1610s in piracy explained

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1610s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1610 and 1619.

Events

1610

• By December - Word has reached England of Francis Verney and Jack Ward's conversion to Islam.^[1]
• December 8 - The English pirate Peter Love, who had set up base in the Outer Hebrides, was betrayed by a confederate, tried for piracy, and executed in Scotland.^[2]
• Unknown - Hendrik Brouwer sails for the Dutch East Indies commanding three ships for the Dutch East India Company.^[3]
• Unknown - Henry Mainwaring is commissioned to capture Peter Easton.^[4]
• Unknown - Easton blockades the Bristol Channel.

1611

• Late Spring - Easton arrives off the coast of Cork with a squadron of ships requesting to parley.

1612

• February - A general pardon of all pirates who are subjects of James I is announced
• November - James I issues a pardon in Easton's name if he is to return the Concorde to its previous owners.

1613

• Early in the year - The Duke of Savoy declares Nice and Villefranche to be free ports and offering asylum for pirates.^[5]
• February 20 - Easton sails into Villefranche and meets with the Duke of Savoy, investing 100,000 crowns in return for annual income.

1614

• June 4 - Mainwaring arrives in Newfoundland with a fleet of six ships.
• Late in the year - Louis XIII asks Simon Danseker to help negotiate with the pirates around Tunis.
• Unknown - Verney converts back to Catholicism to escape being a galley slave after being captured by a Sicilian corsair.

1615

• February - Having agreed to Louis XIII's request, Danseker arrives in the Gulf of Tunis with two French ships.
• June - Mainwaring engages four Spanish men-of-war off the coast of Portugal and emerges successful.

1616

• June 9 - Mainwaring is pardoned by James I.

1617

• Walter Raleigh is pardoned by James I and sent on a second expedition in search of El Dorado.^[6]

1618

• March 20 - Mainwaring is knighted at Woking.^[7]
• May 23 - The Thirty Years' War starts, causing a rise in piracy.
• October 29 - Raleigh is executed.
• Unknown - Piet Pieterszoon Hein is pressed into service by the Republic of Venice.
• Unknown - Robert Walsingham is captured in Ireland by the English.

Births

1615

• After February - Simon Danseker

1618

• Unknown - Pérez de Guzmán

Deaths

1610

• November 9 - George Somers
• December 8 - Peter Love

1613

• April - Neil MacLeod

1615

• September 6 - Francis Verney

1618

• January - Lawrence Kemys
• June 6 - James Lancaster
• September 24 - William Parker
• October 29 - Walter Raleigh

Notes and References

1. Book: Tinniswood, Adrian . Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean . Riverhead Books . 2010 . 9781594487743 . New York . en.
2. Web site: 13 February 2017 . Pirates of the Hebrides and the execution of Captain Peter Love . 11 July 2022 . The Scotsman.
3. Web site: 2011-03-21 . South Land to New Holland - The Seynbrief . 2022-07-13 . 2011-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110321080315/http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/southland/Trade-Seynbrief.html . dead .
4. Web site: Butts . Edward . 16 January 2008 . Sir Henry Mainwaring . 11 July 2022 . The Canadian Encyclopedia.
5. Clive Malcolm Senior, An Investigation of the Activities and Importance of English Pirates, 1603-40 (University of Bristol, PhD thesis, 1973), p. 88-91
6. Burns, Alan. History of the British West Indies. Allen & Unwin. OCLC 557499386.
7. Web site: Knights of England . 11 July 2022 . Internet Archive.