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![]() The rest was divided between the ship’s owner and the crew. The deal was simple: the Crown received five per cent of the loot and the Lord Admiral’s agents took 10 per cent. Ward was one of many mariners who turned to privateering – a semi-legalised form of piracy in which Elizabeth I issued licences to anyone intending to plunder ships that belonged to the hated Spanish. The first inkling of his future talents came with the defeat of the Spanish Armada. An out-and-out wastrel who spent much of his time getting drunk, he would “sit melancholy, speak doggedly … repine at other men’s good fortunes”. ![]() Born into an impoverished family c1553, his early life was spent fishing the tidal waters of his native Kent.
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