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Ernest Alex Cruikshank, Er
The Life of Sir Henry Morgan. With an account of the English settlement of the island of Jamaica
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338064967
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LIFE OF SIR HENRY MORGAN
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CHAPTER I
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HIS FAMILY AND HIS EARLY LIFE
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The lively contemporary author of The Bucaniers of America circumstantially relates that Henry Morgan was the son of a rich farmer or yeoman in Wales, and that at an early age he had been kidnapped and sold, or had bound himself voluntarily as a hired servant for a term of four years to a planter in the island of Barbadoes. This statement has been accepted and repeated by many later writers. Morgan hotly repudiated it, for on the publication of the English version of that book in 1683, it was named in his actions for libel as being false and malicious. The printed apology of William Crooke, its publisher, dictated or at least approved by Morgan's solicitor, declares that Morgan was "a Gentleman's son of good quality in the county of Monmouth, and was never a Servant unto anybody in his life, unless unto his Majesty, the late King of England."