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English town returns Spanish cross stolen in 1400

A seaside town is to put right an ancient wrong by giving a cross to Spain 600 years after an English pirate stole one from a church.

The privateer Harry Paye, from Poole, Dorset, was employed by a Spanish count in about 1400 to help his cause against the monarch.

However, Paye instead helped himself to the countess while her husband was away, fleeing when royal armies arrived – though not before burning the towns of Gijon and Finisterre and stealing a cross from the Church of St Mary of the Sands in the latter.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)