Contents

Foreword by T.C. Smout

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Glossary of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Maritime Terms

Select Who’s Who of Pirate Captains

The New Providence Pirates, 1715–25

1  Captain Macrae & the Pirates

2  Lord Archibald Hamilton & the Pirates of New Providence

3  Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pirates

4  The Pirates of Craignish Loch

5  The Scottish Slavers & the Pirates

6  John Gow: the Orcadian Pirate

7  The Scots & the Pirate Crews

8  Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott & the Pirates

The Earlier Wave of Pirates in the Indian Ocean, 1695–1705

9  The Company of Scotland & the Madagascan Pirates

10  The Piracy Trial of Captain Green

The Last Pirates in Scottish Waters, 1821

11  Heaman & Gautier: the Last Pirates in Scottish Waters

12  Conclusion

Select Bibliography