WEBVTT - The Unrepentant and Really Good Pirate, Charles Vane 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:06.200 Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:15.400 partnership with I Heart Radio. Welcome to Criminalia, where it's 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.840 pirate season. We're exploring the lives and motivations of some 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:23.000 of the most notorious freebooters throughout history. I'm Rachel Marquis 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.440 and I'm Holly Fry. And we noticed a pattern emerging 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.680 this season, one in which a particular pirate named Charles 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.160 Vane makes little appearances across more than a few episodes. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.240 So clearly the universe has spoken, it is whispering the 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.120 name Charles Vane. So let's talk about Charles Vane and 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.280 how he was a pirate through and through. We've talked 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.280 about this one particular book in previous episode called A 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.520 General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.240 Notorious Pirates, and it was published in so this is 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.800 contemporary to Charles Vain. Within the two volume set is 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:08.760 a chapter about Charles Vane. He was not an insignificant pirate. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.640 He was murderous, He parted with Blackbeard, and it's in 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.840 this chapter where we find that he's also described as 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:20.000 being cowardly at his execution and unrepentant of his life. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.440 As a pirate. Very little is actually known about Charles 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.600 Vane's early life. We do know that he was born 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.160 in sixteen eighty in England, but we do not know 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.640 his place of birth. We don't know who his parents were, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.120 and we don't know what, if any, formal education he had. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.080 We do know that in his adulthood he was living 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.119 in Port Royal, Jamaica, and had relocated there sometime during 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:49.640 the War of Spanish Succession, so likely sometime between seventeen 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.120 o one and seventeen fourteen. Let's stop for a minute 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.360 for a quick note on this war. A high level overview, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.520 which is always really difficult to do right, can put 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.120 us all in the right time and place at least. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.160 So this particular war comes up a lot in the 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.640 pirate lives we talk about because it overlaps with the 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.400 golden age of piracy, and sometimes pirates were pulled into it, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.960 either because of financial gain or because of the promise 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.519 of plundering. The war arose out of the disputed succession 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.000 to the throne of Spain following the death of King 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.600 Charles the Second. The king had died without an air 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.280 that's a story we've heard before, and there was a 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.880 disagreement whether the Spanish Empire should pass to the House 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.920 of Bourbon or the House of Habsburg, both of which 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.480 claimed rights. There was also disagreement as to whether or 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.160 not land and control should be partitioned in an effort 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.760 to keep the balance of power in Europe. Ultimately, when 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.000 the war ended, Britain emerged as a rapidly growing colonial power. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.040 Charles Vane's name becomes part of recorded history when he 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.240 began his career as a private year paid to work 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.520 on one of Lord Archibald Hamilton's ships during the war. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.679 Lord Hamilton's was born into a wealthy and influential Scottish 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.960 noble family, and he was an officer of the Royal Navy. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.640 He was also a wig politician who sat in the 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.640 House of Commons at this part in this story. In 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.280 seventeen eleven, Hamilton's was made governor of the British Colony 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.600 of Jamaica by Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.880 But there was something else bubbling that was not the 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.040 War of Succession, and that was the Jacobite Rebellion. Here's 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.320 what that was again in broad Strokes and why it 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.120 has to do with pirates. So when A died in 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.760 seventeen fourteen, George the First assumed the throne, which meant 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:46.160 that through some shady politics, James Francis Edward Stewart was 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.000 passed over in the royal line of succession. James Francis 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.920 Edward Stewart was the son of King James the Second 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.160 and seventh of England, Scotland and Ireland. His father was 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.080 deposed and the family was exiled from England, but after 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.280 his father's death, James Francis Edward made his move to 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.880 regain the throne of England, Ireland and Scotland for the 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.080 exiled Stewards. For more than roughly fifty years, he tried 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.720 to protect his right to the throne and was not 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:19.000 always the winner. In seventeen fifteen, James Francis Edwards attempt 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.239 to regain the throne was known as the Jacobite Rising. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.080 Lord Hamilton's family was closely connected to the Stewart family, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.120 and Hamilton's was a conspirator, as were several of his 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.720 relatives in the Jacobite Rising meant to restore the House 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.720 of Stuart to the throne. And here's what it had 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.640 to do with pirates, specifically in secret Hamilton's was ordered 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.400 to organize a large Jacobite friendly naval fleet to help 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.520 restore the crown to James Francis Edward And so where 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.960 do you go to meet that kind of criteria? You 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.080 turned to privateers. Previously, just before the turn of the 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.520 eighteenth century, Hamilton's, as an officer in the Royal Navy, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.240 had been actively pursuing French privateers in the English Channel. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.359 But in order to put this fleet together, Hamilton's embraced 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.080 privateering and issued letters of marked too many captains, including 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.280 a man named Henry Jennings, and ordered each to raid 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.360 French and Spanish shipping lanes. It's written his privateer army 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.760 was massive, with many future pirate captains we continue to 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:27.920 note today, and those names included Blackbeard, Charles Vane. You 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.120 know these are these are the golden age of piracy pirates. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.480 There is a belief we should mention among some modern 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:40.520 scholars that many pirates considered themselves Jacobites, supporting James Francis 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.760 Edward Stewart as the rightful King of England rather than 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.120 George the First. While they were ruthless, they were also vengeful, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.120 and Britain was a popular target. Author of the Republic 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.360 of Pirates. Colin Woodard supports this idea. We've probably quoted 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.279 it at least once. Quote. Most pirates at the time 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.880 thought of them selves as in revolt against King George. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.600 We're going to take a break for a word from 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.640 our sponsor, and when we're back we'll talk about when 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:21.320 Charles Vane joined his first pirate crew. Welcome back to Criminalia. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:27.200 Let's talk about Charles Vane's quick rise among pirates. By 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:31.480 seventeen fifteen, Vane had joined the crew under pirate Captain 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.000 Henry Jennings, who was based out of Nasa on the 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.440 island of New Providence in the Bahamas. And yes, this 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.040 is the same Henry Jennings who had been a privateer 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.360 for Lord Hamilton's and his jacke Bite Friendly Armada. Jennings 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.080 and his crew were fond of raiding ships and camps 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.839 off of the coast of Florida. When a Spanish treasure 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.800 fleet was struck by a hurricane off the coast of Florida, 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.599 spilling tons of Spanish gold and silver close to shore, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.920 Captain Jennings and his crew Vain included, were the first 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.760 pirates to arrive at the wreckage. They plundered the vessels 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.480 and the camp on shore, and a mass of booty, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.720 said to be valued at the time at eight seven 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.720 thousand pounds of gold and silver. There is no good 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.920 way to translate dollar to dollar from sevree and we're 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.800 also throwing literal pounds of money to US dollars on 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.040 top of it. It's it's crazy way to do this. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.520 We have been in this position before, and this time 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:38.600 Maria consulted pounds sterling two dollars historical conversions of currency, 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.520 and according to that, we're looking at about eighteen million 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.400 US dollars today. But even that question marks we don't 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.680 it's hard to do, so we're just going to leave 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:53.360 it at this. Captain Jennings and his crew found Riches. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:08:00.160 Vain was active in piracy from seventeen sixteen until seventeen nineteen, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.400 but by seventeen seventeen he was the captain of his 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.480 own ship and had more than one vessel, and he 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.960 quickly gained some notoriety as a pirate captain. He was 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.560 based out of the West Indies, one of many pirate 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.960 captains who operated out of the island of New Providence 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.520 after the British had abandoned the Bahamian Colony during the 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.760 War of Spanish Succession. Vane's primary hunting grounds were the 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.240 waters of the Caribbean, where he ranged from the Bahamas 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.400 north along the east coast of North America as far 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.520 as New York. They commanded ships, including the Ranger, which 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.640 was his flagship vessel, as well as other ships called 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.640 the Lark and the Catherine. You'll hear those, but he 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.960 was really known to capture and sail many many ships. 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.959 He was also known as a cruel and ruthless pirate 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.400 who tortured and murdered his prisoners, and as a pirate captain, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:59.080 he preferred punishing his crew with extreme tortures, such as 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.360 this thing called keel hauling, and this is particularly terrible. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.080 I just want to put that out there before I 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.960 say it. Keel Hauling was a torture technique where a 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:14.320 person was literally dragged along or under the keel of 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.320 the ship, and it was almost always a death sentence, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:22.120 so to be clear, this was extraordinarily brutal. The punished 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.040 person was often lacerated by barnacles that were on the 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.840 ship's hull, and varying techniques sometimes included pulling the victim 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.600 out of the water periodically to ensure he maintained consciousness, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.360 which would mean that he would feel the entire punishment. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.480 Vain himself has been described as brave but also unlucky 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.679 in piracy. He's often spoken of as being one of 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.640 the most skilled pirate captains among his peers. Those friends 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.959 and peers, to be clear, include the infamous Blackbeard, as 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.640 well as Bartholemy Roberts known as Black Bart and John 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.760 Calico Jack Rackham, among other famous names. From the Golden Age, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.720 pirates continued to be seen as the scourge of the seas. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.640 As we all know the phrase goes, they were growing 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.240 in number at this time. In an effort to rid 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.240 the world, or at least rid his kingdom of pirates, 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.439 King George the First declared that all privateers, remember those 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.640 were pirates who were paid to do the job. We're 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.600 from then on also to be considered pirates, no matter 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.320 what paperwork they may or may not have to suggest 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.240 legitimacy in their actions. Like pirates, they were to be 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.400 captured and executed in retribution, though and for the deaths 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:38.360 of their fellow pirates. Many pirates stopped trading to and 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:43.040 from the British colonies. Because of this, the King responded 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.240 to that on September five, sev seventeen with the Proclamation 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.240 for Suppressing Pirates. This proclamation granted full pardon of all 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.559 crimes to any pirates who surrendered themselves to any governor 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:01.400 in the colonies before September five, seventeen eighteen. And if 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.840 you were a pirate, you had better have a calendar handy, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.840 because as soon as it was September six, any pirate 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.480 who had neglected or refused to surrender would be captured 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.080 and charged with piracy. But I mean, who are we kidding, 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:21.280 probably captured and executed. The King's deal was reissued in 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.680 December of seventeen eighteen, and then it was called the 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.240 King's Pardon. The King extended the deadline from September five, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:34.720 seen eighteen to July one, seventeen nineteen, because it said 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.400 that he felt the pirates actually didn't have enough notice 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:42.280 to surrender by the September date. Many of the outlaws, 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.280 including Vain's former captain Henry Jennings, did request and receive 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:52.080 a full pardon. Others, though, including Charles Vane, really didn't 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.600 want anything to do with it because there were rewards 0:11:55.600 --> 0:12:00.040 for capturing pirates. There were them pirate hunters. Earlier that 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.640 same year, in February of seventeen eighteen, the royal frigate 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.560 HMS Phoenix arrived in the waters of Nassau, sent in 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.280 an attempt to convince pirates who had not taken the 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.960 king's pardon to surrender. Vain, who had not and did 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.120 not want to be pardoned, was taken into custody, as 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.000 were some of his crew. In what some of us 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.680 would consider a surprise move. Vain was, it's reported, released 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.920 as a goodwill gesture. Shortly after, in one bold and 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.880 notorious power move against the crown, Vain welcomed the new 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.440 governor of New Providence, a man named Woods Rogers, to 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:42.920 the island with this legendary story. He set fire to 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.360 a recently captured French vessel and set it straight toward 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.640 the Governor's ships to make it difficult to save those 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.840 ships from burning. Vain then fired a few shots and 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.400 then sailed away, it said, laughing, so as you might 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:02.640 imagine Vain's welcome party anger Rogers, who in retaliation, sent 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:08.119 former pirate turned pirate hunter Captain Benjamin Hornegle to capture him, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:12.679 but it wasn't Hornogold who would capture Pain. In the 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.959 autumn of seventeen eighteen, Vain and the crew, said to 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.040 be upwards of ninety men, went out in search of 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.880 black Beard, not to attack him. Rather, they were planning 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.000 an attack on Nassau and they wanted to recruit him 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.160 for the fight. What actually happened, though, was the men 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.480 through a huge party on Ocracoke Island, where the crew 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.080 had set up a campsite, and after days or even weeks, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.560 and some say a full month of debauchery, the men 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.120 parted ways. Vain did not recruit black Beard, and it 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.439 is said that they never crossed paths again. We're going 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.680 to take a break for a word from our sponsor. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.079 When we're back, we'll talk about how Charles Vane's lack 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.520 of people skills got im booted off his own ship. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:07.200 Welcome back to Criminalia. This is it. This is the 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.720 story of how Charles Vane was taken down by a 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:16.920 British born plantation owner. John Rackham, also famously known as 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.680 Calico Jack, spent time as part of Vain's crew. Right surprised. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.800 He was Vain's quartermaster actually, which meant he was second 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.200 in command. He was Vain's right hand guy, but it's 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.120 widely reported that Van rarely got along with his crew, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.400 if at all, so you can probably tell what's coming 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.160 up next. Vain's crew voted him out as their captain 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.480 in late seventeen eighteen, accusing him of cowardice. Vain was 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.560 known to plunder everything in sight well ish, however, he 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.800 was also known to evade well armed ships, which left 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.560 his crew kind of dissatisfied. His downfall began when he 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.520 was trawling the windward passage between q but and his 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:06.160 Baniola and attacked a vessel expecting little resistance. He hadn't 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.320 realized it was a powerful French warship, and after a 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.640 few shots were fired in his direction, Vain decided to 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:17.400 retreat from this fight. His crew, however, wanted that fight, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.720 so it was out with Vain and they voted in 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:26.119 Calico Jack as their new captain. Vain, along with fifteen 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.520 loyal members of his crew, was given a small sloop 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.320 that had been captured, and at that point Rackam and 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:36.720 Vain parted ways. To remember, Vane's well known as a 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.480 very skilled captain, probably because he had the sense to 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.360 only attack weaker vessels or cruise, but also because he 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.160 was a very skilled navigator, He was skilled at taking 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:52.000 fights he knew he could win. Vain and his remaining 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.880 crew quickly captured a few small ships to rebuild a fleet, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.640 and in less than about a month they had it said, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.720 five ships five in a month. In the Day of Honduras, though, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.720 a hurricane struck, wrecking Vane's fleet and drowning most of 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:11.080 his crew. They survived, but was shipwrecked on a small island. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:16.240 Some reports suggest it was South Carolina's governor, Robert Johnson, who, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.640 wanting to put an end to pirates threatening his coast, 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.200 hired pirate hunters to take care of the problem. Others 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.600 suggest it was the governor of North Carolina, or perhaps 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.200 even the disrespected Woods Butler. All three of these men 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.680 had reason. If you have been listening this season, you 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:40.120 may recognize this man's name. William Rhett. Colonel William Rhet 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.880 was ordered to engage and capture pirate Steed Bonnet, but 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:48.400 he really wanted to capture Charles Vane, like Hornegal, though 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.560 this was not meant to be. During the hunt, Rhett 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.240 and his crew encountered a ship that had recently been 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.440 rated by Vane and the remaining crew there said that 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.080 the pirates had headed south, but this was a typical 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:06.040 Vein maneuver, leaving deception in his wake. Vein's crew always 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:11.080 gave contrary information to their prisoners. Vain instead went north 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:15.440 and evaded Rhet. Rhet did, however, fulfill his order, as 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.399 we know, to capture Bonnet, who he found nearby in 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.720 an inlet on the Cape Fear River. Van may have 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.640 been a good pirate, but he wasn't a lucky pirate. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.240 His rescue came in the form of a British ship 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:34.399 under the command of Captain Holford, a former buccaneer and 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:39.400 a former acquaintance of Vain. Vain was recognized, but probably 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.399 by Holford, but some accounts actually do recall that it 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.880 was a captain of another vessel in Holford's fleet, and 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.600 really that was that Holford had Vain plates in chains, 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.280 and he was extradited to Spanish Town, Jamaica, where authorities 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.679 imprisoned him, and that's where he stayed until his trial 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:02.639 in March of sevente even without the long line of 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.800 witnesses who testified against him, most of whom were his victims. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.680 The outcome of this trial came as no surprise. Vain 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.600 is remembered today as one of the most remorseless and 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.200 shameless pirates who sailed the seas during the golden age 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.720 of piracy, and he was found, surprise, guilty of piracy. 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.639 And we didn't even really scratch the surface of his 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.720 piraty indiscretions because there are just so many. He was 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.800 sentenced to death by hanging, and his corpse was hung 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.080 from the gallows near the entrance of the harbor in 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:45.120 Port Royal as a warning to other pirates. That's quite 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:49.359 a warning. So on that note, you want to have 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:57.479 a drink always um in thinking about Charles Vane, I 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.440 went in a direction that might actually surprise you because 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:05.399 this drink isn't really about Charles Vain. Isn't everything about 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.159 Charles Vain. Well, to Charles Vain, I bet it was. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:14.919 But this particular libation is called the King's Pardon because 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.680 that is another character that's come up a lot this season. Yes, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.080 and whether or not someone takes the King's pardon and 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:22.800 then just ignores the fact that they took it, that 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.679 comes up a lot, right, So, I mean, the King's 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.359 Pardon is one of those things that you could enter into. 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.159 But there was no guarantee really that either side of 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.040 the equation was going to behave in the way they promised. 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.080 So for this one, please know that when you choose 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.520 to drink the King's Pardon, it may not be kind 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.719 to you, but it will be tasty. This is for 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.439 people that like a very fruity drink that doesn't taste 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.879 like alcohol. This is not your beverage. There's no lying 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.480 about how much alcohol is in this, because it is 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.480 all alcohol. Don't worry. There is a mocktail version at 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.960 the end as well. Vain would be proud like The 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.359 King's Pardon starts with an ounce and a half of rum. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.399 Then you're gonna add an ounce of ginger liqueur, and 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:15.760 I added two dashes of angistorra bitters. I also included 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:22.760 three drops of Sri racha. So I imagine you're in 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.320 your kitchen. You're like, drop by drop, Yes, it's exactly 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:30.160 what it's like. So you're gonna put this in your shaker. 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.879 You're gonna shake it really hard. The Sree Racha is 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.280 not going to fully incorporate. You'll still see little flecks 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.600 of red when you're done, and that's fine. You wanted 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.600 to bite you a little, because that's what the King's 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.600 pardon sometimes did. So you will shake all this, You're 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.960 gonna pour it into a chilled coupe no ice, and 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:50.200 then you top it with three ounces of champagne. Because 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:55.320 the idea here is that, you know, theoretically, it was like, hooray, 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.919 we've entered into a contract. Let's celebrate. But there's a 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:05.040 snaky bite in that's the champagne is actually what drives 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:10.040 the bus on this one. That offers the most obvious 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:14.080 note in the beverage. But then the more you drink it, 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.840 the more you start feeling out that heat. It's a 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.880 little bit cumulative. But as the heat forms, you also 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.520 start to notice the other flavors. So like on your 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.960 third sip you go, oh, I do taste something gingery 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.520 in here. Also, at least that was the case for me. Also, 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.080 the sub the sub name for this is called hello 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:37.840 You're drunk. Hello, you've been partying with black Beard for 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.439 a month, right, It's like, uh, listen, this is not 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:46.240 when you make several of For sure, I didn't. I 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.679 couldn't get through one. Now, to be fair, I was 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.040 doing this experiment like at lunchtime in a work day, 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.959 which is often how we we end up. The timing 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.879 works out for when I'm work shopping drinks and so 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.360 I don't always finish one because I have to actually function. 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.080 But this one was like, whoa, I really can't finish. 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.080 I will not be able to do any of my 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:12.320 work after this. If I do, the King's pardon will 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:15.520 bite you. Now the mocktail version, which you could have 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.200 any time and it will not bite you. It's very 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.840 different because of course this whole thing is alcohol, so 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.440 we have to go in a very different direction. So 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.920 what I did was I brewed a cup of chi 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:32.760 with a teaspoon of minced ginger in it, and I 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:34.840 did that. I boiled it on the stove. I used 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.960 to chai tea bag. But if you do your loose 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.960 just whatever proportion you like, you're only going to use 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:42.879 three ounces of it. But I would brew enough for 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:46.640 a whole cup to get the proportions right. Then you'll 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.240 want it to cool down. You'll put the three ounces 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.720 in your shaker. Add this free racha. If you don't 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:54.480 drink at all, you may not want to use bidders 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:57.520 because they do have a very low alcoholic content, so 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:01.480 that's optional. And then you'll similarly shake that with ice 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:03.000 to make sure it's good and cold and the three 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.680 ratch is involved, and then you're gonna put it into 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:07.639 your chilled coupe and top it with three ounces of 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:11.920 ginger ale. It won't bite you in the same way, 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:16.000 but it has a very similar flavor profile, but it's 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:18.920 a little more refreshing and less of a slap. But 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:27.320 oh my goodness, yeah, the King's partner, and I will say, 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:29.720 as I say hello, you're drunk. I should point out 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:31.720 that I am one of those people that can drink 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:37.520 spirits to um, probably a greater volume than some other folks. 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:41.640 My tolerance is decent. But champagne gets involved and everything 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:45.959 gets that's a whole different story. Champagne is a vehicle 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:49.879 for other spirits is a very very tricky thing for 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:52.120 a lot of people. It can really kind of deliver 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:53.919 the goods in a way that you may not be 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.639 used to. If you're used to, like, oh, I can drink, 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.520 you know, three cocktails, and I'm okay obviously drink responsibly 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:03.119 at all times. But I couldn't drink three of these 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:08.800 and be anything but a wreck. I would be like Stumblina. 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:12.639 I would be slurry, it would it would not be pretty, 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.560 that would not be drinking responsibly. So um, if you 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:20.879 make the King's Pardon, please do and care. And the 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:23.399 mocktail version is actually quite fun and yummy, and I 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:25.879 really do like the combination of that hot sauce with 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:29.640 ginger ailed us something really cool and it's quite quite tasty. 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:37.800 So uh, the King's Pardon, Thank you so much for 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.359 first spending this time with us and Charles Vane and 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:43.199 King's Pardon. Glad we got to touch on sort of 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:48.280 the the ongoing recurrent characters of the season in one episode, 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:51.159 and we will be right back here next week with 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:54.280 a little more piracy. We're getting real close to a 0:24:54.280 --> 0:25:00.280 new season and we'll talk about that next week. Yeah. 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:08.919 H Criminalia is a production of Shonda land Audio in 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:12.520 partnership with I Heart Radio. 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