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范恩是对的。在冬天的尾声或一七一九年早春，一艘来自牙买加的船在他的小岛下锚。范恩和他们打招呼，意外发现船长是老朋友。那个人是退休的加勒比海盗，名字是霍尔福德（Holford），但霍尔福德知道这位老友的名声，拒绝让他上船。据说他告诉这个可怜的海盗：“查尔斯，除非把你当成囚犯对待，否则我无法信任你，让你待在我船上。”要不然，“我会（发现）你勾结我的船员，敲昏我的头，然后带着我的船跑去当海盗”。他让范恩待在岸上，说他大约一个月后会带着墨水树货物回来。他保证“如果我回来的时候你还在这座岛上，我会带你回牙买加，然后吊死你”。

范恩很幸运，一个月过去之前，另一艘船来到小岛找水，这一次船长和船员都不认得他。范恩因为急着离开小岛，便捏造了一个名字，签约成为余下航程的船员。

霍尔福德不久后抵达锚地。范恩现在担任船员的那艘船的船长，邀他上船吃饭。霍尔福德走下甲板前往船长室时，恰巧瞄了货仓一眼，看见范恩正在工作。霍尔福德立刻去见船长，告诉友人这名落难者的真实身份与名声。霍尔福德此时正要回牙买加，于是自愿带范恩回去受审。范恩很快发现一把枪指着自己，霍尔福德的船员将他铐上铁链。一艘普通单桅商船的船员抓到了全美洲恶名昭彰的海盗。[69]

一两个星期过后，范恩回到牙买加，被遭他鄙视的国王关进监狱。出于不知名的原因，他在监狱里度过了快一整年的时间，才被带到牙买加首府西班牙镇接受审判，时间是一七二一年三月二十二日。他知道判决不会有异议。无数证人到法庭上指证他：他虏获过的各种船只的船长、船员与乘客，就连皇家海军的“凤凰”号皮尔斯舰长也来了，证明范恩是如何嘲弄国王的赦免。轮到范恩替自己辩护时，他没有传唤证人，也没有问任何问题。他的海盗生涯从汉密尔顿总督的私掠船开始，而如今，汉密尔顿的继任者尼古拉斯·劳斯（Nicholas Lawes）总督宣布：“如同以往的判决。”“吊起脖子，直到死亡为止，愿上帝保佑他的灵魂。”

一七二一年三月二十九日星期三，范恩在罗亚尔港的绞刑地（Gallows Point）被吊死。[70]劳斯总督命人砍断绳子，将尸体运到港口入口处的大炮礁（Gun Cay），挂在示众架链子上，让所有水手都看到。接下来的几个月，甚至是几年后，众人看着范恩的身影一点一点消失，鸟类和昆虫噬食，风吹日晒，直到他的残骸以及海盗的黄金年代成为故事，回荡在一千艘破烂船只嘎吱作响的甲板吊床上，或在酒馆炉火边由旁人述说着。

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[1] R. A. Brock （ed），The Official Letters of Alexander Spottswood，Vol. I，Richmond，VA：Virginia Historical Society，1882，p. xi；J. A. Doyle，English Colonies in America，Volume V：The Colonies Under the House of Hanover，New York：Henry Holt & Co.，1907，pp. 32-39.

[2] Samuel Chamberlain，Behold Williamsburg，New York：Hastings House，1947，pp. 3，9；A. Lawrence Kocher and Howard Dearstyne，Colonial Williamsburg：Its Buildings and Gardens，Williamsburg，VA：Colonial Williamsburg，1949，pp. 3-17.

[3] Instructions to William Bird，Agent for the Colony of Virginia，Williamsburg，VA：20 November 1718 in CSPCS 1717-1718，No. 808iib，p. 435；Kocher and Dearstyle，pp. 21，52-55.

[4] Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，pp. 97-99.

[5] Address of the House of Burgesses of Virginia to the King，Williamsburg，VA：20 November 1718 in CSPCS 1717-1718，No. 808iia，p. 434；Instructions to William Bird，pp. 434-435.

[6] Rogers to the Council of Trade，31October 1718，p. 376.

[7] Woodes Rogers to the Council of Trade，31 October 1718，pp. 376-377.

[8] Protest of Captain King，in GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 145-146；Deposition of Joseph Aspinwall，in Coldham，pp. 150-151.

[9] Rogers to the Council of Trade，31 October 1718，pp. 376-377.

[10] CO23/1：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas Correspondence，1717-1725，National Archives，Kew，UK.：Trial & Condemnation of Ten Persons for Piracy at New Providence，Nassau：10 December 1718；Rogers to the Council of Trade，31 October 1718，pp. 377-378；Rogers to Secretary Craggs，24 December 1718.

[11] CO23/1：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas Correspondence，1717-1725，National Archives，Kew，UK.，No. 18：Private Consultation Minutes，Nassau：28 November 1718.

[12] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，138；ADM 1/1826：Spotswood to George Gordon，Williamsburg，VA：24 November 1718；in the letter，Spotswood informs Gordon that “the Pyrats at Okracock have been join’d by some other Pyrat crews，& are increased （as ’tis said） to 170 men.”

[13] Spotswood to Lord Carteret，Williamsburg，VA：14 February 1719 in R. A. Brock （ed），The Official Letters of Alexander Spottswood，Vol. I，Richmond，VA：Virginia Historical Society，1882，p. 274；Spotswood to the Council of Trade and Plantations，Williamsburg，VA：22 December 1718 in CSPCS 1717-1718，No. 800，pp. 430-432；ADM 1/1472：Ellis Brand to the Admiralty，Whorstead，England：8 April 1721.

[14] Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719.

[15] David Lyon，The Sailing Navy List，London：Conway，1993，pp. 26，36.

[16] Spotswood to Council of Trade，22 December 1718，p. 432.

[17] ADM51/672：Admiralty Records，Captain’s Logs，Pearl，26 July 1715 to 8 Dec 1719，National Archives，Kew，UK.：Admiralty Records，Captain’s Logs，Pearl，26 July 1715 to 8 Dec 1719，National Archives，Kew，UK. p3：entry of 17 November 1718；Abstract of Letter of Robert Maynard to Mr. Symonds of the Phoenix，North Carolina：17 December 1718 in London Weekly Journal or British Gazette，25 April 1719，p. 1，339.

[18] ADM 1/1826 f2：George Gordon to the Admiralty，Pearl at Carlisle Bay，Jamaica：10 March 1718.

[19] Abstract of Letter of Robert Maynard to Mr Symonds，p. 1，339；Hyde’s full name and rank is found in ADM 33/311：Navy Board Pay Office，Ship’s Pay Books，National Archives，Kew，UK：Paybook of the Pearl，where he is listed as “Killed in taking Pirate Teach.”

[20] Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719.

[21] William Gordon to the secretary，London：12 May 1709 in Saunders （1886），pp. 711-714；J. A. Doyle，English Colonies in America，Volume V：The Colonies Under the House of Hanover，New York：Henry Holt & Co.，1907，pp. 44-47.

[22] Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，pp. 157-160.

[23] Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719.

[24] Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719.

[25] Spotswood to the Council of Trade，22 December 1718，p. 430；ADM 1/1826：Spotswood to George Gordon，Williamsburg，VA：24 November 1718.

[26] Ellis Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719.

[27] ADM 1/1826 f2：George Gordon to the Admiralty，London：14 September 1721；Tobias Knight to Edward Thatch，Bath，NC：17 November 1718 in Saunders （1886），pp. 343-344；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 80，83.

[28] ADM 1/1826 f2：George Gordon to the Admiralty，London：14 September 1721；Abstract of Letter of Robert Maynard to Mr. Symonds，p. 1，339；“Rhode Island Dispatch，February 20，” Boston News-Letter，2 March 1719，p. 2；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 79-83；Letter of George Gordon to the Admiralty，14 September 1721；ADM 33/311：Navy Board Pay Office，Ship’s Pay Books，National Archives，Kew，UK：Paybook of the Lyme （for identity of slain coxswain Allen Arlington）.

[29] Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719；George Gordon to the Admiralty，14 September 1721.

[30] Abstract of Letter of Robert Maynard to Mr Symonds，p. 1339；ADM51/672：Admiralty Records，Captain’s Logs，Pearl，26 July 1715 to 8 Dec 1719，National Archives，Kew，UK.：Admiralty Records，Captain’s Logs，Pearl，26 July 1715 to 8 Dec 1719，National Archives，Kew，UK. p5：Entry of 3 January 1719；Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，124.

[31] Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 83.

[32] Brand to the Admiralty，14 July 1719；Abstract of testimony of Ellis Brand given in Virginia，Saunders （1886），p. 344.

[33] Brand to the Admiralty，14 July 1719；Abstract of testimony of Ellis Brand given in Virginia，Saunders （1886），p. 344.

[34] Brand to the Admiralty，14 July 1719；Abstract of testimony of Ellis Brand given in Virginia，Saunders （1886），p. 344.

[35] ADM 1/1472 f11：Brand to the Admiralty，Lyme at Virginia：March 1719；Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719.

[36] ADM51/672：Admiralty Records，Captain’s Logs，Pearl，26 July 1715 to 8 Dec 1719，National Archives，Kew，UK.：Admiralty Records，Captain’s Logs，Pearl，26 July 1715 to 8 Dec 1719，National Archives，Kew，UK. pt. 5：entry of 3 January 1719.

[37] Extract of some letters from Virginia，London Weekly Journal or British Gazette，11 April 1719，p. 1，229；Watson （II，1844），p. 221.

[38] Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，pp. 228-229.

[39] The trial records have sadly been lost，apparently in the fire that engulfed Virginia’s Capitol in 1747. Fragmentary accounts of the trial survive in GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 86，and Saunders （1886），pp. 341-344. See also Lee，pp. 136-142.

[40] The full trial record is found in：Minutes of North Carolina Governing Council，Chowan，NC：27 May 1719 in Saunders （1886），pp. 341-349.

[41] Spotswood to Secretary Craggs，26 May 1719 in R. A. Brock （ed），The Official Letters of Alexander Spottswood，Vol. I，Richmond，VA：Virginia Historical Society，1882，pp. 316-319.

[42] Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，pp. 161-167.

[43] George Gordon to the Admiralty，14 September 1721；Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，p. 139.

[44] HCA 1/55：High Court Admiralty Records：Examinations of Pirates and Other Criminals，1721-1725，National Archives，Kew，UK.：Information of William Rhett，Jr.，London：28 September 1721；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 102；Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，pp. 162-163；Shirley Carter Hughson，The Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce，1670-1740，Baltimore：The Johns Hopkins Press，1894，pp. 99-101.

[45] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 164.

[46] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 183.

[47] Information ofWilliam Rhett，Jr.；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 102-103；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 102-103；CO23/1：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas Correspondence，1717-1725，National Archives，Kew，UK.，No. 12i：Mr Gale to Thomas Pitt，Charlestown，SC：4 November 1718；“Rhode Island Dispatch，December 9，” Boston News-Letter，29 December 1718，p. 2.

[48] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 188.

[49] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 111.

[50] Bonnet reprieved seven times；merchants angered：“By Letters from Carolina of December 8，” Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal，London：28 February 1719，p. 1，363.

[51] Stede Bonnet to Governor Johnson，Charlestown，SC （November or December）：1719 in GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 112-113.

[52] Private consultation minutes，Nassau：28 November 1718.

[53] James Buett was dead by early January 1719，when he was replaced by John Howell，the surgeon previously coveted by Hornigold and Bondavais. CO23/13：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas，Letters from Governors，1718-1727，National Archives，Kew，UK.，No. 47：Bahamas Council Minutes，Nassau：12 January 1719.

[54] The Samuel departed for England on November 11，while the Willing Mind was lost while carrying salvaged cargo back from Green Turtle Cay. CO23/13：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas，Letters from Governors，1718-1727，National Archives，Kew，UK.，No. 20：Woodes Rogers to Secretary Craggs，Nassau：24 December 1718；Protest of Captain King，in GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 147.

[55] CO23/1：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas Correspondence，1717-1725，National Archives，Kew，UK.：Trial and Condemnation of Ten Persons for Piracy at New Providence，Nassau：10 December 1718 （hereafter：Trial at New Providence）.

[56] CO23/1：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas Correspondence，1717-1725，National Archives，Kew，UK.：Trial and Condemnation of Ten Persons for Piracy at New Providence，Nassau：10 December 1718 （hereafter：Trial at New Providence）.：GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 43.

[57] Rogers to Secretary Craggs，p. 24 December 1718.

[58] Trial at New Providence.

[59] CO23/13：Colonial Office Records：Bahamas，Letters from Governors，1718-1727，National Archives，Kew，UK.，No. 28，Rogers to Secretary Craggs，Nassau：24 January 1719.

[60] Rogers to the Council of Trade，31 October 1718，p. 375；

GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 620.

[61] CO142/14：Colonial Office Records：Jamaica Shipping Returns，1709-1722，National Archives，Kew，UK.：A List of all the ships and vessels that have called at Kingston in His Majesty’s Land of Jamaica from the 29th day of September to the 25th day of December 1718；TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720，p. 24.

[62] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 620.

[63] TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720，p. 24；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 138.

[64] TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720，p. 24；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 138-139.

[65] TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720，p. 24；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 139.

[66] TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720，pp. 24-25；CO142/14：Colonial Office Records：Jamaica Shipping Returns，1709-1722，National Archives，Kew，UK.：A List of all the ships and vessels that have called at Kingston in His Majesty’s Land of Jamaica from the 29th day of September to the 25th day of December 1718；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 139.

[67] TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720，p. 25；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 139，Chris Humphrey，Moon Handbooks：Honduras，3rd edition，Emeryville，CA：2000，p. 154.

[68] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 139-140.

[69] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 140-141.

[70] TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720，pp. 36-40；“New York Dispatch，May 1，” Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury，4 May 1721，p. 2.