mackenzie's men

25:45

fired his pistol missing, but convincing the

25:48

officers that it was best to surrender.

25:52

Before the day was out, all of

25:54

these officers were hauled off to jail, and

25:56

the ship was under the protection of

25:59

the Scottish captain. I've

26:01

read the transcriptions of a fair

26:04

few trials from this era, but

26:06

I really can't count

26:08

this one among them, because

26:11

this trial was not

26:13

a trial. It was

26:15

a condemnation. The

26:18

court heard the pleas of the

26:20

accused, but that's about it. The

26:24

men accused of piracy were given lawyers,

26:26

but the lawyers presented

26:28

no defense of their clients.

26:32

John Green and his men weren't allowed

26:34

to offer testimony or evidence in their

26:36

defense. It's not even really clear

26:38

that they were allowed to speak. The

26:41

transcript of this trial isn't a

26:43

transcript. Usually

26:45

you'll have someone writing down what everyone

26:47

says, and sometimes if you're lucky you

26:50

get some fun verbal sparring between the

26:52

pirates and the prosecutors, but there's none

26:54

of that here. The

26:56

transcript is basically just an essay

26:59

written by the prosecution and the

27:01

judges in what

27:03

was essentially a defense of the

27:06

quote-unquote trial of Thomas Green

27:08

and his men. They'd

27:10

already decided the verdict, but

27:13

they did have witnesses

27:16

in favor of the prosecution. There

27:20

were two men enslaved aboard the

27:22

Worcester, Antonio Ferdinando

27:24

and Antonio Francisco. Both

27:28

of these men testified that their

27:30

ship, the Worcester, under Captain Green,

27:33

raised a red flag, attacked another

27:35

ship filled with what they said

27:37

were either English or Scots, and

27:40

that Captain Green first made

27:42

John Matter and the Gunner,

27:44

James Simpson, all killed

27:46

men during the capture of

27:48

that ship. And all of

27:50

that might be true. It's

27:53

possible that the Worcester under Captain Thomas

27:55

Green did engage in a little light

27:57

piracy while in the Indian Ocean. But.

28:00

Even if all that did happen,

28:02

it was not the speedy return.

28:05

The. Men who may or may

28:07

not have been killed in that

28:09

act of piracy did not include

28:12

Captain Drummond, nor did it include

28:14

Andrew Wilkie, the surgeon aboard Speedy.

28:16

Retire. But.

28:18

Those two Antonio claimed that is

28:21

what happened. I'm sure it's a

28:23

pure coincidence that the man who

28:25

was questioning the to antonio was

28:28

was the brother. Of Andrew

28:30

Wilkie, who. Stood. To

28:32

inherit quite a bit from their

28:34

parents with his elder brother out of

28:37

the way. And of

28:39

course we know today what actually happens

28:41

to the speedy return. This kind of

28:43

wasn't uncommon. You know people got accused

28:45

of piracy all the times. Whether or

28:47

not they did it, they were almost

28:49

always convicted and off and killed. What?

28:52

Makes this case interesting though is

28:54

that the people at the time

28:56

knew that this was not what

28:58

happened. Some. Of the

29:01

men from Speedy Return made

29:03

it back to England. Wow!

29:05

This trial was going on.

29:08

The Admiralty knew who they weren't,

29:10

questioned them, and found out what

29:12

actually happened to Speedy Return. So.

29:15

The Admiralty of England cent missives up to

29:18

the court there in Scotland telling them that

29:20

you know, hey, we, We know that what

29:22

they're saying isn't true. It

29:24

also came out during the trial

29:26

that those two enslaved men were

29:28

actually chained up under the folks.

29:31

Oh wow, the piracy was going

29:33

on. It. Would have been impossible

29:35

for them to see who was killed

29:37

and who did the killing. With.

29:39

All of these new revelations, the court

29:41

for a minute seems to have been

29:43

leaning in the direction of acquittal. But.

29:46

That wasn't going to fly. Not.

29:48

For the people who had lost

29:50

so much and their investment in

29:52

the dairy and scheme, nor for

29:55

the average people scour. The

29:57

court and the parliament had a

29:59

lot of pressure from above all

30:01

of those wealthy investors and a

30:03

lot of pressure from below. The.

30:06

Regular people. Scotland. That

30:08

pressure from below came in

30:10

the form of a huge

30:12

angry mob. The.

30:15

People in this mob were unwilling

30:17

to listen to any kind of

30:19

defense of these English dogs. I

30:21

mean, there were so obviously guilty

30:23

and then you've got works like

30:25

a pill for pork eaters floating

30:27

around, making the rounds and fanning

30:29

the flames. And. Some of the

30:31

passages in there were downright combustible.

30:34

One. Of them reads quote but

30:37

England insolent and proud like

30:39

hell whose sauce the boldness

30:41

not but billows can quell

30:44

there Now our laws and

30:46

sentences, canvas and sensors on

30:48

our just pleadings pass. Saying.

30:51

There that the English listen to

30:53

nothing but violence and they dare

30:55

to cast judgment on our court

30:58

system. The passage goes on but

31:00

is by providence a tar is

31:02

driven upon our coasts and hear

31:05

a villain proven. Let him be

31:07

English and the devil to boot.

31:09

He dies a white and spotless

31:11

st. No. Doubt. The.

31:14

Authors saying they are that if

31:16

a tar in a sailor if

31:18

they're proven to be a villain

31:20

in Scotland, as they believed that

31:22

the men of the Worcester were

31:24

even if it were the devil

31:27

himself. If this person proved to

31:29

be English, the English would claim

31:31

he was a spotless saying. It

31:35

continues or magistrates and church

31:37

men are abused and we

31:40

as thieves and murderers accused

31:42

for Drummond is that Madagascar

31:44

till so say your post

31:46

nights credit them who will.

31:49

And. This has to do with some

31:52

other testimony from those men who were

31:54

aboard The Speedy Return. They claimed that

31:56

Captain Drummond turned pirate stayed at Madagascar,

31:58

which was probably. But.

32:01

The Scots refused to believe

32:03

it because it was coming

32:05

from the mouths of file

32:07

smelly English scoundrels. It

32:10

goes on. Then England for

32:12

it's treachery. should mourn, be

32:14

forced to phone and treacle,

32:17

and it's time. Scots peddlers

32:19

you no longer durst upbraid

32:21

and Darien should with interest

32:23

be repaid. And.

32:28

He's saying that for English

32:30

treachery. In. The final days of

32:32

the colony at Dairy in. The

32:35

English Nation. Should. Pay.

32:38

This trial was not about justice

32:40

for the speedy return, or about

32:43

the guilt of men like Thomas

32:45

Green. It. Was about

32:47

justice for Darien and the

32:49

Annandale. And. It was about the

32:52

guilt. Of all

32:54

Englishman. Are

32:57

going to leave it there today. With.

32:59

Great mobs minutes into parliament, the

33:01

manor houses of Scotland's greatest noble

33:04

families, and the very government of

33:06

Scotland. With. The lives

33:08

of three English sailors hanging in

33:11

the balance, and the very possibility

33:13

of war between two ancient kingdom.

33:15

it's. A. Very real

33:17

possibility. Next.

33:19

Time We're going to finish the story of

33:21

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33:23

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33:26

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