Robert Walsingham, also Wallsingham, was a famous 17th-century English pirate who served with the Barbary States.''Predators and parasites'' Oded Löwenheim p.129
/ref> He was the captain of a Turkish

man-of-war The man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or simply man) was a Royal Navy expression for a powerful warship or frigate from the 16th to the 19th century. Although the term never acquired a specific meaning, it was usually reserved for a ship armed wi ...

, in which he finally sailed to

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

to submit himself to the authorities. He was pardoned in 1621 by

James I of England James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and King of Ireland, Ireland as James I from the Union of the Crowns, union of the Scottish and Eng ...

, together with

Henry Mainwaring Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587–1653), was an English lawyer, soldier, writer, seaman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He was for a time a pirate based in Newfoundland and then a naval officer with the Royal Navy. ...

with whom he had collaborated,''Jolly Roger'' Patrick Pringle p.46''ff''
/ref> and was accepted into the

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English pirates Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown English expatriates in the Ottoman Empire Pardoned pirates {{pirate-stub

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