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References
- 1 2 Travers, Tim (2012). Pirates: A History. Stroud UK: The History Press. ISBN 9780752488271 . Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ↑ "Execution of a pirate..." The Post-Boy. Abel Roper. London. 3 August 1728. Retrieved 8 August 2017. Prie's hanging was also reported in the London Journal of 27 July 1728; both were reprinting older news items, as Prie had been hung a year earlier.
- ↑ Lincoln, Margarette (2016). British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781317171676 . Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ↑ Cordingly, David (2013). Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. New York: Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307763075 . Retrieved 28 July 2017.
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