John Golden, alias Golding, hung for piracy – a court case that reverberates today re ‘Stateless Combatants’

The trial of Golden/Golding and others is documented within A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason, Volume 12. The particular trial is “Trial of Thomas Jones and others as pirates, though acting under King James II. commission, 5 William and Mary, A. D. 1693”.

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