WEBVTT - Captain Henry Every: The Pirate Who Got Away With It 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.840 Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:15.000 partnership with I Heart Radio. Welcome to Criminalia, where it's 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.880 pirate season. We're continuing to explore the lives and motivations 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.200 of some of the most notorious freebooters throughout history. I'm 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.000 Maria Tremarquis and I'm Holly Fry. We're talking about the 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.600 King of Pirates, Henry Every. In this episode, you'll sometimes 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.440 hear his name pronounced Avery, but it's generally Every and 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.559 that's what we're going with. Henry was an English pirate 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.520 born sometime between sixteen fifty three and sixteen fifty nine. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.760 Like a lot of our topics this season, his birth 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.720 date is not nailed down, and really neither is his 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:50.720 young life. It's assumed that he was born close to Plymouth, England, 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.080 but his story doesn't really begin in terms of recorded 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.800 history until he joined the Royal Navy. He served as 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.480 a midshipman on a sixty four gun ship named the 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.800 HMS Rupert, and he may have also spent time on 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.760 the HMS Kent as well. The ship names actually very 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.920 a bit from source to source depending on what you're 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.959 looking at, but these are the two most likely warships, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.839 but after his time serving in the navy, Henry's story 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.920 fades again. What we do know is that he spent 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.080 years as a privateer. According to a man named Peter 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.680 Henry Bruce, who was a merchant in the Indian Ocean 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.319 at the time, Henry also ran an illegal slave trading 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.440 operation which was sanctioned by the governor of the Bahamas. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.320 Because it was done illegally and undocumented, it was a 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.640 highly profitable operation. Based on the year or in this 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.280 fuzzy case, the potential year of his birth, Henry was 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.440 likely in his late thirties when he officially began his 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.760 new career, and that was becoming one of the most 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.880 successful pirates in history. Henry's career in piracy coincided with 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.920 what is known as the Golden Age of piracy, the 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.960 period between the sixteen fifties and the seventeen thirties. Roughly, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.519 not only were there potentially thousands of pirates sailing the 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.520 seas during this period, this was the time of such 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:16.160 now infamous pirates such as Captain Kidd, Calico, Jack Black Bart, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:21.320 and black Beard. Described by historian Decording quote, Henry every 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.360 did not conform to any of the popular images we 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.720 have of pirates today. He was of middle height, rather fat, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.960 with a dissolute appearance and what was described as a 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:43.359 jolly complexion Santa. As a pirate, he built an impressive 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.640 career for himself, and he resurfaces in the historical record 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.840 when he takes command of the warship Charles the Second. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.480 But before captaining his own ship, he began as first 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.680 mate aboard Charles the Second, which was named after Charles 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.519 the Second of Spain. Several London investors hoped for profits 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.880 by sponsoring a privateering campaign in cooperation with the King 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.920 of Spain and Charles the Second was in Spanish service 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.680 while Henry was aboard as a crewman. The forty six 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.280 gun Charles the Second was meant to plunder French shipping 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.680 vessels in the Caribbean, but while anchored off the coast 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.200 of northern Spain for weeks, the crew started to grow 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.440 restless and impatient, waiting for their pay and for the 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.440 delivery of a letter of mark that was a license 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.920 required by all privateering ships that pretty much allowed the 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.920 crew to plunder without consequence. The conditions aboard, though, had 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:41.320 become horrendous, and Henry capitalizing on this opportunity led that 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.360 restless crew to mutiny, and then Henry was elected as 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.440 the new captain of the ship, and upon taking the 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.119 Charles the Second, he announced his intention to turn pirate, declaring, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.120 I am captain of this ship. Now I am bound 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.360 to Madagascar with the design of making my own fortune, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.920 and that of all the brave fell was joined with me. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.680 The Charles the Second was renamed as the Fancy And 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.760 speaking of names, this is when Henry Every became Captain 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.840 Henry Every. Throughout his career of piracy, Henry Every was 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.080 known to use a lot of aliases, such as Benjamin 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.200 Bridgeman or Henry Bridgeman. He was also known sometimes as 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.559 Jack Avery or John Avery. That's kind of what leads 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.000 to that situation we mentioned at the top of the show, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.320 where you'll hear his name pronounced different ways. To his crewman, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.480 he was known as long Bent and sometimes Captain Bridgeman. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.880 During his years of piracy, which were not many, just 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.839 two years between six four and sixt Henry picked up 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.240 a few other nicknames, the arch Pirate and the King 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:51.120 of Pirates. In addition to gold, silver and jewels. Henry 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:57.800 was an English pirate who apparently also looted names, clearly names. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.440 I like your name, I'm going to take it right. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.280 As the captain of a pirate ship, Henry would generally 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.360 have had the last word. However, pirates did have their 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.520 own form of democracy aboard their vessels. It wasn't like 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.400 our modern democratic process, but their culture of electing their 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.440 captain and as well as how they split their loot, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.480 did have elements of the democratic process as you might 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.760 recognize it. So here the crew decided that each crewman 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.720 would get one share of loot and the captain would 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:33.120 pocket two shares. There was some honor among thieves. Henry 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.120 had made some modifications to his vessel. He had modified 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.440 its superstructure, removing the top deck of the Fancy to 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:45.120 increase it's already pretty considerable speed. And after the mutiny 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.400 and now under Henry's command, the crew decided not to 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.359 wait any longer for a letter of mark or for 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.720 the authorities to arrive, and they just decided to make 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.799 a run for it. The Fancy, with her new captain, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.760 crew and name, sailed for the Indian Ocean. Henry and 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.400 his crew sailed to the African coasts, where trade routes 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.240 were full of English, Spanish and French chips to prey 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.640 upon and based their operations in both the Atlantic Ocean 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.800 and the Indian Ocean. They pretty much followed what was 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.599 known as the Pirate Round, and the Pirate Round was 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.000 a sailing route that was popular among English pirates during 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.280 the late seventeenth and into the early eighteenth century. This 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.680 route led from the Western Atlantic, ran parallel to the 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.760 Cape Route around the southern tip of Africa, stopped at Madagascar, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.719 and then went onto the coasts of Yemen and India. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.200 The Pirate Round was largely the same as the roots 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.400 used by the East India Company ships. Years later, after 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.640 months of plundering along trade routes, Henry and his crew 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.560 had stolen five ships, making him powerful enough to attack 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.040 even the most well armored vessels sailing between India and 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.760 the Middle East. We're going to take a break now 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.400 for a word from our sponsor, and when we're back, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:10.520 we're going to set the scene. Henry's big win. Welcome 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.680 back to criminal Lya. This is when Captain every turns 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.720 himself into the world's most prosperous pirates. So it said 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.160 that Every's crew was fairly content, as they had been 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.320 pillaging and plundering the coasts of various places for several months, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.400 But then Henry learned that there was treasure, real treasure 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:34.280 to be found. A Mogul Empire Armada was preparing to 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.480 set sail from the port of Mocha in the Red 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.600 Sea on a voyage home to Surat, India. The convoy 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.560 of possibly as many as twenty five vessels would be 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.000 carrying more than one thousand Muslim pilgrims on their way 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.800 to the holy city of Mecca, but the fleet would 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.480 also include several treasure filled merchant vessels owned by the 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.720 Emperor a wrongzeb Alamgir known also as the Grand Mogul, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.120 who ruled what is modern day India. One of them 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.920 was the flagship Ganji Sawai. The Ganji Sawai, which is 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.880 also known as the Gun Sway, was the biggest ship 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.960 in the fleet, with several dozen cannons and upwards of 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:16.120 four hundred riflemen combined. This was more firepower than Henry's 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.760 entire pirate fleet. But it was well known that Henry 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.800 was a good captain and a good pirate, and famous 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.960 pirate captains, including Captain William May and his ship the 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.960 Pearl Joseph Farrell and the Portsmouth Adventure, Thomas two in 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.680 the Amity, William Want and the Dolphin, and Thomas Wake 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.720 and Susannah are all to have said to have joined him, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.720 and they were under his command at the very least. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.880 They lent firepower to the Fancy as she went on 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:47.600 her attack, with every fleet in sight. The Mogul's vessels scattered. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.520 Most of the ships in Henry's fleet were too slow 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.800 to keep up the chase, and they fell back. By morning, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.640 the crew of the Fancy could reach only two ships, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.640 the Fatim Mohammed and the larger of the two, the 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.239 guns Sway. They first attacked the Fatimahammed, whose crew surrendered, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:09.080 but not before Thomas too was killed and allegedly disemboweled 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.600 while fighting. Henry's victory was due to his skill as 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.800 a pirate, but it was also due to luck. During battle, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.840 Henry's fleet took out the mainmast of the Gun's Way, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.160 but it was when an artillery piece malfunctioned and exploded 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.200 on the guns Way that every saw his opportunity to 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.959 board the ship. His boarding party engaged in some fierce 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.920 hand to hand combat, but when the captain of the 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:36.120 guns way abandoned his crew. The crew then surrendered. Every 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.240 screw was brutal and murderous. Those who survived were tortured 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.960 until they gave up locations of potentially hidden treasure. The 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.160 whole ship came under their control, and they carried away 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.320 all the gold and silver. That was written by Indian 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.240 historian Coffee Colm later about the event, and then he 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.520 went on quote. After having remained engaged for a week 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.800 in searching for plunder, stripping them and of their clothes, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.960 and dishonoring the old and young women, they left the 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.560 ship and its passengers to their fate. Some of the women, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.079 getting an opportunity, threw themselves into the sea to save 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:16.679 their honor, while others committed suicide using knives and daggers. Henry, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.360 it said, actually never went aboard the Gun's Way, Yet 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.880 that catch and the brutality of all his men who 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.240 did board, turned him into the world's most prosperous and 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:32.320 most wanted pirate at the time. Henry's attack on that 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.479 fleet enraged the Grand Mogul. He had senior level employees 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.600 at the East India Company arrested because he believed that 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.880 they had conspired with the English pirate against him, although 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.840 he had no evidence that that had actually happened, and 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:50.080 he threatened to end trade agreements with the East India Company. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.720 That's big. The East India Company, so fearful that that 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.720 threat might come to fruition, compensated the mogul and also 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.640 placed a bounty on Captain every We can't get into 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.040 the details too much, but the East India Company, we're 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.920 mentioning it once or twice here, so let's talk about 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.080 how it's important to the time and place. Between six 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.240 and eighteen seventy four, the East India Company became the 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.079 most powerful corporation the world had ever seen. The company 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.480 was incorporated under the approval of Queen Elizabeth the First 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.320 and went on to create a monopoly on trade on 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.920 everything from spices to fabrics to opium. But the way 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.800 that the East India Company worked was not at all 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.080 through collaboration. They were known for widespread abuses of power, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.160 and they got their way through intimidation and bribery. Imagine 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.839 a company so big and influential that it built its 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.760 own three thousand men army for the East India Company 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.640 and for the Queen of England. The trade relationship with 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.520 the Grand Mogul was exploitative, but that trade with the 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.960 East and Southeast Asia and India was also very importan 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.600 into the crown. So back to that treasure, that kind 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:08.200 of booty. Put a bounty on Henry's head. A proclamation 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:13.560 for apprehending Henry Every alias Bridgeman and Sundry other pirates 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.480 was distributed by authorities. It called for the punishment and 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.440 execution of Captain Henry Every and his crew as quote 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:26.440 heinous and notorious offenders of the law. They encouraged the 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.640 quote seizing and apprehending the persons of such open and 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:34.480 villainous transgressors. They called Henry and his crew notorious rogues, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.960 and offered a reward to anyone who took part in 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:41.880 their capture, especially the capture of Henry. Henry replied to 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.040 that proclamation stating that he and his crew were quote 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.960 now in a ship of forty six guns and one 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.560 fifty men, bound to seek our fortunes. I have never 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.559 as yet wronged any English or Dutch, nor never intend 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.920 while I am commander. Many of his pirates retired after 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.400 that haul. They did not fall into the more modern 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.760 one more score before I quit trope. It was a 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.600 little different. They actually did quit while they were ahead, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.840 and then Henry vanished. We're left with his legend and 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.560 perhaps some current ideas about what happened to his treasure. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.720 But today's historians can't seem to agree on many parts 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.640 of Henry's life. The most interesting debate, though, isn't about 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.280 his childhood or exactly what his job might have been 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.720 in the Royal Navy. It's about how he ended his career. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.520 We are going to take a break for a word 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.480 from our sponsor, and when we're back, we're going to 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.080 talk about how Henry may or may not have ended 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:51.400 that career. Welcome back to Criminalia. Now we're getting into 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.760 why Captain Henry every was so special he got to 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:59.800 retire during the time of Henry Every not many pirates 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.360 die rich and respected or in their own beds. So 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.160 let's look at long been compared to a couple very 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:11.680 successful pirates during the Golden Age of piracy. Let's start 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.520 with Henry Morgan. You probably actually know Henry Morgan, or 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.720 at least his likeness. Captain Henry Morgan can be seen 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.600 on bottles of Captain Morgan's spice rump. Henry was a pirate, Yes, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.760 but because he conducted his piracy under the service of 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.400 the Queen of England, he technically was considered a buccaneer. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.200 Buccaneer is the term for a pirate who specifically operated 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.440 from the Caribbean and Pacific coast of Central America. Henry 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.000 was known as a vicious seamen and he amassed not 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.840 only quite a head count but also a tight a 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.160 bit of treasure during his time plundering. In sixteen seventy four, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.240 with his deeds overlooked, Henry was knighted by Queen Anne 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.320 for his service to the crown, and when Sir Henry 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.920 Morgan retired from piracy and relocated to Jamaica, he was 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.400 awarded by the monarchy the position of Lieutenant Governor, a 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.720 post he served in for about nine years. He spent 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.160 his retirement years with his wife and died in sight, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.640 but not from a bullet or a thrust of a 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:18.440 cutlast the rather likely from tuberculosis. Henry Morrigan was a 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.560 pirate who did die in his own bed, but he 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:26.920 was definitely in the minority. Blackbeard right, everybody knows about Blackbeard. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.440 Like Henry, every Blackbeard's piracy career only lasted a few years. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.160 He died as an active pirate in battle. During that time, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.280 he acquired more of a reputation than he did treasure. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.520 He and his crew were killed by British naval Lieutenant 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.880 Robert Maynard and his crew of the Jaine, sent by 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.560 Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood. Blackbeard met his end when he 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.160 made an incorrect assumption. He assumed that he had killed 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.480 the other guys with cannon fire. He had not. His 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.320 crew was overtaken by force when they jumped the mails 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.720 of the chain. After a six minute brawl with knives, swords, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.960 and guns, all common fighting implements used at the time, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.960 black Beard and many of his crew were left dead. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.120 There's this romantic notion of a pirate on an isolated 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:20.000 tropical island, and like many pirates from the Golden Age 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.320 of piracy, Henry every name popped up through the centuries 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.720 in this type of scenario, but most of that is legend. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.720 The story of his death, or the lack of story 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.960 about his death, is actually a story in itself. Tales 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.200 we hear about the end of Henry's life can be 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.840 a bit preposterous, and some can be fun and some 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.560 can maybe be plausible. It was said that Henry married 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.640 an Indian princess in one of these, maybe even the 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.760 granddaughter of the Grand Mogul. Then there's the one where 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.680 Henry founded a new monarchy. In the years following his disappearance, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.600 there were claims that he was spotted here or there, 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.480 pretty much everywhere. He like the Elvis of piracy. At 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.600 that point, he had moved on from his Santa Claus nous. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.960 Some people believe that he lived out his life on 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.640 an unidentified tropical island. Some said that he had gone 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:17.080 to Madagascar to retire, and some stories suggest Henry sailed 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.600 to Ireland with his remaining crew members. There are some 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.840 versions of the story that claimed that some of his 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.160 crew had been apprehended and hanged, and there were even 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.840 accounts that suggested that Henry had squandered his fortune and 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.720 died on the streets of London. Henry commanded the Fancy 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.399 only until late when he disappeared, and it's thought he 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.560 retired from piracy at that time. We do know that 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.359 he vanished from all records in sixteen, and that his 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.400 whereabouts and activities after that period we're still unknown. The 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.359 fate of the Fancy is also unknown, although one version 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.320 of his story suggests a Henry Bridgeman sold it or 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.479 perhaps just gave it up. In the AMAS, there are 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.960 accounts of the tale that suggests that he changed his 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.040 name to Benjamin Bridgeman after he had used that for 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.160 an alias for many years, and then quietly lived out 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.440 the rest of his life. But again, where there could 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.119 be volumes compiled on the many theories about his retirement 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.960 and his death if someone took the time to compile 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.480 them all, and they are all just theories, we have 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.840 no documentation exactly, sir. With the questionable dates of his 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.240 birth and his dath, Henry may have been anywhere between 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.600 forty and about sixty years old when he died. Despite 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.240 that bounty on his head and the ensuing man hunt 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.960 that followed, Henry seems to have gotten away with it, 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.119 away with his life, away with Luke. That's estimated to 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.240 be about sixty million dollars in today's currency. Some value 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.840 that at about a hundred million dollars or more, and 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.840 Gail Sellinger, author of the book Pirates of New England, 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.920 rights the value of the entire cargo would equal at 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.720 least three hundred million dollars when adjusted for inflation. Henry's 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.760 career in piracy may have only lasted for two years, 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.240 but he is known as one of the very few 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.000 pirate captains to escape with his lute before being killed 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.960 in battle or arrested and hanged. His legend instead is 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:20.080 that he is the infamous pirate captain whose big reputation 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.119 making heist was one of the most profitable acts of 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.439 piracy in just that short period of time on the 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.960 high seas. Henry's escapades captured people's imaginations, and that led 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.280 to two things. The first, those successful two years flung 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.800 Henry into the spotlight, and he became inspiration for others 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.840 to take up a career in piracy. The second, his 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.800 exploits sparked works of art, including plays and literature, poems, songs, 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.560 and you can even find today his likeness captured in 0:19:51.600 --> 0:20:01.320 wood carvings. That is our Henry story, Holly, Would you 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.520 like to take us into our cocktail story? Yes, step 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.400 into the groggery where I am decorating it with carved 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:15.600 wooden engravings of Henry. Every today's cocktail is called the 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.639 Vanishing Pirate in line with the end of his story. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.639 He does kind of vanish. It is delicious, so it 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.240 vanishes from the glass very quickly, and if you drink enough, 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.840 your stories will be as hazy as the end of 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:35.160 his life. It is one of those things that it's 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.120 easy to drink a lot very quickly. Please don't drink responsibly, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.240 but just know you will have hazy stories. So the 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.960 Vanishing Pirate, it's just a quick three ingredient one. It 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.840 starts with one ounce of elder flower cordial, so like 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.600 a Sender main or something along the lines of that. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.800 One ounce of vodka I recommend using a strawberry vodka here, 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:00.240 and then six ounces of ginger beer. What happened is 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.240 that the sweetness of the cordial rounds out that bite 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.320 that ginger beer can have, so you have all of 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:09.639 the crisp, refreshing, bubbly brightness of it and none of 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.280 that like sometimes ginger beer can leave like a little 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.639 spike feeling on my tongue where I'm like too sharp. No, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:17.959 it softens it all up and it gives it that 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:22.719 fruity roundness to it. It's absolutely lovely and easy to 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:24.600 drink a lot of and you can just pour those 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.159 directly into your last with ice. You don't need to 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.680 do anything fancy. Give it a quick stir and you're good. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:32.800 You start with the sand germain on the bottom and 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:34.920 then add your vodka and your ginger beer on top. 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.840 The process of pouring over one over the other helps 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:43.000 mix them already. So um, it's so delicious. It's so 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.240 delicious that I texted Maria while I was working on 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.560 it and said, sometimes I have an idea. I poured 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.000 the drink and then I go, oh, man, I'm actually 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.160 good at this. Not often, but once in a while, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.919 I believe that. I replied that you have to have 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:57.720 a talent, and that's a pretty good one to have. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.639 There are worse things to befall a person, right. The 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.359 non alcoholic version of this is also incredibly lovely, but 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:08.760 it does involve an ingredient that you might have the 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:12.080 special order, and that is elder flower syrup. It's not 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.000 hard to get, but it's not like a thing that 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.360 grocery stores often stuff, So you're going to use that 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.160 instead of your your cordials, so that's easy as pie. 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:22.520 And to make this, you're actually going to cut up 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:27.120 some juicy ripe strawberries, pour them into your glass with 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:29.679 that syrup, and muddle it just a little bit together 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:32.000 so that you have, like just a nice mush and 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:39.000 then pour the ginger beer over that also delicious, also 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:42.600 delicious um and highly recommended, and that won't make you 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:44.919 fuzzy at all. You can drink them forever. They'll vanish 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.720 just as quickly as Henry Every did, and yet your 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.400 memory will not be compromised in anyway. It'll be great. 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.040 Hopefully you'll give this a try. If you do, I 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:56.919 hope you like it and you can always share your 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.320 success or failure with it by tagging us. So we 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.399 has to take Criminalia on social media. We are so 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.840 thankful that you spent this time with us talking about 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:13.320 Henry Every Today and the vanishing pirate cocktail delicious. We 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:15.600 hope we will see you right back here next week 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.159 because we have plenty more piracy to come this season, 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:27.080 and so we will see you around on Criminalia. Criminalia 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:29.720 is a production of Shonda land Audio in partnership with 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.200 I Heart Radio. 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