James Wadsworth (1604 - 1656)

Captain James Wadsworth was an Englishman who, on a sea voyage to Spain in 1622, was captured by Moorish pirates and sold into slavery. A year later his freedom was purchased, and he joined his parents in Madrid. After spending a number of years on the European continent, he returned to England, where he and a group of fellow pursuivants found and delivered suspected Roman Catholics to the authorities for trial and punishment.