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The first thing she hears about upon her return is the missing spoons, and the tanner who had gone missing, figuring that if he laid low for a few days, she would discover his prank and the heat would be off. Upon hearing that the wife had returned, however, and fearful that the maid would be wrongfully accused of the theft, he came clean to the wife about his prank. Oddly, in the few days since the pranks inception, the maid had not discovered the spoons, and when, upon the wifes insistance, the tanner took her to the bed and the spoons were found undisturbed.This solved the missing spoon debacle, but opened up the question of where the maid had been spending her nights, if not in bed. The wife ordered the maid, ignorant of the tanners revelation, to make up her own bed, because the wife herself would be staying in the maids quarters that night. The maid, while making the bed, discovered the spoons, and fearing she would be pegged as an accomplice, hid them in her trunk. That night, the husaband, who had allegedly left that morning for several days, snuck into the maids room, and, thinking his wife to be the maid, unwittingly made love to his wife, then snuck out again early in the morning. Enraged, the wife called the constable that day, and charged the maid with the theft of the spoons, which, upon investigation,were discovered in her trunk. She then fled with the mother-in-law in tow. The maid, while in prison, was discovered to be pregnant. This, combined with the wifes lack of testimony, allowed the maid to be acquitted. Shortly afterwards, she gave birth to a girl, Anne. The husband went to live with the maid and their new daughter, and the scandal that surrounded this caused them to flee to the new world, namely the Carolinas. There Cormac amassed a fortune and bought a large plantation. Anne, while growing up, was bold and clever, so her father had high expectations for her. This made him all the more furious when she married a poor sailor. When Anne was sixteen, a ne'er-do-well sailor named James Bonny married Anne in an attempt to steal the plantation, but Anne's father instead disowned her. Bonny then took Anne to the pirate lair of New Providence in the Bahamas, where he turned stoolpigeon to Governor Woodes Rogers, accusing any sailor he didn't like of piracy for a handsome reward. Anne grew to dislike her spineless husband and spent most of her time with the pirate elite. Her best friends consisted of the pirates' paramours and of Pierre, the most celebrated homosexua2l on the island, who ran a popular ladies' establishment--- and with whom Anne had a teasing rivalry for the favors of the male population. Anne first managed to capture the attentions of Chidley Bayard, one of the richest men in the Carribean--- although in order to keep him she had to duel his current lover, a violent Spanish beauty named Maria (Vargas or Reynaldi--- I've heard two versions) (who, it was rumored, had once decapitated a child who had inadvertantly dirtied her skirts), in a fight to the death. (It was rumored that in her youth, Anne had killed a servant woman with a carving knife because the servant made her mad. However, one story suggests that the servant attacked Anne, who was forced to defend herself). She enjoyed spending his money, and travelled with him everywhere--- until, at a balrl, she met up with the spiteful sister-in-law of Governor Lawes of Jamaica. When the woman, after asking Anne catty questions about her position in Bayard's life, rudely told Anne that she didn't consider Anne worth knowing and to keep her distance. Anne cheerfully told her she'd make sure there was quite a bit of distance between them---and promptly punched the woman in the mouth, knocking out two of her teeth in the process. Anne was nearly hauled off to jail, but Bayard's great power managed to keep her free. However, he could no longer take her with him on his business trips, and so his use for her diminished. With Bayard away for much of the time, Anne tired of him before long, and quickly caught the eye of one Calico Jack Rackham, a pirate of some renown. Governor Rogers had recently passed an amnesty for pirates which left Mr. Bonny out of work. The attraction between Anne and Jack was mutual. Calico Jack was a handsome rogue who knew how to spend money as well as steal it. Anne was a well-endowed lass with a fiery spirit and a temper to match. Many of the ex-pirates were getting bored with the humdrum life on shore, and Jack was no different. He decided to go back to sea with another pirate, Captain Charles Vane, but when he announced his plans to Anne, she refused to stay ashore and wait for him. She would go a-pirating, too. And so they began a life of piracy together. Anne often wore men's clothing, and was an expert with pistol and rapier, proving herself to be as dangerous as any male pirate. Fearless in battle, she was often a member of the boarding party when a prize was about to be taken. Shortly after their return, Anne learned through her old friend Pierre of a plot to kill Governor Rogers, and relayed the information to the governor, saving his life. Governor Rogers was naturally extremely grateful. But Anne's husband, James, who was still on the island, was determined to get even with Anne and Jack for openly flaunting their affair under his nose. He had them arrested in the middle of the night and brought before Governor Rogers as quickly as the soldiers could drag the lovers. Jack offered to buy Anne from Bonny, but Bonny, knowing his wife's temper, refused, saying, "She'll kill me if she's set free!" Dryly Governor Rogers asked, "Then she'll hang for murder. Are you so afraid of her, then?" The answer was obvious to all. Governor Rogers, remembering the favor Anne had done him recently, waived the standard punishment for the crime--- temporarily. He said that unless Jack could persuade Bonny to a divorce-by-sale, the pair must give up their consorting, or Anne was to be flogged--- by Jack himself---and returned to her husband. Anne was furious that anyone could even consider selling her like an animal. Refusing to be dictated to, Jack and Anne slipped out to the harbor the next night, stole a sloop and took up pirating again. They one day took a merchant ship, one crew member of which, being the only one on board who could speak english, was recruited by the pirates. At first this was a temporary arrangement,to facilitate the piracy of the Dutch ship, but, as most pirates were constantly in need of fresh crew, any who wished to come along were accepted into the ranks. And, given that Calico Jack had a reputation for being exceptionally humane in his piracy, both to crew and prey alike, the English-speaking sailor continued on with Jack and his crew. After a time, Anne found herself strangely attracted to this new crew member, and decided to be forthwith and reveal herself to him, to which this new acquisition revealed herself to be Mary Read, also a woman. Marys mother married young to a sailor of some sort. He left on a voyage, while she was pregnant, and never returned. She gave birth to a boy, and set about to raise him with the help of her husbands family, but she discovered, after a few months of being young and lonely, that she was pregnant again. To hide this new development, she went to live with some friends in the country. The son, frail from the beginning, and maybe a year old, did not suffer the trip well and died shortly after. Shortly after, however, Mary was born. To avoid any questions or complications, Mary was brought back to London a few years later, mother masquerading her as the son, and she was raised, for many years, as a boy. About the age of 12, Mary served as a "footman" for a Lady. Later she joined the Flemish army and fought as an infantryman. No one knew the soldier was a woman until her heart got the better of her. She fell in love with a fellow soldier, who at first was alarmed at the advances of this "man." She finally revealed herself to be a woman and the soldier became enamored of her. At the end of the conflict, they revealed their secret to their fellow soldiers. The unit gave them a lavish wedding and chipped in to buy them a tavern near Utrecht, Belgium (then Flanders), called the three horseshoes, which did well, largely from the business of officers stationed nearby. But soon, the campaign being fought was ended, business dried up, and the husband died. Unable to continue in a failing business on her own, Mary re-donned her masculine guise and went to sea, eventually to end up on the Dutch merchant ship taken by Calico Jack and Anne Bonny. The two masquerading females became inseperable corades, causing Calico Jack to become terribly jealous. Finally, he confronted them, and they let him in on Marys secret identity. Soon all three had an uncommmon bond. Mary fell in love with a newly captive sailor who had recently signed the articles of the ship. The young fellow got in a quarrel with an older pirate with more experience while at anchor one night, and as the laws decreed, a duel was to be set the following day. Mary realized that her lover wouldn't stand any chance againt the other pirate, so she began a quarrel with the bigger pirate, and she demanded settlement on the spot. The quartermaster rowed the two ashore, with pistols and cutlass, and the duel started. They both discharged their pistols for naught and then continued the duel with cutlasses in their hands. The man had strength yet Mary was more agile and cunning. The duel had been going on for a long time. and when the larger pirate made a thrust, he stumbled. He would probably have managed to recover from his slip if it were not for what Mary did next. Before the unbelieving eyes of this pirate, Mary ripped her blouse open and the pirate, not believing what he saw, hesitated for a second. In that instance, Mary grabbed her cutlass and with just one swing of her blade, nearly cut the man's head off. He lay on the ground gasphing for breath, still astonished that he had been duelling with a woman. Mary's lover was no coward. He showed up to fight the duel that would have meant his death on time, only to find that the duel was with a dead man. In October of 1720, retribution was close at hand. Governor Lawes of Jamaica, hearing of Jack's returned presence, sent an armed sloop to intervene and capture the Captain $and crew. Having just captured a fishing boat the day before, the pirates were making merry with the fishermen's rum. The Providence was caught by surprise, the male pirates being drunk at the time, and much to Anne and Mary's dismay, instead of fighting, the men hid in the hold and were taken far too easily. At one point, they were so violently disappointed in the mens cowardice that they began firing into the hold, wounding several of their crew and killing one. Anne Bonny and Mary Read were eventually captured, but confessed their true gender, leading to much confusion and a seperate trial for the two of them. At their trial, when asked if they had any words to say before they were sentenced, Anne spoke up for both of them: "We plead our bellies, sir!" Both women were pregnant at the time, but were sentenced to hang after the birth of their babies. When Calico Jack, who at his trial had pleaded for mercy on behalf of the women, was granted a special favor to see Anne on the day he was to hang, Anne's words to him were, "I'm sorry, Jack. But if you had fought like a man, you would not now be about to die like a dog. Do straighten yourself up!" Mary Read escaped the hangman by dying from fever while in jail, her unborn babe dying with her. Anne, however, received several stays of execution before mysteriously vanishing from official records. The most common story is that her father, who had contacts in the island, forgave his daughter for her acts and she was granted a pardon by Governor Lawes on the condition that she leave the West Indies and never return. (Rumor also had it that another pirate, a Captain Roberts, sent a letter to Governor Lawes, "telling him to let Anne Bonny go or feel the thunder of his pirate guns from Port Royal to Kingston and back again.") She and Dr. Michael Radcliffe were later married (Anne was now a widow, her previous husband, James Bonny, who had become a turtler, having drowned in a hurricane in the Bahamas), and two days later they boarded a trading sloop bound for Norfolk, Virginia. There they were known to have joined a party of pioneers heading westward... and there is where Anne's known trail ends.She was twenty years old. 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