Still having
problems both with my
paint it black blogger photo up loader and
a non functional yahoo email for most of the week this combined with me being
ill and plagued
by abdominal pains and even worse
pains even further down
below will make a
usual christmas
Reminded me that I
had drafted lots of
unused posts and rather than take
a selfie of
my medication and
pained expression decided to
write of the brandy butter and moonfleet pirates of the
early 1700s
Namely Maria Cobham
the crew murdering pirate
queen of the Canadian main
who found her way into children's
books of pirates from the 1920s onwards where as you can see from the above Ladybird
book illustration Maria really
pointed both barrels
Maria was the lover of the rough ruffian Eric Cobham
a man stole a bag of
gold from a sleeping
clergyman to buy a ship and
in a cruel crude career
operating out of Saint
Georges bay
Cobham successfully
looted both East Indiamen and Hudson Bay traders the captains tied to
masts and used for target practice
the crews of these seized ships
ending up either poisoned
roasted or sew into sacks
and thrown overboard by his Plymouth born lover
Maria Lindsey
Making enough money
in loot
of furs and New York
bound spices the Cobhams retired to France where
Eric Cobham became an
ancien regime landowner and Judge in the
Gironde region only
occasionally sailing out to
ransack becalmed ships
and murder their
crews
It is said Eric died
a rich and respected
aristocrat but Maria
Lindsey poisoned herself in despair
over getting old and being rejected in
favout of Cobhams
new French wife
The Cobhams however
now no longer find themselves
alongside Kidd and Teach since
the story was a tourist tale based on a
discovered "lost memoir" originating
in the 1920s the
Cobhams invented as
bodice ripper villains to interesting than the other
fictional pirates such as Captain
Mission, Captain Red Legs Greaves and
Captain Derdrake.
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