piraticam

Updated: June 25, 2025

It was the French chronologist, Scaliger, who in the sixteenth century asserted, "nulli melius piraticam exercent quam Angli"; and although he had no need to cross the Channel to find men proficient in this primitive calling, the remark applies to the England of his time with a force which we to-day scarcely realise.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century