In Wapping in London there is a dire place known as the Execution Dock where convicted pirates danced the hempen jig, in other words where they were hanged for their crimes. In this very public event an officer who carried a silver oar, symbolising the power of the High Court of the Admiralty, escorted the convicted pirates from Marshalsea Prison or Newgate to the wooden gallows on the beach. The grim deed was always carried out at low tide, as the bodies of the executed men were left for the period of three tides. Captain Kidd was the most infamous of pirates to be executed here.

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