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Anstis, Thomas
The crew of Thomas Anstis ridicule the law by holding a mock trial. The judge, using an old tarpaulin as a robe and a mop-end as a wig, sits in a mangrove tree and declares: "I'll have you know, Raskal, we don't sit here to hear Reason - we go according to Law."
Active: - English - Ship: Good Fortune
In , Anstis left the Bahamas with Howell Davis. After Davis' murder in June , Anstis sailed with Bartholomew Roberts. When Roberts captured an 18 gun brigantine in the West Indies (renaming her the "Good Fortune") he made Anstis captain of her.
Anstis and his crew deserted from Bartholomew Roberts in As they approached Africa in April , Anstis made off with the Good Fortune. Anstis went to the Caribbean, where he plundered 3 or 4 small merchant ships. According to Daniel Defoe in his "General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates
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Thomas Anstis (died April ) was an Englishpirate who captained the brigantine&#;Good Fortune&#;from to , during the Golden Age of Piracy.
Biography[]
Thomas Anstis was born in England, and he was a member of the sloop&#;Buck before Howell Davis led a mutiny aboard the ship and became a pirate captain. After Davis' death in , Bartholomew Roberts became the captain of several pirate ships, and Anstis was made the captain of the brigantine&#;Good Fortune. On 18 April , Anstis split with Roberts' fleet as it headed to West Africa, remaining in the Caribbean Sea to continue pirating there. Between Hispaniola and Jamaica, the pirates captured two vessels, gang raping a female passenger on the&#;Irwin. He captured the British treasure ship&#;Morning Star as it headed from Guinea to South Carolina, and he outfitted the ship with 32 guns and gave it to John Fenn. In August , the King sent a fleet to eradicate the pirates, and Anstis lost forty men on Grand Cayman after the R
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Thomas Anstis
English pirate
Thomas Anstis (died April ) was an early 18th-century pirate, who served beneath Captain Howell Davis and Captain Bartholomew Roberts, before setting up on his own konto, raiding shipping on the eastern coast of the American colonies and in the Caribbean during what is often referred to as the "Golden Age of Piracy".
Early career
[edit]Anstis is first recorded as a member of the sloop Buck, which sailed from New Providence in the Bahamas in (the ship having arrived there with Governor Woodes Rogers[1]). During the course of the voyage, Anstis conspired with six other crew members (including Walter Kennedy and Howell Davis) to attempt a mutiny aboard the fartyg which, upon doing so, stated their intentions to sail southward as pirates. Howell Davis was elected captain. After Davis' death Bartholomew robert replaced him as captain, and eventually had several ships. Anstis commanded one of these, the brigantine Good Fortune.[2&#