All answers are song or tune titles. The initial letters of the answers will spell out the reason I am setting a quiz instead of doing garden clearing on a glorious sunny day. There will be a prize, but I wont tell you whether it's for the most correct answers or for the first solution of the theme word. This is to encourage you to post answers as you get them, rather than hoarding them to get the theme word first.
(1) slightly plebeian sailor, died 300 years ago, and commemorated in the location of a literary Black Spot Tipping. (2) Nothing to do with the Black Death or the Great Plague,or so Malcolm Douglas keeps telling us. (3) Tempora mutantur, according to Zimmerman (4) Porcine ocular male is probably obscene, though exactly how wasn't clear to Stan H. (5) Probably not the last song on Kevin Barry's lips, though the tune would have been appropriate. (6) Citric Celebration of Capital Campanology (7) Nomadic sort of chap, had a change of heart in Yorkshire and went home for Bonfire Night (8) Free booting sailor, shared a tune with Q1 and also died 300 years ago, though rather more ignominiously. (9) Citric Celebrtation of Florida Fiddling (10) How did Jesus and Maria die? (11) Burns had a bit of a disagreement with followers of Bonnie Prince