Hi everyone, I read a book review in the Mail on Sunday yesterday - PIRATES OF BARBARY BY ADRIAN TINNISWOOD The online version varies slightly from the paper review. The newspaper says: In 1641 pirates raided Penzance in Cornwall and carried off 60 men, women and children....... The website says: ....Barbary pirates, especially the Sallee Rovers (who sound like a deadly football team), lurked in the English Channel and made raids on coastal towns like Penzance to seize men, women and children for sale as slaves..... and ..... In 1645, a raiding party of Turks landed on the Cornish coast and kidnapped 240 men, women and children. A year later, Edmund Cason was sent by Parliament to Algiers to negotiate with Pasha Yusuf for the release of English slaves. Cason paid an average of £30 a man (women fetched a higher price) and ran out of money when he had freed some 250. There were 400 left. Gradually over eight years, until he died there, he saved most of the rest...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1264206/Englands-Terrors-High-Seas-PIRATES-OF-BARBARY-BY-ADRIAN-TINNISWOOD.html My specific question - has anyone found anything in the Cornwall Record Office, relating to these claims? Regards, Maureen Praed/Praid One Name Study No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2806 - Release Date: 04/12/10 07:32:00

Hi If you search the Archive on both the Cornish and Devon Rootsweb Mailing Lists at : http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CORNISH & http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DEVON you will see references to Spanish Prisoners. Just type in "Spanish Prisoners" (without quotes) in the body section and you will get quite a few messages come up. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <maureen.selley1@homecall.co.uk> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: 12 April 2010 19:17 Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Pirates who raided Penzance -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 245 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Maureen, Some time ago I wrote to this list regarding and entry I had found in the Totnes PR's relating to the baptism of a John EDMONDS in 1656 [father Matthew]. The entry was recorded that Matthew was " one of Spanish Prisoners " which I took as having something to do with piracy. At the time I wrote to the Maritime Museum at Cornwall and they came back to me with no knowledge of any piracy or anything on any Matthew EDMONDS. My memory is a bit rusty now, but my enquires revealed nothing. This article sound interesting though. I may try to get this book. Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <maureen.selley1@homecall.co.uk> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:17 AM Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Pirates who raided Penzance Hi everyone, I read a book review in the Mail on Sunday yesterday - PIRATES OF BARBARY BY ADRIAN TINNISWOOD The online version varies slightly from the paper review. The newspaper says: In 1641 pirates raided Penzance in Cornwall and carried off 60 men, women and children....... The website says: ....Barbary pirates, especially the Sallee Rovers (who sound like a deadly football team), lurked in the English Channel and made raids on coastal towns like Penzance to seize men, women and children for sale as slaves..... and ..... In 1645, a raiding party of Turks landed on the Cornish coast and kidnapped 240 men, women and children. A year later, Edmund Cason was sent by Parliament to Algiers to negotiate with Pasha Yusuf for the release of English slaves. Cason paid an average of £30 a man (women fetched a higher price) and ran out of money when he had freed some 250. There were 400 left. Gradually over eight years, until he died there, he saved most of the rest...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1264206/Englands-Terrors-High-Seas-PIRATES-OF-BARBARY-BY-ADRIAN-TINNISWOOD.htmlMy specific question - has anyone found anything in the Cornwall RecordOffice, relating to these claims?Regards,MaureenPraed/Praid One Name StudyNo virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2806 - Release Date: 04/12/1007:32:00-------------------------------Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.comVisit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription informationhttp://www.cornwall-opc.org/-------------------------------To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email toCORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without thequotes in the subject and the body of the message--------------------------------------------------------------------------------No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2805 - Release Date: 04/11/1018:32:00

Hello everyone, Thank you to all who have replied. I well remember the exchange of emails about piracy, which is why I found the book review interesting. I had already looked at the Cornish-Gen archives. My main reason for posting was to bring the book to the notice of the readers of this list and to enquire specifically if anyone, since the original postings, had found anything in the Cornwall Record Office, possibly relating to the author's claims. I will be ordering the book from the library, but was wondering about his source information for the Cornish items quoted. Regards, Maureen Praed/Praid ONS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <maureen.selley1@homecall.co.uk> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 7:17 PM Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Pirates who raided Penzance Hi everyone, I read a book review in the Mail on Sunday yesterday - PIRATES OF BARBARY BY ADRIAN TINNISWOOD The online version varies slightly from the paper review. The newspaper says: In 1641 pirates raided Penzance in Cornwall and carried off 60 men, women and children....... The website says: ....Barbary pirates, especially the Sallee Rovers (who sound like a deadly football team), lurked in the English Channel and made raids on coastal towns like Penzance to seize men, women and children for sale as slaves..... and ..... In 1645, a raiding party of Turks landed on the Cornish coast and kidnapped 240 men, women and children. A year later, Edmund Cason was sent by Parliament to Algiers to negotiate with Pasha Yusuf for the release of English slaves. Cason paid an average of £30 a man (women fetched a higher price) and ran out of money when he had freed some 250. There were 400 left. Gradually over eight years, until he died there, he saved most of the rest...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1264206/Englands-Terrors-High-Seas-PIRATES-OF-BARBARY-BY-ADRIAN-TINNISWOOD.htmlMy specific question - has anyone found anything in the Cornwall RecordOffice, relating to these claims?Regards,MaureenPraed/Praid One Name Study No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.801 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2807 - Release Date: 04/12/10 19:32:00