John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea

The Project Gutenberg EBook of John Deane of Nottingham, by W.H.G. Kingston This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Author: W.H.G. Kingston Illustrator: A.H.C. and W. Cheshire Release Date: October 31, 2007 [EBook #23273] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN DEANE OF NOTTINGHAM *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England W.H.G. Kingston "John Deane of Nottingham" Preface. John Deane was a real person, and I hope that the readers of this my book about him will be as much pleased with it as I was with the history of his adventures, placed in my hands by a friend who long resided at Nottingham. He was born at that town A.D. 1679. Though of gentle parentage, in his early days he followed the occupation of a drover. He then went to sea, and became a Captain in the Navy; after that he was a Merchant Adventurer. He next took service under Peter the Great, and commanded a Russian ship-of-war. On leaving Russia, he obtained the post of British Consul at Ostend, held by him for many years. Returning home, he was made a Burgess of his native town, and took up his abode at the neighbouring village of Wilford, where, in 1760, he died.