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Surely one should be allowed to simply chance it…

I do need to write it up… something on pirate exit strategies, perhaps.
‘Piracy, And How To Get Away With It!’ (colon, Serious Title)

Option available in periphery - SW counties, then colonial Ireland, then colonial Americas - where it also provided boost to economy and promoted trade links back towards metropole (who cracked down when the practice became politically insufferable).

Mutually beneficial to all parties where it minimised risk; pirates could re-enter legit society; victims avoid unreliable ‘dual process’ for restitution in HCA; vice-admiralty enjoys profiting, and also selling plunder on to other merchants.

You certainly may!
TLDR, evidence of out-of-court ‘composition’ settlements where pirates returned a portion of their plunder to victims, via a mediating [v-adm] official who also took a cut, in return for a ‘dispatch’ passport and hopefully a pardon.

I ordered something recently that got delivered to a special ‘mould shelf’, so if I drop off the face of the earth/a new pandemic begins, you’ll know what happened

what box was this 👀

my only problem here is ‘half a dozen of interest’… what do you mean, you aren’t distracted by almost all of them??
(likewise keen to see what you find @thiagokrause.bsky.social - don’t think I’ve been through this particular HCA 13! particularly anything touching jurisdiction and process)