Frequently. Bounties were offered both for individual pirates - Henry Every was worth £500, for example, while other members of his company were only worth £50 each - and for pirates in general. The 1717 Proclamation of pardon for piracy also included a list of bounties for pirates who would not surrender, offering £100 for a pirate captain, £40 for a quartermaster, master, or gunner, and £20 for other pirates. Certain people took up pirate hunting, such as Benjamin Hornigold, who gave up pirating and worked for Woodes Rogers, Governor of the Bahamas, as a pirate-hunter. Rogers financed the missions and claimed for the rewards, presumably giving Hornigold a cut or a wage. The Government refused to pay Rogers' largest claim on a technicality. Bounties could also be claimed by members of the Royal Navy, and in the same set of Treasury documents as Rogers' claim referenced above, there is the claim by Captain Ellis Brand, RN, for the bounties on Blackbeard and his company, who had been defeated by men under Brand's lieutenant, Robert Maynard.