PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN GET THEIR JUST DESERTS Scarce, fine pirate content broadsheet newspaper, The Post Boy, London, Aug. 31 - Sep. 2, 1721, 2pp. folio, red tax stamp on verso, bearing news on the trial of the infamous woman pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and the execution of other pirates as well. Reports include: "...There is an account from Jamaica by the Fleet newly arrived, of the Execution at Kingston and Port Royal of nine more Pyrates; also of the Trial and Condemnation of eleven others, two of which were Women, named Mary Read and Sarah Bonny; the Evidence against whom deposed, that they were both in Mens Habit, and fought desperately, and that they narrowly escap'd being murder'd by them...Capt. Marston was arrived [in New York]...having been taken by a Pyrate between Hispaniola and that Port, who took from him his wearing Apparel, Liquors, and Provisions, but meddled not with his Cargo. They forc'd away with them five of his Men: They were reckon'd to be the Crew of the Brigantine that belong'd to [Bartholemew] Roberts the Pyrate, who had run away with the said Ship, and set up for themselves; and, it is said, that they got on board a good part of Robert's Wealth...". Bonny and Read escaped the hangman, as "examination" proved they were pregnant! Mary died in prison of a fever and Anne was eventually ransomed from the British by her father. She then disappeared from history. Fine condition. Captain Roberts was killed by grapeshot cannon fire, which struck him in the throat during a British attack. Fine content.