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In 1609 two Dutchmen, lately returned from the East with a handsome profit of £600, offered to invest their nest egg in the London Company. From the uncertainty over their real identities it may be assumed that the V.O.C. had refused to re-employ them and that they were keen to cover their tracks.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Linde Hemmer
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This was clearly a period of history that tolerated a certain lack of urgency.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
they committed most of those acts in international waters, where legal jurisdictions were by definition blurry. Declaring that pirates were “enemies of all mankind” gave local authorities on land the legal justification to try them for their crimes, even if those crimes had taken place on the other side of the world.
Steven Johnson • Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie
