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| | A General History of the Pyrates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | The Amazons are among the best-known female pirates in fiction: in life, their counterparts are Mary Read and Anne Bonny, whose exploits are chronicled here in a book first published in 1724. |
 | | Anne Bonny was born at a Town near Cork, in the Kingdom of Ireland, her Father an Attorney at Law, but Anne was not one of his legitimate Issue, which seems to cross an old Proverb, which says, that Bastards have the best Luck. |
 | | Her Father was a married Man, and his Wife having been brought to Bed, contracted an Illness in her lying in, and in order to recover her Health, she was advised to remove for Change of Air; the Place she chose, was a few Miles distance from her Dwelling, where her Husband's Mother liv'd. |
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