Edward Low

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The golden age of piracy emerged from a specific set of historical conditions that made the ocean ripe for exploitation.

Around 1650, colonial powers were competing to establish positions in the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean.

For desperate men who had nothing, the opportunity to seize wealth was irresistible.

But it generally happens that these youthful ideas are never carried out, and that the boy who would wish to sell candy because he likes to eat it becomes a farmer on the western prairie, where confectionery is never seen, and the would-be general determines to study for the ministry.

But Edward Lowe, the boy under consideration, was a different sort of a fellow.

The life of a robber suited his youthful fancy, and he not only adopted it at a very early age, but he stuck to it until the end of his life.

He was much stronger and bolder than the youngsters with whom he associated, and he soon became known among them as a regular land pirate.

They did not hesitate to attack well-armed vessels manned by crews much larger than their own, and in later periods they faced cannon and conquered cities.

Their crimes were many and vile, but when they committed cruelties they did so in order to compel their prisoners to disclose their hidden treasures, and when they attacked a Spanish vessel and murdered all on board, they had in their hearts the remembrance that the Spanish naval forces gave no quarter to buccaneers.

But pirates such as Edward Lowe showed not one palliating feature in their infamous characters.

To rob and desert a shipwrecked crew was only one of Lowe's contemptible actions.

We have William Kidd.

And we have Ned Lowe.

Ah,

I recognise all of their names.

I enjoyed it for the second time.

Yeah.

Well, next, our final pirate of the quarterfinals, it is Ned Lowe.

Ned Lowe.

But it generally happens that these youthful ideas are never carried out, and that the boy who would wish to sell candy because he likes to eat it becomes a farmer on the western prairie, where confectionery is never seen, and the would-be general determines to study for the ministry.

But Edward Lowe, the boy under consideration, was a different sort of a fellow.

The life of a robber suited his youthful fancy, and he not only adopted it at a very early age, but he stuck to it until the end of his life.

He was much stronger and bolder than the youngsters with whom he associated, and he soon became known among them as a regular land pirate.

If a boy possessed anything which Ned Lowe desired, whether it happened to be an apple, a nut, or a farthing, the young robber gave chase to him, and treated him as a pirate treats a merchant vessel which he has boarded.

Not only did young Lowe resemble a pirate in his dishonest methods, but he also resembled one in his meanness and cruelty.

If one of his victims was supposed by him to have hidden any of the treasures which his captor believed him to possess, Lowe would inflict upon him every form of punishment which the ingenuity of a bad boy could devise, in order to compel him to confess where he concealed the half-penny which had been given to him for holding a horse, or the ball with which he had been seen playing.

Crown Coins Casino Winning never sounded so good.

[laughs] Um, so that's George Lowther's alleged flag.

And now we're gonna talk about number 13, chapter 13, Ned Low.

This one I found...

I was, um, really enthralled while I was going through and doing my research for this whole series I'm doing with Ned Low, 'cause I had never heard of Ned Low until doing this, and he's, he's different, man.

He just, he was just built different as a pirate.

So he was an English pirate who moved to Boston as a young man, and I didn't write this, but as I was doing the research on him, they're like, "His whole family was criminals for all of his life." And I was like, well, kinda makes sense of why he became a pirate.

Where else would that have come from? It's, uh, kind of random.

Right.