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[edit] Habeas corpus
A writ requiring a person to be brought before a court commonly for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment. [1] This was one of the statutes suspended by Lord Cutler Beckett during his attempt to eradicate piracy.[1]
[edit] Hanging
- "Jack Sparrow! ...You are sentenced to be hanged by the neck until death. May God have mercy to your soul."
- ―Port Royal clerk[src]
A form of execution, widely used for punishing pirates in the Age of Piracy. The convict stood with a rope around his neck on a trapdoor which was suddenly opened or on a chair or barrel which was kicked away, so that he fell down and the rope broke his neck and/or strangulated him. The corpses of the executed were often hanged on a gibbet at the coast as a warning for other criminals.[2]
[edit] Helm
The part of the ship where the steering wheel or the steering pole is located. Normally the helm is located on the Quartergeck.
[edit] HMS
Acronym for His or Her Majesty's Ship, a title prefixed to vessels of the Royal Navy.[3] Vessels such as the Dauntless, Interceptor[4] and Endeavour[5] carried the title.
[edit] Hob
- "The pirates come out, unprepared and unawares, we catch 'em in the crossfire, send them down to see Old Hob."
- ―Mullroy to Murtogg[src]
Also Old Hob; archaic nickname for the Devil. [2] Mullroy spoke this name prior to the battle on the HMS Dauntless,[6] possibly as a reference to Davy Jones, the devil of the seas.
[edit] Hoist the colours
- "Yo ho, haul together, / Hoist the colours high."
- ―from Hoist the Colours[src]
To raise the flag of a pirate ship; used as a call to arms by the Brethren Court in the song of the same name.[1]
[edit] Holland
Holland, also called The Netherlands, is a country located on the western border of Germany. During the Age of Piracy, Holland was one of the world leaders in trade and possese many colonies in the Caribbean Sea and other areas. Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III was given a telescope made in Holland. the Timekeeper was also fabricated there.
[edit] Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- ↑
Hanging on Wikipedia - ↑ Her Majesty's Ship on Wikipedia
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide, p22: "Norrington"
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest January 19 2005 screenplay revision
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
