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Sir Andrew Christian Barton The Great (c. 1466 – August 2, 1511) served as High Admiral of Scotland. Notorious in England and Portugal as a 'pirate', Barton was a seaman who operated under the aegis of a letter of marque on behalf of the Scottish crown, and is therefore more widely described as a privateer. He was defeated and captured in 1511 by Sir Edward Howard. He was subsequently beheaded, which was itself illegal due to the fact that Barton possessed a letter or marque. However this fact was ignored by vengeful British nobles.
He is the subject of an English folk song entitled Sir Andrew Barton or Andrew Bartin, which is child ballad number 167.
The most famous lines of this ballad are:
'I am hurt but I am not slain.
I'll lay me down and bleed awhile,
Then I'll rise and fight again.'
His story is also told in a Scottish Child ballad called Henry Martin (Child ballad number 241).
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a high class business man