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@@ilyalogkiy The QAR, which wasn't as poorly constructed.

So it would seem.

Not saying it didn't exist but don't you think they would just tear the letter up or burn it?

Literally same today 😮

Sorry, let me try to clarify the details.. The book, "Pirate Hunter :The true story of Captain Kidd" by Richard Zacks (2002) Tells the 'very' detailed story of Captain Kidd. It also has a full transcript of his trial. The book includes a photograph of the actual Letter of marque that was signed by King William lll authorizing Kidd in 1696 to sail and attack any Pirate ships or French ships on behalf of the English Crown and confiscate any cargos of valuables.. (The image of the actual letter is found on page 34 in Chapter Two of the book.) Several Lords of London and wealthy merchants and Governors in the American Colonies also backed Kidd in this mission. The spoils would be divided up among the investors and the king himself would get 10%. The issue that arose for Kidd was that after months of no action, Captain Kidd captured a vessel called the Quedaugh Merchant. This ship had all sorts of valuables onboard. However, it turns out that the ship was an Indian vessel that belonged to a wealthy Khoja merchant from Surat. So, as a result, in order to cover their asses and keep from getting in hot water over this, the British Crown and all the Investors branded Captain Kidd a pirate, saying that he did not have authority to capture the ship under the authority of the Letter of marque he was given. They then put out the word to have him captured and brought to London to be tried for piracy. However, what they didn't know was that when Captain Kidd boarded the captured the ship, he found a French pass written by French authorities that had given the Indian ship protected passage by the French. (You can view a photo of that document on Captain Kidd's Wikipedia page). So, because the French were the enemy of Britain, and the fact that it was sailing under the protection of the French, that technically made Kidd's capture of the ship legitimate. So, when Kidd got word while in the Caribbean that he was being hunted down as a pirate for capturing the Indian ship, he decided to dock the captured Quedaugh Merchant which by then he had renamed "Adventure Prize" in the Caribbean and then sold some of the cargo to buy another ship and sail to New York to convince Governor Bellomont who was one of the investors that he had acted honorably according to the Letter of marque and to present to him the French Pass that he had found on board the Quedaugh Merchant as evidence in the hopes that Governor Bellomont would defend him against the piracy charges. But before he headed to New York, he first secretly buried some treasure he had acquired to use as a bargaining chip with the Governor in return helping him get the the Piracy charges dismissed. The governor agreed but demanded that Kidd disclose where the ship was located. When Kidd refused to tell him the governor imprisoned him, then dispatched two ships to go look for the Adventure Prize. But eventually they got word that the crew that Kidd had left behind in the Caribbean to guard the ship had sold off the cargo and valuables and then burned the ship and disappeared. Angered over this, the governor decided to send Kidd back to London to stand trial for Piracy. Once he arrived in London Kidd was put in solitary confinement in the horrible nasty New Gate Prison for almost two years before his trial was scheduled. When he finally was brought to trial the court demanded that he make a plea of guilty or not guilty so that the trial could either end or proceed. But he steadfastly refused make a plea unless he was first allowed to be given access to the French pass that he had found on the ship so that his lawyers could use it as evidence to prepare for his defense. The court refused and kept pressing him to make a plea. They finally told him that if he would make a plea of guilty the case would be concluded or if he pleaded not guilty, then they would look into providing the document to him and his lawyers for defense. So, he pleaded not guilty. But instead of giving him the document, they pulled a switch on him and brought up a new charge of murder against him for the death of a crew member on his ship that happened years before. He was totally caught off guard by this new charge of murder and neither he nor his defense lawyers were prepared to make a defense. What had happened in the years before he was brought back to London, was that Kidd had gotten into an altercation with an insubordinate crew member on his ship and hit him over the head with a bucket that had metal banding and the man died from the injury. Kidd tried to argue in court that it was done I'm a moment of anger and was not premeditated murder. But the court brought in two of Kidds former crew members that were paid off by the Crown to testify against him and stated that they witnessed it and it was premeditated murder. (Turns out the witnesses had testified previously that they were not even on board the ship and didn't see the incident when it happened.) The jury returned a guilty verdict of premeditated murder and he was sentenced to hang. So, basically the Court knew the Piracy charge wouldn't hold up because of the French Pass that Kidd had found on the ship, so instead, they got him on a trumped up charge of murder based on the testimony of two witnesses that lied and he was convicted and hanged on May 23, 1701. However, as was mentioned, the rope around his neck broke and he actually fell to the ground alive. But instead of freeing him as was required by the English law that said you can't hang a man twice, they ignored that right and hanged him a second time anyway until he was dead and then gibbeted his body and hung it at seaside for months to serve as an example. The French pass that the prosecutors kept from Kidd during the trial was found 200 years later. And the ship wreck of the Quedaugh Merchant (Advenuture Prize") was found 300 years later near Catalina Island (Isla Catalina) off the coast of the Dominican Republic in 2007.

these videos are coming but idk when

@@GoldandGunpowder Hell yeah!

It was possible on lighter ships, but I've never heard of any examples where it's been done on larger ones, though the prospect is certainly interesting

there's really no point bothering with these people, but I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience

@@GoldandGunpowder To be clear I'm not bothering with them, or even that mad. I just wanted to highlight cowards who won't take feed back. You keep up the great work and keep sighting your sources.