Sir John Snakelaw

The evil Sir John Snakelaw is the uncle of Lady Devereux, who has commandeered the Devereux castle has been commandeered by her uncle while imposing crippling taxes on the local populace. Sir John is supported by a motley crew including Captain Watt and a hapless team of guards. He also has a food taster whose ingestion of poison has prematurely aged him so that he looks 50 rather than 20. He hates his mother and would do anything to get money. He also pays a lot of money for the capture of the Swiftnick Gang. He is Lady Devereux's legal guardian.

In one of the episodes he sang  to a rich widow named Countess Cornocopia for money but was tricked by Swiftnick. Sir John is known to have a particularly bad reaction to Shellfish especially prawns, this reaction causes him to fart rudely and often, one such time was in "Love Hurts" in front of Countess Cornocopia.

In the episode "Pants" he discourages Captain Watt ordering shellfish from the caterers once they believe to have captured Swiftnick.