Glossary

apprentice
"A learner of a craft; one who is bound by legal agreement to serve an employer in the exercise of some handicraft, art, trade, or profession, for a certain number of years, with a view to learn its details and duties, in which the employer is reciprocally bound to instruct him." (Oxford English Dictionary at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia)
colony
"A settlement in a new country; a body of people who settle in a new locality, forming a community subject to or connected with their parent state; the community so formed, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors, as long as the connexion with the parent state is kept up." (Oxford English dictionary at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia)
freebooter -
"One who goes about in search of plunder; esp. a pirate or piratical adventurer." (Oxford English dictionary at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia)
maritime
"Connected with the sea in relation to navigation, commerce, etc.; relating to or dealing with matters of commerce or navigation on the sea." (Oxford English Dictionary at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia)
Privy Council
"The private counsellors of the sovereign; spec. in Great Britain a body of advisers selected by the sovereign, together with certain persons who are members by usage, as the princes of the blood, the archbishops, and the chief officers of the present and past ministers of state. Its original function of advising the crown in matters of state and administration is now discharged by the Cabinet (cabinet sb. 7 b), a select body of ministers drawn from the Privy Council; and much of its busin ess is carried on by committees, as the Board of Trade (originally the Committee of Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, now the Department of Trade and Industry), the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, etc. Hence, to be `sworn of His Majesty' s Privy Council' is now mainly a personal dignity, conferred chiefly in recognition of eminent public services." (Oxford English dictionary at the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia)