“I am captain of this ship now,” he supposedly said. Upon seizing the Charles II, he announced his intention to turn pirate. In May 1694, Every capitalized on the poor morale by leading his disgruntled crew in a mutiny. The mission was slow to start, however, and the crew languished in a Spanish port for several months without being paid. In 1693, he reappears in the historical record as the first mate of the Charles II, a privateering vessel hired to plunder French shipping in the Caribbean. He went to sea at a young age, and may have served in the Royal Navy before working as a slave trader in the early 1690s. Little is known about Every’s early life. Woodcut showing Every loading treasure on his ship
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