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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: outrage, took the matter into his own hands and issued a
proclamation offering a reward of one hundred pounds for
Blackbeard, alive or dead, and different sums for the other
pirates who were his followers.
Governor Spottiswood had the right to issue the proclamation, but
he had no right to commission Lieutenant Maynard, as he did, to
take down an armed force into the neighboring province and to
attack the pirates in the waters of the North Carolina sounds. It
was all a part of the rude and lawless condition of the colonies
at the time that such a thing could have been done.
The governor's proclamation against the pirates was issued upon
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