Clinton Atkinson (Pirate)
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Clinton Atkinson (also known as Clinton) was a 16th century british pirate. Clinton and his confederate Purser's, were widely reported on at the time with, three broadsheet accounts being published shortly after their hanging in 1583. Thomas Heywood documents their lives and deaths in his Fortune by Land and Sea and there was also a two-part pamphlet published about them -A True Relation of the Lives and Deaths of the two most Famous English Pyrats, Purser, and Clinton.[1][2][3]
Sources
- ^ Jowitt, Claire. “Scaffold Performances: The Politics of Pirate Execution,” in Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650 edited by Claire Jowitt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 151-168 and 218-219.
- ^ Jowitt, Claire (2010) The culture of piracy, 1580-1630: English literature and seaborne crime - Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- ^ C. L'Estrange. Ewen (1948) The Pirates Of Purbeck, With Particular Reference To Thomas Walton Alias Purser, Clinton Atkinson Alias Smith And William Arnewood Alias Arnold. Dorset Nat.Hist.& Achaeo.Soc. 30th November, 1948
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