List of Illustrations

1. Henry Avery (Every)

2. Edward England

3. Howell Davis

4. Bart Roberts

5. Captain James Macrae, Governor of Madras, with diamond tie pin (in a private collection)

6. Elizabeth, Dowager Countess Glencairn (National Galleries of Scotland)

7. James, 14th Earl Glencairn and friend of Burns (in a private collection)

8. Sir John Drummond of Quarrell, MP and Director of HEIC (in a private Scottish collection)

9. Macrae’s Mausoleum, Monkton, Ayrshire (ESME Collection)

10. Lord Archibald Hamilton, Governor of Jamaica (in the collection of Lennoxlove House, Haddington)

11. The slaving fort on Bance Island, Sierra Leone River (ESME Collection)

12. Robert Louis Stevenson (ESME Collection)

13. Flint’s Treasure Map (ESME Collection)

14. Greenock 1768

15. Glasgow 1693

16. Barbados

17. Sir James Graham, Judge to the High Court of Admiralty of Scotland (in a private collection)

18. Robert Dundas of Arniston, Procurator to the High Court of Admiralty of Scotland (in the collection of the Dundas-Bekker family, Arniston)

19. Heart of Midlothian – the Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh (ESME Collection)

20. John Clark’s Dying Speech (National Library of Scotland)

21. Pressing a pirate (ESME Collection)

22. Pirates torturing a prisoner (ESME Collection)

23. Charleston c.1700 (ESME Collection)

24. The hanging of Stede Bonnet (ESME Collection)

25. View of South-east London (ESME Collection)

26. Daniel Defoe (ESME Collection)

27. Newgate Prison (ESME Collection)

28. Gang-I- Sawai from an Indian drawing (ESME Collection)

29. Kidd’s execution (ESME Collection)

30. Captain William Dampier (ESME Collection)

31. Arms of the Company of Scotland (ESME Collection)

32. Johanna Island, Comoros Islands c.1700 (ESME Collection)

33. Howell Davis – a Victorian view (ESME Collection)

34. The Guinea Coast, 1740 (ESME Collection)

35. The Mogul Emperor Aurungzeeb (ESME Collection)

36. Madagascar c.1700 (ESME Collection)

37. Stornoway c.1800 (National Galleries of Scotland)