Antigallicans, Society of, 96-99, 103, 105
Aristocrats, French Naval; their hatred of privateersmen, 205, 224
Armed merchant vessels, Distinction of, 12
Barbadoes, Island of, 155, 342, 343, 349, 354
Barney, Joshua; captured in a trader, 282; first officer of _Pomona_, 282; sails for Bordeaux, 282; fights English privateer, 283; a marvellous 3-pounder, 284; reaches Bordeaux, 285; captures an English privateer, 285; is a prisoner of war, 285; kindly treated by Admiral Byron, 286; accused of incendiarism, 286, 287; sent to England in _Yarmouth_, 287; alleged cruel treatment, 287-289; sent to Mill Prison, 289; his ruse to escape, 293, 294; his escape, 294, 295; gets off in a fishing smack, 296; brought back to England, 296; escapes to Plymouth, 297, 298; gets away to Holland, 298; arrives in America, commands _Hyder Ali_, 299; his action with _General Monk_, 299-303; conflicting accounts of action, 303; commands _General Washington_ (late _General Monk_), 304; revisits Plymouth, 304; other reference, 325
Barney, Mary (probably daughter of Joshua), 290, 291, 292
Bart, Jean, famous French privateer captain, romantic stories about, 196, 206; his origin, 197; boy on board a smuggler, 197; mate on board _Cochon Gras_, 197; wanton brutality of captain, 197; witnesses application of the Judgments of Oléron, 198-200; pilots French nobles to Harwich, 200; joins the Dutch navy, 201; returns to France and commands a small privateer, 201; captures a States-General war-ship, 201; is admonished for ransoming prizes, 202; captures eight armed ships, 202; his desperate fight with a Dutchman, 202, 203; receives a gold chain from the king, 203; his continued success, 204; takes another Dutch ship after a bloody encounter, 204, 205; gallantry of the Dutch captain, 205; he is badly wounded, and his ship destroyed, 205; returns to Dunkirk after peace is declared, 205; accepts a commission in the Navy, 205; is snubbed by the aristocrats, 205; the cask of gunpowder fable, 206, 207; chiefly remembered as a privateer, 207
Barton, Andrew; a leader of men, 20; suppresses Flemish pirates, 21; sends their heads to the king, 21; his exploits under letter of marque, 21; accused of piracy, 21; two ships sent to take him, 22; his fight with Howard, 23; his gallantry and death, 23; surrender of the _Lion_, 24; the crew imprisoned, 24; released on certain conditions, 25; redress for his death refused by Henry VIII., 25; "Ballad of Sir," 25, 26, 27; the incident a true one, 27; not a knight, 27; no proof of his piracy, 28; other reference, 203
