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Written by MalcolmX.

Vaughn Pursser, adventurer with a Welsh connection!

Vaughn Pursser

In the sixteenth century this pirate became notorious for his piracies off the coast of Wales.
Connection: Was known to be a Welshman.
comment by:MalcolmX
In the words of the famous Elizabethan explorer John Smith, Purrser, along with two other pirates John Calles (often confused with John Callis) and Clinton "grew famous, till Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory, hanged them at Wapping. "