Complex sentence: Barnet may have taken a 1717 pardon offered to all pirates who surrendered within a year: by 1720 his commission had been renewed yet again, this time by Heywood's replacement Governor Nicholas Lawes.
Split into simpler sentences: Barnet may have taken a 1717 pardon offered to all pirates who surrendered within a year. By 1720 his commission had been renewed yet again, this time by Heywood's replacement Governor Nicholas Lawes.