Editing Lundy (section)

===Piracy===
Over the next few centuries, the island was hard to govern. Trouble followed as both English and foreign pirates and [[privateer]]s&nbsp;– including other members of the Marisco family&nbsp;– took control of the island for short periods. Ships were forced to navigate close to Lundy because of the dangerous shingle banks in the fast flowing [[River Severn]] and [[Bristol Channel]], with its tidal range of {{convert|27|ft|m|1|abbr=off}},<ref>
{{cite book |title=Sailing Directions for the West Coast of England from the Scilly Islands to the Mull of Galloway, including the Isle of Man |publisher=Admiralty Hydrographic Department |date=1891 |location=London |page=54}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tides and Currents |publisher=Lundy Marine Protection Zone |url= http://www.lundymcz.org.uk/weather/tide-and-currents |access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> one of the greatest in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata/acrobat/severnpositionmay2006_1508223.pd |work=UK Environment Agency |title=Severn Estuary Barrage |date=31 May 2006 |access-date=3 September 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155720/http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata/acrobat/severnpositionmay2006_1508223.pd |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2005/07/04/bristolchannel_feature.shtml |title=Coast: Bristol Channel |work=BBC |access-date=27 August 2007}}</ref> This made the island a profitable location from which to prey on passing [[Bristol]]-bound merchant ships bringing back valuable goods from overseas.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://pages.prodigy.net/rodney.broome/pirlundy.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080108121448/http://pages.prodigy.net/rodney.broome/pirlundy.htm |archive-date=8 January 2008 |title=Pirate Island |access-date=6 September 2007 |work=Rodney Broome}}</ref>

In 1627, a group known as the [[Salé Rovers]], from the [[Republic of Salé]] (now [[Salé]] in [[Morocco]]) occupied Lundy for five years. These [[Barbary corsairs|Barbary pirates]], under the command of a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] renegade named [[Jan Janszoon]], flew a [[Moorish]] flag over the island. Slaving raids were made embarking from Lundy by the Barbary Pirates, and captured Europeans were held on Lundy before being sent to  [[Salé]] and [[Algiers]] to be [[barbary slave trade|sold as slave]] to [[Slavery on the Barbary Coast|slavery on the Barbary coast]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Milton |first=Giles |title=White Gold: The Forgotten Story of North Africa's One Million European Slaves |date=2005 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-0340895092}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=de Bruxelles |first=Simon |date=28 February 2007 |title=Pirates who got away with it by sailing closer to the wind |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1449736.ece |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070302095231/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1449736.ece |archive-date=2 March 2007 |quote=The pirates ceased to be a problem after the French conquered their raiding base, Algiers, in 1830 — and the secret of their crucial advantage was lost.&nbsp;... Barbary pirates raided villages along the Devon and Cornwall coast, setting up a base on Lundy Island&nbsp;.... Those taken were sold in Algiers slave markets or worked to death as galley slaves.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Konstam |first=Angus |title=Piracy: The Complete History |date=2008 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=USiyy1ZA-BsC&pg=PA91 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-84603-240-0 |page=91}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Davies |first=Norman |title=Europe: A History |date=1996 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-820171-7 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jrVW9W9eiYMC&pg=PA561 |page=561}}</ref> 

From 1628 to 1634, in addition to the Barbary Pirates, the island was plagued by privateers of French, Basque, English and Spanish origin targeting the lucrative shipping routes passing through the Bristol Channel. These incursions were eventually ended by [[John Penington]], but in the 1660s and as late as the 1700s the island still fell prey to French privateers.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chanter |first=John Roberts |title=Lundy Island: A Monograph, Descriptive and Historical |date=1877 |publisher=Cassell, Petter & Galpin |pages=78–89 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=CfkGAAAAQAAJ}}</ref>