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Thread #1861   Message #6643
Posted By: Barry Finn
11-Jun-97 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Pregnancy and Psalms
Subject: RE: Query: Pregnancy and Psalms
Anne Bonny & Mary Reed were captured in October 1720 with Anne's husband Capt. Jack "Calico" Rackman. As Anne & Mary fought with their British captors, yelling for the men to lend a hand, Jack & his crew were hiding below, drunk. As Calico Jack went to the gallows it's reported he said "If instead of these weaklings I only had had some more woman with me". Anne then expressing the feeling of both woman shouted to Jack "Had you fought like a man , you need not have been hanged like a dog". Both Mary & Anne did not oppose their death sentence. William Defoe wrote of Mary that the death sentence for piates would keep the sea free of cowards, which she thought would be over run with making it hard for brave freebotters to earn a living from. Both Mary & Anne "pleaded their bellies" & werespared the gallows, Mary died of fever before being freed, Anne went free with her child a year later. After all that, sorry Peter, I don't of any songs to go along with this. Barry