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42 For the revolutionary character of the post-1688 politics, and political economy in particular, see S. Pincus, Englands Glorious Revolution, 16881689 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006), 21-26.
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I J. Fell to Williamson, August 6, 1674, National Archives, Kew, State Papers SP 29/361, nos. 188-i88(i);T. Brooks, A stringofpearls (London: forJohn Hancock, 1668), final page, "The Stationer to the Reader"; Stationers' Company, Court Book F, fol. 18` (1684); Johns, Nature of the Book, 344•
2 See, in general, J. P. Kenyon, Revolution Principles: The Politics ofParty, 1689-1720 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), and, more specifically, S. Pincus, "Neither Machiavellian Moment nor Possessive Individualism: Commercial Society and the Defenders of the English Commonwealth," American HistoricalReview 103, no. 3 (1998): 705-36; also T. Harris, Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 (London: Allen Lane, 2006), 308-63, 491-94.
3 Linebaugh and Rediker, Many-Headed Hydra, 148; S. Smith, "Piracy in Early British America," History Today 46, no. 5 (May 1996): 29-37, esp. 30, 33; Vaughn, "Politics of Empire," ch. 2.
4 C. Johnson [D. Defoe?], A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notoriouspyrates, and also their Policies, discipline and Government (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1999; orig. London, 1724), title page, 6o-6i, 417, and passim. On "the mock king of Madagascar," see also [Defoe], The king ofpirates (London: Hesperus, 2002; orig. London, 1719). For skepticism about Defoe's involvement, see P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, The Canonisation of Daneil Defoe (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988),100-13. For the recent historiography, see L. Schweikart and B. R. Burg, "Stand by to Repel Historians: Modern Scholarship and Caribbean Pirates, 1650-1725," The Historian 46, no. 2 (1984): 219-34; L. Osborne, `A Pirate's Progress: How the Maritime Rogue Became a Multicultural Hero," Lingua Franca 8, no. 2 (March 1998): 34-42; Rediker and Linebaugh, The Many-Headed Hydra, 157-59; C. Hill, "Radical Pirates?" in The Origins ofAnglo-American Radicalism, ed. M. Jacob and J. Jacob (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984),17-32; C. Hill, Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies (London: Allen Lane, 1996),114-22. All this is controversial work, of course, especially in its portrayal of its subjects not just as a community but specifically as a "proletariat"-a term that for me carries too much nineteenth-century baggage to be useful. But what matters is what readers in London and Philadelphia, say, thought pirate life was like. The sources used by Hill, Rediker, and Linebaugh do provide good evidence for that.
5 [D. Defoe], An essay on the regulation of thepress (London: n.p.,1704), 19-20.
6 [E. Ward], The Secret History of Clubs (London: n.p.; sold by the booksellers, 1709), 168;J. Gay, "On a Miscellany of Poems, to Bernard Lintott," in his Poetical, dramatic, and miscellaneous works, 6 vols. (London: for E. Jeffery, 1795), VI:77-8i; [S. Wesley], Neck or Nothing.: a consolatory letter from Mr D-nt-n to Mr. C-rll (London: sold by C. King, 1716),7; P. McDowell, The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-173o (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 252; S. Johnson, London: A Poem (London: for R. Doddesley,1738), 6.
7 U. D.] Breval, The play is the plot (London: forJ. Tonson, 1718), I2-13, 21-22, 35-36, 5o. Libber's rivals were not slow to suggest that the role was fitting. The antimony joke refers to Curll's treatment at the hands of Pope.
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