John Phillips (pirate)

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John Phillips (pirate)

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English pirate captain, ship's carpenter by trade.
Captured by Thomas Anstis's pirates and forced to join the pirates.

Later Captain of a Pirate Schooner, the Revenge.

In 1724 He died in a surprise attack by his own prisoners.

Phillips in less than eight months as a pirate captain had captured 34 ships

Phillips' pirate articles, one of few complete sets of pirate articles
to survive from the so-called Golden Age of Piracy as reprinted in
Charles Johnson's General History of the Pyrates.


Phillips is also significant as an example of the short-lived but
destructive bands of pirates who branched out from much larger
pirate crews led by Anstis and Blackbeard.

He ended a line of pirate captains who had successively been captured
by other pirates, joined their captors, and ascended to command.

Phillips' captor and mentor, Anstis, had himself been captured by Bartholomew Roberts, who was in turn a former captive of Howell Davis, who had turned to piracy after falling into Edward England's hands.

This line sprang originally from the pirate den on Nassau, Bahamas, which had served as a base for Davis, England, and many other robber captains.

His quartermaster Archer had originally served with Blackbeard, continuing the influence of Blackbeard's formidable crew long after it was defeated in battle in 1718.

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Pirate code or piratical articles. A list as drawn up by John Phillips

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Pirate code or piratical articles.
A list as drawn up by John Phillips, captain of the Revenge, who set a code for his men in 1724:

I. Every Man Shall obey civil Command; the Captain shall have one full Share and a half of all Prizes; the Master, Carpenter, Boatswain and Gunner shall have one Share and quarter.

II. If any Man shall offer to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be marooned with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm, and Shot.

III. If any Man shall steal any Thing in the Company, or game, to the Value of a Piece of Eight, he shall be marooned or shot.

IV. If any time we shall meet another Marooner that Man shall sign his Articles without the Consent of our Company, shall suffer such Punishment as the Captain and Company shall think fit.

V. That Man that shall strike another whilst these Articles are in force, shall receive Moses's Law (that is, 40 Stripes lacking one) on the bare Back.

VI. That Man that shall snap his Arms, or smoke Tobacco in the Hold, without a Cap to his Pipe, or carry a Candle lighted without a Lanthorn, shall suffer the same Punishment as in the former Article.

VII. That Man shall not keep his Arms clean, fit for an Engagement, or neglect his Business, shall be cut off from his Share, and suffer such other Punishment as the Captain and the Company shall think fit.

VIII. If any Man shall lose a Joint in time of an Engagement, shall have 400 Pieces of Eight; if a Limb, 800.

IX. If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death.