i: PSV OLE LOY FY TUE VIL IL OVEL OVE VGVIVEL ETOYS Vea ¥: oT.) a. GS a : = 4 ods, Ren 5 See Here nag ea er ila tether mem anenaee mene ape—erer ern naet V. Of VI. of VIL of i VIII. of Printed for, Capt. Pane, Capt. Rackam, Capt, England, | Capt. Davis, 3] Lonpn and fold by 7, Warner, Nofler.Row, XV. OF Capt. Phizips, XVI. Of Ca And their feyeral Crews, ON: at the 17244 Pt. Spriggs, Black-Boy in Pater- = pa: 3 3 igs s te NE NAR Rr ed CE (AS SER VaR Gy YES NAG RAARAMARNY EAE AE ETRE ZTE Fo HAVING taken tore than ordinary Pains it colletting the Materials whith compofe the i folowing Hiftory, we could not be fatisfied SVR with our felves, if any Thing were manting to SY it, which might render it entirely [atisfattory to the Publick’: It is for this Reafon we have fubjoined to the Work, Ua fhort Abftratt of the Laws now ia Force again, Pyrates, and made Choice of. [ome particular Cafes, (the oft curious we could meet with) which have been hereto# Sore tried, by which it will appear what Actions have; and that have not been adjudged Pyracy. es : It is poffible this Book may fall into the Hands of fome Mafters of Ships, and other hoief Mariners, who frequent- hy, by contrary Winds or Tempefts, or other Accidents incia “nt to long Voyages, find themfelves reduced to great Di- reffes, either through Scarcity of Provifions, or Want of Stores: I fay, it may be a Diretbion to futh as thofe, what Leng ths they may venture to go, without violating the Law of Nations, in Cafe they fhould meet other Ships at Seay or ° cast on forme ithofpitable Shore, which fhould refufe to trade with them for fuch Things as are abfolutely neceffary Sor the Prefervation of their Lives, or the Safety of thé Ship and Cargoe. ee We have given a few Inftances in the Courfe of this Aiftory of the Inducements Aden have to engage themfelves . A2 beads ROLE LS Te aS r “The P: R-E-F-A-G-E————-—, headlong in a Life of fo much Peril to themfelves, and fo deftruttive to the Navigatim of the trading World, to re- medy which Evil there feems to be but two Ways, either to ad Employment for the great Numbers of Seamen turn’d at at the Conclufion of a War, and thereby prevent their-running into fuch Undertakings, or to-guard. fuffici- ently the Coaft of Africa, the Weft-Indies, and other Places whereto Pyrates refort. ; I cannot but take Notice in this Place, that during this long Peace, I have not fo much as heard of a Dutch Py- yate: It is not that I take them to be honefter than their Neighbours 5 but when we account for it, it will, perhaps, be a Reproach to our felves for our want of Induftry : The Rea- fon I take tobe, that after aWar, ‘when the Dutch Ships! are laid up, they have a Fifhery, where their Seamen find immediate Bufinefs, and as comfortable Bread as they had before. Had ours the fame Recourfe in their Neceffities, I'm certain we fhould find the fame Effect from it 5. for a Fifhery is a Trade that cannot be overftock’'d 3 ‘the Sea is wide enough for us all, we need not quarrel for Elbow-room:. es Stores are infinite, and will ever reward the Labourer. Befides, our own Coast, for the moft Part, fupply the Dutch, ‘who employ feveral hundred Sail conftantly in the Trade, and fo fell to us our cwn Fifh. I call it our own, for the Sovereignty of the Britifh Seas, are to this Day acknowlede- ed us by the Dutch, and all the neighbouring Nations ; " apherefore, if there was a publick Spirit among us, it mould be well worth our while to eftablifh a National Fifhery, which qpould be the best Means in the World to prevent Pyracy, employ a Number of the Poor, and eafe the Nation of a creat Burthen, by lowering the Price of Provifion in general, on well as of feveral other Commodities. I need not bring any Proofs of what I advance, viz. that there are Multitudes of Seamen at this Day unemploy'd; it is but too evident by their ftraggling, and begging all over the Kingdom. Nor is it fo much their Inclination to Idlenefs, as their own hard Fate, in being cast off after their Work ts dene, to fiarve or fleal. I have not known a Man of ee - War = “ARP REF A OE : War commiffion’d for feveral Years past, but three times he? Compliment of Men have offer’d themfelves in 24. Hours 5 the Merchants take their Advantage of this, leffen their Wages, and thofe few who are in Bufinels are poorly paid, and but poorly fed ; [uch Ufage breeds Difcontents amongft them, and makes them eager for any Change. I fhall not repeat what I have faid in the Hiftory con- cerning the Privateers of the Welt-Indies, where I have taken Notice they live upon Spoil, and as Cuftom is a fecond Nature, it is no Wonder that, when an honest Livlyhood is not eafily had, they run into one fo like their own fo that — it may be faid, that Privateers in Time of War are a Nur- Sery for Pyrates acainst a Peace. ; Now we have accounted for their Rife and Beginning, it will be natural to enquire why they are not taken and de- - flroy’d, before they come to any Head, feeing that they are Seldom lefs than twelve Men of War ftationed in our Ame- Yican Plantations, even in Time of Peace ; a Force fuffi- cient to contend with a powerful Enemy. This Enquiry, perhaps, will not turn much to the Honour of thofe concern’d an that Service ; however, I hope I may be excus’d, if what J bint is with a Defign of ferving the Publick. = I fay, “tis ferange that a few Pyrates fhould ravage the Seas for Years, without ever being light upon, by any of our Ships of War; when in the mean Time; they (the Pyrates) {hall take Fleets of Ships ; it looks as if one was much more dili- gent in their Affairs, thanthe other. Roberts and his Crem, - alone, took 400 Sail, before he was deftroy d. ; This Mateer, I may probably fet right another Time, and only obferve for the prefent, that the Pyrates at Sea, have the fame Sagacity with Robbers at Land, asthe latter underftand what Road, are most frequented, and where it is most likely to meet with Booty, fo the former kuow what Latitude to lie in, in order to intercept Ships; aad as the Pyrates happen to be in want of Provifions, Stores, or any particular Lading, they cruife accordingly for [uch Ships, and are morally certain of meeting with them ; and by the {ame Reafon, if the Men of War cruife in thofe Latitudes, ee A 3 they SORTS FES UG TE Pare Po PTT ea Ta pee mne ppe pene. BR ata LIGA PL WOE WNL Se Pears The PREFACE. aie they might beas fure of finding the P | °-yrates, as the P are to find the Merchant Ships, and if the Pyrates mead furely down the fame Latitude ; re ih he ie oe may the Aterchant Ships ar- 0 make this a little plainer to my Count; _f must cbferve that all our outward bid See ieee after they leave the Land, freer into the Lab of the Place they are bound to; if tothe Weft-India Tlands or any Part of. the Main of America, as New-York. New-England, Virginia, &c. becaufe the Latitude i the only Certainty in thofe Voyages to be found, and then they fail due Weft, till they come to their Pork, without altering their Courfe, In this Weft Way lie the P rates. whether it be to Virginia, &c. or Nevis, St. Chrifte: phers, Montferat, Jamaica, &c. fo. that if the Ader chant Ships bound thither, do not fall a Prey to them aa » Day, they must another: Therefore I [ay, if the Men of War take the fame Track, the Pyrates muff unavoidably fall into their Mouths, or be frighted away, for where the there will the Fermin bes aah sees fhould be eae the prading Ships, as I faid before, will pals unmolefted and fafe, and the Pyrates be reduced to take Refuge in fome of their lurking Holes about the uninhabited Iflands, where their Fare would be like thar of the Fox in his Den : if they soould venture out, they would be hunted and taken, and if they flay within they muft flarve. 2 f oT must obferve another Thing, that the Pyrates general- y Shift their Rovings, according to the Seafon of the Year « in the Summer they cruife moftly along the Coaft of the ait tinent of America, but the Winters there, being a little t00 cold for them, they follow the Sun, and £0 towards the Ifands, at’ the approach of cold Weather, Every Man 7s who has ufed the Welt-India Trade, knows this to 2 7 ie 7 se e, fince we are fo ell acquainted with all < their Motions, I cannot fee : rs tions, I cannot fee why our Men of War under 4a wa || proper Regulation, may not go tothe Southmard. in fead | | ying up all the Winter ufelefs - But I fhatt ee 3 a te be met with by the Men of War in fuch a Latitude, then’ Th PREFACE. in this Enquiry, I fhall therefore quit ity and fay fom®- thing of the following Sheets, which the Author may venture to affure the Reader that they have one Thing to recommend them, which is Truth , thofe Fatts which he himfelf was not an Eye-Witne{s of, he had from the authentick Relats- ons of the Perfons concern’d in taking the Pyrates, as well as from the Mouths of the Pyrates themfelves, after they were taken, and he conceives no Man can produce berter Teftimonies to fupport the Credit of any Hiftory. It will be obferved, that the Account of the Attions of Roberts rums into agreater Length, than that of a other Pyrate, for which we can affign two Reafons, first, becaufe he ravaged the Seas longer than the rest, and of Coufequence there must be a greater Scene of Bufines ix his Life : Second- ly, being refolved not to weary the Reader, with tirefome Repetitions : When we found the Circumftances in Roberts's Life, and other Pyrates, either as to pyratical Articles, or any Thing elfe,to be the fame,we thought it best to give them but once, and chofe Roberts’s Life for that Purpofe, he ha- ving made more Noife in the World, than fome others. _ As to the Lives of our two female Pyrates, we must con- fefs they may appear a little Extravagant, yet they are never the lefs true for feeming fo, but as they were pub- lickly try’d . for their Pyracies, there are leving Witneffes enough to juftify what we have laid down concerning them 3 it is certain, we have produced fome Particulars which were not fo publickly known, the Reafon is, we were more inquifi- tive into the Circumftances of their past Lives, than other People, who had no other Defign, than that of gratifying their own private Curiofity : If there are fome Incidents.and Turns in their. Stories, whick may give them a little the Air of a Novel, they are not invented or contrived for that Purpofe, it is a Kind of Reading this Author is but Little acquainted with, but as he himfelf was exceedingly diverted with them, when they were related to him, he thought they might have the fame Effect upon the Reader. 1 prefume we need make no Apology for giving the Name of a H ftory to the following Sheets, though they contain no- ‘ A 4 thing EVRY SCS og I IE aD EA TT Pe SEF “Fhe PRE fig C°E, thing but the Attions of 4 Parcel of Robbers, very and Stratagem in War which make Aékion Record 5 in which Senfe the A, be thought deferving that Name. Plutarch ¢ very cir cumftantial in relating the Attions of Spartacus, the Slave and makes the Conquest of him, one of the greatest Giiek of Marcus Craffus ; and it is probable, if this Slave iad liv'd a little longer, Plutarch would have given'us his Life at large. Rome, the Miftrefs of the World, mas no more at first than a Refuge for Thieves and Outlams 5 and » af the Progrefs of our Pyrates had been equal to their Be- ginning 5 had they all united, and fettled It is Brae Behaviour of fome Governors “of ff Provinces abroad, it has been with Caution’: and, perhaps} ‘we have, not declar’d as much as we knew: However, we hope thofe Gentlemen in the fame Station, who have never Siven Occafion for the like Cenfure, will take no Offence, tho the Word Governor is fometimes madeufe of. Oe \ 5 os fe oan Oat 3 B.S. Te will be neceffury tovadd ‘a Word or two to this Preface, in order to inform the Reader, ‘that there are fe- veral material. Additions made to this fecond Impreffion, ahich Swelling the Book in Bulk, nist of Confequence add 4 fmall Matter toits Price... Sa Seal A ~The first Inspreffion having been rectived with fo much Succe/s by the Publick, occafioned 4 very earneft Demand for a fecond : In. the mean Tine, feveral Perfons who had been taken by the Pyrates, as well-as others who bad been concerned in taking of thera, have been So kind to commn~ nicate feveral Faits and Cireup iftances to xs, \which ad efcaped us in the fiest Teapreffions This oceafioned fome De- lay, therefore if we have not brought it out) as joon as wifl’d, it was to render it the wiore Compleat... : We hall not enter into'a ne all the new Matter inferted here, bur the Defcrigeies of the Thands St. Thome, &e, s CAPR NAR Oe pet anes cae FE Ps cE xY * S$ worthy of Adventures here related will Th PREFACE &e. and that of Brafil are not to be paffed by, with- out. a little Notice. It must be obferved, that our [pe- ‘culative’ Mathematicians and Geo raphers, who are, no doubts Men of the Greatest Learning, feldom travel far- ther than their’ Clofets for their Knowledge, &c. are therefore unqualified to give us a good Defcription of Countries: It is’ for this Reafon thar all our Maps’ and Vidence fixed on as a Place of Retreat by them,30. ‘That [land defivibed, ib. The Lords Addvefs to her late Majefty for fecuring Providence, ib. An Order of Council in this Reign to the fame Purpofe, 31. A Lift of Men of War enploy'd for the Defence af e ine } eet cok bee C-ON TNT. the Plantations, 32. Captain Woods: Rosen ype of Providence, ib. a! King’s ees Vea Pyrates, 33, 34... How the Pyrates ufed the Pyoclam bprelling Great Divifions amongft them, 35. How made seiet ae ae veral of the Pyrates furvender to the Governor of Ben +: Re The Fate of the reft, ib. Woods Rogers his anion oh vidence, 1b. Vane’s Bebavtour, 36. 2 Woods Ro cael po! pee bend Pyrates, ib. =" Theiy Condutt, ib, ge a them han, or neq P es, 2 Dez : the Place of igh 37 Their firange Behaviour at _ Vith and Spaniards, 38. ~The i , hound Manof War ond tow, ih me ge mee Be Grey a of 4 Spanifh Guarda del Cofta hang’d at aneice : fe pighd Sir Nicholas Laws his Letter to the Alcal es of Trinid gre 3 40 Mr. Joféph Laws, Lieutenant of the Ha a S Oy 39> Letier to the Alcaldes of Trinidado, 4. Th aN Boe frer to the Lieutenant's Letter, qr, A2. The a F caldes an ply to the Alcaldes Anfwer, 42, 43.’ - "The Alealdes cio again, 43. Some Account i 2 robe {t taken by ie: Ga count of Richard Holland, ib, Prizes Cer Of Captain AVERY, and his Crew. ‘PD Omantick Reports of bis Greatnels, R Is Mate of a Briftol Man, en fs, 455 46. Lampers with the Sedmen, ib. Forms j : Ship, 47) 48. _ Executes it, and bedi, SB saa a a vich Ship belonging to the Great Mogul, 50. °° The Gr i ite. gul threaten the Enelith Settlements, 51. ‘The P hile am their Courfe back for Madagafear, 52. Cah an se praais ; va the Treafure on Board ‘of Avery’s ship, ib, Ave i tis ore treacheroufly leaves his Confederates * £0 to the ile of iy es ae in the Wett-Indies, 53. sell ‘the Ship, go to Naeth. an he a Sloop, 54. They difperfe Avery goes to New- gland, ib. From thence to Yreland, ib. Aver ‘dt expofe his Diamonds to fale, Goes ower to England iB. Sas his Wealth into Merchants Hands, of Briftol, 55. x ieee is Nera Lives at Biddiford, ib, The Merchants fend him % upplies, ib. Iniportunes them. Goes privately to Britt I tp threaten to difcover him, ib. — Goes over to Helnad follicite : aed from thence, 56. Ts wery poor, avorks his Poffane 07 ae 1 ie mouth, walks to Biddiford. Dies 2 Bescar he ue. of Avery’s Confederates, ib. ° ‘Their Settlement iat Mad, ae _$}+ They meet other Pyratess an Accoxnt of them, ‘be et the Pyrates His Birth, ‘46. For what Voyage defien'd, ib. Some Proceedings hetevixt the Enge y wits UF PEP WS PRY; TO ay OF, ae ey wey or e 4 Th CONTENTS. _Pyrates arrive.te great Power. — The Inhabitants deferibed, 58. ‘Their Policy, Government, &c. Places defcrib'd, 59... The Arrival of Captain Woods Rogers at that Part of the Iland, 61. Their " Defign of furprizing bis Ship, 62. . One of the/e Princes former- ly’ @ Waterman cn the Thames, 63... Their Secretaries Men of no Learning, Could neither write nor read, ibs 7 Obs Poth c5' 8 Of Captain MARTEL, and his CREW. — AT to fupprefs Pyrates, "64. The Increafe of Pyrates ac~ counted for, 65. “Where Martel. leayned his Trade, ib. everal Prizes taken, by bim, 65, 66, 67. — His " ‘The Names of fi OF ee ae _ Strength at Ganga Cruz; 6]... His Manner. of fortifying him= —_ felf there, ib. . Is attack'd bythe Scarborough Man of War, 68+ His defence by Land and Sea,ib. - His defperate Efcape, 69. . His _miferable End, ibe ~ G H A P, IL : pene ‘Of Captain TEACH, alias BLACK-BEARD. : His Confederacy with Hornygold, ib. Takes a large Guiney Man, ib. His Aliance with Is Beginning, jo. . -M. The Confederacy brokey 7X. : Engages the Scarborough Man of Wary ibe J abt Major Stede Bonnet, ib. Depofes his new Ally, ib. His Aa- \ vice to the Major, ib... His Progre(s and Succefsy 72+ Takes Prizes in Sight of Charles-Town, 73. Sends Ambaffadors 40 the Governor of Carolina, “pon an dmnpudent Demand, ib. Runs his ship aground defignedly, 74. His Cruelty t fome of kis own Companions. surrenders to the King’s Proclamation, 7 5+ the Governor of North-Carolina’s exceeding Generofity to him, ib. He marries, ib. The Number of bis Wives then living, tbe. His conjugal Virtues, 75,76». Makes a fecond. Exottrfion in the Way of pyrating, 16. Some State Legerdemain betwixt him and the Go~ vernor, ib. His modef? Behaviour in the’ River, 77+ His Pros licks on shove, ib. ~The Merchants apply for a Force againft him, »andawhere, 78... A Proclamation with a Reward for taking or. killing of Pyrates, 7.9, So. Liewtenant Maynard fent in per- 5 fuit of him, 8o. ‘Black-beard’s good InteHigence, St. The . Lieutenant engages Black-beard, ib. A moft execrable Health .' drank by Black-beard- 82. The Fight . bloody 5 the Particulars «of it, 82, 83, 84. Black-beard ki#'d, 84. His Sloop ta- ken, ib. » the Lietstenant’s Conduét, 84, 85. A Reflettion on the Humours of Seamen, $5. Black-beard’s Corne{pondents we ‘ ; 5 sen covers The CONTENTS, cover'd by bis Papers, ih, See. “on ay go 5, 86, The Prifoners hanz’d, ib. : red, B00 Fa dehy, ib. The giod tack thee ie Odel faved, eard’s mifchievous Frolicks, ib. 777 Peeke Black- veral Inflances if bis Wickednefs, 88, 89. oat from his Journal, 89, The Names of Md 5 the Engagement, 90. Of thofe execttted, tb, The Value of the Prize, ib. Wo Gr A pay Of Major STEDE Bonner, and his Crave RE to B be denne PUNING aS i Pyvabes ih: Takes Prhcrne., i a bis Crew, ib. Mecis| Blackbeard“ abe a 3 be fed from his Command, 93. His melanchol Re Hii Rac ‘uvrenders to the Kine’s Proclamati sae onsy ib, on, ib. 2 re oe Saves fome byrates marroon'd, ne vibe His new Project, ib. Begi; ‘ 95- An Account of Prizes taken by bi egins the old Trade againg ‘ m 6. oes in Queft of Fyrates, 97° Yates the bpal jeanne » 98. An Engagement betavixt Colonel Rh i on elk of the Rill ‘d and ‘tienda ai a eee ean ey ae ee ib. The Major and the Mafler Bjtape, ib ee pee ’y Colonel Rhet, tor.” AConys of Vice-Ad; pai : » ib. The Names of thofe arraign'’d, 102,16 Bato cd of theiv Inditment, 104. ‘Their Defence toe Sige irs thofe who received Sentence, 106. Ose ic Lord Chief $4. ice on pronounci; fi uncin ; ' a iff v4 & Sentence ae the Major, 107 The Lieutenant and Gov CoH AsReoy, Of Capt. Epw. ENGLAND, and his IS Beginning and Chara&er, x H Ation of bis Crea, 114, 115. = be by sb I 5 I : 6. — The Misfortune 117. England's Progre/s half De olson ipebveoee I ih cae ees 117,118. A foort Madagafear, 118.” Takes an EattIn dia ih be did at ) le Crew, Particulars of the Ation in Captain Mackra’s Letter, 1 o Captain Mackra ventures on Board the Pyrate, 122 : ‘g oi bee . an< ker of being murder'd; 123, Pre fey; “d j ib. The oe Generofity to idk 7 elie mens - depofedy FIR COR ee, p Black-heard’s aefperate Refolution PLE TD r The CONTENTS. ‘aepofed,Yand why, 124. Maroon'd on the Ifland Mauritius, ib. : ra hee a n that land, ib. ‘The Adventures of the Com- pany continued, 124 10126. “Angria, av Indian Pyrate, 127+ bis Strength by Land ana Sea, ib. The Eaft-India Company's Wars with him, 127, 128. The Pyrates go to the Iland of Melinda, 129.» Their barbarous Behaviour there, ib. Hear of Captain Mackra’s Defigns ogainft them, ib. Their Refletti- _ons thereupon, 130... Sail for Cochin, 4 Dutch settlement, ib. ibe Pyrates and the Dutch very good Eviends, 13%. Mutual _ Brefents made betwixt the Pyrates and the hang ib. + ite _ Pyrates in a Fright, 133. Almoft. ftarv’d, ib. Take Bisel an eat Hie 134. bh an Oftend Eaft-India Man, ib. A fort Defcription of Madagafcar, 135, 136+ 4 prodigious Dividend made by the Pyrates, 136. A Fellow's Way of increafing his Diamonds, ib. Some of the Pyrates quit, and join th: Remains of Avery, ib. The Proceedings of the Men of War in thofe Parts, 1335 138. Some Dutch Men petition to be ‘among the Pyrates, 138. The Pyrates divided in their Mea- _ fsres, 139+ Break up, ib. What becanse of them, 139) 149 viv & A oC Abs. VEC | OF Capt, CHatEs Vawe, and his Crew. ANE’s Behaviour at Providence, 141. The Names of V Prizes taken by him, 141,142. Is deferted by bis Confort "Yates, 143. “Yates furrenders at Charles-Town, ib.. A Stratagem of Vane’s, 144. Black-beard and Vane meet, 145. They falute_ after the Pyrates Manner, ib. Vane de- pofed from his Command, and why, 146. 15 Hands degra- ded, ‘and turned out with him, ib. © A Sloop given them, 147+ They fail in, Queft of ea and take Drizes, ib. Vane caft away upon an uninhabited Iand, ib. ~ Meets avith an old Acquainiance, 148. Vane feiz’d with a Qualm of Honcur, ibe Ships himfelf on Board a Veffel, paffing for another Man, ib. Is difcover'd, with the Manner how, 149. Carried to Jamaica, and hang’d, ibe i CHAP. VIL. Of Capt. RACK AM, and hisCREw. ACK’AM'’s beginning as a Pyrate, 150,151. An Account LX. of Prizes taken by him, 151. ‘Is attack'd by a Spanifh Guard © Ship, ib. His Stratagem to efcape, 152. © More Pvixes ta~ ken by him, 153. 45 taken, and how, 154. ‘Tried, condem-~ HeBy g a a eR Th CONTENTS ned, and executed at Jamaica, ib. A _ condemn'd with hint, 154. An extry, with him, ibe.» Some Account of the 154), 155. ma eye os wo the LIFE of Mary Reap, iy soe Read’s Birth, 154, : Reafons for dreffing her ‘* ie The Names of his Cj I : VOU ordinary Cafe of nine taken Proceedings againfh them 5 ches, 158: 2. Waits upon aL : ero ti aly 5 goes: \ Her Behaviour in feveval Engagements, eds Ke : & oy » 159. widvith ber Comrade, ibs \\ °° Her Sef tif ie: he falls in Love » mavried, 160. Settles at Breda, ibs? 453.’ mia L tes at Breda, ibs >! 7; & veaffumes the Breeches, ib, nae ie > Indies, 161... Tuvns Pyrate, Ann x fa4s in Love with her, 162, to yee gh To ihe Wett- © Bonny,» another Py Her Addentares ate Ue tyes Se hud ee aat ANNE Bo. NNE Bonny birn a Baftard,” 166; © pee gy 9h Bo trigues frangely Tytooerd 16 a Ses eae aie ; b es Send ad RI 263 Sie bts i hid a ie alous,170. __He feparates from his Wife. lives ist A een s aes 1fld Anne held ae i oe ab Anne guile, bow difeovered,\h., The Father becomes ‘eeches for “a Carolina, 172. ~ Improves his Fortune.” Ant eae ine ahs 8g E oil his Confent. Her fierce Temper, ib, 2 ey marries \ ste oe fet Hasband, ib. Enticed to ‘Sea in MENT », Wy Rackam te Pyrite, 173: ° Reproaches Rackath with Cow % eat bis Execution, ib,” Vaanr 8 eh Cowar- : rt sts Xo =).T NNY. “qT PYCHE. Original of Davis, Bey ei Is. taken by the p. i ; T land, ib. f England’s Generotiy ee ag Pete Fe c into Prifon at Barbadoes, and why ib eee ais < eae ‘ “ dence, ib. Employ'd in a trading Yeffel, fei: Coe gran ‘ sy eee of bis breat Courage and ph, se Palecy aie, "idea : Y , rea ounc?, "d,i ; fe Sra a . Takes. Gambia Caftle Beets a ae Spee: i s bee Bouche, 4 French Pyrate, 184. ‘ Wis Ad cs - ocklyn the Pyrate, at Siérraleone 185. > gh air ai d and taken, by theee Confederate Pyrates ve ee "i tke ae and part, ib. The laconick Speech of Da i rt omy i 1D, His fierce Engacement with a large Dutch shi ihe count of feveral Prizes taken by him 7 ib, A Defer ae : A 100 o the and good Conduct, 4 7,178. \ es. the Ship, 176. ENE, OS NS Pe ION ae OT I, a The CONTENTS. ; ‘the Sfland of st. Thome, Del. Principe; and Annobono, from 0188 to, 204.10 2 The Dutch Governor. of Acra taken by Davis, 3.205..1; Davis we received by the Governor of Princes, ib. Hrs -Stratagem to come at the Weulth of the Tfland, 2.06.. Is\coun- : terplotted and kill’d, by an Ambujcade, Zo}+\ te HSA Py. Malis 2 FOF Capt. BAk: ROBERTS, and hisCREW. H S Beginning, 208. Eletted Captain in the Room of Davis, 209. . The Speech of Lord Dennis at the Elettion, ib. Lord _s Symplon objedtsagainft a Papiff, ib. The Death of Davis vevenz'd, 210. .- . Roberts fails Southward, in Queft of Ad- ~) Dentures, 21%« the Names of the Prizes taken by them, ib. ~ Brafil def-rib'd, from 211 to 221. Roberts falls into a Fleet of _-Porcuguefe, 221.) Boards and takes. the richeft Ship among/t them, 2226 1 Make the Devil’s Ilands, 223. An unfortunate _ Adventure of Roberts, 224. ©. Kennedy's Treachery, 225. ~ Irithmen excluded by. Roberts and his: Crew, 230. Anticles ifevorn to by them, ib. ~ A Copy of them'from, 230 to 233+ Some Account of the Laas and Ouftoms of the. Pyrates, 233,234» An _. Inftance of Roberts bis Cunning, 234+ He proceeds again upom > Bufinefs, and takes Prizes, 235+ Narrowly efcapes being ta- ken, 236. Sails for the Tand Dominico, ib... , Another Efcape, 237. Sails 7 Newfoundland, ib. Plunders, finks and burns 22 Sail inthe Harbour of Trepafli, ib. Plunders zen Sail of French Men, 238. the mad Behaviour of the Crew, 238; 239. — A Correfpondence hinted at, 240. | The Pyrates ca- _-wefsd at the Ifland of st Bartholomew, ib,» In extream \ Diftrefs, 241; 2424. Sail for. Martinico, 243+ A Stratas « gem of Roberts, ib. The infolent Device in bis Colours, 244. [And odd Compliment paid to Roberts, ibs.» . Three Men defert the Pyrates, and aretaken by them, 245. Their Tryal, 245, ~ 246. » Two executed, and one faved, 247+ The Brigan- vine deferts them, 248. >> \ Great Divifions in the Company, ~ 248, 249. A Defeription of Serraleone River, 250... The Nams of Englith fertled there,.and Way of Life, 251, 252) 253- - ghe Onflow: belonging to the African. Company taken, 254. The \» Pyrates Contempt of Soldiers, ib. » They ave for entertaining a Chap- . dain, ib... Their Skirmif2 with the Calabar Negroes, 2.56. The _King Solomon, :bélonging to the African Company, taken, 258. - he Frolicks of the Pyrates, ib. qake eleven Sail in Whydah Road, 259» A\conrical Receipt given by the Pyrates, 260. 4 A cruel Aétion of Roberts, 261. sails for Anna Bona, 262. ‘the Progrefs of the Swallow Man of War, in Purfuit of Roberts, «from .262 to 267. Roberts bis Confort taken, 267, The ' (a) Bravery aE PR an eo Th CONTENTS 1 : ENTS. » Brabety of Skyrine, a Welch Pyrate, 268, a Eig 4 ONE «of forme vos Prifoners, 268, 269. The Pa gion C H AuPs XI. é : Taga tS 270" Roberts bis Drefs defevibed, bry. fh Of Capt. WORLEY, and his Crew ne me 7 ae ; ep Character, ib. Bae His Ship taken; 243, Is mad Beginning, SAR. Ris Succefs, 3435 344. Bind hictof ie ae Wikies sia asiceicas it A Confpi- ; H themfelves by Oath to take mo Quarters, 3445 foley Ae af ; oe spies 2 go 24 i RefleFions on the Manner of Jarm at James-TOwn; 3 45. Vorley catches 4 erceceee 2, eM, 4 » 279, 5 Yip f : <# ie ie ieahs nae ‘ ae Ooh face os pile a or try ; The de[perate Refolution of the Pyrates, 346. Worley bar sod , se Naies Ms on es ies taken in the Ship Ranwer coe: COPE AGE, ORUL 1882, 28330 om ne Form of the Inditliment. a8. Dae Go rosary se bum of the Buidence againft them, 285, 086, thes J ethed Of Capt.Geo. LowTHER, and his CREW. nt thy ion pe ete a a eae ele of the Royal Fortine 18 Begining, 347. Plots oat ee, hue ae + aba Rae ee petite 4% ie My 29% £0304, me . *: Lowther’s Fropofal, 351° AC Wied spsaie soe of. of J pein aya i cag of ee peat Aa, and favorn to, 3520. ae one en ge? 3087 505+ Of John Waldény \ 05 40 4, ‘A. . How Rogties ave made Friends, 10. L.OW* Pete igang ROMOS Ere 24 OF Robert Johnion, 3 3 ; ahha tt parts 355+ ~ A. Digreffion concerning Mafley’s gia Of George Wilfon; 312% 319: of Benjamin yer. mad Condudt, 335 10 357- . Lowther and Low meets 358. Am ply 31 7; 3183 LOOK. John Mansfield, 318; 379, Als ‘Hilitnee Sack them, ib. A Lift of Prizes taken-by them, 359" Can Davisy 319 28 300. The Nibiad’ of Hele vie usd st Cd va | An unlucky Adventure at Cape Mayo, 3595360... Lowther i a ae bisent ein Petition of fome colder 323. tee Low break the Alance, ahd path, 36%. Teese a Courts Refolilion, ibid. @ Form of ww Tndémuve of wi... OW kins, ib. |. The Pyrates meitch reduced, 362. Wink ‘ don'd Pyratey 3g The Names of thofe pavthd wy vg rt prs bale s, a to Sea again, ib, Make for ‘tiie to forve feven Tears, vi The Pyrates Hoe difposeat gf 456. the Iland of Blanco, 363... the Tfland deferibeds beta Are the dying Bébavious of thofe executed, 326% boge 3204 furprifed and taken, 364+ Lowther ¢/capes, ib., ae Names eget on pUihe ngs etatin of the Prifoners, and Fate, ib. Lowther’s Death, 365. _ OF Capt. ANsT1s, and his Caew. > | CBA Ps lV, tb aS cleats by his Grew, 331, Civil Difcords whiong T OW’ Original, 366, 367+ the Virwmes of bis Family, is bt ee Robin epi sb. L His bold Beginnings, 368. Declares War againfe the ‘els KS pet seve ode. t Peruions 333.0 mbes Ss ° ‘1 for the Weftern Ifland, 373+ Treats wit cieal ea bith ew Soper ree yg EL Se BATE ap gr hchua for Merb eal din OER TP; MEMORY S336 0.32 8.93 they put ito Sta ney : Crnelt ; ~ Low’s Confort taken, and Low, 538.0; Thete petition viok anfwer'd, ib; he Man Hy of their wanton Cruelty, wily er ian, ‘Wales Jee Sites Hass aide See Morning ree ‘d ‘Malfacre committed by Low. 3.76, 379+ Siar trek’ ib. “Aas narmaly ean loti eam, gee Uae of rien 3A vies ai 19 bdifo » 1D. © Grew. gathers Strength “menin. 640, : : : and-his Confort attack'd by the sft Winch a funni A, BS iam onlimsr sin: pent Goer ee FEN cae gee nftis efempes, ib. "Ts killed 5 . taken, ib. Carried to Rhode Ifland, en oa ome coin re - Ship fuer render’ ab a ae o es A ioy ori and Places of Birth, of tha cage > ? : 4 : ng ere, 1 i Fen hinged Yin = : “ , Hident uid: th Ch havo gard, thé tegons bi the Goud Leck of ape ab. tbe Moods, ibs Seed Nomtoks aes oe Reflaton of the Map | and Common-Council, ibs The Preamble of the Captain's Free~ : dom, 385. More Inftances of Low's Cruelty, 388, 38 is fe CH AP, ‘ Adventures cominued t0 39 ; c AP NS) The CONTENTS GHA Paixay |. 44 : OF Capt. -Joun EV ANs.and his CREW. - BGINS with Hou fe-breaking, 391. Robs a Houfe the Same Night, ib. ~ luable Prizes, 393." His Death reveng’d, ib. Seizes gy Sloop, 3924 i Put to Sea, and take va- ivans lot dead by his Boatfwain, 20 The Company breaks Up, 395. - age p49 dd IGE Ai BP XV, Of Capt. Joun PHILLIPS, and hisCrgew, HILLIPS bis Original, 396. “How he became a Py- ‘tate, ib. ‘His Return to England accounted for, ib, _ again for Newfoundland, ib, ; bour, 397. _He and four others Sei&e a Peffel, ib. * pyrating, ib. Articles Sworn to upon a Hatchet, ib, , of the Articles, 397, 398. i Blood among ft the 399: Are almoft flarved, ib, > Take Prizes, ib, " propofes to clean at Tobago, and why, ib. Meets an old Acquain. “tance, 400. Frighten’d from the Iland, ib, A Confpinacy to vun away With the Prize, ih, 4 Skivmifp, ib. The Cay~ ty in cutting off Legs, ib. Bern kill'd } Phillips, A Copy mM, and why, Phillips penter’s Dexter? and why, 40%.” «the Danger of allempting an Efcape among the Pyrates, ibs Captain Mortimer’s Bravery, and bard Fate, 401, 4o2. . Captain Mortimer’s Brother efcapes, and Cheefeman’s steps for overthrarving the Pyraies Govern A Digrefiion concerning N ewfoundland, 4nd its Trade, The Pyrates recruited with Men from there, ( Confcience pricks him, ib, Dependence Ellery, a satns ‘obliga Ts) dance by the Pyrates, 456. 4 brave Atlion perform'd by Cheefe-. Carvies the Pyrate Ship into Bofton, 408, ly ing Declarations of John Rove Archer, and William White 408, MBN is sre aed ke Pe OC YEE oe . OF Captain: Sp RIGGS, and his Crew, SPRIGGS BisBeinning, grt.’ 11009 be (ob y or him/elf ib, S Sweats his Pi fines for Dives aie at for bimfelf, ib ‘Gn dvinking Healths, 413. Take Hawkins a fecond Hime, AT ge »_ Bain his ship, eit An tid Entertainment given bing * b the vied rates, i oF Captain Haw. kins how di 0 ed at 8 e See: Spr lero Ulage of bis Prifoners, ay oh aon tiles 6 Ship loaden with Horfes, 416. ° An odd FrolicR of the Pyrates, ib Two particular Relations of Pyracy, fiom 217 0 29 ig: 22 eee = >. Ls ie 9 5 ‘a 9 2} 9 GYSSIEISTERE ONS} wills the Pyrates in the Weft-Indies have MH been fo formidable and numerous, that. they have interrupted the lrade of Europe into thofe Parts ; end our Englifh Merchants, in parti- 4 cular, have fuffered more by their ._ Depredations, than by the united Force of France and Spain, in the late War: We do fot doubt but the World will be curious to know the Original and Progrefs of thefe Defperadoes, Who were the Terror of the trading Part of the World, gate < Nea But before we entér upon their particular His Rory, it will not be amifs, by way of Introduétion, to thew, by fome Examples drawn from Hiftory, the great Mifchief and Danger which threaten Kingdoms and Commonwealths, from the ree TANG ANE Ee APL EPP PLEAPE ec ee 5 SRN A ‘cas , ee 18 «©The INTRODUCTION. of thefe fort of Robbers ; when either by the Trous bles of particular Times, or the Neglect of Go- vernments, they are not crufh’d before they gather Strength. , It has been the Cafe heretofore, that when a fin- gle Pyrate has been fuffered to range the Seas, as not being worth the Notice of a Government, he has by Degrees grown {0 powerful, as to put them to the Expence ofa great deal of Blood and Trea- fure, before he was fuppiefs’d. We fhall not examine . how it came to pafs, that our Pyrates in the Weft~Ine dies have continually increafed till of late 5 this is an Enquiry which belongs to the Legiflature, or Repre- fex.tatives of the People in Parliament, and to them we fhall leave it. 3 ee Our Bufinefs hall be briefly to thew, what from Beginnings, as inconfiderable as thefe, other Nations have fuffered. / In the Times of Marius and Sylla, Rome was in her greateft Strength, yet fhe was fo torn in Pieces by the Factions of thofe two great Men,.that every, Thirg which concerned the publick Good was altogether neglected, when certain Pyrates broke out from Cicilia, a Country of Afia Minor, fituate — on the Coaft of the Afediteranean, betwixt, Syria on — the Eaft, from whence it is divided by Mount Tau- ris, and. Armenia Minor on the Welt:-—This Begin ning was mean and inconfiderable, having but two or three Ships, and a few Men, with which they cruifed about the Greek Ilands, taking ‘fuch Ships as were very illarm’d or weakly defended; however, _ by the taking of many Prizes, they foon increafed in Wealth and Power: The firft A&ion of their’s which made a Noife, was the taking of Julius Cefar, who wasas yet a Youth, and who being obliged to fly from the Cruelties of Sz, who fought his Life, went into Bithinia, and fojourned a while with Ni. semedes, King of that Country ; in his Return back Reve ve by _, the Introbverton, 19 by Sea, he was met with, and taken, by fome of thefe Pyrates, near the [laud of Pharmacufa: Thele Pyrates had a barbarous Cuftom of tying their Prifo- ers Back to Back and throwing them into the Sea; a but, fuppofing Cefar to. be fome Perfon of a high i ank, becaufe of his purple Robes, aid the Num- Wal et of his Attendants, they thought it would -be WH More for their Profit to preferve him, in hopes of Feceiving a great Sum for his Raafom ; therefore Willies he ‘would pay them twenty Talzots, which they Judg"d to be a very high Demand, in our Money, Ne {miled, and of his ‘owu Accord promifed them fifty Talents; they were both pleafed, and furpriz’d at his. Anfwer, and ‘confented that feveral of his Attendants fhould go by. his Direftion and raife the Oney ; and he was left among thefe Ruffiins with nO.more than 3 Attendants. He pafs°d eight and thirty Days, and feemed fo little, coucerned or afraid, that often when he went to fleep, he ufed to charge them not to make a Noife, threatning, if they difturbed him, to hang them all; he alfo Play’d at Dice with them, and fometimes wrote | about three thoufaid fix hundred Pounds Sterling ; i | e ; erfes.and Dialogues, which he ufed to repeat, WLS &nd alfo caufe them to repeat, and if they. did not Wa Ptaife and admire them, ae would call.them Beafts and Barbarians, telling them he would crucity them. hey took all thefe as the Sallies of a juvenile Hu- Mour, and were rather diverted, than difpleafed at them. : At length his Attendants return’d with his Ran- fom, which he paid, and was difcharged ; he fail’d for the Port of Miletum, where, as oon as he was atriv’d, he uféd all his Art and Induftry in fitting Out a Squadron of Ships, which he equipp’d and atm’d at his own Charges; and failing in Queft of the Pyrates, he furpriz’d them asthey lay at An. B2 chor | < they told him he fhould have his Liberty, provided i} = © te N 20 The INTRODUCTION: chor among the Iflands, and took thofe who had taken him before, with fome others; the Money he found upon them he made Prize of, to reimburfé his Charges, and he carry’d the Men to Pergamus of Troy, and there fecured them in Prifon: In the mean Time, he apply’d himfelf to Sunius, then Governor of Afia, to whom it belonged to judge and deter- mie of the Punifhment of thefe Men; but Junius finding there was no Money to be had, anfwered Cefar, that he would think at his Leifure, what was to be done with thofe Prifoners, Cefar took his Leave of him, returned back to Pergamus, and com- manded that the Prifoners fhould be brought out and executed, according to Law in that Cafe provi- ded; which is taken Notice of, ina Chapter at the End of this Book, concerning the Laws in Cafes of Pyracy: And thus he gave them that Punifhment in Earneft, which he had often threatned them with in Jeft. a Cefar went ‘ftrait to Rome, where, being engaged in the Defigns of his own private Ambition, as were almoft all the leading Men in Rome, the Py- rates who were left, had Time to increafe to a pro- digious Strength ; for while the civil Wars lafted, the Seas were left unguarded, fo that Plutarch tells us, that they erected diverfe Arfenals full of all manner of warlike Stores, made commodious Har- bours, fet up Watch-Towers and Beacons all along - | the Coafts of Cilicia; that they had a mighty Fleet, well equipp’d and furnifh’d, with Galliots of Oars, mann'd, not only with Men of defperate Courage but alfo with expert Pilots and Mariners - they had their Ships of Force, and light Pinnaces for cruifing and making Difcoveries, in all no lef than a thoufand Sail, fo glorioufly fet out, that they were as much to be envied for their gallant Shew as fear’d for their Force; having the Stern and Quarters all gilded with Gold and their Oars plated 4 - with _ The INTRODUCTION. 20 With Silver, as well as purple Sails; as if their. Sreateft Delight had been to glory in their Iniquity. Nor were they content with committing Pyracies and Infolencies by Sea, they committed as great Depredations by Land, or rather made Conquetts; for they took and fack’d no lefs than four hundred Cities, laid feveral others under Contributions, plundered the Temples of the Gods, and inriched themfelves with the Offerings depofited in them; they often landed Bodies of Men, who not only Plundered the Villages along the Sea Coaft, but ranfacked the fine Houfes of the Noblemen along the Tiber. A Body of them once took Sextilliys and Bellinus, two Roman Prextors, in their purple Robes, S0ing from Rome to their Governments, and carried them away with all their Sergeants, Officers and Vergers; they alfo took the Daughter of Antonius a confular Perfon, and one who had obtained the Honour of a Triumph, as fhe was going to the Country Houfe of her Father. But what was moft barbarous, was a Cuftom they had when they took any Ship, of enquiring of the Perfon on Board, concerning their Names and Country ; if any of them faid he was a Roman, they fell down upon their Knees, as if in a Fright at the Greatnefs of that Name, and begg’d Pardon for what they had done, and imploring his Mercy, they ufed to perform the Offices of Servants about. his Perfon, and when they found they had’ deceived him into a Belief of their being fincere, they hung Out the Ladder of the Ship, and coming with a fhew of Courtefy, told him, he had his Liberty, defiring him to walk out of the Ship, and this in the Middle OF the’ Sea, and when they obferved him in Sur- Prize, as was natural, they ufed to throw him over- board with mighty fhouts of Laughter, fo wanton they were in their Cruelty, B 3 Thus STEP ETE RE een SUF Hz me fn 7 > ie. 7 Faw 22 The INTRODUCTIO Nes Thus, while Rome was Miftrefs of the World, fhe fuffered Infults and Affronts, almoft at her Gates, from thefe powerful Robbers 5 but what for a while made Fattion ceafe, and roufed the Genius’ of that People, never ufed to fufler Wrongs from a fair Enemy, was an exceflive Scarcity of Provifions in Rome, occafioned by all the Ships loaden with Corn and Provifions from Sicily, Corfica, and other Places, being intercepted and taken by thefe Pyrates, infos much that they were almoft reduced to a Famine: Upon this, Pompey the Great was immediately ap- pointed General to manage this War five hundered Ships were immediately fitted out, he had fourteen Senators, Men of Experience in the \ Var, for his Vice-Admirals; and fo confiderable an Enemy, were thefe Rufhans become, that no lefS than an Army ofa hundred thoufand Foot, and five thou- fand Horfe was appointed to invade them by Land; but. it happened very luckily for Rome, thit Pompey {aid out before the Pyrate had Intelligence of a Defign againft them, fo that their Ships were {cats tered all over the Mediterranean, like Bees gone out from a Hive, fome one Way, fome another, to bring Home their Lading; Pompey divided his Fleet into thirteen Squadrons, to’ whom he appo'nted their feveral Stations, ‘fo that great Numbers of the Pyrates fell into their Hands, Ship by Ship, with. out any Lofs; forty Days he Chie in fcouring the Mediterranean, fome of the Fleet cruizing along the Coaft of Africk, fome. about the Iflands, - and . fome upon the Italian Coafts, fo that often thofe Pyrates who were flying from one Squadron, fell _ in with another ; however, fome of them efcaped, and thefe making dire&tly to Cilicia, and acquaint- ing their Confederates on Shore with what had happened, they appointed a Rendezvous of all the Ships that had efcaped at the Port of Coracefium, in the fame Country. P. ompey finding the Mediterranean guite - Romans Battle, with a Force much infe ‘The INTROD bad cia ‘ quite clear, appointed a Meeting of all his Piece, re ea ees and trom Se ee round into the Adriatick, he went os iy - ioe thefe Pyrates in their Hives; as og eons ie near the Corecefium in Cilicia, where the Saas the Pyrates now lay, they had the meng come and give him Battle, but the ‘eer para Rome prevailed, and the yrapany recites pa Overthrow, being all either taken or de roy fae as they made many ftrong hela ac ae Coaft, and built Caftles and ftrong Ho ge. Country about the Foot of Mount Uaerw aes - obliged to befiege them with his Army 5 ees he took by Storm, others farrendered to his Mercy, to whom he gave their Lives, and at length 2 he made an entire Conquett. Ke Bae But it is probable, that had thefe Pyrates receiv’'d fufficient Notice of the Roman Bhepatation 95 them, fo as- they might have a Sata met their fcattered Strength into a Body, panels on Pompey by Sea, the Advantage appeaiee one Men : their Side, in Numbers of pees cuaiue pe or did they want Courage, #8 may De 1m ye the coming out of the Port of Coracefiv Padin thei’ it is likely they - had they overthrown Pompey, itis likely es ee aie greater eet ie puree which had conquer’d the whole Worl 2 mg been fubdued by a Parcel of Pyrates. son Coenen ‘Thistisa Proof: how: dangerous 16 181) rere ments! to be negligent, and not take — aeons in fuppreffing thefe Sea Banditti, before they 8 . lee ane of this Maxim may be gape ee plified in the Hiftory of peste el Gathe the City: of Afirylene, i the Ifland ihe ore beniiy Egeian Sea; a Fellow of ordinary Birth, \ thence upon bred to the Sea, firft fet eee ee that his Strength was increas fed to a formidable Fleet » With thefe he performd fuch bold and adventurous A&ions, that he became the Terror of the Seas, About this T; 12 i pened that Selim Eutemi, King of 4] § ng fuled to pay the accuftomed Tribute to. the Spania ards, was apprehenfive of an Inyafion fio - . " ? wherefore he treatéd with Barbaroufe, upon the Foot of an Ally, to come and afi him, and deliver him from paying this Tribute 3 Barbaroufe readily came into it, and failing to Algiers wi : j he put part of his Men on Shore, Plot to furprize the City, h Succefs,: and murder’d Selim in’a Baths foon after which, he was himfelf er owned King of Algiers ; after this he made War upon Abdilabde, King of Tunis, and overthrew him in Battle ; he extended his Conquefts on all Sides ; ‘and thus from a Thief became a mighty King: and tho’ he was at laft kilPd in Battle, yet he had fowell eftablithed himfelf up-— on that Throne, that, dying without Iffue, he left the Inheritance of the Kingdom to his Brother, another Pyrate. es and fecure for cleaning their Vefel ding with what they often want, Pro Water, Sea-Fowl, Turtle, Shell, a where, if they carry in ‘b 8, and abouns vifion 5 I mean nd ‘other: Fith ; ut frong Liquor, they “ * "indulge ard of others Necks, The INTRODUCTION. 25 indulge a Time, and become ready for new Expe- ditions before any Intelligence can reach to hurt ee here perhaps be no unneceflary Die fion, to explain upon what they call Keys in the Weft-Indies: Thefe are fmall fandy Iflands, appear ing a little above the Surf off the Water, with py a few Buthes or Weeds upon them, but aboun (thofe moft at any Diftance from the Main) wie ; Turtle, amphibious Animals, that always chufe the quieteft and moft unfrequented Place, for i ing their Eggs, which are to a vaft Number in # e Seafons, and would feldom be feen, but for this, (except by Pyrates: ) Then Veffels from Yamaica and the other Governments make Voyages, called — Turtling, for fupplying the People, a common and Npetorcd Food ais them. Iam apt to think thefe Keys, efpecially thofe nigh Iflands, to have re ones Contiguous with them, and feparated pe ar de quakes (frequently there) or Inundations, becaufe fome of them that have been within continual View, as thofe nigh Samaica, are obferved rete Our Time, to be entirely wafted away and a) an Others daily wafting. There are not only of the Ufe above taken Notice of to Pyrates, but it is commonly believed were always in buccaneering Pyratical Times, the hiding Places for their Riches, and often Times a Shelter for themfelves, till their Friends on the Main, had found Means to obtain Indemnity for their Crimes ; for you muft under- ftand, when A&s of Grace were more frequent, and the Laws lefs fevere, thefe Men continually found Favours and Incouragers at Jamaica, and perhaps they are not all dead yet; I have been told many of them them fill living have been of the fame Trade, and left it off only becaufe they €an live as well honeftly, and gain now at the ha, Secondly ncranoerenns RANTS TELS TE SP RIS 26 The, INTRO Dverion,| Secondly, another Reafon why. thefe Seas ara chofe by Pyrates, is the great Commerce’ thither by French, Spaniards, Dutch, and efpecially Englifh Ships: They are fure in the Latitude-of theie trae ding Mlands, to meet with Prizes, Booties of Pros vifion, Cloathing, and Naval-Stores, and fomes times Money; there being great Sums remitted this Way to Exglasd; (the Returns of the A ffiento, and private Slave-Trade, to the Spanifh Weft-Indies : ) Andin fhort, by fome one or other, all the Riches of Potoff. : A third Reafon, is the Inconveniency and Diffi- culty of being purfued by the Men of War, the many {mall Inlets, Lagoons and Harbours, on thefe folitary Mlands and Keys, isa natural Security. _ °Tis generally here that the Pyrates begin their Enterprizes, fetting out at firft with a very {mall Force, and by infefting thefe Seas, and thole of the Continent of North-America, in a Year's Time, if they have good. luck on their Sides, they accu-- mulate fuch Strength, as enables them to make foreign Expeditions : The firft, is ufually to Guiney, taking'the Azores and Cape de Verd \ilands in their Way, and then to Brazil and the Eaft-Indies, where if they meet with profperous Voyages, they fet down at AMadagafcar, or the neighbouring Iilands, and enjoy their ill gotten Wealth, among their elder Brethrev, with Impunity. But that I may not give too much Encouragement to: the Profef= fion, | muft inform my maritime Readers, that the far greater Part of thefe Rovers are cut fhort in the Purfuit, by a fudden Precipitation into the other World. Reece ares Pec _. The Rife, of the Rovers, fince the Peace of Utrecht, or at leatt, the great Encreafe of them, may juftly be. computed to the Spanifh Settlements in the Weft-Indies , the Governors of which, . being often fome hungry Courtiers, fent thither to. repair o make The INTRODUCTION. 27 make a Fortune, generally Countenance all Pro- Ceedings that bring in Profit: They grant Com- Miffions to great Numbers of Vetlels of War, on Preterice of preventing an interloping Trade, with Orders to feize all Ships or Vellels whatfoever, Within five Leagues of their Coafts, which our Eng- Lifh Ships cannot well avoid coming, in their Voyage to Jamaica. But if the Spanifh Captains chance to exceed this Commiffion, and rob and plunder at Difcretion, the Sufferers are allowed to complain, and exhibit a Procefs in their Court, and after great Expence of Suit, Delay of Time, and other Incon- Veniencies, obtain a. Decree in their Favour, but. then when the Ship and Cargo comes to be claim’d,. with Cofts of Suit, they find, to their Sorrow, that it has been previoufly condemn’d, and the Plunder divided among the Crew ; the Comman- der that made the Capture, who alone is refpon- fible, is found to be a poor raskally Fellow, not worth a Groat, and, no doubt, is plac’d in that Station for the like Purpofes. |! .. The frequent Loffes fuftain’d by our Merchants abroad, by thefe Pyrates, was Provocation enough to attempt fomething by way of Reprifal , and a fair Opportunity offering it, felf in,the Year 1716, the Traders of the West-Indies, took Care not to flip it over, but made the beft Ule of it their Circum- fiances would permit. eee | : -It was about two Years before, that the Spanifh Galleons, or Plate Fleet, had been caft away in the Gulf of Florida; and feveral Veffels trom the Havana, were at work, with diving Engines, to fish up. the Silver. that was on board the Galleons. The Spaniards had recovered fome Millions of Pieces of Bight, and had carried it all to the Ha- Vana; but they had at prefent about 350000 Pieces of Right in Silver, then upon the Spot, and eS aily yg pet aa Wee Paes A ee PPT Eee % IGE ECORI SD ER BE SLR OEE Te, esi as 38 «The INTRODUCTION, daily taking up more. In the mean time. tug Ships, and three Sloops, fitted out fd Soe Barbados, Gc, under Captain Henry Fennings Aird to the Gulf, and found the Spaniards there upon the Wreck 5 the Money before tpoken of, was lett on Shore, Ser a in_a Store-Houfe, under the Go- | vernment of two Commiffaries, | abit eo Séudions ies, and a Guard of - The Rovers came direttly upon the P| ined ing their little Fleet to an Acanoe and, ne War Janding 300 Men, they attack’d the Guard ‘who ie Ghee, oe and thus they feized the reafure, which they carried off. maki ‘beft of their Wav to stam iiba, i eas ik «In their Way they unhappily met with a spay; 3 iy Ship, bound from Porto Bello i dens tate a great many rich Goods, viz. Bales of Cochineal Casks of Indico, and 60000 Pieces of Bight more, which their Hands being in, they took, and having rifled the Veffel, lether go.) an68 and were followed in View of the Port cs niards, who having feen them thither, Gat “tHe Hl to the Governor of the Havana, with the Account HPL of it, ee immediately fent a Veflel to the Go. vernor Of Famaica to complain of thi | to reclaim the Goods, Ie oe pee sa Wi ces AS it was in full Peace, and contrary to all Jufti wi and Right, that this Fa& was a pena the: were foon made fenfible that the Government at Jamaica would not fuffer them® to go unpunifhed much lefs protedt them. Therefore they faw a Neceffity of fhifting for themfelves; fo, to make bad worfe, they went to Sea again, tho’ not without: difpofing of their Cargo to good Advantage, and fur- nifhing themfelves with Ammunition, Provifions @&e. and being thus made defperate, they turn’d Pyrates, They went away to Jamaica with their Booty, The. INTRODUCTION. 29 Pyrates, robbing not the Spaniards only, but their own Countrymen, and any Nation they could lay their Hands on. It happened about this Time, that the, Spaniards, with three or four fmall Men of War, fell upon our, Logwood Cutters, in the Bay of Campeachy, and Bay of Honduras and after they had made Prizes of ‘the following Ships and Veflels, they gave the Men belonging to them, three Sloops to carry them home, but thefe Men being made defperate by their Misfortunes, and meeting with thePyrates, they took on with them, and fo encreas’d their Number. The LIST of Shi od Veffels taken by the Spanith Aden yo ef War in the Year 17165, I oop The Stafford, Captain Knocks, from New-England, eet PVE Meound far boudets. cts sees — Annty ——— Gernifh, for ditto. . mee Dove Grimftone, for New-England. A Sloop, —— Alden, for ditto. ; “Ae olt A Brigantine, —— Moffon, for ditto. Wet Gd A Brigantine, —— Turfield, for ditto. A Brigantine, —— Tenvis, for ditto. ; A Ship, —— —— Porter, for ditto. yo Indian Emperor, Wentmorth, for New-England: » A Ship, ©—_ Rich, Mafter. .. ayes _ Ditto, —— Bay. sea arte Ditto, . ——— Smith. ase ; Ditto, ~——. Stockum. . Ditto es Sele ! A Sloop, — + -——Richards, belonging to News Englands _ ; Two Sloops, —- ——. belonging to Jamaica: One Sloop —— ——of Barbados. ‘Two Ships ——. ——from Scotland. Two Ships —- —- from Holland. Tae 30 The INTRODUCTION. _ The Rovers ibeing now pretty ftrong, they cons fulted togethet about getting fome Place of Re- treat, where they might lodge their Wealth, clean and repair their Shi ps, aud make themf{elves a kind of Abode. They wére not long in refolving, but fixed upon the Iiland of Providence, the moft confi. derable of the Bahama Iflands, lying in the Lati- tude of about 24 Degrees North, and to the Eat. ward of the Spanifh Florida. ne ea eae spe * This Ifland ‘is. about 28 Miles long, and eleven where broadeft, and has a Harbour big enough to es a fmall hold $00 Sail of Ships ; before which 1; Ifland, which makes. two Tnlets to the Harbour ; at either Way there isa Bar, over which no Ship of $00 Tun can pdfs. ‘The Bahama Iands were pof- fefs’d by the Englifh till the Year 1700, when the French and Spaniards from Petit Guavus, invaded them, took the Fort and Governor im the Iland of Prow vidence, plundér’d and deftroy’d the Séttlements, ec. carried off halt the Blacks, and the reft of the People, who fled to. the Woods, retired afterwards tO. Corpling= PI ae ees reat ; In March 1705-6, the Houle of Lords did in an Addrefs to’ her late Mijefty, fet forth, “ That the © French and Spaniards had twice, during the Time * of the War, over run aiid plundered the Bahama * Iflands, that thére was no Form of Government * there: That the Harbour of thé Tfle of Providence, “ might be eafily put 11 a Pofture of Defence, and © that it would be of dangerous Confequence, fhould © thofé Iflands fall into. the Harids of the F, 3 “wherefore the Lords humbly befought her Ma. “ jefty to ufe fuch Methods as fhe fhould think “ proper for taking the faid’ land into her Hands, ; in order to’ fecure the fimé to’ the Crow; of this © Kingdom,” and to the” Security and Advantage £ of the Trade thereof ei But, follows, ni SEES ROY aU EOL wy, LPO YY Sy wy gy ey wy, Ap) The INTRODUCTION. id e it happened, no Means were ul : sieatnunee re that Addraly: for oe bee ue ae “till th rlifh Pyrates ha r0= bama Vilands, till the Englifh Py Mora i their Retreat and general Recepticle , the : ees abfolutely ee iaey iD, bet oe aie lodge that troublefome Colony fi Capeere being made by the Merchants to th Ee fF the Mifchief they did, and were likely to « ie Mejeiy: was pleafed’ to. grant the following Order, 5 : ; bo Whitehall September 18s 171 i ‘Sear. . ee a iL: fty. i: laint having béen made to his Majefty, § ey, Number of Merchants, ee = Sh'ps and others, as well as. by feveral oe ai “ nors of his Majefty’s Iflands and Blentatiqus iabae © Weft-Indies, thatthe Pyrates clot oe * rous, that they infeft not only tl ,: Pe ee © maica, but even thofe of the’ Nort pees s viea, and that, unlefs fome effe ual M : Re aie. the whole Trade ag ris sce a * thofe Parts, will not be only obftrutted,' but. : pean Danger of being’ loft : His Majefty. a) * upon mature Deliberation in Council, been a kas * fed, in the firft Place, to order a pone nae © to be employ’d for the fuppreffing the fee ys “rates, which Force fo to be Gagule es ry 32 The INTRODUCTION "EA LG of his Majefty’s Ships and Vertes employ Gos » 5" vernments and Plantations inttheWeflelidies: -- _“ ed, and to. be employed, at the Britifh Place where, Rates, Ships, Guns. ae . : sages or ae ey Adventure, 4°, Now there, : ? Diamond, 40 SHE Hom hence this. 2 PTS Willig? 6 _ Ladlow Caftle, 49’ ~-Tocarry the Governor! Pamaica, Swift Sloop, ~ ~“Now-there. iehx Surveying the Coaft of the Weft-Indies, and 4 Noe Fab | se oe ete Sus S = i ut, during her being 6. Winckelfea, 90S artamiee eens ; the others, for Secus, + ~€ — nity ofthe Trade, and nd aa ; ry ; - antarcepting Pyrates, » Barbadoes, ; 3 Re 39 Nowthere, Leeward Ilands, Seaford, 7 ope momtete. vor oi teyal Sloop, 65% Now there. 6 Lime, . 26, Now there. . 5. “Shoreham, 30 Order’d Home. > aA teed Virginidy Presi J > Orr _ CSailed thither frdng. iv J Home the 7th of Jah 2 e Pearl,’ -— egiger, fo" Month, andis to crui Op snd PO Tavs i about the Capes, New-Tork, Phoenix, 30 - Now there. gia oy I nd. fs PAM Hy ad 3 5 2Osor oe? [ diy ae RU 9 20, Order'd Home, _.£ Thole at Yamaica, Barbadoes and the Leeward * Hands, are to join upon. Occafion, for annoying © the Pyrates, and the Security of the Trade: And * thofe at New-England, Virginia and New-York, aré * to do the like. Befides thefe Frigots, two Men of War were or. dered to attend Captain Rogers, late Commander of the two Briffol Ships, called the Duke and Dautchefs, that took the rich Acapulca Ship, and made a Tour round the Globe. This Gentleman received a Come miffion from his Majefty, to be Governor of the Ifland of Providence, and was vefted with Power to make Ufe of all poffible Methods for reducing the ther sth oflaft Month? - phy J auary next enfuing. —— ones hae “ vom wen, YI wr aly RUF SN MN YOY, BP By Lhe INTRODUCTION. 33 the Pyrates; and that nothing might be wanting, € carried with him, the King’s Proclamation of Pardon, to thofe who fhould return to. their Duty by acertain Time; the Proclamation is as follows ; By the KING, A PROCLAMATION, for fuppreffing of PYRATES. GEORGE R. ae Flereas we have received Information, that feveral Perfons, Subjeéts of Great Britain, have fince Bhe 2 ar) Day of June, in the Year of our Lord 17155 Committed divers Pyracies and Robberies upon the High- Seas, in the Weft-Indies, or adjoyning to our Plantations, which hath and may Occafion great Damage to the Mer- Chants of Great Britain, and others trading into thofe Parts; “and tho’ we have appointed fuch a Force as we judge Sufficient for fuppreffing the faid Pyrates, yet the more effeétually to put an End to the fame, we have thought ty by and with the Advice of our Privy Council, to Iffue this our Royal Proclamation, and we do hereby promife, and declare, that in Cafe any of the faid Pyrates, {hall °% or before the sth of September, in the Year of our Lord 1718, furrender him or themfelves, to one of our Prina Cipal Secretaries of State in Great Britain or Ireland, °¢ to any Governor or Deputy Covernor of any of our Plantations beyond the Seas every fuch Pyrate and Pyrates fo Surrendering him, or themfelves, as aforefaid, fhall have Cr gracious Pardon, of and for fuch, bis or their Pyracy, 9. Lyracies, by him or them committed before the fifth o And we do hereby ftrittly charge “nd command all our Admirals, Captains, and other Of- Ficers at Sea, and all our Governors and Commanders. of oY Forts, Caftles, or other Places in our Plantations, and UL other yy Officers Civil and Military, to feize and take ma = C [uch LPL RAPE CAPT A IGGAPE SPE A APE ee 34 The INTROD UCT IO Ne Such of the Pyrates, who foal refufe or neglect to furren- «der themfelves accordingly. And me do hereby further de- clare, that in Cafe any Perfon or Perfons, on or after, the 6th Day of September 1718, fhall d.fcover or feize, or caufe or procure to be difcovered or feized, any oneor moreof the [aid Pyrates, fo refufing or negletting to [urtender them- Selves as aforefaid, fo as they may be breught to Fujtice, and convitked of the [aid Offence, fuch Perfon or Perfons, fo making fuch Difcovery or Seizure, or caufing or procu- ving fuch Difcovery or Se‘xure to be made, {hall have and receive as a Reward for the fame, viz. for every Com- _ mander of any private Ship or Veffel, the Sum of 100 1. for every Lieutenant, Mafter, Boatfwain, Carpenter, and Gunner, the Sum of aol; for every inferior Officer, the — Sum of 301. and for every private. Man, the Sum of 20 1. ‘And if any Perfon or Perfins,. belonging to and being Part of the Crew of any fuch Pyrate Ship or Veffel, fhall on ‘or after the faid fixth Day of September 1718, feize aud deliver, or caufe to be feized or delivered, any Com- mander or Commanders, of fuch Pyrate Ship or Viffel, fo as that he or they be brought to Juftice, aud convitted of the faid Offence, fuch Perfon ar Perfors, as a Reward fore _the fame, fhall receive for every [uch Comniander, the Sum ‘of 2001. which faid Sums, the Lord Treafurer, or the | Commiffioners of our Treafury for the Time being, are here- _ by vequived, and defired to pay accordingly. » Given at our Court, at Hampton-Court, the | fifth Day of Seprember, wiz, in them fourth Year of our Regin. God fave the KING. Before Governor Rogers went over, the Procla- mation was fent to them, which they took as Teague took the Covenant, that is, they made Prize of the 4 Ship and Proclamation too; ‘however, they ferit | _ for thofe who were out-a Crnifing, and called a |, general Council, but there was fo much Noife and | Clamour, that nothing could be agreed on; fome } er: eek ES De RGIS Hin ‘ ‘a emit Laue Pee ary Tey The INTRODUCTION. “35 Wweresfor fortifying the Ifland, to ftand upon their “Own Yerms, and Treatiag with the Government upon the Foot of a Commonwealth; others were allo for ftrengthening the liland for their own Security, ut were not itrenuous for thefé Punétillios, .o chat they might have a general: Pardon, without beiig Obliged ‘to. make any Reftitution, and to retire, With all their Eifetts, to the neighbouring .Britifli lantations, es Re C But Captain Jennings, who was their Commadoreé; and who always bore a great Sway among then, being a Man of good Underftanding, and a 800d Eftate, before this Whim took him of going 4 Pyrating, refolved ‘upon: furrendering, . without “More ado, to the Terms of the Proclamation, which 10 difconcerted all their Meafures, that the Con- &e/s broke up very abruptly without doing any Thing ; and prefently Yexnings, and by his Exam- Ple, about Iso more; came in tothe Governor of ormudas, and had their Certificates; tho’ the Steateft Part of them returned again, like the Dog £0 the. Vomit: The Commanders who were thea “an the Ifland, befides Captain Seanings abovemelis Soned, | think were thefe, Benjamin Horniguld, Edward Teach, Sohn Martel, James Fife, Chriftopher Winter, N= “Polas Brown, Pail Williams, Charles Bellamy, ‘Oliver la Bouche, Major Penner, Ed. England, T. Burges Tho. Cock- ins R. Sample, Charles. Vane, and two or three-others : ornigold, Williams Burgefs and la Bouche were after- co caft away 5 Teach ante Penner killed, and their “stews taken; ames Fife killed by his owa Men Martel’s Crew deftroyed, and he forced on an un= pimbited Ifand ; Cocklyn, Sample and Pune hanged 3 e ‘ater and Brown furrendered to the Spaniards at “ea, and England lives now at Madagafcar: : . In the Month of Mayor Funé 1718, Captain oers arrived at his: Government, with two o7 his Majefty’s Ships, and found feveral of the aboveti : € 2. Pyrates' PRA Re ET BRB a te, GRR CRLE aD EL A ee BE BERETS 36 The INTRODUCTION. ‘Pyrates there, who upon the coming of the Men of War, all furrendered to the Pardon, except Charles Vane and his Crew, which happened after this Manner. I have before defcribed the Harbour to have two Inlets, by Means of a fmall Ifland lying at the -Mouth of it; at oneof which, both the Men of ‘War entered, and left the other open, fo that ane flip’d his Cable, fet Fire to a large Prize they had there, and refolutely put out, firing at the Man of War as he went off, : As foon as Captain Rogers had fettled himfelf in his Government, he built a Fort for his Defence, and garrifoned it with the People he found upon the Ifland , the quondam Pyrates, to the Number of 400, he formed into Companies, appointed Officers of thofe whom he moft confided in, and then fet about to fettle a Trade with the ‘Spaniards, in ‘the Gulf of Mexico; in one of which Voyages, Captain Burge/s abovementioned, died, and Captain Hornigeld, another of the famous Pyrates, was caft away upon Rocks, a great Way from Land, and perifhed, but five of his Men got into a Canoe | and were fived. ie Captain Rogers (ent out a Sloop to get Provifions, | and gave the Command to one Soba Augur, one | of the Pyrates, who had accepted of the A& of Grace; in their Voyage they met with two Sloops, and Fokn and his Comrades not yet forgetting their former Bufinefs, made Ufe of their old Free- | dom, and took out of them in Money and Goods, | to the Value of about soo |. after this they | fteered away for Aijpaniola, not being fatisfy’d whe-— 4 Farewel to thé Bahama Wands, but as illLuck would | have it, they met with a violent Turnado, wherein | they loft their Mait, and were drove back to one of | the ia ther the Governor would admit them to carry on a two Trades at once, and fo thought to have bidden | The INTRODUCTION. 27 the uninhabited Bahama’s, and loft their Sloop ; the €n got all afhore, and lived up and down in the Wood, for a little Time, till Governor Rogers appening to hear of their Expedition, and where they had got to, fent out an armed Sloop to the 2forefaid Ifland ; the Matter of which, with good Words and fair Promifes, got them on Board, 2nd brought them all to Providence, being a eleven, Perfons, ten of which were try’dat a Court of Ad- Miralty, convicted, and’ hanged by the other’s Evi- €nce, in the Sight of all their former Compa- Mons and fellow Thieves... The Criminals would fain have {pirited up the pardoned Pyrates, to Fefcue them out of the Hands of the Officers of Juftice, telling them from the Gallows, that, They “€ver thought to have feen the Time, when ten fuch Men as they thould: be tyd up and hanged like Dogs, and four | undered of their [worn Friends and Companions quietly ft anding by to behold the Speétacle. One Humphrey Mor- . *e urged the Matter further than the reft, taxing them with Pufilanimity and Cowardice, as if it Were a Breach of Honour in them not to rife and lave them from the ignominious Death they were Sing to fuffer. But twas all in vain, they were Now told, it was their Bufine{S to turn their Minds to another World, ‘and fincerely to repent of What Wickednefs they had done inthis. Yes, an- Twered one of them, Zi do heartily repent; I repent I not done more Mifchief, and that we did not cut the Throats of: them that took us, and I am extremely forry that you ane all hang’d as well as we. So do I, fays “Nother ; And J, faysa third, and then they were 2ll turned off, without making any other dying pPeeches, except one Dennis Macarty, who told the dele, That [ome Friends of his had often faid he {hould i ‘2 his Shoes, but that he would make thera Lyars, and ° kicked them off. And thus ended the Lives, With their Adventures, of thofe miferableWretches, ; Gas who , 38 The INTRODUCTIONS who may ferve as fad Examples of the little Byfeck” Mercy has upon Men once abandoned 'to an evil. Courle of Lite. Porat Sty ke AGS , Leaft I be thought fevere:in my Ahimadverfions | upon: the Span fh Proceedings in the Weft-Indies, in’ refpect to their Dealings with’ us; I fhallimention an Jnfrance orstwo, wherein Vil be as can¢ife as pol. fible, and: then tranfcribe fome original Letters from : the Governor of Samaica, andan Officer of a.Man of. War, to the Alcaldees of Trimidado, onthe Mand: of Cuba, with their Anfwers; tranflated: into .Eng-' Iifh, and then proceed to. the particular Hiftories: ot the-Pysites and their: Crews, that have made! moft. Noife inthe World in oats own Timetcon. (About March 1722, one of our. Men of War trading. upon the Coaft, wiz. the Greyhound Galley, CaptainWalron, the {aid Captain invited fome of the | Merchants to Dinnér, who withtheir Attendantsand.. | Friends came on Board to the Number of 16 or 18 in all; and having’ concerted Meafures, about. fix or eight dined in the Cabin, and the reft were waiting on the Deck. While the Captain and his Guefts’ were at Dinner, the Boat{fwain Pipes for the Ship’s | The INTRODUCTION. 39; her to Wiidward fome Days before, alfo for Trade, Which the Spaniards knew very well, and eet thes A&ion was over they faw this Sloop coming | own, beforethe Wind, towardstheir Ship; upon which the tPaniards took about 10000 J. in Specie, as I pine Ormed, quitted the Ship, and went off in their, Lauiich unmolefted. About the fame Time, a Guard le Coaft, of Porto. Rico, commanded by one Afatrhem Luke, an Italian, took four: Englifh Vetlels, and murthered all the Crews: He was taken by the Lanceffor Man of War, in’ Ata 1722, and brought to Famaiea, were they Were all but féven defervedly hanged. Itis likely the Man’ of War might not have meddled With her,“but that fhe blindly laid the Lancefon on. Board} thinking fhe had been a Merchant Ship, Who ‘thereupon catched a ‘Tartar. Afterwards tn Tummaging there was found a Cartridge of Powder Ma‘e up with a Piece of an Englifh Journal, belong-. ing, I'believe, to the Cream Snow; and upon Ex- amination, at laft, it was difcovered that they had taken this Veifel and murthered the Crew; Company to dines accordingly the Men take their | Platters, receive their Provifions,’ and down they | go between Decks, leaving» only. 4 or § Hands be-. fides the Spaniards, above, who were ‘immediately | difpatched by them, and, the Hatches. laideon* the reft , thofé inthe Cabin” were as ready.as their. Companions, for they. pulled out their Piftols and. fhot the Captain, Surgeon and another deadjsand: | grievoufly wounded the Lieutenant; ‘but. he get-. ing out of the Window upon a Side-Ladder, theres | by faved his Life, and -{o-they made themfelves.. | Matters of theShip. in an Inftant : But) by’acciden- jj tal good Fortune, the was recovered before the was’. | se whi ta ‘carty’doft, for Captain Walron having mann’da Sloop ¢ Sorm'tted ori the King my Royal Mafter’s Sub- . with 30-Hands out of his Ship’s Company, had fert / | Jets, by a Parcel’of Banditti, who esi tad a4 aia ; ae, her S| sf Y ce ah G 4. ¥ and one of the Spmiards, when he came to die, con-: feffed that he had killed twenty Englifh Men with his own Hands. ‘ 5 sci) Ai a eee Ge ad Veea, Febr 20. : 4 Letter from bis. Excellency Sir Nicolas Laws, our Governor, to the Alcaldes of Yrinidado on Cuba, dated the 26thof Jan. 1721-2. Gentlemen, : _ | HE frequent Depredations, Robberies, and “ other A&s of Hoftility, which have been Ses a PK LL MESA WEE Bs RU a AO Ihe INTRODUCTION, : have Commiffions from you, and in Reality are fheltered under your Government, is the Oc- cafion of my fending the Bearer Captain Cham- berlain, Commander of his Majefty’s Snow Happy, to demand Satisfaction of you for fo many noto- tious Robberies which your People have latel committed on the King’s Subjegts of this Ifland 5 « particularly by thofe Traytors, Nicolas Brown and Chriftopher Winter, to whom you have given Protection. Such Proceedings as thefe are not only a Breach of the Law of Nations, but muft appear to the World. of a very extraordinary Nature, when confidered that the Subjects of 2 Prince in Amity and Friendfhip with another, fhould give Countenance and encourage fuch vile Practices. I confefs I have had long Patience, and declined ufing ary violent Meafures to obtain Satisfaction, hoping the Ceffation of Arms, fo happily concluded upon’ between our re{pettive An an AHA ¢ € C4 ¢ ¢ C4 (4 ¢ € thofe Diforders; but on the contrary, I now find the Port of Trinidado a Receptacle to Villains of all Nations. I do therefore think fit to ace quaint you, and affure you in the King my Ma- fier’s Name, that if I do meet with any of your Rogues for the future upon the Coaft of this Ifland, I will order them to be hanged direétly « Without Mercy; and I expect and demand of you to make ample Reftitution to Captain Chame ’ berlain of all the Negroes which the faid Brown ‘ and Winter have lately taken off from the North- Side of this Iland, and alfo of fuch Sloops. and other Effects as they have been taken and robbed of, fince the Ceffation of Arms, and that you will deliver up to the Bearer fuch Englifh Men as are now detained, or otherwife remain at Tyi. widado, and alfo expe& you will hereafter forbear granting any Commiffions, or fuffer any fuch, Gover eg £ notas AR AR A HA ¢ ¢ < ¢ ALOR SAN Se a, f Sovereigns, would have put an effectual Stop to | The INTRODUCTION. : a £ notorious, Villains to be equipp’d and Bitte nope “ from your Port: otherwife you my lepent ks span © it, thofe that I can meet with, thall ae afess + S pyrates, and treated as fuch ; of wie I thoug * proper to give you Notice, and am, @s. : Lieutenant A Letter from Mr. Jofeph Laws, | of bis Mojefys. Ship, Happy Snow, 10 the Alcaldes of “Yrinidado. A Sean feet by Commadore Vernon, Commander : EG te OR ¢ in Chief of all his Majefty’s Ships m e f Wept- Indies, to demand in the King uF ae © Name, all the Veffels, with their E ie ae © and alfo the Negroes taken from Jamaica finc be * Ceffation of Arms; likewife all Peirten F i * detained, or otherwife remaining in be othe © Trinidado, particuldrly Nicholas Brown a a ae © pher Winter, both of them beings eane eee : dcommon Enemies to a : At ; es ‘fad Commadore hath ordered Be int cadets £ you, that he is furprized that the Su : prince in Amity and Friendfhip wither ane BEt © fhould give Countenance to fuch SRtrea ik © Jains. In Expectation of your immediate pli- § Gentlemen : Be aie Riek Trini- ” Your humble ite , dado, Feb. 8. 1720. Fofeph Laws. ver of the Alcaldes of ‘Trinidado, te sacle ae Letter. Capt. Laws : ; G N Anfwer to yours, this ferves to acquaint © you, that neither in this City, nor Port, are £ there any Negroes or Veffels which have been oe | © zing, it being in.a Time of P < fhould L-meet any Vet £1 dhall not treat them as the Subje&s of the 42. The IN?TROD CCT FON: “ken at your Ifland of Jamaica, *“ fince the Ceifition of Arms ;’and what Velfels © have been taken fince that Tj ime, have been for * trading in an unlawful Com merce on this Coat ; * and as for thofe Enclifh Fu ugitives you Mention, © they are here as other Subjeas of our Lord the ‘ King, whom God preferve. A “weigh Anchor as {oon as es © Port and its Coafts, b ecaufe upon no you: * fhall be fuflered to trade, or any Thing ella x for’ © we are refolved not to admit thereof God pre. £ ferve you. We kifs your Hand, ' _ Trimdadn, Signed, Hieroninio de Fuentes 3 : 7e Feb, 8, 1722. . Benette Alfono de! Manzana. Mr. Laws’s Reply to the Alealdes Letter, ‘ 4 - 3 (4 OUR refufing to deliver up the Subjects of i “the King my Mafter, is fomewhat fur pris, €ace, and the detain. y againft the Law of Na_ anding your trifling Preétence but to forge an ‘ing them confequent| * ‘tions. — Notwith@ * former, I muft tel] you my Refolutions are, to * flay on the Coaft till ] have made Reprizals5 ‘and fels belonging to your Port} Crown Sof nor on that Coaft,, P -are not in Prifo - © Prifoners. that. are: here, are not. ThesINTRODU ert ON. ah ie € of Spain, bur as Pyrates, bagire a 2 Lee pi Keli cineroee Poa fkacee Servant, — : the River Trini- me a ede aes ge 8. 1720 ze ae Sofep Tho F shies OF che: aides to Mr. Laws s* he Anfwer of one of the Alcala stad See affure your felf I Bane ho ee wanting in the Duty of my 3 bt : f the’ ‘ only kept here to -be tent to the Governor 0 aS YO! mmand at Sea, : ou(as you fay) comman Sf ; innate a lf you frenr, fe Bai oles cae ear ae People 1 can 3 My ing ners ceresee et ide wanting to A same agee ahd ote a Pil do the fame. 1 ay We e) ae £38 Idler if any Occafion fhoul: Pace es {for Lhave very ee he eto may execute OH lous d any Thing elle, 5 esa it haaiiecaalt God preferve you. IkifS y 1 * © Hand. Trinidado, Feb. 20. 1720. ee Alfonfo del Menzano. : ym our The laft Advices we have ee oi in America, dated Fun ‘hat Captain beac (Be feblanses qecobny, Aly ae sa ee the 2 es in the Ship:fobn and Afary, on s of Virginia, a Month met, with, near one ee by one Don a Spanifh Guard del Coaft, commanded by ffi ‘Governor - Benito, faid to be commiffioned by the G eas ith 60 Spaniards, 18 uba: ‘She was manned wit + Enolith Cav me hes and 18 Englifh, and had 3 ae er. ain as wellas Spanifh, one Richard Holland, War, which merly belonged to the Suffolk Man of ze UP WUE UE BRT re eae ct ANTE a PO 44 The INtRODUCTION, he deferted at Naples, ' vent. He ferved on B Admiral Cammock, int he War in the Mediterranean ; and after the Ceffation of Arms with Spai a, fettled with feveral of his Countrymen (Jrifh) in the Spanifh Wefi-Indies. This Guard ‘del Coat, made Prize of Captain Yones’s Ship, and kept Poffeffion of her from sth to the 8th, during which Time the took alfo the Prudent Hannah of Bofton, Thomas Moy Sel Mafter, and the Dolphin of Topfham, Theodore Bare Matter, both laden and bound for Virginia: The ‘former they fent away together with three Men and the Mate, under thé Command of a Spanifh Officer and Crew, the fame Day fhe was taken ; the latter they carried off with them, put- ting the Mafter and all the Crew aboard Captain Fones’s Ship, They plundered Captain Jones of thirty fix Men Slaves, fome Gold-Duft, all his Cloaths, four great Guns and finall Arms, and about four hundred Gallons of Rum, befides his’ ' Provifions and St ores, computed in all to ryoof, ‘Sterling. oe oard the Spanifh Fleet under CHAP: AONE i and took Shelter ina Con-° 45 50m e950 4350" GSO GSA SP 40550795 oC AP’, Captain AV ER . And his Crew. thefe bold Adventurers were Paes Eee talked of, for a NO = Mets he made as great a Be ie pees World as Meriveis does now, and oe ed ee ‘to be a Perfon of as great Ce ga ee eee prefented in Exrope, as one that ha aS Kee = io the Dignity of a King, and was lt : y Oona, “Founder of a new Monarchy ; sp aT ee taken immenfe Riches, and marrie BHAA 2 ?’'s Daughter, who was taken in a iu ete wlan fell into his Hands, and that ib eS y ea many Children, living in great Royalty me i h ie had built Forts, erected Magaz ee vas fter of a ftout Squadron of Ships, ne ieee and defperate Fellows of all pia 3 Be gave Commiffions out in his et ei Pine Captains of his Ships, and to sm pe ise , his Forts, and was acknowledged by ae Prince A Play was writ upon him, a: d oa ae cefsful ‘Pyrate ; and, thefe Accounts ee a Belief, that feveral Schemes were 0 oe ae ‘Council for fitting out a Squadron ee Salbae ‘while others were for offering him an Bisa Be nions an Aét of Grace, and Hie eee: © land, with all their Treafure, Jone a sees to prghpeg ne EE i Mo . OF Captain AVERY, Greatnefs might hinder the Trade of Europe to the PMpPelidi¢ss > ip, aye Rata a Caer Yet all thefe were no more than falfe Rumours, improved by the Creédulity of fome, and the Hu- mour of others who love to tellftrange Things ; for, while it was faid, he was afpiri wanted a Shilling; and at th Sven out he. was. in Poffefiioy igi Wealth in Madagafear, he was Rarving in England, No doubt, but the Reader will have a Curiofity of knowing what became. of this Man, and what were the tfite He was. born in the Wett. of England. near *Ply- mouth in Devonfhire, being bred to the Sea, he derved.as a Mate of a Merchant-Man, in feveral trading Voyages: It happened before the Peace of Ry/m:ck, when there. was an, Alliance -betwixt Spain, England, Holland, Ge. againft France, that the French "in Aartinico, carried on 4 {mugling Trade with the “Spaniards. on the Continent of Peru, which by. the Laws of Spain, is not allowed to Friends in Time “Of, Peace, for none but. native Spaniards are permit: ted to Traffick in thofe Parts,: or fet their Feet on Shore, unle(3 at any Time they are brought as Prifo- ners ; wherefore they conftantly. keep certain Ships cruifing aloag the Coat, whom they call Guarda del Cofta, who have the Orders to. make Prizes. of all Ships they can light of within five Leagues of Land. Now the French; growing very bold in Trade, and the Spaniards being poorly provided with Ships, and thofe they had being of no Force, it often fel] Out, that when they light of the French Smuglers, they were not firong enough to attack them, there- fore it was refolv’d in Spain, to hire two or three ftout foreign Ships for their Service, which being Known at Briffol, fome Merchants of that City, ; fitted nant % 4 “| ‘ New- Spain. Of Captain AV ERY. . a if fitted out two Ships of thirty een via an ha? an jis each, well furnithed with Provitt a ee sete a - and. alt other Stores, and the PAVE Ne ae b fome Agents for Span, tl ey ee ee Nea ne, Gal for Corunna.ox the Gretna here Dee athens Orders, and to take ou : see sae me hath Gentlemen, .who were to, go Pa 3 vata shi ic : alld the OF one of thefe Ships, which I take sa eee ke, Capt. Gibfon Commander, eas Renee nae 4a a Fellow of more Cunning t ma ie hei fi : Be himfelt into the good er ) abe Ben > bolder Fellows on Board the other ib Pats a fe that’ which he was on Board of; eas ae ea is Inclinations before he opene > th -and finding them ripe for his Defign, he, at length, ith the Ship, pr tm, to run away with t te eons ae great Wealth. was to pean cate Coafts of India : It Wie BO POEL ee er d to, and they refolved. to. Ae ; at Ten a Clock the Night following. pate 4 ft be obferv’d, the Captain was negra’ Re mightily. addig&ed to, Punch, fo aie nee aeee aD his Time on Shore, ig ale ee ane Ordinary ; but this at He : | OK Bae Shore.as ufual; however, this did no fet aye fien, for he took his ufial Dole ae eat rere ee Bed before the Hour appointed 10 sae oe Th Men alfo who were not privy tot ce nefs: i into their Hammocks, leaving at a UE Se ee a the Confpirators, who, eee ee the greateft Part of the Ship's Crew. hs ed on, the Dutche/s’s Loug-Boat appez eee eee hailing in the ufual Manner, was an ase a ee in her, Is wi Gea ceed i Sea Which was the Watch-Wora agre and A VEX ¥; oe A, fF * 3 48 Of Captain AVERY. ; came aboard with fixteen ftout Fellows, and joined the Company. When our Gentry faw that ‘all ‘was clear, they fecured the Hatches, f0 went to'work 3 they did not flip the Anchor, but weigh’d it leifurely, and ‘fo put to Sea without any Diforder or Confufion, tho’ there were feveral Ships then lying in the Bay, and among them a Dutch Frigate of forty Guns, the Captain of which wasoffered a great Reward to go out after her; but Agjzheer, who perhaps would not have been willing to have been ferved fo himfelf, could not be prevail’d upon to'give fuch Ufage to another, and fo let Mr. Avery purfue his Voyage, whither he had a Mind to. The Captain, who by this Time, was awaked, ei- ther by the Motion of the Ship, or the Noife 6f working the Tackles, rung the Bell; Avery arid ‘two others went into the Cabin; the Captain, half afleep, and ina kind of Fright, ask’d, What was ‘the Matter ? Avery anfwered cooly, Nothing; the Captain replied, fomething’s the Matter mith the Ship, Does fhe drive? What Weather is it? Thinking nothing lefs then that ic had been a Storm, and that the Ship was driven fiom her Anchors: No, no, ‘antwered Avery, we've at Sea, with a fair Wind and good Weather. At Sea! fays the Captain, How can that be ? Come, {ays Avery, don’t be in a Fright, but put on your Cloaths, and T'll let you into a Secret: ——» You muft know, that I am Captain of this Ship now, and this is my Cabin, therefore you muft walk out, T am bound to Madagafcar, with a Defiga of making my ewy Fortune, and that of all the brave Fellows joined with me. ; The Captain having a little recovered his Senfes, began to apprehend the meaning ; however, his Fright was 7s great as before, which Avery per- ceiving, bad him fear nothing, for, fays he, eee y : bog ded jp Of Captam AVERT. — Ag have a Mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you’ll turn fober, and mind your Bufinefs, Perhaps in Time I may make you one of my Lieu- tenants, if not, here’s a Boat a-long-fide, and you thall be fet athore. ; The Captain was glad to hear this, and therefore Accepted of his Offer, and the whole Crew being Called up, to know who was willing to go on Shore With the Captain, and who to feek their Fortunes With the reft ; there were not above five or fix who were willing to quit this Enterprize, wherefore they Were put into the Boat with the Captain that Minute, and made their Way to the Shoré as well as they could. : Sn They proceeded on their Voyage to Afadagalcar, but I do not find they took any Ships in their Way; _ When they arrived at the N. E. Part of that Ifland, they found two Sloops at Anchor, who, upon feeing them, flip’d their Cables and run them(felves afhore, the Men all landing, and running into the Woods ; thefe Were two Sloops which the Men had run away With from the Weff-Indies, and feeing Avery, they fuppofed him to be fome Frigate fent to take them, and therefore not being of Force to engage him, they did what they could to five themfelves, He gueffed whére they were, and fenteforite of his Men on Shore to let them know they were Friends, and to offer they might join together for their com- qu0n Safety 5 the Sloops Men were well arm’d, and had pofted themfelves in a Wood, with Centinels Jutt on the out-fide, to obferve whether the Ship landed her Men to purfue them, and they obfer- Ving only two or three Men to come towards them Without Arms, did not oppofe them, but having frallenged ther, and they anfwering they were ree lends, they lead them to their Body, where they elivered their Meéflage 3; at firft, they apprehen- Wad a Stratagem to decoy ther on sea : D ue 1 GSTS EOL LPT Te ae I Bay PT a ———————— “ 2 5 = 50 Of Captam AVERT. but when the Ambaifadors offered that the Captain himfelf, and as many of the Crew as they fhould name, would meet them on Shore without. Arms, they believed them to be in Earneft, and they foon entered into a Confidence with one another; thofe on Board going on Shore, and tome of thofe on Shore going on Board. ._ ‘i The Sloops Men were. rejoiced at the new Ally, for their Veffels were fo fmall, that they could not attack a Ship of any Force, fo that hithe-to they had not taken any confiderable Prize, but now they hop’d to fly at high Game; and Avery was as well pleafed at this Reinforcement, to ftrengthen them for any brave Enterprize, and tho’ the Booty muft be leflened to each, by being divided into fo many Shares, yet he found out an Expedient not to fuffer by it himfelf, as fhall be fhewn in its Place. Having confulted what was to be done, they re- folved to fail out together upon a Cruize, the Gal- ley and two Sloops; they therefore fellto work — to get the Sloops off, which they foon effetted, and fieered towards the Arabian Coaft; near the River — Indus, the Man at the Maft-Head {pied a Sail, upon which they gave Chace, and as they came nearer to her, they perceived her to be atall Ship, and fancied fhe might be a Dutch Eaft-India Man homeward bound; but fhe proved a better Prize, when they firedat her to bring too, fhe hoifted Adsgul’s Colours, and feemed to ftand upon her.Defence ; Avery only | canonaded at a Diftance, and fome of his Men began to fufpeét that he was not the Hero, they took him for: However, the Sloops made Ufe of their Time, and coming one on the Bow, and the other on the Quarter, ofthe Ship, clapt her on Board, and enter’d her, upon which fheimmediately ftruck her Colours and yielded ; fhe was one of the Great Mogul’s own Ships, and there were in her feveral of the greateft Perfons. of his Court, among whom it” ; was | Societe ary ee ALT IPC Uy a IN ayy ae aie reEeLy aN ereRetY maemo Of Captain AV ER Ts St was faid was one of his Daughters, who were going On a Pilgrimage to Afeeca, the Mabometans think- ing themfelves obliged once in their Lives to vifit that Placé, and they were carrying with them Tich Offerings to prefent at the Shrine of Mabiomet. Tt is known that the Baftern People ttavel with the utmoft Magnificence, fO that they had with them all their Slaves and Attendants, their rich Habits and Jewels, with Veffels of Gold and Silver; and great Sums of Money to defray the Charges Of their Journey by Land$ wherefore thé Plunder Sot by this Prize, is not eafily computed: . Having taken all the Treafare on Board their Own Ships, and plundered their Prize of every. Thing elfé they either wanted or liked; they let her go; fhe not being able to continue her Voyage} Yeturned back: As foon as the News came to the. Afogul, and he knew that they were Englifh whd had robbed them, he threatened loud, and talked Of fending a mighty Army with Fire and Sword) to extirpate the Englifh from all their Settlements 6n the Indian Coaft. The Eaft-India Company in England, weve very much alarmed at it, however, by Degrees, they found Means to pacify him; by Promifing to do their Endeavours to take the Rob- bers, anddeli-or them into his Hands; however; the great Noi% this Thing made in Europe; as well &8 India, was the Occafion of allthefe romantick Stories which were formed of Averys Greatnefs. _ In the mean Time our fuccefsful Plunderers a+ Steed to make the beft of their Way back to Ma“ dagafcar, intending to make that Place their Maga- zine or Repofitory for all their Tteafure; and to — build a fall Fortification there, and leave a few Hands always afhore to look after it, and des fend it from any Attempts of the Natives ; but ~4very put an End to this Project, and made it alto- gether unneceffary. eras | : Dz As 52. Of Captain AV ERY. As they.were Steering their Courfe, as has been, faid, he fends a Boat on Board of each of the Sloops, defiring the Chief of them to come on Board of him, in order to hold a Council ; they did fo, and hetold them he had fomething to propofe to them for.the common Good, which was to provide againft Accidents; he bad them confider the Trea- fure they were poffefs’d of, would be fufficient for them all if they could fecure it in fome Place on Shore ; therefore all they had to fear, was fome Misfortune, in, the Voyage; he bad them confider _ the Confequences. of being. feparated by bad Wea- ther, in which ‘Cafe, the Sloops, if either of them fhould fall in with any Ships of Force, muft be either taken or funk, and the Treafure-on Board her Joft to'the reft, befides the common Accidents of the Sea; as for his Part he was fo ftrong, he was able to make his Party good with any.Ship they were like to meet in thofe Seas, that if he met with any Ship of fuch Strength, that’ he could not take her, he was fafe from being taken, being fo well mann’d, befides his Ship was.a quick Sailor, and could carry Sail, when the Sloops could not, wherefore, he propofed to them, to put the Trea- fure on Board his Ship, to feal up each Cheft with 3 Seals, whereof each was to. keep one, and to appoint a Rendezvous, in Cafe of Separation. ee Upon confidering this Propofal, it appeared fo feafonable to them, that they readily came into it, for they argued to themfelves, that an Accident might happen to one of the.Sloops and the other efcape, wherefore it was for the common Good.” ~The Thing was done as agreed to, the Treafure put on Board of Avery, and the Chefts feald; ‘they — kept Company that Day and the next, the Wea~ ther being fair, in which Time Avery tampered with his Men, telling them they now had fufficient to make them all eafy, and what fhould hinder ee: i 3 Of Captain AV ER y, 53 them from going to fome Country, where they Were not known, and living on Shore all the reft of their Days in Plenty ; they underftood what he Meant: And in fhort, they allagreed to bilk their hew Allies, the Sloop’s Men, nor do ! find that any of them felt any Qualms of Honour rifing m his Stomach, to hinder them from confentmg to this Piece of Treachery. In fine, they took Advantage Of the Darknefs that Night, fteer’d another Courle, and, by Morning, loft Sight ofthem. I leave the Reader to judge, what Swearing and —Confufion there was among the Sloop’s Men, in the Morning, when they faw that Avery had given them the Slip; for they knew by the Fairnefs of the Weather, and the Courfe they had agreed to fteer, that it’ muft have been done on purpofe : But We leave them at prefent td follow Mr. Avery. \ Avery, and his Men, having confulted what to do With themfelves, came toa Refolution, to make the beft of their Way towards America; and none of them being known in thofé Parts, they intended to divide the Treafure, to chafige their Names, to 80 afhore, fome in one Place, fome in other, to purchafe fome Settlemerits, and live at Eafe. The firft Land they Made, was the Mfland, of Providence, _then newly fettled, here they flaid fome Time, and having Confidered that when they fhould go to New-Eng- land, the Greatnefs of their Ship, would.caufe much, Enquiry about them ; and poffibly fome People from England, who had heard the Story of a Ship’s being’ run away with from the Groize, might fuf- pett them to be the People; they therefore took a Refolution of difpofing of their Ship at Providence : Upon which, Avery pretending that the Ship being fitted out upon the privateering Account, and ha- ving had no Succefs, he had received Orders from the Owners, to difpofé of her tothe beft Advan- . 4 tage, 54 Of Captain AVERY, tage, he foon met with a Purchafer ney Poughe a Sloop. PACE legs a this Sloop, he and his Companions embarg’ they touch’d at feveral Parts of pati eee i Perfon fufpe€ed them ; and fome ot them went a Shore, and difperfed themfélves about iHe-Couneey: e Co having received fuch Dividends as Avery would give them ; for he coucealed the ereateft Part ofthe Dia. ‘Mmonds from them, which in the firtt Hurry of dering the Ship, they did ; Peete: knowing eevee aE HURL RES g8 Bee t length he came to Boffon, in New-Enoland, feem’d to. have a Defire al Ha epi ee feted “and fome, of his Companions went on Shore. the alfo, but. he changed his Refolution, and’ pro soled to the few of his Companions who were left. a fail for Ireland, which they confeated to: He found BA that New-England was not a proper Place for hin becaule a Beal deal of his Wealth lay in Diamonds ; and fhould he have produced them there, he would have certainly been feiz’d on Sufpicion of Pyracy. In their , Voyage to. Ireland, they avoided St, George’s Channel, and (giling North about, they ut into one of the Northern Ports of. that eneders 5 there they difpofed of their Sloop, and coming on Shore they feparated themfelves, fome going to Cork ng to Cork,. and fome to. Dublig,18 of whom obtain’d their Pardons afterwards of K. William. When Avery Appar fome Time in this Kingdom, he wasafraid to offer his Diamonds to fale, leaft an Enquiry into his Manner of coming. by them fhould occafion a Difcovery : therefore confidering with himfelf what wae belt to be done, he fancied there were fome Perfons at Briftal, whom he might venture to:trudt . upon which, he refolved to pafs over into Fie ke did fo, and going into Devonfhire, he fent to one of thefe Friends to meet him at a Town called Biddi- ford = and_immedi- ford; when he had communi Friends, and confulted with him about the of his Effects, they agreed, t would be, to put them in the chats, who being Men of Wealt the World, no Enquiry would came by them; this Friend telling intimate with fome who were very pofe, miffion would do the Of Captain AVERY. 55 cated himielf to his Means hat the fafeft Method Hands of fome Mer- h and Credit in 1d be made how they and if he would but allow them a good Com- Bufinefs very faith fully. Avery liked the Propofal, for he found no other Way of managing his Affairs, fince he could not appear in them aie ; there ing back to Briffol, an opening, the Sai Merchants, ioe ‘made Avery a Vifit at Biddiford, where, after fome Proteftations of Honour and ee grity, hedelivered them his Effects, confifting © Diamonds and fome Veffels of Gold, they give him a little Money for his prefent Subfiftance, an fo they parted. se He Hiseed his Name and lived at Biddiford, therefore there without making any Figure, and was no great Notice taken of him; yet let one or two of his Relations know where he was, who camé to fee him. ‘In fome Time his little Money _ was fpent, yet he heard nothing from his Mer- chants, he writ to them often, and after much Im- portunity they fent him ‘a fmall Supply, but tcarce fafficient to pay his Debts: In fine, the Supplies they fent him from Time to Time, were fo {mall, that they were not fufficient to give him Bread, nor could he get that little, without a great deal of Trouble and Importunity, wherefore being weary of his Life, he went privately to Briftol, to fpeak to the Merchants himfelf, where inftead of Money he met a moft fhocking Repulfe; for when he defired them to come to an Accoult with hi they filenced him by threatening to difcover: oe y ‘ fe) D4 fore his Friend g0-" the Matter to the th him, \ MANS QO N . x i | | \\ i ) Ue See ee Va A By a _ Of Captain AVERY, ; it Merchants. were as good Pyrates at. Land as he was at Sea, Whether he was frightened by thefe Menaces, or had feen’ fome Body elfe he thought knew him, is not known; but he went immediately over to Ireland, and from thence follicited his Merchants very hard for a Supply, but to no Purpofe, for he Was even reduced to beggary: In this Extremity he was refolyed to return and caft himfelf upon would. He put himfelf on Board a trading Veffel, and work’d hj ®, tom whence he tra- velled on Foot to Biddiford, where he had been but a few Days before he fell fick and died; not being | worth as much as would buy him a Coffin, no Ty-. dings of him, there wasan & End of Hope. It was Time to confider what they thould do with them- felves, their. Stock of Sea Provifion was almoft fpent, and tho? there was ‘Rice and Fi Without being’ Properly ‘cured with Salt, which they had no Conveniency of doing ; therefore, _ : fince bby Of Captain AVER Y, esi nee they could not go a Cruizing -any more, it ign Time to think Gf eftablifhing themfélves at’ Land ; to which Purpofe they took all Things out of the Sloops, made Tents of the Sails, and pio ped themlelves, having a large Quantity of Ammu- nition, and: abundance of {mall Arms. pe Here they met with feveral of their Countrymen, the Crew of a Privateer Sloop which was comman- ded by Captain Thomas Tew; and fince it will be but a ‘thort. Digreffion, we. will give an Account: how they came here. . ‘ ‘acer George Dew and Captain Thomas Tew, ha- ving received Commiffions from the then Gover- Nor of Bermudas, to fail dire&tly for the River cae bia in Africa ; there, with the Advice and A fiift- ance of the Agents of the Royal African Company, to.attempt the taking the Erench Faétory at syoseie lying upon that Coaft. Ina few Days after they failed out, Dem in a violent Storm, not only fprung his Maft, but loft Sight of his Confort; Dew there- fore returned back to refit, and: Tew inftead of pro- ceeding on his: Voyage, made tor the Cape of oe £Zope, and doubling the {aid Cape, fhaped his Courfe for: the Straits of Babel Mandel, being the Entrance into the Red Sea. Here he came ‘up with'a large’ Ship, richly laden, bound from the Indies to Ara- bia, with three hundred Soldiers on Board, befides Seamen ; yet Téw had the Hardinefs to board her, and foon carried her 3 and; tis faid, by this ‘Prize, his Men fhared near three thoufand Pounds: ®.Piece: They had Intelligence from the Prifoners, Of five other tich Ships to pafs that Way, which Tew would have attacked, tho” ‘they were very” ftrong, if he had not been over-ruled by the Quar- _ ter-Mafter and others. —_ This differing in Opi- 100 created fome ill Blood. amongft them, fo that they refolved to break up pyrating, and no Place Was fo fit to receive them as aie BE i 58 Of Captain AVERY. fieered, refolving to live on Shore and enjoy what | they got. ue mm Ors As for Tew himfelf, he with a few others ina fhort. Time went off to Rhode Ifland, from whence he made his Peace. _Vhus have we accounted for the Company o'r Pyrates met with here. y S . It muft be obferved that the Natives of Afadagaf- ear are a kind of Negroes, they differ from thote of Guiney in their Hair, which is long, and their’ Complexion is not fo good a Jet; they have innu- merable little Princes amoug them, who are con- tinually making War upon one another ; their Priv’ foners are their Slaves, and they either fell them or put them to death, as they pleafe: When our Pyrates firft fettled-amongft them, their Alliance: was much courted by thefe Princes, fo they fome= times joined one, fometimes another, but wherefo- ever they fided, they. were fure to be Victorious ; for the Negroes here had no Fire-Arms, nor did they underftand their Ufe; fo that at length thefe Pyrates became fo terrible to the Negroes, that if two or or three of them were only feen on one Side, . when they were going to engage, the oppofite Side’ would fly without ftriking a Blow. are fet By thefe Means they not only became feared,’ but powerful; all the Prifoners of War, they took to be their Slaves ; they married the moft beautiful of the. Negroe Women, not one or two, but as many as they liked; fo that every one of them had as great a Seraglio as the Grand Seignior at Conftanti- nople : Their Slaves they employed in planting Rice, in Fifhing Hunting, @c. befides which, they had’ - abundance of others, who lived, as it were, under their Protection, and to be fecure fromthe Diftur- bances or, Attacks of their powerful Neighbours; thefe feemed to pay them a willing Homage. Now they began to divide from. one another, each living with Of Captain AVERT, 59. with his own Wives, Slaves and Dependants, like a feparate Prince; and as Power and Plenty na- turally beget Contention, they fometimes quarrel- led with. one another, and attacked each other at the Head of their feveral Armies; and in thefe civil Wars, many of them were killed; but an Ac- cident happened, which obliged them to unite again for their common Safety. It muft be obferved that thefe fudden great Men, had ufed their Power like Tyrants, for they grew Wanton in Cruelty, and nothing was more com- mo., than upon the flighteft Difpleafure, to caufe One o! their Dependants to be tied to.a Tree and Shot thro’ the Heart, let the Crime be what it weuld, whether. little or great, this was always the Punifhment; wherefore the Negroes con{pi- red together, to rid themfelves of thefe Deftroyers, allin one Night. :and as they now lived feparate, _ the Thing might eafily have been done, had nota Woman, whovhad been Wite or Concubine to one of them, run near twenty Miles in three Hours, to difcover the Matter to them : Immediately upon the Alarm they ran together as faft as they could, fo that when the Negroes approached them, they, found them allup in Arms; wherefore they retired without making any Attempt. Hes tot This-Efcape made them very cautious from that Time, and it will be worth while to defcribe the - Policy of thefe brutifh Fellows, and to fhew what P , Meafures they took to fecure themfelves. a They found that the Fear of their Power could not fecure them againft a Surprize, and the braveft Man. may be kill’d when heis afleep, by one much his infe- rior in Courage and Strength, therefore, as their firft Security, they did all they could to foment War betwixt the neighbouring Negroes, remaining Neuter themfelves, by which Means, thofe who Were overcome conftanily fled to them. for Pro- tection, PS EPG WOES PT Rae 7 . > a Me: ed) axl * ~ soe Of Captain AV ERY.’ tection, otherwife they muft be either killed oe Slaves. They ftrengthened their Parry tind tied fome to them by Intereft; when there was ro ware atey Renney oe {pirit up private Quite. rels among them, and upon every li pitta or Mifunderftanding, puth on one Site of other to Revenge; Inftruét them how to attack or furprize’ their Adverfaries, and lend them loaded Piftols or oe to ee them with; the Gotteduadice which was, that the Murderer w fly to them for the fafety of «his Life wie esl! Children and Kindred, ~ : cota uch as thefe were faft Friends, as their Vives depended upon the fafety of his BoA fa i we obferved before, our Pyrates were grown fo terrible, that none of their Neighbours had Refo- _ Jution enough to attack them inan open War. = By fuch Arts as thefé, in the Space of a few Years, their Body was greatly increafed they then began to feparate themfelves, and remove at a Sreater Diftance from one another, for the Conve- nience of more Ground, and were divided like Jews, into Tribes, each carrying with him his Wives and Children, (of which, by this Time they had a largo Family,) as alfo their Quota of Dependants and Followers; and if Power and Command be the Thing which diftinguith a Prince, thefe Ruffians had all the Marks of Royalty about them, nay more, they had the very Fears which commonly difturb - Tyrants, as may be feen by the extream Cauti they took in fortifying th they Aeue y g the Places where they In this Plan of Fortification they imitat a 2 : 1 | ted o another, their Dwellings were mathe? Citadels Raed Houfes; they made Choice of a Place overgrown with Wood, and {cituate near a Water ; they rai- fed a Rampart or high Ditch round it, fo ftrait and high, that it was impoflible to climb it, and efpe- cially: Of Gaptain AVERY. 6a cially by thofe who had not the Ufe of fcaling Lad- ders: Over this Ditch there was one Paflage into the Wood; the Dwelling, which was a Hut, was builtin that Part of the Wood which the Prince, who inhabited it, thought fit, but fo covered that it could not be feen till you came at it; greateft Cunning lay in the Paflage which lead to the Hut, which was fo narrow, that no more than one Perfoncould go a Breaft, and contrived in fo intricate a Manner, that it was a perfect Maze or: but the Labyrinth, it being round.and round, with feveral little crofs Ways, fo that a Perfon that was not well acquainted with the Way, might walk feveral Hours round andcrofs thefe Ways without being able to find the Hut ; moreover all along the Sides of thefe narrow Paths, certain large Thorns which. grew upon a Tree in that Country, were ftruck ‘nto the Ground with their Points uppermoft, and. the Path it felf being made crooked and ferpentine, if a Man fhould attempt to come near the Hut at Night, he would certainly have ftruck upon thefe: Thorns, tho’ he had been provided with that Clue which Ariadne gave to Thefeus when he entered the Cave of the Minataur. ry = - Thus Tyrant like they lived, fearing and feared by all; and in this Scituation they were found by: Captain Woods Rogers, when he went to Madagafcar, in the Delicia, a Ship of forty Guns, with a Defign of buying Slaves in order to fell.to the Dutch at Batavia ot New-Holland: He happened totouchup= on a Part of the Ifland, where no Ship had been feen for feven or eight Years before, where he met with fome of the Pyrates, at which Time, they had been upon the Ifland above 25 Years, having a large motly Generation of Children and Grand-. Children defcended from them, there being about that Time, eleven of them remaining alive Upon yo F Meatg Tee lg BEAN Hz i oe pnts ae PAY FFI BT IT KEP APL YOGA} EG Re RITE: Vee ea Ss te fince they had’ no Cloaths, ‘the wards confefled, was to try if it was not * a Of Capttin APE RY eae. their firft feeing a Ship of this Force 4u4 2 en, they fuppofed it to be 1S lprce and ent to take them ; they therafot ey come Out of their Holes J attend i rj on re sel aually aire Kans Dil nas crue ; ofa Right, we ought to {peak ae then Having been fo many \ ° een to many Years. upo thd it may be imagined, their Glotket en this Ifland, ‘i : : orn out, fo that their Majefties w, out a kat shh Na: amy t the Elbows} T cannot fay they Bong Piet : 2 y had nothine to Beafts without SP cover them but the Sking tanning, but’ with all eerie Stocking, fo they looked like th cules in the Lion’s Skin ¢ and bei; Beard, and Hair upon their Bod! the moft favage Figures that 4: é Pidures of Her- & Overgrown with es, they appeared Man’s Imagination they went aboard the Delicia, and were obferved ae +3 ork 2, © very cutlous, examining the’ infide of ‘the Men, inviting them Ship, and very familiar wi ery fam with the afore. Their Defign in doing this, as they after- cable to furprize the Ship j fo { me p in the Ni which they judged very: eafy, in cafe xTehay Rie flender Watch ‘ke ste . kept on Board Baten , and Men enough at Contenaits any uarite Beate . @ Captain was aware of § them, and kept oa t fo ftr 2% epee foe that they Roibad: it wild Hit to Y Attempt; wherefore, when fome of the the Menwent afhore, they and drawtng them. into a P tain and fecuring the reft of t ches, when they fhould have the N on, nora Shoe ‘hor. - Of Captain AVERT. 63 were for inveigling them, lot, for feizing the Cap- he Men under Hat- ight-Watch, sional to come on Board to join them 5 prom'fing a Signa n Bo 1 propofing, if they fucceeded, to go a Pyrating to- gether, not doubting but.with that Ship they fhould be able to take any : Sea: But the Captain obferving an Intimac ing betwixt them and fome of his it could be for no good, he therefo in Time, not fuffering them gether ; and when he fent a Boat on Thing they met on the y. grows Men, thought re broke it off fo much as to talk to- Shore with an m about the Sale of Slaves, d the Boat, and no Man rfon de- Officer to treat w'th the the Crew remained on Boar was fuffered to talk with them, but the Pe puted by him for that Purpofe. ©. ~ Before he failed away, and they found that no- thing was to be done, they conteffed all the Defigns Thus he left them they had formed againft him.” he! as he found them, in a great deal of dirty State, and Royalty, but with fewer Subjeéts than they’ had, having, as we obferved, fold many of them 5 and if Ambition be the darling Paffion of Men, no doubt they were happy. One of thefe great Prin- ces had formerly been a Waterman upod the a Murder, he fled. Thames, where having committed to the Weft-Indies, and was of the Number of thofe ' whorun away with the Sloops; the reft had been all foremaft Men, nor was there a Man amongit them, who could either read or write, and yet their Secretaries of State had no more Learning than themfelves. This is all the Account we can give of thefe Kings of Afadagafear, fome of whom itis probable are reigning to this Day. i CHAP. SIRS Re eet eastern nmeaesy CHAP 1 Ais bs ie is Captain MARTEL, ‘Come now to the ,Pyrates that have-rofe finct _ B the Peace of Utrecht; in Wat Time there is no +a. room for any, becaufe all tho of a roving advent?rous Difpofition find Employment in Pri- vateers, fo there is no Opportunity for Pyrateés's ike. our Mobs in London, when they come to any Height, our Superiors order out the Train Bands, and when once they are raifed, the others are fups prefled of Courfe; I take the Reafon of it to be, that the Mob go into the tame Army, and immediz ately. from notorious Breakers of the Pedcey bes come, by being. put into order, foletan Prefers vers of it. And fhould our Legiflators put. forite of the Pyrates into Authority, it would not only leffen their Number, but, I imagine, fet them upon the reft, and they would be the likelieft People'to find them out, according to the Proverb, fet a Thief to catch aThief.. .. ; tent To bring this about, there needs no other Encou- ragement, but to give.all the Effects taken aboard a Pyrate Vetiel to the Captors ; for in Cafe of Plunder and Gain, they like it as well from Friends, as Ene- mies, but are not fond, as Things are carry’d, of ruiné ing poor Fellowes, fay the Creoleaus, with no Advantage to themfelves. : The Of Captain MARTEL: as The Multitude of Men and Veiliels, employ’d this Way, in Time of Wary in the We/t-Indies, be bi ther Reafon, for the Number of Pyrates ina. : Of Peace: This cannot be fuppofed to be a fle&ion on any of our American Governments, aa Jefs.on the King himfelf} by whofe Authority tee : Commiffions are granted, becaufe of the Rea ae blenefs, and abfolute Neceffity, there is 108 Z doing of it ; yet the Obfervation is juft, for sy idle People employing themfelves in Privateers, the fake of Plunder. and Riches, which ene 8 2 Ways {pend as faft asthey get, that when ei © is over, and they can have no farther ee in the Way of Lite they have been ufed to, t 1ey too readily engage in Aéts of Pyracy, which being but the fame Prattice without a Commiflion, they. make very little Diftinttion betwixt the. sore: fulnefS of one, and the Unlawfulnels of the Other, © 5 oA ee ae a, . [have not enquired fo far back, as to ee res Original of this Rover, but I believe he an e Gang, were fome Privateer’s Men belonging to the Ifland of Jamaica, in the preceeding War, his ay is but fhort, for his Reign was fo 3 an End hae Ving been! put to his Adventures in good sete when he was growing {trong and formidable; é find him Commander of a Pyrate Sloop of eight Guns, and 80 Men, in the Month of September, 1716, Cruifing off Samaica, Cuba, Gc. about which Time he took the Berkley Galley, Captain Saunders, and Plundered him of icool. in Money; and after- wards met with a Sloop call’d the King Solomon, from whom he took fome Money and Provifions; befides Goods, to a good Value. ~ : We: They ee after this to the Port of Cavena, at the Ifland of Cuba,and in their Way took two Sloops; Which they plundered, and let go; and off the Pore fell in with a fine Galley, with 20 Guns; r R call’ 66 | Of Captain MARTEL. cal?d the Johx and Martha, Captain Wilfon, which they actacked under the pyratical Black-Flag, and made’ themfelves Mafters of her. They put fome of the Men afhore, and others they ‘detain’d; as they had done feveral Times; to encreafe their Company 5° but Captain Afartel, charged Captain Wilfon, to advife his Owners; that their Ship’ would anfwer his Purpofe exattly, by taking one Deck down, ardas for the Cargo, which confifted chiefly of Logwood and Sugar, he would’ take Care it fhould be carry’d to a good Market. Having fitted up the aforefaid Ship, as they de- fign’d, they mounted her with 22 Guns, 100 Men, and left 23 Hands in the Sloop, and fo proceeded to Cruize olf the Leeward Iflands, where they met’ with but too much Succefs. After the taking of a Sloop and a Brigantine, they gave Chafe to a ftout Ship, which they came up with, and, at Sight — of the Pyrate’s Flag, fhe {truck to the Robbers, # being a Ship of 20 Guns, call’d the Dolphin, bound for Newfoundland. Captain AZartel made the Men Prifoners, and carry’d the Ship with him. °°. - ' The middle of December the Pyrates: took ano- ther Galley in her Voyage home from ‘Yamaiea, call’d the Kent, Captain Lawton, and fhifted’ her Provi- fions aboard their own Ship, and let her go, which obliged her to Sail back to Yamaica for a Supply for her Voyage. After this they met with a {mali Ship and a Sloop, belonging to Barbadoes, out of both’ they took Provifions, and then parted with them, having firft taken out fome of their Hands, who were willing to be forced to go along with’ them! The Greyhound Galley of London, Captain Evans, from Guinty to Famaica, was thenext that had the Mis- fortune to fallin their Way, which they did not detain iong, for as foonas they could get out all her Gold Daft, Elephant’s Teeth, and 40 Slaves, they feat her onwards upon her Voyage. asec: = They ,.. Of Captain MARTEL. 67 They concluded now, that ’twas high Time to Set into Harbour and refit, as well as to get Re- frefhments themfelves, and wait an Opportunity to difpofe of their Cargo ; therefore twas refol-_ ved to make the beft of their Way to Sava Crux, @ {mall Ifland in the Lattitude of 18, 30, N. tea Mile long, and, two, broad, lying South-Eaft of Porto Rico, belonging to, the French Settlements. Here they thought they might lye privately enough for fome Time, and fic themfelves for further Mil- chief, They met witha Sloop by the Way, which they took along with them,-and in the, Beginning Of the Yeat_ 1716-17, they. arrived at their Port, having a Ship of 20 Guns,.a Sloop of eight, and three Prizes, vz. another Ship of 20 Guns, a Sloop of four Guns, and another. Sloop Jaft taken; with this little Fleet, they got into a {mall Harbour, or Road, the N. W. Part of the Ifland, and warp’d Up two Creeks, which were-made by a little Iland ying within the Bay; (1 am the more particular . Now, becaufe I fhall take, Leave of the Gentlemen, at this Place.) They had here bare 16 Foot Water, ®t the deepeft, and but 13. or, 14, at. the thallow- eft, and nothing but Rocks and Sands without, Which fecured them from Wind and Sea, and likewife from any confiderable Force coming a- Sainft them, ‘ ; When they had all got in, the firft Thing they had to do, was to Guard themfelves in the beft Manner they could ; they made a Battery of four uns upon. the Ifland, and another Battery of, two Guns on the North Point of the Road, and warp’d mM one of the Sloops with eight Guns, at the Mouth Of the Channel, to hinder. any Vefilels from coming 113 when this was done they went to Work on their Ship, unrigging, and unloading, in order to. Clean, where f {hall leave them awhile, till T bring Other Company to’em. ~ E2 In { 68 Of Captain MARTEL. ) In the Month of November, 1716, General Hfa- milton, Commander in chief of all the Leeward Car- ribee I/lands, fent a Sloop Exprefs to Captain Hume, at Barbadoes, Commander of his Majefty’s Ship, ‘Scarborough, of 30 Guns, and 140 Men, to acquaint him, that two Pyrate Sloops of 12 Guns each, -molefted the Colonies, having plun ered feveral Velfels. The Scarborough had bury’d twenty Men, and had near forty Sick, and therefore was but in all State to go to Sea: However, Captain Hfume - Teft his fick Men behind, and failed to the other Iflands, for a fupply of Men, taking 20 Soldiers’ from Antegoa 5 at Nevis, he took 10, and 1o at St. Chriftophers, and then failed to the Iiland of 4y- guilla, where he learned, that fome Time before, 2 fuch Sloops had been at Spanifh-Towa, otherwife called, one of the Virgin Mflands: Accordingly, the next Day, the Scarborough came to Spanifh-Town, but could hear'no News of the Sloops, only, that they “had been there about Chriffmas, (it being then the 15th of Yanuary.) i! "Captain Hume, finding no Account could be had of thefe Pyrates, defigned to go back, the next Day, to Barbadoes, but, it happened, that Night, that ‘a Boat anchor’d there from Santa Crux, and infor- med him, that he faw a Pyrate Ship of 22 or 24 Guns, with other Veffels, going in to’ the North | Weft Part of the Ifland aforefaid. The Scarborough weigh’d immediately, and the next Morning came in Sight of the Rovers, and their Prizes, and ftood ‘tothem, but the Pilot refufed to venture in with ‘the Ship; all the while the Pyratés fir’d red hot Bullets from the Shore. At length, the Ship came to an Anchor, along Side the Reef, near the Chan- ‘nel, and cannonaded for feveral Hours, both’ the Vetfels and Batteries : About four in the After- “noon, the Sloop that guarded the Channel, was fink by the Shot of thg Man of War; then fhe canno- Ff hey + 4 Day or two, to block them up. Of Captain MARTEL. 69 cannonaded the Pyrate Ship of 22 Guns, that lay behind the Ifland. The next Night, viz. the 18th, it falling Calm, Captain Hume weigh’d, fearing he Might fall on the Reef, and fo ftood off and on for On the 20th, in the Evening, they obferved the Man of War to fland off to Sea, and took the Opportunity to warp out, in order to flip away from the Ifland, Bue at Twelve oClock they run. a-ground, and : then feeing the Scarborough about, ftanding in again, as their Cafe was defperate, fo they were put into the utmoft Confufion , they quitted their Ship, and fet her on Fire, with 20 Negroes in her, who Were all burnt; 19 of the Pyrates made their Efcape in a fmall Sloop, but the Captain and the Yeft, with 20 Negroes, betook to the Woods, Where ’twas probable they might flarve, for we never heard what became of ’em afterwards: Cap- tain Fume releafed the Prifoners, with the Ship and Sloop that remained, and then went after the two Pyrate Sloops firft mentioned. E3 CHAP. LEUBY EUS UNV EY TYG iS 3 Captain TEACH, alias Buacw-nearp. anes) Dard Teach was.a Briftol Man born, but had” failed fome Time, out of Famaica in Priva. Asad teers, in the late French War; yet tho’ he 7: had often diftinguished himfelf for hig uncommon, Boldnefs and perfonal Courage, he was never raifed | to any Command, till he went a-pyrating, which { think was at thé Jatter End of the Year 1716, when Captain Benjamin Fhornigold put him into a Sloop that he ‘had made Prize of, and with whom he contiuned in Confortihip tilla little while before Hornigold turrendered, °°". In the Spring of the Year 1717, Teach and Hor- nigold failed from Providence, for the Main of America, and took in their Way a Billop from the Havana, with 120 Barrels of Blower, “as alfo a Sloop from Bermuda, Thurbar Matter, from whom they took only fome Gallons of Wine, and then let him go; and a Ship from Atadera to South-Curolina, out of which they got Plunder toa confiderable Value. After cleaning on the Coat of Virginia, they ree. os ' turned to the Wef-Indies, and in the Latitude of Blole wulp. 24, made Prize of a Hee French ae | | (B Ler: $f 2 irate . =e { Of Bu ACK-BEARD. 71 = Fe ernie bound:to Martinico, which by Hornigold’s Confent, rae ae Teach went aboard of as Captain, and took a Cruize 2. = in her 5 Hornigold returned with his Sloop to Provi= dence, where, at the Arrival of Captain Rogers, the : ' Governor, he furrendered to. Mercy, puriuant to ; ; the: King’s: Proclamation. oe i a Aboard of this Guiney Man Teach mounted 40 Rs. le Guns, and named her the Queen Ann’s Revenge; and a a cruifing near the [land of St. Vincent, took a large Ship, called the Great Allen, Chriftopher Taylor, Com- ie Mander 5 the Py rates plundered her of what they vs though fit, put all the Men afhore upon the Ifland above mentioned, and then fet Fire to the Ship. A few Days after, Teach fell in with the Scar- borough Man of War, of 3° Guns, who engaged him for fome Hours; but fhe finding the Pyrate well mann’d, and having tried her ftrength, gave Over the Engagement, and. returned to Barbadoes, the Place of her Station; and ‘Teach failed towards the Spanifh America. 0 2 oe a In his Way he met with a Pyrate Sloop of ten Guns, commanded by one Major Bonnet, lately a F Gentleman of good Reputation and Eftate in the Ifland of Barbadoes, whom he joyned , butin a few - Days after, Teach, finding that Bounet knew nothing eres | , Of a maritime Life, with the Confent of his own a me , Men, put: in another Captain, -one Richards, to : s i Command Bonner’s Sloop, and took the Major on ; i] aboard his own Ship, telling him, that as he bad not : . | beén ufed.to the Fatigues and Care of fuch a Poff, it mould a be better for him to decline it, and live ealy and at his Plea- | Sure, in fuch a Ship as his, where he fhould not be obliged to perform Duty, but follow his orn Inclinations. At Turniff, ten Leagues fhort of the Bay of Hon- duras, the Pyrates took in frefh Water; and while they were at an Anchor there, they faw a Sloop coming in, whereupon, Richards in the Sloop called the Revenge, flipped his Gable, and run out to meet EB 4 her, NAO ce aor od . a “ he PMB Gate ms Cidade Do hits nas Raia alow degisnes dice, ULE TE PE TL OPLae Pai ee we FEE AL MEP AL APT WE RL RAR ae POUT Mi = es © = — ee i Of BLACK-BEARD. ‘73 Town, likewife a Brigantine with 14 Negroes a-- board; all which being done in the Face of the Town, ftruck a great Terror to the whole Pro- ~ vince of Carolina, having juft before been vifited by Vane, another ‘notorious Pyrate, that they abandoned themfelves to Difpair, being in no 92 Of BLACK-Brarp, her; who upon feeing the black Flag hoifted: ftruck his Sail and came to, under ese Teach the Commadore. She was called the Adventure from Jamaica, David Harrop Matter, They took him and his Men aboard the great Ship; and fent a Number of other Hands With Ifrael fter of Teach’s ship, I[rae Hands, Maz tical Account S sige the Sloop tor the Pyra- Condition to. refift their Force. They were The oth of April, th . ts eight Sail in the Harbour, ready for the Sea, having iain there about . (Went from Turniff, but none dared ‘to ‘venture out, it being sean ples ser e¢ i i ° : : : Bay, where they found a Shic and itatled to the impoffible to efcape their Hands, The inwar \ bound Veffels were under the fame unhappy Di- j g * this Place was to- Jamaica, andthe other to Capt 1 lemma, fo that the Trade of this Pla ail Fames ; the Shi ia tally interrupted: What made thefe Misfortunes ipa ae. the Prote a eaters Captain | Sis aa to chen vas a long expenfive War, the — Sand fred 4 Gun agen Moitted is Blick Colonna, ay Colony had had with the Natives, which was but icsten left sei peta Captain Wyar and all juit ended when thefe Robbers infefted them. Boat, . Teach’s Quarter hears Oot Athore in their | Teach detained all the Ships and Prifoners, C = a Re ruabter-Mafter, and eight of; his and, being in want of Medicines, refolves to de- fn. = ae che of Wyar’s Ship, and Richards — mand a Cheft from the Government of the Pro- out of foi pee . ae one of which they burnt Vince; accordingly Richards, the Captain of the Re- far hav ascki ne aaa ote Proteftant,, Ce- venge Sloop, with two or three more Pyrates, were cher, Eecaufe the belonged. to fent up along with Mr. Afarks, one of the Prifoners, £0 Bofton, where {ome whom they had taken in Clark’s Ship, and very in- ae : ened banged for Pyracy ; and the three folently made their Demands, threatning, that if ee hence the Rovers hile eee 1 they did ‘not fend immediately the Cheft of Medi- aile 6) OME haar a, A) y ‘5 to the Grand Caimanes, 0 final © Lurkill, and then cnes, and let the Pyrate-Ambafladors return, | Iland aboye thirty without offering any Violence to their Perfons they would murder all their Prifoners, fend up their Heads to the Governor, and fet the Ships they had taken on Fire. . sip | Whilft Mr.' A¢arks was making Po re to the ay, where » Council, Richards, and the ret of the Pyrates, they lay off the Bar of Charles- C walk’d the Streets publickly, in the Siehe oF all People, who were fired with: the utmoft Indigna- tion, looking. upon them as Robbers and Mur- itherers, and particularly the Authors of their ‘Wrongs and Oppreffions, but durft not fo much | Charles —& as think of executing their Revenge, for fear Town : t 40 ; : of Leagues to the Wettward of took a. {mall Turtler, and fo res Of BLACK-BEARD, Of bringing and fo they were forced to let the V with Impunity. The Government were not long in deliberating upon the Metiage, tho’. twas the greateft Affront that could have been. put upon them; yet for the faving { many Mens Lives, {among them, * Mr.. Samuel Wrage, one of the Council; ) they comply’d with the Neceflity, and feut aboard a Cheft, valued at between. 3 and 4001..and the Pyrates went back fafe to their Ships. __ Blackbeard, (for fo Teach was generally called, as we thal! hereafter fhew) as foon as he had received the Medicines and his Brother Rogues, let .go the Ships and the Prifoners 5 having firft taken out of them in Gold and Silver, about 1500 /. Sterling, befides Provifions and other Matters, i From the Bar of Charles-Town, they failed to North= Carolina, Captain Teach in the Ship, which’ they called the Man of War, Captain Richards and Cap- tain Hands in the Sloops, which they termed Pri- vateers, and another Sloop ferving themasa Tender. Teach began now to think of breaking up. the Company, aad fecuring the Money and the beft of the Effects for -himfelf and fome others of his Companions he had moft Friendfhip for, and to cheat the reft: Accordingly, on Pretence of run- “ning into Top/ail Inlet to clean, he grounded: his Ship, and then, as if it had been done undefign- edly, and by Accident; he orders Hands’s Sloop to come to his Affiftance, and get him off again, which he endeavouring to do, ran the Sloop on Shore near the other, and { were both loft. This done, Teach goes. into the Tender Sloop, with forty Hands, and: leaves the Revenge there’; then takes feventeen others and Marroons them | upon a fmall fandy Iland, about. a League from “the ‘Main, where there was neither Bird, Beaft or sing more Calamities upon themfelves, illains pats Of BL ACK-BE ARD» 7. er Herb for their Subfiftance, and where they ey f have perifhed if Major Bonner had not two Day tal m off... SS anipheel see oe to the Governor of Nar Ceulites With about twenty of his Men, prone Ny pi Majefty’s Proclamation, and receive Cortabeatis thereof, from his Excellency ; but it did n bee Pear that their fubmitting to this Pardon was fom any Reformation of Manners, but only fe. wa ee more favourable Opportunity to play t e ae Game over again; which he {oon after, a e de With greater Security to himfelf, and wit mich better Profpect of Succefs, having in this Tame ge tivated a véry good underftanding vith Charles Eder, Efq: rernor above mentioned. : a rater Ga of Service this kind coke: did to Black-Beard, was, to give him ae 2 ° the Veffel which he had taken, when he i: ‘ Pyrating in the’ great Ship called the Guin Revenge , for which purpofe, a Court of yess sais ralty was held at Bath-Town 5, and, Dae ‘ff aH Never any Commiffion in his Life, an i fe ene belonging to the. Englifh Merchants, and ta aie Time of Peace; yet was fhe condemned as gle taken from the Spaniards, by the faid Tia he Proceedings fhew that Governors are but ‘a E ~ Before he failed upon his Adventures, Bg pe ry’da young Creature of about fixteen Years os Age, the Governor performing the Camo si itis a Cuftom to marry here by perl 18 i if there by a Magiftrate; and this, Ihave sendy formed, made Teach’s fourteenth Wife, w ita about'a dozen might be ftill living. a se ; viour in this State, was fomething extraor: a ih for while his Sloop lay in Okerecock Inlet, and J afhore at a Plantation, where his Wife lived, with 5 Perel NES his Cu- whom after he had Jain all Night, it was his ¢ ay fiom to invite five or fix of his brutal sear CRANE es By OL ee OE ERT ef —" * Pe 76 OF Br ACK-BEARD. ons to come athore, and he would force her to. Pproftitute her felf to them all one aff before his. Face, sig alter another, Of BLACK-BEARD. — 7 their Fears of her ever rifing in Judgment againft. Cher bbe heed fe 3 Cie Captain Teach, alias Black-beard, pailed three or 3 : e Ri im i t An- pen, Upon another four Months in the River, fometimes: lying. at An Expedition, and fteered his Courfe towards Bermu~ chor in the Coves, at other Times fa'ling from one. das, he met with two or three Englifh Veflels. in Inlet to another, trading with fuch Sloops as he solar ata intone, them. on of Provi m lunder he had taken, and would of Susana. other Neceffaries, for is Beer ae aaa aoe Prefents for Stores and Provifions Se viCh tare, nego tend alorementioned he fell took from them ; that is, when he happened to be in with two French Ships, oue of them was loaden. ina giving Humour ; at other Times he made bold with Sugar and Cocoa, and the other light, both: With them, and took what he liked, without fay- bound to Martinico; the Ship that had no Lading ing, by your. Leave, knowing well, they dared. not he let go, and putting all the Men of the | d him a Bill f ee ne 2 ded. fend him a 3:1] for the Payment. He Ship aboard her, he brought home the a a ted verted himfelf with going afhore among the Plan- her Cargo to North-Carolina, where the Governor ters wien he revelled Night and Day: By thefe and the Pyrates fhared the Plunder. he was well received, but whether out of Love ee a ite ages he ar or cannot fay; fometimes heufed them cour- of his Crew went to his Excellency, and ae Sati eee ie ‘made them Prefents of Rum fidavit, that they found the Erench Ship at Sea and Sugar, in "Recompence of what he took from without a Soul on Board her; and then a Court them : but, as for Liberties (which ’tis faid) he was called, and the Ship condemned: The Gover- and his Companions often took with the Wives pnd cy LxtY Hogtheads of Sugar for his Dividend and Daughters of the Planters, I cannot take Cole ra aem ee EO Was fig Secretary and, upon me to fay, whether he paid them ad Valorem, Collector for the Province, twenty, and the reft was or fo. Atothet’Timés he carried’ it in’a lordly fhared among the other Pyrates. Manner towards them, and would lay fome of them pitied a peo vate done, the Ship re- under Contribution; nay, he often proceeded to | 3 bully the Governor, not, that I can difcover the leaft Caufe of Quarrel betwixt them, but it feemed only to be done, tofhew he dareddoit. The Sloops trading up and down this River, being fo frequently pillaged by Black-beard, con- - faulted with the Traders, and fome of the beftofthe Planters, what Courfe to take; they faw plainly it would be in vain to make any Application to the Governor of North-Carolina, to whom it pro- perly belonged to find fome Redrefs; fo that if _ they could not be relieved from fome other Quar- : rer a ot ee Se a. os a4 aoe > on a 3 < ie) prevent this, for upon a Pretence that fhe was] aky, and that the might fink, and fo. ftop up the Mouth of the [nl or Cove where fhe lay, he obtained an Order from the Governor, to bring “her out into the River, and fet her on Fire, which was accor- . dingly executed, and fhe was burnt down to the Watet’s Edge, her Bottom funk, and with it, oa a their. ae To Of BL Ack-Br arp ter, Black-beard w > and the Men uld 1; this was accordingly done, and the Command of them. given. to. Mr. Robert Maynard, firt Lieutenant of the Pearl, an expe- tienced Officer, and a Gentleman of great Bravery and Refolution, as will appear by his gallant Be. haviour in this Expedition. The Sloops were well mann’d and furnifhed with Ammunition and {mal{ - Arms, but had no Guns mounted. Wo About the Time of their going out, the Gover. nor called an Affembl Y, in which it was refolved to publith a Proclamation, Offering certain Rewards _to any Perfon or Perfons » Who, within a Year after that Time, fhould take o: deft; ing in our Hands, Of BLACK-BEARD. 79 his. Majefty’s Lieutenant Governor, am ecietoane Chief, of the | Colony at . Domninion of Virginia, 9 | es “A PROCLAMATION, © Publithine the Rewards given for apprehending, Herr ov oor killings Pyrates.\ CHE! ke Bo Be eB pens t a Ae. @ Flereas by ‘an Att of Aff’ saa’ ee Wile : Seffion. of Affembly, begun at the br, in the Namsburgh, ‘the eleventh Day % AM to en~ Fifth Yeap sf: his Majefty’s Reign, entituled, of Pyrates: courage the apprehending and eet d every Per= Tt ts; amongst other Things enalted, that a Sch Dy of fon ee Revonsgceesf rom and after sorte fand even Novembe r, in the Lear of our Lard one t Day hundred and eighteen, and before the fourte 7 Lord one November, which fall be in the Year 2 ial Pyrate, thoufand ean hundred and nineteen, fhall ra i Refifance, °r Pyrates, on the Sea or Land, ee ou the Degrees foal kin any fuch Pyrate, or Pyrates, ane ead of thirty four, and thirty nine, of Northern nt of Vitgi- Within one hundred Leagues of che Bate or North- nia, or within the Provinces of Virgin if due Proof of Carolina, upite the~Con'vilfion or’ making and Pyratesy the Rilling of all, and every fuch Py sad fo bad: before the Governor and Council, pane the Hands of and receive out of the publick Money, Heaney folow- the Treafurer of this Colony, the fe a? ach, commowly tug 5 thar is to fay, for Edward Teach, hundred a5 ‘ Beard, ene hz ie cald Captain Teach, or Black. f Pyrate Ship, Pounds, for every other avin eanagties, falc Ma- Sloop, or Veffel, forty Pounds ; for every Le sacpiets taiteke fler, or Quarter-Mafter, Boat/wain, ke bce Pian SA cs a Apt bead ER ai and for every private Man taken on Sloop, GTO EA LE TE 2 oi ian a I PEG ILPE WUE TET SAILS RPE OE roe.) F ee er ee z | was lurking ; 1 [t t —— 80 Of. BLACK-BEARD, Sloop, or Veff-l, ten Pounds , and, which {hall be taken by any Ship; to this Colony, or, North-Carolina,* wthin th, aforefad, in any Place whatfoever, the like Rewards fhall be paid according to the Quality and Condition of fuch Pyrates. Wherefore, for all fuch Perfons as shall be willing to ferve his Majefty, and thesr Country, in fo jut aiid honourable an Onders taking, as the luppreffing a Sort’ of People, who may be truly called Enemies to Mankind : LT have thought fits with the Advice and Confent of his to iffue this Proclamation, hereby. Rewards fhall be punttually Money of Virginia, according to the. Directions fad At. And, a. imation, to be. publifhed by : ative County-Floufes, and by all Adinifters ane ta the feveral Churches and Chappels,. throughout this Colony.” WGK fat Ris, RESALE eet Bee that for every declaring, the fad Given at our Council-Chamber at Williams= burgh, this 24th Day of Nevember, 17185 in the fifth Year of his Majefty’s Reign. GOD SAVE THE KiNG. Fe ai SAR SPOTSWOOD. The ith of November, 1718, (the Lieutenant fail’d from Kicquetan, in Sames River in, Virginia, and, the 21ft in the Evening, came.to the Mouth of Okerecock Inlet, where he got Sight of the Pyrate, This Expedition. was made. with: all imaginable Secrecy, and the Officer manag’d with all the Pru. dence that was neceflary, ftopping all Boats and Vetlels he met with, in the ‘River, from going up, and thereby preventing any Intelligence from reach. ing Black-Beard, .and receiving at the fame time an Account from them all, of the Place where the Pyrate but notwithftanding this Caution, Blacks SSS ee ee NER coke am ererntur Raye ara Pyrate, Slocp or Veffel, belonging , & Time the Encouragement of Majesty's Council, — Of BLACK-BEARD, et Black-beard had Information of the Defign, from is. Excellency of the Province 3 and his Secretary, . Knight, wrote him ‘a Letter, particularly a ©erning it, intimating, That he had fent him four of his Men, which mere all he could imeet with, in or about — end fo bid him be upon his Guard. Thefe Men pa to -Black-beard, and were fent from tant z Okerecock Inlet, where the: Sloop lay, which is abou 20 Leagués.oduticn. of ses beg sao . Black doand had heard feveral Reports, which hap-., Pened not. to-be true, and fo gave the lefs ae dit to this, nor was he.convinced till he faw the Sloops: Whereupon he’ put his Veffel ina ees Of Defence; he had no- more than twenty five bes ou Board, tho” he gave out to all the Veflels e {hoke-with,. that he had‘4o.. When he had he Pared for Battle, he fet down and fpent the ae : in drinking with. the -Mafter of a pian ee! 05 Who, twas thought, fdiereare Bufinefs with Teach, than’ ould’ have hads Ce Eimeatee Maynard came to an Anchor, et the Place being fhoal, and the’ Channel. intricate, t Bee Was ‘noo getting ‘in,’ where Teach lay, that Nig he but inthe Morning he weighed, and fent his Oat -a-head of the Sloops to, found; ) and ee ing within Gun-Shot. of the Pyrate, received sd Fire 3; whereupon Maynard hoitted the King is He tours, and’ ftoad idireétly. towards him, wit the bet Way that his Sails and Oars could made. &B. i - beard. cut’ his: Cable, and endeavoured to ma us Tanning Fight, keeping a continual Fire “ his nemies, with his Guns 5 Mr. Maynard not arin Bny, kepe a conftant Fire with {mall Arms, ie ie tome of ‘his Men laboured at their Oars. In alittle Time :Téich’s. Sloop ran a-ground, and Mr. May- Vard’s drawing more Water than that of the Pyrate, he could not come near him ; fo he Seb ba half Gun-Shot. of the eens and, in “ee ET ET UE Mi me : im. 82 Of Br AcK-BEARD. Be Of BLACK-BEARDi = &3_— lighten his Vetfel, that he might run him aboard, down, «for fear of another Broadfide; which ais the een ordered all his pipes be thrown Antes been their Deftruction, and ae shite: sa rsa over-board, and all the Water to be ftaved, and Xpedition. Mr. Maynard was the only. i a weigh'd “ ee as) ; solic shes Black- | “ eye Peek eel ids Sah ase me sees beard ha im in this rude Manner ; J amn you 10m he directed to lye down fnug, and— _ fer Villains; who are you ?. And, from whence came you? 10 the Hold were ordered to get Ete a The Lieutenant made him Anfwer, You may fee by their Swords ready . for clofe fighting, se eaten we ae no beet sinters ah ee come up at his Pte gin oS Re : 3 ‘ena Ais Boat on Board, that he might fee who he Wo Ladders were placed in EEA MOP, . was; but Mr. Maynard teply’d thus; J cannot pare au the more Expedition. When the eee. my Boat, but I will come aboard of you as foon as I can, loop boarded the. other, eee sar fei with my Sloop. Upon this,-B ack-beard took a Glafs threw in feveral new fathioned oF itt ts of Liquor, and drank to him with thefe Words: — wise Cafe Bottles fillr'd with ni se ihe fm In Antver to ehchy Ne Wroued tol | gunk Sy Fi of, Lead Hon wih vom You. in Anfwer to whic Mr. aynara COld — {UIC atch in the Mou wegiik : him, That he expetted no Quarters from him, nor fhould | Lighted without Side, prefently runs into the Bot- he give him any. a tle to the Powder, and as it is inftantly thrown By this time Black-beard’s Sloop fleeted, as Mr. On Board, generally does great -Execution, befides Maynard's Sloops were ‘rowing towards him, which — Putting all the Crew into a Rona ony Pit by being not above a Foot high in the Wafte, and. con- —- Sood Providence, they had not that Effe ak e5 : fequently the Men all expofed, asthey came near the Men being in the Hold, and Black-beard eeing _ together, (there being hitherto little of no Exe. few oy no Hands aboard, told his Men, That # oi cution done, on either’ Side,) the Pyratesfired a = Were ‘gl)._-fnock’d on the Head, except three or four; an Broadfide, charged with all Manner of fmall Shot. therefore, {ays he, let’s jump on Board, and cut them to ~——A fatal Stroke:to them ! The seit bere Z . zeces, : ys ‘Lieutenant was in, having twenty Men. killed Whereupon, under the Smoak of one of the and wounded, and the other Sloop ‘nine ; This Bottles. juft ‘mentioned, Black-beard enters with could not be help’d, for there being no Wind, they — fourteen Men, over the Bows of Maynard’s Sloop, ‘were -oblig’d to keep to their Oars, otherwife and were not feen by him till the Air cleared ; the Pyrate would have got away from him, which, © however, he juft then. gave a Signal to his Men, it feems, the Lieutenant was refolute to pre-e Who all rofe in an Inftant, and attack’d the Pyrates erent sor te ita -. After’ this unlucky Blow, Black-beard’s Sloop fell Broadfide to the’ Shore; Mr. Maynard’s other | Sloop, which was called the Ranger, fell a-ftern, being, for the prefent, difabled ; fo the Lieutenant finding his own Sloop ‘had Way, and would foon be ‘on Board of Teach, he ordered all his Men down, ith as much Bravery as ever was done upon fuch 2n Oceafion: Black-beard and the Lieutenant fired the firft Piftol at each other, by which the Pyrate Teceived a Wound, and then engaged with Swords, till the Lieutenaat’s unluckily broke, aud ftepping back to cock a Piftol, Black-beard, with his Cut ath, was ftriking at that Inftant, that one of May+ . Bebe nard’s \ 84 aard’s Men & and Throat, ety Of BLACR-BE ARD) ave him a terrible Wound inthe Neck with a finall Cut over his Fingers. the Lieutenant and twelve Men, beard and fourteen, Blood round the Veflel s) Black-beard into his Body from the Piftol with great Fury, till he received as he was cocking veral before,‘he fell down dead ; eight moré out of the out for Quarters, only prolonging their Sloop Ranger came up,: very, till they likewife. Here was an End of that might havé' pafs’d in the he been employ’d in a good Caufe ; which was of’ fuch Confequence to have deftroy’d him with much lef hada Veffel with great’ obliged “to ufe’ {mall Vetlels, beca of greater Draught for this’Geritleman to get to him, ded his Veffel, at leaft, a hundred ting up the River, befides other Di this Lieutenant. _ Milchief before they boarded, in all They were ‘now clofely and warmly ‘engaged, till the Sea was tin&tur’d with: that Lieutenant May- nard difcharg’d, yet he fiood his Ground, and fou ght five and twenty | Wounds, and five of them by ‘Shot. arother Piftol, having fired {e- fourteen dropp’d, and all the reft, much wounded, jump’d over-board, and call’d which was granted, tho? it was Lives for a few Days. The and attack’d the Mencthat remain’d in” Black-beard’s Sloop, with equal: Bra- ery’d for Quarters. f couragious Brute, who — World for a Heroe; had his Deftruétion, was entirely owing to the Condu&t and Bravery. of Lieutenant: Maynard and his Men, who ‘might Lofs, had:they. Guns’; but they were and Places‘he lurk’d in, would not admit of others 5 andit was no {mall Difficulty enough to have turn’d back any Gentleman with- out Dithonour,, who was lef refolute and-bold than _ The Broadfide that did? fo much — by which the Lieutenant ‘came: off againgt Black received a Shot At length, by which ‘Time the Plantations, ufe the Holes having groun- times, in get- {couragements, Probabiliy fa- ved Of BL ACK-BEARD. 85 Ved the. reft from Deftruttion ; for before that Teach had little or no ‘Hopes of efcaping, and therefore had pofted a. refolute Fellow, a Negroe, Whom he had bred. up, with alighted Match, in the Powder-Room, with Commands to blow up, .Whenvhe should give him Orders, which was as foon &s the Lientenant and his Men could have en- ‘tered; that-fohe might have deftroy’d his Conque- Fors:* and when the Negro found how it went With Black-beard, he-could: hardly be perfwaded from the rafh Aétion, by: two Prifoners that were then in the Hold of the Sloop. . What feems a little odd, is, that fome of thefe Men, who. behaved fo bravely againft Black-beard, “Went afterwards a pyrating themfelves, and one “Of them was taken: along. with Roberts; but “I “do not find that any of them’ were provided | for, €Xcept one that was -hanged.; but this is a Di- SreMionsisty 6 bers ae bos J tacy The Lieutenant caufed Black-beard’s Head tobe Levered from his Body, and hung up at the Bolt- Apri End, then he failed to Bath-Town, to get Relief for his wounded’Men. ; spies é ~_+Tt muft-be obferved, that’ in rummaging the Py- ~Fate’s: Sloop, they found:feveral Letters and: writ- ‘ten'Papers, which difcovered the Correfpondence betwixt, Governor Edens the Secretary. and Col- leftgy, . and-alfo’ fome Traders at New-York, and * Black-beard. «It is likely’ he had Regard enough ‘for his. Friends, to.chave deftroyed thefe Papers »before-the Aion, ‘im; order to hinder them from Ailing into fuch Hands, where the Difcovery would ~be. of no Uke, either tothe Intereft or Reputation “Of thefe’ fine: Gentlemen, «if it had not been his ‘fixed Refolution to have blown up together; when “he found no poffibility of efcaping. | When the Lieutenant came to Bath-Town, he made bold to feize, in the Governor’s Store-Houle, the “ot F 3 fixty. UB VE LE VEE E ints 86 his Cabin fixty. Hogfheads ‘of ‘Sugar, and from> Knight, twenty 5 which of the Plunder taken in the French Ship did not long furvive being apprehenfive that he might be ¢ Account for thefe Tr -and died in a few Daysec b teen Priloners, thirteen It appearing upon Tryal, Samuel Odell, was taken out ‘ but the Night before the En Fellow was a little unlucky. on his new Trade, there ap Wounds upon him cafter th ing which, he lived, and wa “other Perfon that efcaped Ifrael Hands, the Matter of RB ~ formerly, ~ Ann’s Revenge was loft in Topfail Inlet.’ -/ The aforefaid Aran, Fight, but was take “Town, having been Black-beard, in one of his favage the following M —O ‘out afinall Pair of Piftols,» and cocks them under. the Pilot, < Piftols were ready, he~ croffing his Hands, difch pany ; Hands, the Mafter, was thot. and Jam’d for Life 5 the other Piftol. ay Of BLACK-BEARD, honeft Mr. it feems was their Dividend 3; the latter this fhameful Difcovery, for alled to an ifles, fell fick with the Fright, of whom were hanged. that one of them, viz. of the trading Sloop, 8agement. \ ‘This’ poor at his firft entering up- pearing no Jefs than 70 e Aion, notwithftand- Ss cured of them all. 'The the Gallows,’ was one lack-beard’s Sloop, and Captain of the fame, before the Queen ds happened not to’ bein the nm afterwards afhore ‘at: Bath- fometime before difabled: by Humours, vafter with Hands, the Pilot, and another Man 5 which being perceived by the:\Man,’ he and went | upon: Deck,” leaving | Hands, and the ‘Captain together. When’ the blew lout the Candle, and harged them «at his-Com- thro’ the Knee, did no Execu- . ton Of BLACK-BEARD. 87 tion, ——— Being asked the meaning of ane ae only anfwered, by damning them, Biden spe ries and then Rill one of them, they wou fog 1 C Was. 4 ; Hands being taken, was try’d and me but juft as he was about to be execut ‘eeu attives at Virginia with a Proclamation pied longing the Time of his Majefty’s Eas : os fuch of the Pyrates as fhould furrender ae sas ted Time therein expreffed : Nonyaei ing Senteice, Hands pleaded the Pardon, 4p ae Owed the Benefit of it, ane is alive at this Londo ing his Bread. ts Noe ree = have given fome Account oe Y ife and Agtions, it will not be cae ams {peak of his Beard, fince it did not a isele conte bute towards making his Name {o terrible in Y Patts, po gay ost : ditt -_ Plutarch -and.other grave Hiftorians DA aS Notice, that feveral great Men among I Hs Bee mans, took their. Sir-Names from certain a ci in their Countenances ; as, Cicero, from a e: : Vetch on his Nofe; fo our Heroe, Captain ots affumed the Cognomen of Black-beard, eae sep large Quantity-of Hair, which, like a fright ie = teor, covered his whole Face, and fightengs ia vica more than any Gomet that has appeared the along Time. es This em was black, which he fulicted to grow of an extravagant Length , asto Breadt mn i ed upto his Eyes; he was accuftomed to twift i a ee Ribbons, in finall Tails, after the ce a 0 our Ramilies Wiggs, and turn them about ane ais pty Time of Aftion, he wore a Sling over his apa ders, with three brace of Piftols, hanging in e fters like Bandaliers ; and ftuck renee = Under his, Hat, which. appearing a ig us = his Eace, hig, Eyes, ee looking wits 88 Of BLACR-BEARD, wild, made him altogether fuch a F Imagination cannot’ form an Hell, to look more fright ful. Ifhe had the look of a Fu Paffions were fuitable to it; we fhall relate two or three more of his Extravagancies, which we omitted in the Body of his Hiftory, by which it will appear, to what a Pitch of Wickedietfs, hu- man Nature may arrive, if it’s Paffions are ‘not checked. fH a more extraordinary Gallantry, and is thereby entitled to be diftinguifhed by fome Poft, and if fuch a one has but Courage, he muft’ certainly be a great Man, The Hero-of ‘whom we are Writing, was thoroughly accomplifhed this Way, and fome of his Frolicks of Wickednefs, wete {0 extrava- gant, as ifhe aimed at making his Men believe he. was a’ Devil incarnate:; for being--one ‘Day ‘at’Sea aud a. little futhed witharink? — Come; fa ys he, let ws mike a Fell of | our Onn, “and try how tone we can bear it > accordingly he, with two or three‘others, went down into the Hold, and clofine up/all the Hatches, filled feveral Pots full of Brimftone, .and ty, his Humours and ae > j igure, that Idea of a Fury, from | | _— AOR et Wt ors IP WL PWN BY YB Of BLACK-BEARD: — A: whether his Wife knew where he ine s S Money ? He anlwered, That no Body but imfe ‘heatd the Devil, knew where it was, and the longeft Liver me take all. " . ’ etek of his Crew who were taken cathe ae & Story which may appear a? little gies a: however, we think it will not be fair « a fince we had it rom their own Mout of) as ©nce upona Cruize, they found out See "ef “ee @ Man on Board more than their Crew ; a oe Was feen feveral Days amongft. them, ae below, and fometimes upon Deck, yet m0 ours the Ship could give an Account who he was eh from whence he came; but that he’ difappea ee little before they ‘were caft away” in a ore Ship, but, it feems, they verily believe = the Devil, avuie te) set oa wane think thefe Things fhould — them to reform their Lives, but fo Pe. e oe bates together, encouraged and {pirite Acree ther up in ‘their Wickednefs, to whie Parsee nual Courfe-of drinking did not a Baers ele 5 for in Black-beara’s Journal, which was ta pee Were feveral| Memorandums of the se wing Nature, found writ with his own’ Han eT Such a Day; Rumi all out: —— Our Company fomew other combuitible Matter, ‘and ? 19 5 Jaeger A 3hea Rogues ober: = A damn’ d Confufion among t us! rae es @ plotting 3 —-——» great Talk of Separation. —~ So I look'd fomesf the Men cried’ out for Air aa for a Pri ; y took one. with'a great arp for a Prize — fuch a Day took es ad opened: the Hatches, "not @ little pleafed that he pe of Liquor on Board, fo kept the Company hot, agit held out the ongelRONU oon FR Ur oT saun pty bot ings went well again. sien Se The a se Wretches paffed eae With very little Pleafyre or Satisfattion, pte Poffeffion of what they violently take away as others, and fu re'to pay for it at laft, by an apuCe ious Death, | ~ ~ The Night before he was killed, he fet. up and drank ‘till “the ‘Morning, with fome of his own Men, and ‘tlie Mafter of a Merchant-Man, and ha- ving had Intelligence’ of the “two SI 9Ops coming tg attack him) as has been before obferved ; one of his ‘Men asked him, in Cafe any thing thould hap- pen fo fim in the Engagement with the Sloops, ugh he | whether ‘3 : The PR a 7 a oye ¥ 31 VY Weyer ” ar, wee? "7d a) Oy vino ey a cy . ry, Pe a Ee RARE RAPCAE NPG ih. nano aw PE TIT Core re NL Oka ARE OE ee, y * ~ Dr ead PANO ' a | “| Hy | 99 Of BLACK-BEARD, The Names of the Pyrates killed in the En ; ment, are as follow. Edward Teach, Commander. |. Phillip Morton, Gunner. _ Garrat Gibbens, Boatfwain. _ Owen Roberts, Carpenter. Thomas Miller, Quarter-Mafter, Sohn Husk, Fofeph Curtice, Fofeph Brooks, (1) » Nath. Gackfon. All the reft, except the two laft, w afterwards hanged in Virginia. _ Gohn Carnes, Fofeph. Philips, Fofeph Brooks, (2) James Robbins, ~ Yames Blake, John Martin, Fohn Gills, Edward Salter, Thomas Gates, Stephen Daniel, Games White, Richard Greenfail. : . Richard Stiles; Ifrael Hands, pardoned, 5 Cefar, | «(Samuel Odel, acquited, _There were in the Pyrate Sloops, and afhore ina Tent, near where the Sloops lay, 25. Hogfheads of Sugar, 11 Teirces, and 145 Bags of Cocoa, a Bar- rel of Indigo, and a Bale of Cotton; which, with what was taken from the Governor and Secretary, and the Sale of the Sloop, came to 2500 1. befides ” the Rewards paid by the Governor of Virginia, pur= fuant to his Proclamation 5 all which was divided among the Companies of the two Ships, Lime aud Pearl, that lay in James River ; the brave Fellows that took them coming in for no more than their Dividend amongft the reft, and was paid it within thefe three Months, gage: ere wounded and CHAP. CURR RAEN RII Gs Ht (As Pe dV ae Ce ee ‘ ~ Major Stede Bonnet, ene And his Crew. Major was a Gentleman of good Re- eae in the Ifland of Barbadoes, at . Mafter of a plentiful Fortune, pe me the Advantage of a liberal Education. He pe i leaft Temptation of any Man to follow fuch ta - 3 of Life, from the Condition of his ipso - e It was very furprizing to every one, - m ti the Major’s Enterprize, in the Man = 23 liv’d , aad as he was generally efteem’d an : eb ed, before he broke out into open A&s o 7 Yo fo he was afterwards rather pitty’d than 0 2 : ned, by thofe that were acquainted wit = -believing that this Humour of going a ape fs “proceeded from a Diforder in his Mind, it had been but too vifiblein him, fome mines ee this wicked Undertaking, and which is fai a have been occafioned by fome peep A e found in a married State; be that as it wi A he “Major was but ill qualify’d chia Bufinets, as ‘not underftanding maritime Afiairs. — ain: rioieien he’ Feted out a Sloop with ten “aM -and70 Men, entirely at his own Expence, an “an ‘the Night-Time failed from Barbadoes. He e es his Sloop the Revenge; his firft Cruize bee ne e Cares of Virginia, where he took feveral Ships, pe amene: loaths and plundered them of their Provifions, C aes 2 92 Of Major STEDE BONNET. Money, Ammunition, @¢. in Patticular the Anne, Captain Afontgomery, from Glafcoms the Turber from Barbadoes, which for Country fake; after ‘they had taken out the ‘principal Part of the Lading, the Pyrate Crew {et her.on Fire; the Endeavour, Cap- tain Scot, from Briftol, and the Young from Leith. From hence they went to _New-York, and off the Eaft End of Long-Mand, took a Sloop bound fof the Weft-Indies, after which ‘they ftood in arid landed fome Men at Gardngy’s Mand, -but jn a peaceable Manner, and. bought Provifions for’ the Company’s ‘Ule, which they paid for, and fo went off again “without Moleftationss® © fos schuyy 5 ea: ae “Some Time after, which was in Agu 17175 Bon- ~wet came off the Bar of South-Carolind, and took a ‘Sloop anda Brigantine bound in > the:Sloop belong- “ed to Barbadoes, Foleph' Palner Matter, laden swith “Rum, Sugar and Négroes 3; and the Brigantiseicame ‘from New- England, Thontat Porter Matter, whomthey plundered, and then difmifs'd subutthey failed away “with the Sloop, “andvat°an Inlet’ in’ North-Carolina -careened by her, and then {et hér on Fire. | 5. ~ “After the’Sloop had cleaned, they put to Sea, but came to-no Refolution what Courfe to take; -the Crew were divided in their Opinions, fome be, ‘ing for one Thing, and fome another, fo that nothing ‘but Confufion feem’d to attend alktheir Schemes. The Major was no Sailor as was {aid before,* and: “therefore had beenobliged to yield to many Things ‘that were impofed on him, during their Underta- ‘king, ‘for want of a competent Knowledge in mari- time Afftirs ; at‘length happening to fall in Com. “pany with another Pyrate, one Edmard Teach, (vho for his remarkable black ugly Beard, was morecom- “monly called Black-Beard :) This’ Fellow was a good “Sailor, bat a moft cruel hardened Villain, bold and -daring to the laft Degree, and would not. ftick at the perpetrating the moft abominable Wickednefs ima- Seon, en ginable Of Major ieieaseee acne 93: ginable j for which he was made Chief : oe i crable:Gang, that it might be faid that “ paises notiunduly filled; Blackbeard being tru 2" eae perior in Rogueryy of all the Gompany, as’ Pred ady-rdlatadocrguiad ‘signi: atriog eiuos ater Bontiet’s Crew joinedin Goel ge ~ Bonner himfelf was’ laid afide, notwithftan nf Py Sloop was his owns he went: aboard ri Hac Ship, not con¢erning himfelf with any of t ee fait fairs, where he contimied till fhe was loft in ies Inlet) and one Richards. was appointed Captain : viele Room, » The Major ‘now faw his Folly, wa agen not help himfelf, which made ee ? y Lace refletted upon his paft: Courfe of Life, and wa on founded with Shame, «when he thought KL Den he had done: His Behaviour ‘was: taken Bet 1 sg by! the other a ae ae pao * cnet terifor it; andhe often decla them, that-he would gladly: wie ote — oe ms pie i being fully tired of it; but hed val ned to fee tba Rave of any Englifh Man-agam 5 sa wis i he could get to Spain or Portugal, where | x = gh _ undifcovered, he would {pend the Remain e hl Days in either of thofe Countries, pect e muft continue with them as long ashe live ee - When Black-beard loft his Ship at Topfai ; and furrendered to the King’s creeds ons vet reaflumed the Command of his own is § Revenge, goes direttly: away to Bath-Town in : : -he King’s Par- ‘Carolina, furrenders likewife to the King’s P don, ‘and receives.a Certificate. The War Vietinso Sararyih betweem the Tripple Allies and hoe Major Bonnet gets a Clearence for his Sloop a Oe: Carolina, to go.to thet fland of St. Thomas, ie che fign (at leaft it was pretended fo) to get t ee es for’s;Commiffion, to go a Privateering ase oe niards. When Bonnet came back to Topfail n ns ik found that Teach and his Gang were gone, an ieee 94. of Value out of offered him, beard, but it happened too him there, and after four Days wards Virginia. In the Month of July, thefe ' off the Capes, and meeting with of Provifions on Board, which Of Major STEDE "BONNET. had taken all the Money, {mall Arms and Effects 5. and fet afhore a League from: the Adventurers came @ Pink they h ‘with a ‘Defign: » they thould be welcome ; ‘Whereupon they all conf as the Sloop was Preparing to fail; .a that brought Apples and Sider to félit Men, informed them, that Captain Teach lay at Oca ricock Inlet, with only 18 or 20 Hands, who bore hima mortal Hatred for fome Infults went immediately in purfuit of Black- late, for he miffed of 'Cruize, hearing no farther News of him, they fteered their Courfe to- ented, -but Bom-Boat, © the Sloop’s Bonnet, witha Stock Of Major SrEDE BONNET. be in Want of, they took out of her ser A ee Barrels of Pork, and about 400 Anal LS ie but becaufe they would not: have t ight to the Account of Pyracy, they gave ae dc ©r ten Casks of Rice, and an old Cable, thereof. J, TES hey chafed a Sloop of st Day afew hy cate Sn fixty Ton, and to fo happy here as to get a Supply Flenry , they were: fo | : brought from of ane: to their Vidtuals, for they bis aiehfoe her two Hogtheads of Rum, and as loffes, which, it feems, they had need of, shortly had not ready Money to purchafe them: What curity they intended to give, can't elaine coe ent eight Men to! take Care of. foe BD +100 who, perhaps, not» caring to makes Seer! See crore t with her, and Bonne ! 4 = fost tar called Captain Thomas,) Ry the Seer this, the Major threw off. all. Refiraitts aidan hvhe-had juft before receive = 5 aye jefty’s seas dn the Name of Stede Bonne na in taped in good Earneft into his ole sat heal ecetonlppltoar eps betta a ae & down-right: Pyrate, by taking Bui 2 wee ees all the Veffels he -met- with : ite ae Pa tld nt a bef des an hun- ©ut of which they had very little efi oe dred: Weight of Tobacco. The next aah ey. took a {mall Sloop bound from i weiata ho Peiy, das, which fupply’d them with twent ¥ Pane Bett Pork fome Bacon, and they gave ae Re hake Barrels of Rice, and a Hogihendiot oe a Sie Of this Sloop two Men enter’d vo M n, bound to next they took was another i siete . as : Nala Glafcow, out of which they had nothing caer dies, and -fave only a) few. Combs, Pins and Needles, ae ‘ TRU ATE SA CAPE WRC ONE A CRPE +s > ONE AT Te ee I BEE BE ee Oey y 06 (Of Major SrepE BONNET. Barrels of Bread, ; Big “From Virginia’ they failed to ‘Philadelphia, and in-the Latitade of 38 North, they tooka Scooner, coming from WNorth-Caralina,. bound to Bofton, they had out of her only two Dozen of Calf-Skins, ‘to make Covers for-Guns, and‘ two of their Hands, and detained her fome Days. Allthis was but {mall Game, and feem’dasif they defign’d ‘only to make Provifion for their’ Sloop ‘againft- they arrived at St. Thomas's, for they“hitherto. had dealt favou- rably: with all that” were fo unhappy as fo fall into their Hands s but thofe that:came ‘after, fared daware River, near Philadelphia, they took two Snows bound to Briffol, out of whom they got fome.Mo- Pounds ; at the fame Time they took a Sloop ‘of fixty Tons.bound from Philadelphia to Barbadoes, which after taking fome Goods out, they difmifted along with the Snows.? © 9)! oP out on _-The ‘29th Day of Fuly, Captain Thomas took a Sloop of 50 Tons, fix or feven Leagues off Dela. ware Bay, bound from Philadelphia to Barbadoes, Tho- mas Read Matter,’ loaden with ‘Provifions, which they kept, and put four or five of Board her. ther Sloop of 60 Tons, ‘commanded RB, Peter Man- waring, bound from Antegoa to Phila they likewife kept with all _the Cargo, confifting chiefly of Rum, Moloffes, Sugar; Cotton, Indigo, and about 25 Pound in Money, valued ‘in all to 500 Pounds!) #191 ¢ OXOGS PHS OSS genet ot 709 __ The laft Day of Fly, our Rovers.with the Veffels daft taken, left ‘Delaware Bay, atid failed to Cape named the Royal James, proved very leaky, fo that gave her inftead thereof, a Barrel of Pork, and twé not fo well, for inthe Latitude of 32,.0ff of De- ney, befides Goods, perhaps to the Value of r50__ of their Hands on — The laft Day of Guly, they took ano. — élphia, which — Fear River, where they ftaid “too long for their Safety, for the Pyrate Sloop which they now new — Of Major STEDE BONNET. 97 : they were obliged to remain here almoft two Months, to refit and repair their Veifel: They took in this River a:fmall Shallop, which they rip- Ped up to.mend the Sloop, and rétarded the fur- ther Profecution of their Voyage, as before menti~ Shed, till the News came to Carolina, of a Pyrate Sloop’s being there to.carreen with her Prizes, ‘ Upon this Information, the Council of South-Caro- lina was alarmed, and apprehended they fhould Teceive another Vifit from them fpeedily ; to pre- Yent which, Colonel William Rhét, of the fame Pro- yitce,, waited on the Governor; and generoufly of fered himfelf to go with two Sloops to attack this Ytate ; which the Governor readily accepted, and cordingly gave the Colonel a Commiffion and full Power, to fit fuch Veflels as he thought pro- Per forthe Defign, | i aceaive na few Days two Sloops were équipped and manned: The Henry with 8 Guns and 70 Meni, com- ™anded- by. Captain Fohn Mafters; and the Sea Jmph, with 8 Guns and 66 Men, commanded by Captain Fayrer Hall, both under the entire Direti- on ‘end Command of. the aforefaid Colonel Rhet, ‘Who, on the 14th of September, went on Board the Henry, and, with the other Sloop, failed from Char les-Town to Swillivants Iland, to put* them- felves. an order for the Cruize, Juft then arri- ved a {mall Ship from Antigoa, one Cock Mafter, With an Account, that in Sight of the Bar le was “ken and plundered by one Charles Vane; a Pyrate, ina Brigantine. of 12 Guns and 90 Men; and Who had alf taken two other Velfels bound in ‘there, One a {mall Sloop, Captain Dill Mafter, from Barbadoes « the other a Brigantine, Captain Thomp+ fon Mafter, from Guiney, with ninety odd Negroes, paich they took out of the Vefiel; and put on. a °ard another Sloop then’ under the Command of Ne Yeats, his Confort, with 25 Men. This ree , : G ora 98 Of Major STEDE BonNeE®, fortunate to the Owners of the Guin, Yea's having often attempted ‘to quit this Court of Life, took an Opportunity in the Night, t Jeave Vane and to run into North-Ediflo River, t the Southward of Oharles-Town, and furrendered tt his Majefty’s Pardon. The Owners got their Ne them from the Government, | Vane cruifed fome Time off the Bar, in hopes tl catch Yeats, and unfortunately for them, ‘took tw - Ships coming out, bound to London, and while tb Prifoners were aboard, fome of. the Pyrates gavl out, ‘that they defigned to go into one of th - Rivers to the Southward. ’ Colonel Rhet, upd Bar the 15th of S tember, with the two Sloops before mentioned 5 an Vane, and\fcoured the R Tn Southward ; but not meeting with him,~ tack and ftood for Cape Fear River, in Profecution his fir Defign. On the 26th following, ‘in’ tl Evening, the Colonel ‘with ‘his ‘mall Squadra! entered the River, and faw, over a'Point of Lav three Sloops at an Anchor, which were Major: Bon and his Prizes but it happened that in going? the River, the Pilot run the Colonel’sSloops agroutl and it was dark before they were on Float, whi hindered their getting up that Night. The Pyra e ~ foon difcovered the Sloops, ‘but not knowihg w they were, or upon what Defign ‘they came if that River, they manned ‘three Canoes, and f them down to take them, but they quickly fou their Miftake, and returned.to the Sloop, witht unwelcome News. Major Bonnet made Preparati0 that Nightfor engaging, and took all the Men0 of the vrizes. He thewed Captain Manwaring, 9 of his Prifoners, a’ Lettérj he had juft wrod! which he declared he would fend to the Gove ey Man, fot of Carolinas the Letter was to this Bifeck, viz. That groes, and Yeats and his Men’ had Certificates givel d Circumftances ; the Henry, in which Colonel Kher Vantage; for their Sloop, after fhe was a-ground, Of Major SVEDE BONNET. 99 2f the Sloops. which then appeared, were [ent out againfe him, by Be ‘fia ae nd he fhould get clear off that he would burn and deftroy all Ships or Veffils gomg veer coming out of South-Carolina. The next Mor Bee ing they ‘got under Sail, and came down the we €figning only a running Fight. Colonel ier Sloops got likewife under Sail, and ftood for im, &¢tting upon each Quarter’ of the reaiben bh cod tent to board him; which he perceiving, edge x towards the Shore, and being warmly engaged, their Sloop ran a-ground: The Carolina Sloops €ing in the fame fhoal Water, were in the fame . . d Was, grounded within Piftol fhot of the Pyrate, an on his Bow ; the other Sloop grounded medi tla bend oe him, and almoft out of Gun-Shot, which made Her Of little Service to the Colonel, while they. *Y aégrotind: *O%9%.8 160 b Poe At this Time the Pyrate had a confiderable Ad- Utted 4 1 Rhet’s, by which Means they Were all aera the Colonel’s Sloop lifting the ‘fine Way, his Men were much expoted ; not- Withftanding which, they kept a brisk Fire the Whole Time they lay thus a-ground, which was Hear ‘five Hours. “The Pyrates made a Wiff in their loody Flag, and beckoned feveral Times with their Hats in Derifion to the Colonel’s Men, to come ©n Board, ‘which they anfwered with chearful Huz- 2a’s, and faid, that they would fpeak with them by ws by ; which accordingly happened, for the Colonel’s Sloop being firft a fldat, he got into deeper Wa- ter, and after mending the Sloop’s Rigging, sone Was much fhattered in the Engagement, By food for the Pyrate, to give the finithing oa es and defigned to go direétly on Board as on Ae he prevented, by sg : Flag of Tru ia TIT Poe pee eee ft Ame

" On the 28th of Ottober, 1718, a Court of Vice- Admiralty was held at©Charles-Town, in South-Caro- ina, and, by feveral Adjournments, continued to Wednefday, the 12th of November. following, for G 3 the 102, Of Major STEDE BONNET., the Tryal of the Pyrates taken in a Sloop formers ly called the Revenge, but afterwards the Royal James, before Nickolas Trot, Efq; Judge of the Vice-Admi- “ralty, and Chief Juftice of the faid Province of South- Carolina, and other Aftiftant Judges. | : a Rs | The King’s Commiffion.to Judge Trot was read, and a Grand Jury fworn, for the finding of the {e- veral Bills, and a learned Charge the faid Judge, wherein he rft fhewed, That the Sea mas given by God, for the Ufe of Aden, and is Subjetk t9 Dominion and Property, as well as the Lande « adly, He particularly remark’d to then, the So- vereigaty of the King of England over. the Britifh Seas. ; sdly, He obferved, that as Commerce and Naviga-|. tion could not be carried on mithout Laws ; fo there havt been always particular Laws, for the better ordering and regulating marine Affairs; with an hiftorical Account ot thofe Laws, and Origine. ons ae _4thly, He proceeded to thew, rhat there have been particular Courts and Judges appointed; to whofe Furrfdi- » Elion maritime Caufes do belong, and.that in Matters both “vil and Criminal. rot bes _ And then sthly, He particularly thewed them, the Conftitution and Gurifdiction of that Court of Admi« ralty Seffions, : And lafily, the Crimes cognizable therein and pate ticularly enlarged upoz she Crime of Pyracy, which | ~— pristaaninlcaalcapaie was then brought before them. The Indi&ments being found, a petit Jury was fworn, and the following Perfons arraigned and tried. Stede Bowne, alias Edwards, alias Thomas, late of Barbadoes, Mariner, ; _ Robert Tucker, late of the Mland of Jamaica, Max riner, : Edyard given them by — | | a Of Major STEDE BONERZAO i . Edward Robinfon, late of New-Cajfle upon 1477, riner, . ns 7 Mariner. Neal Paterfon, late of Aberdeen, Mariner. Walliam Scot, late of Aberdeen, Ma Mee William, Eddy, alias Neddy, late 0 een, : riner, ne ae Alexander Annand, late of Samaica, Mariner. George Rofe, late of Glafcom, Marinet; & George Dunkin, late of Glafcow, Ma * Thomas Nicholas, late of London, Ma Sebn Ridge, late of London, Mariner. pass Matthew King, late of Famaica, aah Daniel Perry, late of Guera/ey, Mari f Flenry Virgin, late of Briffol, nla rae vi James Robbins, alias Rattle, late © 2 Riner hr. oe James Mullet, alias Millet, late of London, r iner, : vf : Thomas Price, late of Briftal, Ae suite . Fames Wilfon, late of Dublin, Marin r. John Lopex, late of Oporto, Mariner. suhek 'tiahendl Zachariah Long, late of the Province. Aariner. . Fob Bayly, late of London, Mariner. . A. , Sobn-William Smith, \ate of Charles-Town, Carolindy ariner. : ‘ Ma- Thomas Carman, late of Maidftone 10 ee Tiner, saat : John Thomas, late of Famaica, eee William Morrifon, late of Famaica, Raber: Samuel Booth, late of Shae Lie a ath William Hewet, late of Samaca, aa ; iner. Jokn Levit, late of North-Carolina, a William Livers, alias Evis. i nin Sjobn Brierly, alias Timberhead, \ate of Bath-Tow North lina, Mariner. ~s é “Robert Boyde late of Bath-Town aforefaid, Ma Xiner, % a G4 * Row SRY ety TTT NAT ay UP PS Pp PS ay IO ay ey, Cp rN, MPLEAT RU CUL RULE ee sacrecrt Pie : TO Of Major § tp est Oy Senge geo. pu Ce oe AE Ty So a Fae 2. ) fae e BONNET, Tee _. Of Major STEDE BONNET. TO$! ¥ Sonathen Oo fie se pao Mariner. ' take, and carry amay the [aid Merchant Sloop, called: rhe na, Mariner; 2 CPA HeS-Tomn, South Carali- Frances, and alfo twenty fix Hoglheads, &c. &c. &e- * Thomas Gerrard. late of 4. Ra being found in the aforefaid Sloop, in the Cuftody and Poffe/- And all except aie thr ia “goa, Mariner, Sion of the faid Peter Manwaring, and others, his Mari- las, wete found Guilt te and Thomas Nicho-. ners of the faid Sloop, and from their Cujpody and: Poffe/= | Werth ee Ya-ahe Feceived Sentence’ of (| toi “Was ad bine aon rhe High-Sea aforefaid, oe They were mioft of ay easly os Cape James, alias Cape Inlopen,* as” aforefaid, an ments, as follows, of them try’d upon two Indiét- within’ the Furifdittion aforefaid, acainft the Peace of ec rice a Moga Pat ap VAs ; Vas i . a3 now Sovereign Lord “the King, . his Crown ad. YE Furor: © Sodjevatonk J on ve ignity. Rit carlas ake va Tei ons CA et Rie die PER A 8 of Barbadoes: ve Dacor bonnet, late _ This was the Form of the Indittments they were. I 2d Day of Maa? gure Tucker, “&e. &c. arraigned upon, and tho’ they might have proved __ |). of our Sovereign Lord George ff ae of i ee avetal more Faéts upon the major eae of the, @ upon the EHith-Sea. ; er St OGL OF AMES Tew, the Court thought fit to profecute but two; &e. did i. De SA lace called. Cape James, the other was for feizing in a pyratical and felonious board, and enter. “a cert in hee fet upon, break, | Manner, the Sloop Fortune, Thomas Read Commander ;, Frances, Peter Manwarine Gyn te walled. the | Which Indi&ment running in the fame Form with upon the High-Stg ia eae try ee Force, &c. the above-mentioned, it will be unneceffary to fay” alias Cape Inlope:., bout seen, a ee Cape James, MOLE OF it: | He NS Eee ee *. Soe OG ek, QUOUl . two Miles “diff anr t : ‘ : : J NT ile. Shore, in th yg ee ee iftant from the All the Prifoners arraigned, pleaded Not Guilty. we Sarif a Bee of ae ov thereabouts ; and within | and put themfelves upon their Tryals, except Samer: - Carolina, being i ite hae Vice ddrmiralty, of South- |. Wilfon, and Sohn Levit, who pleaded Guilty to: | 70rs, unkaoton) and ae ies Perfons, (to the Fu- | both: Indi&ments, and Daniel ‘Perry, to one only., [ nioully did wmake-an Aff, i re Pyratically, and fello- . The Major would have gone through both the In-’ Manwaring, and Wee 4 and upon the {aid Peter di&ments at once, which the Court not admitting, the Surers Pare eh ba MILUET Ss, (whofe Names to he pleaded Not Guilty to both Indi&ments, but \ againfE the Peace of God pias i. the fame Sloop, being convicted of one, he retracted his former. Lord the King, then ae rf si Ws ur faid toby Cae sig Plea to the fecond Indittment, ‘and pleaded Guil- pee } oh 2. ? ‘ € oting, Pyratically ane fel- ty to it. ee Sucre F : 31 : me ree ie aga ed Peter Manwaring, and The Prifoners made little or no Defence, every. aforelaid, then beir reds, it ¢ Jame Sloop, ia the Sloop _ he ‘pretending only that they were taken off a | dns dive ss AF pug Fear of their Lives, then Maroon Shore, and were fhipped with Major HN pea bres aforefaid, Ee > upon the High-Sea, in | Bonnet to go to St. Thomas’s 5 but being out at Sea, My lopen, about two AGiles 7 4 i James, alias Cae In- | and wanting Provifions, they were obliged to do Hi) of ab. te LE es ; from the Shore, in the Lattitude What they did by others; and fe did Major Bon- Wii diction eforefaid : ne ee ate within the Furif- | net himfelf, pretend that ’twas Force, not Incli- Wi) chet Br 19 Eyralicaly,, and fellonioufly, did ‘freal, *ation, that occafioned what had happened. How- 1) | . take, ever, |}? | { 106, Of Major STEDE BONNET. e ever, the Faéts being plainly, proved, an 4 hae they, had all fhared,ten ‘or eleven Bounds a May ~PRRIN 4 is 4 ge, made avery, grave Speech | nermity of their Crimes, the Condition they mere. aud the Nature and Neceffity of an-uitescy 21 and then recommended the: the Province, for more am them for Eternity, Lips fhall keep Knowledge, and you fall feek the Law “at their Mouths x. for,.they, are the Ateffengers: of the Lord. Mat, 57. Aad the Ambalfadors. of Chriff, and. wate. e; them is committed the Word, Lor. Doétrine] of Reconci~ —— didsitny 2 Cor.V19,.20. And then: pronounced Sen- tence of Death upon eae Be cncmai es rsh dc or On Saturday Novenber the 8th, L711. Robert Tucker, Edward Robinfon,. Neal Paterfon, William Scot, Fob Bayley, John William Smith, Gohn Thomas, William Morvifon, Samuel Booth, Willian Hewit, William Eddy, alias. Neddy, Alexander Anand, George Rofs, George Dankin, Matthem King, Daniel. Perry, Henry Virgin, Pk Robbins, Fames’ Muller, alias Adillet, Thomas cice, Fohn Lopex, and Zachariah Long, were executed at the White- Point near Charles-Torn, purfuant to their Sentence. ; mo tase . As for the Captain, his Efcape protragted his Fate, and {pun out his Life a few Days longer, for he was try’d the toth, and being found Guilty, yeceived Sentence in like Manner as the former : Refore which Judge Trot, made.a. moft excellent Speech to him, rather fomewhat too long to be taken into our Hiftory, yet I could not tell how to pals by fo good and ufeful a Piece of Inftruétion, not knowing whofe Hands this Book may happen to fall into. ple, Directions, to’ ft t Es The Man, excepting, the three lait, and Fhomas. Nicholi, they \ were. all but they, found-Guilty. The Judge made. | to them, _fetting forth the. Ee OY re MOT Figs ity of anunfergned Repentance. S 5 n to the Minifiers of for (concluded he) ahs Pricf's a Of Major STEDE BONNET. 107, stort ot 40088 Jit HOY “vd é: : 2 Boe The Lord Chief Fuffices’s Sp EE OH, _ upon bis, pronouncing Sentence oa Maj oS DE De Bow NET. sued oon | ‘ pa 2 Dai eG wNs ra neath, Cana 2 . H oom ig BS og creaeee rite Lan OL. Vet KF e convicted AT Ajot Stede Bonnet, you ftand, her ; aie V: CG ican ate ‘of Pyracy.; one by. Condon, : you, know that at your Tryal_it, was fully proved took and rifled no lefs. than, thirteen Vellels, fince you fail'd from North-Carolina. ¥ STE JO the Verdict ofthe Jury, and che other by your own “Altho’ you.weré indiéted but for tmo Faéts, yet évein by an unwilling Witnefs, that you fyratically eahaids. a? suds ae -_ So that.you might have been indiéed, and con~ f a ss Jub Aya 4 EC ( pt vitted of eleven more A&ts of Pyracy, fince you. Bs the Benet of he Kluge A of iat, and preted adeae Ha eles CoH OL Meiot a day ~ Not to mention the man | Ads 0 4 ne uc committed before ; for which. if your ie ae Man was never fo authentick, yet you muft ‘expect ‘to anfwer for them before God. . ws mee £0 Pon tnoe that the Crimes you have Bie are evil in themfelves, and contrary iH be ee and Law of Wature, as well as the Law o wind phe yah Sg apse Vet yetn Exod. 20. 15. And the ApoftleSt. Paul fly aie ate sae fhall not inherit the Kingdom af <6: Lie ; ms site ei you have added a greater Sin, ee is Afurder. How many you may have killed oe ae that refifted you in the committing your fee Pyracies, 1 know not: But this we all ON Bt befides the Wounded, you kill’d no lefs FE an eg i 2 Perfons out of thofe that were fent by law oo A= EAR ST EI RAO OU He ae ae ase == & ey, + > 108 Of Major StEDE BONNER. i thority to fupprefs you, and : Rapines:that you daily aed, BY And however yaqu_ma 4 WSIS DY ek Wha ecg eset Ey fancy that that PAA Petty in open Tigh, yer this knows eae the powered to ufe any -& therefore thofe. paris te fail en a Cena ae doing their Duty to their King pas Mom i murdered, and their Blood now cries 40 bo O? pai Seance aud Fufice againk you: Fox it is the Foie cP Has contirmed by, the Lap of Gods That migocie, Gaeta “hain § Blood, by Man fhall peste oever.. Gens. 9..:6." - ie Wes STi ‘his. Blood be fhed.- “And 'confider that Death is not che. , eath is not rhe onl ifh=” ment ‘due to Murderers’, for they are eee ny lave, their Part in the Lake which tah “pith an Aint which is the fecond Death, Rey. 21. 8. See. jap. 2.2.~ 15. © Wotds ‘which eat) ipalonai en with them, - that. confidettne your Crt, tance and your Chile, ret ri Your. Circumfances Hoseunit, curely. the Sound: of ‘them: mi make you tremble ; For who can Awell ‘pith cabulah ot ee x ing Burnings ? Chap. O° y As the Teftimony of yout’ Cp Pescriacrt Ve, you of the grett and may Evils you have eon mitted, by which you have highly offended God; and Brovoked moft juftly his Wrath ‘and Indigna’ see fe og nme fst ox ele He Only Wey of Obtaining Pardon a: ‘ fion of your Sin fiom’ God, i Brae ei ae feigned Repentan ve ; 5 feigned Repentance and . Faith F ar : meritorious Death and pine Chrift, by whofe for Salvation. i _ You being a Gentleman that hav vantage of a liberal. Education, and efteemed a Man of Letters, I beliey defs for me to éxplain to you the e had the Ad- being generally e it will be need- Nature of Repen- tance Put a Stop to thofe ’ 4 Of Major STEDE BONNET. - 109 tance and Faith.in Chrift, they being fo fully: and fo. often mentioned in the Scriptures, that you can- not but know, them. . And therefore, perhaps, for that Reafon it might be, thought, by fome impro- per for me to have {aid fo much.-to you, as L have already upon this,Occafion; neither should I have done it, but. that confidering, the Courfe of your Life and Actions, Ihave juft Reafon to fear; that the Principles.,of Religion that had been inftilled into you by your, Education, have been at leaft Corrupted, if not entirely defaced, by the Scepti- cifm and Infidelity of this wicked Age, and that What Time you allowed for Study, was rather ap- plied to the Polite Literature, and the vain Philofophy ok the Times, than a ferious Search after the Law and Will of God, as revealed unto us in the Holy Serip- tures: For had your Delight been inthe Lam of the Lord, “and that youhad meditated therein Day and Night, Pfal. 1. 2. you would then have found that God’s Word was.a Lamp unto your Feet, and a Light to your Path, Pal. 119. tog. and that you would account all other Knowledge but Zo/s, in Comparifon of the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ Fefus, Phil. 3. 8. -who to them that. are called is the Power of God, and. the Wifdom of God, 1 Cor. 1. 24. even the hidden Wifdom _which God ordained before the World, Chap..2.7- © _. You would. then’ have efteemed the Scriptures as the: Great Charter of Heaven, and which ‘delivered to us not only the moft: perfec Laws and Rules of _ Life, but alfo difcovered to us the Acts of Pardos . from God, whereinjthey have offended thofe righte- ous Laws: For in them only is to be found the great . Myftery of fallen Man’s Redemption, which the Angels _defire to look into, 1 Pet. 1.12. . And they would have taught you that Sin is the ., debafing of Human Nature, as being a Derivation from that Purity, Rectitude, and Holinefs, in which Ged “de created — _ God that you have { highly offended’ 4 oe ing by the Lawsiot ecg 284 Religion, ani wits to the Ways be an ole Were altogether srererapte re atan > fOr av. xi io Virtue are Ways of Pleafa nahh for that the Ways of nel of your Qt You ate now fenfible eS ae F ois, and that YOR Rhee Bisaa.iee ee “ie mtolérablaje! wvsd tans ty the Burden oF sas the- a at. TI. 28. you wi Lie lane 2 ee valuabl Raia ee that FA you. can ‘be’ reconciled to ¢hae ce they ‘ean reveal to you Him ‘not who is Wer ful Advocate ith. the Fatboy fir pee e a, but alfo who hath paid that Debt that i 5 ‘he af Ged which } oe ditcovers to us “that “JONn Ts 29. which is Chys ; this know, and be tthe ? > Name u +e that there is none gif , ader Heaven given among Men. gh S$ none other 2, whereby we yyy be faved, A&s 4°43 Lord Felis $4 12, but only by the Name of the But MSAD con oer car reSPNT US Paces yr R V5 AY, bh babe oy OMS ISP NS NM ee 3 Of Major SPEDE BONNET. “Itt - “OB then’ confider how he invites all Sinners to -come unto himtand, that he will give them rest, Matt. 11.938. for he affures us, that he came to feck and to “fave that which was lost, Luke 19. 10, Mat. 18. 11. and hath promifed, that he that cometh unto him he will in no wife caSt.out, John 6.37 0. seas ., So that if now you will fincerely, turn, to, him, ‘tho? late, even. at the eleventh Hour, Mat, 20. 6, 9- hewillreceive you; _ CC Ata aa VAIN aaa But furely I need not.tell you, that the Terms of his Adercy is Faith and Repentance. ~ — And do not miftake the Nature of Repentance to be only a bare Sorrow for your Sins, arifing from the Confideration of the Evil and Punifbment they have now brought upon you ; but your Sorrow muft arife from the Confideration of your having offended a gracious and merciful God. But I fhall not pretend to give you any particu- lar Directions as to the Nature of Repentance: I confider that I fpeak to a Perfon, whofe Offences have proceeded not fo much from his not knowing, as his flighting and negletting his Duty Neither is — it proper for me to give Advice out of the Way of my own Profeffion. — =e You may have that better delivered to you by | thofe who have made Divinity their particular Study ; and who, by their Knowledge, as well as their Office, as being the Ambaffadors of Christ, 2 Cor. 5.20. are beft qualified to give you Inftru&ions therein. I only heartily wifh, that what, in Compaffion to your Soul, I have now faid to you upon this fad'and folemn Occafion, by exhorting you in ge- neral to Faith and Repentance, may have that due _.Effef&t upon you, that thereby you may become a true Penitent. And therefore having now difcharged my Duty to you as a Chriftian, by giving you the bedt ts el 1 ye brig OE ee 4 fell can, with refpe& to the Salvation of your Soul, I muft now do my Office as a Judge. - om -.The Sentence that the Law hath ee pee ene rn ae Es eh your Offences, and which ths Cote SPEER oth therefor behays Pier 113 at) Of Major Srepe. Bonnar. € award, is, __ That you, the fiid Stede Bonnet, hall go from hence | C H A P. V. to the Place from whence you came, and from thence. to : the Place of Execution, where you fhall be hanged by the . . Neck till you are dead And t. € God of 5 OrF infinite Mercy be merciful to your Souls Capt. Edward England, And his Crew. Deedepied went Mate ofa Sloop that fail’a ica, and was taken by Captain ee sip a ie juft before atone. Ment at Brovidewse\s fron: whence eee ne Plan Sloop in. the Same laudable’ Bm Ployment : It is a Myer aa poe Res derftanding thould en age in fo peeing Wot haa Nature, and fee oe Upon a Level with the wild Beafts of f € a bes i Who live and prey: upon sheik Lg eri lee Creatures : A Crime fo enormous ! T atit fen “ almoft all others, as Murder, pie eae jae Sratitude, Cc. and tho’ they make the e a . Mhiliar to them by their Sale i pi , tie i fiftent wi 2S, t : cash ated ocaeee Honour, their haa ac their Courage, is look’d upon as_an a ne ane Ought to be punifhed with the eegeene pes » COMmmits it: England was one of thefe ea pee S Rem’ditostave fach a Share of fetes a bias have taught him better Things. He a ne a oe deal of good Nature, and did not want £ a s ee ge ; N DINAN wa 7 ye re eV a a oy cy Ee - = ncn WW ys OY, a K SYA NATTS EO, ae 4 J Scilla a ty y* Ji Of Cai BRoL AND, itd forts, laid hold of the Captain, aid made him fal 7 to the WindlefS, and theré pelted him with Glafs been . contented with moderate Plunder, and Jef Bottles hich -eut him it a fad. Manner 5 anes mitchievous Pranks, could his Companions have which the whi pd him about the Deck, till they been brought to the fame Temper, but he WAS 229 Webs eat wae deaf\to all his Prayers and In- nerally over-rul’d, and as he was engaged in that treati ae at laft, becaufe he had been a good abominable Society, he was obliged to be a Partner Mat a biseaene they faid; he fhould have an in all their vile A&ions, eats Deak “and fo {hot him thro’ the Head. They Captain England fail’d to’ the Coaft of Africa, af- tac for few Things out Of the Snow, but gavé ter the Ifland of Providence was fettled by the Eng- the Veflel and all her Catgo to Howel Davis the fb Go furrendered to Mate; and the reft of the Crew, as will be heteaf- his Majefty’s Proclamation 3 and took feveral Ships _ ter mentioned in thé Chapter of Captain Davis... and Vetfels, Particularly the Cadogan Snow belong- Co seaan England took a Ship called the Pearl, Caps ; j € Skinner Mafter, who tain a $a avety unwelcome Gueft to them, and gave them ea Geena Alun’s. Revenge got off, but. was Joft a little while after upon that Coaft.; and: the Flying King; -Siving herfelf over for loit, ran afhore : As ae then 70 Men on Board, 12. of which ., were kill’d) ‘and the reft taken Prifoners, of whom’ the Porturuefe hang’d 38, of which 32 were Enxglifh, : three. efter, of Gambia, taken | _ the Whydab, Captain Prince, 13-Menon © entworth, the Carteret, and. England upon the Coaft, fail’d to the Wef-Indies, | Of Capt, ENGLAND. — 117 three Dutch, two French; anid one’ of their own N England in going down the Coatt, ae es -— borough Galley of Briftol, Captain seit shieite ete Captain Ridout'; the former t oy _ ae but. plan ered the latter, and let her go. . ‘Corfe Road, they {aw two Sail at Anchor, but be- fore they could reach them, they Bip : eee bles and got clofe under Cape Corfo Caftle, . : "oye ‘and the Fobz, SH Rider: The Pyrates upon this eee Mes Ship Ms a Veffel they had lately taken, and attem seek burn them, as tho they had been aces oe my, which if effected, they could eS ae ee one Farthing the better for it; but t al ae ing warmly upon them, they Luaiee wt Nee down to Whydab Road, where they oe ene 3 Pyrate, one Captain la Bouche, who gl ns a before "England arrived, had ei bet ‘5 and greatly difappointed their Auge eens Captain England, after ‘this Bau 5 Fis ache Harbour, clean’d his own Ship, and Cat hen Peterborough, which he cal?d the ave hey he ee ee free with the Negroe > regen fuch Seen Aéts, that they dena Ne pe Rupture with the Natives, feveral a x tunel kilPd, and one of their Towns they fet Piece When the Pyrates came out to ua Rats tee to a Vote what Voyage to take, and t ; a a oy Carrying it for the Eaft-Indies, they i ie on Courfe accordingly, and arrived at bp eg be ee Beginning of the Year 1720. They saci there, but after taking in Water oe eeeant fiPA for the Coaft of Malabar, whic ~ - euiniees ful Country in the Ex/t-Jndies, in deters ‘aie the Afogul, but immediately fubjet to its va to Cape ces: It reaches from the a Canar. Cane: ynaaiherting " ae aa S ee 118 Of Capt. ENGi awn. ’ Gamorin, which is between 72 Lattitude, and in about 75° Eaft Lon gitude, coun ting from the Meridian of London. The old Na- chants, and generally rich. Qn the ina Proyince to the Northward lies Goa, Surat, Bom= pay, where the Englifh, Dutch, and Portuguefe have Settlements. 4 ‘~ Hither our Pyrates came, having made a Tour. of half the Globe, as the Plalmitt fays of the De- vils, Going-about like roaring Lions, fecking who they might devour. They ‘took feveral Country Ships, that is, Indian Veffels, and one European, a Dutch ship, which they exchanged for o and then came back to Madagafcar. They fent feveral of their Hands on Shore with and Shot, to Tents, Powder,’ kill Hogs, Venifon, and fuch other freth Pravifion as the Ifland afforded; | and a Whim came into their Heads to feek out for a Remains of _Avery’s Crew, whom they knew to be fettled fomewhere inthe Ifland. ——_. Accor. dingly fome of them travelld feveral Days J ney, without hearing any Intelligence of them, and jo were forc’d to return with the Lofs of their La- bour, for thefé Men were fettled on the other Side of the Ifland, 98 has been taken Notice of under the Chapter Ole Anery. fi se et ce ies “a i. * They ftay’d not long here, after they had clean’d | their Ships, but failing to Juana, they met two Englifh; ‘and one Offend India Men, coming out of that Harbour,: one of which, after a defperate Re- ne of their own, | 30, and 129 North Of Capt. ENGLAND. weit A LETTER from Captain Mackra, dated at Bombay, Nov. 16, 1720, E arrived the 25th of July las, in ene of the Greenwich, at Juanna, (am Tflana n ps from Madagatcar) putting in there to eae "s we found fourteen Pyrates that came in ol ae — ees eens — = ae jry toms, long’d, viz. the Indian ueen, geen twenty eight Guns, and ninety Men, comma pC Olives a la Bouche, bound from the Guinea ee Raft-Indies, had been ae me ites io » a il the Captain and 40 of their Men bui } : puede on their srirhed Defign. Capt. Say rol : ae ding it might be of great Service to the Baft-In pe poy to deftroy fuch a Nest of Rogues, were ready to bee sec? Purpofe the 17th of Auguit, about Eight vis a oe Morning, when we difcovered two Pyrate 0 9 aa zuta the Bay of th ats of nse eae ha eh thirty Guns. I immediately went o i yt ot where they feem'd very diligent in Prepara A vis af by with mutual Promi Sagement, and I left Capt. Kirby ipa dat ; ch other. I then unmoor'd, got u 0 pes ho Boats a-head to row Be di a f cis Wich ; but he being open to a Va le e, mae a of bis ita ae mae 5 tele 2 g of 22 Guns, fecing, di me, ee Ce promifed heartily to engage ae 7 wit J believe would have been as good as his Word, oe 48 Kirby bad kept his. About bal an Hour — @ ie ! Called feveral times to the Greenwich to bear ae a but by good Fortune se hot all her Oars to Pieces, which Prevented them, and by cons Sequence faved our Lives, About Four 0° Clock, most of the ‘Officers and Men pofted on the Quarter-Deck bei ne killed and wounded, the largest Ship making upto us with all Diligence; being pill within 2 Cable’s Length of us, often Living us a Broadfide, ede bt and no hopes of Capt. Kirby’s coming to our Aff ance, we en ime to get another Shirt, endeavoured Hie “lidar 5 and tho’ a drew ee Li Wa- manner n es erat an % é sf Fer more than the Pyrate, it pleafed God-that he fiuck faft ora Pair a. ed Deawed go on Board the Pyrates, an on a higher Ground than we happily fell in with 5 fo was lars lai dase veral of the Chief of them knew me, difappointed a fecond time from. boarding us. “Here we @ Promife of Safety, few eee itha they cut three of our wounded Men to tai ish of my Peoples made what hafte. I mt causa Town, twenty five Miles from us, Geof Blood; baving Day abnosh itendewioh Fatigue and — het Raathacier been forely wounded in the Head by a Mus had offered. ten ‘At this Torn I heard that the spa ing me in, which thoufand Dollars tothe Country People to “ is pease ened tnany of them wouldhave . accepted. is “s as sisi wah feiake King and all his chief People were in sg pedal of my time, I vinifed a Report to belbtes vs fe About ten Days Wounds, which iuch abated their Fury hoping: the Malice after being pretty well recovered, and: ba san the dif of bee Enemies mas nigh sr wee as es a Place where mal Condition we were reduced to, oe nt all of us ina we had no Hopes of getting a Paffage home, had. amore violent Engagement than before. fiers, and moft of my Men, behaved with unexpetted Cou= rage, and as wehad a confiderable Advantage by having a Broadfide ta his Bow, we did him kreat Damage, fo that had. Capt. Kirby come in chen, I believe we fhould have taken bothy for we had. one of therm fure 5 but the other Py- vate (who was frill firing at us) feeing'the Greenwich did mot offer to affist us, he fupplied his Confort with three Boats full of frelh Men. Abou Five in the Evening the i way to Sea, leaving ss Struggling hard for Life in the very Faws of Death ; which the other Pyrate, that was afloat, Seeing, got 4-warp out, and was hauling under our Stera 5, by which time many of my Men - being killed and wounded, and no Hopes left us from being all murdered by enraged barbarous Conquerors, I order’ alt that could, to get into the Long-Boat under the Cover of the Smoak of cur Guns 5 fo that with what fone did in Boats, and others by Swimming, moft of us that were able got as Pees regi fooar, fs ' - All my Of- : ith me, which I found of led with me, which I . Ss irene a notwithftanding their Promife, not Some of them would have cut me, and all that would no 7 he chief ith them, to Pieces, bad it not been for the c nhc England, and fome po 7 Paes talked of burning one of their Ships, whic. See Oy cineca ly difabled, as to be no farther ufeful to them, "dg Ciok Caffandra i her room +, but in the Eud I resis doatiral Sowell, that they made me a Prefent of the fa ce Sel Ship which tas Dutch built, called the vaeed ts ae bundved Tons, and alfo a hundred and twenty enn — the Company’s Cloth, tho? they would not giv naet es Thy sa abe 3d of September ; and with cers and fuch old Sails as they left me, I mie a my Ship's like on the 8th, together with forty t. A ldipee thaning Crew, including two Paffengers and cig te : Paface bs but five Tons of Water aboard 5 an r Hes PELUGES amt F ; et CUE Mii ee HM) 122 Of Capt. ENGL Anp, forty eight Days, I arrived here O&ober and ftarv'd, having been reduced to g Pint Calms we met with berween the Coast of A bar. ——We had in all thirteen Aen killed four wounded ; and we mere told, that web about ninety or a hundred of the Pyrates, in both Ships. wich done his D Harvey, who had a prior Promife, being come Fleet; goes in ™y room. ~The Govern haue me YY to go home with hing next Year. Cs Years ago, Captain Cornwall, Comma dore of an Englifh Squadron, affifted them againtt another Ifland called AMohilla, for which they have all the grateful Offices | that i¢ became a Pro. verb, | ever fince’ communicated in their Power, infomuch and twenty ad deftroyed - When they left us, they were about three hundred Whites 7 Pacquet 5 but Captain in with the or hath promis’d me a 10 help make me up my Loffes, and would Of Capt. ENGLAND 323 : a Man were 26, almo§ naked werb, That an Englifhman, and a Juann of Water aDay, all one. and almost in defpair of ever Seeing Land, by Reafon of the - tabia and Mala- pie England was inclined to favour Captain Afackra; i is In- but he was fo free to let him know, that his i : ; : ; hat the tereft was declining amongft ai ae ee P rates were fo provoked at t “ ee mi a bef peer be ei S Eeeemie advi- hardly be able to proteé& him ; he Saat fed em to footh up and mnpraBe, a pre ae Captain Taylor, a Fellow of a mo Spe cee ture ae become a great Hass eamongt them for no other Reafon than nee ene Sreater Brute than the reft. sel es Ba ned Could to foften this Beaft, and ply ee oe eee ese toa iar ehaipsbeeearais ee : whether they fhou é a ee Seer an Accident happen’d which tur i itha the Favour of the poor Captain; a Fellow with be- terrible pair of Whiskers, anda woe heb, 2 ing ftuck round with Piftols, like t beet: Almanack with Darts, comes dears oe ring upon the Quarter-Deck, an 2 oe cat ning Manner, which was Captain Mac _ (pares. tain expeéted no lefs than that this emai be his Executioner 3;——- but when he shee Mi him, he took him by the Hand, ati ae oa him he tas glad to fee him 3 and {hew me - re i ilies that offers to hurt Captain Mackra, for I iia 3: and fo with many Oaths told him, be w , Fellow, and that he had formerly fail'd with him. This Winds eae Time leet in Shore ate ie pene ; ward they were puzzled how to difpo ae A ee er teat go, was to difcover and pa 4. ce je and it was cruel. to ya i secltees to,) there- As ‘ $3 an of t em we a Erne , eos foray to's Mediz they. brought them 9 am Anchor, threw all their Sails over-board, and cut Tt was in 1722, refettled by the French, OM vthile they lay ab an-Aehor, aod_were. all che a Fort at another neighbouring Ifland, called Don - While they lay at an a Mafcarine, and are touched at for Wa ter, Wood, and Refrefhments.: ; f next Day employed:in taking out aes nese the aforementioned; Fleet bore towards they had done. longing to - for India. two Ships to the Eaftward, took to be Englifh, and ners, who had been to tell them the private Sig ordered one of an Officer with Captain Aackra, “The Pyrates detained fome Officers and Men be- Captain Mackra, the Damages received in their and having repaired ho at ‘firft Sight, ‘they the Prifo. the Com- pany’s nals between Englifh Colours, ‘anfwered witha act Hefien cos the Pyrates, but did not freak 1 ae tee At Night they. left the Aéu/catt Ship ee With the Sea Wind, and ftood tothe cian after this Fleet: About four next bate pips d as they were getting under fail, ory eRe Wind, the Pyrates came amongft t ‘A ene hier ftop, but fired their great and ne Has aoe briskly till they got through; an stad Ye tick cleared. were in a. great Soraneee oe Minds "having all along taken sete sae ‘s" a. Fleet; what todo was the Point, w . 3 ire a purfue? They were fenfible of their Ae e sy aay Strength, having no more than ace tee ee Ships ‘and 40 of them Negroes; be ‘i Se Ze cory had then four Pumps at eee for fome €vitably been loft before, had it n ee \ be convenient to inform 436 Of Capt. EnGtanp, - Hand-Pumps, and feveral pair of Sta Out of the Caffandra, to relieve but obferving the Indifferency ‘of the Fleet, chofe rather to chafe than: run ; and thought the beft fet fire to her ; the’ tha The fame took her, go, bound for Cullicus with Cotton. Of thefe Men they enquired concerning the Fleet, fuppofing they muft have been: in sea ey protefted they had not feen a Ship or Boat fince they left Gogo, and pleaded very ear< neftly for Favour ; yet they threw’ all their Cargo over-board, and {quezed their Joints in a Vice, to > But they entirely ignorant of a who or what this Fles of Land, For the to fhift for themfelves, better elucidating ndards brought _ and ftrengthen her a is to play at Bullbeggar — OF Cupt. ENGLAND. : - is, and what the Fleet were, that had fo fcuryily beha mifelves. Pts ite famous Indian Pyrate, ug Pees aie trength and Territories, that ee He Eup fturbance to the European (and efpecially ae Trade: His chief Hold is Callaba, not ih eee from Bombay, and has one Ifland in Sig fee Port, whereby he gains frequent obper pide annoying the Company. It would el BE Perable a Difficulty to fupprefs him, : is : eine nefs of the Water did not prevent Ship Coming nigh: And a better Art he has, of bribing the Mogul’s Minifters for Protection, when he finds — au o powerful. ' ve ose the Bombay Fleet oe be four Grabbs, (Ships built in India by the Coit oS Me have three Mafts, a Prow like a Row-Ga v4 iy Ba a Boltfprit about 150 Tons 5 are officere te wipe like 4 Maa of War, for Defence and ee burs Trade,) the London, Chandois, ‘and two o - Conic With (Gattiwater who befides their pert pene Ments, carried down 1000 Men to bom st BR ter Gayra, a Fort belonging to Angria, sibs Asie labay Coaft, which they having performe sae ally, were returning to Bombay, and, sae mea fellin with the Pyrates, to the Purpofe es already related. Captain Upton, rae witie that Fleet, prudently objefting to Mr. oe Aan Went General,) That the Ships ee pd Zarded, fince they failed without their mnie Boon’s Orders to en age, and befides, tha y did not come out with fuch a Defign. j ho had mand of the Fleet to Captain Aackra, w Orders immediately to purfue and engage, where €ver he met them. The | This favou-- : ai rabl rtunity of deftroying the Pyrates, a c Ber ed SS Goon and he transferred the Com . LEAT SUL INP eae PIRI RT TT eT BG PO “ag POE Mii al Ff ss Of Capt: EC LAND: “rag 148; OF Gapte ENGLAND. " *t00, \(by ee this uncivil Ufage ;) they put The Vice-Roy of Goa, allifted. by the Englifh: ‘direétly for the Ilands, and arrived there in three Company’s Fleet from Bombay, did attempt the Days Kal being ifOrthed by:a Menchew they Reduction of Gullaba, his Principal Place, landed 8or took i; th the Governor of Ganwars Pala,)-of there Looo0 Men the next Year, the Englifh Squadron of ‘being no Anchor-Grownd ‘among them, ‘amd ‘A4e/}. Men of War being then in thofe Seas; but having) dae heinen he ae convenient Ifland, they fent their viewed the Fortification well, and expended fome Boats Re Shore, ‘to fee if there was any Water, and of their Army by SicknefS and the Fatigues of a ‘Whether it teas ‘inhabited or imot; ‘who returned Hl Camp, carefully withdrew again. ~. ., ei0d > wither Anfiver to their Satisfa&tionyéic: that there lk -F return to, the .Py rates, who, after they had. Was abundance of good Water, ‘and “many Houfes, ea fent away the Gallivats People, refolved to cruife. | but’ deferted by the Men,» who had fed to the | to the Southward; and the next Day, between Goa. heighbouring. [flands eilcHe Approach of Ships, and: Carmar, heard: feveral Guns, which. brought . abide frag nly the Women and Children: to guard them to an Anchor, and they fent their Boat on One ‘another. "The ‘Women they forced’ in ‘a’ Bar-: the Scent, who returned about ..two inthe Morn-. | *barous Manner to their Lufts, and to-requite them, Hi ing,.and brought Word of two. Grabs lying at ‘deftroyed their Cocoa Trees, and ‘fired feveral of Anchor in the Road. They weighed and ran to) their’ Houfes and Churches. (1 fuppofe® built ‘by the. wards the Bay, till Day-Light gave the Grabs. 3 Porrupy fe, who formetly aufed'there, \ in their Voy- WH Sight.of them, and was but juft T mne.enough to ABEL TS Tdi) 4 "ele at gs ; i fet under Judie Diva Caftle, out of their reach 5 While they were at? this Mland,’ they ‘loft three I this difpleafed.the Pyrates the more, in that theye Foy file wAhichGre by the Rockynefs of the Ground, i wanted Water ;-.and fome were for making a Des. “Bréthnels of Winds andiat lak were forced thence il cent that Night and taking the Ifland, but it not being - by-atharderG ald Ghat: ordinary, leaving 70 People, 1a approved of by the Majority, they proceeded to Blacks and Whites, and moft of their Water’ Casks : Bi the Southward, and took next) in. their Way, a; In ten Days they "regained-the! Iland‘again, filled ii {mall Ship out of Oxnore Road, with only a Dutch » thei: Nacerviand table the People'on Board, 5 ni Man and two Portuguefe on Board. . They fent one of) eR Ra uihione sverd very fearce, and’ they “now ‘re- thefe on Shore to the Captain, to-acquaint. him, . folved tovifit their good Friends the Dutch, at Co- if he would {apply them iwith fome Water, and ‘thin, who, if you will believe thelé Rogues, never freth Provifions, he fhould have his Ship again 3 and, ‘fail “of fupplying Gentlemen ‘of “their Profeflion. the Mafter returned for anfwer, by his. Mate Franky ‘After cee ‘Days fail, they ‘arrived-off Tellechery, Harmlefs, that if they would deliver him Poflefion — 8ndstgok rai fnall Vellel belonging ‘to Governor i _ over the Bar, he would comply with their Requetts’, debegie Sfobn Tawke Matt er, whom they ‘brought on the Propofal the Mate thought..was.collufive, ath Board ‘wery drunk, and he giving -an "Account of they. rather Jump?d into. Harmlefs’s. Opinion, (who. Captains adohy as fitting ‘out, put" them in a'Tem- very honeftly entered with them,).and-refolved to. “Pett Of Paffion = 1A Villain, fay ‘they, thar-we' have feek Water at the Laccadeva Iflands; fo having fent » “Teased So \civillys as to give him @ Ship and other’ Prefents, the other Perfons on Shore, with threats, that he “ited: Avapge: bo eit againftus,:be ought t0' be hanged 5 fhould be the laft Man they would giye Quarter Soeisniies ie aoe nbd ae to; 4 130 Of Capt. ENGLAND. and fince we cannot {bow -our Refentment: on ‘bina, \let as hang the Dogs bis People, who wih bim well, and would doithe fame, if clear. Ife be in my Power, {ays the be carried with.us for the future, only t0 plague thera» ~—-d——n England. |... ;deavoured totake a large Aor Ship out of the'Road, but was. prevented’ -by-fome Guns mounted on Shore; and difcharged-at’ them: Mr. Lafinby, who “was one of Captain Aackra’s Officers, and detained, was under-the Deck at this T ime, and commaind- jed both by the Captain and QuarterMafter of the Pyrates, to tend the Braces onthe Booms, it was.believed, a Shot would. take him before they “got, clear, asking the-Reafon why he was not there before ? And when he would have excufed chimfelf; which the other beginning to expoftulate farther, and, claim their ,Promife of. putting ‘him: afhore, ‘Captain Taylor; who was. now Succelfor to. England, “his Hands, andunable... 0 The.next ‘Daytir their ‘Paflage down,¢came up with a Dutch ‘Galliot, bound for Crlicur with ‘Lime _ Stone, and aboard of -her they put Captain Tpke, _and fent,him.away, and feveral of the'People inter- -ceeded. for Lafinby in vain, For, fays Taylor and his’ Partys,¢f we let this Dog go, whahas heard: our Defigns sand Refolitions, me overfer all our well advifed Projetkionsy and particularly this Supply we are now feeking for, at tht ands of the Dutch. Heer fareetcn : _ It was. butene Day more before they arrived of Cochin, where, by a Fifhing-Canoe, they {ent a Let- ter on Shore; and in the Afternoon, with the Sea- breeze, ran. into.the Road and anchored, faluting the Fort with 11 Guns each Ship, and received the Retura -Quarter-Matter, both Mafters and Officers of Ships fhalt Thence they proceeded to Calicut, where they en- in hopes, _ __threat’ned on the! like Negle&-to. fhoot\him:;.at -£0t an unmerci‘ul beating from the Quarter-Mafter. and whofe Priviledge.it was to do fo, being lame of Of Capt ENGLAND) —134 Retiitii, in an equal Number ; a good googie eet Weléotie Reception they found; for at Lee aoe Cate On Board a large Boat; pane 5 Chie frefh. Provifions and Liquors, and wit Bs . peor (Of 'a favourite Inhabitant) called Fohn. = ue told them they muft immediately weig . : mire farther to the Southward, where they cates fapplied with all Things they wanted, nave ‘ Sr Frovifions. Kore i ae arene “They ted not been long at see Sat nised they had féveral Canoes on Board ees te nd white Inhabitants, who continued, = he ’ terruption, all good Offices; during t phe y 2 Particularly John Trutmpet brought a ope sie Arrack, than which, nothing could be more. pled- fing (about 90 Leger8,) as alfo 6o Som iray ; an Offering, its prefumed, from the sai canniea his Daughter; who, in Return, had a erie Clock fent him, (the Plunder of pote see Ship, )'and thea large Gold Watch, Barnetis of the Pay they defigned to make A re fea iad all on Board, tana Me Trup pet to his Satisfaction, it, was compu “ 1, ees 7800 1. gave him three Cheet's, 11 Guns is nee and: throw’d Ducatdons: into his Boat yi fuls, for the: Boat-Mem to feramble ae bce 3 That Night being little Wind, di ao i gh, tnd Trampet, in the Morning, waked t ae one Sight of more ‘Arrack, Chefts of en el ey Teady made: Clothes, bringing the : - ee Place'alfo with him: At Noon, sia t bie: vel ©n Board, faw a Sail tothe Southwar , w Sa res Weighed; 'and chaced after, but fhe havir ga gud Offing, got ‘to the Northward of mene rth chored a finall Diftance from Cochin Fort; ge Mentioned Gentletien affuring dharani ie Would not be molefted in taking her setae : ing her the Caftle, follicited before bet for the buying Pea ete dsadvited . 4 gee ENED ENE. eh and advifed:them to and in, Which they did-bold- ee Wind “and Nidhe.’ fvourin they {eparated, ly, to board her; but. when.'they cathe within a: a a eee een oe aaa gen the Southward, Cable’slength or two of the Chace; now:néar. Shora, thinkij Ss eficlofe’ het between: But to’ ther - the Fort fired two: {mal ‘Guns, whofe Shot falling Aftonity id and ‘contrary. to Expectation, when = mgh -their: Muzzels, they’ inftantly bore out of the Dai Ay fe oftead OF the Chace, found themfelves Road, made am ealy Sail to-the Southward, and an- sais ae (Pea bak. of tall Ships, who immediately chored at’ Night in their, former Birth, where Johy. alien @ ti yi Wor the Pyrates to bear down, put Trumpet, tov engage their Stay a fittle: longery in- then : th Seton: Confufion, particularly Faylor’s _ formed them, that in afew Daysa veryicrich Ship, Shi S\N TEL oik autres Diftance from = pats by; commanded by. the General of Bom- them Cat Yast. éhkee ‘Hedgues to the ae ays'Beothersiy: hood an em SS Levee bad Gody thay te Bide: eats ¢, “and joined, an then t0- - This ‘Governor is an. Emblem of foreigu Power. were food te ne antler, an Way from the Fleet, What Inconvenience and Injury. muft’ the: Mafter’s Whont the Hut ed’ to be ‘commanded by ‘Gaptain - Subjedts! fufain under one whe can truckle to fuch, Mae aoe Mean v Coitrage having’ Experience, treacherous: and bafe Means. as cortefponding. and they sn, bha to fhun any farther Palteohé '.-© trading with Pyrates to enrich -himfelf 2» Certainly; Tht 5 ot rs Chace; tione of the Fleet gaming fich aManwill flickle at'no Lnjuftice :to..r¢ ir ore Ube thes Bae ting one Grab, their ‘dejected make a Fortuie. He: hag! the Argumentuta, bacilluy Cotte; aoe eesnah up again, the. more, in that always in his own Hands; natid- can convince; when 2 Calan ceeded for the Remainder of that Day 3 @ pleafes, im half the’Fime of other Arguments,’ | and in the Ri ht, with the Land Wind) they ran that Fraud and Oppreffiow is: awe. Thatyhe ims direst] y hie chat and’ found next Day, to their ploys Inftruments ‘in fuch. ditty, Work, /sexprefies fteat rae folation, that they had loft Sight of all the Guilt and Shame, ‘but, no Way”, mitigates)the the F] Pia by pron i Reese, ane Crime. Yon Trumper was the Took: but,as-the Dog THis Dinee: efcaped, they propofed to {pend ht yar? | Gprifimas (the Ghrifimas’ of 4730). in Carowzing Wis Cues ee PO Bi tnd Forgetfilnefs, and cept it for three Days | | Leannot but reflekk, onthis Occafion,-what.a vile m® Wanton\ant Stotous Way, ‘not only eatmg, but Government-Saacho Pancho hadbof it ; he had.noton- Waiting th if freth' Provifions in fo wretched “and ly fuch Perquifites refcinded, but was really almoft indohaa ne al Muhnee: that when’ they’ had ftatved; ‘the Vidtuals taken from him almott every: Agreed f ; this 0% roeped to Mayritins, they were Day, andonly under a Pretence of prelerving his — In th ea ce at i Allowance of a Bottle’of Wa- Excellency’s Health : But Governments adifier. « 110 Heciemi ia bov: ee Wie lain Wve. two Pounds of Beéf, ‘From Cochin fome were -for Proceeding: to Aprdae | Hs ee bee a ail Rice for teh Men for a Lafcar dire&ly’s others thought it. proper.to oruize Day ci ene iad it not been for the Jeaky Ship, Gil they. fof a: Store-Ship,-and -thela being tho, Mat, (whieh « nee'they were about to have quitted, and jority, “they ply’d to the Southward; and aftertome | had de Rs A ra a Quantity of Arrack’and Sugar Days fiw a Ship! in shore, which being to-;Wind- She nies 5 d,) they muft moft‘of them have ward of hem} they couldenét Set ahs itethe | Perifh =e pare) ee 0 iat pls Ss £ Sea Oe : i 3 In 4 IPL Wy WN IY PY TT CRN a Le ee ee “ah oy te PUT ROPE a ae 134 Of Capt. ENGLAND, In this Condition the ra Of Mauritius, about the Middle of February; theath- ed aud refitted the Viuttory, and on the sth of April failed again, leaving this terrible Infcription on one of the Walls. Left this Place to goto Madagafcar for Limes, » Lawyers and Men of Bufinefs) any Vifits fhould he paid in their Ak 2+ However, they did not fail dire@ly for Atadacafcar, but the Iland Adg/carine, and luckily as Rogues could .with, they . found at their Arrival on the 8th, a Portuguefe, Ship at. Ane chor, of 70 Guns, f them thrown, board, her Mafts loft, and fo much difabled. by a violent. Storm, they had. met with in the Latitude of 13° South, that the became, a Prize to ‘the Py- yates, with very little or no Refiftance, and:a glo- | tiousone indeed, having the Conde de Ericeira,Viceroy of Goa, who made that fruitlefs Expedition againtt Angria, the Indian, and feveral other Paflengers on oard ;,who,.as they could not be ignorant of the | Treafure fhe had in, did affert, that in the fingle Article of Diamonds, there was to the Value of et ween three and four Millions of Dollars. | __ The Vice-Roy, who came on Board. that Morn« ing, in Expetation of the Ships being Englifb, wag made .a Prifoner, and obliged to ranfome; but. in Confideration of his great Lofs, (the Prize, being Part his own,) they agreed after fome Demutrin 8; to accept of 2000 Dollars, and fet him and the other Prifoners afhore, with Promifes. to teave a Ship that they might Tranfport themfelves, becaufe thelfland was not hought in a Condition tomaintain 10 great a, Number ; and tho they had leaned | from them, the Account of an Offender being t2. Leeward of the Ifland, which they took on that | Information, (being formerly the Greybound Galley of London,) and could conveniently have ‘comply’d with {0 reafonable a Requeft; yet they fent the Offender y arrived at ‘the Ifland but moft of them thrown, over- | Of Capt. ENGLAND. 135 Offender with fome of their People to yeh Ge With News of their Succefs, and to brepers sect forthe Prize, and followed themfelves: ore ane 5 Without regard tothe Sufferers, carrying a Lambique Negroes with them in the Portiaieft Shee ,; “Madagafear isan Mland larger than Grear- rials Moft of iv within the Tropick of Capricorn, a se Raft’ from the Baftern Side of Africa: It ale With. Provifions of all Sorts, Ore ate eee Poultry, Fish, Citrons, Oranges, Tamarin 8, ati Coco-Nuts, Bananas, Wax, Honey, Sa He thort} Cotton, Indigo, or any other a im : ne Will take Pains to plant, and have Un Hei a nae to. manage: They havé likewile Ebony, ahar eee like Brafil, of which ‘they make their sens i Gum of feveral Sorts, Benzin, ‘Dragon’s | val Aloes, ec. What is moft incommodious, ae He humerous Swarms of? Locufts on the nies Se . Crocodiles or Alligators: in) their Rivers. J pats In’ St, Auguffin’s Bay; the Ships gal sa yeas for:Water, when they take the. inner’ Pal ag 3 Jndia,-and do not: defien to ftop at Johanna 5/an bed May ob{érve fromthe: fixth general OSH forth by the ‘Eaf-India Company, in Confirm: pa of what is héreafter {aid in‘ Relation ‘to’ Curren : in general; that this inner Paffage or ae , has its Northern and Southern Currents 3 es Seft whére! the Channel is narroweft, and Pe $ and varies on’ different Points of the Compafs, a5, the(Sea'comes to fpread again, in the Paffage cro the Tinea e ise. Sau Stars , ; Since the Difeovery of ae rac pare ee wefe, ADI 18665, the Europeans, \ Bree chase Ncruagel a dark Mulatto ath he tho” fill few in’ Comparifon with the Peat >, Who are’ Negroes, with curled fhort Hair, Aé ive) and formerly reprefented malicious and ais ee t ful, now trattable and eee ae perhaps ne 4 ee OTR TNT A ee ee 136; ing to. the: Favours. and. aad. Liquors, they from: Time ceived from thefe.Fellows,. who Friendthip, and can, any-fingle] | manda Guard. of 2-or 300 at.a | « — ‘This.is.farther the Native’s | — 2 oc a o Qu oe e a) ie) 2 = ° pa) va} is) w 3 (>) Here: the Pyrates came, | cleane. znd divided Z monds a.Man,.or in, Jefs Prop their Magnitude., An ignoran who had only, one.in, this Divifi equal, ini Value atthe Lot, and went and broke: fwearing afterwards, ‘he had a, be any of them,, for he had: _. 43 Sparks., Serie mutual Agreements, the lon The Refidue h _ twoShips, the Fittory being. leaky, the: Men (as many, as would) comin fandras, under t) their Plunder, tharing 4 heat it, he. i Thofe who were not for is 1 Ps Maving. therefore, no chez. Command of Tay PURE Ma ae Of CaptoENGL AND, :Generofity, in Cloat to: Time hay. live in-all poffible — Man of them;, com-: Minute’s. Avarning: <1 ntereft, .to d: t to.42.{mall, muttered ver Ifina = hing cultivate 2 t Rambique, whence. the Gover-: | Mororderedher for Gog, eS gen] A he Caffandray ; : 2» {mall Dia-. ortion according to; Morter,; tter Share than. faid, . into: - Occafion fore, the was burnt,, Crre=t. 7 eeEOE—eEeEeE—E——E—eE——————— SCOT INK GION oy MRS AVY ay yy Of Capt ENGE AN DY See) the) Dutch, or elfe for the RelPor’ China Seas; to avoid the Men of War, that continually clamou- red “in: their Ears, a Noife of Danger, aS the’ little Accéunt: we: are able, of that Squadron, . who arrived: in Tedia, early in thé Yéar'1727. * At Gape'Good: Hope, in: Fune, the ES aoe With a Letter, which was left for him by ‘a an vernor of Adadéas, to whom it was wrote by z pe vernor of Pandicherry, a French Fadtory, on ecm *nondel Coat, fignitying, the Pyrates: atthe ¥ 8 Ofit, were then ftrong ih the Indian’ Seas, havir Ea Sail and 1500 Men,’ but that “many of ee 7 away about that Time, for the Coatt of Brazil: and Guineas others fettled and fortified ile " ‘adagafear, Mauritius, Johanna ‘and Mobilla: ay that others under! Conden, in a Ship called nes £0n, ‘took a large Afoor’s Vellel, coming from, fud= daand Mocho, with. ‘thirteen’ Lackies of Rupees on Boatd, (i e 1'300000 half Crowns,) who having divided the Plunder, burnt their Ship and ‘Prize, andfat_ down quietly with. thet’, other Friends at Madagafcarn, 9 teannit dacace akeeee fe The beau? contain’d féveral” other Things ’ Which we Have’ before related..L Gommadore ; R378 Matthews, upon receiving this Intelligence, and be- ing fond of tad Service he came out’ for, baseacd to. thofé Mlands, ‘as the mot hopeful Places Of Succefs ;' at St. Mary’s would have engaged England. With’ Promifes’ of’ Favour, if he would commu Nicate what ‘he’ knew, concerning the Caffandra, and the reft of the Pyrates, and affift in the Pilo« tage; but England was wary, and thought ns Was to furvendéer at Difcretion, fo they took up the Judda: Ship’s’ Guns. that was burnt, and’ the Men of War. difperfed themfélves on feveral Voyages and Cruifes afterwards, as was thought likeliett %0, flicceed, tho? to no Purpofe: Then the Squa- drop Soa ca Sy SATIS Py UY OPA Py ee OR ae 138 Of Capt. ENGLAND. Of Capt. ENGLAND, 139 dron went down to. Bombay, were faluted by the | _- Here they ftaid above four. Months, carreened Fort, and came home. . ais : : Siagedie Ships ‘and took their Diverfioas with | ., The Pyrates, I mean thofe of the Caffandra, now | Beth ihe till they had expended all their Provi- Captain Taylor, fitted the Portuguefe Man of. War, fions. ° and then put. to Sea, leaving confiderable ane clelved. upon. another Voyage to the: Indies, Quantities of Muflins, Chintzes, and fuch Goods notwithftanding the.Riches they had heaped-up ; behind, to the half ftarved Dutch Men, which en- but as they were Preparing to fail, they heard of abled end to make good Pennyworths to the next the four Men of War coming after them to thofe that came, to whom they bartered for. Provifions, Seas, therefore they altered their Minds, fail’d for at the Rate of three Farthings an Englifh Yard. the of Africa, and put in at a little Place: - They left Delagoa the latter End. of December cuied Delagoa, near the River de Spiritu. Sanéto,: om 1722,-but not agreeing where, or how to proceed, he Coaft of Wonomotapa, in 26% South Latitudes they concluded to part, fothofe who were for con- ‘hey believed this, to be a Place of Security, in: tinuing that fort of Life, went on Board the Portu- regard that the Squadron could: not: poflibly: get Ruefe Prize, and fteered for Afadagafcar to their Intelligence of them, there being. no Correfpon=. ‘Friends, with whom J hear they are now fettled; dence over Land, nor any Trade. carried on by: and the reft took the Cafandra and failed for. the Sea, between that and the Cape, where the Men: Spanifh Weft-Indies.. The, Mermaid Man of War hap- of War were then fuppofed to be. The: Pyrates. ening then to be down on the Main with a Couvoy, came to in the.Evening, and were furprized witha about 30 Leagues from. thefe Pyrates, would have few. Shot from the Shore, not, knowing of any Gone and attacked them; but on a Confultation Fortification or, European Settlement in that Part’ of ‘of the Mafters, whofe Safety he was particularly the World; fo they anchored at a Diftance that to regard they agreed their own Protettion was of Foe oe hee avin in the Morning, afmall | ' more Service than. deftroying the Pyrate, and. fo Fort of fix Guns, they run. up to it, and bate | the Commander was unwillingly withheld. He dil- CPPS a: COWES tical aidvantviswt wag ales patched a Sloop toFamaica, with the News, which __ This Fort, was built and fettled.by the: Dutch brought down the Lancefton, only a Day, or two, too Eaft-India, Company, a. few. Months. before, for late they having, juft before he came, furrendered what Purpofe, I know not, and» having: left. 150. With all their Riches, to the Governor of Porte Men upon the Place, they. were then dwindled.to a Bello serie tiene She aes third Part by Sicknefs and Cafualties, and never Here they fate down to {pend the Fruits of their after, received, any Relief or Neceflaries; fo that. | difhoneft Induftry, dividing the Spoil and Plunder _ Sixteen of thofe that were. left, upon their hum- : of Nations among themfelves, without the leaft ble Petition, wereadmitted onBoard the Pvrates, Remorfe or Compunttion, fatisfying. their Contci- and.all the reft would have had the fame Favour | ence with this Salvo, that other People would (they, faid) had they been any other than Dutch. have done as much; had they the like Opportu-_ I mention this, as an Inftance of their Ingratitude, | nitiess. I can’t fay, but that if they had known who had been fo much obliged to their Country- what was doing in England, at the fame Time by men for Support. the South-Sca Direttors, and their Directors, they . Here at. ae 7 od . i would case a i — - Sometime after this, ftanding to the Northward, in. the Track the Old-England Ships. take, in their, Voyage to the American Colonies, they took fevera] Ships and Veffels, which they. plundered, of ‘what they thought fit, and let them Pal 4s dolwo The latter End of Auguft, Kane, with his Cunkopd Yeats, came off South-Carglina, and- took a Ship: be longing to Jpfwich; one Coggerfhall Commander; laden with. Logwood, » Which was thought convenient enough for their own Bufinefs; and therefore orders: ed their Prifoners to work, and throw alt the daw ding. over-board; but when they ‘had. ; Hy half cleared the Ship, the Whim ‘changed, | and: then they would not. have her 3: {0 Coggerfhall had his Ship again, and he was fuffered’ to purfue his Voyage home. ‘In this Cruze the Rover took feyeral other ‘Ships and. Vellels, particularly: a: Sloop from Barbadses, Dill Mafter ¢ a fmall Ship: from Antegoa, Cock Mafter; a Sloop: belonging to Curacco, Richards Matter > anda Jlarge. Brigantine, Captain Theerhfoo, from Guiney,, with ninety odd Negroes aboard, The Pyrates: plundered them alt and let them go, putting the Negroes out of the ok along with them, With thefe Brigantine aboard of Yeat’s Veffel, by =e Means they came back again to the right ey ae For Captain Vane, having nae ie Confort with very little Refpett, affuming yy ? > ading he Veffel but as a Tender to ae 3 dt them. a Difguit, who thought them ., fe ig pe ‘ rigencp: heey ety re oO: caball’d' together, ! per aeons his Majefty’s Pardon, - | an of ‘which they thought more evrerndecs ioe to be Servants to the former; an be pias aboard fo many Negroes, where they fou spin Hands to take Care of them, {till ass beater Matter, though they ie gees concea sir mentsat that Time. Nhe me ay qnuionebed te: the Eee sted at Anchor, Yeatsin the Evening fipp’c sabe IS and put his Veffel under Sail, file : nish Shore which, when Vane faw, he fe 8 ee ciee voked, and got his Sloop under. cat 7 ap Ei Confort who, he plainly perceived, a 2s: Brigane have no further Affairs with him: ae Des tine failing beft, he gained Geiunt * Bide a ‘Would certainly have come nde athe or chad a little longer Run for it; but Ju a : 8 abuts the Bar, when Vane came within Gye: 0) oo. the fired'a Broadfide at his old Friend, (which. him no Damage,) ‘and fo took his Leave. sowie “© Yeats came’ into North Ediffo River, si ae Leagues Southward of Charles-Town, na ia ha “Exprefs to the Governor, to know te Majefty’s ‘Comrades might have the Benefit of i 7 pl Pardon, ‘and they would furrender theme ae this Mercy, with the Sloops and eee sp a ‘being granted, they all came up and Of Capt. CHARLES VANE. 143 over Yeats and his {mall Crew, and regar« tificates iP 88 a 3 acer” i 8 Se a =e S44 OF Cape CHARLES VANE, rc Of Capt. CHARLES VANE: 14§ tificates'; and, Captain Thomp/on, frotn whom the lave mifted “OF hing [kee rife: However, the Collo- Negroes were taken) had» ie reftored to. him; nays nied tans Rivers and Inlets, as die for the Wife of; his Owners, en. aietest) sot. ae te&ed. for feveral Days, without SuccefS, at length “ane cruifed fome Tinte off the Bar, in hopes to filed ‘in’ Profecution of his firft Defign, and mee Eee : in but therein he | With -the Pyrate atcordingly, whom he fought: and awas difappointed ; however, he wnfortunate!y for | tokio as has been’ before fpoken of, in the Hiftory of ‘them, took twoShips from Charles- | ! wles-Town, bound: home Major Rorner. Wee es Ares to-England. It happen’d that Juft at this Time two Capen: went into an Inlet to the Norths _Sleops well mann’d: and: arm’d, were equippd to go Ward, wheré he met with Captain Thatch, or Selby aftera Pyrate; which the Governor of South-Caroling — Otherwifecalld Black-beard, whom he fatuted (when, was informed, lay. then in Gape :Fear Riveryacleam | he fourd who he was) with his great Guns, loaded Angy But ColonéhRher, who commanded the Slodps, 4 -With ‘Shot. (as is the Cuftom among Pyrates when ‘ Mecting avith'one of the Ships: that Hane had plun= * they meet) Which afe fired wide, or up into.the Airs - dered, going ‘back over the Bar; for fuch!Neceff. | - Black biydianfwerdd'the Salute in the fame Manner; ties as had been taken from her, and. the giving: the tnd’ mutwal Civilities :pafled for fome. Days 5 when Colonel an Account of her. being takem by the: Py- about the Beginning of October, Vane took Leave, and Fate Vane, and alfo; that fome of her Men, while failed further to the Northward. \ Pid R Lez nO. they. wére> Prifoner's on Boardiiof-himyhad heard | - ‘On thé'S3d of Ofdber, off of Long Iftaid, he took the Pyrates fay, they’ thould clean, in’ one of /the a fm “Brigantine bound ‘from Jamaica tO Salen Rivers to the Southwards she altered his fir In" Nori Enpband Sohn Shattock Matter, and entife Defign, and inftead of ftar ding: tothe Northward, Sloop ; ley rifled the Brigantine, and fent her an) purfitit of the ‘Pyrate in Cape) Feat River,’ he Away) oRrom hencé they réfolved ona Cruize Be ‘turns to the Southward after Vanes! who: had order- tween Cite. Meife'and Cape Nicholas, where they edfuch Reports: to be Given! Outy:on purpolesto tent fore Vine” without {éeing’ or fpeaking with fend -any: Force that) fhould come. after him,) upon UY Velfel! till the latter End of November; then they @ wrong Scent 5 for: in Reality ‘he {tood. awayoto fel] ‘upori aShip “which 7was expected would have the Northward, { that the. Purfuit “proved :to-be fuck as Bon ag their black Colours were hoifted 5 the contrary Way ci diiy srnps seas ow 184. oft butanneaacor that, fhe diftharged a Broadfide upolr 2 Afolonel Rher’s {peaking with this Ship, was’ the — the Pyrate. ‘and heifted Colours, which fhewed her moft unlucky Thing that cou Id:have happened,;be- to be'a French Man of War. Vatie defired to have caule it turned him out’ of the Roady whichun all Nothing further to fay to her, buf trimm’d. his Probability, would have brought him into the Coni- Sails and ftood away from the French Man but pany. of Vane, as-ivell as of the Pyrate he went . Money having a Mind to be better informed who + iter; and fo they might have béen both:déftroy’d; he was, fet “all his Sails, and crowded after him. avhereas, by the Colonel’s going a different Way,:he | > During this Chace, the Pyrates were divided in not ‘only: loft the Opportunity) 6F meeting "with their Refolutions what to do: Vane, the Captain; one; but if thesother ‘had not been infatuated. to Was for making off as faft as he could, alledging Ive fix AVeeks together at Cape Fear, he would 4b K the Uhave Sa eA a FO Tt ee EO a RE te wee wet aw me 4 UPL VE PICA PL BUPA ; a NE NA BG OM PO 7 my 146 = Of Capt. CHARLES VANE. the Man of War was too ftrong to cope with; but One Fobn Rackam, who was an Officer, that had a kind of a Check upon the Captain, rofe up in De- fence of a contrary Opinion, faying, That, tho’ he had more Guns, and a greater Weight of Adettal, they might board her, and then the beft Boys would carry the Day. Rackam was well {econded, and the Majority was for boarding; but Yaae urged, That. it was too rafh and defperate an Enterprize, the Man of War ap- pearing to be twice their Force; and that their Brigan- tine might be fuak by ber before they could reach on board. The Mate, one: Robert Deal, was of Vane’s Opinion, as were about fifteen more, and all the reft joined — with Rackam, the Quarter-Mafter. At length the Captain made ufe of his Power. to determine this f Difpute, which, in thefe Cafes, is abfolute and un- controulable, by their own Laws, viz. in fi tings chafing, ‘or being chafed , in all other Matters what{o- ever, he is governed by a Majority ; fo the Brigan- tine having the Heels, ‘as they term it, of the Freach _ Man, the came clear off. As Beran - But the next Day, the Captain’s Behaviour was obliged to fland the Teft of a Vote, and a Re- folution paffed againft his Honour and branding him with the Name of Coward, depo- fing him from the Command, and turning him out of the Company, with Marks of Infamy ; and, with him, went all thofe who did not Vote for boarding the French Man of War. They had with them a {mall Sloop that had been taken by them fome Time before, which they gave to Vane, and the difcarded. Members; and, that they in a Condition to provide for themfelves, by theit _ own honeft Endeavours, they let them have a fut ficient Quantity of Provifions and Ammunition along with them. Dignity, 1 might be _ phn af Of Capt. CHARLESVANE. 147 . Tohn Rackham was voted Captain of the Br igantine, 3n Vane’s Room, aud proceeded towards the Caribbee Iflands, where we mutt leave him, till we have -fnithed our Story of Charles Vane. _ The Sloop failed for the Bay of Honduras, and Vane and his Crew put her into as good a Condi-. ‘on as they could by the Way, to follow the old Trade, They cruifed two or three Days off the. North-Weft Part of Jamaica, and took a Sloop and ‘wo Pettiagas, and all the Men entered with them 5 the Sloop they kept, and Robert Deal went Captain of her, wars : , On the 16th of December the two Sloops came to the Bay; where they found only one at an : Anchor, call’d'the Pearl, of Famaica, Captain Charles Rowling Mafter, who got under Sail at the Sight of them ; but the Pyrate Sloops coming near Ropling, *nd fhewing no Colours, he gave them a Gun or two ; whereupon they hoifted-the black Flag, and fired three Guns each, at the Pearl, fhe ftruck, and the Pyrates took Poffeffion, and carried her away to a fmall Ifland called Barnacko, and there they Cleaned, meeting in the Way with a Sloop from Jamaica, Captain Walden Commander, going down to the Bay, which they alfo made Prize of. for aCruize; but fome Daysafter he was out, a 7 lolent. Turnado overtook him, which feparated him from his Confort, and after two Days Diftrefs, threw his Sloop upon a fmall uninhabited Ifland, near the Bay of Honduras, where fhe was ftaved ta Pieces, and moft of her Mem drowned: Vane him- Lele was faved, but reduced to great Streights, for Want of Neceffaries, having no Opportunity to get ,2Y Thing from the Wreck. He lived here fome Weeks, and was fubfifted chiefly by Fifhermen, Who frequented the Ifland with {mall Craft, from € Main, to catch Turtles, oo ae In February, Vane failed from Barnacko, in order Ca a Pe SES BL RT Se, haa %, Ste NPE UPL IL WU UE RL Oe eae TE RE ON Ps Py PE EE PEs PIG Pots : : 148 Of Capt. CHARLES Vane) While Vane was upon this Ifland, a Ship put in from Jamaica for Water, the Captain of which, one | Holford, an old Buccaneer, happened to be Vanes: Acquaintance; he thought this a good Opportu-' nity to get off, and accordingly applied to his old ' Friend; but he abfolutely retufed him, faying to him, Charles, I fhan’t trust you aboard my Ship, an-' _ defs I carry you a Prifoner 5 for I fhall have you caballing with my Men, kuock me on the Head, and run away with my Ship a pyrating.’ Vane made all the. Proteftations of Honour in the World to him ; but, i¢ feems, Captain Holford was too intimately acquainted with him, to repofe any Confidence at allin his Words or Oaths. He told him, He might eafily find a Way to get off, if he hada Mind to it: Tam wow going down the Bay, lays he, arid hall return hither; in about a |} Months ‘and if I find you upon the [land when I come back, PU caréy you’ to Jamaica, and hang you. Which Way caw I get away? Antwers Vane. Ave there not Fifhermen’s Dories upom the Beach ? Can’t you take one of them? Replies Flolford. . What, fays Vane, would you have mie freal:a Dory thew? Do you make it 2 Matter of | Confcience'? Said Holford, to freal a Dory, when you have | been.a common Robber and Pyrate, Pealing Ships and Car- hoes, and plundering all’ Mankind ‘that fell in your Way ? Stay there, and bed—'d, if you are fo Squeamifh : And fo left him. ©. ey After-Captain’ Holford’s Departure, another Ship — put into the fame Ifland in her Way home for Water; none of whofe Company knowing Vane} | he eafily patfed: upon them for another Man, and — fo was dhipp’d: for the Voyage. Onewould be apt to 'think that Vane was now pretty fate) and like- _ dy ‘tosefcape the Fate which his Crimes had ‘me- rited ;> but here ‘a ‘crof | “Accident happen’d that ‘kuin'd all: Holford, returning from the Bay; was met _ with! by this Ship 5 ‘the Captains’ being very well | acquainted together,” Holford. was invited to dine j ei ; aboard — ae eae rem NY eRe ii ANTS ea May Ry CS Solaebheh arr aT AT yA RY, fae Of Capt. CHARLESVANE. 149 of hi i id; he paffed a- aboard of him, which he did; and as ise te Cabin, ‘he chanced to caft his Eye down -work ; he ‘th d, and there faw Charles Vane at work 5 i Sinan eke to the Captain, faying, Do you fays he, Z Riom who you have got aboard here? Why, have frinp’d a Man - fuch an Sfland, mho ee pe bat tn a trading Sloop, he feems to be a brisk- ob wei You, fays Captain Holford, it is Vane t. te Pyrate. If it be him, replies the other, 2 a stg him: Why then, fays Holford, I'll fend Pear ig aboard, and furrender him at Jamaica. eee ‘ohiesn Se eta at Mate armed, to his Ship, fent his Boat with jis whe stele Vane, thewed him a Piftol, ane Pies him, He was his Prifoner 5 which none UES was brought aboard, and put in ee ; aaa | ‘Captain Holford arrived By eae. Sse jullie’ Ais old’ Acquaintance into the ae Ju ie at which Place he was try’d, convitted, as oak “cuted, as as, fome Time before, Me es Lae Robert Deal, brought thither by one of th 1 of AMag DLR eM COE (RO SOY Wet UE ROL GAPE BAST OAPE WE Ber oe Pr eee ee ae oad oe a PLLA ET RUPERT UL? AE Aa GAPE . — A EP A PGap rs _ < 150 : j «RARE See Bas Re ‘OF om Captain Fobn Rackam,. eae And his Crew. NHIS Sohn Rackam, as has been mentioned — ~ in the laft Chapter, was Quarter-Matter BA toVane’s Company, till they were divided, ‘and Vane turned out for refufing to board and fight the French Man of War, then Rackam was voted Captain of that Divifion that remained in the Bri- gantine. The 24th of November 1718, was the firft Day of his Command, and his firft Cruize was among the Caribtee Tands, where he took and plun- der’d feveral Veffels. © We have. already takén Notice, that when Cap- tain Waoodes Rogers went. to. the Mand of Providence, with the King’s Pardon to fuch as fhould furren- der, this Brigantine, which Rackam now comman- ded, made its Efcape, thro? another Paffage, bid- ding Defiance to Mercy... “e . To Windward of Jamaica, a Madera Man fell _ into the Pyrates Way, which they detained two or three Days, till they had made their Market out of her, and then gave -her back to the Mafter, and permitted one Hofea ‘Tifdell, a Tavern-Keeper at vanaite who had been pick’d up in one of their Prizes, “which fhe had taken as an Interloper on the Coatt. Ottis, | OHN RACKAM. Of Capt. F Prizes, to ‘die in her, fhe being then bound for : i i and enn Cruize, they went into B Semon and cleaned, and fpent their kage ay i Eade ing and caroufing as long as ay eae gee left, and then went to Sea again sh ae 5 nd they fucceeded but too well, ae Sikes pat extraordinary Prize, for above oan Cept a Ship laden with Thieves pia IhSy bound for the Plantations, which, in - ret par retaken with all her Cargo, by an Eng Maar flood off towards the Ifland of pore and took a Ship bound to pda Se ah at and a {mall Pink from New-Englan 9, “ Sale ts them to the Bahama Iflands, where wit Ae oh i Tar, and Stores, they clean’d again, be ee their own ‘Veffel ; but ftaying ae a me: Neighbourhood, Captain Ragers, ‘ae st sae hor of Providence, hearing of thele a Vb ot ken, fent out a Sloop well mann’a | afer which retook both the Takes i bee While the Pyrate had the goo Brice eae hence they’ failed to fa eae? ae Where Rackam kept a little kind o “2 2 Which Place, they ftaid doe dee ke aes Ry Ving afhore *with their Dalilahs, os t and Provifion were expended, an Guarda del Coffa came in witha {mall Englifh Stoop, The Spani{h Guardfhip attack’d aot aga! nits Racking being clofe in behind a litt ates ae Could do but little Execution mer ate aieg fore the Spaniard warps into the Chan ing, i ‘of her the next Mor- ning, in order to make td ke gis 152 Of Capt. FOUN RACK AM) “| ning... Rackam finding -his Cale defperate, and-hards ly any Poffibility of efcaping, refolvéd to attempt the following Enterprize ; The Spanifh “Prize lying — for better Security clofe. into the Land, between the little IMand and the Main; Rackam, takes hi Crew into the Boat, with. their. Piftols and. Cut- lathes, rourids the little Ifland,and falls aboard their Prize filently in the dead of the Night, without bes ing difcovered, telling the» Spaniards. t that. were aboard.of her, that if they: {poke a Word,..or'made the leaft Noife, they! were dead Men, and. fo -be- / : came Mafter of her; when this was done, he flipe her Cable, and drove Out-to Sea: The, Spanifh,Man of War, was. fo intent upon. their, expetted Prize, that they minded nothing elfe, and ailoon as. Day broke, made4furious Fire: upon the:empty. Sloop; it was not Yong before they were rightly ap- prized’of the Matter, and.curfed themfelves for Fools, tobe bit ont. of. %. good rich Prize, as fhe prov’dto be, and.to have nothing but an old cre zy Hull in the room of her., GOO, AIO dat “ated _ Rackam arid his Crew. had no Occafion, to be dif. Pleafed -at the. Exchange; that enabled. them ‘to continue fome Time longer in a Way of Life that | fuited ‘their depraved ‘Tempers: In Auguft}1720; we find him at Sea again, fcouring the Harbours. and Anletsiof the North and Weft Parts of | Samaita, where he-took’ feveral {mall Craft, which, proved nO great ‘Booty to the Rovers, but they-had but few Men, and: therefore they were ‘obliged, to yun at low’ Game, till! they: could encreafe their © Conipanyye tlecits ty at SHSS SAY Ley Kha In the) Beginning -of | September, they. took feven _ or eight Pithing-Boats-in » Harbour Ifand, ftole their Nets and other Tackle,, and then went; off the ‘French Part: of: Hifpaniola, and landed,.! aud -took Catcle away, with two ori three. French Men they found:near- the Water-Side, hunting of wild Hogs it in Of Capt. FOHN RACKAM,. va in the Evening: ‘The Freneh Men ane Bear whether. by Confent or Comslhgi, Peet as They . afterwards. plundered two 5 ORS adit turned to Jamaica, on the North Go! ORT IMand, near Porto Adaria Bay, they eo eh ae Thomas Spenlow Matter ; it was. then an an in Oétober. The next Day,. Rackam fore ee Dry “Harbour Bay, he ftood in, and ue pee 4 the Men. all run afhore, and he fools ee eye and Lading, but when thofe afhore foun SAR tent Pyrates, they hailed the Sloop, and iff reas 10) they were all willing to come-aboard of t fees . Rackam’s coafting the Ifland in. this rps pres ved fatal tohim,: for, Intelligence came, to pat be i vernor, of his, Expedition, by a Canoa w at had furprized afhore, in Ocho Bay 5 Kars " vain Sloop was immediately fitted out, and as aia the Ifland in queft of him, commande as ee tain Barnet, with a good Number of Han Bead ty tkam rounding the Ifland, and. ale wing iB ie Weftermoft Point, called Point. Negril, i aS a. ey Pettiauger, which at fight of the Spare athore and, landed her Men; when one of Fee hailed her, -Anfwer. was made, They. were Fa6) Mt Men, and defired the Pettiauger’s Men ae hehe Board, and ,.drink:a Bowl of ean wae aoe were prevailed upon'to do ; accordingly fiftine of pany came all aboard of the Pyrate, cont pe Se nine Perfons,;in.an ill Hour; they saiiscd me with Muskets and Cutlathes, but, iat wa inet Ree teen to fay ;\ but. they, had_no ; Y ae eee) bees their Pipes, but Beier ® ROePs which was in Purfuit of Rackam’s, came 18 ig Mae | The Pyrates finding fhe ftood direttly Tots. her, fear’d othe Event, and WENBES AOE ‘ an > which they, but.,lately let go, and fioo ahs mp tain Barnet gaye,them Chace, and haying Wipes Sa AP FIT TEI ee Bee CE ee ee 2 TTI, BTS Ee Bs Be a: ae PSAP, ieee snannen pie ihre 184. Of Capt. foun RACKAM. : vantage of little Breezes of Wind, which blew off the Land, came up with her, and, after a very {mall Difpute, took her, and brought her into Port Royal, in Jamaica. ae . . In about a Fortnight after the Prifoners- were brought afhore, wiz. November 16, 1720, 2 Court -of Admiralty was held at St. Fago de la Vega, be- fore which the following Perfons were convicted, and Sentence of Death paffed upon them, by the Prefident, Sir Nicholas Laws, viz. Fohn Rackam Cap- tain, George Fetherfton Matter, Richard Corner Quarter- Matter, ‘Sohn Davis, Jokn Howell, Patrick Carty, Tho- mas Earl, James Dobbin atid Noah Harwood. The five firft were executed the next Day at Gallows Point, at the Town of Port Royal, and the reft, the Day after, at Kingfton 5 Rackam, Feverfton and Corner, were afterwards taken down and hang’d up in Chains, one at Plumb Point, one at Bufh Key, and the other at Gun Key. ~ ts ; - But what was very furprizing, was, the Con- viction of the nine Men that came aboard the Sloop the fame Day fhe was taken. They were try’d at an Adjournment of the Court, on the 24th of Fanuary, waiting all that Time, it is {uppofed, for Evidence, to prove the pyratical Intention of go- ing aboard the faid Sloop ; for it feems there was — no A& of Pyracy committed by them, after their coming on Beard, as appeared by the Witneffes againft them, who were two French Men taken by Rackam, off from the Ifland of Hifpaniola, and de- pofed in the following Manner. ~ ; € That the Prifoners at the Bar, w/z. John Eaton, Edward Warner, Thomas Baker, Thomas Quick, Foha Cole, Benjamin Palmer, Walter Roufe, Fohn Hanfon, and Sohn Howard, came aboard the Pyrate’s Sloop “at Negril Point, Rackam fending his ‘Canoe afhore for that Purpofe: That they brought Guns and Cutlafhes on Board with them : That when Cap- Saeet tain 7?” ca AN ROAR nA A Of Capt. FouN RACKAM. 155 © tain Barner chafed them, fome were drinking, © and others walking the Deck: That there wasa © préat Gun and a {mall Arm fired by the Pytate “S'Sloop, at Captain Barnet’s Sloop, when he chafed “her; and that when Captain Barnet’s Sloop fired © at Rackam’s Sloop, the Prifoners at the Bar went © down under Deck. That'during ‘the Time Cap- © ‘tain Barner chaféd them, fome of the Prifoners at the Bar (but which of them he could not tell) © helped to row the Sloop, in order to efcape from “Barnet > That they all feemed to be conforted ia © gether. : Ba tp as one This was the Subftance of all that was evidenced Againft them, the Prifoners anfwered in their De- fence, © That they had no Witneffes: That’ they * had bought a Pettiauger in order to go a Turtle- * ing 5 and being at Negril Point, and juft got afhore, ‘they faw aSloop with awhite Pendant coming towards them, upon which they took their Arms, them hail’d the Sloop, who anfwer’d, They were. Enylith Afen, and defired them to come aboard and drink a Bowl of Punch; which they at firft refufed, but afterwards with much perfwafion, they went on Board, in the Sloop’s Canoe, and left their own Pettiauger at Anchor: That they had been but.a thort Timesow Board, when Cap- tain Barnet’s Stoop heaved in. Sight: That Rackam ordered them to help to weigh: the Sloop’s An- chor immediately, which they ail refuled: That Rackam ufed violent Means to oblige them ; and that when oe Barnet cathe up with them, they all readily and willingly Submitted. When the Prifoners Were taken from the Bar, and the Perfons prefent being withdrawn, the Court confidered the Prifoners Cafes, and the Ma- Yotity of the Commiffioners being of Opinion, that they were all Guilty of the Pyracy and Fe- "A Ae A AARARARA RAR and hid themfelves in the Bufhes: That one of . 156 © -Of Capt. Foun Rackam, 4+ only they were charged with, which was, the cor 4 ing over with a pyratical.and felonious Intent to John Ra | .ckam, &c. thea notorious Pyrates, and by them known tobe fo, they all, received. Sentence of Deaths which, every. Body , muft allow proyed fomewhat | | unlucky tothe, poor Hellows,, cate an itn ws Same? On, the 17th of February, Fohn Eaton, Thomas Quick and Thomas Baker, were executed at Gallows Point, ‘at Port Royal, and the next Day Yobn. Cale, John Ho- ward and Benjamin Palmer, were executed at Kington whether the other three were executed afterwards, | - or not, never heard, — ae sorte ean '.- Two other Pyrates were. try’d_that belonged to |. Racham’s Crew, fand being convi¢ted, were brought up, and asked if either of them had any Thing to fay why Sentence of Death*fhould not pafs upon | them, in like Manner as had: been done toall the | reft;.and both of them, pleaded their Bellies, be. | ing quick with Child, and pray’d that Execution — might be ftay’d, whereupon the-Court patled Sen | tence, as in Cafes of Pyracy, but ordered them |~ back, till a proper Jury fhould:be, appointed toem |—~ iquire.into the Matters. qi Gag. Ma ocok hae? EE S 5 Ne tn rior rican a " 4 3 > oy ; LP re | art fied { 2 3% as 5 ae | \ { f e > < ; Ca phe a ei { 49? : f Sopra ar ip 1 > Ehud e 8 t co OF | a i ie j 2 “e ; oe ; t gi af tig ee f aye ws of) rhrte iO.) ae ‘ ie 4 . : The a ofl re ea lle stew weds sent ae oe Weare to begin a Hiftory full of fur- LY prizing Turns and Adventures ; I mean, that ©f Mary Redd and Anne Bonay, alias Bonn, which Were the true Names of thefe’two Pyrates the Odd Incidents’ of! their” rambling Lives are fuch, that’ fome’ maybe’ tempted’ to ‘think the’ whole Story mo better than’a Novel’ or Romance ; but fince it is fupported by mary ‘thoufand -Witneffes, I mean’ the People of “Jamaica, who were prefent at. their Tivals, and heard the Story of their Lives, upon the fir difcovery of their’Sex, the Truth of it’ can be'tio more?conteftedy than'that there were fach Men inthe World, as Roberts’ and Black-beard, who WerePyratesce cust berthov es Gaye 15 » Mary Readiwas born in England, her Mother was Marriéd young,’ toa Man whorvufed the Sea, who Soing'a Voyage toon after their Marriage, lett her with Childwhi¢h Child proved to be a Boy. As to the Husband, whether he was caft away, or died in the Voyage, Aary Read could not tells, but however, “He fever returmed more; neverthelefs, the Mothér, who wasi young and airy, met with an Accident, which has often happened to Women who’ are young, and do not take a great’ deal of Care» which’ was, fhe foon proved with Child again, without’a Husband to Father it, but how, orby whom, none but her felf could tell, for the carried a pretty good Reputation amang her Neigh- bours. ’ Finding ‘her Burthen grow, in order. to conceal her Shame, fhe takes-a formal Leave of het Husband’s Relations, giving out, that fhe went to live with fome Friends of het own, in the Country: Accordingly fhe’ went away, and carried with her her young Son, at this Time, not a Year old: Soo : aftes sansa niet 158 Of MARY READ. after her Departure her Son died, but Providence in Return, was pleafed to. give her a Girl in his Room, of which the was fafely delivered, in her Retreat, and this was our Afary Read. - Here the Mother liv’d three or four Years, till | what Money. fhe had. was almoft. gone then fhe thought..of returning to London, and .confidering that her Husband's Mother was in fome Circum- ftances, the did not doubt but to prevail upon her, to provide for the Child, if fhe could but pafs it upon -her for the fame, but the changing a Girl into a Boy, feem’d a difficult Piece of. Work, and how to deceive an experienced old Woman, in fuch a Point, was altogether as impoftible ; ‘however, fhe ventured to drefs ic up as @ Boy, brought. ic to Town, and prefented it to her. Mother in Law; as her Husband’s Son 5 the old Woman would have | taken it, to have bred it up, but the Mother pre- tended it would break her Heart, to part with it; fo it was agreed betwixtthem, that the Child fhould live with the Mother, and the fuppofed Grand- mother dhould allow a Crown a Week for it’s Maintainance, ».., =" ? brpelad 3 _ Thusthe Mother gained her. Point, the bred up her Daughter as a Boy, and-when the grew up to fome Senfe, fhe thought proper to let her into the Secret of her Birth, to induce her to conceal her Sex: It happen’d that the Grandmother died, by which Means the Subfiftance that came from that Quarter, ceafed, and they were more and more reduced in their Gircumftances; wherefore fhe was obliged to put her Daughter out, to wait on a French Lady, asa Foot-boy, being now thirteen Years of Age: Here fhe did not live long, for growing bold and ftrong, and having alfoa roving Mind, the entered her felf on Board a Man of War, where fhe ferved fome Time, then quitted it, went over into Flanders, and carried Arms ina Re- giment | Of Marr, READ, ) sg ? | AGions, iment of Foot, 4s a-Cadet , and tho’ upon al ke the oe herfeif with a great deal of Biases yet fhe could not get a.Commiflion, they being Be: nerally bought and fold; therefore fhe see 2 he Service, and took on ina Regiment of ous hg behaved fo well in feveral Enganementss. i shes Zot the Efteem of all her Officers.5. au Phi (ae tade who was a Fleming, happening to fg nd fome young. Fellow, fhe falls in Loye with m ms from that Time, grew a little more negligen bi her Duty, fothat, it feems, Mars and Hees cand not be ferved at the fame Time ; her Fat pod Accoutrements which were always kept u ibe: beft Order, were quite neglected; ’tis true, w re her Comrade was ordered out upon a arty, die ufed to go without being commanded, ne ite quently run herfelf. into Danger, whee. ne bese no Bufinefs, only to be near him; the re Aatixs Troopers Jittle fufpetting the fecret Gals mbich Moved her to this Behaviour, fancied her sari mad, and her Comrade himfelf could ‘not accou for this firange Alteration in her, but Lave . ng ‘Senious, and as.they lay in the fame. eat anes were conftantly together, the found a Way jets ting him difcover her Sex, without appearing ith Defign. ‘ass en na poe at what he found out, and not a little pleafed, taking it for granted, that A AES Miftrefs folely to himfelf, we is an unufual Thing in a Camp, fince there is ese One of thofe Campaign Ladies, that 1s ats to a Troopor Company; fo that he thoug : a hothing but gratifying his Paffions with very es tle Ceremony ; but he found himfelf fisanse x i flaken, for the proved very referved an BOE a and refifted all his Temptations, and at 5 e on Time was fo obliging and infinuating. 1n her Car- tiage, that fhe quite changed his Furpofe, ; is snnasepnsosierienia ii | Of Marr READ. : 10k ag It happen’d this Ship was taken by Englifh Py~ heap rates, re Mary Read ae the nh Engh noes ~ This was the urmoft With of het Hearty in thorty. orson Board, they kept her amongft them, Ene they exchangéd Promifes, 'and’when the Campaign aving plundered the Ship, let it go ight jer} Ey .. Was over, and the’ Regiment marthed’ into Winter” Tollowing this Trade for fome Beige in all ~ Quarters, they bought Womian’s ‘Apparel for her, SCCLAMAnOnESHO OUT ANS SU eS oe with fuch Money'as ‘they could make upbetwixe, | Parts of the Wef-Indies, for pat oA ite ees them, and were ‘publickly married.® W Oh Shp he who fhould voluntarily ible Ef The Crew " «Phe Story of two Troopers martying each other,’ Ya certain Day therem mentione iis Braetatna- made a great Noife, fo' that’ feveral Officers were’ | fF Atary Read took the PEREnt OF i tl onShores, drawn by Curiofity’to affift at the’ Ceremony, and! Bees and having furrende:d, livid quietly d heating they agreed! among themfelves ‘that ‘every one of — ut Money beginning to grow dhort, P the Ifand them ‘thould make'a finall Prefent to the Bride, that Captain Woods Rogers, CONE A aaa ea towards Houfe-keeping, in Confideration of her’ | °f Providence, was fitting oat ae feveral others having been ‘their fellow Soldier. “Thus being fe | Ctuife againft the Spaniards, the eGR up, they feeméd to have a Defivelof quitting the | ©™bark’d for that Mland, in or aes ure ae ervice, and fettling in the World the Adventure’ | Privateering Account, being refolve * of their Love’ and “Marriage “had ‘gained them fo | ¥ortune one way or other. t faild out, but thuch Favour, ‘that they eafily obtained their’ Dil | Thefe Privateers were no ie Vitek eae charge, and’ they immediatély fet’ up an’ Eating’ the Crews of fome of them, w Sera agent Houle or Ordinary, which” was'''the ‘Sign of the hed, rofe againft their Comman Stee aa Three Horfe-Shoes, wear the Caftle of Breda, where jhemilelves to their old. Trade: In. this Numbss Was Mary Read. It is true, fhe often declared, th: the Life of a Pyrate was what fhe always abhor’d, they foon fui into a’ good Tradey’'a’ great’'tiatiy: | i ere eee OME EMME | AR Wece nes teoay woos Compultian, both thls be ut this en agit aite no! . ong, or t c us- a ime d b fore intending to quit it, whenever and foon died, and the Peace-of Refwick being era ae e ey erin Senet se concluded, there was no Refort of Officers to" Breda, | Re tea ae Be upon her -Tryal, who ie Gane ees Were forced Men, and had failed with her, depofed Trade, was forced to give up Houfe- keeping, and ok saat fei a Times of Aetion;. no Perfoa among ft them were more refolute, or ready to 160 Of Marr REA Ds! Mae from thinking lof” making ‘her® his Miftrefs; hat now courted herfor a Wifes bee pt aE Bs rs her Subftance being by Degrees quite fpent, the : again alfumes her Man’s Apparel, and going into’ Hilland, ‘there takes on in a Regiment of Foot, quarter’d in one ‘of ‘the Frontier Towns: Here the’ did not remain long, there was‘no likelihood | of Preferment in Time of Peace, therefore fhe took — | a Refolution of feeking her Fortune another Way : and withdrawing from the Regiment, thips°her. | felfon Board ofa Veffel bound for the Wef-Indies. 4 Board or undertake any Thing that was hazardous, _ 88 the and Anne Bonay; and particularly at the ‘Time they were attack’d and taken, when they came to clofe Quarters, none kept the Deck except Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and one more; MP ©n which, fhe, Afary Read, called to ele Ae it Decl, to come up and fat eas Men, an ik unin anmen rceirihte 62 Of Marr Reap, they did not ftir, firéd hér Arms down the Hold amongft them, killing one, and wounding others. This was part of the Evidence againft her, which fhe denied ; which, whether true or no, thus much ig certain, that the did not want Bravery, nor in- deed was fhe lefS remarkable for her Modefty, according to her Notions of Virtue: Her Sex was not fo much as fufpetted by any Perfon on Board, till Ane Bonny, who was not altogether fo referved | in point of Chaftity, took a particular liking to her ; in fhort, Ayne Bonny took her for a handfome young Fellow, and for fome Reafons beft known to hertelf, firft difcovered her Sex to Mary Read; Mary Read knowing what thé would be at, and’ being very fenfible of her own Incapacity that Way, was forced to come to aright Underftanding with her, | and fo to the great Difappointment Of Anne Bonny, fp cee iey Intimacy {0 difturb’d Captain Rackam, who was the ohare Gallant of Anne Bonny, that hé grew | furioufly jealous, fo that he told Azne Bonny, he would cut her new Lover’s Throat, therefore, to | quiet him, the let him into the Secret alfo. «Captain Rackam, (as he was enjoined,) kept the ‘ } “Thing a Secret from all the Ship’s Company, yet, | notwithftanding all her Cunning and Reférve, Love | found her outin this Difguife, and hinder’d her from forgetting her Sex. In their Cruize they took a great Number of Ships belonging to Samaica, | and other Parts of the Weft-Indies, bound to and from England, and when ever they meet any good _ Artift, or other Perfon that might be of any great Ufe to their Company, if he was not willing to | enter, it was their Cuftom to keep him by Force. Among thefe was a young Fellow of a moft engage-_ ing Behaviour, or, at leaft, he was fo in the Eves of Mary Read, who became fo {mitten with his } - Perfon and Adres, that fhe could néither reft, sna Night | - | fhe jet her know the was a Woman alfo; but this Of MARY READ« 163 Night or Day ; but as there is noting vie hious than Love, it was no hard siapatbee 5 Who had before been praéticed in thete | A te finda Way to let him difcover het Sex: . ene infinuated her {elf into his liking, by talking again? the Life ofa Pyrate, which he was marie ? ee to, fo they became Mefs-Mates and ftrid . ies hions: When fhe found he had a Friendfhip tor es 45a Man; fhe fuffered the Difcovery to be made, si carelefly fhewing her Breafts, which were very hite. ey i sath ; The young Fellow, who was made of ead Blood, ‘had his Curiofity and Defire fo rais y this Sfoht, that he never ceafed importuning at till the confelfed what fhe was. Now begins x e Scene of Love; ashe hada Liking and Efteem for ther, under her fuppofed Charagter, it was now turn’d into Fondnefs and Defire ; her Paffion was Ho les violent than his, and perhaps the exprel¢ aie i at ever it, by oie of the moft generous Adions tha Love intpired. It happened this young uel @ Quarrel with oné of the Pyrates, and their Ship th aK ands then lyine-at an Anchor, near one of the Iflands, ‘heya gppointed to go afhore and. fight, prin Sing to the ‘Cuftom of the Pyrates: Mary Read, . id anxious, for the Was to the laft Degree uneafy and anxious, saat Fate of ge aver : fhe would not have had him Tefufe the Challenge, becaufe; fhe could not bear Sa et f his bei dife; the ‘Thouehts of his being branded with Cowarale, n the tren Side: fhe dreided the Event, and ap- Ptéhended the Fellow might be too hard for him : ‘When: Love onte enters into the Breaft of one Who ‘has any. Sparks of Generofity, it ftirs the Heart up to the moft noble Aétions ; in this Dilem- — ta, fhe fhew’d, that fhe fear’d more for his Life ‘than fhe did for her own; for fhe took a Refolution Sf quarreling with this Fellow her felf, and ha- Ving challenged him afhore, fhe appointed the L 3 Time poomnsemron cient 164° Of: MARY. READ. ck _ Time two Hours fooner than that when he > was) to meet her Lover, where fhe fought him at Sword | and Piftol, and killed him uponthe Spot. =» It is true, fhe had fought before, when fhe had been infulted by fome of thofe Fellows, but now it was altogether in her Lover’s Caufe, the -ftood as it were betwixt him and Death, as if fhe could | not live without him. If he had no regard for het | before, this Adtion would have bound him to het | forever; but there was no Occafion. for Ties of Obligations, his Inclination towards her was fuft- cient; in fine, they applied their Troth'to each other, which Afary Read faid, fhe look’d upon to be as good a Marriage, in Confcience, as if it had been done by a Minifter in Church; and to this was owing her great Belly, which fhe pleaded to fave-her Life. 1 deck oo iam She declared fhe had néver committed Adultery) cr Fornication with any Man, fhe commended the) Juftice of the Court, before which fhe was tried, fot | diftinguifhing the Nature of their Crimes; her Hus- band, as fhe cal’'d- him, with feveral others, being) acquitted ; and being ask’d, who he was? she would not tell, but, faid he was an honeft Man, and had} . no Inclination to fuch Prattices, and that they had both refolved to leave the Pyrates the firf) Opportunity, and apply themfelves to fome ho} neft Livelyhood. “| if ~ Itisno doubt, but many had Compaffion for het, -yet the Court could not avoid. finding her, Guilty 4} for among other Things, one of the Evidences agaiyft her, depofed, that being taken by Rackam and detain’d fome Time on Board, he fell acciden’ tally into Difcourfe with Afary Read, whom he ta” king for a young Man, ask’d her, what Pleafure fh¢ could have in being concerned in fuch Enterprizes) where her Life was continually. in Danger, by Fire or Sword; and not only fo, but the muft b? . fure} she antwerd, that as to hang- at Hardihip, for, were 3© rm ‘Rot for that, eveTy cowardly es turr Pyrate, and fo infeft the Seas, that Met Sete Ma Rarves —— Thateif it.was pub te yi Of the Pyrates, they woogie nob Daye which, kept 2 Fear of My Ment le(s than Death, ee that many © thofe Adows and Orphans, and oppreffing mene ee 26 btain Juftice, : tid Gen eel would be crowded with Rogues, | like the Land, and no Merchant wpuley Reine out: fothat the Trade, ina little Time, ¥ ? be worth following. | Child, as has been ob- > Being found quick with ‘ ; me Serge her tixecutlOn* was refpited, perce mee fible fhe would have found Favour, ter her Tryal feiz?d with a violent Fever, foon, after her Tryal, of which fhe died in Prifon. NEQERENSSTSIENS The LIE E of Awe Bonny. soular in the Lives — 5 been more particu : : AN of ahdie cp Women, than thofe of othe aithful Hi- ~Pyrates, it is incumbent on BS as ax Sader ae -ftorian; to begin with their Birth. ‘ Ire- -, the Kingdom of. born at a Town near Cork, 10 WE ey but Aune | ee Of ANNE BONNY. » hee 166 Of ANNE Bonwr, . As foon ie mifs'd him, a ave an have the beft Luck. Wer Father was a Married Man, Search, concluding he hae tet sty to have him and his Wife having been brought to Bed, con- Went direétly to the Confta ie was informed, that trated an WInefs in her lying in, and in order apprehended: The young Ma ch of him, but he to recover her Health, fhe:was advifed to remove 8 Conftable had been 1 pepe ee but all would for Change of Air; the Place the chofe, was afew regarded it but little, not Paar Days paffed, and Miles diftance from her Dwelling, where her Huse | —_ be well next Day. Three eee was upon the Hunt band’s Mother liv’d. Here the fojourn’d fome Time, — ftill he was told, the penal : concealed, he could her Husband ftaying at Home, to follow his Af | for him , this made him 1y¢ or it he imagined fairs. The Servant-Maid, whom fhe left to look ; Not comprehend the Mees a Mind to convert after the Houfe, and attend the Family, being a no lefs, than that the me d put the Robbery handfome young Woman, was courted by a young : the Spoons to’ her own Ule, ant Pub © Man of the fame Town, who was a Tanner this upon him, «Time. that the Miftrefs be- Tanner uled to take his Opportunities, when the It happened, at this pe late Indifpofition, Family was out of the Way, of coming to purfue | ing pertettly recoyered 0 ny with her Mother- his Courtthip ; and being with the Maid one Day | was return’d Home, sa is was of the Lofs as the was employ’d in the Houfhold Bufinefa, not in-Law-; the firft News Pat how ; the Maid having the Fear of God before his Byes, he takes | Of the $ oons, with the M that the young. Man his Opportunity, when her Back was turned, of telling her, at the fame fet age had Intelligence whipping three Silver Spoons into his Pocket. The — was runaway. The ene and confidering with _ Maid foon mifs’d the Spoons, and knowing that of the . Miftrefs’s Arriva a r appear again in his _ nqBody had been in the Raom, but: herfelf and — himfelf, that he could uF was got over, and. fhe the young Man, fince fhe faw them laft, fhe char- | Bufinefs, unlefs this Me he took a Refolution ged him with taking them ; he very ftifly denied it, | being a good natured Woma and of telling her the upon which fhe grew outragious, andthreatned to | of going direttly. to. bets ig Difference, that he did §0 to a Conftable, in order to carry him ‘before a _ whole Story, only with this Ys Meiers Juftice of Peace: Thefe Menaces frighten’d him out ~ it for a Jeft. § jeve it, however, oF his Wits, well knowing he could not ‘ftand | The Sriftress could pages and turn- Search ; wherefore. he endeavoured to pacify her, | the went dire&tly to the) s. there, to her great by defiring her to examine the Drawers and other ing down the Bed Cloaths spoons; upon this the Places, and perhaps fhe might find them; in this Surprize, found the sp Set ve Home and mind Time he flips into another Room, where the Maid defired the young Man Id have no Trouble a> ufually lay, and puts the Spoons betwixt the Sheets, his Bufinefs, for he fhouid | r and then makes his Efcape by a back Door, con- bout it, sot imagine the Meaning of cluding fhe muft find: them, when the went to Bed, The Miftrefs could no athe Maid guilty of any and fo next Day he might »pretend he did it only to | this, the never had foun ie could not enter her frighten, her, and the Thing might be laugh’doff |, ‘pilfering, and therefore # SONS Pons her POR Tet cal Poca oT ed a aca ake a al Head, that the agen eg eo : ‘ felf’, > : ‘ As j ‘ . 7 SS ee —— ‘ me VEGE VERY aR rg ye Sm AE RUPE UE, BL ENE Fat ; . 163 Of ANNE Bonnr. felf; upon the whole not been in her Be were mifs’d, fhe grew.i and fufpetted, that t with her: Husband, was the Reafon why the Spoons were no fooner found. : mmediately jealous u by, when they happened, but now fhe had go: that Tormentor, Jealoufy, in her Head, amounted to Proofs of their Intimacy 5 another Cir- cumftance which ftrengthen’d the whole, was, that ’ tho’ her Husband knew fhe was to come Home that Day, and had had no Communication with her in. four Months, which was before her Jaft Lying in, yet he took an Opportunity of going out of Town that Morning, upon fome flight Pretence: -—All thefe Things put together, confirm’d her in her Jealoufy. Sige ee : _ As.Women feldom forgive Injuries of this Kind, fhe thought of difcharging her Revenge upon the Maid: In order to this, fhe leaves the Spoons where fhe found them, and orders the Maid to put clean Sheets upon the Bed, tellin & her, the intended to lye there herfelf that Night, becaufe her Mother ° in Law was to lye in her Bed, a Maid) muf lye in another Part of the Houfe; the ‘Maid in making the Bed, was fur prized with the Sight of the Spoons, but there were very good Reafons, why it was not proper for her to tell where the found them, therefore fhe takes them up, puts them in her Trunk, intending to leave -them.in fome Place, where they might be found by chance. Ge . The Miftrefs, that ever be done without Defign, ‘Maid’s Bed, little dreamin y Thing might look. to lies. that Night in the g of what an Adventure . it » the concluded the Maid had | »,from the Time the Spoons | pon it, he Maid fupplied her Place | during ber Abfence, and this nd that fhe (the — (Of ANNE Bonny. #09 Ope world produce: After fhe had been a Bed fome Time, thinking on what had pafs’d, By io kept ‘her’ awake, fhe heard fome Bo y suet Room ;, at firft fhe apprehended it to Pita and was fo fright’ned, the had not oe sna to call outs but when fhe heard thefe es > Me are you awake? She knew it to be oe ve et Voice ; then her Fright was over, ae “4 as Anfwer, leaft he fhould find her out, i eee : therefore the refolved to counterfeit Sleep, ax w HOW ede er er ai 3 ee ee Husband came to Bed, and se ay Play’d the vigorous Lover ; but one T ing ce the Diverfion on the Wife’s Side, w E se the Reflection that it was not defign’d ok te 3 ‘however fhe was very paffive, and oe : pi Chriftian., Early before Day, the ro eS Bed, leaving him afleep, and went to he -1n Law, telling her what had paffed, not forgetting how he had nfed her, as taking her for pal the Husband alfo ftole out, not pagal see's Nient to be catch’d in that Room; in the mee ae the Revenge of the Miftrefs was ftrongly gs fe the Maid, and without confidering, that to A ow’d the Diverfion of the Night before, . ys One good Turn fhould deferve another ; at ee ‘8 Conftable, and charged her with ftealing fe Spoons: The Maid’s Trunk was broke open, ~ the Spoons found, upon which fhe was carried be- fore ‘a Juftice of Peace, and by him committed to Goal. f The Husband Joiter’d about till twelve a Clock nded he was -at Noon, then comes Home, prete Juft come to Town ; as foon as he ae ei pce pafled, in Relation to the Maid, he fell in ee Paffion with his Wife; this fet the Thing i -8reater Flame, the Mother takes the Wife’s Part é am ; ‘that the Quarrel Againft her own Son, infomuch th Rees 179 =—s«OOf ANNE Bonny. increafing, the Mother and Wife took Hore im- i: mediately, and went back tothe Mother’s Houfe, and the Husband and Wife never bedded toge- ther after. ~ ee ee} _ The Maid lay a long Time in the Prifon, it being near halfa Year to the Affizes; but. before it hap- pened, it was difcoyered fhe was with Ghild; when - ihe was arraign’d at the Bar, fhe was difcharged for want of Evidence , the Wife’s Confcience touch’d her, and as the did not believe the Maid Guilty of any Theft, except that of Love, the did not appear againft her; foon after her Acquittal, fhe wasdelivered of aGirl. Seay ou But what alarm’d the Husband, moft, was, that - jt was difcovered the Wife was with Child alfo, he taking it for granted, he had had no Intimacy with her, fince her laft lying in, grew jealous of her, in his Turn, and made this a Handle to jufti- fy himfelf, for his Ufage of her, pretending now he had fufpeted her Jong, but that here was Proof;.:the was delivered of Twins, a Boy and - The Mother fell ill, fent to her Son to recon- - cile him to.his Wife, but he would not hearken to it; therefore fhe made a Will, leaving all the had in the Hands of certain Truftees, for the Ufe of the Wife and two Children lately born, and “died afew Days after., Pere : ‘This..was an ugly Turn upon him, his greateft Dependance. being .upon. his Mother, however, his Wife was kinder to him than he deferved, for the.made. him a yearly.Allowance out of what was left, tho’ they continued to live feparate : It lafted near five Years, at this Time having a great } Affection for the Girl he had by his Maid, he had a Mind totake it Home, to live with him; but as .allthe Town. knew jit to be a Girl, the better to difguife the Matter from them, as well as from his Wife, a up to be his Clerk, Of ANNE BONNY.) ETE Wife, hehad it putinto Breeches, as a Boy, pre- tending it was’a Relation’s Child he was to breed The Wife heard he had a little Boy at Home Ke was very fond of, but as ‘the did not know any: Relation of his that had fuch a Child, fhe em- ploy’d a Friend. to enquire further inte it; this Perfon by talking withthe Child, found it to be'a Girl, difcovered that the Servant-Maid was its Mother, and that the Husband ftill kept up his Correfpondence with her. oproced ba Upon this Intelligence, the Wife being unwil-- ling that her Children’s Money fhould go towards the Maintenance of Baftards, ftopped the Allowance: The Husband enraged, ina kind of Revenge, takes the Maid home, and lives.with her publickly, to the great Scandal of his Neighbours; but he foon - found the bad Effect.of it, for by Degrees loft his Prattice, fo that he faw plainly he could not live there, therefore he. thought of removing, and turning what Effects he had into ready Money ; he goes to Cork, and there with his Maid and Daughter embarques for Carolina. ; ‘At firft he followed. the Prattice of the Law in that Province, but afterwards fell into Merchan- dize, which proved more fuccefSful to him, for he gained’ by it fuflicient to purchafe a confiderable Plantation: His Maid, who paffed for his Wife, — -happened to dye, after which his Daughter, our Anne Bonny, now grown up, kept his Houfe. -. She was of a. -fierce and couragious Temper, wherefore, when the lay under Condemnation, fe- veral Stories were reported of her, much to her Difadvantage, as that fhe had kill’d an Englifh Ser- _vant-Maid once in her Paffion with a Cafe-Knife, while fhe look'd after her Father’s Houfe; but upon further Enquiry, I found this Story to be : groundlefs: It was certain fhe was fo robuft, that PEN ear re 4 , once ee Sa a aN n Sy TE: pe PARE EP en RT Fare - #72 Of ANNE Bonnr, once, when a young Fellow would have lain with her, againft her Will, fhe beat him fo, that he lay ill of ita confiderable Time.. oWhile fhe lived with her Father, fhe was look’d upon as one that would be a good Fortune, where- fore it was thought her Father expected ‘a good Match for het; but fhe fpoilt all, for without his Confent, the marries a young Fellow, who be- longed to the Sea, and was not worth a Groat 5 which provoked her Father to fuch a Degree, that he turned her out of Doors, upon which the youn “Fellow, who ‘married her, finding himfelf difap- | pointed in his Expeétation, © fhipped himfelf and Wife, for the IMland of Providence, expecting Em- ployment there. "it : _-Here the became acquainted with Rackam the Pyrate, who making Courtfhip to her, foon found — Means of withdrawing her ‘Affeétions from her Husband, fo that fhe confented to elope from him, and go to’ Sea with Rackam'’ in Men’s -Cloaths: | She was a8 good ‘as her Word, and after fhe had been. at Sea fome ‘Time, the proved with Child, and beginning to-grow big, Rackam landed her on the Iland of ‘Cuba; and recommending her there to fome Friends of his, they’ took Care of her, till’ fhe was brought to Bed: When fhe was up and well again, he fent’ for “her to bear him Company. a eee if «~The King’s Proclamation being out, for pardon- ing of Pyrates, he took the Benefit of it, and fur- ‘rendered 5 afterwards being fent’ upon the ‘ priva- ~teering Account, he’returned to his old Trade, as has been already hinted in the Story of Mary Read. “In all thefe Expeditions, Anne Bonny bore him Com- «pany, and when any Bufinefs was'to be done in | their Way, no Body was more forward or coura- gious than fhe, and particularly. when they’ were “taken; the and Afary Read, with one’ more, were all |. Of ANNE Bonnr. 173, all the Perfons that durft keep the Deck, as has eek toa great anneal. men, Planters of Jamaica, who had dealt with im, and ‘among whom he had a good Ren On wag fome of them, who had been in Carolina, Aeros ber’d to have feen her in his Houfe; w oe they were inclined to fhew her Favour, es Aion of leaving oe nan Pee oe ue cumftance againft her. e pas ideye ted, by fpecial Favour, he was adm ee eee . wee al the Comfort fhe eave, ee that fhe was forry to fee him there, but if s at oug’ like a Man, he need not have been hang’d like ce a - She was continued in Prifon, to the Ti | ; i ime her lying in, and afterwards reprieved from Ti to Time; but what is become of her fince, Ad pk not tell; only this we know, that fhe was mx executed. - Captain of her, in the Room of AUREUS UEORCw eee oiect Gavdk Aa Bis DK, = —- Captain Howel Davis, meio “And his Cre W. ff NAptain ‘Aowel Davis was born at Milford, in { Monmouthhire, and was from a Boy brought up to the Sea. The laft Voyage -he ‘made from England, was in the Cadogan Snow of Briftol, Captain Skinner Commander, bound for the Coaft of Guiney, of which Snow Davis was chief Mate : They: were no fooner arrived at Sierraleon on the aforefaid Coaft, but they were taken by the Py- rate England, who plunder’d them, and Skinner was barbaroufly. murdered, as has been related before in the Story of Captain England. After the Death of Captain Skinner, Davis pre- tended that he was mightily follicited by England to engage with him; but that he refolutely an- fwered, he would fooner be {hot to Death than fign the Pyrates Articles. Upon which, England, plea~ fed with his Bravery, fent him andthe reft of the | Men again on Board the Snow, appointing him Skinner, comman- ding him to purfue his Voyage. Healfo gave him a written Paper fealed up, with Orders to open it when he fhould come into acertain Latitude, and Of Capt. Hower Davis. 175 and at the Peril of his Life follow the Orders there- in fet down. This was an Air of Ure ies what Princes practice to their Admirals a Se) Tals. It was punttually complied wit ee i who read it to the Ship’s. Company ; ie we ai ho lefs than a generous Deed of Gift : poet and Cargoe, to Davis and the Crew, order 8 a to 0 to Brafil and difpofe of the Lading to the Dt Advantage, and to make a fair and equa With the reft. _ Davis propofed to the Crew, whether oo) HF Willing to follow their Directions, but to 4 4 ame Sur prize, found the ee of them altog averfe to it, wherefore in a Rage, aisirtg © maa o. where they would. They er that Part of ‘het Cargoe was configned to A a Merchants at Barbadoes, wherefore they veg for that Ifland. When they arrived, nF iS aes to thefe Merchants the unfortunate mae to) a er ner, and the Propofal which had been made ie nat Lig apette upon which Davis was feized iy a Mitted to Prifon, where he was kept three { a however, as he had been inno Act of Pyracy, Be f difcharged without being brought to any yal, Yet he could not expect any Sri eae ther 3 Wherefore knowing that the Ifland of Provi Aa a . a kind of Rendevouz of Pyrates, he was a coat to make one amongft them, if poflible, meee iy foe “Purpofe, found Means of fhipping que f or te TMland; but he was again difappointe ge ; he arrived there, the Pyrates had ones a a dered to Captain Woods Rogers, and accepte ae te A& of Grace, which he had juft brought fr En land, : owed: Davis was not long out of ete for Captain Rogers having fitted out ai ae for Trade, one called the Buck, the other the Afum- vil Trader, Davis found an Employment on Bite IGMP MUMS MATL APE PASEO E NAG ok Pe eet ee ee er WOE UE NL Ne RE Ae NB Ps SE | | 176 | Of Cap:, HowEL Darts. of one of them ; the Lading of thefe Sloops was. of confiderable Value, confifting of European Goods, in order to be exchanged with the French and Spaniards af and many of the Hands on Board of them, were the Pyrates lately come in upon the late AG of Grace. The firft Place they touched at, was the Hland of Adartinico, belonging to the French, where Davis having confpired with fome others, rife in the Night, fecured the Mafter and feized the | Sloop; as foon as this was done, they called to _ the other Sloop, which lay a little Way from them, among whom they knew there were a great many Hands ripe for Rebellion, and ordered them to come on Roard of them; they did fo, ard the greateft Part of them agreed to join with Davis; | thofe who were otherwife inclined, were fent back on Board the Afumvil Sloop, to go where they | pleafed, Davis having firft taken out of her, every — Thing which he thought might be of Ufe. 5 After this, a Counfel of War was called over 2_ large Bow! of Punch, at which it was propofed to _ chufe a Commander ; the Election was foon over, for it fell upon Davis by a great Majority of leoal Pollers, there was no Scrutiny demanded, for “all acquiefced in the Choice: As foon as he was pofle(s’d of his Command, he drew up Articles, which were figned and fworn to by himfelf and the reft, then he made a fhort Speech, the fum of which, was, | a Declaration of War againft the whole World. After this they confulted about a proper Place | where they might clean their Sloop, a light Pair of Heels being of great Ufe either totake, or ef- cape being taken; for this purpofe they made _ Choice of Coxon’s Hole, at the Eaft End of the Hand of Cuba, a Place where they might fecure themfelves from Surprize, the Entrance being fo {| narrow, that one Ship might keep out a hundred. Here Of Capt. HowEL DAVIS, 477 Here they cleaned with much Difficulty, FoR RY. h dno Carpenter in their Company, 4 Per th : Steat Ufe upon fuch Exigencies; from ane if Put to Sea, making to the North-Side of the ; H Cf Hilpaniola. The firft Sail which fell in t ie Way, was a French Ship of twelve Guns ; 4 4 be obferved, that Davis had but thirty five Hands, Yet Provifions began to. grow fhort with ena Wherefore he attacked this Ship, fhe foon. ftruck; and he {ent rivelve of his Hands on Board of her, in order to plunder: This was no fooner done, but 2 Sail was {pied a great Way to Windward of them 5 they enquired of the French Man what the might be, “he anfwered, that he had {poke with a Ship, the — Day before, of 24 Guns and 69 Men, and he took this to be'the fame. Davis then propofed to his Men to attack her, felling them, fhe would be a rare Ship for their fe, but they looked upon it to be an extravagant Attempt, and difcovered no. Fondnefs for it, but he aifired them he had a Stratagem in his Head Would make all fafe; wherefore he gave Chace, “nd ordered his Prize to do the fame, The Prize Being a flow Sailor, Davis firft cameé.up with the “remy, and ftanding along Side of them, fhewed his pyratical Colours: They, much furpriz d, called. 0 Davis, telling him, they wondered at his Im- Pudence in venturing to come fo near them, and Ordered him to ftrike ; but he anfwered, that he in- fended to keep them in Play, till his Confort came Up, who was able to deal with them, and that if they: did not firike to him, they fhould have but bad Quarters ; whereupon he gave them a Broad-Side, Which they returned, _ re __In the mean Time the Prize drew near, who Sbliged all the Prifoners to come upoa Deck in White Shirts, to make a Shew of Force, as they had been diretted by Davis; they alfo hoifted a dirty : M oe ot ate conamsemren ec nireray ° 178 = Of Capt. Howe Darts. Tarpawlin, by Way of black Flag, they havin ‘no other, and fir’da Gun: The French Men were {0 intimidated by this Appearance of Force, that they ftruck. Davis called out to the Captain to come on Board of him, with twenty of his Hands; he did fo, and they were all for the greater Security clapt into Irons, the Captain excepted: Then he {ent four of his own Men on Board the firft Prize, and in order ftill to carry on the Cheat, fpoke aloud, 2) that they fhould give his Service to the Captain, and defire him to fend fome Hands on Board the Prize, to fee what they had got ; but at the fame Time gave them a written Paper, with Inftructions what todo. Here he ordered them to nail up the Guns in the little Prize, to take out all the {mall f Arms and Powder, and to go every Manof them on Board the fecond Prize; when this was done, | he ordered that more of the Prifoners fhould be’ removed out of the great Prize, into the little one, by which he fecured himfelf from any At- | tempt which might be feared from their Numbers 5 for thofe on Board of him were faft in Irons, and thofe in the little Prize had neither Arms nor Am- munition. . Thus the three Ships kept Company for 2 Days, when finding the great Prize to be a very dull Sai- — Jor, he thought fhe would not be fit for his Pur- pofe, wherefore he refolved to reftore her to the - Captain, with all his Hands; but firft, he took Care to take out all her Ammunition, and every Thing elfe which he might poffibly want. The French Captain was in fuch a Rage, at being fo out- witted, that when he got on Board his own Ship, | he was going to throw himfelf over-board, but was prevented by his Men. ; Having let go both his Prizes, he fteered North- ward, in which Courfe he took a fmall Spanifh Sloop; after this, he made towards the Weftern Iflands, but ¥ re 4 Privateer, and Davis g Of Capt. Howét DAVIS. 179 but met with no Booty thereabouts ; then he Reered for the Cape de Verde Wands, they caft An- chor at St. Nicholas, hoifting Englifh Colours 5 y ne Portuguefe inhabiting there, took him for an Eng ifh a oing afhore, they both trea- ted him very civilly, and alfo traded with pie Here he remained five Weeks, in which Time, he and half his Crew, for their Pleafure, took a Jour- ney to the chief Town of the Ifland, which was 19 Miles up the Country : Davis making a good Ape Pearance, was carelied by the Governor and. the In- habitants, and no Diverfion was wanting which the Portuguefe could fhew, or Money could purchalfe 5 after about a Week’s Stay, he came back to the Ship, and the reft of the Crew went to take their Pleafure Uptothe Town, intheir Turn. . , a their Return they ‘clean’d their Ship, and put to Sea, but not with their whole Company 5 ie five of them, like Hannibal’s Men, were fo charm With the Luxuries of the Place, and the free Con- _ Verfation of fome Women, that they ftaid behind ; and one of them, whofe Name was Charles hate) 2 Monmouthfhire Man, married and fettled himfelf, and lives there to this Day. F oe hence they failed to Bonevifta, and ee into that Harbour, but finding nothing, they i for the Ifle of A¢ay: When they arrived here, t ey met with a great many Ships and Veffels tp e Road, all which they plundered, taking on : om whatever they wanted; and alfo ftrengthen’d t eit felves with a great many frefh Hands, who ne of them enter’d voluntarily. One of the Ships they took to their own Ufe, mounted her vie ted fix Guns, and call’d her the King James. There a ing no frefh Water hereabouts, they made as St. Fago, belonging to the Portugue[e, 10 order ae ay, inaStores Davis, witha few Hands, going afhor tO find the moft commodious Place to water at, the Pa CEE 4 “s ae M 4 . Govera smnsimven eden 180 Of Capt. HoweL Darts, Governor, with fome Attendants, came himfelf and examined who they were, and whence they came? And not liking Davis’s Aéecountof himfelf, the Gover- nor was fo plain to tell them, he fufpetted them to be Pyrates. Davis feemed mightily alfronted, ftan- — ding much upon his Honour, replying to the Gover nor, he fcorn’d his Words ; however, as foon as his Back was turn’d, for fear of Accidents, he got on Board again as faftas he could. Davis related what _ had happened, and his Men feemed to refent the Af front which had been offered him. Davis, upon this, told them, he was confident hecould furprizethe Fort — in the Night; they agreed with him to attempt it, and accordingly, when it grew late, they went afhore wellarm’d; and the Guard which was kept, was fo negligent, that they got within the Fort before any _ » Alarm was given: When it was too late there was fome little Refiftance made, and three Men killed on Dais’s Side. Thofe in the Fort, in their Hur- Ty, run into the Governor’s Houfe to fave them- felves, which they barricadoed fo ftrongly, that Da- vis’s Party could not enter it ; however, they threw in Granadoe-Shells, which not only ruin’d all the Furniture, but kilf'd feveral Men within. When it was Day the whole Country was alarm’d, and came to attack the Pyrates; wherefore it not being their Bufinefs to ftand a Siege, they made the beft of their Way on Board their Ship again, after having diftmounted the Guns of the Fort. By this Enterprize they did a great Deal of Mifchief to the Portuguefe, and but very little Good to them- felves. : Having put to Sea they mufter’d their Hands, / and found themfelves near feventy ftrong; then it was propofed what Courfe they fhould fteer, and differing in their Opinions, they divided, and by a Majority it was carried for Gambia on the Coaft of Guincy , of this Opinion was Davis, he having been ~ employ’d Of Capt. HowEL DAVIS. — aot empioy’d in that Trade, was acquainted with i if Coaft: He toldthem, that there was a great of Money always kept in Gambia Caftle, aT eo . Would be worth their while to make an / Pp uponit. They ask’d him how it was. poffible, fiuce it was garrifoned? He defired they would leave the Management of it to him, and he would un lentges to make them Mafters of it. They Bee yea? Conceive fo high an Opinion of his Conduit ate as Courage, that they thought nothing staan to him, therefore they aetced. to obey him, w €nquiring further into his Defign. ; Hee come within Sight of the Place, he re dered all his Men under Deck, except as nays “ Were abfolutely neceflary for working Se fee a that thofe from the Fort feeing a Ship wie H an Rands, might have no Sufpicion of her cing ay Other than a trading Veffel ; then he ran 4 ieee der the Fort, and there caft Anchor ; Re a = Ordered out the Boat, he FQN, % i" nat her, in old ordinary Jackets, while he a eo. the’ Mafter and ‘Dottor, dreffled them({e 155 ae Gentlemen; his Defign being, that the Men hous look like common Sailors, and they like I ere bee Tn rowing afhore he gave his Men one Moy What to fay in Cafe any Queftioas fhould be a thenga <4 ot ge: x Being come to the landing Place, ae ved by. a File of Mufqueteers, and_condu-te ante the Fort, where the Governor accofting them aus ly, ask’d them who they were, and. whence they ‘came? They anfwered they were. of Liverpool, Yothn j r Gun bound for the River of Sinnegal, to ts ade fo and Elephants Teeth, but that they were chaced ad nar- On that Coat by two French Men of wae a nee rowly. efcaped being taken, having a pile fe Heels of them; but now they were reloivec ms. rad Make the beft of a bad sare and would se iene e wa-7; oY rey & o | ent ak 2 Sea. ba meen mer aroma eee f CaaS GE YS RVR LE e Tye eb 7 Z yi : 8 i 182 Of Capt. HOWEL DAris, here for Slaves; then the Governor ask’d them, what was the chief of their Cargo? They anfwer- ed, Iron and Plate, which were good Things there, the Governor told them he would Slave them to the full Value of their Cargoe, and asked them, if they had any European Liquor on Board? they anfwered, a little tor their own Ufe; how- ever, a Hamper fhould beat his Service. The Go- vernor then very civilly invited them all to ftay and dine with him; Davis told him, that being Commander of the Ship, he muft go on Board to _ fee her weil moored, and give fome other Orders, but thofe two Gentlemen might ftay, and that he himfélf would alfo return before Dinner, and bring the Hamper of Liquor with him. Sarcehhe While he was in the Fort, his Eyes were very bufy in obferving how Things'lay ; he took Notice there wasa Centry at the Entrance, and a Guard- Houle juft by it, where the Soldiers upon Duty commonly waited, their Arms ftanding in a Cor- ner, in a Heap; he faw alfo a great many {mall Arms in the Governor’s Hall; now when he came on Board, he aflured his Men of Succefs, defiring them not to get drunk, and that as foon as they faw the Flag upon the Caftle ftruck, they might conclude he was Mafter, and fend twenty Hands immediately afhore; in the mean Time, there be- ing a Sloop at Anchor near them, he fent fome | Hands ina Boat, to fecure the Mafter arid all the Men, and bring them on Board of him, leaft they obferving any Buftle or arming in his Ship, might — fend athore and give Intelligence. . Thefe Precautions being taken, he ordered his Men, who were to go in the Boat with him, to put rant 2 two Pair of Piftols each under their Cloaths, he doing the like himfelf, and gave them Direétions to go into the Guard-Room, afd to enter into Conyerfation with the Soldiers, and obferve when \ Of Capt. HoWEL DAVIS. 183 fir *s Win- he a Piftol thro’ the Governor's Wit ae ae up at once and fecure the Arms in § 7 ae \ . 7 AGE SN arrived, Dinner not pene ae the Governor propoféd that they fhoul Pi A ee Time in making a Bowl of Punch till Dini Tne; It muft be obferyed, that Davis’s eae ae Upon them, who had an Spr iy eee about all Parts of the Houfe, to fee wha spel they had, he whifpered Daws, there ee en Perfon then in the Room, but he, (Davis) 1 Byl fter, the Dottor, the Coxen and COVE AG Has Ona fudden drew outa Piftol, clapt it to Vernor’s Breait, telling him, he muft furrender the eee d Fort and all the Riches in it, or he was a dea Man. The Governor being no Ways pare at fuch an Attack, promifed to be vey) Bry aces do all they defired, therefore they thut Jeane took down all the Arms that hung ve Ficapiae and loaded them. Davis fires his Pifto Bro Be Window, upon which his Men, without, e ented, their Part of the Scheme, like Heroes, in aK nad ate Setting betwixt the Soldiers and their Arms, a With their Piftols cock’d in their Hands te Se Of them carried the Arms out. ie qa done, they locked the Soldiers into t R ept Guard without. ee Th he AGES one of them ftruck the Union ; at Fla e Top of the Caftle, at which Signa thofs ont eee int on Shore a Reinipieement ch Hands, and they got Poffeflion of ne or ae 5 out the leaft Hurry or Confufion, or fo muc Ma ither Side. : 3 Dan oO the Soldiers, ipon mine sa Sreat many of them took on with bine gre @ who refufed, he {ent on Board the litt a ps Ps and becaufe he would not be at the Trouble of a i Sails and Cables Guard for them, he ons te the Sails a les ; ee HH 184 Of Capt. Hower Darts: Out of her, which might hinder them from attempts j ing to get away, This Da Ship-the Caftle ; but the next Day they minded. their Bufinefs, that is, they fell to plundering, but they found Things fall vattly jhort of their Ex- pettation , for they difcovered, that a great deal of Money had been lately fent away ; however, they _ met with the Value of about two thoufand Pounds | Sterling in Bar Gold, and a great many other rich Effeéts ; Every Thing they liked, which was por- table, they brought aboard their Ship; fome Things i which they had no Uf for, they were {0 generous to make a Prefent of, to the Matter and Crew of the little Sloop, to whom they alfo returied his Vettel again, and then they fell to work in diftounting the Guns, and demolithing the Fortifications, After they had done as much Mifchief as they could, andwere weighing Anchor to be gone, they. | fpy’d.a Ship bearing down upon them in full Sail; they foon got their Anchot’s up, and were in a Readinefs to receive her. This Ship prov’d to be a French Pyrate of fourteen Guns and fixty four Hands, half French; half Negroes; the Captain’s — Name tas La Boufe : he expected no lefs than a ric Prize, which made him fo eager in the Chace; but’ When he came near enough to fee their Guns, and se y was {pent ina kind of Rejoycing, the Caftle firing her Guns to falute the Ship, and the — the Number of their Hands upon Deck, he began to think he fhould catch a Tartar, an to be afmall Exglifh Man of War >, however, fince there was no eftaping, he refolved_ to do a bold and defperate A&tion, which was to board Davis. As He was making towards her, for this Purpofe, he fired a Gun, and hotfted his black Colours ; Davis returned the Salute, and hoifted his black Colours - alfo, “The Preach Man was nota little pleafed at this happy Miflake , they both hoifted out their Boats, pene a oT ; "§ rte A i : f and fuppofed her « - abetter Ship: Davis agreed to it, and very he came along | Of Capt. Hower DAVIS. 185 and the Captains went to meet’ and a Monat One another witha Flag of Truce in inet cy ae & great many Civilities pafled between th : ere La Boufe defired. Davis, that they might fail fo gai the Coaft together, that he (La Boufe) mig i Bet i i fit for teoufly promifed him the firft Ship he took, fit! his Ute, he would give him, as being willing to €ncourage a willing Brother. : The heft Place hey touch’d at, was arcmin Where at firft going in, they fpied a fe pine Anchor ; Davis being the beft Sailor fir ak With her, and wondering that fhe did not try i A ae Off, fufpetted her to be a Ship of Force. As i 1? “along Side of her, fhe brought - spr "6 “pon her Cable, and fired a whole ee 4 Davis, at the fame Time hoifted a blac ee Davis hoifted his black Flag in like Mariel. tred one Gun to Leeward. 2 Th fine, the proved to be a Pyrate Ship of ey, four Guns, commanded by one Cocklyit, who expe ing thefe two would prove Prizes, let es sib # leaft his getting under Sail might frig them away. Pies le ee ys, : This Saviotattion was great on all Sides, at this Jun&ion of Confederates and Brethren in Pa wo Days they fpent in improving their pes “ance aiid Friendhip, the third Day Davis a Le ya, agreed to goin La Boufe’s, Brigantine and atta ~ the Fort ; they contrived it fo, as to get up thither by high Water; thofe in the Fort nar os tobe what they. really were, and therefore seve Upon their Defence; when the eae oe Within Muskst-Shor, the Fort fired all their ae Upon’ her, the Brigantine did the like Bee tae Port, and fo held each other in Play for fever: Hours, whem the two confederate Ships aie rahe ND to ‘the Affitance of the Brigmtine; thote whd 186 Of Capt, HOWEL DAV Is, defended the Fort, feeing fuch a Number of Hands on Board thefe Ships, had not the Courage to fiand it any longer, but abandoning the Fort, left it to the Mercy of. the Pyrates. They took Pofleffion of it, and continued there near feyen Weeks, in which Time they all cleaned their Ships. We thould have obferved, that aGalley came into the Road while they were there, which Davis infifted fhould be yielded to La Boufe, accor- ding to-his Word of Honour before given 3 Cock- hye did not oppofe it, fo La Boufe went into her, with his Crew, and cutting away her half Deck, mounted her with twenty four Guns. | -Having called a. Counfel of War, they agreed to. fail down the Coaft together, and for the greater Grandeur, appointed a Commadore, which was Davis, but they had not kept Company long, when drinking together on Board of Davis, they had like to have fallen together by the Ears, the ftrong Liquor ftirring wpa Spirit of Difcord among them, and they quarrelled, but Davi put an End to it, by this dhort Speech : —~ Heark ye, you Cock- lin and La Boule, Ifind by ftrengthening you, I have: put a Rod into your lands to whip my felf, but I'm frill able to deal with you both, but fince we met ia Love, ler us part in. Love, for I find, that three of a Trade can never agree. —-Upon which the other two went on Board their re{pettive Ships, and immediately parted, each. fteering a different Courfe. — . : - Davis held.on his. Way down the Coaft, and making Cape Appollonia, he met with two Scotch and.one Englifh Velfel, which he plundered, and then let go. About five Days after he fell in with a Dutch Interloper of thirty Guns and ninety Men, (half being Engilifh,) off Cape Three Points Bay, Davis com- ing up along Side of her, the Dutch Man gave the firft Fire, and pouring.in a broad-Side upon Davis, killed nine of his Men, Dav returned it, and a ies A STA SIP Voy IY FUIN ILIV IL IVIL IVE OAVTV ELT OS Of Capt. HowEL DAVIS, 187 Very hot Engagement followed, which lafted from ne a Clock at Noon, till nine next. Morning, {en the Dutch Man ftruck, and yielded her {elf a Prize, ene sh - i “ai Give Davis fitted up the Dutch Ship for his own Ue, and called ae the Rover, aboard of which he ounted thirty two Guns, and twenty’ feven Swi- pels, and proceeded with her and the King James, Ss Anamaboes he entered the Bay betwixt the Hours ss twelve and one at Noon, and found there three hips lying at Anchor, who were trading for Ne- procs, ‘Goldand Teeth: The Names of thefe Ships vere the Hink Pink, Captain Hall Commander, the “tncefs, Captain Plumb, of which Roberts, who will: ike a‘éonfiderable Figure in the fequel of this tory, was fecond Mate, and the Aforvice Sloop, anna Fin; he takes thefe Ships without any Re- pittice, and having plundered them, he makes a peent of one of them, viz. the AMorrice Sloop, ta he Dutch Men, on Board of which alone were found. * hundred and forty Negroes, befides dry Goods, ‘nda confiderable Quantity of Gold-Duft. ee 5 It happened there were feveralCanoes along Side rs this laft, when Davis came in, who faved them- mes ‘and got afhore; thefe gave Notice at the the 2 that thefe Ships were Pyrates, upon which Fort fired upon them, but without any Exe- tation, for their Mettle was not of Weight enough x teach them; Davis therefore, by Way of De- nce, hoifted his black Flag and returned their. Compliment. ; os igh urna ‘i The fame Day he {ail’d with his three Ships, Making his Way down the Coaft towards Princes, a th. tuguefe Colony ; But, before we proceed any far- A erin Davis’s Story, we fhallgive owr Reader an Wecount, of the Portuguefe Settlements on this Coaft, nee other curious Remarks, as they were commu- wented to me by an ingenious Gentleman, lately ar- . ed from thofe Parts, aa A De Bon ¢ s 188 Of Capt. Hower Darts: i A Defcription of the Iflands of St. THomy _ Dex Principe, and ANNoBONo. | FA Sthe Portuguefe were the great Improvers of A Navigation, and the firft Europeans who traded too and fettled on the Coafts of Africa, even round) to India, and made thofe Difcoveries, which now turn fo much to the Advantage of other Nation§ it may not be amifs, previoufly to a Defcriptios of thofe Iflands, to hint on that wonderful Pro perty of the Loadftone, that a little before had bee found out, and enabled them to purfue fuch new and daring Navigations, Be te _ The attraétive Power of the Loadftone, was uni verfally known with the Ancients, as may be be lieved by its being a native Foffil of the Grecian (Magnes a Magnefia) but ‘its directive, or polar Vit tue, has only been known to us within this 350 Years, and faid to. be found out by John Goia ob Malphi, in the Kingdom of Naples, Prima dedit > naw) tis ufum magnetis Amalphi , tho’ others think, and} affure us, it was tran{ported by Paulus Venerus from China to Italy, like the other famous Arts of moder! Ufe with us, PRINTING and the Ufe of GUNS... | ..The other Properties or Improvements of the Magnet, viz. Variation, or its Defluétion from. at exact N. or S. Line,Variation of that Variation, and its Inclination, were the Inventions of Sebaftian Cu bet, Mr. Gellibrand, and Mr. Norman, the Inclinati| 6n of the Needle, or that Property whereby it keeps an Elevation above the Horizon, in call, Plas ces but under the Equator, (where its Parallel) i as furprizing a Phenomenon as any, and, was, they Difcovery of our Countrymen;, and, could it: bé found regular, 1 imagine would very much help to- wards the ‘Difcovery of Longitude, at. leaft would i ae eee point) ef ortuguefe WNavigations my YP Ny Ye IY, OB CHES EB ESE 189 _ Of Gapt. HowEL DAVIS, Point out better Methods than hitherto known, When Ships drew nigh Land, which would anfwer 48 ufeful an End. a ticity and Ufe of the Compas, the oe eee i ad extended no farther it was their xe plus ultrdy) and therefore {6 called; diftrefS of Weather, Hie had drove fome Coafters to Porto Santo, and Madera, before any certain Method of fteering was any fed; but after the Needle was feen thus infpired, Navigation every Year improved under the he Tncouragements of Henry, Alphonfus, and Jp I, ‘Rings of Portugal, in Part of the 14th and im Ne 15th Century. ©. © he i ce “Alphonfus was not fo much at leafure sig Predeceffor, to purfue thefe Difcoveries, a iat Ving feen the Advantages accrued to Portugal by them, and that the Pope had confirmed the Petr Petual Donation of all they fhould aifeeret 5 Ween Cape Bajadore and India, inclufively, a HS ol- Ved not to neglect the proper Afliftance, an spi €d the Profits that did or might enfue to one Bernar Comex, a Citizen of Lisbon, who was every Voyage Sblized to difcover 100 Leagues, ftill farther eS And about the Year 1470 made thefe Wands, the Only Places (of all the confiderable and arge Colonies they had in Africa,) that do HONE remain to that Crown, St. Thome is the principal of the three, whofe Governour is ftiled Captain General of the Manes “nd from whom the other at Princes receives 4 Commiffion, tho’ nominated by the Court of Port t tis. Bifhoprick witha great many fecular Clergy Who appear to have neither Learning nor verge aS may be judged by feveral of them being : Broes: One of the Chief of them, invited us to hear Mafs, as a Diverfion to pats Time away, Where he, and his inferior Brethren acted ae an than Cape Non, ( Le er Wott he a 190 Of Capt. HoweL Dayts, feted Geftures and Strains of Voice, as fhewed td their Difhonour, they tha pleafing us; and what I think was ‘till wore, # was not without a View of Intereft;, for as thelé) Clergy are the chief Traders, they ftoop to pitt ful and fcandalous Methods for ingratiating thenv felves: They and the Government, on this trv! ding Account, maintain as great Harmony, beil$ to offer for ‘fale, whether Toys or ‘Cloaths, which of all Sorts are ever Commodious with the Portir gucfé, in all Parts of the World; an ordinary Suit of Black will fell for feven or eight Pound ; a Turnftile Wig of four Shillings, for a Moidore ; a Watch of ars f forty Shillings, for fix Pound, cc. len -The Town isofmean Building, but large and pop lous, the Refidence of the greater Part of the Nv tives, who, thro’ the whole Ifland, are computed at 10000, the Militia at 3000, and are iti general, @ rafcally thievith Generation, as an old grave Friend of mine can Witnefs ; for he having car- ried a Bag of fecond hand Cloaths on Shore, t0 truck for Provifions, feated himfelf on the Sand for that Purpofe, prefently gathered a Crowd - Found him, to view them ; one of which defired t0 know the Price of a black Suit, that unluckily lay uppermoft, and was the beft. of them, agree | ing to the Demand, with little Hefitation, provid? ed it would but fit him; he put them on im} mediately, in as much hurry as. poffible, without any co-licentia Seigmor,; and when my Friend was zbout to commend the Goodnef$ of the Suit, and Exadmefs they fet with, not dreaming of the Inv pudence of running away from a Crowd, the Rafcal took to his Heels, my Friend followed and baw! ed very much, and tho’ there was 5 P about the Place, it feryed to no other End but. making had~no other Aim’ that} ever jealous of each other, and prattifing little] eceitful Arts to monopolize what Strangers have] Cp SRS MELOP SE of Capt. HowEL Davis. 19% making him a clear Stage, that the beft Pair of Heels might carry it; fo he loft the Suit of Cloaths and bet could return to his Bag, others © them had tie off his Servant, and fhared- the ref, Agent ‘Moft of the Ships from Guiney, of their SH, Nation, and Aa icntly thofe of ours, call Ab Sa °r other of thefe Iflands, to recrutt with frei e Oi Vifions, and take in Water, which on the. a t are not fo good, nor fo conveniently to eg y 3 Their own Ships likewife, when they. touch fig re obliged to leave the King his Cuftom for t att Slaves, which is always in Gold, at fo muc ae Head, without any Deduttion at Brafil, ips tae Mortality that may happen afterwards ; tl us y: eing a conflant Bank to pay off the civil an es litary Charges of the Government, prarente fe Tnconveniency ot Remittances, and keeps both 1 ae Princes fle rich enough otf. pay ready Money or ever ing they want of Europeans. The aa ‘Gaal and lean, ( two bintae Weight or a little more,) but the Goats, Flows 2 Owls very good, their Sugar courfe and dirty, @nd Rum. very ordinary ; as thefe Rene aoe lay moft with People who are in want of other Neceffaries, they come to us,in Way of bar Fete Very cheap: A good Hog for an old Cutlath ; - ite Fowl for a Span of Brafil Tobacco, (no other Sor being valued, ec.) But with Money you BINS: €ight Dollars per Head for Cattle; three Dollars i & Goat; fix Dollars for agrown Hog 5 a Teftune a d a Half for a Fowl; a Dollar per Gallon for Be z two Dollarsa Roove for Sugar; and halfa pole for a Dozen of Paraquets: Here 1s Plenty ii - Wife of Corn and Farine, of Limes, Gitrons ari Yamms. ee The Ifland is reckoned nigh a Square, each vide 18 Leagues long, hilly, and lays under Be Ae GOV EVIE VI TV OVE OVE OOO EY OY" 192, Of Capt. HowEL Darts, q nottial, a wooden Bridge juft without the Townj being faid not to deviate the leaft Part of a Minute, either to the Southward or Northward; and not- withftanding this warm Scituation, and continual vertical Suns, the Iflanders are very healthy, im- puted by thofe who. are difpofed to be merry, ind great Meafure to the Want of even fo much a3 one Surgeon or Phyfician amongft them. _ Mle Del Principe, the next in Magnitude, a plea- fant and delightful Spot to the gtave, and thought- full Difpofition of the Portuguese, an Improvement of Country Retirement, in that, this may be a happy. ' and uninterrupted Retreat from the wholeWorld. ; _ Vthall divide what Ihave to fay on this Ifland, “into Obfervations miade on. our Approach to it, on the Seas round it, the Harbour, Produce of the Ifland and Seafons, Way of Living among the — Inhabitants, fome Cuftom of the Negroes, with fuch proper Deduétions on each as may illuftrate the Defcription, and inform the Reader. We were bound hither from Whydah, at the Jatter Part of the Month uly, when the Rains are over, and the Winds hang altogether S. W. (as they do before the Rains, S. E.) yet with this Wind (when at Sea) we found the Ship gained unexpectedly fo far to the Southward, (i. ¢. Wind-. ward,) that we could with eafe have weathered any of the Iflands, and this feems next to impof: | fible fhould be, if the Currents, which were ftroug to Leeward, in the Road of Whydah, had extended in like Manner crofs the Bite of Benin : No, it muft. then have been very difficult to have weathered. even Cape Formofa: On this Occafion, I fhall farther “expatiate upon the Currents on the whole Coaft. Of Guiney. ; The Southern Coaft of Africa runs in a Line of | Latitude, the Northern on an Eaftern Line, but both ftrait, with the feweft Inlets, Gulphs or. Bays, Caufe more open to a larger Sea, ¥ SPA SP. OF Capt. HowEL DAVIS. i 193 Bays, of either of the four CORT is ie pee y large and remarkable one, is that 0 RG oe labar, towards which the Currents of e2 thward, be- tend, and is ftrongeft from the oa oe vifhag t any Diftance thefe Currents t Tides altered 1S (tho? little and indifcernable at fromthe Land,) that gives rile Clofe in Shore, which are nothing bu "and difturbed by the Make and Shape of Lands. ‘ ng For Proof of this, I fhall lay down sep 8 Obfervations as certain Fas, | That mn the” °£ Gambia and Sierraleon, in the Straits , Hage Nels of Benin, and in general along ihe Shords Coaft, the Flowings ate regular on th eae With ‘this Difference ; that, in the Gna he Rivers, and in the Channels of Benin, Me ee Shore contragt the Waters into a ae 2 ape 2 the Tides are ftrong and high, as we a me ag but on the dead Coaft, where it ma pee ae Reverberation, flow and low, (or 4 a arch r three Foot,) increafing as you a¢ oa pia de Benin; and this is farther evident es ead Corfe 0, Succonda and Commenda, and w pee recutarly Tounds and gives any Stop, the Tides flo PR aS ES to four Foot and upwards; when ail Facencead Coat, (tho? next adjoining,) they thall not excee two or three Foot; and beget Saar Hileae (where no fuch Lee is, ) they © {carcely, if at all, perceptible.) : What Dageule Biange from this, ee ie Ties firmation of that ingenious Theory " eter by Captain Halley ; is firft, that the S e OC aERaen Angola, Cabenda, and other Places on t wee ca Coaft of Africa, thould crofs the «Aquino race Cape Palmas, and run into a eee rd and Without keeping too far to the We pen a the Reafon feems plain, for if you a t. Calms to crofs it about the pie 5 ba © four 194 Of Capt. HowEL Darts. foutherly Winds and oppofite Currents; and if too far to the Weftward, the trade Winds are ftrong and unfavourable ; for it obliges you to fland in to 28 or 30% Southern Latitude, till they are va- riable.. Secondly, On the Northern Side Ships are bound from the Gold-Coaft to. Sierraleon, Gambia, or elfewhere to Windward, confidering the Weaknef of thele Currents, and the Favou- tablenefs of Land Breezes, and Southerly in the Rains, Turnadoes, andeven of theTradeWind, when a-breaft of Cape Palmas, it is more expeditious to purfue the Paffage this Way, than by a long per- goo Leagues to the ambulatory Courfe of 4 or Weftward, and as many more to the Northward, which muft bebefore a Wind can be obtained, that could recover the Coaft. __Laftly, Itis, ina great Meafure, owning to. this want of Inlets, and the Rivers being finall and unnavigable, that the Seas rebound with fo dan- ferous a Surff thro’ the whole Continent. __ Round the Shores of this Ifland, and at this Sea- fon, (July, Auguft and. September,) there is a great, Refort of Whale-Fith, tame, and {porting very nigh the Ships as they fail in, always in Pairs, the “Female much the fmaller, and often feen to turn on their Backs for Dalliance, the Prologue to en- gendring : It hasan Enemy, called the Thresher, a large Fifh too, that. has its Haunts here at this — Seafon, and encounters the Whale, raifing him- felf out of the Water a confiderable: Heighth, and falling again with great Weight and Force ; it.ig commonly faid alfo, that there is a Sword Fith in thefe Battles, who pricks the Whale up to th Surface again, but without this, I believe, he would fuifocate when put to quick Motions, unlef frey quently approaching the Air, to ventilate and re. move the Impediments to a fwifter Cpa OS or of Guiney, if B® pas PHY RY TWH IY FY OY SEY sn? A AES BAY PAV Ace Rs 3 Of Capt. HowEL DAVIS. — 19§ Nor do 1 think he is battled for Prey, ane ba Move him from what is perhaps the Food © fide The Number of Whales here has put me ; a Fimes on thinking an advantageous Fifhery pe be made of it, but prefume they (no el os thofeof Brafl) ate the Sort which yield the p ’ fore that fitable Part, called Whale-Bone ‘ All baat wich theIfanders do, is now and then to go we Ee two or three Canoes, and fet on one The R and outer Lines of the Ifland, | are the Het esib8 Airey of Sea-Birds, a prot Boobies and Noddies; the former are of the ls £ aGull, anda dark Colour, named fo se : Yi Simplicity, becaufe they often fit ftill an " Sailors take them up in their Hands, but en this fucceeds more frequently from Lae is nefs, and the Largene{s of their Ane a hick i When they once have refted, cannot have hs he oe Receffary to raife and float them on the Air agains The Noddies are finaller and flat footed alfo. mite What I would remark more of them, is, t he is Mirable Inftin& in thefe Birds, for the Li 73 pe Ons, and the proper Places for se) eae *forementiowd Months, when the large Filh v th here, nuinerous Flocks 6f Fowl attend for te Spawn and Superfluity of their bad wa each a - January few of either, for the fame Sen 3 there are fearce any Sea Fowl! feen on the tbe ' Coagt ‘Rocks and Iflands being generally the: bert Security and ete a ge at the H. $. B. Point The Harbour of Princes i souns OF the Tiland 4 the North-Side has gradual Soun i d dings, but here deep Water, having no Groun * a Mile off with tao Bathor of Line. bee (as (when in) is afmooth narrow Bay, fafe Se sabes Cunlets a little Swell when Southerly) and dra li fed into other-fiialler and fandy Ones, conven N 2 196 =. Of Capt. How EL Darts. for raifing of Tents, Watering, and hawling the Seam ; the whole protetted by a Fort, or rather Battery, of a dozen Guns. on the Larboard-Side. At the Head of the Bay ftands the Town, about 4 Mile from the anchoring Place, and confifts of two or three regular Streets, of wooden built Houfes, where the Governor and chief Men of the Ifland refide. Here the Water grows fhallow for a con- fiderable Diftance, and the Natives, at évery Ebb, (having before encompaffed every convenient Angle with a Rife of Stones, fomething like Weirs in Ezg- land) refort for catching of Fith, which, with them, is a daily Diverfion, as well as Subfiitance, soo “at- tending with Sticks and wicker Baskets ; and if they cannot dip them with one Hand, they knock them down with the other. The Tides rife regularly 6 Foot in the Harbour, and yet not half that Heighth without the Capes that make the Bay. <> |! Here are conftantly two Miffionaries, who are fent for fix Years to inculcate the Chriftian Prin- Ciples, and more efpecially attend the Converfion of tae Negroes ; the prefent are Venetians, inge- ious Men, who feem to defpife the loofe Morals and Behaviour of the:Seculars, and complain of them as of the Slaves, ut Color Mores Sunt nigri. They have a neat Conventual-Houfe and a Garden appro- priated, which, by their own Induftry and ‘Labour, not only thrives with the feveral Natives of the Soil, but many Exoticks and Curiofities. A Fruit in particular, larger than a Chefnut, yellow, con- taining two Stones, with a Pulp, or clammy Sub- ftance about them, which, when fuck’d, exceeds in ' Sweetnefs, Sugar or Honey, and has this Property | beyond them, of giving a fweet Tafte to every Li- quid you {wallow for the whole Evening after. The only Plague infefting the Garden, isa Vermin called. Land-Crabs, in vaft Numbers, of a bright red Co- lour, (in. other Refpetts like the Sea ones) which burrough \ Of Capt. HowEL DAVIS. ssid burrough in thefe fandy Soils like Rabbets, and are as thy, © { "I ; 5 The Ifland is a pleafant pi Nap a big @ad Valley; the Hills fpread with saat eae a Nuts, and Cotton-Trees, with Numbers : We €ys and Parrots among them ; the Valleys wae fruitful Plantations of Yamms, Kulalu, to aes ety | of Sallating, -Ananas, or Pine-App ae i Vas, Plantanes, Bonanas, Manyocos , a0 ae Corn ; with Fowls, Guinea Hens, a u : Goats, Hogs, Turkies, and wild Beefs, wit oa little Village of Negroes, who, under the Dire a Of their feveral Mafters, manage the Sais Ee and exchange or fell them for Money, much a the fame Rates with the People of St. Thome. - I hall run‘a Defcription of the V ceri ui their Properties, not only becaufe they are the Pro- duce of this Mland, but moft of them of Africa in Senera ESN we : The Paanrress are numerous on the anaes of Afr ica, and may be reckoned the firft of t 2a is ‘ural Curiofities, in that they afford them Mea 5 Drink and Cloathing ; they grow very ftraig nee 4° and 50 Foot high, and at the top (ouly) ae 3 Or 4 Circles of Branches, that {pread and ma a ©Apacious Umbrella. The Trunk is very Fis With Knobs, either Excrefcencies, or the Hea ings °f thofe Branches that were lopped off to ay, the Growth of the Tree, and make it anfwer ts ter in its Fruit. The Branches are ftrongly He “Ogether with a Cortex, which may be unrave 7 *0 a confiderable Length and Breadth , the inwar Lamella of this Cortex, 1 kaow are wove like a loath at Benin, and afterwards died and a Under the Branches, and clofe to the Body of the Tree, hang the Nuts, thirty Bunches ie Bly 2 Tree, and each of thirty Pound Weight, with Prickly Films from between them, not unrefem~ eat N3 bling 198 = Of Capt. HOWEL Darts, fembling Hedge-Hogs; of thefe Nuts comes.a li quid and pleafant {cented Oyl, ufedas Food and Sauce all overthe Coait, but chiefly in the Wind- ward Parts of Africa, where they ftamp, boil and skim it off in great Quantities ; underneath, where the Branches faften, they tap for Wine, called Cockra, in this Manner; the Negroes who até moftly limber attive Fellows, eucompafs . them felves and the Trees witha Hoop of ftrong With, | and runup with a great deal of Agility ; at the Bottom of a Branch of Nuts, he makes an Exca- vation of an Inch and a half over, and tying faft his Calabafh, leaves it to deftil, which it does to fwo or three Quarts in a Night’s Time, when done he plugs it up, and choofes another ; for if {uffered ta run tog much, or inthe Day Time, the Sap is nnwarily exhaufted, and the Tree fpoiled: The Liquor thus drawn, is of a wheyifh Colour, in- toxicating and fours in 24 Hours, but when new drawn, is pleafantef? to thirft aad luvger both: It is from thefe Wines they draw their Arack in India On the very Top of the Palm, grows a Cabbage, galled fo, I believe, from fome refemblance its Taft is thought to have with ours, and is ufed like it the Covering has a Down that makes the beft of Tinder, and the Weavings of other Parts are drawi out into {trong Threads, se He Coco-Nut-Trees are branch?d like, but not {o tall as, Palm Trees, the Nut like them, growing under — the Branches, and clofe tothe Trunk, the milky Liquor they contain, (to half a Pint or more,) is pften drank ta quench Thirft, but furfeiting, and this may be obferved in their Way of Nourifhe ment, that when the Quantity of Milk is large the Sheil and Meat are very thin, and harden and thicken in Proportion, as that lofes. - €ottoa Trees alfo are the Growth of all Parts of Africh, 48 wellas the Iflands, of vaft Bignefs, yet Py “f q Py A ngt OTR CU eT Us arene “ * oy ‘ ania var oa OEP EL TUS IY, ERE Se. y 4: OV eve Bp SPP SVPPL OT LIAS OF Capt. HowEL DAVIS. — 199 Not {o jxcremental a8 the Shrubs or Buthes of five Or fix Foot high ¢ thefe bear a Fruit (if ic may be {0 called) about the Bigne(s of Pigeons Eggs, which as the Sun. {wells and ripens, burfts forth and dif Covers thrée Cells loaded with Cotton, and Seeds 1n the Middle of them : This in moft Parts the Ne- Sroes know how to fpin, and here at Wicongo and the Ifland St. Jago, how to weave into Cloths. . Tamms area common Root, {weeter but hot une Uke Potato’s: Kulalu, x Herb like Spinnage + Papa, Fruit lefs than the {malleft Pumkins; they are all thrée for boiling, arid to be eat with Meat; the lattet are improved by the Englifh ‘into, a Tur- Nip or an Applé Taft, with due Mixtiire of But- ot or'Limes. ey: coe ten ae ape Guava’s, a Fruit as large as a Pipin, with Seeds nd Stones ji it, of an uncouth aftringing Taft, tho” _ never {o much be faid in Commendation of it, at the Weft Indiedy it is common for Craolians, (who has tafted both,).to give it a Preference to Peach or* Netaritie, “no amazing Thing when “Men whofe Tafts are fo degenerated, as to prefer.a Toad in 4 Shel, (as Ward calls Turtle,) to Venifon, and Ne-. Sloes to fine Englifh Ladies. FS Plantdnes aid Bonano’s ave Fruit of oblong. 1 Sure, that 1 think differ only fecundum Major & Minus, if any, the latter are preferable, and by. be- Mg lets, are juicier 3 they are ufually, when itrip- Ped of their Coat, eat at Meals inftead of Bread : The Leaf of this Plantane is an admirable Deter- Sent, and, externally applied, I have feen cure the Moft obftinate {corbutick Ulcers. are Manyoco. A Root that fhoots its Brancnes about the héighth of a Currant Bufh, from this Root the landers make a Farine or Flower, which they {ell at three Ryals a Roove, and drive a confidera- ble Trade for it with the Ships that callin. The man saan ira! to prefs the Juice from it. bner of making it, mn P J (which 2 men nmmentiesitint 200 = Of Capt. HowEL Darts. (which is poifonous) done here with Engines, and then the Negroe Women, upon a rough Stone, rub it into a granulated Flower, referved in their Hou | do our Wheat, and, is 2 or make it into @ fes, either to boil, as we hearty Food for the Slaves; Bread, fine, white, and well. tafted, for themfelves. One thing worth taking Notice about Manyoco in this Ifland, is, that the Woods abound witha wild pois fonous and more mortiferons Sor t, which fometimes Men, unskilled in the Preparation of it, feed on to their Deftruttion ; This the Miffionaries affured me they often experimented in their Hogs, and_belie- ved we did-in the Mortality of our Sailors. Indian Corn, is likewife as well as the Earine dé Manyoco and Rice, the common Vittualling of out Slave. Ships, and is afforded here at 1000 Heads for two Dollars, This Corn grows eight or nine Foot high, ona hard Reed or Stick, fhooting forth at e- very fix Inches Heighth, fome long Leaves.;. it has always an Ear, or rather Head, at top, of, perhaps, 400 Fold Increafe , and often two, three, or more, Midway. si Here are fome Tamarind Trees; another called Cola, whofe Fruit, or Nut (about twice the Bignels of a Chefinut,. and. bitter) is chewed by the Por- tugueze, to give afweet Guftto their Water which they drink, but above all, | was fhewn the Bark of | one (whofe Name | do not know) gravely affirm’d to havea peculiar Property of enlarging the Virile Member ; Lam. not fond of fuch Conceits, nor be- lieve it in the Power of any Vegetables, but muft acknowledge, I have feen Sights of this kind among ~ the Negroes very extraordinary ; yet, that there — may be no Withes among the Ladies for the Impor- tation of this Bark, I mut they are found to in Bulk. acquaint them, that: gow le{s merry, as they encreafe I had like to have forgot their Cinnamon ‘Frees; there is only one Walk of them, and is the L Entrance \ ie: : ——— ee —e i ee 7 iy, ; “sty EVER RCAL ELA EVR EY BE VELVET Se ll oe Phe ve PS SRA SVL TS: SERN owt T TET, Of -Gupt. HoweEL DAVIS. 208 Entrance of the Governor’s Villa; they cheese treemly well, and the Bark not inferior Ne oe hamon from India; why they and othe : Pies ae Soil.fo. proper, receive no fatt hsontin mee ees Probably, their Sufpicion, that fo fae pena i eon make {ome potent Neighbour ta aucys Ther rue two. Winters, or rather soanare two Summers: Their Winters, which are t nie Seafons, come in September and February, of pe Hi and hold two Months, returning that Fatnets < io Seherative Power to the Earth, apa ee it ae ® double Crop every Year, with little Swea or abour, iiss agit Jag Hic Ver Affiduum atque Alienis Menfibus Eftas ida , is utilis arbos. —Bis gravide. Pecudes, bis Pomis utili Their firft coming is with Travade’s, i.e. fuddem,, , =|) i and hard Gufts of Wind, with Thundets iit Ning and heavy Showers, but fhort ; - ge Cabs new or full Moon at thofe Times of the ‘4 ice i libly introduces the Rains, which, te were With little Intermiffion, and are obferve so lett February, Similar to thefe are rainy Sea oni oo Over ail the Coaft of Africa: If there se Pe lowed any general Way of calculating t Fe Bess they happen from the Courfe of ne he eS fhetts the eLquincttial only 5 for if t z é ‘ soe fe Prove rainy Seafons all over the Worl @ pice to think they are) whatever fecret Cau inl aH With that Station of the Sun to produce : ne More effef&tually do it in thofe ete ae a and therefore, as the Sun advances, t = cep ue brought on the Wiydah and Gold Coaft, by Apna and oa the Windwardmoft Part of Guinty ‘pid i The other Seafon of the Sun’s returning j irregu-. Southward, make them more uncertain and irreg t ‘ e Southward Jar in Northern Africa , but then to che again, 03 Of Capt. Hower Darts; again, they proceed in like manner; and are dt Cape Lopez in Othober, at Angola in November, 8c» The Manner of living among the Portuguexe heré is, with the utmoft Frugality and Temperance, e- vento Penuty and Statving ; a familiar Infiance of Proof is; in the Voracity of their Dogs, who findé ing fuch clean Cupboards at home, are wild in a thanner with Hanger, and tare up the Graves of the Dead for Food, as I have often feen: They themflves are lean with Covetoufnefs, and that Chriftian Vertue, which is often the Refult of ity Selfdenyal ; and would train up their Cattle in the fame way, could they fetch as much Money, or had not they their Provifion more immediately | of Providence. The beft of them (excepting the Go- vernor now and then). neither pay nor receive any Vifits of Efcapade or Recreation; they meet and 4i€ down ae each others Doors in thé Street every Evening, and as few of them, in fo fmall an Ifland, can have their Plantations at any greater Diftance, than that they may fee it every Day if they will, fo the Subje& of their Talk is moftly how Affairs went there, with theif Negroes, or their Ground, and then part with one another innocently, but empty, ii ‘ aie The Negroes have yet no hard Duty with them, they aré rather Happy in Slavery ; for astheir Food is‘chiefly Vegetables, that could no way elfe be ex- pended, there is no Murmurs bred on that account ; and as their BufinefS is Domeftick, either in the Ser- vices of the Houfe, or in Gardening, Sowing, or Planting, they have no more than what every Man would prefer for Health and Pleafure; the hardeft of their Work is the Carriage of their Pateroons, or their Wives, to and from the Planta- tions ; this they do in Hammocks (call’d at Whydah, Serpentines) flung crofs a Pole, with a Cloath over, to fereen the Perfon, fo carried, from Sun and = Weather, €ven this, methinks, is: bette : Liberty. ‘a Man: has for himfelf a ! - has introduced then with the Vulga Of Capt. HOW EL eee pot aves ar 5 an Weather, and the Slaves are at pee is bea nd his Heirs to rage Wark in a CoaltMamdy6 jeinis | Tee x, Thenapert afe,~ moft of them, poe om awe Of their Patroons, Chriftians, at: leaft a ss is . £Xcepting to fome’ few, they adhere: iti oe filly Pagan Cuftoms in their .Mournings ; 1 : fu | Majority 1¥cings, and in fome Meafure, yale the Mulatto And. Portugueze Races. _If a Perfon die in that Colour, the Relations and B tiends of him meet at the Houfe, where = fe sie 18 laid out decently on the Ground and cane _ €Xcept the Face) witha Sheet; they ot nee peut Crying and howling dreadfully, not unlike ws Countrymen are faid to do in Ireland: This Mour- ‘ Nights, but not e- ing Jafts for eight Days and Nights, aie Gually intenfe, for as the Friends, la Ekta the Chorus, go out and in, are weary, an ly affected,’ the Tone beflens daily, and th Vals of Grief are longer. i ; . In, Rejoycings sith Feftivals they are ese "idiculous ; thefe are commonly made of ba "ends Efcape from Shipwreck, or gue nage * They meet in a large Room of the Houle, w! . Strum Strum, to which oneof the Couapaiiy: io i haps, fings wofully} the reft ftanding bes se Room clofe to the Petitions, take 1¢1n para ee (one or two at a time) to ftep round, pute ne Cing, the whole clapping their Hands oe 2nd hooping out every Minute Abeo, w nee rah NO more, than, how do yor. And this foo i oe Will continue three or four Days together i Hout, and perhaps twelve or fixteen Hours @ time, : The Portugueze,tho’ eminently ae a = re Perate in all other Things, are unbounded 1 eae e Inter- (Zea IG ETRE RT RCS Ba UBS ~ 904 «Of Capi. Hower Dav rs. Lufts; and perhaps ‘they fubftitute ‘the former in room. of ‘a Surgeon,” as a’ Counterpoifon to ‘the Mifchiefs ofa promifcuous Salacity : They have moft of them Venereal Taints, and with*Age: become meager and heétick:' I “faw two Inftances here of Venereal Ulcers that’ had cancerated to the Bowels Speétacles that would “have. effeftually’ perfwaded Men (I think) how ‘Salutary* the Reftri&ion ’ of Lawsare. ag not nt | 291 ~ Annobono is the laft, and of the leaft Confequence a of the three [flands , there are Plenty of Fruits and Provifions, exchariged to Ships? for old Cloaths and Trifles of any Sort; they have a Governor nomi- nated from St, Thome, and two or three Priefts, nei- ther of which are minded, every one living at Di- fcretion, and fill’d with Ignorance and Luft. 4 ~To return to ‘Davis, the next Day after~he left Anamaboe, early in the Morning, the: Man at the’ Maft-Head efpied a Sail. It muft beobferved, they ~ keep a good Look-out , for, according to their Ar- ticles, he who firft efpies a Sail, if the proves a Prize, is entitled to the beft Pair of Piftols on Board, over and above his Dividend, in which they take a fingu- | lar Pride; anda Pair of Piftols has fometimes been fold for thirty Pounds, from one to another. Immediately they gave Chace, and foon came up with her; the Ship proved to be a Hollander, and being betwixt Davis ‘and the Shore, fhe made all the Sail fhe could, intending to run aground; Davis’ gueffed her Defign, and putting out all his {mall | Sails, came up with her before fhe could effect it, and fired a Broad-fide, upon which fhe immediate- ly ftruck, and called for Quarter. It was granted, for according to Davis’s Articles, it was agreed, that Quarter fhould be given whenever it wascal- led for, upon Pain of Death. This | Of Capt. HOWEL DAVIS. _ 205 This. Ship proved a very rich Prize, having the Governor of Acra on Board, with all his Effects, go- 8 to Holland ; there was in Money to the Value of ha 150001. Sterling, befides other valuable Mere Zes, all aisich ae brought on Board of themfelves. ndi- Upon this new Succefs, they reftored Captain Hall a “Captain Plumb, before-mentioned, ce! Ships again, but ftrengthened their Company wit 4 thirty five Hands, all white Men, taken out 0 thefe two and the AMorrice Sloop ; they alfo - ne ed the Dutch their Ship, after having plunder’ fr, as is mentioned. 3 bas Before they got to the Ifland of Princes, one of their Ships, viz. that call’d the King Fames, f{prung ® Leaks” Davis order’d all Hands out of her, on Board his own Ship, with every thing elfe of ae 8nd left her at an Anchor at High Cameroon. As loon 2S he came in Sight of the Ifland, he pcan 4 Colours ; the Portuguefe obferving a large Ship {ail- Ng towards them, fent out a little Sloop tO eXae ine what fhe might be; this Sloop hailing of Davis, he told them he was an Englifo Man of War, ae Queft of Pyrates, and that he had received pelle ence there were fome upon that Coaft ; upon ¢ 4) they received him as a welcome Gueft, and puoi him into the Harbour. He faluted the Fort, set they anfwered, and he came to an Anchor juft un at their Guns, and hoifted out the Pinnace, Man o War Fafhion, ordering nine Hands anda Coxen in it, to row him afhore. ; The Portugueze, to do him the greater Honias fent down a: File! of Mufqueteers to receive him, 4nd condué him to the Governor. The Gone} 70t in the leat fufpetting what he was, ee him very civilly, promifing to fupply him aah Whatever the Ifland afforded, Davis thanked a telling him, the King of England would pay for what- ever he fhould take; fo after feveral eae 206. l(COSF Capt. HoWEL DAv'rs. pafs’d between him and the Governor, he returned again on Board. > It happened a French Ship came in there to fupply it felf with fome Neceffaries, which Davis took in- to his Head to plunder, but to give the Thing 4 Colour of Right, he perfuaded the Portugueze, that fhe had been trading with the Pyrates, and that he found feveral Pyrates Goods on Board, which he feized for the King’s Ufe: This Story paffed 0 | well upon the Governor, that he conimended Dr wvis’s Diligence. -- : A few Days after, Davis, with about fourteen more, “went privately afhore, and:walk’d up the Country towards a Village, where the Governor and thé other chief Men of the Ifland kept their Wives, in tending, as we may fuppofe, to fupply their Hus- bands Places with them ; but being difcovered, thé Women fled to a neighbouring Wood, and Davis and the reft retreated to their Ship, without effecting their Defign: The Thing made fome Noife, but as no body knew them, it paffed over. Having cleaned his Ship, and put all Things in Order, his Thoughts now were turned upon the main Bufinefs, viz. the Plunder of the [land, and not knowing wherethe Treafure lay, a Stratagem came into his Head, to get it. (as he thought) with little Trouble , he confulted his Men upon it, and they liked the Defign: His Scheme was, to make 4 Prefent tothe Governor, of a Dozen Negroes, by Way of Return for the Civilities received from him, © and afterwards to invite him, with the chief Men, and fome of the Friers, on Board his Ship, toan En tertainment , the Minute they came on Board, they ~ were to be fecured in Irons, and there kept till they fhould pay a Ranfom of 400001. Sterling, But this Stratagem proved fatal to him, for a Por tugueze Negroe {wam afhore in the Night, and difco- vered the whole Plot to the Governor, and eae im tempt upon their Wives. However, the Governor diffembled, received the Pyrates Invitation civilly, and promifed that he and the reft would go. .. Che next Day Davis went on Shore himfelf, as ifit were out of greater Refpett to bring the Gover- Nor on Board: He was received with the ufual Ci- vility, and he, and other principal Pyrates, who, by the Way, had affumed the Title of Lords, and as fuch took upon them to advife or councel their Captain upon any important Occafion; and likes Wife held certain Priviledges, which the common Pyrates were debarr’d from, as walking the Quar- ter-Deck, ufing the great Cabin, going afhore at Pleafure, and treating with foreign Powers, that is, With the Captains of Ships they made Prizeof; I fay, Dervis and fome of the Lords were defired to walk up 3 the Governor’s Honfe, to take fome Refrefhment fore they went on Board; they accepted it with- ot the leaft Sufpicion, but never returned again, Or an Ambufcade was laid, a Signal being given, a whole Volley was fired upon them ; they every Man ~Opp’d, except one, this one fled back, and efcaped ‘hto the Boat, and got on Board the Ship: Davis Was fhot through the Bowels, yet ie rifé again, and Made a weak Effort to get away, but his Strength foon forfook him, and he dropp’d down dead; juft as he fell, he perceived he was followed, and draw. ie cut his Piftols, fired them at his Purfuers, Thus tke a game Cock, giving a dying Blow, that he 2ight not fall umrevenged, Cre) CHAP, ~208 REMCLASRO NEw | fee Cos pose ay OF Captain Barzho. Roberts, And his-Crew. ~ é | from London aboard of the Prince/s, Captain Plumb Commander, of which Ship he was fecond Mate: He left England, November 1719, and arrived at Guiney about February following, and be- ing at Anamaboe, taking in Slaves for the Wee Indies, was taken in the faid Ship by Captain How el Davis, as mentioned in the preceeding Chapter: In the beginning he was very averfe to this fort | Bice Roberts failed in an honeft Employ; of Life, and would certainly have efcaped from | them, had a fair Opportunity prefented it felf 5 yet afterwards he changed his Principles, as many | befides him have done upon another Element; and} perhaps for the fame Reafon too, viz. Preferment, —— and what he did not like as a private Man he could reconcile to his Confcience as a Com: mander. a Davis being cut off in the manner beforementi oned, the Company found themfelves under a Ne} ceflity of filling up his Poft, for which there ape pear’d two or three Candidates among the feleé& Pag : 0 ny LEVIYFUSV EY IY PPP MAA Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 209 » that were diftinguith’d by the Title ef Lops, luch were Syamplony Afbplant, Anftisy &e. a ©n Canvaffing this Matter, how fhatter’d and wea Fr Condition their Government muit be without a Head, fince Davis had been removd, in the mans fet beforemention’d, my Lord: Dennis propos’d, its faid, Over a Bowl to this Purpofe. ee eae . hat it was not of any great Signification who was digs Nd with Title 5 for. really and in Truth, all. good Go- aN “ments had (like theirs) the fupream Power lodged with ited Latereft or Humours We are the Original of this Claing (fays he) and fhould a Captain be fo fawcy as to en ceed p refcription at any time, why down with Him Will be a Caution after he is dead to his Succeffors; of what Fatal Confequence any fort of affuming may bes However as my Advice, that, while we are fober, we pitch upon a Alan o, Courage, and skill’d ia Navigation, one, tho by *S Council and Bravery feems beft able to defend this Coma "onweale b, and ward us from the Dangers and Tempefts of “ftable Element, and the fatal Confequences of Anarchy ee pa a one I take Roberts to bon Fellow id thinks "Ut Refpetts, worthy your Eftcem arid Favour Tega waite ae ae by allbut Lord % "™Pfon, who had feeret Expectations himielf, but ft this Difappointment, grew fullen, and left them, Wearing, he did not care who they chofé Captain, fo it ne) ta Papift, for againft them he had conceit’d an irs ey ileable Hatred, for that his Father had beer a Suffers “22 Monmouth’s Rebellion. vbhalig 4 he Xeberts was accordingly eleéted, tho’ he had not Sia above fix Weeks among them, the Choice was hovitm’d both by the Lords and Commoners, and, o accepted of the Honour, faying, That fince he bad Se Pal bis Hands in muddy Water, and muft be a Pyrate, it 45 bettey being 4 Commander than acommon Mane. Pe As foon as the Government was fettled, by prottios o3g other Officers inthe room of thofe that were we 8 a : i; © Community, who might doubtle{s depute and revoke as % 210 «Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. by the Portugueze, the Company refolv’d to. revenge Captain Davis’s Death, he being more than ordina- rily refpetted by the Crew for his Affability “and good Nature, as well as his Condud&t and Bravery upon all Occafions , and purfuant to this Refolution, about’ 30 Men-were-landed in order to make an At- tack upon the Fort, which muft be afcended to by a fteep Hill againft the Mouth of the Canons: “Thefe _ Men were headed by one Kennedy, a bold daring — Fellow, but very wicked and profligate’; they | march’d dire&ly up under ‘theFire of their Ship Guns, andas foon asthey were difcover?d; the Por- tugueze quitted their Poft and fled'to the Town, and the Pyrates'march’d in without Oppofition, fet Fire to the Fort, and threw’all the Guns off the Hill into the Sea, which after they had done, they retreated | quietly to their Ship. But this was not look’d upon as a fufficient Sa- | tisfadtion for the Injury ‘they received, therefore | moft of the Company were for burning the Town, which Roberts {aid he would yield to, if any Means _coild be propofed of doing it without their own Deftru&ion,- for the Town hada fecurer Scituation than the Fort, a thick Wood coming almoft clofe to it, affording Cover to the “Defendants, who | under fuch an Advantage, he told them, it was to _ _ be fear’d; would fire and fland better to their Arms; | befides, that bare Houfes would be but a flender Reward for their Trouble and Lofs. This prudent — Advice prevailed, however, they mounted the French Ship, they feiz’d at this Place, with 12 Guns, | and light’ned her, in order to come up to the Town, | the Water being fhoal, and battered down feveral | Houfes; after which they all returned on Board, | gave back the French Ship to thofe that had moft - Right to her, ‘and failed out of the Harbour by the x light of two Portuguefe Ships, which they were plea- | fed to {et on Fire there. 4 z ev Roberts | Capt BARTHO. ROBERTS. 21 Roberts ftood: away to the Southward, and met With a: Dutch Guiney Many which he made Prize of, but’ aftec havirig plundered her, the Skipper had ‘his Ship again: Two Days after, he took an Englifh Ship, ‘called thé Experiment, Captain Cornet, at Cape Lopez, the Men’ went all into the pyrate Service, and having no Occafion for the Ship, they burnt her, and then fteered for'St. Thome, but meeting ‘With hothing'intheir Way, they failed for Anaabo- ‘a, and) there water’d, took in Provifions, and put~ it to aVore of the Company, whether their next ‘Voyage fhould be, to the Eajt-Indies, or to Brafil; ‘the latter being refolved on, they failed according- dy, and in 28 Days arrived at Ferdinando, an unin- Tabited Ifland, on that Coaft: Here they water’d, ‘boot-top'd their Ship, and made ready for the de- figned Cruife. > eee 2 Sang ‘Now that we are upon this Coat, I think it will be the proper’ Place to prefent our Readers with a Defcription of this Country, and fome ingenious ,\emarks of a Friend, how beneficial a Trade might be carried on here by our Weff-India Merchants, at ® little Hazard. Way DESCRIPTION UE galtie Si BRASIL &c. . RB R ASIL (a Name fignifying the holy Crofs) was difcovered for the King of Portugal, by Alvarex Cabral, Ann. Dom. 1501. extending: almoft from the eEquinottial to 28 ° South. The Air is _ temperate and cgol, in comparifon of the Wef-In-. O 2 dies, am as RFA Linger eer one PTI hd = fe is rR BA VOY EL IV SV IV ELS VEL IY EV OVEV EVE OV 212 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. dies, from ftronger Breezes and an opener Country, which gives lefS Interruption to the Winds.’ The northernmoft Part of it ftretching about 180 Leagues, (a fine fertile Countty,) was ta- ken from the Portugiefe by the Dutch Weft-India Company, Anno. 1637 or thereabouts ; but the Conquerors, as is natural where there is little of no Religion fubfifting, made fuch heavy Exaétions on the Portuguefe, and extended fuch Cruelty to the Natives, that prepared them both eafily to unite for a Revolt, facilitated by the Dutch Mil-_ _ Management: For the States being at this Time very intent on their India Settlements, not only re- called Count Aforrice their’ Governor, but neg let ed Supplies to their Garrifons ; however, tho’ the others were ‘countenanced with a Fleet ‘from Po’ tugal, and had the Affettion of the Natives, yet they found) Means to withftand and ftruggle with this fuperior Power, from 1643 to 1660, and thet was wholly: abandoned by them, on Articles dif a honourable to the Portuguefe, viz. That the Dutch, on Relinquifhing, . fhould kee? all the Places they had conquered in India from Portugal. That they fhould pay the States 800000 !- and permit them ftill the Liberty of Trade to Afr ca and Brafil, onthe fame Cuftom and Duties with the King of Portugal's Subjefts. © But fince that Time, new Stipulations and Treaties have beet made, wherein the Dutch, who have been totally excluded the Brafil Trade, have, in lieu thereof, 4 Compoficion of 10 per Cent. for the Liberty of tt2 ding to “Africa, ‘and this is always left by every Portuguefe Ship (before fhe begins her Slaying) With the Dutch General ‘of the Gold-Coaft, at DY Minas. i : ; ©-There are only three principal. Towns» of Trade on ithe Bra/il Coaft, St. Salvadore, St. Sebaftian, and an - Pernambuca. Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 213 St. Salvadore in the Babia los tndos Santos; 18 alt Archbifhoprick and Seat of the Viceroy, the chief Port of Trade for Importation, where moft of the Gold from the Mines is lotiged, and whence the Pleets for Europe generally depart. The Seas about it abound with Whale-Fifh, which in the Seafon they ‘catch: in ‘great Numbers; the. Fleth is falted up generally to be the Vittualling of their Slave- Ships, andthe Train referved for Exportation, at » 80 and35 Millrays a Pipe. Rio Faneiro (the Town St. Sebaftian) is the South- ermmoft of the Portuguefe, the worft provided of Neceffaries, but commodious for a Settlement, be- caufe nigh the Mine, and convenient to fupervile the Slaves, who, as | have been told, do ufually al- low their Mafter a Dollar per Diem, and have the Overplus of their Work (ifany) to themfelves. The Gold! from hence is efteemed the beft, (for being of a copperith Colour,) and they have a Mint to run it into Coin, both here and at Babia; the Moidors of either having the initial Letters of each Place upon them. 3 ‘ig Pernambuca (tho’ mention’d aft) is the fecond in Dignity, a large and populous Town, and hasits rife from the Ruins of Olinda, (or the handfome,) a City of a far pleafanter Situation, fix Miles up the River, but hot {0 commodious for Traffick and Commerce. Juft above the Town the River divides it felf into two Branches, not running direétly into the Sea} but to the Southward ; and in the Nook of the Ifand made by that Divifion, ftands the Gover- Lor’s Houle, a (quare plain Building of Prince Afau- rice’s, with two .Towers, on which are only this Date infcribed, Anno 1641. The Avenues to it are every way pleafant, thro’ Vifto’s-of tall Coco- Nut Trees: | ; saree Over each Branch of the River is a Bridge; that leading to the Country is all of Timber, but the O 3 other 214 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS.) other to the Town (of twenty fix of twenty. eight Arches) is half of Stone, made by the Dutch, whd_ in their Time had little Shops and gaming Honfes on each Side for Recreation. Mt odd -mott blo The Pavements alfo of the Town. are: in>fome Places of broad ‘Tiles, the remaining Fragments of their Conqueft. The Town has the outer, Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are clofe Keys. for the weighing and receiving of Cuftomage of Merchan- dize, and for the meeting and conferring of Mer- chants and Traders. « ‘The Houfes are ftrong built; but homely, letticed like thofe of Lisbon, for the Admiffion of Air, without Clofets, and what is worfe, Hearths; which makes their Gookery confift all in frying and ftewing wpon Stoves and that they do till the Flefh become tender.enough to fhake it to Pieces, and one Knife is then thought _ fufficient to ferve a Table of halfaScore.). ° _ The greateft Inconvenience of Pernambuca is, that there is not-one Publick-Houle in it 5 fo that Stran> | gers are obliged to hire any ordinary one they can get, at a Guihea a Month : And... others who come to tranta& Affairs of Importance, muft Privacy. | Gt genre ete ~ The Market is ftocked well enough, Beef being at five Farthings per.a Sheep or Goat at ine Shillings, 4 Turkey four Shillings, and Fow!s twoShillings, the Targeft 1 ever faw, and may be procured: much come recommended, if it were oaly for the fake. of Cheaper, by hiring a Man to :fetch.them out of | the Country. The deareftim its kind is Water, — which’ being fetch’d in Veffels from Olinda; will not Be put on Board in the Road under. two Crufada@’s “aPape: BS 4 Vio GIGS: Si fs IRS The Portuguefe here are darker than thofe of Fu vope; wot only from-a warmer Climate, but their many’ dntermarriages with. the Negros, who are: ag ERG i a, nunie- were Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 215 . dit numerous there, aud fome of them of good Cre Bi el enmtancen: The Women (not unlike fae Mulatto Generation every. where elle) are hip ue Strangers; not only the Courtezans, pe A nis reft may be fuppofed to wind up their | ie eg but alf@ the marryed Women, who thin ve ie felves obliged, when you favour them ba es Secrecy; of an Appointment 5, but #8: nbap= Ppinefs of purfuing Amours, 1s, that the ae, rallity of both Sexes are touched with seit Taints, without fo much as one Surgeon anny them, or any Body skilled in Phylich, to sung : palliate the progreifive Mifchief: The only ce fon pretending that Way, 15 an Irifh Father, w npg Knowledge is all comprehended in the Virtue 2 two or three Simples, and thofe, with the Sa un y of the Air and Temperance, is what they dpe a > for fabduing the wortt of Malignity 3 an ‘it may not be unworthy Notice, that tho’ few ate. REGMP: ted from the Misfortune of a Running, Bi ce or the like, yet Icould hear of none precipicated intoxthote depbiaviel ax Guat Mies we fee comm 3 umskil ful mercurial Precetles:: -odur vd and i indo a three Monafteries, and about fix Churches, none of them Rich or Magnificent, we Jefs' one dedicated to. St. Autonie, the we ) their) Kingdom, faindinehieeaie” over, with exqui- Pieces of Paint and Gold. yo a ialad oa of Brafit (befides Gold)is chistes gars: and Tobacco ; the latter are fent off in sail of a Quintal Weight, kept continually mot Le avith Muloffus, which, with the Soil it fprings ip a imparts a ftrong and peculiar Scent, more: on és ble in the Snuff made from it, which fhe un af Prohibition of importing to Lisbon, fells nateee 25. perl. as the Tobacco does at about,6 Mili : a Rowl. . The ‘fineft of their Sugars sn * 8 ss r Roove, and a sag sy ai Rum) drawn, ie 416 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. the 7 tee Dregs and Muloffus, at two Teftunes a Gal- Befides thefe, they £ ga » they fend off great titi soe ek and Whale Oyl, ore Se fearing Bence e different from the African in Co- + the bignets, for as they are blue a thefe are green and fiialler, and Pal “Oe them ever retait : ain the J brought totalk. wild Note, and cannot be var, ke this Produce, the Porrugueze, once every Ae ohh : eit Fleet from Lisbon, import all manner ote 4 wet Commodities ; and whoever is’ unable iia 8 ene fupplying himfelf at ‘that Seafon, aaothen y advanced Rate, before the Return of |, fo tranfport Paffenge donodcicl at te DOr gers, Slaves, or Merchan- a Bra bees to another, or in Fifhing 5 Sinedahe me of Bark-Logs, by the Brafilians called ine 7 hey are made of four Pieces of Timber etn 9 outermoft longeit) pinned and faftened to- sabes a4 fharpened at the Ends: Towards each ee ry a Stool is fixed to fit on for paddling, or re ae a the Agitation is more than ordina- hice ie sa odd fort of Engines, continually ane rer by the Water, do thefe People) with sere Ch Sail fpreeted about the Middle of = si hi out of Sight of Land, ‘and along the = as many Leagues, in any fort of Weather ; ORMIOnS | aa with a Squall: (which: is not un- (ants ee ey {wim ae pralenty turn it up right oa Sab are of the darkeft Copper Colour, a ia air, of a fquare ftrong make, and muf- a rs 4G not fo well looking as the Wooley Ge- vita a ion: They acquiefce patiently to the Poreugueze : ss AN tt who ufe them much more humanly \ ne hriftian-like than the Durch did and by, that leans have extended Quietnefs and Pedce, as, well ag - os ee \ as their Poifeffions, three or four hundred Miles in- to the Country. A Country abounding with fine Paftures and numerous Herds of Cattle, and yields a vatt Increafe from every thing that is fown: TVLEVIVAIYEVEVOVE VAVEVGLEVOY Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 317 Hence they bring down to us Parrots, {mall Mon- kies, Armadillos and Sanguins, and J have been af- fured, they have, (far In-land,) a Serpent of a vatt Magnitude, called Siboya, able, they fay, to fwallow a whole Sheep; ‘I have feen my felf here the Skin of another Specie full fix Yards long, and therefore think the Story not improbable. “The Harbour of Pernambuca is, perhaps, fingular, it is made ofa Ledge of Rocks, half'a Cables length from the Main, and’ but little above the Surface of the Water, running at that equal Diftance and Heighth feveral Leagues, towards Cape Auguffine, a Harbour running between them capable of receiving Ships of the greateft Burthen: The Northermoft End of this Wall of Rock, is higher than any Part of - the contiguous Line, on whicha little Fort is built, commanding the Paffage either of Boat or Ship, as they come over the Bar into the Harbour: On the Starboard Side, (i.e. the Main) after you have en- tered.a little way, ftands another Fort (a Pentagon) that would prove of {mall Account, Timagine, a- gainft a few difciplined Men; and yet in thefe confifts all their Strength and Security, either for the Har- bour or Town: ‘They have begun indeed a Wall, fince their removing from Olinda, defigned to fur- round the latter; but the flow Progrefs they make in raifing it, leaves Room to fufpett "twill be a long time in finithing. » : . The Road without, is ufed by the Portugueze, when they are nigh failing for Europe, and wait for the Convoy, or are bound to Bahia to them, and by Strangers only when Neceffity compels, the beft of it is in ten Fathom Water, near three Miles W. N. W. from the Town; nigher in, is foul with the many sates Anchors 273. apts: | ther out (in 1 fe sare ee Ships sane is the worft oe seat corally and. Rocky. Sudy Trade Winds. beii unter Seafon of this Coaft ‘the bringing in A Pe then: very, ftrong and dlondy ss ae ipiaons andunfafe Swell into the and. a haze He every Day: with: Squalls Rai . Skies and Sah lorizon, but atother times fere ee hy thefe forthe aide nptiteboliae abs se Se eae uthern Latitudes is a Conftellatien, Teka ee Refemblarice: it bears toa Feru/c “3 irene oe ne Name of Crofiers, the brightett of his Hemilphete, and are obferved by,as the North sai bos Fee ead ellonlce, but whatl eta bairaercg a emacaress the admirable PEicsubsionss eee oe ¢ Megellanick Clouds, whofe Ri: Gio pate are fo regular, that I have been aks tee a ‘No&urnal Obfervations are made -Small.and whitti the Stars ;. They-are two Clouds, Man's Hat ee larger int Appeararice than.a of 82S, sheet Se teen herein. Yzly in the Latitude seit -Appenta eabvataaiis Clock in the Mornings if Ore eeettance thould be faid to be the Refietto sb Dirutene ome Stellary Bodies above them, a Sie te y a hot eafily anfwered, how dekceebat slates Mti da ecome fo durable-and regular inth o : ‘From thefe Gial ¢ Ebaniteimtitiwst 6 2 =) as ariagh = Obfervations on the Country; “Dani fiohats Wha > and Seas of Brafil, snavdnichbaian aba ave thé Subjeé, without fome Effa engiCountcy it Slave: Tradé here; which “ee belt a ane ‘adventrous enough to purfue, eee a ° ably, under a prudent Manage ae ae led with Safety and very great te : eH m the Southern Cox rica, don’ shana e the Voyage ta:the ri aie ea hci Of Brafilin their Way. lee a oloriA, ‘ slain” acne ate Vann’ Ot ? “The ee fothat the Ships empl Capt: BARTHOs ROBERTS. 219 ruquece are under for ~The Diiadvantages the Portug hey have very purchafing Slaves, are thefe, that t have vé few proper Gommodities for Guiney, and the. Gold, which was their chiefeft, by. an Edi in July 17225 jug carried thither, ftands now. prohibited from. being ithe : oyed therein are few, and in- ality. and Call of their deftruétive a Law, as the abovementioned (as no doubt they do, or they could make little orno Pure chace) yet Gold does not raife its Value like Mer chandize in travelling (efpecially, to Africa) and when the Compofition with the Dutch is alfo paid, they may be faid to buy their Negroes at almoit double the Price the Englifh,, Dutch; ot French do, which neceflarily raifes their Value extravagantly at Brafil, (thole who can purchafe one, buying 2 certainer Annuity Chan South-Sea S600K.): 6. Te td = a Thus far of the Call for Slaves at Brafil. 1 thalt now. confider. and obyiate fome Difficulties objected againft any Foreigners (fuppofe Englifh) inter po- fing in fuch a Trade, and they are fome on theirs, and fome on our,Side. |: riod hy On their Side it is prohibited under Pain of Death, a Law lefsefteétual to the Prevention of 1t than pecu- niary ‘Muléts would be, becaufe a Penalty foinade- quate and difproportioned, is only Jn terrorem, and makes it merciful in the Governor, or his Inftru- ments, to takea Compofition of eight or ten Moi- dors, when any Subject is catched, and is the. com- mon Cuftom fo to do. as often as they are found out, eee ag Ay } pend 5 "On our Side it is Confifcation of what they can ing e no Men of War et, which confidering, they hay 3 Se E ard the Coats Tee little, without fu, to guard the Coaft, need be very i pine Neglect and Careleftnels:j-< Rect Py pany , Yam a Man of War, or Privateer, and being 15 - ‘Warit’ of Provifions, or in Search of Pyrates, put eH ; in 220 “Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. in to Periambicd for Intelligence, “to enable ma ‘for the Putfuit’s ‘The: Dread of Pyrates keeps every “one off, ° till you have fir fent ay Officer, with ‘the ‘proper Compliments to the Governor, who immediately Bives Leave for’ your ‘ and not an Exchange of Merchandize, which {8 againft the Lawes Of the Country,” Lyk On this firft time of going on Shore, depends the Succefs of the whole Affair, atid requires a caus tious and diferéet Management in the Perfon entru fted: He will be immediately furr 2 » to enquire he comes? “and whether bound ? Gc, and the Men are taught to anfwer, from Guiney, denying any thing of a Slave on: Board, which are under Hatches, and make no Shéw’ nor need they, for thofe who have Money to lay out will conclude On that themfelves 88 Te By that time the Compliment is paid to the Go» vernor, the News has {pread ‘all round the Town, and forme Merchant addreffes you, as a Stranger, ‘to the Civility of his Houfe, but privately defires to know what Negroes he can have,’ and what Price. A Governor may poffibly ufe an Inftrument in’ if. ting this,‘ but the Appearance of the Gentleman, and the Circuthftance of. being fo foon engaged after leaving the other, will go a great way i ni Man’s Judgment, and leave ard is lefS at Rio Faneiry There has been an other Method ‘attempted, ‘of i vgueze Mer- ay be certain within a Fortnight 4 , 90% “4 OBERTS- Capt. BARTHO R Fea Cask Fortnight of any Veffels arriving for the debar- als ; Sign wpe vi s,» might fettle 1 ee a ea Ba ean at F unfrequented Part 0 ae Phieihet any Exceptions W remade to the Price, : and the fever e dread Difcoverys’ (the Law or spo eases notoerious.a es carpe eR 2 : seus -butit-has hitherto pe attende ef Laeheainl at no other Hazard (26 tings it is with vis ala tiecshe worth nthe Spaniards from oe - scr Day prattifed with-the SpamnA tabs10 ay Da ee ef ry Kyigahermien gres OF saree Jamaica “ YK yao ye cbagodl no saith pee ssc nie eae iggy Noy prvi rs.eruiz’d fora a 2 ‘Upon this Coat aaah ‘out - faboo ni ‘ ae) a Saily: which difcourag ¢ xan tfeeing a Sail,:w rhe! Station, rele aera 9s determinedsto lett ae ete them ied Sethe Wef-Indies,y and a0 king of their jay age make the ble oS unexpectedly, 0 { SYBiey beens : thereby they et) Ships, off. the Departure, and th il of Poreaguele SNP se®. — set of 42:Sail of Pe ‘» Lading infor By ot oS wi hy i f them o “mo. Guns! each; Lisbon, teveral o M f War of yo Gut d Son en of | t it fhoule ees onan am bert peace his Mare their 5B “wou “hy ¢h ith him, but he: waule many oP ith the ee Siapet aces and iperyacey o ante “Ke D d sn hid ti ey ag to Leda sepia e : oe done, they came clofe up cou to fend the Ma ’ and ordered her demegy nee4 oe Bo pias threat’ning to Be a rele PB lat ‘f ae Refiftance,; or signal OF uaF Bin Bren was made, | The Portuguefe being farpt ¢ Gutlathes ifh of Cytl ‘Threats, and, the fudden: float! Word, and i without a ag from the Pyrates, fubmitted eyts faluted him the Captain came on Board 6 ep they after a friendly manner, bear ioa their. Bufi- were Gentlemen of Fortunes pur nefs . § C fone, nine Weeks, ‘keepin a Whereupon this: Portuguefe Mafter pointed to one of 40 Guns, and T5oMen, a Ship‘of greater Force | faid, and fo immediate: red ‘him, When:théy came with: > the Matter whom they had Prifoner, was ordered to ask, bow Seignior Capitain did 2 -And:to invite him on Board, for that he had a Matter of Confequence toimpart to him; which Being’ done,’ he Fetutned for“ Anlwérj:Thae he ‘would wait upon him prefeatly: But by th i iatel; lowed, the Pyrates perceived, they were difcovered, and ‘that’ this was ‘Otlyoa deceitful Anfwer to gain Time to put their Ship in a Pofture: of Defence : fo without further Delay, they poured in a Broad. Side, boarded and: Stapled) her; the Difpute was Ort and warm; wherein many of the Portuguefe el. f the Pyrates, _By this Time the Fleet was alarmed, Signals .o Sheets’ flying, and Guns fired, to the Men of War, whovrid give Notice to ftill at an Anchor, and © their A fiiftance ; and much as the Name of Men: For Roberts finding the Prize to fail heavy, and yet refolving not to loofe her, lay -by for the headmoft of them (which much ‘out failed the other) and prepared for’ Bat- tle, which was ignominioufly declined, tho? of fuch fuperior Force > for not daring to'ventute oh the Pyrate alone, he tarried { long for his Confor as gave them both time leifur ely to make off, 20 They f Top-gallant - my TEVTUy SNOT NCES ante aaels y PY SVT GY BY IVEY IY FL OVE OY Sechaba LYST L IY TY TV EV IVEY ry Capt. BART HO. ROBERTS: 223: sng rich, being: la- ‘this Ship exceeding i Sc: cise ae alhenerene SV are SS ine Trine Ss Moidors, befides One arly a Crofts i a ane Value 5 syne Portus eo: ch Wiarins ds) defigned for the > se which they afterwards pre re obliged. ee is £ Caiaha, ee foes ie had nothing aoe d with this Boo Pee tes re ene a fate Sot eaen that mathe dive them{elves ie sap and for th nig ae ee ; could bettow, Psi Li dn ea ae a Sransvidn the River of one the civileft ? { : re ve they arrived, at Gover- Cee tionstmagttable? ba see bes ictti exchan- attory, but their’ Wives, wh < fib yee “confiderable bor mee ge bi Paarretsit os Toss i rrstoag > ee art fei aan this River a Sloop, a bts pee : pee eugenics that a seat . ed f Company: with penta hs - sella i ith Provifions’ for the Coatt. } punched ony “Ch rowing fhort in the Sea = mae go! They angi Adventures to be naan bee Sancho ays, Evening as they were ae ier Mone of Teeafure ) the Lis ot ie eee ie y oe 4 i: ac ; = is oF epee the Bufinels “ ar = himiele, ¢ oe o Men in the ste Mota a pana | aa bak a fatal inti tied fe ees y me fiderable Adventure, ‘for cS i i aye ching lefs than bringing in t “ Brig se Dees iene never troubled his a * ; ‘ there was . inquired what t ; the Sloop’s Provifion, nor ind : of Men; bue be fift fuch a Numb ae ta pes Cae his expected Prize, which ight Days only loft further Sight of, but after eg ; nd Currents; contending with contrary Winds @ found of their Condition, and to order the Ship to therm ; but’too foon, éven the next Day, their Wantsimade them fenfible ‘of their Infatuation; for their Water was all expended, and they had taken no thought how they fhould be fupply’d, till either. the Ship ‘came, or the Boa Creturned, which-was not likely tobe under five or fix Days. Here like Tantalus; _ they almott famithed in Sight and Lakes > being | 4 vit the moft unwelleome News in. the World, for. Kermedy, who was, Lieutenant, and Jett : _to0 Command the Privateer and Prize, was gone off with both. . This was Mor= tification with a Vengeance, and you may imagine, they did not depart. without forme hard Speeches from thofe that were left, and had fuftered by, their Treachery: And that there need be no further Mention of this Kennedy, 1 thall. leave Captain. Ro- berts, for'a Page or tw Crew, to vent their W 0; with the Remains of his ‘Execrations, and follow rath in a few Oaths and the other, whom we may reckon from that Time, as fteering his Courfe to- wards Execution Dock, riag his Company to aay: determined Refolution ; fome of ‘them were’ for, Purfuing the old Game, but the greater Part. of them feem’d to have Inclinations tg turn from thofe. : evil Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. au eyil Gourfes, and get home Pe al ase aoe was no Aé of Pardon in Force,) t Fret aie agreed to break up, and every Man 2 ae a Se felf, as he fhould fee Occafion. The fir ate ee did? was to part with the great hi Sade Nan ae hi ving the Mafter of the Sloop Che oy Oe think was Cane) aboard, who they at AE pists honeft Fellow, (for he had humoureg, aaa every Occafion,) told them of the ee ie Roberts went after ; and when the ee La ees him ha complemented them at an : Bie a lng’ them they. were welcome to My ; oF as Cargo, and wifh’d that the Velffel ha ie a ger ‘and the Loading richer for a ane this good natured Man they gave He Seer Ship, (which was foe pire pale ard, eee groes, and a Thane his kind Benefaétors, fn a aa Captain Kenuedy in the Rover, failed to filiaets 4 hear which Ifland, they took batly), Pia ene Ship belonging to Virginia; the ee Surette Quaker ‘whofe Name was Knot; he a Ghd Mie Piftol, Sword, nor. Cutlafh on Boar i. He ae Khor appearing fo very paffive to all they Seat ’ % fome of them thought this a good pea ae 80 off, and accordingly eight of the Py ae: aboard. and he carried them fafe to My ms A sathy made the Quaker a Prefent of 10 Pe pope to Rolls of Brafil Tobacco, 30 Mord Ss vies Gold-Duft, in all to the value of abou aso key aifo made Prefents to the Sailors, tome drape ae se am a iving ther Were upon their Voyage, Captain fn hee fe a their Way ; nor indeed could he he Ei din MRE et ae ither drunk or afleep . uae Ba whys Rie aboard the Ship, ¢nd pyt Tiettas meas ring him in a gontinual Terror; it not being his Pri giple 226 Capt. BARTHO,.ROBER TS. ciple (or the Se&’s) to fight, unlefs with Artyand. Collufion; he managed thefe Weapons well till. e arrived at the Capes, and afterwards four of. the Pyrates went off ina Boat,° which they had - taken “with them, for the more eafily. making their E.fcapes, and made up the Bay towards AdZary- land, but were forced back by a Storm into an ob- {cure Place of the Country; where ‘meeting with good Entertainment amon g the Planters, they con-. tinued feveral Days without being difcovered to. be Pyrates, In the mean Time Captain. Knot leav- ing four others on Board his Ship, (who intended £0 £0 to North-Carolina,) made what haft he could ifcover - Spotfrood the Governor, what. fort of Paffengers he had been forced to bring with: him, who by good Fortune. gor them feized, and Search being made after. the others, who were revelling about the Country, they were alfo taken, and all try’d, conviéted and hang’d, two. Portu- guefe Jews who were taken on the Coaft of Brafil, and whom they brought with them to Virginia, be- ing the principal Evidences. The latter had:found Means to lodge Part’ of their Wealth with the Planters, who never brought it to Account : But Captain Knot furrendered- up every Thing that belonged what they prefented to him, in lieu of fuch Things as they had plundered him of in their Paflage, and obliged his Men to do the like. ~ |. Some Days after the taking of the es wv Man : laft_ mentioned, in cruifing in the Latitude of $a- maica, Kennedy took a Sloop bound thither. from Boffon, loaded with Bread and Blower; aboard of this Sloop went allthe Hands who were for breaking the Gang, and left thof behind that had a Mind to purfue further Adventures, Among the for mer were Kennedy, their Captain, of whole Honour they had fucha difpicable Notion, that they. wets , abou to them, that‘ were taken aboard,-even | Treen Capt. BARTHO, ROBERTS. Hy, about to throw him over-board, met cane him in the Sloop, as fearing he might aes zp all, at their return to England 5 ie evi ue Childhood “been bred’a Pick-pocket, and be he became a. es a Houfe-breaker ; both Pro- feffions that thefe Gentlemen have can” pee : Opinion , of. However, Captain Kennedy, Pha king folemn Oaths of igelty to his Comp: as fuffered to proceed with them. : ae this Coe pan there was but one that eda ed to any skill in Navigation, (for Kennedy cou i refert the ther write nor read, he. being preferred to ‘Command merely for his Courage, which indeed id ‘fisnaliz'd, particularly in taking | he . had often fignaliz'd, particul: tae the Portuguefe Ship,) and he proved to be a Pretender only; for fhaping their Seay see ae land, where they agreed to land, they ra land, d, and there North-Weft Coaft of Scotland, a : See sane by hard Storms of Wind for fe -veral Days, without. knowing where they were, and.in great Danger of perifhing: At length they ‘puthed the Veflel into a little Creek, and went all he afhore, leaving the Sloop at an Anchor for t next Comers. fx ) ’ tefrefh’d themfelves at 2 The whole COMPANY: Scie forthe. Place where they left the Sloop, and paffed there for Ship-wreck’d Sailors, and no doubt ee travelled on without Sufpicion ; but sa teipere the Read riotous. Manner of their. Fae aecoame hall occafion’d their Journey to be cut > as eee left them here, and travel ling to one of the Sea-Ports, ihipd Oe ate fet “Ireland, and arrived there in Safety. eee once : wifely withdrew from the reft, trave f Lowe leafure, and got to their much defired Port of Lon 5 h don, without being difturbed or fufpetted , but the P main, a2 pre Re Be YESS 223 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. main Gang alarm’d the Country where-ever they came, drinking and roaring at fuch a Rate, that the People fhut themfelves up in their Houfes, in fome Places, not daring to venture out among fo many mad Fellows: In other Villages, they treated the _ Whole Town, iquandering their Money away, as - if, like eA/op, they wanted to lighten their Bur- thens: This expenfive manner of Living procu- Ted two of their drunken Straglers to be knocked on the Head, they being found murdered in the Road, and their Money taken from them: All the reft, to the Number of feventeen as they drew nigh to Edinburgh, were arrefted and thrown into Goal, - upon Sufpicion, of they knew not what; However, the Maziftrates were not long at a Lofs for proper Ac- cufations, for two of the Gang offering themfelves for Evidences were accepted of; and the others were brought to a fpeedy Tryal, whereof nine were con- victed and executed. ; _ Kennedy having fpent all his Money, came over from Ireland, and kept a common B—~y-Houfe on Deptford Road, and now and then, twas thought, made an Excurfion abroad in the Way of his for- mer Profeifion, till one of his Houfhold W—s gave Information againft him for a Robbery, for which he was committed to Bridewell ; but becaufe fhe would not do the Bufinefs by halves, fhe found out a Mate of a Ship that Kennedy had committed Pyracy upon, as he foolifhly confefs’d to her. This Mate, whole Name was Grant, paid Kennedy a Vifit in Bridemell, and knowing him to be the Man, procured a Warrant, and had him committed to the AZarfhalfea Prifon. ~ The Game that Kennedy had now to play was to turn Evidence himfelf ; accordingly he gave a Lift of eight or ten of his Comrades; byt not being ac- quainted with their Habitations, one only was ¢a- ken, who, tho’ condemn’d, appeared to be a Man Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 229 5 i eir Services fa fair Charaéter, was forc’d into their ae ate firft Opportunity to get co ie and therefore receiv’d a Pardon; but Wa ees nedy being a notorious Offender, net execu at Execution Dock. ; Bees a *pyrates who were ee ig he Ship Rover, ftaid not long behind, for £ ve Fe afhore to one of the Wejt-India Iflands ate "es came of them afterwards, I can't teil, la Ship was found at Sea by a Sloop belonging ¢ ee Chriftophers, and carried into that Ifland wi nine Negroes aboard. _ aia fee what a difaftrous Fate ever attends Pu- @ Wicked, and how rarely they efcape the Pu eee to their Crimes, Sper gente to fucha profligate Life, rob, fpoil, 2 ppeee on Mankind, contrary to the Light an oy ote ture, as well as the Law of God. It mien ae been hoped, that the Examples of thefe Deaths, - would have been as Marks to the Remainder of is Gang, how to fhun the Rocks their Companions hed puree that oe Lats alga: 2 ercy, or divided themfelves, - Beas asin the End they might be fure Bees fubjeé them to the fame Lawand Punsthmens We they muft be confcious they now Saunt e ve impending Law, which never let oe a A unlefswhen drunk. But all the Ulet Re wa pate of it here, was to commend the Juftice Jad ie Court, that condemn’d Kennedy, for he was a I ith. rey faid) and deferved the Fate be met mit oe He Sas He Roberts, whom we left on the Coat of Caiana, in a grievous Paffion at WiaE eg adgand the Crew had done; and ve - a projecting new Adventures with his. {mé * pany inthe Sloop; but finding hitherto they had beer but as a Rope of Sand, they formed a Set of Arti Ss. t b fj d an { { worn to for the better icle Oo be gne ne v Yr ? C : E 4 O11 > of 230 Capt. BARTHO, ROBERTS, » Confervation of their Society, and doing’ Juftice— to one anothers excluding all Jif) Men from the © Benefit of it, to whom they had an implacable ° Averfion upon the Account of Kennedy. How indeed — Roberts could think that an Oath would be obliga- tory, where Defiance had been given to the Laws of God and Man, I can’t tell, but he thought their greateft Security lay in this, That it was every one’s Intereft to obferve them if they were minded to keep up fo abominable a Combiwation. The following, isthe Subftance of the Articles, as _ taken from the Pyrates own Informations, \ ee RY” Man has aVote in Affairs of Moment; has equal Title to the frefh Provifions, or Jfrong Liquors, at any Tme feized, and ufe them at pleafire, unlefs a Scarcity (no uncommon Thing among them) make _ *% neceffary, for the good of all, to vote a Retrénchment. , we ‘ IL. “~ Fy See ge Every Aan to be called fairly in turn, by Lift, on Board of Prizes, becaufe, (over and above their proper’ Share,) they were on thefe Occafions allowed’ a Shift of Cloaths But if they defrauded the Company to the Va ue of a Dollar, in Plate,’ Jewels, or Afonty, Mak OONING was their Punifhment. This was a Barbarous Cuftom of put- ting the Offender on Shore, on fome defolate or uninhabited Cape or Ifland. with a Gun, afew Shot, | > a Bottle of Water, and a Bottle of Powder, to fub- fift with, or flarve. If the Robbery was only between ene another, they contented themfelves with fitting the Ears and Nofe of him that was Guilty, and fet him on Shore, not in an uninhabited Place, but fomewhere, where Le was [ure to encounter Hardfhips, 9° 8 ML. ’ ined inclined for Drinking, they mere 124 aang Rca: Roberts believed Ree tes ‘Check to their Debauches, for he ber ie Shits himfelf, but found at length, that, all iS et -vours to put an End, to this Debauch,. Pp) GERD cose ae Capt, BARTHO. ROBERTS. =? 31 Ey et eee No Perfon to Game at Cards or Dice for Money. ae i ; - rapes} 5 Se The Lights and Candles to be put out at eight o°Clock oe ill re- at Night : If any of the Crew, after that gh ed ie T fenree Piece, Piftals, and Cutlafh clean, and fit - Be AAG \ 1 for Service: Ia this they were extravagantly mice, af GL ve senna path tee and Richnefs of their Arms, giv tae ae an Auétion (at the Maft,) 30 or gol. a Pairs Piftols. Thefe were flung in Time Sar at with different coloured: Ribbands, over tt 4 chien ‘ders, ih'a Way peculiar to thefe Fellows, “in whic! ? } xv » they ok gteat Delight, egy! No Boy or Woman to be. allowed amongft i = a Man were found feducing anny of the latter Sex, an a han ace, Gacdne “he was to fuffer Death 5 fo : Feeney that when any fell into their Hands, as ates in the Oxflom, they put @ Centinel ue ae over her to prevent iil Confequences tone e i rous an Inftrument of Divifion and Quarrel ; then here lies the Roguery 5 they Goan Be ih ul be Gentine), which hmppens generally ©. one eee Stk 232 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, greateft Bullies, who, to fecure the ie will let none lye with her but himflfé Vit. To Defert the Ship, or their Quarters in Battle, tas pus nifhed with Death, or Marooning. ady’s Virtue, | i Viti. : No friking one another on Board, bub every Man's | Ouarrels to be ended on Shore, at Sword and Piftol, Thus; The Quarter-Mafter of thé Shi ‘the Parti proper, and turns the Difputants Back to ‘Back, at O many Paces Diftance’’ At the Word of Com-. mand, they turn and fire immediately, (or elfe the Piecé is knocked out of their Hands: ) If both mifs, they come to their Cutlathes, and then he ig decld- red Victor who draws the firft Blood, is : ) “ Ix, . il No Man to talk of breaking up their Way 0 * Living, ill cach had. foared a100ol. If in dae ie e Man fhould lofe a Limb, or become a Cripple in their Ser vice, he was to have 800 Dollars, out of the’ publick Stock, iand for leffer Elurts, proportionably. ; 1 y The Captain and Siete Male to receive two Shares ¥ of aPrixes the Majler, Boatfmain, and Gunner, one Shaie | and abalf, and other Officers, one and a Quarter.” ~* XI Ba airs, : i Reft on the Sabbath Day, but | Nghiey neve without fecal | ie The Muficians to have the other fix Days and Favour, : ‘ 4 . a. Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 233 a berts’s Thefe, we are affured, were fome of Roberts's Ean! but as they had taken fare a hee over-board the Gripmalthey bag ign fated, ie o, there is a great deal o > dutpereat one brat, coed fomething too born to peal clofed toany, except fuch as were be ne ‘pune Sharers in the Iniquity ofthem,; lett am ae they will, they were together the Teft o e jit Gomers, who were initiated by an Oath Me en Ful Bible, referv’d for that Purpofe only, and were tub- farib’d to in Prefence of the worfhiptul Mr. Polite And in Cafe any Doubt fhould arife concerning, the Conftruttion of thefe Laws, and it thould cenain a Difpute whether the Party had infring’d thet or no, a Jury is appointed to explain them, and bring in a Verdi& upon the Cafe in Doubt. ‘Since we are now fpeaking of the ae ote Company, I fhall go on, and, in as brief a ant ner as I can, relate the principal Cuftoms, ae Government, of this roguilh Common-Wealt 4 which are pretty near the fame with all Eas: For the Punifhment of {mall Offences, which are not provided for by the Articles, and which are not of Gonfequence enough to be left toa Jury, _ there is a principal Officer among the Pyrates, called the Oct iin of the. Mens own ts fing, who claims all Authority this Wis 6 ence 3 ing in Time of Battle: ) If they au & is C 2 mand, are quarrelfome and mutinous wl pons anf ther, mifufe Prifoners, plunder beyond his ‘ a 3 and in particular, if they be negligent o ae Arms, which he mufters at Difcretion, he punt ; at his own Arbitrement, with drubbing or whip- ping, which noone elfe dare do without EHTS the Lath from all the Ships Company : In fhort, this Officer is Truftee for the whole, is the firft on Board any Prize, feparating for the Company’s aes WV @ Vey" ANS “e NY w OA Me 234 0806 Capt. BART HO; ROBERTS. ties pleafes, and returning what he thinks fit wners, excepting Gold*and Si whi pte |e voted rot aa are or = cs nae = After‘a Defeription of the Quarter-Mafter, and his’ Duty, ‘who-atts as a fort zs a civil crac ne Board a Pyrate Ship; I fhall confider their mix itary Officer, the Captain ; what Privileges he ex= — in’ fuch anarchy and unrulynefs of the Mem= = es: ‘Why truly very little, they only’ permit’ oo to be Captain, ‘on Condition, that they may be on ba him; they feparate to his Ufe the re es abin, and fometimes vote him finall Parcels: pans ate and China, (for it may be noted that’ Ro erts drank his Tea conftantly) but then every Man,’ re the Humour takes him, will “ufethe Plate and uit, intrude into his Apartment, fwear at him ice Part of his Vittuals and Drink, if they like a eth Be his offering to find 'Faule or conteft it : nas overts, by a better Management than ufual; ecame the chief Direétor in every Thing of Mo- ment, and it happened thus :--- The Rank of Cap- tain being obtained by the Suffrage of the Major ity; it falls oa one fuperior for Knowledge and Boldnefs, Piffol Proof (as they call it,) and’ean make thot fear, who do not love him; ‘Roberts is faid to ha ar, who do nc evtsis faid to have exceeded his Fellows in thefe Refpetts, and when’ ee enlarged ‘the Refpe& that followed: ie; y making a fort of ‘Privy-Couneil of half’a Do~ zen of the greateft Bullies; fuch as were his Compe- . titors, and had’ Tntereft enough to miake his Go= . vA nment eofy 5 yet “even thofe, ‘in the latter Part’ es his ‘Reign, he had run counter to’ in every ‘ ae that oppofed his own Opinion; for which; and becaufe’ he grew referved, and would ‘not ean Se roar a their Rate, a Cabal’ was formed © take away his Captainfhip, ‘which dit tore effetually, ©” f Bah aces ae aa - SHZ yo Dopp ‘ye ’ The Captain’s Power js uncontroulabl or ‘in Battle, drubbing, any one who dares deny Privilege he takes over P rs) or iH] Usage, ‘moftly -as he approve Be- haviour, for tho’ the meaneft would take upow them to mifufe a Mafter of a and-fecondly, That it to the Hands ofa much’ mo and ett 0 Fetlows than himfelf. When’ he found that Ri- Sout “was not expetted from he often prattifed it to appeafe them,) then he Would give Strangers it was Pure Inclination that in ment of them, ‘and no their Perfons; for, & / will bang me, I kuow, whenever you ¢ Jour Power. , to retreive their Lofs. - afterwards, took a Brigai “Which Ifland, they fell in wit say Py, aur eS GOV EC IVE VIVAL OY Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 235 e in Chace, cutting, “or even fhooting his Command. The fame rifoners, who receive good s of their Be- “Ship, yet he would fee it, and merrily over Controul hereii, when he and 1 a Bottle, | give his Prifoners this double Reafon for jn Firft, That it preferved - his’ Precedence 5 ‘hat it took the Punifhment out of ré rafh and mad Sett of his People, (for to underftand, that duced him to'a good Treat- t any Love or Partiality to ‘fays he, there 1s none of you but an clinch’ me within ‘ “And now féeing the Difadvastages they were under for purfuing the Account, vz. 4 fall Vet fel ill repaired, and without Provifions, or Stores 5 they’ refolved one and all, with the little Supplies they could get, to proceed for the Weft-Indies, na doubting to find’a Remedy for all thefe Evils, and “tn the Latitude of De/éada, one of the Iflands, i? “which fupply’d them with they took two Sloops, which 1uppP Loe fe es Provifions and other Neceffaries; anc ntine belonging to Rhode ed to Barbadoes, off of h a Briftol Ship of 10 ut, from whom they took fome Money, twenty five Powder, a Cable 9 A Hawler, Tfland, and then proceed Guns, in her Voyage. abundance of Cloaths, Bales of Goods, five Barrel / / SYSUSY OUT VAVYVALEVay 836 © Capt. BaRTHO. Roperts. Hawfer, 16 Casks of Oatmeal, fix Casks of Beef) find feveral other Goods, befides five of their Men; and after they had detained her three Days, let het $043 who being bound for the abovefaid Ifland, the aequainted the Governor with what had happened, 48 {oon as the arrived. Whereupon a Briffol Galley that lay in the Har- bour, was ordered to be fitted out with all imagi+ hable Expedition, of 26 Guns, and 80 Men, there | eing thenno Man of War upon that Station, and alfoa Sloop with to Guns, and 40 Men: The Gal- ley was commanded by one Captain Rogers, of Briftol, and the Sloop by Captain Graves, of that Ifland, and Captain Rogers by a Commiffion from the Governor, Was appointed Commadore. toe a _The fecond Day after Rogers failed out of the Harbour, he was difeavered by Roberts, who know ing nothing of their Defign, gave them Chafe: The Barbadoes. Ships kept. an eafy fail till the Pyrates fame up with them, and then Roberts gave them a Guii, expecting they would have immediately ftruck his pyratical Flag, but inftead thereof, he was forced to receive. the Fire -of a Broadfide, with three Huzzas at the fame Time 3; fo that an En- Sagement enfued, but Roberts being hardly put to— it, was obliged to crowd all the Sail the Sloop would bear, to get off: The Galley failing pretty well, kept Company for a long while, keeping a €onitant Fire, which gaild the Pyrate; however, at length by throwing over their Guns, and other heavy Goods, and. thereby lightning the Veffel, they, with much ado, got clear; but Roberts could Never endure a Barbadoes Man afterwards, and when any Ships belonging to that Mand fell in his Way, he was more particularly fevere to them than Othetss. i5- cee ee Captain Roberts failed in the Sloop to the Ifland 6f Dominieo, where he Watered, and got Provifions é of Capt. BARTHO. ee 237 9wp.c) of the Inhabitants, to whom he Ease cio 2 wk change. At this Place he met wit i ies His who had been fet afhore by a Frenc Sie ae Cofte, belonging to Martinico, ape _ i pipe: New-England Ships, that had been Hake a es by the faid French Sloop: The cheese ps Shae tered with the Pyrates, and it prove ble Recruit. : aes had imme- | They ftaid not long here, tho” they had Kime’ ot cafion for cleaning their Sloop, Ss CE iE a proper ie ie ame eh ee right; for the touching at this | He bey hae to have been their Deftruttion, becau an Maids ving refolved to go away. ae Gr a mech went at for the aforefaid Purpofe, by eis San tena came to be known to the French Colony, hie eqhiipe ing Word to the Governor of ag ue BF ed and manned two Sloops Pe the Grang- thei The Pyrates failed diretly an banana dilloes, and hal?'d into a Lagoon, at no a aia bile they ‘cleaned with unufual Difpatch, Gack ee a little above a Week, by aes Eons yours: miffed of the Martinico Stoops, only 2 pavitvadthie Roberts {ailing over Night, that the ee eae next Morning. This was a fortunate ii gas cially confidering, that it was not tel Haas of their being difcovered, that vs bag A Geet haft from the Ifland; but, as they fae Wie dence themfelves to own, for the w and Women, Thus narrowly efcaped, land, and arrived upon the Be of Fune, 1720. ft with their black Colouts ing Dated bee te “and Trumpets founding. aie oh 4 ’ ewenty Vefiels in the Lage nee Men all quitted upon the Sight of the Pyrate, and | eae AY Ficularly to recoung fled ahhore. It is impoffible particularly the flying, Drums bea- 138 Capt. BARTHO, ROBERTS, et e eee and Havock they made here burn eve an ing all the thipping, except a Briffol valley, and deftroying the Fifheries, and Stages of the. poor Planters, wi : By parte Ww tion, * without Remorfe or Compun- felves.no Advanta are like mz telves Vantage, The 2 ond we-Brands,. Arrows, ae fa Af f Neate ba we.in Spore ? co Rae Jel, 78 HAL Menn’'d: the Rriftel Galley ‘he. took in the craifing ee mounted 16 Guns on Board her, and pee . pias upon the Banks, he met with rie ee Be coe of 26 Gand heh ey Ee EE pina ‘6 Guns, which they feizd care ae a i: their own Uke. This Ship A ee ee Bes and leaving the Briffol Galley. to Tk ets they. Giled away. in Company aa peng On. another Cruife, and took feve- Whisfetd Meee the Richard of Biddiford, Jonathan hea 2 a i othe Willing Mind of Pool; the mat nm Of Topfoard 5, and the Samuel, Captain Ca. Boro sTpndan Ot of thefe Ships they encreafed fan mpany,. by entring all the Men they could i awe €, in their own Services (The: Samuel was Si SSR, and had feveral Paffengers on Rees amet ie its a very roughly, in order to make Apoee oe Money, threatning them every Wee sake if they did not refign every Aes P fe : tem. They tore up. the Hatches nee fhe Hold like a parcel of Furies. and : es and Cutlafhes, cut and ‘broke open, all > and Boxes, they could lay their ee aeenaaiaiieeienennT? * Va UMA — evar a ann oe ee ee STF Eee) atts! PS ee ‘ threw. them over-board, into the Sea, all this. was done with inceflant. curfing and wearing, more like Fiends than Men, They carried with them, Sails, Guns, -Pow: Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 239 j ’ der, Cordage, and, $,or 9090 1. worth of the choiceft Goods, and told Captain Cary, That they fhould accept of: no: A of Grace. that the K—— and P———t might be damned with their Acts of G—— for them neither mould they 4 to Hope-Point, to be hang’d up a Sun drying, a5 Kidd's, and Braddith’s Company were ;, but that if 1 hey fhould ever.be overpower’d they would fer Fire tothe Powder, with.aPiftel, and go al merrily to. Hell together, pret A =n 3809 ~ “After they had brought all the Booty aboard, a Confultation. was, held whether they fhould fink ‘or burn the Ship, but whilft they. were debating the Matter, they fpyed a Sail, and fo left the Sa- wuel, to give her Chace; at Midnight they came “up with the fame, which proved to be a Snow from Briffol, bound for Bofon, Captain. Bowles Mafters ‘They us’d him, barbaroufly, becaufe of his Coun- try, Captain Reais he attack’d them off Barbar “does; being of the City of Briffol, ee Ae ~~Suly the 16th, which was two Days afterwards, they took a Virginia Man called the Little York, Fames “Philips. Mafter, and the Love,..of Leverpool, which ‘they. plundered and, let go; the, next Day a Snow ‘from Briftol, calld the Phanix, Fohu Richards Matter, “met with the fame.Fate from them.;...2s alfo.a Bri- gantine, Captain Thomas, and a Sloop called the Sad- ‘bury ;, they took all.the Men out, of the Brigantine, ‘and funk the Veffel.. eee "When they left the Banks, of Newfoundland, they failed for the Weft=-Indies, and the Provifions grow- “ing fhort, they went for the Latitude of the Ifland ‘Defeada, to cruife, it being efteemed the likelieft -Place to meet with fuch Ships as (they ufed iA ae t up- -Mirth to fay) were configned to them, wi -plies. And it has been very much fufpetted that fies Ships (a SVOVUEL IVE VOVEVGLEV OV”: tiftal bee ae this Time they “miffed with thetr coming more f{earc villons and Neceffaries be- cour or A ffiftance fon a Cane deny’d al) Suc- “Royal Fortune. &: This was their firft wards St. Chriftephers, where bogey wetted tO Capt. BAR THOS ROBERTS: 243 Verd Mlands and clean, >But- here again by an intolerable Stupidity and want; of Judgment, they Zot fo. far, to Leeward of their Port, that def- Pairing to. regain it, or any of the Windward Parts of Africa, they were obliged to go back again with the Trade-Wind, for the Weft-Jndies; which had very near been the Deftruétion of them all. Surinam was the Place now defigned for; which wasat no le{s than 700 Leagues Diftance, and they had but one Hogfhead of Water left to fupply 124 Souls! for that Paflage, a fad Circumftance that eminently expofes: the Folly and Madnefs among Pyrates, and he muft be an inconfiderate % Wretch ‘indeed, who, if he could, feparate the Wickednefsand Punifhment from the Faé, would yet. hazard his Life amidft fuch Dangers, as their Want of Skill and Forecaft made them liableito. — | Their Sins, we may prefumie were never fo trous blefome to their Memories, as now, that inevita- ble Deftruétion feem’d to threaten them, without the leaft Glymple of Comfort or Alleviation to their Mifery; for, with what Face could Wretches who had. ravaged. and” made fo many Neceffitous, look up for Relief; they had to that Moment li- ved in Defiance of the Power, that now alone they muft truft for their Prefervation, and indeed withs’ ©ut the miraculous Intervention of Providence, there appeared only this miferable Choice, viz, a pre- fent Death by their own Hands, or 4 ling’ ring one by Famine... 45 ae They continued theit Courfe, and came to ati Allowance of one fingle Mouthful of Water for 24. Hours; many of them drank their Urine, or Sea Water, which, inftead of allaying, gave them ‘8n inextinguifhable Thirft, that killed them: Others - Pined and wated a little more Time in Fluxes and Apyrexies, fo that they dropped away daly ¢ Thofe that fuftain’d the Mifery beit, were fuch as a almoft 242 Capt. BARTHO, ROBERTS. almoft ftarved themfelves, forbearing all forts of Food, unlefs a Mouthful or two of Breadthe whole Day, fo that thofe who furvived were as weak as it was poffible for Men to be and alive. But if the difmal Profpeé& they fet out with, gave them Anxiety, Trouble, or Pain, what muft their Fears and Apprehenfions be, when they had not one Drop of Water left, or any other Liquor to moiften or animate. This was their Cafe, when (by the working of Divine Providence, no doubt,) they were brought into Soundings, and at. Night anchored in feven Fathom Water: This was an inexpreffible Joy to them, and, as it were, fed the expiring Lamp of Life with freth Spirits ; but this could not hold long. » When the Morning came, they faw Land from the Maft-Head, but it was at fo great a Diftance, that it afforded but an indiffe- rent Profpect to Men who had drank nothing for | the two laft Days; however, they difpatch’d their Boat away, and late the fame Night it return’d, totheir ro {mall Comfort, with a load of Water, informing them, that they had got off the Mout Of Meriwinga River on thé Coat of Surinam. Oue would have thought fo miraculous an Efcape thould have wrought fome Reformation, but alats, they had no fooner quenched their Thirft, but they had forgot the Miracle, till Scarcity of Provifions awakened their Senfes, and bid them guard againft | flarving ; their allowance was very fmall, and yet they would profanely fay, That Providence which had gave them Drink, mould, no doubt, bring them Meat alfo, if they would ufe but an honeft Endeavour. In purfuance of thefe honeft Endeavours, they were fteering for the’ Latitude of Barbadoes, with what little they had left, to look out for more, or Starve ; and, in their Way, met a Ship that anfwer- ed their’ Necefiities, and after that a Brigantine ; the former was called the Greyhound, belonging to Sts. Capt. Barrito. ROBERTS. 243 St. Chriftophers, and bound to Philadelphia, the Mate of which figned the Pyrate’s Articles, and was afterwards Captain of the Ranger, Confort to the Ro il Fortune. * ; ta Shes "Bue Bethe Ship and Brigantine, the ehag got a good fupply of Provifions and Liquor, fo t is they gave over the défigned Cruife, and ies 4 at Tob 0, and hearing of the two Sloops that ha been teed out and fent after them at Corvocoo, they failed to the [fland of Martinico, to make the Go- Vernor fome fort of 4n Equivalent, for the Care and Expedition he had fhewn in that Affair. inico, for the Tn- It is the Cuftom at Afartinico, for the Dutth | terlopers that have a Mind to Trade with the Fee Ple of the Ifland, to hoift their Jacks when t ey Come before the Town : Roberts knew the Signal, and being an utter Enemy to them, he bent his Thoughts upon Mifchief, and accordingly came in with his Jack flying, which, as he expected, they miftook for a good Market, and thought ane {elves happieft that could foonett difpatch off their Sloops and Veffels for Trade. When Roberts had Bot them within his Power, (oné after another,) he told them, he would not have it faid thae they came off for nothing, and therefore ordered them to leave their Money behind, for that they were a Parcel of Rogues, and hoped they would always Meet with fuch a Dutch Trade as this was; he referved one Veffel to fet the Paffengers on Shore | again, and fired the reft, to the Number of twenty. | atte ES Gs Roberts was fo enraged at the Attempts hat had been made for taking of him, by the Governorso Bass badosand Martinico, that he ordered a new [ac . be made, which they ever after hoifted; with his Own Figute pourtray’d, ftanding upon two lee and under them the Letters 4B A and A H A, ee: bis, Par gue . 4 Way OH aie ie eon TY’ LOUSY OVE VAVEV ELEY OY : LIVE VIVE OVEN ABA : 244 Capt, BARTHO.. ROBERTS. figuitying a Barbadian’s and a Martinican’s, Head, as may be {een in the Plate of Captain Roberts. F At Dominico, the next Ifland they touched at, they took a Ditch Interloper of 22 Guns and. 75 Men, and a Brigantine belonging to Rhode-Ifland; one Nor- ton Mafter. The. former made fome Defence, till fome of his Men being killed, the reft were, dif couraged and ftruck théir Colours. - With thefe two Prizes they went down to Guadalupe, and brought out a Sloop, and.a French Fly-Boat Jaden with Sugar ; the Sloop they burnt, and, went on to Moonay, another Mland,, thinking to clean, but finding ‘the Sea ran too high ‘there to undertake it with Safety, they bent. their Courlfe. for. the North Part of 2fpaniola, where, at Bennet’s Key, in the Gulf of Saminah, they cleaned oth. the Ship and the Brigantine. For tho? -Hifpaniola, be fettled by the Spaniards and. French, and is the Ree fidence of a Prefident from Spain, who t ece ives, and finally determines Appeals from, all the other Spanifh. Weft-India Mflanids, yet is its People. by no Meahs proportioned to its} agnitude, fo that there are many Harbours in it, to which Pyrates: may ecurely refort without Fear of -Difcover ‘y from the Tata ae Sige aed Fe con _, Whilft they were here, two Sloops-came in, as they pretended, to pay Roberts a Vifit, the Matters, whofe Names were Porter and Tuckerman, addreffed the Pyrate, as the Queen of Sheba did Solomon, . to wit, That having heard of his Fame and Atchievements. they had put “in there’ to learn his Art and Wit dom in. the Bufinefs of .pyrating, being Veffels, on the fame honourable Defign’ with himfelf; and hoped with’ the Communication’ of his. Knowledge, they fhould alfo receive his Charity, being in want of’, Neceffaries for fuch Adventures. Roberts was won upon by the Peculiarity and BluntnefS of thefe he. eh? Re um SE . a -— twhere two ts sheet eain es Z J 2 Capt, BARTHO. ROBERTS. 245 two Men, and gave them Powder, Arms, and wha -or three ever elfé they had Occafion for, fpent twoor t ther y ‘Nights with them, and at parting, faid, be hoped the L— ould Profper their handy Wor. es ds They pafied fome Time here, after they nad § in their ebaucheries ; their Veifel ready, in their ufual Debauc - they had taken } confiderable Quanty of Rum ’ and Sugar, fo that Liquor was as plenty as Wa- ; rho deni omifelves ter, and few there were, who denied them the sid ndeuie Ufe of it; nay, Sobriety proven @ Man under a Sufpicion of being in a Plot ageint the Commonwealth, and in their Senfe, ” eae looked upon to be .a Villain phat wool I a drunk. This was evident in the Affair of Her y Glasby, chofer Mafter of the Royal Ferrie, BO, With two others, laid hold of the pp “u ai at the laft’ Iand they were at, to move 0 Py Bae Out bidding Farewel to his Friends. Glas 25 wae a reférved fober Man, and. therefore gave | pie fion to be fufpected, fo that he was foon, EN 5 after “he went away; and a etn a ng fent in queft, of the Deferters, they wer ah ae brought back again the next. Day. _ : Si ier capital, Offence, and for ee ey were ordered to be brought toan immediate Tryal. 9 a: "Here ag Form of Juftice kept bs SeieD is as much as can be faid_o feveral ores esti that have more lawful Commiffions for wate ee do, —_.'Here was no fesing at Council, ey 4 bt Bing of Witnelles was a Cuftem not kno ot é ene them ; ho packing of Jenks no torturing ark NC ing’ the Senfe.of the Law, for bye Ends ane MIPS {es, no puzzling or perplexing the Cau A wa intelligible canting Terms, and ufelefs Di ain nor was their Seffioas burthened: with is ue Officers, the Minifters of Rapine and eo ls. With at. boding Afpetts, enough. to Might Arse . eg ” YAY Sywv ay YAS BV REIS VIL VIVE eS VOLE Weed) The Place appointed for their LE | Steerage of the Ship; in order to Bowl of Rum Punch’ the Table, the Pipes the judicial Proceeding brought forth, and A yals, was the which, a large was made, and placed upon and Tobacco being ready, s began ; the Prifoners were — rticles of Indi&ment againft them read; they were arraigned upon a Statute of their own making, and the Letter of the Law being ftrong againft them, and the Fact plainly proved, they were about to pronounce Sentence, when one of the Judges moy'd, that they fhould Fother Pipe; which was according- Al the Prifoners pleaded for Arreft of Judg- ment very movingly, but the Court had fuch an Abhorrence of their Crime, that they could not be prevailed upon to fhew Mercy, till one of the Judges, whofe Name was Valentine Afbplant, ftood UP, and taking his Pipe out of his Mouth, {aid he had fomething to offer to the Court in behalf of one of the Prifoners; and fpoke to this, Effect. = BY.G——, Glasby. fhall not dye, d—n me if be fpa!}. After this | arned Speech, he fat down in his Place, and refumed dhis Pipe. This Motion was loudly oppofed by all the reft of the Judges, - in equivalent Terms; but Afrplant, who was re# folute in his Opinion, made another pathetical Speech in the following Manner.” G— — d—n Ye Gentlemen, I am as good 4 Man as the eft of ‘you 5, 4—m my S——I ifever J turned my Back to. any Man 1 my Life, or ever will, by G——-"; Glasby is an honeft Fellow, notwithftanding this Misfortune, and I love bin, D-——1 d——n me if Edon’t : I hope he'll live and repent of what be has done’ but a——n mie if be maf dye, Iwill dye along with hi: 2. And thereupon, he pulled gut 4 pair of Piftols, and prefented them to fome of the learned Judges upon the Bench; who, perceiving his Argument {0 well fu ported, thought : » Capt, BARTHO., ROBERTS. 247 ace thought it reafonable that Glasby. ia ed ae quitted; and fo they all came over to it to be Law. > ; ne elle aMiaeacial that could ie Lange for the other Prifoners, was, that were maar the Liberty of choofing any four o ates Company to be their Executioners. Tana Wretches were ty’d immediately to ee Mae there thot dead, purfuant to their villau | tence. a "When they put to Sea again, the eas had been detained only for fear of : ne pacha a Rumour concerning them, which ha ‘ ae. been fo. fatal at Corvocoo, were thus di P ete They burnt their own Sloop, and mann a ils Brigantine, eae ie ater away in ditfatisfied. — wads ; te Fortune, and the Bugg one they chriftened the Good Fortune, they eee ae wards the Latitude of Defeada, to se op pa vifions, being very fhert again, and ju heed With Captain Hingftone’s i Fortune brougt a in their Way, richly laden for ek ie aes they carried to Berbudas and ise jie “4 pes ftretching back again tothe Weft-Indies, “ay ie tinually met with fome ear pila aie er (chiefly French,) which ftored Pena eat! 3 of Provifions, and recruited their he moar eg dition, fo that ftocked with a i a munition they began to think of fome pee as thier their Aim, for thefe SNS d Saint se fupplied what was in conftant bi ae oe no Means anfwered their Laleponned! uss oe dingly they proceeded again ae ba e Guiney, where they thought to buy ereae acts cheap.: In their Paffage thither, they : hich they bers of Ships of ail pe fome of whi ae TUEVIVEVEVEYL IVE VOVEVEL EY BY SV ays iPM, Pe Be we 2 te tA Yre \ ON Nail 248 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. » Mafters difpleafed them. > burnt or funk, as the Carriage: or Charatters of the: Notwithftanding the fuecefsful Adventuras of. this Crew,’ yet it was with great Difficulty they could be kept together, under any kind of Re.’ gulations for being almoft always mad or drunk, their Behaviour produced infinite Diforders, every ' Man being in his own Imagination a Captain, a Prince,.or'a King. When Roberts faw there was no managing of fuch a Company of wild ungovernable ° Brutes, by gentle means; nor to keep them from drinking to excefs, the Caufe of all their Diftur-. bances, he put on a rougher ‘Deportment, and a: more magefterial Carriage towards them, corre&-| ing whom he ‘thought. fit; and if any feemed to refent his’ Ufage, he told them, they might go afhore and take Satisfattion of him, if they thought fit, at Sword. gad Piftol,: for be neither valu’d or fear'd any of them, About 400 Leagues ftom the the Brigantine who had hitherto lived with them, ih all amicable Correipondence, thought fit to take the Opportunity. of a dark Night, and leave the Commadore, “Which leads me back to the Re- lation of an Accident that happened atone of the Ifands of the Wef-Indies,| where they water’d be-, fore they undertook this Voyage, which had’ like to have’ thrown their Government ¢fich ‘as it was) off the Hinges, and was partly the Oceafion’ of the Separation: The Story-is: as follows...) ~ Captain Roberes having been infulted by one of the drunken Crews (whofe Name EF have forgot,) he, in the Heat of his Paffion’ killed the Fellow on the Spot,’ which was’ refented by @ great many others, put’ particularly ‘one ones, a brisk ative young Man, who died lately inthe Marfbalfea, and was his Mels-Mate. This Fores was at that Time athore a watering the Ship, but as:foon as: he came on Board,‘ was told that Captain Roberts had ees is Coaft of Africa, Paks 4 ¥ ney fo Sipe BOLP SAP SOP LOA = Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 249 his Comrade;\upon which he:curfed Roberts, and. faid, he ought os be’ ferved fo himfelf, Roberts hearing Yones’s Inveétive, ran to him with a Sword, and'ran’ him into the Body , who, notwithftanding his Wound, ‘feized the Captain, threw him over a Gun, and beat him handfomely. This Adven- ture put the whole Company in an Uproar, and {ome taking Part with the Captain, and othets againit him, there had like to have enfued a gene- ral Battle with one another, like my Lord Tho= mont’s Cocks; however, the Tumult was at length. appeas’d by the ‘Mediation of the Quarter-Mafter 5. and’ as the Majority of the ory were of Opi-. nion that’ the ‘Dignity ‘of the Captain, ought to be fupported on Boards that it’ was a Poft of Honour, and therefore the Perfon whom they thought fit to coer it on; ‘fhould not be violated by any fingle Member; wher¢fore they fentenced. Jones to undergo two Lathes from every one of the. Company, ‘for his Mifdemeanour, which was ex. ecuted upon him as foon'as he was well of his 4 Wound: sin Sk This fevere Punihment did not at all convince. Sones that ‘he was'\in the wrong, but rather ani- mated him to fome fort ofa Revenge ; but not be-_ ing able to do it upon Roberts’s Perfon, on Board the Ship, he and feveral of his ‘Comrades, corre{=" pond with Anjtis; Catt in of the Brigantine, and confpire with him and ‘fome of the principal Py- rates on Board that Veffel, to go off from the Com- any: What made An/fis a Malecontent, was, the. inferiority he ftood ii, with Refpeé to Roberts, who carried himfelf (with a haughty’ and magifterial Air, to him and his Crew, he regarding the Bri- gantine-only as a Tender, and, as fuch, left them no, more than the Re“ufe of their Plunder. In fhort,. Fones and his Coiifort’ goon Board of Captain 4y-. fis,” on’ Pretence’ of @ Vifit, and there confulting se 2 f with \ YEVIUSVOVE VOVEVALEV OY ordi ee mien metacafe i eeaiaetllineiaaiietaie > . ————— . LFS IPO RT BR RT, 250 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, with their Brethren, they. find a Majority for lea- ving of Roberts, and fo came to a Reiolution to bid a foft Farewel, as they call it, that Night, and to throw over-board whofoever fhould ftick out; bur they proved to be unanimous, and effetted their De- fign as above-mentioned. + I fhall have no more to fay of Captain Anftis, till the Story of Roberts is concluded, therefore J return to him, in the purfuit of his Voyage to _ Guiney. The lofs of the Brigantine was a fenfible Shock to the Crew, fhe being an excellent Sailor, and had 7o Hands aboard; however, Roberts who was the Occafion of it, put on a Face of Uncon- cern at this his.ill Condu& and Mifmanagement, and refolved not to alter his Purpofes upon that: Account. Roberts fell in to Windward nigh the Senegal, a Ri- ver of great Trade for Gum, on this Part of the Coaft, monopolized by the French, who conftant!ly keep Cruifers, to hinder the interloping Trade: At this Time they had two {mall Ships on that Ser- vice, one of 10 Guns and 65 Men, and the other of 16 Guns and 75 Men; who having got a Sight of Mr. Roberts, and fuppofing him to be one of thefe prohibited Traders, chafed with all the Sail they could make, tocome up with him ; but their Hopes which had brought them very nigh, too late deceived them, for.on the hoifting of Jolly Roger, (the Name they give their black Flag,) their French Hearts failed, and they both furrendred without: any, or at leaft very little Refiftance. With thefe Prizes they went into Sierraleon, and made one of them their Confort, by the Name of the Ranger, and the other a Store-Ship, to clean by. Heat Sierraleon River difgorges with a large Mouth, the Starboard-Side of which, draughts into little Bays, fafe and convenient for.cleaning and water- ing , what ftill made it preferable to the Pyrates, is, Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 351 “the “Traders f “gre naturally is, that the Traders fettled here, are naturally their Friends. There are about 30 Englifh Men in all, Men who in fome Part of their Lives, have een either privateerin buccaneering, or pyrating, se hres and ae the Riots, and humours, common to that fort of Life. They ae Hab friendly with the Natives, and have many 0 ea of both Sexes, to be their Grometta’s, of mae ay The Menare faithful, and the Women fo 0 oc . that they are very ready to proftitute them : v to whomfoever their Mafters thal] command them. The Royal African Company has a Fort on a {mall . Ifland call’d Bence Ifland, but’tis of little Ufe, beftdes keeping their Slaves; the Diftance making if in- capable of giving any Moleftation to their : ae board Shore. Here lives at this Place an old Fel- low, who goes by the Name of Crackers, i Ey formerly a noted Buccaneer, and while he Dow the Calling, robb’d and plundered many a Man ; _ he keeps the beft Houfe in the-Place, has two or three Guns before his Door, with which he Salutes his Friends, (the Pyrates,when they put in)and bn a jovial Life with him,all the while they are th Gee Here follows a Lift, of the reft of thofe lawlefs Merchants, and their Servants, who carry on a private Trade with the Interlopers, to the ag Prejudice of the Royal African Company, who AF 3 extraordinary Induftry and Expence, have made, “and maintain, Settlements without any Confidera- tion from thofe, who, without fuch Settlements and Forts, would Soon be under an Incapacity et purfuing any fuch private Trade. Wherefore, ae be hop’d, proper Means will be taken, to ees i pernicious fet of People, who have all their Lives, fupported themfelves by the Labours of other : en. Two of thefe Fellows enter’d with Robert's ‘ ae and continued with them, till the Deftruction o the Company, heed Bee, Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. f isn Hsljat arsbar tod? Boe: A Lift of the WwW) hite-Men, now living: On : the «high Land of Sierraleon, andthe Craft they sala ju (eiattines seer e 5 BY JOHN Ledtone, three Boats and Pevingoe. ‘His. Man Jobu Brown. . . Alexander Middleton, one Long-Boat,» “His Man Gheles Homing, 08 “Witioe teed, $Partners, one Lovg.-Boat. ae _ Their Man Sohn Vernon. pa sig aan eA et ePapa Chahine, sella tee ecco © Foha Chatmers; ore Long-Boat. 0. © yiennot Richard Richardfon, one Long-Boat, © 2 sft Richard Warten spiaroers two Long-Boats, and Robprts Glyam, S 2W0 mall Boatse) = | 1) Willen Wats, and ove young Mane Gohn-Bonnermanes . a ae he Bet “Yoha England, one Long-Boat. 2° 9) )o 7 “Robert Samples, one Lorig-Boat. °! Vv" vir se | William Preferove, >. BE fn Peeters ” Davis, _ Mitchel, bags Arete - Richard Lamb, ire eon ese erie “ With Roquis Rodrigus, a Portuguefe.’ b eae ey BRORLE: PUDORE hats hci wei de Beg Sad ye cae a) x Lt {Hr “Peter Brown. ds Wig beuntiocon bar _ John Fones, one Long-Boat, 8: egy ods A. ‘ : His ’ 1 LEVI On é sod} STOR i6e “Lone Sloop, 'twovLong-Boats; a {mall Boat, and Periagoe. + erg: bigod ad Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS» 253 a His Trifh young Man... ext doist 2 raat» > AtRio Purigo, Ben jamen Gun. °°. beh At Kidham, pr Td. pit iby _ AtGallyneas, Richard Lemmons. nk ff eile a) wu sis vissktl Jortenw tr bee 1 i Eig: - ‘The Harbour is, fo convenient for, Wooding and . a, wie of our, trading Watering, that, jt occafions many: Of out) thacing Ships, elpecially. thofe of Brsfol, to.call in there, with large Cargoes,of Beer, Syder, and ftrong Li- yr ich ‘ with thefe private quors, which they.,Exchange with thefe pi : Traders, for Slaves and Teeth, purchafed by them at the Rio Nuve’s, and other .Places. to the North- aos fo. that fe re, was what. they call good AVING... al ees 4 Ob bak Corp gine ¥ bak bangs Roberts came, the End of June, 1721,,and had Intelligence ‘that the Swallow, and Weymouth, two Men of War, of 50,Guns each, had left that Ree ae bout a Month before,,,and defigned to return about Chriftmas ;, fo thatthe Pyrates, could, indulge them- felves. with all the Satisfaction in the World, in that they knew. they, were not only fecure whilft there, but that.in going down: the Coaft, ‘ alter the Men of War, they should always bea cod get fuch Intelligence of their Rendezvous; as wou ferve to make their Expedition fafe...So after fix Weeks ftay, the Ships being cleaned and Beads andthe Men weary.of. whoring, and drinking, they bethought themfelves of Bufinefs,, and went sa Sea the Beginning of Auguft, taking their Eroaie down the whole Coaft, as low as Jaquin, -plunder« ing. every Ship they met, of what was yaluable aa her, and fometimes to be more mifchievionfly wick~ ed, would throw, what they Bid net want, over- joard, accumulating Cruelty to. Theft. sae tae! pean Range, ee exchanged their old French Ship, for a fine Hrigate built Ship, call’d the Onjlom, belonging to the Royal Africae Company, sb ep 234 Capt. BARTHO, Gee Commander, which happetied to lye at Seftos,-to Set Water and Neceffaries for the Compagy. A . Gee’s Men were afhore when Robert’s bore down, and fo the Shi great many of Captain fequently furpriz’d into they been all On Board, it w Feats and Gallantry fancy, that to’ go, W age of Knight Brr themfelves ; but here the being ‘conftantl Pyrates ROBERTS. ey faid, were going to flarve upon a little Cank and Plantane, rity. alledging merrily, that their Ship wanted a Cha- plain; accordingly they offered him a Share, to take on with them, promifing, ‘he fhould do no- thing for his Money, but make Punch Prayers, yet, however brutith they might be in other Things, they bore fo great Order, that they’ refolved not to his Inclinations ; and the Parfon for this fort of Life, excufed himfe the Honour they defigned him : and generous enough to deli they accepted of them, and allow’d them ! Share, as it was then ‘term’d out of Cha- 1 on Board the Onflom, zhaplain “of Cape-Corfo= for keeping him, lf from accepting > they were fatisfied, ver him back every Thing p con- his Hands, tho’ had as not likely the Cafe > the Sailors, moft of he’ Pyrates, and encou- t in'the Soldiers, (who Were going Paffengers with them to Cape-Corfo-Caftle) y tickled with the of thofe Fellows, made them as only being bound on -a Voy- antry (to relieve the Diftrefs'd and gather up Fame) and fo they likewife offerd | s were at a Stand, they entertain’d fo contemptible'a ‘Notion of Land- men, that they put ’em off with Refufals for fome time, till at lenvth,: being ‘wéary’d with Solicita- oot and pittying a Parcel of ftout Fellows, which t » and fay a Refpe& to: his force him againft having no Relifh Capt. BARTHO. senting at 4 “3 ing he owned to be his: The Parfon laid ho pe Tenobhe Difpofition of the Pyrates, ae laid Claim to feveral Things belonging to ners, which were alfo given up, to his great eee - “ in fine, they kept nothing which belonge Bi . ki e Church, except three Prayer-Books, and a Bottle- hate Pyrates kept the Onflow for their a Ufe, and gave Captain Gee the French Ship, i: then fell to making fuch Alterations as might fit her for a Sea-Rover, pulling down her ees and making her fluth, fo that the became, in al Refpetts, as compleat a Ship for their Peat any they could have found; they continued to ae the Nameof the’ Royal Fortune, and mounted er. i o Guns.) £ 93101 67 DAT s ib eas the Ranger proceeded (as I faid Pere to Faquin, and trom thence to Old Calabar, w cee they arrived about Oétober, mn order to clean ae Ships, a Place the’ moft {uitable along the whole Coaft, for there isa Bar with not above nee - Water upon it, and the Channel intricate, fo Ee at had the Men of ‘War been fure of their being har- bour’d here, they might ftill have bid ee to their Strength, for the Depth of Water at pee “2 as well as the want of a Pilot, was a fufficient Se- curity to the Rovers, and invincible ee eae tothem. Here therefore they fat eafy, and : ve ded the Fruits of their difhoneft Inftuftry, and « e and drove Care away. The Pilot who pote a into this Harbour, was Captain re gilt nid, this, and other Services, was extreamly _ Bes according to the Journal of their own Acc ee, which do not run in the ordinary and common a Ma of Debtor, contra Creditor, but much more con ; i. Jumping it to their Friends, and fo cae ek fhe Debt in their Heads, againft the next hone they meet. | They = aa ary PRU Pa YU, AWS MY YU AY MY YY NV BY OY , ‘eres a YTV UCV IY SY OUSLY OVE VaVEye SE VAY T VAY PY IV EVIL IL" pate | 256 = Capt« BARTHO, ROBERTS. pi Phey took at Calabar, Captain ‘Leane, and..two or. three, Briftol’ Ships, the; Particulars of, all which would bean: unneceilary. Prolixity,’ there- fore I come. now-to. give .an'vAccount. of ithe Ufage they received from the Natives of this Place. The-Calabar Negroes: did not-prove fo civil asithey expected, for they refuled to have any Commerce orTrade withthem; when they underftood they were Pyrates: An Indication. that thefe -poor Creatpres, in the narrow. Cireumftances: they-~nwere | in, arid without the -Light..of the Gofpel, or the Advani tage of an Education, have, notwithfanding, fucha moral innate Honefty,--asewould upbraid and thame the moft knowing Chriftian > But. this did-but ‘eX+ afperate thefe’ lawle( Fellows, and) fo a Party. of 40° Men were detach’d to force a Corrétpondence, or drive the ' Negroes -to- Extremities; and: they accordingly landed uuder, the Fire. of their own Cannon... The. Negroes drew. upiin'a Body of 2060 Men, as if they intended to difpute the Matter with them, and. ftaid. till ‘the Pyrates: advanced within Piftol-thot ; but. finding the Lofsof:two-or three, — made, no Impreéffion on the. reft;, the’ Negtoes thought fit to retreat, which they did, with fomée Lofs : The Pyrates{et-Fire to the Town, and-then Teturn’d ‘to’ their, Ships. . This terrified the Nas tives,\and put an entire ‘ftop toall the Intercourfe between them; - fo that they could get no ‘Supe plies,. which obliged them, ‘as foon ns they had Anifhed the cleaning.and triming of their Ships) to lofeno Time, but went for:Cape Lopez, and watered, and.at’ Anna-Bona took aboard ‘a Stock.of freth Pro. Vifions, and then’ {ailed-or the Coaft again, _, This was their Jaft and fatal Expedition, which we. fhall. be-more ‘particular in, ‘becanfe, it cannot ~be imagined that they could have had Affarance to have undertaken it, but upon .a Prefumption, that the Men of War, (whom they knew were Uviad upow Capt. BARTHO. aaa 359 ipon Coaft,) were unable to attack them, ot ele ae Pas Rumour that had ach aie: nally obtained at Sierraleon, were gone thither again, 205 4 : ax Me is impoffible at this Time, to think they patil know of the weak and fickly Condition pea in, and therefore founded the Succefs of t ay cond Attempt upon the Coaft, on the ies a fumption,:and this feems to be confirme : y we falling in with the Coaft as low as Cape Lahou, ( a even that was higher than they defigned, ae beginning of ¥anuary, and took the Ship calle ay King Solomon, with 20 Men in their ioe ps trading Veffel, both belonging to the eu i The Pyrate Ship happened to fall about a och g to Leeward of the King Solomon, at Cape Appo “ih and the Current and Wind oppofing Pe oer ing | up with the Ship, they agreed to fend t . ae Boat, with a fufficient Number of ee 2 a her: The’ Pyrates are all Voluntiers on 5 é in _ cafions, ‘the Word being always given, who wit Sd And prefently, the ftanch and firm Men offer pei felves; ‘becaufe, by fuch Readinefs, they re at mend their Courage, and have an Allowance : ' of a Shift of Cloaths, from Head to Foot, out ot the (Piize, ent lo-temeine 3 £5 They rowed towards the King Solomon Neil great deal of Alacrity, ‘and being hailed Ae hee Commander of her, anfwered, Defiance 5 es A? Trabern, before this, obferving a great ie Rane Men in the Boat, began not to like his ve ket and’ prepared to receive them, firing a aus as they come under his Stern, which they Al turned with a Volley, and made greater nee 4 to get on Board: Upon this, he Whe ts d Men, and ask’d them, whether they wou : ie by him, to defend the Ship, it being : a anil fhoyld be taken by Pe their Number, Wi any 258 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. any Repulfe? But his Boatfwain, Philips, took upon him to be the Mouth of the People, and put an End to the Difpute ; he faid plainly, he would not, laid down his Arms in the King’s Name, ashe was pleafed to termit, and called out to the Boat for Quarters, fo that. the reft, by his Example, were miilead to the lofing of the Ship. When they came on Board, they brought her under Sail, by an expeditious Method, -of cutting the Cable; Walden, one of the Pyrates, telling the Mafter, this yo hope of ‘heaving up the Anchor was a needlefs trouble, when they defigned to burn. the Ship. They brought her under Com- madore Roberts's Stern, and not only rifled her of what Sails, Cordage, G,. they wanted for them- felves, but wantonly throw’d the Goods of the Company Overboard, like Spend-thriits, that nei- ther expefted or defigned any Account.’ On the fame’ Day alo, they took the Flufhing, a Dutch Ship, robbed her of Mafts, Yards and Stores, and then'cut down her’ Fore-Maft ; but what fat as heavily as any thing'with the Skipper, was, their taking fome. fine Saufages he had on Board, ‘of his Wife’s making, and fringing them ina ludicrous Manner, round their Necks, till they chad fuffici- ently fhew'd their Contempt of them, and then threw them into the, Sea. . Others chopp’d the Heads of his Fowlsioff, to vbe dreffed for their Supper, and courteoufly invited the Landlord, pro- vided the would find Liquor. It was amelancholly Requeft'to the Man, but it muft be comply’d with, and he was obliged, as they grew drunk, to fit quietly, and hear them-fing French and Spanifhb Songs out of his Dutch Prayer-Books, ‘with other Pro- PhanefS, that he (tho a Durch Man) ftood ama- Zed-at. ; Bole suldp In chafing too near in they alarmed the Coaft, : j . = out Paneer, lanes and -Exprefies were fent to the Englifh and Dutch : herts wi to Ships Viz. the Royal Forame ae ee gs a Faéto- Copan ee dah Road on the Coast ff Guiney, January u 7 722: wJSatl tr ence ae — “i t .. Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 259 Fattories, giying an Account of it: They were fenfi le of this Error immediately, and becaufe they would make the beft of a bad Marker, ree folyed to keep out of fight of Land, and lofe the Prizes they might expel: between that and Why dah, to make 0 more fure of that Port, where commonly is the beft Booty ; all Nations trading thither, efpecially Portugue/e, who purchafe chiefly with Gold, the Idol their Hearts were bent upon. And notwithftanding this unlikely Courfe, they between Axim and that — met and took feveral Ships and Place, the circumftantial Stories of which, and the pannick ‘Terrors they ftruck into his Majefty’s Subjeéts, being ‘tedious and unneceffary to relate, pital pals by, and come to their Arrival in hac, Cade 74 : Ra Ata sop ok They came to Whydah with a St. George's Enfign a black Silk Flag flying at their Mizen-Peck, and a Jack and Pendant of the fame: The Flag hada Death in it, with an Hour-Glafs in one Hand, and crofs-Bones in the other, a Dart by it, and underneath a Heart dropping three Drops of Blood. -— The Jack hada Man pourtray’d, in it, with a flaming Sword in his Hand, and ftanding on’ two Skulls, fab(cribed 4B Hand 4M H 4.6. a Bar badian’s anda Martinican’s Head, as has been be- fore taken Notice of. Here they found eleven Sail inthe Road, Englifh, French and Portuguefe ; the French were three ftout Ships of 30 Guns, and up- wards of too Mem each, yet when Roberts came to Fire, they, with the other Ships, immediately Rruck their Colours and furrendred to his Mercy: One Reafon, it muft be confefs’d, of his eafy: Vigtory, was, the Commanders anda good Part of the Men being athore, according to the Cuftom.of the Place, to receive the Cargoes, and return the Slaves, they being obliged to watch the Seafons for it, which otherwife, in fo dangerous 4 Sea as here, © Bi REY would SAT TK CT Ic cn hg. mon od beat ak he PY IY EL IVIVIVIYE VEL IVEY OV EVIL 260 Capt. BAR i ht : Pie DARTHO, ROBERTS, Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 261 would be imprafticable. Thefe all, except t. igh Porcupine, ranfomed with him for eight Pélind a from the Owners, though the rable eer . Gold-Duft, a Ship, not without thé trouble of fome be, that he thought it difhonourab e z ee Letters paffing and repaffing from the Shore, before Robbers; and that the Ship, near no Cruel- they could fettle it 5 and notwithftanding the Slaves, towards whom he could mi ded ; hereupon | Agreement and Payment, they took away one of ty, was not worth the Sum deman h Negroes in | the French Ships, tho’ with a Promife to return Roberts fends the Boat to praniot ee . an | her, if they found the did not fail well, taking Order :to. fet her on Fires ut: (bei 4 Time and with them feveral of her Men for that End. ~ finding that unthackling them cot ith eighty, - Some of the Foreigners, who never had Dealing Labour, they attually fet per 0n Baa two and this Way before, defired for Satisfaction to their of thofe poor Wretches on Board, See ot yerifh- I Owners, that they might have Receipts for ‘their two together, under the miferable Choice ‘ eon 1 | Money, which were accordingly given, a Copy of ing by Fire or Water: iEhale Te hate a i | one of them, I have here fubjoined, viz. 9” board from the Flames, were feize fa in their i. Does enduas grid i Voracious Fith, in Plenty in this Road, 100 1 IIS is to certify whomit may or doth concern, that Sight, tore Limb from Limb alive. Individual been. . we GENTLEMEN OF FORTUNE, have paralell’d! And for which had every h: Tuftice had received eight Pounds of Gold-Duft, for the Ranfom of the hanged, few I imagine would think : Ht th Hardey, Captain Dittwitt Commander, fo that we Dif= been rigorous. aR ‘sed to difpatch | charge the [aid Ship, acid « Digg _ The Pyrates, indeed, were oblige he h Pe cel | | Witnefs our Hands, this” "Batt. Roberts, their BufinefS here in haft, ase to Mr. Bald- fo; Sr gth of Jan. 1721-2. "Harry Glasby, tercepted a Letter from General P a ; t at Whydah le es a eae or re eer win, the Royal African Compmny Bi tb en feen to ee Were given to the Portuguefe Captains, (giving an Account, that seer net he might which were in the fame Form, but being fign’d’ by’ Windward of Cape ee saages to the Com- two waggith Fellows, viz. Sutton, and Sympfon, they the better, guard agai fub{cribed by the Names of, ive at that Road pany’s Ships, if he dhould arr which he affured, -~ Aaron Whiflinopig. before the Swallow Man of Wary in 2 So Sin. Tanai fine nim, (at the Time of ay os ie rae : ie: SOI, SLEW CORR them to that Place. Aabverts pees apa But ‘there was fomething fo fingularly cruel and defired they would hear Phip’s Spree and barbarous done here to the Porcupine, Captain he was pleafed to call the Leto eee the. Fletcher, as muft not be paffed over without fpecial ftanding their vapouring, perfwa i h brave Fel-: Retiark.: 0 bicios09 sa ink Fs olae toa Neceffity of moving ; for, fays he, ah d at this This Ship lay in the Road, almoft flaved; when © lows cannot be fuppofed to be frigh ae Blows. the Pyrates came in, and the Commander being | © News, yet that ic were better to aN d ve over-" on Shore, fettling his Accounts, was fent to for the — © Which is the beft that can, be exper'ec, i Ranfom, but he excufed it, as having no’ Orders | © taken. ‘ $s bir . “ Lave dole rf from ~ R 3 This 262 Capt. BARTHO This Advice weigh'd with them, and they under Sail, Saturday Night; and at Sea vot - ROBERTS. . “got having ftay’d only from ‘Thurfday to ed for the Iiland of Anna Bona, but the Winds hanging out of the Way, croffed their Purpofe, and brought then’ to’ Cape Lopez, where I fhall leave ing Fate, the had {pent her Time, was done, and by what M them for their approach: and relate fome further Particulars of his Majefty’s Ship the Swallow, viz. where it wa during the Mifchiéf that eans unable to ‘prevent it 5 what alfo was the Intelligence thé received, ‘arid'the Meafures thereon formed, that at lait brought two and Ca pt. Ogle, to meet fach Strangers as Mr Roberts in fo rémotea Corner of the World. * The Swalln and Weymouth left Sierraleon, May 38: where, I have already taken Notice, Roberts arrived about 4 Month after, and doubtlefs ‘Jearn’d ‘the Yntent of their Voyage, and cleaning on’ the Coaft ; which made him fet down with more Security to his Diverfion, and furnith him with fuch Intima- tions, as made his firt Auguft following, more and Weymouth being then cleaning, | Théir Stay at Princes was from Fuly 28 to’ Se Range down the Coaft in profperous 5 the Swallow at the Port OF Princes a t. 205, 1721, where, by a Fatality, common to the Ir- regularities of Seamen, (who cannot in fiich Cafes be kept iihder, due Men in three Weeks time, State, the Ruin of Roberts, Reftraints,) they butied 100 and reduced the Re- mainder of the Ships Companies into fo fickly a that it was with Difficulty they brought » them to fail; and this Misfortune was probably for it prevented the Men of War’s going back to Sierraleon, as it w as intended, there being a Neceffity of leavin g his Majefty’s Ship Weymouth (in much the worfe Condition of the two) under the Guns of Cape Corfo, to imprefs _ Men, being unable at this Time, either to h and the Bees aaebihlae va mys eT PRI Bg YP Sea ye tT ay PEGI 'D 2 35 ; a al el A ae ade Capt -BarrHo. ROBERTS. 263 3 the Sails, or weigh her Anchor ; and Roberts being ‘ignorant of the Occafion or ‘Alteration of the hen firft Defign, fell into the Mouth of anaes ia he thought himfelf the fartheft from it for the Men of War not endeavouring to Shi 5) then'te Windward (when they came from Pri they Iucki- fecure Cape Corfo Road under their Lee, ly hovered in the Track he had took. ae Eoin The Swallow and Weymouth fell in wi : ing any Te- Guard ; but they were far from Sede: any he merity fhould ever bring him aie Coaft, while they were theres eens Corpo tid low havitig feen the’ Weymouth in -dactiivas Hafian Nov. roth, the ply’d mine ‘Ship’s Com. rather as an Airing to recover a Tite hiinlyl was piny, and thew herfelf to the ge tonaok found every where undifturb’d, - calteh saccidents Reafon, returning to her Confor Cota her, thae the ly meeting a Portuguefe Ship, the Chace isto: Sink, Day before fhe faw two Ships ‘eed sic HATE an Englifh Veliel, which the bee egies fallen into’ their Hands. On this ss gain that low clung ‘her Wind, and pir ee eed Place, but receiving foon'after (Offa. fhe 14. 7 i intel- contrary Report from Captain Rrrochd . a ligent Man, in the Ja/on of Briftal, il ard further to Windward, and ibe ice ea any Thing of this; fhe turned her tense d, mean Time, anchored at ee sae Corfo Road at Cape Tres Puntas the 27th, anc eee Tend ints hei Confort the Wey- Soldiers from mouth, was, by the Affiftance of fome sip iers : the Caftle, gone to Windward, to demand Reft oc longing to the ftution of fome Goods 1a belonging Wives ts Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. : pel rican Company, that were illegally detained bj from Grand Papa; the 1qth’ at ‘Night, and: from the Dutch at Des Afinas , and while a ata Little pad fy rcentive by la Dutch Ship ; fo that retting fo long a Separation, an Exprefs ‘came the Man of War wason all Sides, as the t ought, fo General Phips; trom Axim, the oth, and followed fare of her Purchafe, particularly when the made Ta Hen i! from Dixcove, (an Englifh Fa&tory,) with the Ships, and’ difcovered three of them es} pee adit three Ships had chaféd and taken | . under Sail immediately at’ Sight of her, bie ve bel alley nigh Axim: Cattle, and a_trading Boat Signals to one another, as t o’ they defigne i clongmg to the Company! No doubt was made, Defence 5 but they were found to be three Frenc Neonat “what “they were, it being: taken for Ships ; and thofe at Anchor, Portuguefe and Englif, ne ae were Pyrates, and fuppofed to be the all honeft Traders, who had been ranfack dan rhe. that had the Auguf before infefted the Coat, | yanfori'd. onteomot * Been, ies” te e natural Refult therefore, from thefe two Ad- \ This Difappointment chagreen’d the Ship s ate Bites Mee to haften for Whydah; for it was-cons pany, who were very intent upon their eM ee | tl Prizes they had taken, had informed them. | Wwhichawas' reported to Ben Aren-Chef Hane eee ae nigh the Swallow was, and withal, how much | Gold, and kept with three Keys; tho” inal i ye Ss i Health than thé had been for fome hood, had they met with them im that open Bee 4 es S pats fo that unlefs they were very mad one or both: would have made their ee Ok tha me would (after being diftovered):make | if they Fad thought fit to have ‘fought, an ©ii Boot - its their Way for Whydab, and fecure the |. lation in their Defence would probably have or 4 Beace ere, without which, their Time and In- _ it defperate. ea he’ Matter? lyi y, had been ‘entirely loft ; moit of the Gold - While they were contemplating on the 7a er, oes Cornehh ql s\scare se yiiogin a Letter was received from Mr. Baldwin, (Gover- Se rasemalicighed from Cape-Corfo, Fanuary the | nor here for the Company,) fignifying, Da the A ue was retarded by waiting fome Hours on _ Pyrates were at Faquin, feven Leagues ‘os he brah “garet, 2 Company’s Ship, at: Accra, again Swallom weighed at two next Mornmé, January se © Portugal, and a whole Day at Apong, on a 16th, and got to Faquin by Day-Light, but to no Me 3 they uled to ftile-asifs Betty: A Conduct that . ‘other End, than frightening the Crews of ie os : Ae blamed, when he heard the Pytates were “Portuguefe Ships on Shore, who took her peal im Oo S¢ at Whydab, altho? he had given it as his < Pyrate that had ftruck fuch Terror at es Ans mere ey they could: not be pailed by, and inti She returned ‘therefore that Night, and havine sreje di ee to ftay a few Hours would prove no been ftrengthened ea fons bh es pei Sree : eee and French, the difcarde rews © z epee’; however, hinder’d the Swallow's catching anil iia Eeoaeh Ship they had carried pelea: ees ee for the Pyrates came into that fhe put to Sea again January the 19th, conje gr i) the Hes a freth Galé of Wind, the fame Day that either Calabar, Princes, the Se rae Yann bie oe Was at Apong, and fail’d the 13th of — Cape Lopez, or Annabona, muft be touche te Sh “ary trom thence, that fhe arrived the 17th. Water and Refrefhment, tho’ they fhould Mine ene gained Notice of them by a French Shallap © to leave the Coaft. As to the former ae ¥ | ae from Wiig | 266 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, P laces, I have before obferved. i 7 C th think ‘of ; » it was' hazardous pees > or rather impraéticable 3. Princes had E ver Grape to them, but being the f in fre Way, fhe came belek She a 29th, where learning no News}, without. loofing Time, fteered. for the River Gabone, and anchored at fhe Mouth of itcitbregy the tite ono ot atuiisld > Pans River ris navigable by. two Channels. anc Pass an Ifland abou t. five jie feet eens ian generally’ Clean, and ehosr ete fortis Coal 2 » and where fometimes | Pyra ane to look for Prey, or to Refit, it Being very oon ea en by ‘Reafon of a fot Mud. about’ it; Ganise Tasa a Ship s-dying on Shore, with all her rela tores ing. without. Damage. Hither : P an Ogle tent his Boat and:a-djeutenant who. spel * wise a. Dutch’ Ship, above. the -Ifland,. from ae = e | ail this Account, viz.’ That. he had- been ak oY rom. ie Lopez, and had left uo Ship one owever, they beat up for the Cape, with= Out regard to this. Story, and on the sth, at Dawn- By ay furprized with the Noifé of a Gun, which; a bs ay brightened, they found was from Cape pein ay, where they difcovered +three Ships at Beh ty the largeft with the King’s Colours and pelome flying, which was foon after concluded to a if, Roberts and his Conforts ; but the Swallow Bele § to Windward, and unexpeftedly deep in eel aY> wes obliged to Steer off, for avoiding a a > called the French Adan’s Bank, which the Py- rates obferved for fome Time, and rafhly inter- Pieting. it to be Fear imher, righted the French Rane £7 sale ich was then on the Heel, and ordered her ec ale Out in all haft, bending feveral of theit oa s ee Purfuit, The Man of War finding ae ad foolifhly miftaken her Defign, humoured fost eceit, and kept off to Sea, as if fhe had been Cally afraid, and managed her Steerage fo, under PTY TI FY IVE VI FV OUS VIVE VOUT VEL EV OVS Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, 267 under the Direction of ‘Lieutenant Sun, an experi- enced Officer; as to let the Ranger come up with her, whén they thought they had got fo far as not to have their’ Guris heard by her Confort at the €ape. The Pyrates’ had fuch an Opinion of their own Courage, that they could never dream any Body would ufé a Stratagem to fpeak with them, and fo was the more eafily dratwn into the Snare. ~ “The Pyrates now drew nigh enough to fire their Chafe Guns they hoifted the black Flag that was worn in Whydab Road, and got their ‘Spricfail Yard along-fhips, with Intent to board’; tio. one having évér asked, all this while, what Country Ship they , fook the Chafe tobe; they would have her to be a Portugnefe, (Sugar being then a Commodity among them,) ‘and were ‘fwearmg every ‘Minute at the Wind or Sails to:expedite fo {weet a Chafe;, but, alafs, all turned four in an Inftant? It was with the utmoft Confternation they faw her fudden- ly bring to) and haw! upher lower Ports, now with- in Piftol-fhot, and ftruck their black Flag upon it direétly. After the firft Surprize was over, they kept firing at a Diftance, hoifted it again, and va- poured’ with their Cutlafhes on the Poop; tho” wifely endeavouring at the fame Time to get away. Being now at: their Wits end, boarding was pro- pofed by the Heads of them, and fo to make one defperate Puth; but the Motion not being well fe- conded, and their Main-Top-Maft coming down by Shot, after two Hours firing, it was declin’d ; they grew Sick, {truck their Colours, and called out for Quarters; having had 10 Men killed out right, and 20 wounded, without the lofs or burt of one of the King’s Men. She had 32 Guns, mann’d with 16 Frexch Men, 20 Negroes, and 77 Englifh. The Colours were thrown over board, that they might not rife in Judgment, nor be dif- play’d in Tryumph over them. ae : While oe i, ‘ ay i : Cydt ~ ¥ ve a EY } 368 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, ,. While the Swallow was fending their Boat ta fetch the Prifoners, a Blaft and Smoak was feen to pour out of the great Cabin, and they thought they. were blowing up 5) but upon enquiry after- wards, found that halt a dozen of the moft Defpe- fate, when they {aw all Hopes fled, had drawn themfelves round what Powder they had left in the Steerage, and fired a Piftol into it, but it was too {mall a Quantity. to, effect any Thing more, than _ burning) them ina frightful Manner. - 208 _ This Ship was; commanded by one Skyrme’, a Welch. Man,-who, tho? he had loft his Leg in the, A&tion, would not fuffer him(felf to be dreffed, or. carried off the Deck; but, like Widrington, fought upon his Stump. . The Yeft appeared yay and brisk, | meft of them with white Shirts, Watches, and a deal of Silk Vefts, but the Gold-Duft belonging to. them, was moft -of it left in the Little Ranger im the Bay, (this Company’s Proper Ship,) with the. Royal Fortune, — sbd-wiad>. Sie Rakes eau iq ae I cannot but take Notice of two among the Crowd, of thofe: disfigured from the Blaft of Pow- der juft before, thentioned, viz. William Main and Roger Ball. An Officer of the Ship feeing a Silver Call hang at the Watt of the former, {aid to him, T prefume you are. Boatfwain of this: Ship. Then you pre-- fume wrong, anfwered he, for I am Boat{wa‘n of the. _ Royal Fortune, Captain Roberts Commander. Thea. Mr. Boatfwain you will be hanged I believe, replies. the Officer. That is as your Honour pleafes, anfwered he again, and was for turning away: But the Of ficer defired to: know of him, how the Powder, which had made them in that Condition, came to, take Fire, —— By G_—— fays he, they are all mad and. bewitch'd, for I have loft a good Hat by'it. (the Hat and he being both blown out of the Cabin Gallery, into the Sea.) But what fignifies a Flat Friend, fays the Officer. — Nor: much anfwer'd he, the Men being © aOR ones Fi. Show Capt. BARTHO, ROBERTS. 269 i fy in ftripping him of. his Shoes and Stoc- Pe tau i The GHEE then enquired of him, whee ther ‘Roberts’s Company were as likely Fellows as thefe. —- There are 120 of them, (anfwered he) as clever Fellows as ever trod Shoe Leather: Would I were with them! —~ No doubt on’t, fays the Officer, —~= By G— it is naked Truth, anfwered he, looking down and feeing himfelf, by this Time, quite TN, Officer then ‘approached Roger ‘Ball, who. s. Winter, and asked him, how he. came blown ae nae frightful Manner, —~ Why, fays he,; John. Morris ‘fired a Piftol into the Powder, ana if he. had not dong it, I would, (bearing his Pain without the leaft Complaint.) The Officer gave him to undere. | fland he was Surgeon, and if he defired it, he would drefs him, but he {wore it thould not be, done, and that if.any Thing was applied to he he would tear it off.—Neverthelefs the Su rgeon had, good Nature enough to drefs him, tho with much trouble: At Night he was in a kind of Deliriuany and raved‘on the, Bravery of Roberts, faying, he. fhould fhortly ‘be releafed, as foon ag they thoyld | } | hi hich procured him a lafhing down upon the aeeran Raleee he refifting with all his ‘ x MEO on ¥relt ae \ A | i} } Force, caufed him ‘to be ufed with the more Vio- 1 ence, at: he was tied down with fo much. | | sera ee his Fiefh being fore and tender with the blowing up, he died next Day of a More ce hae uals the Prifoners with Pinions, and. Shackles, but the Ship was fo much difabled in the Engagement, that they had “once Thoughts to fet her on Fire ;’ but this would have given them the, Trouble of taking the Pyrates wounded Men on. Board themfelves, and that they were certain the. | 1 Royal Fortune would wait for their Confort’s Bt my 4 3 f i= ‘ ‘ - € . + + ey DEBE D SLE RAPARALAD READ A LR ET | it was featedin a private Corner, with a Look as fil ml 276 = Capt. BarrHo. ROBERTS. they lay by her two Days, repaired her Riveting anf y Her two Days, repaired.her Rigging 4 other Damages, and fent her Bee baa eee 7" French Men, and four of their own Hands, ‘On the 9th in the Evening, the Swallow gained the Cape again, and faw the Royal Fortune ge gaine dale the Bay with the Neptune, Captain Hill, of a A 800d Prefage of the next Day's Succe(s, for they did, not doubt but the Temptation of Liquor, and:Plune der, they might find in this their new Prize, would make th d;a it hs Buy le Pyrates very emer ae and fo it hae On the roth, in the Morning, the Man of War. SERRE aaa nIngs 5 avian OF War. bore away to round the Cape. Reberts’s Crew dif cerning ‘their Mafts over the Land, went down’ into the Cabin, to acquaint him of it, he being: then at Breakfaft with his new Gueft, Captain. Hill, ona favory Dith of Solomongundy, and fome of his own Beer. He took no bee ‘of it, ae his Men almoft as little, fome faying the was a Por- tuguefe Ship, others a French Slave Ship, but the major Part {wore it was the French Ranger return- img, and were merrily debating for fome Time, on the Manner of Reception, whether the fhould falute, or Not; but as the Swallow appre nigher, ‘Things appeared. plainer, and though they were ftigmatiz’d with the Name of Cowards, who: thewed any, Apprehenfion of Danger, yet fome. of them, now undeceived, declared it to Roberts, e- {pecially one Armftrong, who had deferted from that. Ship, and knew her well : Thofe Roberts fwore at as. Cowards, who meant to dithearten the Men, asking them if it were fo, whether they were afraid to fight, or no? And hardly refrained from Blows. What his own Apprehenfions: were, till the haw- led up her Ports, and hoifted their proper Colours, 18 uncertain, but then being perfectly convinced, he flipped his Cable, got under Sail, and ordered his Men to Arms, without any thew. of Timidity, dropping Capt: BARTHO. ROBERTS. 291 dropping a firft Rate Oath, thar ir was a Bite, but, at the fame Time, refolved, like a gallant Rogue, to get clear, or die. SOL: Li » There was one .Armftrong, asi juit mention’d, a Deferter from the Swallow, ‘whom ‘they enquired of concerning the ‘Trim and Sailing of that Ship; he told them fhe fail’d beft upon.a Wind, and there- fore, if they defigned to leave her, they should go before it. ad ti de EMD SS. Teal is The Danger -was imminent,.and.Time very fhort, to confult of Means to extricate himfelf, his Refo- lution in this Streight, was. as follows: To pafs clofe to the Swallow, withrall their Sails, ‘and-re- ceive her Broadfide, before they returned a Shot ; if difabled by this, or that they could not depend on failing, theu to run on Shore at the. Point, (which is fteep to) and every one to fhift for him- felf among the Negroes; or failing in thefe, to board, and blow up together, for he faw that the greateft Part of his Men were:drunk, paffively Cou- ragious, unfit for Service. =~ ‘eX Roberts himfelf made a gallant Figure, at the Time of the Engagement, being drefed in a rich ¢rimfon Damask Waftcoat and Breeches, ared Fea- ther in his Hat, a Gold Chain round his Neck, with a Diamond Crofs hanging to it; a Sword in his Hand, and two Pair of Piftols hanging ‘at-the End of a Silk Sling, flung over. his Shoulders (according to the Fa- thion of the Pyrates;) and is faid to:have given his Orders with Boldnefs, and ‘Spirit; coming, accord- ing to what he had purpofed, clofe:to the Man of War, received her Fire, and then hoifted his Black Flag, and returned it, {hooting away from her, with all the Sail:he could pack ; and had ‘he took Armftrong’s Advice, to have gone before the Wind, he ‘had probably efcaped, but keeping his Tacks down, either by the Winds shifting, or ill Steerage, or both, he was taken a-back with his Sails, and the gene Swallow 272 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. Swallow came a fecond Time very nighto him: He had now perhaps finifhed the Fight very defperate- ly, if Death, who took a fwift Paffage in a Grape- Shot, had not interpofed, and ftruck him direttly ‘onthe Throat. He fettled himfelf on the Tackles ofa Gun, which one Stephenfon, from the Helm, ob- ferving, ran to his Affiftance, and not perceiving him wounded, fwore at him, and bid him ftand up, and fight like a Man; but when he found his Mi- _ ftake, and that’ his Captain was certainly dead, he guthed into Tears, and wifhed the next Shot might be his Lot. . They prefently threw him over-board, with his Arms and Ornaments on, according to the repea ed Requeft he made in his Life-time. 9 Roberts was a. tall black Man, near forty Years of Age, born at Nemey-bagh, nigh Haverford-Wef, in Pembrokfbire, of good natural Parts, and perforal Bravery, tho’ he applied them to fuch wicked Pur- pofes, as made them of no Commendation, frequent- - Uy.drinking: D—tesn ito hine «who eubit dived to wear A Halter. He was fore'd himfelfat Arft among this Company: out of the Prince, Captain Plemb at Ana- maboe,. about three Years before, where he ferved as fecond Mate, and fhed, as he us’d to tell the frefh Men, 8 many Crocodile’ Tears then as they’ did now, but Time and: good Company had wore it off. He could not plead: Want of Employment, nor. Incapacity of getting his Bread in an‘honeft way, to favour.fo vile ia Change, nor was he fo much 3 Coward as to preterid it’; but frankly own’d, it was to get rid of the difagreeuble Superiority of fome Matters ‘he ‘was acquainted with, ‘and the Love of Novelty and Change, Maritime Peregrinations had accuftom’d him to. Iz an honef? Service, fays he, ‘there is thin Commons, low Wages, and hard Labour in this, Plenty and Satiety, Pleafure and Eafe, Liberty and Pow ¢7 5, and who would not ballance Creditor on this Side} when all the Hazard that is run for it, at morft, is onlya __ four Capt. BARTHO. REPRE 273 oti Look ot tipo at choaking. No, A merry ife an fee Teak jhall be my Motto. ae ee hinifelf into an Approbation of what Rat r pe horr’d; and being daily regal’d with Mufick, Drink- ing, — the Gaiety and Diverfions of his Compa- Be . thefe deprav’d Propenfities were quickly edo’d and ftrengthen’d, to the extinguifhing of Fear and Confeience. Yet among all the vile and igno- minious Aéts he had perpetrated, he is faid to have had an Ayerfion towards forcing Men into that Ser- vice, and had procured fome their Difcharge, note withftanding fo many made it their ea value When. Roberts was gone, as tho he had been the Life and Soul of the Gang, their S irits. fink ; many deferted their Quarters, and all upidly neg- le&ed any Means for Defence, or Efcape ; and their Main-maft {oon after being fhot by the Board, they had no Way left, but to furrender’ and call for. Quar- ters, The Swallom kept aloof, while her Boat on fed, and repaifed for the Prifoners; becaufe t ey underfiood they were under an Oath to blow up ; and fome of the Defperadoes fhewed a Willingnefs that Way, Matches being lighted, and Scuffles hap- pening between thofe who would, and thofe who Oppofed it: But I cannot eafily account for this Humour, which can be term’d no more than a falfe Courage, fince any of them had Power to de- ftroy his own Life, either by Piftol, or Drowning, Without involving others in the fame Fate,’ who areinno Temper of Mind for it: Andat beft, ic had been only dying, for fear of ye i She had 4o.Guns, and 157 Men, 43 whereo oe Negroes ; three only were kitled in the A ion, Without any Lofs to the Swallow. There was found upwards of 2000/..in Gold-Duft in her. The Flag Could not be got eafily from under the fallen Maft, fas er’d by the Sipalow ; it had and was therefore recoyer’d by t bean the Figure of a Skeleton in ac and a Man iio 274 ..Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. _—_ with a flaming Sword in his Hand, intimating a De- fyance of Death it felf§ wero ss The Swallow returned back into Cape Lopez Bay, and found the little Ranger, whom the Pyrates had deferted in haft, for the better Defence of the Ship: She had been plunder’d, according to what I could learn, of 2000]. in Gold-Duft, (the Shares of thofe Pyrates who belonged to her ; ) and Captain Aull, in the Neptune, not unjuftly fufpetted, for he would not wait the Man of War's returning into the Bay again, but fail’d away immediately, making no Scruple afterwards to own the Seizure of other Goods out ofher, and furrender’d, as a Confirma- tion of all, 50 Ounces at Barbadocs, for which, fee the Articleat the End of this Book, = _ All Perfons who after the 29th of Septem. 1690, &c. : -.. To fum up the whole, ifit be confidered, firft, that the fickly State of the Men of War, when they fail'd from Princes, was the Misfortune that ‘hin- dered their being as far as Sierraleon, and. confe- ‘quently out. of the Track the Pyrates then took. That thofe Pyrates, direftly contrary to their De- dign, in the fecond Expedition, fhould * get above Cape Corfo, and that nigh Axim, a Chace fhould of- fer, that inevitably muft difcover them, ‘and be foon ‘communicated tothe Men of War. That the fati- ating their evil and malicious Tempers at Whydah, ‘in burning the Porcupine, and running off with the French Ship, had ftrengthened the Swallow with 30 ‘Men. That. the Swallow fhould mifs them in that -Road, where probably fhe had not, or at leaft fo ef- feftually obtained her End, That they fhould be fo far infatuated at Cape Lopez, as to divide their Strength, which when colletted, might have been fo formidable. And Jaftly, that the Conqueft fhould ‘be without Bloodfhed: I fay, confidering all thefe Circumftances, it fhews that the Hand of Provyie _@ence was concerned in their Deftruftion. © ~ oF r s i Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 275, ““Asto their Behaviour after they were taken, it was found that they had great Inclinations to rebel, if they could have laid hold of any Opportunity. For they were very uneafy under Reftraint, having been lately all Commanders themfelves 5 nor could they brook their Diet, or Quarters, without curfing , and fwearing, and upbraiding each other, with the Folly that had brought them to it, So that to fecure themfelves againft any mad def- perate Undertaking of theirs, they ftrongly bar- Yicado’d the Gun-Room, and made another Prifon before it; an Officer, with Piftols and Cutlafhes, _ doing Duty, Night and Day, and the Prifoners within, manacled and fhackled, are _ They would yet in thefe Circumftances be im- pudently merry, faying, when they viewed their Nakednefs, that they had not left them a halfpenny, ta giveold Charon, to ferry them over Stix: And at their ‘thin Commons, they would obferve, that they fell away fo faft, that they fhould not haye Weight left to hang them, Sutton ufed to be very pro- phane: he happening to be in the fame Trons with “another Prifoner, who was more ferious than ordi- hary, and read and pray’d often, as became his Condition; this Man Sutton ufed to fwear at, and ask him, what he propafed by fo much Noife and. De« “ potion 2. Heaven, fays the other, J hope, Heaven, you _ Fool, fays Sutton, did you ever hear of any Pyrates going thither 2 Give me H——Il, it?s a merrier Place; I'll give Roberts ¢ Salute of 13 Guns at Entrance. And when he found fuch ludicrous Expreffions had no Effec on him, he made a formal Complaint, and requefted . that. the Officer. would either remove this: Man, or a Brahe Prayer-Book away, as a conimou Difturber, ~ A Combination and Confpiracy was formed, bee _twixt Moody, Afkplant, Magnes, Mare, and others, o rife, and kill the Officers, and run’ away with » the Ship. This they had carried on by Means of Saas a a Mur 276 «Capt. BARTHO, ROBERTS. a Mulatto Boy, who was allow’d to attend them, and proved very trufty in his. Meffages, between the Principals; but the Evening of that Night they were to have made this Struggle, two of the Prifoners that fat next to Afhplanr, heard the Boy the Hour they fhould be ready, prefently gave Notice of it.to the Captain, which put the Ship inan Alarm, fora little Time; and, on Examina- tiou, feveral_of them had made fhift to break off, or lofe, their Shackles, (no doubt for fuch Purpofe;) but it tended only to procure to themfelves’ worfe _ Ufage and Confinement. Seki at Facts In the. fame Palfage to Cape Corfo, the Prize, Rayal Fortune, was in the fame Danger. She was left at thelfland of St. Thomas's, in the Poffeffion of an Officer, anda few Men, to take in fome frefh Provifions, (which were {Carce at Cape Corfo) -with Orders to follow the Ship. There were only fome of the Pyrates, Negroes, three or four wound- ed Prifoners, and Scudamore, their Surgeon’, from - whom. they feemed to be under no Apprehenfion, -efpecially from the laft, who might have hoped for , Favour, on Account of his Employ ; and had ftood fo much indebted for his Liberty, eating and drink- ing conftantly with the Officer; yet this Fellow, regardlefs of the Favour, and loft to all Senfe of Reformation, endeavoured tobring over the Ne- groesto-his Defign of murdering the People, and running away with the Ship. He eafily prevailed - with the Negroes to come into the Defign; but when he came to communicate it to his Fellow Prix . foners, and would have drawn them into the fame .Meafures, by telling them, he underftood Naviga- _ tion, that the Negroes were ftout Fellows, and by had found willing to undertake fuch an’ Enterprize ; -.and that it was better venturing to do this, run pees re down whifper them upon the Project, and naming to him > } a Smattering he had in the Angolan Language, he | Sau t 2 eoreereys a aN PTY OY BL FEY I SV USE VE VOU VOY Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, 277 down the Coaft, and raife a new Company, than to proceed to Cape Coro, and be hanged like a Dog, and Sun dry’d. One of them abhorring the Cruel- ty, or fearing the Succefs, difcovered it to the Of- ficer, who made him immediately a Prifoner, and brought the Ship fafe. oat When they came to be lodg’d in Cape Corfo-Cajtle, their Hopes of this kind all cut off, and that they were affured they muft there foon receive a final Sentence; the Note was changed among moft of them, and from vain infolent jefting, they became ferious and devout, begging for good Books, and joyning in publick Prayers, and finging of Pfalms twice at leait every Day. e ‘ As to: their Tryals, if we fhould give them at length, it may appear tedious to the Reader, for which Reafon, Ihave, for the avoiding Tautology and Repetition, put asmany of them together as were try’d for the fame Fatt, relerving the °Cir- cumftances which are moft material, with Obfer- vations on the dying Behaviour of fuch of them, as ‘came to my Knowledge. And firft, it may be obferved from the Lift, that a great Part of thefe Pyrate Ships Crews, were Men entered on the Coaft of Africa, not. many Months before they were taken, from whence, it may be concluded, that the pretended Conftraint of Roberts, on them, .was very often a Complotment between Parties equally willing: And this Roberts feveral Times openly declared, particularly to the Onjlow’s People, whom he called aft, and ask’d of them, who was williag to go, for he would force m0 Body ‘ AS was depofed, by fome of his beft Hands, after Acquit- tal nor is it reafonable to think, he fhould reject Jrifh Voluntiers, only froma Pique againft Kennedy, and force others, that might hazard, and, in Time, — deftroy his Government: But their Behaviour foon put him out of this Fear, and convine’d him, that 34 the? co OE aapihiae ati ca =n = ———_—_ = : PT BV PIV EVI CVU EVV VOU VOLE VOY 278 ; Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS) the Plea of Force was only the beft Arti carr : tifi had to fhelter themfélves under, in Cale. the fhould be taken; and that they were lefs Rogues | than others, only in Poi in ers, Only in Point of Time. : It may likewife be taken Notice of, that the Country, wherein they happened to be tried, is among other Happineffes, exempted from Law- yers, and Law-Books, fo that Regi- nd J Book: that the Office of Regi- yen of peseaicy, fell on one, not verfed in thete MS 4 ach miei juftify the Court in want of é : : > bg 5 f . bd Imparcniy entially Supply d with Integrity ‘But, perhaps, if there was lefs Law, th i ere migh be gore Juftice, than in fome other ‘Courts: Va fed e civil Law be a Law of univer Al Reafon, Ieee of the Reétitude, or Obliquity of Mens eres every Man of common Senfe is endued aifine gE of it at leaft fufficient to make him aiftiy Right ng hat the Civili bee vate ae WPS, or what the Civili- Therefore, here, if two Perfons were equally Guilty ,of the fame Faé, there was no cdnviéting One, and bringing the other off, by any Quirk, or turn of Law; for they form’d their Judgments: upon the Conftraint, or Willingnefs, the Ain . Ingention of the Parties, and ail other SRST ee a ich make a material Difference. Befides Le mes of this Nature, Men bred up to the Sea, ei e more knowing, and much abler, than _ot SUR aR isa inthe Law ; for, before a Man on erent Idea of a Thing, he muft know Ae erns ftanding for that Thing; The Sea- _ Terms being ‘a Language by it felf, which ‘no Law- 3 Her cen be fuppofed to underftand , he muf of oe ease Bes that. difcriminating Faculty, c! irect him f ig H faeant by thole Toms, eas Bes cnt Wises : The Capt, BARTHO. ROBERTS. 279 -_ The"Court well knew, it was not poffible to get the Evidence of every Sufferer by this.Crew, and therefore, firft of all, confidered how that Deficien- cy fhould be fupplied 5 whether, or no, they could pardon one Fo. Dennis, who had early offered him- felf, as King’s Evidence, and was the beft read in their Lives and Converfations: Here indeed, they were ata Lofs for Law, -and concluded in the Ne- gative, becaule it look’d like compounding with a Man to fwear falfly, lofing by it, thofe great Helps he could have afforded. 9 ‘bce Another great Difficulty “in their Proceedings, was, how to underftand thofe Words in the A& of Parliament, of, particularly {pecifying in the Charge, the Circumftances of Time, Place, &C. 1. ¢. fo to underftand ‘them, as''to be able to hold a Court; for if they had been indicted on particular Robberies, the Evi- dence had happened moftly from the Royal African Company’s Ships, on which thefe Gentlemen of Cape-Corfo-Caftle, were not qualify’d to fit, their Oath running, That they have no Intereft direttly, or indi- rettly, in the Ship, or Goods, for the Robbery of which, the Party ftands accufed : And this they thought they ‘had, Commiffions being paid them, on fuch Goods: And on the other Side, if they were incapacitated, ‘no Court could be formed, the Commiffion abfolute- ly requiring three of them by Name. To reconcile all Things, therefore, the Court refolved, to bottom the whole of their Proceedings on the Swallow’s Depofitions, which were clear and plain, and had the Circumftance of Time when, Place where, Manner how, and the like, particu- larly {pecified accerding to the Statute in that Cafe made, and provided. But this admitted only a ge- neral Intimation of Robbery in the Indictment, _therefore to approve their Clemency, it looking Arbi- “trary oa the Lives of Men, to lump them to the Gallows, in fuch a fummary Way as muft have S 4 been 980. Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. been done, had they folely adhered to the Swallow’s Charge, they refolved to come to particular Tryals, Secondly, That the Prifoners might mot be ignorant whereon to anfmer, aid fo have all fair Advantages, to excufé and defend themfelves; the Court far- ther agreed with Juftice and Equanimity, to hear any Evidence that could be brought, to weaken or corroborate the three Circumftances that compleat a Pyrates firft, being a Voluntier amongft them at | the Beginning ; fecondly, being a Voluntier at the taking or robbing of any Ship; or laftly, volunta- rily accepting a Share in the Booty of thofe that | dids for by'a Parity of Reafon, where thefe Agtions were of their own difpofing, and yet. committed by them, it muft be believed their Hearts and Hands joyned together, in what they atted againft his Ma- jefty’s Ship the Swallow. the ns PATS PEE OS NS LS ae Woy we Capt. BART HO. ROBERTS. 281 | Sameenyeasenaenenaeaeye &e The Trvavs of the Prrates, Taken by bis Majefty’s Ship the Swallow, begun ~» at Cape Corfo-Caftle, on the Coa/t of Afcica, March the 28th, 17222 ‘9 HE Commiffion impowered any three-riamed therein, to call ta their Affiftance, fuch a Number of qualified Perfors as might make the Court always confift of fever? And accordingly Summons were figned to Lieut. So. Barnjley, Lieut. Ch. Fanfhaw, Capt. Samuel Hartfeafe, and Capt. Wil- liam Menzies, Vixs LOY SASL 2 © WY Virtue of a Power and Authority, to us . B given, by a Commiffion from the King, un- © der the Seal of Admiralty, You are hereby re- © quired to attend, and make one of the Court, for the © trying and adjudging of the Pyrates, lately taken © on this Coaft, by his Majefty’s Ship the Swallow. . Given under our Hands this 28th of Adarch, ott 1722, at Cape Corfo-Caftle. . Mungo Heardman; | Francis Boy, James Phips, Edmard Fide. Henry Dodfon, rr The Commiffioners being met in the Hall of the ‘Caftle, the Commiffion was firft read, after which, the Prefident, and then the other Members, took — the Oath, prefcribed in the A& of Parliament, and having directed the Form of that for Witneffes, as follows, the Court was opened, Seek ees Etienne es GeAage a , Se 282 Capt. BARTHO. RoBERTS, eos Sa § 7 eal SAG B. folemnly promife and fwear on the Holy Evan- 7 peliSts, ‘to bear: true and’ faithful’ Witne/s between the ‘King and Prifoner, or Prifoners, in Relation to the Fatt, or Fails, of Pyracy and Robbery, he or they do now fland ac- uy UG meres So Petry me rs mt ery The Court Aug.1721. * Ro. Hartley (2) bee cea + Andrew Rance A Dutch Ship A : sae Mercy Galley of Briffol Cor. 1720. * Tfrael Hynde Be Cale S William Church Gertruycht of Holland » \\ Philip Haak Flufhingham of ditto” tres ! William Smith ; Wha CHI ale Capt, Sharp. William Graves * Peter de Vine | King Splanavik Capt. Tre- |» bern off Cape vipat : Sohn Stodgilt Wilton | Glafs San aa “Fofial Robinfon John Arnaught Sohn Davis The oe Tarlton Capt. ‘The. Tilton i ~ Fohn Rimer ay Clephen “Wr. Guineys ” Porcupine Capt. Fletcher oy Capt. BART HO. Rozerrs. ‘Tho. Stretton ee rea’ * William Petty | sfetiop abate Pere Mic, Lemmon *Win.Wood — (Onfew Capt. Geeat Ceftos Jam. 172% Ed. Waty sii 20 sera Pierre Ravon, ~ Peter.Groffey jas eS Sfobn Dugan - — Renée Frogier otra Saies Ardeon > Lewis-Arnaut «do ©). From the EttrienGeliot — Rence Thoby . 9. . | Frenchthip Ren. Marraud Meth Roulac Sin Whydah Fohn Gitta, \Foha Gumar 2, | Road Feb. Yo. Richardeau — Fohn Paquetefor fo audacious’ Refiftance, as had been made againtt the King’s Ship. ; To this, ‘each, in his Reply,’ owned himfelf to be one of thofe taken out of the Ranger 5 that he had figned their pyratical Articles, and fhared in their Plunder, fome few only atcepted, who had been there too fhort-a Time. _ But. that neither in this figning, or dharing, nor in‘ the Refiftance had been made againft his Majeéfty’s Ship, hadthey - been Voluntiers, but had acted in thefe feveral Parts, from a Terror of Death 3. which, a Law amongft them, was to be the Porti of thofe who refufed. The Court then ask’d, who made thofe Laws? How thofe Guns came to be fired? Or why they had not deferted their Stations, and mutinied, when fo fair a Profpett of Redemption offered ? They replied fill, with the fame Anfwers, and could extenuaté their Crimes, with no other Plea, ‘than being forced | Men, ‘Wherefore the Court were of Opinion, that ‘the Indi&timent, as it char- ged them: with “an unlawful Attack and Refiftance: of the King’s Ship, was fufficiently proved , but then it being undeniably ‘evident, that many of thefe Prifoners had been forcetl, and fomeof them of very fhort ftanding, they did, on mature Deli- beration, come to this merciful Refolution 5 “That they would hear further Evidence for, or againft) each Perfon fingly, in Relation, to thofe » Parts of the Indiétment, which declared them Vo- : \untiers 2 : 288 = Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. juntiers, or charged them with aiding and affifting, at the burning, finking, or robbing of other Ships 3 for if they atted, or affifted, in any Robberies or” Devaftations, it would\be a Conviétion they were Voluntiers ; here fuch Evidence, though it might want the Form, ftill carried the Reafon of the Law with it. aH) Se ted Rete abana Se The:Charge wasiexhibited al againtt the following Pyratestaken out of the Royal Fortunes * Mich. Mare in the Rover § Years ago | vree Bp ho | 5 Chrif: Moody under “Davis noises Sod r9tBes od y Li: Fobnfon Dutch Shipisuyg yiody boqtBebet ee Philips the Reuenge Pyrate Sloop. 17... ™ David Sj 1G Sah Caren vestige) ane Sot The. Schon Spyraces LN ci aac eineento Flag. Facobfon a ‘Dutch Ship) so) 7 SUH Bewin )-hitin bid sit coer Td * Wn. Fernon’ “W. Willams 2 eae er Scot bites spe Wee ‘Tho. Owen Lop eaigvd gi velolt wap sawed * Wm. Taylor Stork of Brie oxo hold s batgir. * Fofeph Nofiter Expedition of Topfham.. S —*Foha Parker Willing Mind ot ;Paol .~y > Robert Crow © Happy Return Sloop. . “George Smith — Mary and Martha ~* Fa. Clements. Succefs Sloop | . Sabongi. Captain Foowas et So uNemfoundland PRL aes ‘04 Pres July 17206 “*Fobn Walden — Bleffing of Lymington «5 2D. _* 90. Mansfield from Martinico THe sets a3 4; James Harris Richard Pink te ae * Sohn Philips a filhing Boat’ ~ Harry Glasby 4 i ; a4 : i Fak eis Samuel sae Fey: ; Falyt 720. “~* Wimn. Magnus fitout pike “* Fofeph Moor — May Flower Sloop — Feb. 1720. | * Soba | : Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 7 the Place of Execution, without the Gates of this ade to SD Unive at Nine of the Clock, and there within the Flood-Marks, caufe them to be hanged by the Neck till they are dead, for which, this fhall be your Warrant. Given under my Hand, this 2d Day of April 1722. To Jofeph Gordyn, Provoft-Mar{hal. : The Bodies remove in Chains, eretted on the adjacent ‘Hillocks. ra Mungo Heardman. to the Gibbets already M. H. William Phillips. Leg WT appeared by the Evidence of Captain Yo. Tra- I hern, and George Fenn, Mate of the King Solomon, that this Prifoner was Boatfwain of the fame Ship, when fhe was attacked and taken off Cape Appollonia, the oth of Fanuary laft, by the Pyrate’s Boat. When the Boat drew nigh, (they fay,) it was judged from the Number of Men in her, that they were Pyrates, end being hailed, anfwered, Defiance 5 at which the Commander {natched a Mutquet from one of his Men, and fired, asking them at the fame Time, whether they would ftand by him, to de- fend the Ship? But the Pyrates returning a Vol- ley, and crying out, they would give no onan if any Refiftance was made; this Prifoner re upon him to call out for Quarters, without the . Mafter’s Confent, and miflead the reft to the laying down their Arms, and giving up the Ship, to half p . as the Number of Men and inano en Boat It W Rates ? gco —- Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. further evident he became, after thi . arther | eC r this, a Volun- tier-amongft them. Firft, becaufe: he was ea pes ie and brisk, in robbing the Ship King he of her Provifions and Stores. Secondly, ufed; and laftly, becaufe he had co eds anc 1 au nfeffed to F ep he had been obliged to fign their Acticles : at Night, (a Piftol being laid onthe Table, to ignify he muft do it, or be fhot,) when the whole eee oe be a habe from other Evidence, afferted his bei in i sem Oe thas being ick in: the Aion n anfwer to this, he firft obferved upo . . th a ee of being friendlefS in. this ‘Pare of ee Ao which, elfewhere, by witneffing to the Stonefty of his former Life, would, he believed a a great Meafure, have invalidated the wrong Evi- : ue had been given of his being a Voluntier with BRS: He owns indeed, he made no Appli- _ ton to his Captain, to intercede for a Difcharge a ee pg acl he hada diflike to him, ind therefore was fure that fuch jicati have avail’d him nothing. ba oat bie A pres Court obférved the Pretences of this, and : het of the Pyrates, of a Piftol and their Articles beg ferved wp in/a Difh together, or of their mg mifufed and forced from an honeft Service, was often a Complotment of the Parties, to ren- der them lefS fufpetted of thofe they came from, _ aud was to anfwer the End of being put in a News- Paper or Affidavit: and the ain were % me ee as not to refufe a Compliment to a Brother t at coft them nothing, and, at the fame Time ecured them the beft Hands; the beft 1 call them, becaufe fuch a De f boldly. Guilty, pendance made them a& more Harry he endeavoured to have his Captain ill | / Se pn STD SOF. © Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 308 od). Harry Glasby, Mafter. ee “WoHere appearing feveral Perfons in Court, who af) had been taken by Roberts’s Ship, whereof the Prifoner was Mafter, their Evidence was accept= ed as follows. 2 FF 2 Di : Fo. Trabern, Commander of the King Solomon, de- pofed, the Prifoner, indeed, to aé& as Mafter of the Pyrate Ship (while he was under Reftraint there) but was obferved like no Mafter, every one obey- ing at Difcretion, of which he had taken Notice, Sb corey carrrrRTUs EK - ia PS PV OV BY FUE VI SV OU EUV ET VOUUV ELE OV and complained to him, how hard a Condition it was, to be a Chief among Brutes; and that he was weary of his Life; and fuch other Expreffions, (now out of his Memory,) as fhew’d in him a great Difinclination to that Courfe of Living. : 9. Winofield, a Prifoner with them at Calabar, fays the fame, as to the Quality he a&ed in, but that he was Civil beyond any of them, and verily believes, that when the Brigantine he ferved on Board of, asa Fattor for the African Company, was voted to be burnt, this Man was the Inftrument of preventing it, exprefling himfelf with a great deal of Sorrow, for this and the like malicious Rogueries of the Company he was in; that to him fhewed, he had ated with Reluftancy, as one who could -not avoid what he did. He adds further, that when one Hamilton, a Surgeon, was taken by them, and. the Articles about to be impofed on him, he op- pofed, and prevented it. And that Hunter, another Surgeon, among them, was cleared at the Prifoner’s. * Inflance and Perfwafion ; from which laft, this De- ponent had it affured to him, that Glasby had once been under Sentence of Death, on Board of them, with two more, for endeavouring an Efcape in the West-Indies, and that the other two were really thot bic Afra Sas A Elizabeth 392 Capt. BARTHOs ROBERTS: Elizabeth Trengrove, who was taken a Paffenger in the African Company’s Ship Onflom, ftrengthen’d the Evidence of the laft Witnefs ; for having heard a good Charatter of this Glasby, the enquired of the Quarter-Mafter, who was then on Board a robbing, whether or no fhe could {ee him? And he told her, No; they never ventured him from the Ship, for he’ had once endeavoured his Efcape, and they had ever fince continued jealous of him. : Edmard Cri(p, Captain Ti rengrove, and Captain Sharp, who had all been taken in their Turns, acknow- ledge for themfelves and others, who had unluckily fallen into thofe Pyrates Hands, that the good Ufage they had met with, was. chiefly thro’ the Prifoner’s Means, who often interpofed, for leaving fulficient Stores and Inftruments on Board the Ships they had robbed, alledging, they were fuperfluous and unneceffary there. James White, whofe Bufinefs was Mufick, and was on the Poop of the Pyrate Ship in Time of Aétion with the Swallom, depofed, that during the Engage- ment, and Defence fhe made, he never {aw the Pri- foner bufied about the Guns, or giving Orders, either to the loading or firing of them ; but that he. wholly attended to the fetting, or trimming, of the Sails, as Roberts commanded; and that in th Conclufion, he verily believed him to be the Man; who prevented the Ship’s being blown up, by fetting trufty Centinels below, and oppofing him- felf againft fuch hot-headed Fellows as had procu- red lighted Matches, and were going down for that Purpofe, Jfaac Sun, Lieutenant of the Man of War, depofed, that when he came to take Poffeifion of the Prize, in the King’s Boat, he found the Pyrates ina very | diftra&ed and divided Condition ; fome being for. blowing up, and others (who perhaps ‘ fuppofed themfelyes leaft culpable) oppofing it; That in this _ Prifoner ordered the Colours to be ftruck , and had RPEBLDARARAPARAPAD EYAL ARA Ana Rahat Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, 303 4 é £ i 2 enquired -for the Prifoner, ) ae cares pe ee a good eerie i ug thule he rendered all the Service in bir : iu fe reventing it; in particular, he un fi 04 by all Hands that he had feized, and AAAS ‘e cad fame: Philips, a lighted Match, at the Inftant he ames oing down to the Magazine, ana ng Fe ikoula fend them all to H—-l Seger "6 had heard alfo, that after Roberts was kilec, | pofite his Practice and Principles sno Dee ee arin who were the greateft Mee eae a Chis own Defence, faye, be “ i f falling into the re Cem ee of the Samuel, of Lon- fin Nee when he bad hid himfelf do. went the Defign of carrying him aways: t. % fo ea hi “and beat and threw him over- au foun nae afterwards, upon his objecting again , se refaiive to fagn their Articles, he was cut, an cB "a : see : That tho’ after this he ingratiate eae aes feats humble Carriage, it was only iy. cia Life DG the Shares they had given yg att from Time toTime returned again to es as ae as fell in his Way; till of late, indee , alae td és fmall Refervation, and had Sparse oe Lise to take two or three Moidores aes im, oe his Wife. He was once taken, he Aye mi ie ane Efcape, in the West-Indies, and, wi a? ok “fentenced 0 be fhot for it, by a drug : vee the latter ey: a Np yen : erve oné of the chier ryte eos shee: him, and bullying ae sae i oe ee ondulting hes chtowgh f afs [ore) ae eit but ‘that being. a moft defolate and hg wild Part.of the Mfland he fell upon, and he he 804 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. : rant how to dire&t his Courfe, was obliged, after two or three Days wandering, to return towards the ~ Ship again, denying with egregious Oaths, the De- fign he was charg’d with, for Fear they fhould fhoot him. From this Time he hopes it will be fome Ex- tenuation of his Fault, that moft ‘of the acquitted Prifoners can witnefs, they entertained Jealoufies of him, and Roberts would not admit him into, his Secrets; and withal, that Captain Cary, (and four. other Paffengers with him) had made Affidavit of his having been forced from his Employ, which tho” he could not produce, yet he humbly hoped the Court would think highly probable from the Circumftances offered. SBA On the whole, the Court was of Opinion Ar- tifts had the beft' Pretenfion to the Plea of Force, from the Neceffity Pyrates are fometimes under of engaging fuch, and that many Parts of his own Defence had been confirmed by the Evidence, who had afferted he a&ed with Reluctance, and had exprefled a Concern and Trouble for the little Hopes remained to him, of extricating himfelf, That he had ufed all Prifoners (as they were called) : well, at the hazard of ill Ufage to himfelf, That he had not in any military Capacity affifted their Robberies. That he had twice endeavoured his Efcape, with the utmoft Danger. Acquitred him. tetas Captain SFames Skyrnis T appeared from the Evidence of feveral Pris A foners acquitted, that this Skyrm commanded the Ranger, in that Defence fhe made againft the King’s Ship; that he ordered the Men to their Quarters, and the Guns to be loaded and fired, having a Sword in his Hand, to enforce thofe Com-= mands ; and beat fuch to: their Duty whom he efpied any way negligent or backward, _ That - altho’ he had Joft a Leg in the A€tion, his Temper Sa ncae wags Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 305 was fo warm, as to refufe going off the Deck, till he 1 was loft. ; aie Defence, he fays, he was forced from a Mate’s Employ on Board a Sloop call’d the Greyhound, Of St. Chriftophers, Of. 1720. The Pyrate having drub- bed him, and broke his Head, only for offering to go away when that Sloop was difmiffed. Cuftom and Succels hadfince indeed blunted, and, in fome Meafure, worn out the Senfe of Shame; but that he had really for feveral Months paft been fick, and difqualified for any Duty, and though Roberts had forced him on this Expedition much againft, his Will, yet the Evidence muft be fenfible, the Title of Captain gave him no Pre-eminenice, for he could not be obeyed, though he had often called to them, to leave off their Fire, when he perceived it to be t ing’s Ship. : Saget hé alledged, but more efpecially the Circumftance of lofing his Leg, were Aggravations of his Fault, fhewing him more alert on fuch Occafions, than he was now willing to be thought: As to the Name of Captain, if it were allowed to give him no Precedence out of Battle, yet here it was proved a Title of Authority; fuch an Au- ' thority as could dire€&t an Engagement againft the King’s Colours, and therefore he was in the high eft Degree, Guilty. | Sti Waldo taco ult tai bn Trahern, and George Fenn, depofed, . Gries to be one of the Number, who, in an open Boat, pytatically affailed, and took their Ship, and was remarkably bufy at Mifchief, ha- ving’ a Pole-Ax in his Hand, which ferved him inftead of a Key, to all the lock’d Doors and Boxes he coin Tia Alfo in particular, he cut the Cable of our Ship, when the other paeet Were willing, and bufied ia Sa ae oy ena Dee a a TY WY; oy SYOUSV SVT VEUEV SEY Ss BHF SAF SR AS de OPA ES 306 = Capt. BARTHO.- ROBERTS.» faying, Captain, what fignifies this Trouble of Yo ~ Hype, and ftraining in hot Weather; there are more Anchors at London, and befides, your Ship is to be burnt. ss x William Smith, (a Prifoner acquitted,) fays Wal- den was known among the Pyrates moftly, by the Nick-Name of AG/{s Nauney (ironically its pre- fumed from the Hardnefs of his Temper) that he was one of the twenty who voluntarily came on Board the Ranger, in the Chace fhe. made out af- ter the Swallow, and by a Shot from that Ship, loft his Leg , his Behaviour in the Fight, till then, be-— ing bold and daring. The Prefident, called for Harry Glasby, and bid | f him relate a Charatter of the Prifoner, and what — Cuftom was among them, in Relation to thefe yvo- — luntary Expeditions, out of their proper Ship ; and this of going on Board the Ravger, in par- ticular. ; And he gave in for Evidence, that the Prifoner } was looked on asa brisk Hand, (i. e. as he farther explained it, aftanch Pyrate, a great Rogue) that | when the Swallow firft appeared in Sight, eyery one was willing to believe her a Portuguefe, becaufe Su- gar was very much in Demand, and had made fome Jarring and Diffention between the two Compa- nies, (the Fortune’s People drinking Punch, when | the Ranger's could not) that Roberts, on Sight of the Swallow, hailed the new Ranger, and bid them right Ship, and get under Sail; there is, fays he, Sugar . in the Offing, bring it in, that we may have no- more Mumbling; ordering at the fame Time the Word to be pafs’d among the Crew, who would go to their Affiftance, and immediately the Boat } was full of Men, to tranfport themfelves. _ Prefident. Then every one that goes on Board of any Prize, doesit voluntarily? Or were there here any other Reafons for it? ° H. Sey Snob fad cay IPT ee 2 7 fhe gu 8h Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. — 307 H. Glashy. Every Man is commonly called by Lifts and infifts, in his Turn, to go on Board of a Prizes becaufe they then are allowed a Shift of Cloathss (the beft they can find) over and above the Divi- dend from the Robbery, and this they are fo far from being compelled to, that it often becomes the Occafion of Conteft and Quarrel amongft them + But in the prefent, or fuch like Cafes, where there appears a Profpect of Trouble, the Lazy and Time- rous are oftén willing to decline this Turn; and Vield to their Betters; who thereby eftablifh a grea ter Crédit. : i /The Prifoner, and the reft of thofe Men who went from the Fortune on Board the Ranger; to afa fift in this Expedition, were Voluntiers; and the truftieft Men athon® us! 0,8. Sp Prefident. Were Hote uo Jealoufies o° the Ranger’s leaving you in this Chace, or at any other Time, in order to furrender ? iy : gi H. Glasby. Moft of the Ranger's Crew were frefht Men, Men who had been enter’d only fince their being on the Coaft of Guiney, and therefore had not fo liberal a Share in frefh Provifions, or Wine, as ‘the Fortine’s People, who thought they had born the Burthen and Heat of the Day, which had givert Oceafion indeed to fome Grumblings and Whiff - pers, as tho’ they would take an Opportunity to leave us, but we never fappofed (if they did) »it would be with any other Defign then fetting up oy themfelves, they having (many of them) behave with greater Severity than the old Standerss The Prifoner appeared undaunted, ‘and rather folicitous, about refting his Stump, than giving any Anfwer to the Court, or making any Defence — for himfelf, till called wpon ; then he related in 4 carelefs, or rather hopelefs Manner; the cmret frances Of his firft Entrance, being forced, he faid, out of the Blefing of coe at Teton ens EC VOV EL IV EVI SV OY FL IVE VOU EVEL EV ayy 308 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. | About 12 Months paft; this, he is fure, moft of the old Pyrates knew, and that he was for fome Time as fick of the Change asany Man; but Cuftom and ill Company had altered him, owning very frankly, that he was at the Attack, and taking of the King . Solomon, that he did cut her Cable, and that none were forced on thofe Occafions. As to the laft Expedition in the Ranger, he con- feffes he went on Board of her, but that it was by Roberts's Order ; andin the Chace loaded one Gun, _ to bring her to, but when he faw it wasa Bite, he declared to his Comrades, that it was not worth while to refift, forbore firing, and affifted to reeve the Braces, in order, if they could, to get away, in which fort of Service he was bufied, whena Shot from the Man of War took off his Leg: And be- ing asked, that fuppofing the Chace had. proved a Portuguefe? Why then, fays he, I dont know what I might have done, intimating withal, that every Body then would have been ready enough at plundering. Guilty. { Peter Scudamore. H2 Glasby, Jo. Wingfield, and Nicholas Brattle, -depofe thus much, as to his being a Voluntier with the Pyrates, from Capt. Rolls, at Calabar. Firft, - That hequarrelled with Afody, (one of the Heads of the Gang) and fought with him, becaufe he oppofed his going, asking: Rolls, in a leering man- ‘ner, whether he would not be fo kind, as to put him into the Gazette, when he came Home. And, at another Time, when he was going from the Pyrate Ship, in his Boat, a Turnado arofe, J mifh, fays he, the Rafcal: may be drowned, for he is a great Rogue, and has endeavoured to do me all the ill Offices he could among thefe Gentlemen, (i.e. Pyrates. ) And fecondly, That he had figned the Pyrate’s Acticles witha great dealof Alacrity, and gloried ut PNY LY BL TV IV EY OU ELV E VUE VEE OY Tha tH FS Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 309 in having been the firft Surgeon that had done fo, (for before this, it was their Cuftom to change their Surgeons, when they defired it, after ha- ving ferved a Time, and never obliged them to fign, but he was refolved to break thro’ this, for the good of thofe who were to follow,) {wearing im- mediately upon ic, he was now, he hoped,.as great a Rogue as any of them. Captain Jo. Trahern, and George Fenn, his Mate, dépofed, the Prifoner to have taken out of the King Solomon, theit Surgeon’s capital Inftruments, fome Medicines, and a Back-Gammon Table; which latter became the Means of a Quarrel between one Wincon, and he, whofe Property they fhould be, and Were yielded to the Prifoner. | Yo. Sharp, Mafter of the Elizabeth, heard the _ Prifoner ask Roberts leave to force Comry, his Sur- geon, from him, which was accordingly done, and With him, carried alfo fome of the Ship’s Medi- Cines: But what gave a fuller Proof of the difho- nefty of his Principles, was, the treacherous De- fign he had formed of running away with the Prize, in her Paffage to Cape Corfo, though he had been treated with all Humanity, and very unlike a Prifoner, on Account of his Employ and better Education, which had rendred him lefs to be fat pected. : Mr. Child, (acquitted) depos’d, that in their Paf- fage from the Ifland of St. Thomas, in the Fortune Prize, this Prifoner was feveral Times tempting him, into Meafures of rifing with the Negroes, and killing the Swallow's People, fhewing him, how eafily the white Men might be demolifhed, and a new Company raifed at Angola, and that. Part of the Coaft, for, fays he, I underftand how to navigate a Ship, and cam foon teach you to freer 5 and is it not better to do this, than to go back to Cape-Corfo, and be hanged and Sun-dryed ? To U3 which g10 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. which the Deponent replying, he was not afraid of being hanged, Scudamore bid him be ftill, and no Harm fhould come to him; but before the next Day-Evening, which was the defigned Time of executing this Project, the’ Deponent difcovered it to the Officer, and affured him, Scudamore had been talking all the preceeding Night to the Negroes, in Angolan Language. " Iaac Burnet heard the Prifoner ask ames Harris, a Pyrate, (left with the wounded in the Prize,) whether‘he was willing to come into the Project of running away with the Ship, and endeavour the raifing of a new Company, but turned the Dif- courfe to Horfe-Racing, as the Deponent crept nigher ; he acquainted the Officer with what he — had heard, who kept the People under Arms all Night, their Apprehenfions of the Negroes not be- ing groundlefs; for many of them having lived a Jong Time in this pyratical Way, were, by the thin Commons they were now reduced to, as ripe for Mifchief as any. © -' "The Prifoner in his Defence faid, he wasa forced. Man from Captain Rolls, in O&ober laft, and if he had not fhewn fuch a Concern as became him, at the Alteration, he muft remark the Occafion ta be, the Difagreement and Enmity between them 5 but that both Roberts, and Val. Afbplant, threat’ned him into figning their Articles, and that he did it in Terror. gee The King Solomon, and Elizabeth Medicine-Cheft, he owns he plundered, by Order of Hunter, the then chief Surgeon, who, by the Pyrates Laws, always direéts in this Province, and Mr, Child, (tho” acquitted) had by the fame Orders taken: out a whole Fre#ch Medicine-Cheft, which he muft be fenfible for me, as well as for himfelf, we nei- ther of us dared to have denied; it was their being the proper Judges, made fo Sn bet A ene vik Re, ie 4 > ‘O ce aac 7h ‘i te CRU ELSU TY OVE U EE VALET ELE ree se. Say amobth ih Ca DIET ROY BI VEVIV TV OU SIV ET VOU EVOL EV OY Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. — 31% Office impofed. If after this he was elected chief Surgeon limtelf, both Comry and Wilfon were fet up alfo, and it might have been their Chance to ‘ havecarried it, and as much out of their Power to have refufed. : : Astothe‘Attempt of rifing and running away with the Prize, he denies it altogether as untrue 5 afew foolif Words, but only by Way of Suppo- fition, that if the Negroes fhould take it im their Heads (confidering the Weakne(s, and ill look-out that was kept; ) it would have been an ealy "Matter, in his Opinion for them to have done it 5 but that’ he encouraged fuch a Thing, was falfe, his talking to them inthe Angolan Language, was only a Way of fpending his ‘lime, and trying his Skill to tell twenty, he being incapable of fure ther Talk. As to his underftanding Navigation, he had frequently acknowledg’d it to the Deponent Child, and wonders he fhould now fo circumftan- tiate this Skill againft him. Guilty. ~ Robert Fohnfon. : T appeared to the Court, that the Prifoner was ] one of the twenty Men, in that Boat of. the Pyrates, which afterwards robb’d the King Solomon, at an Anchor near Cape Appollonia: That all Py- rates on this, and the like Service, were Volun- tiers, and he, in particular, had contefted his going - on Boarda fecond Time, tho’ out of his Turn. The Prifoner in his Defence, called for Harry Glasby, who witnetled to his being fo very drunk, - when he firft came among their Crew, that they were forced to hoift him out of one Ship into the other, with a Tackle, and therefore without his Confent ; but had fince been a trufty Man, and was placed to the Helm, in that running Battle they made with the Swallow. U4 Ph hs 312 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS: - He infifted for himfelf likewife, on Captain Ture ner’s Affidavit of his being forced, on which others (his Ship-mates) had been cleared. The Court confidering the Partiality that might be objected in acquitting one, and” condemning another of the fame ftanding, thonght fit to re- mark it as a clear Teftimony of their Integrity, that their Care and Indulgence to each Man, in allowing his particular Defence, was to exempt from the Rigour of the Law, fuch, who it muft be allowed, would have ftood too promifcuoufly con. demned, if they had not been heard upon any other Fad than that of the Swallow; and herein what could better direct them, than a Charatter and Behaviour from their own Affociates; for tho’ avoluntary Entry with the Pyrates may be doubt- ful, yet his confequent A€tions are not, and it is not fo material how a Man comes among Pyrates, as how he atts when he is there. Guilty. George Wiifen. OHN Sharp, Mafter of ‘the Elizabeth, in which Ship the Prifoner was Paffenger, and fella fecond ‘Time into the Pyrates Hands, depofes, that he took the faid Wilfon off from Seftos, on this Coaft, paying to the Negroes for his Ranfom, the Value of three Pound five Shillings in Goods, for which he had taken a Note, that he thought he had done | a charitable A& in this, till meeting with one Captain Canning, he was ask’d, why he would re- leafe fuch a Rogue as Wilfon was? Vor that he had been a Voluntier with the Pyrates, out of John Tarlton, And when the Deponent came to be a Pri« foner himfelf, he found Thomas, the Brother of this Sohn Tarlton, a Prifoner with the Pyrates alfo, who was immediately on Wilfon’s Inftigation, in a moft fad manner mifufed and beat, and had been - thot, through the Fury and Rage of fome * cies 35 ; ‘ss s HeNOWS§ ) i-_ eI Sescktobth bh: carcyy Shy e~s Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 313° Fellows, if the Fowne-fide, (i. e. Liverpool) Men, had not hid him in a Stay-Sail, under the Bowfprit 5 for Moody and Harper, with their Piftols cock’d, fearched every Corner of the Ship to find him,’ and came to this Deponent’s Hammock, whom they had like fatally to have miftaken for Tarlton, but on his calling out, they found their Error, and left him with this comfortable Anodyne, That he was the honeft Fellow who brought the Dottor. At coming away, the Prifoner asked about his Note, whether the Pyrates had it or no ? Who not being able readily to tell, he reply d, it’s no Mat- © ter Mr. Sharp, { believe I fhall hardly ever come to ay it. pi panera Surgeon of the Elizabeth, fays, that altho’ the Prifoner as on Account of his Indifpo- fition and Want, received many Civilities from him, before meeting with the Pyrates, he yet un- derftood it was thro’ his and Scudamore’s Means, that he had been compelled among them: The Pri- foner was very alert.and chearful, he fays, at meet- ing with Roberts, hailed him, told him he was glad to fee him, and would come on Board pre- fently, borrowing of the Deponent a clean Shirt and Drawers, for his better Appearence and Re~ ception ; he figned their Articles willingly, and ufed Arguments with him to do the fame, faying, they fhould make their Voyage in eight Months, to Brafil, Share.6 or 7oo l. a Man, and nee break up. Again, when the Crew came to an Election of a chief Surgeon, and this Deponent was fet up with the others, Wilfon told him, he hoped he fhould carry it from Scudamore, for that a quarter sue (which they had more than others ) id ocr worth looking after; but the Deponent mnilec the Preferment, by the good Will of the Ranger’s People, who, in general, voted for Scudamore, to Bet TSE VEV BL TVS V IV SY OU ELIOT V EVI V ELE OY CRUFLGLT VOUT VA VERDE EES eee yee, 314 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. rid of him, (the chief Surgeon being always to re- main with the Commadore.) It appeared likewife by the Evidence of Captain %o. Trahern, Tho. Caffel, and others, who had been taken by the Pyrates, and thence had Opportu- nities of obferving: the Prifoners Condutt, that he feem’d thoroughly fatisfy’d with that Way of Life, and was particularly intimate with Roberts ; they often {coffing at the Mention of a Man of War, and faying, if they fhould meet with any of the Turnip-Man’s Ships, they would blow up, and go to H——Il together. Yet fetting afide thefe filly Freaks, to recommend himfelf, his Lazinefs had got him many Enemies, even Roberts told him, (on the Complaint of a wounded Man, whom he had refufed to drefs) that he wasa double Rogue, to be there a fecond Time, and threat’ned to cut his Ears off. , ; The Evidence further affured the Court, from. Captain Thomas Tarlton, that the Prifoner was ta= ken out of his Brother’s Ship, fome Months be- fore, a firft Time, and being forward to oblige his new Company, had prefently ask’d for the Py- rates Boat, to fetch the Medicine Cheft away ; when the Windand Current proving too hard to contend with, they were drove on Shore at Cape Montzerado. ~The Prifoner called for William Darling, and Samu- el Morwel, (acquitted) and Nicholas Butler. William Darling depofed, the firft Time the Pri- ~ foner fell into their Hands, Roberts miftook him for Fo. Tarlton the Mafter, and being informed it was the - Surgeon who came to reprefent him, (them indif- pofed,) he prefently fwore he fhould be his Mefs- Mate, to which Wilfon reply’d, he hop’d not, he had: a Wife and Child, which the other laughed at ; and that he had been two Days on Board, before he s went ea \ ‘ Sehr ont yy BY ey TWLY IUSVOUSVIOVT VOVEVILT Vay" nn Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 315 “ywent in that Boat, which was drove on Shore at Cave Montzerado. And at his fecond coming, in he Elizabeth, he heard Roberts order he fhould be brought oi Board in the firft Boat. ek ‘Samuel Morwel fays, that he has heard him be- wwail his Coridition, while on Board the Pyrate, and defired one Thomas, to ufe his Intereft with Roberts, for a Difcharge, faying, his Employ, and the little Fortune he-had left at Home, would, he hop’d, éxempt him the further Trouble of feeking is Bread at Sea. tO8 bait 36 2 ihe Butler, who had remained with the Py- rates about 48 Hours, when they took the French Ships at Whydab, depofes, that im this Space the Prifoner-addretied him in the French Language, feve- ral Times, deploring the Wretchednefs and ill For- tuitie of being confined in fuch Company. The Prifoner defiring Liberty of two or three Queftions, ask’d, whether or no he had not expo- ‘ftulated with Roberts, for a Reafon of his obliging Surgeons to fign their Articles, when heretofore they did not ; Whether he had not exprefled him- felf glad of having formerly efcaped from them ? Whether he had not faid, at taking the Ships” in Whydab Road, that he could like the Sport, were it lawful? And whether if he had not told _ him, fhould the Company difcharge any Surgeon, that he would infift on it as’ his Turn? The Depo- nent anfwered, Yes, to every Queftion feparately 5 and farther, that he believes Scudamore had not feen Wilfon when he firft came and found him out of the izabeth. ‘ Phe added, in his own Defence, that being Surgeon with one Yoho Tarlton, of Leverpool, he was met a firft Time on this Coaft of Guiney, by Roberts the Pyrate; _ who, after a Day or two, told him, to his Sorrow, that he was to ftay there, and ordered him to fetch his Cheft, (not Medicines, as afferted,) which Op- portus- 316 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, portunity he took to make his Efcape; for the Boat’s Crew happening to confift of five Freich and one Englifh Man, all as willing as himfelf, they agreed to pufh the Boat on Shore, and truft them- felves with the Negroes of Cape A/ontzerailo: Hazar- dous, not only in Refpe& of the dangerous Seas that run there, but the Inhumanity of the Natives, who fometimes take a liking to humane Carcaffes. Here he remained five Months, till Thomas Tarlton Brother ta his Captain chanced to put in the Road for Trade, to whom he reprefented his Hardthips and ftarving Condition ; but was, in an unchriftian ‘Manner, both refufed a Releafe of this Captivity, or fo much as a {mall Supply of Biftuit and falt “Meat, becaufe, ashe {aid, he had been among the ‘Pyrates.. A Httle Time after this, the Mafter of a French Ship paid a Ranfom for him, and took him olf; but, by Reafon of a nafty leperous Indifpofi- tion he had contracted by hard and bad living, was, to his great Misfortune fet afhore at’ Seftos again, when Captain Sharp met him, and generoufly procured his Releafe in the Manner himfelf has related, and for which he ftands infinitely obli- ged.—T hat ill Luck threw him a fecond Time into the Pyrate’s Hands, in this Ship Elizabeth, where he met Thomas Tarlton, and thoughtlefly ufed fome Re- _ proaches of him, for his fevere Treatment at Afont- xerado but protefts without Defign his Words thould have had fo bad a Confequence; for Ro- berts took upon him, asa Difpenfer of Juttice, the | Correétion of Mr. Tarlton, beating him unmercifully ; and he hopes it will be belived, contrary to any Intention of his it fhould fo happen, becaufeas a Stranger he-might be fuppofed to have no Influ- ence, and believes there were fome other Motives for it.—- He cannot remember he expreffed him- felf glad:to fee Roberts this fecond Time, or that he dropped thofe Expreffions about Comry, as / a ~ cafioned him to flip y GRO EL TUS IV EV OV VIVE VOVUVSL EVO Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 317 ifimn i t had oc- 3) fimmaturity of Judgmen sea rafh and inadvertent Words, or that he had paid any undue Compliments to Roberts, it was to ingratiate himfelf, as every Pri- ‘ ba foner did, for a more civil Treatment, and in par- ? ticular to procure his Difcharge, which he had been ife i uld have been revo- promifed, and was afraid wo i erfon as Comry did not remain there Wieoig ie ares and Be this, he faid, all the Gentlemen (meaning the Pyrates) could witnefs pene alfo his Youth in Excufe for his Rafh- Msi firft time he had been with them (on- paeier all,) and that in no military Employ ; Lot in particular, the Service he had done in difco- sara ihe Defign the Pyrates had to rife ia their Pafflage on Board the Swallow. Guilty. i i i i {ure tion refpited till the King’s Plea coe weed he Commander of the Swallow Noti ived of this lared, the firft Notice he receive arr Sa Emits torife, was from him. t are {worn Benjamin Jefferys ae ¥ the Gexbfiticus of Glasby and Eillburn Saree B ted) againft this Prifoner, 1 appeared, t a & was what at firftdetained him from ‘Ship, the Norman Galley ; orning, for having been abufive in his feces a vat hs Pyrates, there was nota samt amongft them, he ere a oe & om every Perfonint » whi - pee him fon foi Weeks, but on oe was made Boatfwain’s Mate ; the ferving of which, or any Office on Board a Pyrate, 1s at “ = own Option, (tho’ elegted,) becaufe others are glad toac~ ‘eept what brings an additional Share in Prize. his Drunkennefs going away in his proper The LOU BLIGE VIL FV OU TL IVE VOVEV OLE VO _ “iy eT 7 ad a Capt. BARTHO, ROBERTS, Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 319 e Deponents further fay, that By ; : 3 Ship, called the King Solo- at S ‘ bery of the Company s 5H1p, © g see Dad more eipecialy the Means Hy iiseacs 3 ri Thac he bully’d A among pers ard 1s Prifoner, in particular, 1 oF 4 not make any Reply,.. but, was very ealy WHO. a came off from that Place after st cane Friends, who knew him ; for Moody, on this ein under Sail, and going outofthe River. iw fion, took a large Glafs from him, and threatne f Ate Prifoner, in his Defence, protefts, he was at to blow his Brains out, (a favourite Phrafe with rit fore’d; and that the Office of Boatlwaits Mate thefe Pyrates) if he muttered at it. it ie ’ was impofed on him, and what he would have bée From others acquitted, it likewife appeared, tha ee to have relinquifh’d. That. the rie a ao he was at firft a Voluntier among them, from ae woe ae had feeeived from the Pyrates at firft, [+ fland call’d’ Daminitte eae Welt iaeisie: aA ! eling them, that none wh : / te recommend himlelf, toldthem, he nied their Bread in an honett W who could get ars € War, and before that ; ; Rofe Man o ar, al aie Account. And he haa ay, would’ be on fach an ter. from the ich-Way ; he was always drunk : “tg ad certainly tak } an had been on the High-Way 5 he ee? funiey which prefented at Sierraleon, ee hey faid, and fo bad at the Time they met ae fee or four of the old Pi : Roemer -yapouring with his Cutlath, ait at the fame Time, who, he meee sega ee ihe ae Pad ftruck her Colours, to know who a him, and would doubtlefs have ferved him the | would ga-on Board the Prize; and it was ae fea Be not worfe, than they fince had done Ji7/ Time before they ce perfwade him into the 1am Williams; who, for fuch rated A th of their Condition. ° livered up by the eR He i Sa ee be eee od fay little in Defence of himfelf, - ace ceived two Lathes thro’ the whole Ship's ica e knowlede’d this latter Part of Drunkennefs 3, a Vice, The Court obferved, the Excufes of th ae se . he fays, that had too great a Share ininfnaring him rates, about want of Means to efcape was ae into this Courfe of Life, and had been a greater Mo- nee eh and evafive as their Pleas of being tive with him than Gold. Guilty. ed at frit; for here, at 5; wee 7 erie had_ his Liberty “on Shore, ea : Bea oe, William Davis. Te rere might have kept it, if he, or they, had {0 pleated’ | Wits, Ae depofed, he knew this Prifones And fuch are further culpable, who having ; ts ‘ V. at Sierraleon, belonging to the v7 Ma ot introduced into the Society, by Gach mentee ie that he had a Quarrel with, and beat: the pe of thods, as whipping, or beating, neglett lefs lik I 7 that Ship, for which (as he faid) peas a me Means of regaining Liberty; ic fhews ftron as return to his Duty, he conforted to ae idle Cu- clinations to Difhonefty and they ftand i ee 2 ftoms and Ways of living among the eRe fably, Guilty. o: Gye cbr is ait ‘from whom he received a Wile, and ungratefully So. Mansfield, es fold her, one Evening, for fome Punch ean : Tr was proved againft this Prifoner, by Captain his Thirft. After this, having es bin a “gt no " Trahern and George Fenn, that ees y tr Soe the Proteétion- of Mr. Plunket, Paee eet ions! and t ofe Voluntiers who was at the Attack and ae the Royal African Company : Eriends ery : ~s..Prifoner, (as Seignior Yofte affured the Deponent ae 320 Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. Wriends of the Woman, apply’d to him for Re- drefs, who immediately furrendeted the Prifoner, and told them, he did not care if they took his Head off; but the Negroes wifely judging it would not fetch fo good a Price, they fold him in his Turn again to Seignior Soffee, a Chriftian Black, and Native of that Place; who expected and agreed for two Years Service from him, on Confideration of what he had disburfed, for the Redemption of the Woman : But long before the Expiration of this Time, Roberts came into’ Sierraleon River, where the- * ‘ - a 2, entered a Voluntier with them. : The Deponent further corroborates this Part of the Evidence; in that he being obliged to calf at Cape Mount, in his Paffage down hither, met there with two Deferters from Roberts’s Ship, who aflured him of the {ame ; and that the Pyrates did defign to turn Davis away the next Opportunity, as an idle good-for-nothing Fellow. Capte: BARTHO« ROBERTS. “328 two Deferters,; met at,Cape Afount, and the dif- cretional Manner they lived. in, at Sierraleon 5. thro? how little: Difficulty feveral of them did, and others might, have cieaped afterwards, if they could but have obtained their own Confents for it: Guilty. « This is thie Subianee of _the Tryals.of Roberts's Crew, which may fuffice for others, that. occcur in this Book. The foregoing Litts, fhews,. by a* be- fore the Names, who were condemn’d; .thofe Names with a -}.wete»referred for Tryal to the Marfhalfea, and all the reft were acquitted. The following Pyrates. were executed, according to ~ their Sentence, without the Gates of Cape Cor/o- Cofile, within the Flood~Marks, viz... hiv Mens.Names. Yearsof. Habitation, From Glasby and Lilburn, it was evident, that. every Pyrate, while they ftay’d at Sierraleon, went on Shore at Difcretion. That Roberts had often aflured Mr. Glya and other Traders, at that Place, that he would force no Body ;' and in fhort, there was no Occafion for.it 5 in particular, the Prifoner’s Row-Mate went away, and thinks, he might have done the fame, if he had pleafed: The Prifoner alledged his having been detained againft his Will, and fays, that returning with Ele- ' phants Teeth for Sierraleon, the Pyrate’s Boat pur- fued and brought him on Board, where he was kept on Account of his underftanding the Pilotage and Navigation of that River. - It was obvious to the Court, not only how fri- volous Excufes of Conftraint and Force were among thefe People, at their firft commencing Py- Kates, but alfo it was plain to them, from thefe two / ‘ nuh oe tglkdsant William Magnes BS AMincheade eo Richard Hardy 25 Wales. - Ted is ' David Sympfon » 36 North-Berwick. «> Chriftopher Adoody olen sh cr er we Thomas Sutton... 23 Berwick. Valentine Afhplant 132. Adinories. Peter de Vines - 42% SLOPE. > William Philips...) 29 Lower-Shadmell. Philip Bill aq Ste Thomas? so... William Main Te Se nike, 5 William Mackintofh, 21 Canterbury. wo. William Williams. ...40 nigh Plymouth. Robert Haws 34 Yarmouth. 565) William Petty ©... 30 Deptfora. aa Sohn Faynfon 22 nigh Laacafter). ° © Marcus Fohnfon 21 Smyrna. Robert Crom 44. Mleof Man. ie Michacl Maer < | 4t Ghent . “i edt. 5 x Daniel i. | Robert Birtfor | Richard Harris? . J cK. ; 7 - F gaz Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS.» Daniel Harding 26 ~ Croomsbury. in Souserfet hire. William Fernon 22° Somerfetfhires) - 5fo. More” » lpg Ader in Wiltfhires brabam Flarper = 23 Briftole aig So. Parker =| | 2 Winfred in Dovfeehive. Fo. Philips — 23 Alloway in Scotland. Fames Clement 20. Serfey. Peter Scudamore 133 ¢0° Broffobs 55.9653 “es Sames Shyrie Ogg Wales. 953 BIUI s Sola Walder Wii: ~hu4 24. Somerfetfhire. é 209 i Fo. Stephenfow = 40 Whaby, I". 9 Go. Mansfield ~~ °' 30° ‘Orkneys. ° dtw 2s ov. Tfrael Hynde’ < Beg 530° Briffels > brs sslinstehs Peter Lefley 21 Aberdeen. Charles Bunce © °° 26 Extterov 28" Hot sa 30 Other St.Adaries Devonfhire. gs Cornwall. 0 AYRES fey Nofier 26 Sadburyin Devonfhire. William Willians’° 30 Speechlefs at Execution. Age Facobfou = = 30 Folland. : a7 Benjamin Fefferys 2" Briftol. SAM thant Cuthbert Gofs 28 Topfam. OS Salm Seip 20 Plymowhe Edward Watts — 22) Dunmore. S0OAe Thomas Giles V6 Minehead. SVe0 SOs Willian Wood — 82275 Tork. | SS Thomas Armftrong 34 London,executedon board se: SC othe Weymsoutl, Robert Fohnfow’ °° 32 atWhydab. * : George Smith R28 a Wallthase ®t eae William Watts 23, Ireland. Be Ses Fames Philips = 35, Atego. Sfuba Coleman “aq Wales. Robert Hays 20 Liverpool. William Davis 23 Wales. - The Remainder of the Pyrates, whofe Names ate under mentioned, upon their humble‘ Petition ai ae So ee the Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 323 theCourt, had their Sentence changed trom Death) to feven Years Servitude, conformable to our Sen« tence of Tranfportation’, the Petition is as follows. ° To the Honourable the Prefident and Fudges of the Court of Admiralty, for trying of Pyrates, fitting at Cape Corfo-Caftle. the 20rh Day of” April, 1722. , The humble Petition of Thomas How, Samuel fi Oo p =) “Fletcher, &c. 26 -wincittsl , Humbly thewethy 9) 9) yy + [ \EFAT your Petitioners being unhappily, and ‘untpari- ly drawn into that wretched and deteftable Crime of Pyracy, for which they now ftand juftly condemned, they most humbly pray the Clemency of the Court, in the Miti- i their Sentence, that they may be permitted to ervethe Royal African Company of England, in this Country for feven Years, in fuch a Manner as the Court Shall think proper; that by their jult Punifbment, being made fenfible of the Error of their former Ways, they wild for the future become faithful Subjetts, good Servants, and ufeful in their Stations, if it pleafe the Almight Bs long their Lives. nn § : 3 fhe SEN ai - And yout Petitioners, as in Duty, ce. ‘ts The Refolution af the Court was, HAT the Petitioners have Leave by this Court of Ad= ’ miralty, to interchange Indentures with the Captain General of the Gold Coaft, for the Royal African Com- pany, for feven Years Servitude, at any of the Royal-Afri+ can Company's Settlements in Aftica, in fuch Manner as he the faid Captain General fhall think proper. On Thurfday the 26th Day of April, the Tndentures being all drawn out, according to the Grant made to the oe | Petitin Zag Capt’ BARTHO. ROBERTS. Petitioners, by the Court held on: Friday. the 20th of this Inflant, each Prifoner teas fent for up, figned, fealed:and: excchanged thems inthe Prefence of Ta Bad Captain Mungo Herdman, Prefident, > cg, James Phipps, B/G. ot sy ot Avg ONS Sy Edwald Hyde ae Qn pac “fr, Charles Fanfhaw, > * AL SO5 SS And Aye John Atkins, Regier. oti ingA A Copy of the Indenture. sting) “ISR. flo distet sldmad ed T The Indenture of a Perfon. condemned to ferve abroad for Pyracy, which, upon the humble Petition of the Pyrates therein mentioned, was _moft mercifully granted|by:his Imperial Majefty’s Commiffioners and Judges appointed, to, hold'a Court of Admiralty, for the Tryal .of Pyrates, at Cape Corfo-Caftle, 1m Africa, upon Condition of, ferving feven Years, and other Conditions, areas. . follows, viz. Imesh. st-98 HIS Indenture made the. twenty fixth Day of April, Anno Regni Regis Georgii magne Britanniz,, Gc. Septimo, Domini, Milleffimo, Sepcenteffimo - viginti duo, between Roger Scot, late, of the. Ciy of. Briftol Mariner, of the one Part, and the Royal African Company of England, their Captain General and Com- mander in Chief, for the Time being, on the other Part, Witneffeth, that the faid Roget Scot, dothi hereby ca- wenant, and agree to, and with, the faid Royal African Company, their Captain General, and. Commanier in. chief _ for the Time being, to ferve him, or his lawful. Succeffars, in any of the Royal African : Company's Settlements. on the Coat of Africa, from the Day of the Date of thefe Prefents, to the full Term of fever Years, from. hence next enfuing, fully to be compleat and ended ;. there to ferve it fuch Employment, as the [aid Captain General, or his Suc- soe coffers, “Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. °325 ceffors fhall employ him according to theCuftoms of the Coun- tryin like Kinde SD ios. 8 “In Confideration whereof, the faid Captain General, and “Commander in chief doth covenant and agree, to, and with, ‘the faid Roger Scot, to find-and allow him Meat, Drinks “Apparel and Lodging, according to the Cuftom of the Country. In witnefs whereof, the Parties aforefaid, to thefe Pre- feats, have interchan ably put their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first above written. Fe ofa rest ts Signed, fealed and delivered, in the Prefence of us, at “Cape Corfo-Caftle, in Aftica, where no ftamp’d “! Paper was # be had. fi Salas ©* Mungo Heardman, Prefident, 2 yy7-8 ; John Atkins, Regifter, $Witnelfes. Tn: like Manner: was drawn out and exchanged the Indentures of Hemas How of Barnftable, in the County of Devon,

-siads:. I6 Hugh Harris of Corf-Caftle, Devonfhires 9 William Taylor of Briffole = 8. oe Thomas Owen Of Briffoiric ocak tot Sob Mitchel of Shadwell Parith, London. © ; ~Fafhua Lee of Leverpoolis S8et8 FT! William Shuren of Wapping Parith, Londen. Robert: Hartley of Lever pool. is $45 Sole Griffin of Blackwall, Middlefex. Fémes Cromby Of London, Wapping. — bs Fames Greenbam Ot. Marfhfield, Gloucefterflive. John Horn Of St. Fames's Parith, London... Sohn Feffop of Wisbich, Cambridgbires ) — \David Rive of Brito.» seh 3K LO TUCH GY fem et bine None 326 © Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS, “None of which, 1 hear, are now livi ee Others, viz. George Wilfon and Thomas Dunne were refpited from Execution, till his Majefty’s Pleafure fhould be known ;. the former. dy’d a« ure ane ae pass came Home, and: received is Majefty’s. Pardon; the. Acc ae res aecount of the whole Acquitted, = ice Csuipistionset soma 14) Executed, ES Refpited, ... Suharto ee 52. To Servitude, a ee 2 To the Aarfhalfea, a ‘ed 2$ an the Rateers itcanth daar ae ait r Billiderg i fe Pore 399 ae 7 in the Paffageto Cape Curfo, ~ Dy’d Baftemscsladacns Caftle, Bee 5 cee ¥ Negroes in both Ships, .: .,.. ” sis ia Total, 276 1 am not: ignorant how acceptable the Behav; and dying Words of Mislefetbanssene tn wrath EUG) me ae SOUR taats and therefore fhail de. liver what occurr’d, wo ice, i a ee 3 Ree steer oe ea . eae 1e firft fix that were. called: to Execution; were Magnes, Moody, Sympfan, Sutton, Apter: eid Hardy, all of them old Standers. and notorious Of- fenders : When they were brought out of the Hold, on the Parade, in order to\break off their Fet. ters, and fit the Halters ;.noneiof them, it was obferved, appeared the leaft dejected, unlefs. Sut ton, who {poke faint, but it, was rather imputed rs a Flux that had f{eiz’d him two.or three Days. e fore, than Fear... A Gentleman, who was Sakecti . of the Ship, was fo charitable at'this Time, to of. fer himfelf in the room of an Ordinary and repre fentedtothem, as well as he was able, the Heinoufnets of their Sin, and Neceffity which lay on them of Re» pentance Sibi pe yatrr as ~ € was that to him, they fuffered the Law, and fhould PT TOV BTV EV IV EVO USL IVE VEU EVE EV OY Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 327 péntance ; one particular Part of which ought to be, acknowledging the Juftice they had met with. They feem’d heedlefs for the prefent, fome calling for Water to drink, and others applying to the Soldiers for Caps, but. when this Gentleman prefs’d them for an Anfwer, they all exclaim’d againft the Severity of the Court, and» were fo harden’d, as to curfe, and wifh the fame Juftice might overtake all the Members of it, as had been dealt to them. They were poor Rogues, they faid, and fo hang’d, while: others, no lefs guilty in anozher Way, “ When he endeavoured to compofe their Minds, exhorting them to dye in Charity with ‘all the World, and. would shave diverted them from fuch vain Difcourfe, by asking them their Country, Age, andthe like; fome of them anfwered, * What © give no Account but to God; walking to theGal- lows without a Tear, in Token of Sorrow for their paft Offences, or, fhewing as much Concern as a Man would exprefs at travelling a bad Road ; nay, Sympfon, at feeing a Woman that he knew, faid, © he had lain with that B—h three times, and now © fhe was come to fee him hang’d.’ And Hardy, when his Hands were ty’d behind him; (which happened from their not being acquainted with the Way of bringing Malefaétors. to: Execution, ) ob- ferved, ‘that he had feen many a.Man hang’d, but © this Way of the Hands being ty’d behind them, he € was a Stranger to, and never faw before in his € Life.? 1 mention thefe. two little Inftances, to fhew how ftupid and thoughtlefS they were of their End, and that the:fame abandoned and re- probate Temper that had carried them thro’ their Rogueries, abided with them to, the laft. Samuel Fletcher, another of the Pyrates ordered for Execution; but reprieved, feem’d to have a “ft X 4 quicker 323 Capt. BARTHOY ROBERTS) quicker Senfe of his Condition for when ‘he‘aw thofe he was allotted with gone to Execution, helfent a Metfage by the Provoft-Marthal to the Court; to be “ inform’d of the Meaning of it, and humbly defir’d © to know whether they defign’d hini Meréy,or not? < If they did, he ftood infinitely oblig*d:to.them, and * thought the whole Serviceof his Life anincompe- * tent Return for {0 great a Favour gi but that ifthe * was to fuffer, the fooner the ‘better; he faid, thai * he might be out of his Pain: ech. ,arsdd-or-slegh _. There weresothers: of thefe-Pyrates\thehreverfe of this, and tho deftitute of Minifters, or fit Pers fons to reprefent theiroSinsy: and: affift them’ with _ Apiritual Advice, were yet’ always imploying their ‘Time to good Purpotes, and behaved: with a great deal of feeming Devotion land Penitence)s\ among thefé may be reckon’d Scudamore, William, Phil ps Stephenfin, Fefferys, Lefly, Harper, ‘Armfirong, Buuce, and etfiers!}02 2aiilew " :boo.o4 aud 210994 On syjie? Scudamore too lately difverned. the Folly » and Wickednefs of the Entetprize, that had «chiefly brought him undér Seritence of Death, from which; feeing there ‘was’ no ‘Hopes’ of efcaping;::he: petitis oned for two or three Days: Reptieye;‘awhich was granted 5 and for that Time apply’d himfele :in2 ceffantly: to Prayer, and reading the! Scriptures, / feem'd to have'a deep Senfe of his.Sinsjof this in pare ticular, and defired, at the Gallows; they: would have. Patience with him, to fing the fir Part of _ the thirty fir Pfalmvyowhich’ heldia ‘by himfelf throughouts! wit isvsa be; OP MSSORTICS & epee? < Armftrong, having beena Deferter from his: Mae jefty’s Service, “was executed on ‘Board: the Wee mouth, (and the oly one’ that’ was) there: was no Body to prefs him to. an Acknow ledgement of the Crime he died fut, norof forrowmg. in particular for it, which would’ have been. exemplary,).and made faitable Imprefion’:on: ee aati tors Capt. BARTHO. ROBERTS. 289 Jaft Hour was fpefit in page is bewailing Ai ins,in genexal, exhorting the Spettators to an ho- pba ye a in which alone they could find Satisfa&tion. In the End, he defir’d they would join with him in finging two or three latter Verfés of the 140th Pfalm 3 and that being concluded, he was, at the firing of a Gun, tric’d up at the Fore-Yard-Arm. Bunce was a young Man, not above 26 Years old, but made the moft pathetical Speech of any at the Gallows... He firft declaim’d againft the guilded Bates of Power, Liberty, and/Wealth, that had enfnar’d him among the Pyrates, his unexperiéne’d Years not being able to withftand the Tenptation ; but that the Brisknefs he had fhewn, which {0 fa- tally had procured him Favour amongft them, was not fo much a Fault in Principle, as the Livelinefs and Vivacity of «his Nature. i He ‘was now ext treamly afflt&ted for the Injuries he had done to all Men, and begg’d their’siand God’s Forgivenefs very earnettly exhorting the Spectators to remem- ’ ber their Creator in their Youth, and ‘guard be-~ timés, that theit Minds took. not a wrong Byats, concluding with this apt Similitude, That he! frood there as a Beacén-upon a Rock, (the Gallows ftanding'on One) to warn erring AMarriners of Danger. SAW tee ie Db vorinite yaa g8° yt CHa PR x pm ip ee And his Crew. Captain AN STIS, | in the Year 1718, aboard the Buck Sloop; r [ YHOMAS Anflisthip'’d himlelf at Providence | 3} and was one of fix that confpired together | to gooffa pyrating with the Veffel, the’ reft were, | Howel Davis,. Roberts's Predeceffor, killed at the Mand of Princes; Dennis Topping, killed at the taking of the rich Portuguefe Ship on the Coaft of Brafill; | anged at Execution-Dock, andtwo | Walter Kennedy, others, which I forbear to name, becaufe, I under- ftand they are at this Day employ’d in an honeft Vocation in the City. What followed concerning Anffis’s Pyracies, has been included in the two preceeding Chapters; I fhall only obferve that the Combination of thefe fix Men abovementioned, was the Beginning of that Company, that afterwards proved fo formidable under Captain Roberts, from whom Anftis feparated the 18th of April 1721, in the Good Fortune Bri- gantine, leaving his Commadore to purfue his Ad- ventures upon the Coatt of Guiney, whilft he re- turned to the W’eff- Indies, upon the like hat out | DECOR SECIS | Of Capt. THO. ANSTIS. 31 About the Middle of Sune, thefe Pyrates met with one Captain Afarfton, between Hifpaniola and Jamaica, bound on a Voyage to New-York; from whom they took all the wearing Apparel they could find, as alfo -his. Liquors and Provifion, and five of his Men, but did not touch his Cargo; two or three other Velffels were alfo plundered by them, 4n this Cruife, out.,of whom they ftocked them- felves with Provifion and Men; among the reft, Athink, was the Jswin, Captain Rofs, from Cork in Ireland; but this I won’t be pofitive of, becaufe they denied it themfelves. This Ship had 600 Barrels of. Beef aboard, befides. other Provifions, and was-taken: off Jartinico, wherein Colonel \ Doyly of Montferrat, and his Family were Paffengers. -The Colonel was very much abufed and wounded, ‘for endeavouring to. fave a poor Woman, that was alfo.a Paffenger, from the Infults, of that brutith Crew; and the Pyrates prevailing, twenty one of them forced the poor Creature fucceffively, afterwards broke her Back and flung her into the Sea. I fay, I will not be pofitive it, was Anjtis’s Crew that ated this unheard of Violence and Cruelty, tho’ the Circumitances of the Place, the -.Time, the Force of the Veffel, and the Number of Men, doall concur, and I can place, the Villany no where elfe; but that fuch a Fatt was done, there as too much Evidence for it to be doubted of |. Whea they thought fit to put an End to this Cruize, they went into one of the Iflands to clean, which they effected without any Difturbance, and came out again, and ftretching away towards Bur- riudas, met with a ftout Ship, called the Moruing Star, bound from. Guiney to Carolina, they made Prize of her, and kept her for their own Ufe. In a Day or two,.aShip from Barbadoes bound to New- Jork, fell into their Hands, and taking out her ns in “s is an ¥ 332 “Of Cap. THO. ANSTIS. ‘and Tackle, ‘mounted ‘the Adorning Star with 32 ‘Pieces of Canron, mann'd her witha 100 Men, ‘and appointed ‘one oha Fenn Captain’; for the Bri- ‘gantine being of far'lefs Force, ‘the Aforning Star ‘would have’ fallen’ to Anftis, as ‘elder .Officer, yet ‘he was fo in Love with his own’ Velfel, (the being can excellent Sailot}) that’he made it ‘his Choice “to-ftay inher, ‘and lét- Féanp who was; before; his *Gunner, Command the ‘great'Ships) |) 5 #0) | Now, that they had two goodShips wellmann’d, ‘it may be. fuppoféd they ‘were in-a Condition to ‘undertake fomething bold: But’ their Governiment «was: difturbed’ by’ Malecontents,; and a Kingdom ‘divided within it felt cannot ftaids they had fuch ‘a Number of new Men amongft them, that’ feem’d ‘hot fo violently enclined for the: Game ; that-what- ever the Captain propofed; it wasicertainly carried againft him, fo that they cante to’ no fix’d Refolution “for the undertaking any Enterptize; therefore ‘there was nothing to be done; but’ to break up the ‘Company, which feemed to be: the’ liclination ‘of ‘the Majority, but the Manner of doing fo, ¢on- ‘cerned their common Safety’ to which Purpofe “various Means were’ propofed, at length it wa’ ‘concluded to fend home a Petition to his Majefty ‘(there being then''no A&’ of Indemnity’ in’ Force) “fora Pardon, ‘and wait the fue; atthe Gavedis oue Fores, Boatfwain of thé Good Fortune, propoted a Hoe “Of fake Retreuestebuiae bait Cail bited Afand near Cybz, which he had beenufed to iii''the ate War, ‘When he wenta privateerinig againt the Spaniards, Wh As MOST DB CURLS 70. S163 “This being’ approved “of +i was” unanimoufl tefblyed'on,“and the underwritten Petition! drawn ‘up and figiled by the whole“Cémpany in the “Maii- tet -of What they call @Round Robin; that is;the “Names were writin a Circle; ‘to avoid all Appear- bas ange SES dua, YPVIV EL TUE VI SY OUSV OUT VEU YY aS BS Of Capt.. THO, ANSTIS. ance of Pre-emninence, and Jeaft any Perfon thould\ be:mark’d out, by: the| Government, asa principals Rogue among therty'(igh\ sa we\isn Cos SS Secannek To Bis mof facre Majfly George, by the “and “Trelatid, King, Defender. of. the, ‘5 Paithy &6. k ecto Ghee Bote a One a fans conor wot Mons 738) SES HOST WSAT elses hs Gg eas a ae does pal YY Phew Jor “2 The homble PETITION of the Company, Tt Yow belonging to the Ship Adorning Stary _ and Brigantine. Goed , Fortuze, lying under “°° ‘the: ignominious Name and Denomination, =H Dorey RATES) 354) uO) baxioupaitils arte aSies. Pa > Hambly dheweil ‘ aigiinod- ££ 63 31 TAO? = re we your, Majelty’s moft loyal Subjeths, have, ne 1B ey amen bse taken by Bartholomew. Roberts, the then Captain. of the abode aid Veffels “nid: Companys together. with another Ship, vin shich ‘we: left’ him; and have been forced by him, andvlis wicked Ac- complices, to enter intoy and ferue,.in the. Said Conipany,y as, Pyratesy much contrary, to vorer Wills and Taclinations : And me your loyal Subjetts utterly abbaring and detefhing: that impious way, of: Livingy did) “with an wnaninsous’ Confent, and contrary to the ‘Knowledge: of the faid: Ro-' _berts; or his' Aecomplices, on, or about ‘the 18th Day ‘of April 17215 leaves and ran away with the’ aforesaid eat A Sear, and Brigantine Good Fortune) mith no other Intent.and. Meaning than the Hopes of: ob taining your Majefty’s moft gracious Pardon. And; thar we your Majefty's moft loyal Subjetts, may with more Safery return to our native Countzy,. and. ferve the Nation, unto which we belong, in our refpective Capacities, with= out Fear of being profecuted by the Injured, whofe E, 3 have Bn Capts To. ANSYT9, ave fuffered by the faid Roberts and his - ie mt Dede Detainment, by ied conga We umbly implore refty’s moft ri Affent,, to this our isn Position geet Segoe ad _And your Petitioners fhall ever pray. This Petition w ers Oe ae Ship bound to England fent home by a Merchant from Famai i > England, fro maica, Who promi- a to {peak with the Petitioriers, in their Rainn about 20 Leagues to Windward of th fe at. Ti; and let them know what Succefs their Pea S was done, the Pyrates re. fore propofed, with’ the Ship lave no Name for) jj the Southweft End of Cuba, Ghukabiedaey te tle frequented. On the Eaft End is a Lagune, fo pee that a Ship can but juft go in, tho’ there’ pce ‘ st c = pdr for almoft a League See ides of the Lagune grows red Mancrova’ Trees, very thick, that the E eka fy , , ntrance of it c = the Vellels laying there, is hardly eb "as fea ; n the Middle of the Ifland are here and there e feattered about:in different Plac es. : va bee 9 about nine Months, ving Provifion for above two, they were { ( Fon Bo ies Ifland ‘afforded, Whit ae Mee orts, particularly Turtle, which , was the chiefeft Food they lived on, aha reas ane s great Plenty on the Coafts of this Ifland : whe-: ther there might be any wild Hogs, Beef, or other Cattle, common to feveral IMlands of the We Indies, or that the Pyrates were too idle ta hunt them ort > or! whether they preferr’d other Prov; I ifions tot of Diet, I know not; but I was Jefe ert that for the whole Ti raRane ; me they eat not a Bit of any" kind of Flefh-Meat, nor Bread; the lateel as fupply’d Aah cere Pie oe. — LVI GY BL FV EV IV FV OUSV IVT VEUY YR SVEN" Of Capt. THOLANSTIS. 385 fupply’d by Rice, of which they had a great Quan- tity aboard: This was boyd: and {queez?d dry, and fo eat with the Turtle. nia si Sil ‘There are three or four Sorts of thefe Creatures inthe Weft-Indies, the largeft of which will weigh 150 or 200 Pound Weight or more, but thof that were found upon this Ifland were. of the {malleft Kind, weighing 10 or 12 Pounds‘each, with a fine hatural wrought Shell, and beautifully clouded; the Meat feet and-tender, fome Part of it eating like Chicken, fome like Veal, Gc. fo.that it was no ex- traordinary Hardfhip for them to live upon this -Prowifion alone, fince it) affords variety of Meats to the Yafte, of it felf. The manner of catching this Fith is very particular; you muft underftand, that in the Months of Aa, Fuse and July, they lay their. Eggs in order to hatch their Young, and this three times in a Seafon, which is always in the Sand of the Sea-fhore, each laying 80 or 90 Eggs ata time. The Male accompanies the Female, and come. afhore in the Night only, when they muft be awatch’d, without making any Noife, or having a Light; as foon as they land, the Men that watch “for them, turn them on their Backs, then haul therm above high Water Mark, and leave them till next Morning, where they are {ure to find them, for they can’t turn again, nor move from the Place. Itis.to be obferv’d, that befides their Jaying time, they come afhore to feed, but then what’s very remarka= ble in thefe Creatures, they always relort to dif ferent Places to breed, leaving their ufual Haunts for. two or three Months, and’tis thought they eat nothing in all that Seafon. » They pafs’d their Time here in Dancing, and o- ther Taare agreeable to thefe fort ot Folks 5 and among the reft, they appointed a Mock Court of Judicature to try one another for Pyracy, andhe that was Criminal one Day was made Judge sie ye L a 396 ‘Of Capt.. THO. ANSTTIS,. ‘ Thad an: Account given mé of. one of thefé’ merry Pryals,:and as it. appeared: divertiiig; Ifhall give the Readers a fhort Account ofiti: ') -., ae °° The Court and Criminals being. both appointed, as alfo Council'to-plead, the Judge got up ina Tree, and had‘a dirty: aurpaulin hung ovér his Shoul- ders 5°’ this was-done | by Way of:Robe, ‘witha m, Thrum Capon his'Head, anda large Pair of Spel &acles upon hisNofex! Thus! equipp’dj he fettled himfelf in his Places! and abundance of “Officers at. tending him below,’ with Crows, Handfpikes, ce) inftead of Wanks; ‘Tipflaves, arid'fuch like. —s=The Criminals were: brought: out; making a thoufand four! Faces sand one who atted as Attorney-Géneral opened the Charge againft. them: ‘their Speéchés were very lacowick;. and. \théir whole’ Proceedings concife. We thal give it by Way- of Dialogue...» ~\Attorn. Gen. An’t pleate your «Lordthip, and-you Gentlemen of the Jury, here isa Fellow. before you thatvisia fad-Dog, afad fad Dog';and T humbly hope your Lordfhip’ will order hit -to be hang’d Out of the Way inimediately.. 4 Hé has commit ted Pyracy upon the High Seas,’ and.we thall -prove, an’t pleafe: your: Lordship, that-this Fellow, ‘this fad. Dog before you, ‘has efcap’d athoufand Storms, nay} has. got fafe ‘afhore when the Ship has beemcaft away,‘ which was acertain Sigwhe was not born-to be'drown’d ; yet notihaving the Fear of hanging bet fore‘his Byes, ‘he!went on: tobbing»and ravishing Man, Woman and:Child, plundering Ships Cargoes fore and aft, burning and finking Ship, Bark and Boat, as if the Devil had been imhim. - But) this is not all, my Lord, he has committed worfe Vile Janies than all thefe, for we thall prove, that he has been guilty of “drinking Small:Beer 5 and{ your _Lordthip knows, ‘there never was.a fobéer Fellow ‘but what was'a Rogue. My Lord, I fhould: have {poke much finer'than Ido now,:but that, as your Esti Lordthip } Of Capt: THOs ANSTIS. Lordfhip knows our Rum is all out, and how fhou 37, d ink a Dram. k good Law that has not drank a a T lope, your Lordfhip will order the : v to be hang’d. i ra Heakes me, Sirrah, ittiful, ill-look’d Dog ; i : spice be tuck’d up immediately, and or not guilty s ~ Prifs Not guilty, ; . Not guilty ! fay he als see without any ba yal. Prif, Amt pleafe your Worthip’s Lord, Iam as hone tween Stem and Stern 0 an’t pleafe your Worhhip. fo again, Sirrah, Honour, vent be- ft a poor Fellow as ever wen 3 oe Ship, and can hand, you loufy, what have you to fay why feta Sun-drying like a Scare-crow ?—= Are you guilty, : and my reef, fteer, and.clap two Ends of a Rope together, as well > as eer a He that ever crofs >d fale Water; but I was taken by one George Bradley [the Name of him that {at.as Judge, a notorious Pyrate, a fad Rogue vo ‘as ever was unhang’d, and he forc’d me, an’t pleale your Honour. Fudge. Aviwer me, Sitrah, ——~ How will you Bestry’de tes oy : . “Pile Bis Gea aane my Coun ry. ifs hee The Devil you will_—Why then, tlemen of the Jury, It ‘but to proceed to Judgment. ©. Attor. Gen. Right, 7 mit ild be fuffer’d’ to {pe ed ae an Affront to the Court. -Prif, Pray, my Lord, } fider ———— : igaes Confider ! —H Aidering ?)— Sirrah, Sirral all my Life. ——l'll make : “) Prif. But, hope, your Lo Reafoneir ai bir ies at Geu- hink we have nothing to do d; for af the Fellow k, he may clear himfelf,, hope your Lordthip will dare yau talk of con- a Saevr confider’d ia t Treafon to confider, _ dfhip will hear fome Fudge. NY a S NWA DUR BU Be GE Er ea RU LOEB IVE VIL TV OU SL EVE VOUT PEve ! ‘the Hand. The next Day Captain Anji put in, 338 «Of Capt. Tité: ANsTis, __ Gadge. Dye hear how the Scoundrel prates = What have we to do with Reifon?2-1'd have you to know, Raskal, we don’t fit here to ear Rea- fon , —— we go according to Law.——l$ our Dinner ~ Attor. Gen. Yes, my Word. 0? iv tiacig Sudge. Then heark’ee, you Raskal at ‘the Bar hear me, Sirrah, hear me. —~= You muft fuffer, for three Reafons; firit, becaufe it is not fit I fhould fit here as Judge, and no Body be hatig’d.-— Secondly, you muft be hang’d, bécaufle you have a dami’d hanging Look : ——~ And thirdly, you mui be hang’d, becaufe 1 am hutgry's for ‘know, ‘Sir- yah, that ’tis a Cuftom, ‘that whenever the Judge's Dinner is ready before the Tryal is over, the Pri- fener is to be hang’d of Courfe. — —There’s Law for you, ye Dog.——So take him away Goaler. ~ _. This is the Tryal juft as ic was related tome’ ‘the Defign of my fetting’ it dows, ‘is only to thew how, thefe Fellows can jeft upon Things; the Fear ‘and Dread of which, fhould make them tremble. _ The beginning of August 1722, the Pyrates made ready the Brigantine, and came'out~to Sea, arid bea- ‘ting up to Windward; lay ‘in the Track for their ‘Correfpondant in her Voyage to'fumaies, and fpoke with her ;_ but finding nothing was done in England iu their Favour, as’twas éxpettéd, they return’d to ‘their Conforts at the Ifland with’ the ill News, and found themfelves under‘a Neceffity, ‘as they fan- ‘cied, to continue that abominable'Courfe of Life they had lately prattis’d; in order thereto, they fail'd with the Ship and Brigantine to. the South- “ward, and the next Night, by intolerable Neglect, they run the Morning Star upon the Grind Cximanes, ‘and wreck’d her; the Brigantine feeiia the Fate of her Confort, halPd off in Time, and fo weather’d and, en My e. Shopctee "hs Y IVE VIE EY OVS VOUT VOVUV GL EVO RNG SIA BS ALA: BS NAS BO BN) KA Ste p~® SRAGRP Of Capt. THO. ANSTIS. 339° and found that all, or the greateft part of the Crew, were fafe afhore, whereupon fhe came to an An- chor, in order to. fetch them off, and having» brought Fenn the Gaptain, Philips the Carpenter, and afew others aboard, two Men of War came down upon them, wiz. the Hettor and Adventure, fo that the Brigantine had but juft Time to cut their Can ble, and get to Sea, with one of the Men of War af- ter her, keeping within Gun-fhot for feveral Hourss, Anftis and his Crew were now under the greateft Confternation imaginable, find'ng the Gale frefhen, and the Man of War gaining Ground upon them, fo that, in all Probability, they muft have been Prifoners in two Hours more; but it pleafed God to give them a little longer Time, the Wind dying, away, the Pyrates got out their Oars, and row d for their Lives, and thereby got clear of their Enemy. ~The Hétor landed her Men upon the Ifland, and took \4o of the Adorning Star's Crew, without any’ Refiftancemade by them, but onthecontrary, alledg- ing, they were fore’d Men, and that they were glad of this Opportunity toefcape from the Pyrates, the, reft hid themfelves in the Woods, and could not be found. George Bradley the Mafter, and three more, furrender’d aaa a Burmudas Sloop, re-carried to that Hland, = Lng ee after her E{cape, fail’d to a fmall Ifland near the Bay of Honduras, to clean and refit, and, in her Way thither, took a Rhede Jland Sloop, Captain Durfe I Commander, and two or three other Veffels, which they deftroy d, but brought all the rd their own. While ah was cleaning, a Scheme was concerted between Captain Durfey, fome other Prifoners, and two or three of the Pyrates, for to feize fome of the Chiefs, and carry off the Brigantine , pueiiie fame being difcovered before the was fit ae ings their Defign was Pace be de fd : 340° Of Capt. Tro. ANSTIS.)- Durfey, and four or five more, got afhore with fome Arms and Ammunition ; and when the Pyrates Canoe came in for Water, he feiz’d the Boat with the Men, upon which Anftis ordered another Boat to be mann’d with 30 Hands and fent afhore, which was accordingly done; but Captain Durfey, and the Company he had by that Time got together, gave them fuch a warm Reception, that they were con- tented to betake themfelves to their Veftel again.» ) About the begining of December, 1722, Anftis. left this Place’ and return’d to the Iflands, > de- figning to accumulate all the Power and Strength . he could, fince there was no looking back. | He took in the Cruife a good Ship, commanded by Cap- tain Smith, which he mounted with 24 Guns, and Fenn, a one handed Mar, who commanded the Morning-Star when the was loft, went aboard to command her. They cruis’d together, and took a Veffel or two, and then went to the Bahama Iflands,: and there met with what they wanted, viz, .a Sloop. loaded with Provifions, from Dublin, called the An- telope. ms: X Pig O-eids 3 - It was time now to think of fome Place to fit up and clean their Frigate lately taken, and put her _ in a Condition to do Bufinels 5 accordingly they: pitch’d upon the Ifland of Tubago, where they. arri- ved the beginning of April, 1723, with the Antelope Sloop and her Cargo. 4 Sire Dirt They fell to work immediately, ect the ‘Guns, Stores, and every Thing elfe out upon the Ifland, aud put the Ship upon the Heel; and juft then, as ill Luck would have it, came in the Winchel/ea Man of War, by Way of Vifit, which put the Ma- rooners into fuch a Surprize, that they fet Fire:to the Ship and Sloop, and fled afhore to thé Woods, Anfiis, inthe Brigantine, efcap’d, by haviig'a light Pair of Heels, but it put his Compaiiy : into fuch a Diforder, that their Government could eee 5 ee ‘ co Of Capt. THO. ANSTIS. 341 : i i he New-Comers, fe hts again ; for fome of the N ait Oe eR had been tir eee ee Put an Bnd to the Reign, by fhooting Tho. dnjrzs EF Hammock aud afterwards the Oe bee two or three others, the reit tubmi Ba {DEY into Irons, and furrender’d them up, Vettel, “scholios a Dutch Settlement, where cs were try’d and hang’d ; and thofe concerned in deli- ing up the Velfel, acquitted. Sane esters toCaptain Fenn, he was taken ftrag- ling with his Gunner and three more, a Day or two after their Misfortune, by the Man of War’s Men, and carry’d to Antegoas where they were all execu- ted. and Fem hang’d_in Chains. Thofe who re- mand, ftaid ome Time in the Ifland, keeping up and down in the Woods, with a Hand to look. outs at teneth Providerice fo order’d it, that a fma at length Providence fo or ohn eee Sloop came into the Harbour, which they all go Rar pig teres two or three Negroes, and thofe tl left behind. They did not think fit to purfue hes WoT Adventures, and therefore unanimoufly rel lved to fteer for England, which they according- ee aid. ‘and in Oéober lait came into Briftol Chamnel, fank the Sloop, and getting afhore in the Boat, dif- perfed themfelves to their Abodes. CHAP OF Captain WORLEY, _ Andhis Carew. ‘ t IS Reign was but fhort, but his Beginning B77 fomewhat particular, fetting out in a fmall a ‘open Boat, with eight others, from Wew- York. ‘This was as refolute a Crew as ever went upon this Account: They took with them 4 few Bifcuits, and a dry’d Tongue or two, alittle Cag of Water, half a dozen old Muskets and Ammuni- tion accordingly. Thus provided, they left New- York the latter End of September 1718, but -it’can- not be fuppofed ‘that fuch a Man of War as this, could undertake any confiderable Voyage, or at- tempt any extraordinary Enterprize ;' fo they ftood down the Coaft, till they came to Delaware River, — which is about ‘150 Miles diftant, and not meeting with any Thing intheir Way, they turn’d up the fame River as high as Nemcaffle, near which Place they fell upon a Shallop belonging to George Grant, who was bringing Houfhold Goods, Plate, ce. from Oppequenim: to Philadelphia, they made Prize of the moft valuable Part of them, and let the Shal- lop go. This Faé could not come under the Ar- ticleof Pyracy, it notbeing committed fuper altum @fare, upon the High-Sea, therefore was a fimple Robbery _ | i LATING PE IVE VIL FUE U EL IVE VOU EVOL EV OVE FOTOS SAG SOA SOF Of Capt. WORLET. : 43 ry only; but they didnot fland for a Point or vege Th Cate, but eafing the Shallop Man of his Lading, the bold Adventurers went down the River nT he Shallop came firaight to Philadelphia, and brought the 3 News thither, which fo glenn u the Government, as if War: had been declares againft them; Exprefles were dent_to Hee lites and other Places, and feveral Vellels fitted out againft this powerful Rover, but to no manne a Purpofe ; for after feveral Days Crurze, they a return’d, without, fo much as hearing what became Oo ¥Sorinra 4 = i ae mere Crew, in going down the River, met with a Sloop of Philatlpbia, belonging to a Mulatto, whom they call’d Black Robbin 5 they quit- ted their Boat for this Sloop, taking one of Bleck Robin’s Men along with them, as they had alfo done from George Grant, befides two Negroes, which encreafed the Company one Thied, A Day or two after, they took another Sloop belonging to Hult, homeward bound, which was fomewhat fitter for their Purpole; they found aboard her, Provifions and Necedlaries, which they flood ia need of and enabled them to profecute thers Defign, in a manner yre fuitable to their Withes. mataeern peal of thefe’ Rovers, the Gover- nor iffued out a Proclamation, for the apprehend- ing and taking all Pyrates, who had refufed or neg- lefted to furrender themfelves, by the Time limi- ted in his Majefty’s Proclamation of Pardon ; and thereupon, ordered his Majefty’s Ship Phenix, of 20 Guns, which lay at Sandy Flook, to Sea, to cruize upon this Pyrate, and fecure the Trade to that, adjoining Colonies. : ; ; ge probabilicy , the taking this Sloop fav’d their Bacons, for this Time, tho’ they fell into the Trap prefently afterwards ; for they finding themf{elves 2% Y 4 in B44 Of Capt. WoRLEY, in tolerable good Condition, having a Veffel newly cleaned, with Provifions, @c. they ftood ‘off to’ Sea, and fo miffed the Phenix, who expected them to be ftill on the Coaft. Spates 3 About fix Weeks afterwards they returned, ha- ving taken both a Sloop and a Brigantine, ‘among the Bahama Mlands; the former they: funk, and the other they let go: The Sloop belonged to New-*. York, and they thought the finking of her good Poli- cy, to prevent her returning to tell Tales at Home. ' _ Worley had by this Time encreafed his: Company to about five and twenty Men, had fix Guns mounted, and fmall Arms as many as were necef= fary for them, and feem’d to be ina good thriving fort of a Way. He madea black Enfign, with a white Death’s Head in the Middle of it, and other Colours fuitable to it. They all figned Articles, and bound themfelves under a folemn Oath, ‘to take no Quarters, but to ftand by one ariother to the laff Man, which was rathly fulfilPd’a little afterwards. 40008 -Gnue taliogs Acer ret ; ‘For going into an Inlet in North-Carelina, to clean, the Governor received Information of it, and fitted out two Sloops, one of eight Guns, and the other with fix, and about feventy Men between ‘them. Worley had clean’d his Sloop, and fail’d be- fore the Carolina Sloops’ reached ‘the Place, and fteered to the Northward ; but the Sloops jutt men+ tioned, purfuing the fame Courfe, came in fight of Worley, as he was cruifing off the Capes of Vire ginia, and being in the Offin, he ftood in as foon ‘as he fiw the Sloops, intending thereby to have cut them off from Fames River; for he verily belie- ved théy had been bound ‘thither, not imagining, in the leaft, they were in Purfuit of him. ~~ ~The two Sloops ftanding towards the Capes at the {ame Time, and Worley hoifting of his black Flag, the Inhabitants of Sfames Town were in — the 7 » the Crew, drew up upon the Deck, and fought Sh Caty TSC UTRATI ETE TS MIP IA are ew eR Lea TN Of Capt. Worter. 345 the utmoft Confternation, thinking that dll three had been Pyrates, and that their Defign had been a ‘them; fo that all the Ships and Veffels. that a in the Road, or in the Rivers up the Bay, - had Orders immediately to hale into the Shore, for their Security, or elfe to prepare:for their De- fence, ifthey thought themfelves in a\ Condition to fight. Soon after two Boats, which were fent out to get Intelligence, came crowding in, and brought ‘an Account, that one of the Pyrates was in the ing a {mall Sloop of fix Guns. The Gover- ae ee the hetero have followed, and altogether make fome Attempt to land, for the fake of Plunder, beat to Arms, and colletted all the Force that could be got together, to oppofe them ; he ordered all the Guns out of the Ships, to make a nd, in fhort, put the whole Colony ina eee eee but oe very much furprifed at . laft, to fee all the fuppofed Pyrates fighting with re . 2 aap : er of the Matter 1s, Worley gained the Bay, thinking to make fure of his two Prizes, by keeping them from coming in; but by the hoift- ing of the King’s Colours, and firing a Gun, he quickly was fenfible of his Miftake, and too foon perceived that the Tables were turned upon him , that inftead of keeping them out, he found him(elf, by a fuperiour Force kept in. When the Pyrates faw how Things went, they refolutely prepar dthem- {elves for a delperate Defence ; and tho” three to one odds, Worley and his Crew determined to fight to the laft Gafp, and receive no Quarters, agreeably to what they had before fworn 3 f0 that they muft either Dye or Conquer upon the Spot. The Carolina Men gave the Pyrate a Broadfide, and then Boarded him, one Sloop getting upon his Quarter, and the other onhis Bow, Worley and very 346 Of Capt. WORLEY. weary obftinately, Hand to Hand, fo that in a few Minutes, abundance of Men lay weltering in their Gore; the Pyrates proved as good as their Words, not a Man of them cry’d out for Quarter, nor would accept of fuch, when offered, but were all _ killed-except the Captain and another Man, and thofe very: much wounded, whom they. referved for’ the Gallows, They were brought. afhore in trons, and the next Day, which was the 17th “% SATIS ~ yy A x! Wala wid ws PV AYLI LI IL IVEY IV EVIV SL IVE VS VEY OVEN OY Fo Step Bly ‘Of Capt. GEORGE LOWTHER. 351 there all the Night, while the Ship was afhore 5 ahd dbliged fome of the Factory to afitt: in get- ting her clear. In .the mean while, Rufel came off, but not being fuffered to come on Board, he call’d to Lowrher, and offered himand thé Company, whatever Terms they would be\ pleafed to accept of, upon Condition of furrendering up the Ship; which had no Effet upon any of them. In the Morning they, got her afloat, and Magey and his Men came aboard, after having nailed up and dit mounited:all the Cannon of the Fort : They pufsthe Governor’s Son, and two or three others afhore, who were not willing to go without the Governor, and faild out of the River, having exchanged feveral Shot with the Martha, Otter, ante lay there, i loing Execution on either Side, nen tek Ship came out to Sea, Lowther called up all the Company, - and told. them, tt thas the greateft Folly imaginable, ‘to thitk of veruraing to Eng- land, :for whit they had already done; could not be jetify ed upon any Pretence whatfoever, ‘but’ would belook'd. up on, Frehe Geof eb Law, a capital Offence, and that none of them'were in a Condition to'mithftand ‘the Attacks of ‘fuck powerful Adverfaries, as they would mect with at Homes for his Part he was determined not to run fuch a Hacard, and therefore if bis Propofal was not agreed to, he'defired tobe fee a Shore in’ [ome Plate of Safety: TI hat they bad a ood Ship under them, a parcel of brave Follows in ber, that it was not their Bufinefs to flarve, or be maile Slaves 4 and therefore, if they were all of his Mind, they. pct feck théir Fortunes upon the Seas, ‘as other Advinturers.h done before them. They one and ‘allicame into the Meafures, knocked down the Cabins, made the Ship ‘futh> ‘fore and ‘aft, prepared black Colours, _new named her, the Delivery, having about 5q/Hands nd 16 Guns, and the followitig fhort Articles were diawn up; figned and {worn toupon the Bible. sie The . 35% 9) Of Capt. Wort Ev.. The Articles of Captain George Lowther, and his feo “Ne aver Company. ea te a Fee Captain is to have two full Shares the Ma- _ fler is to have one Share and a half ; the Do- eor, Mate, Gunner, and Boatfwain, one Share anda quarter. : ; Tait ate “trae 2. He that fhall be found Guilty of taking up any una lawful Weapon on Board the Privateer, or any Prize, by astuken, foas to ftrike or abufe one another; in any re gard, fall fuffer what Punifhment the Captain and Majo-~ rity of the Company hall think fit. © 0) 3+ He that fhall be found Guilty of Cowardize, in the Time of Engagement, hall: fuffer what Punifhment the Captain and Majority hall think fituoow otrriiabiive 4. If any Gold, Fewels, Silver, &e. be found on Board of any Prize or Prizes, to the Value of a Piece'of Eight; and the Finder do not deliver it to the Quarter-Mafter, in the Space of 24 Hours, (hall fuffer what Punifhment the Captain and Majority fhall think fit. 00.8 Ns » §- He that is found Guilty of Gaming, or Defrauding another to the Value of a Shilling, fhall>fuffer what Pu- nifhment the Captain and Majority of the Company {hall think fe Rs IY ‘ Ent Stibswgt ; t =6y we that hal have the Misfortune to lofe a Limb, in Time of Engagement, {hall have the Sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds Sterling, \and remain with the Company as long:ashe {hall think fit. 7+ Good Quarters to be given whencall'd for, 9, 8. He that fees aSail firft, {hall have the be/t Piftol, or Small-Acm, on Board hers & Itwas the 13th of Yune, that Lowther left the Settlement, and ‘on the 20th, being then’ withii twenty Leagues of Barbadoes, he came up with Brigantine, belonging to Boffon, called: the Charles, James Douglafs Matter, which they plundered in a pyra- Sit Wh cat y a eA ay IY a Py ayy I aw BEY, Of Capt. GEORGE LOWTHER. 353 pytatical Manner, and let the Veffel go ; but leaft dhe fhould meet with any of theStation Ships, and fo give Information of the Robbery, i» Terrorem, to pre~ vent a Purfuit, Lowrher contrived a fort of a Certifi- cate, which he direfted the Mafter to fhew to their Confort, if they fhould meet with her; and upon Sight of it the Brigantine would pafs unmolefted : This Confort, he pretended, was a 40 Gun Ship, and cruifing thereabouts. . After ths the Delivery proceeded to Hifpaniola 5 near the Waft End of the Ifland fhe met with a - French Sloop loaden with Wine and Brandy ; aboard Of this Veffel went Captain Adafzy, as a Merchant, and ask’d the Price of oné Thing, and then another, bidding Money for the greateft Part of the Cargo; but after he ‘had trifled a while, he whifper’d a Secret in the French Man’s Bar, viz. That they muit hawe it all without Money. Monfieur preféntly ‘under= ftood his Meaning, and unwillingly agreed to the Bargain. They took out of her thirty Casks of Brandy, five Hogfheads of Wine, feveral Pieces of Chintzes, atid other valuable Goods, and about 70 /. Exglifh, in Money ; of which Lowther generoufly rea turn’d five Pounds back to the Fresch Mafter for his Civilicies. sae | But as all Conftitutions grow old, and thereby fhake and totter, fo did our Commonwealth in about a Month of its Age, feel Commotions and in- teftine Difturbances, by the Divifions of its Mem- bers, which had near hand terminated in its De- ftruétion; thefe civil Difcords were owing to the following Occalion. Captain Mafzy had been @ Soldier almoft from his Infancy, but was but very inditferently acquainted with Maritime Affairs, and having an enterprizing Soul, nothing would fatisty him, but he muft be doing Bufinefs in his own Way, therefore he required Lowther to let him have thirty Hands t» land with, ot he would pa ath, ied CRUEL EUTL OYE Y al ST a ae irae aa 2 NE TTY EL IVE VI TV SSL OVE VOU EVEL EV OU 354 Of Capt. GEORGE LOwTHER., | Of Capt. GEORGE LOWTHER. 355 the Freach Settlements, and bring aboard the Devil with him, and fhift for himfelf: Whereupon Maffey, @udall of biden 45) Harel dened bigest te hiion Gok te more Malecontents, goes aboard Lowther did all. that he could do, , and faid all the Sloop, and comes away in her direétly for Ja- that he could fay, to dillwade Afafey from. fo rath wiuinad ¥ ‘i stot = ime eae and dangerous an Attempt, ; pointing out to him Notwithftanding what had pafled, Captain Maley the Hazard the Company. would run, and the Con- | utsa bold Face. upon, the Matter, and goes to Sir fequences to them all, if he fhould not fucceed, and Pian ‘Laws, the Governor, informs him of his the little Likelihood there was to expect Succefs ittie. ood tl eck Succe aving Lowther the Pyrate, owns That he affified in from the Undertaking: But twas all. one for that, palate na ake ; off with the Ship, at the River Gambia; but fam, Maffy would go and attack the French Settlements, | pene fave foanany of his Majefty’s Subjetts from per:fh- for any thing Lowther could fay againft at, fo that cor andahat bis Defign-mas ta return to England; bue he was obliged to propofe the Matter to the Com- eine con[piring with the greater Part of the Company, pany, among whom Aafy found a few, Fellows ment a, pyrating with the Ship 3 and that he had taken this as refoluce as himfelf,, however, a.gteat Majori- — Op Reni re to leave ‘him, and furrender himfelf and Vef~ ty being againft it, the Affair was over-ruled in Filito bis Begelenoyss oo Mirae 8), cidaen yen Oppofition, to, Captain Afafey, notwithftanding + Maley was very well received by the Governor, which, Afefey grew . fractious, quarrelled with | . and had his Liberty given him, with a Promife of Lowther, and the Men divided into Parties, fome bis Fayour,,and fo forth ; and, at, his own Res fiding. with the Land Pyrate, and fome with the queft, he.was {ent onBoard the Happy Sloop, Cap- Sea Rover, and were all ready to fall together by tainsth apse cruife off Hifpanicla, for Lowther ; the Ears, when, the Man at the Maft-Head, cry’d buts not being (o fortunate as to meet with him, out, A Sail! A Sail! then they gave over the Dil | Ganralme Maffey returned. back to Jamaica in .the pute, fet all their Sails, and fteered after the Chace. Stee and getting a Certificate, and a Supply of Ina few Hours they came up with her, the being Money, from the Governor, he came home Pailen- a {mall Ship from Famaica, bound to England; they ger Ati hades ihe took what they thought fit out of her, anda Hand - When Mafiy came to Town, he. writes.a Jong or two, and then Lowther was for finking the Ship, Letter td.\the Deputy Governor and Direétors of with feveral Paffengers that were in her, for what ‘the African Company, wherein he imprudently re- Reafon I know not, but Adafey fo that he interpofed, lates ‘the whole Tranfactions of his Voyage, the prevented their cruel Fate, and the Ship fafely ar- going off with the Ship, andthe Atts of Pyracy he rived afterwards in, England. +... 1, et facn sh had committed with; Lowther; but excufes ic as - The next Day they took a {mall Sloop, an Rafhnefa and Inadvertency in himfelf, occafioned by interloping Trader, which they detain’d with her, | his being ill ufed,, contrary to the Promifés that had ‘Cargo. Allthis while Afafey was nea Ane | been made.bim, and the Expectations he had. en- clar’d his Refolution to leave them, nd Lowther }- — tertaine 4 but.own’d, that he deferved.to dye for finding him a very troublefome Man to, deal with, | — .whatshe had-done , -yet, if they had Generofity -confented that he fhould take the Sloop, Jaft, made: enough to forgive him, as he was ‘fuill_ capable to Prize of, with what Hands had a Mind to,go, | do them Service, a3 a Soldier, fo he should be ve- pia y cee spl s Be ciere ees 7 ( fs ee ry a ZEEE ry 3 i eee re = one SWAY IY WIV EV IV LIV EL VE VOUL VALE V OV 356 Of Capt. GEORGE LowTHER. | Of Capt. GEORGE LOUTAER: 357 ry ready todo it; but if they refolved to profecut “Oa the sthiof July1723, be was Diousne ee him, he begg’d only this Favout, that Seats Tryal, ia cee ot Admiralty held at the Old- not be hang’d like a Dog, but to die like a Soldier. Baily ,- when Captain Ruffel, Goyernor Whitney's as he had been bred from his Childhood, that Hie Son, and others, appeared as Evidences, by whom that he might be thot. ? > bhi Indiftment was plainly proved againft him 5 This was the Subftance of the Letter, which which, if it had not been done, the Captain was of however, did not produce fo favourable an Anfwer fuch an heroick Spirit, that he would have deny’d as he hoped for, Word being brought hack to — nothing ; . for inftead of making a Defence, he on- him, That he fhould be fairly hang’d. Whereupon ly entertained the Court with a long Narrative of May refolved not to be out of the Way when his Expedition, from the firft fetting out, CO his Re- he found what important Occafion there was like. | | turn to England, mentioning two Atts of Pyracy ly to be for him, but takes a Lodging in Alder/vare- committed by him, which he was not charged with, Street, the next Day went to the Lord Chief Juftice’s oftenachallenging the Evidences © contradi& him, Chambers, and enquired, if my Lord had granted if in any Thing RS related the leaft Syllable of an a Warrant againft Captain John Mufey, for Pyracy : Untruth ; and inftead of denying the Crimes fet But being told by the Clerks, that they knew oF forthin the Inditment, he charged himfelf with no fuch Thing; he informed them, he was the various Circumftances, which fixed the Faéts more Man, that my Lord would foon beapply’d to for | > home upon him. Upon the whole, the Captain that Purpofe, and the Officer might come to him was found Guilty, received Sentence of Death, at fuch a Place, where he lodg’d: They took the and was executed three Weeks after, at Executi- Direétions in Writing, and, in a few Days, a War- Oe pi ee Meee , , rant being iffued, the Tipftaff went diregtly by We return: now to Lowther, whom we left crut- his own Information, and apprehended him with- | fing off Hifpaniola, from whence he plyed to Wind- out any other Trouble, than walking to his | ward, and, near Porto Rico, chafed two Sail,and {poke Lodging. sy he pe ; they proving to be a fmall Briffol Ship, There was then no Perfon in Town to charge commanded by Captain Smith, and a Spanifh Pysate, him with any Fatt, upon which he could be com- who had made Prize of the {rid Ship. Lowrher exam!- mitted ; nor could the Letter be proved to be of ned into the Spasiard’s Authority for taking an Englifh his Hand-Writing, fo that they had been obliged Vefie!, and threat’aed to put every Man of them to to let him go again, if he had not helped his Ac- death: for fo doing; fo that the Spaniards fancied cufers out at Pinch: The Magiftrate was reduced themfelves to be in avery pitciful ‘Condition, till to the putting of this Queftion to him, Did you write Matters cleared up, aud they found their Mafters this Letter? He anfwered, He did: And not only as great Rogues as themlelyes, from whom fome that, but confeffed all the Contents of it upon “Mercy might be expetted, 10 regard to the near which, he was committed to Nemgate, but was af- Relation they ftood with them, as to their Profef- terwards admitted to a hundred Pounds Bail or fion: in fhort, Lowther Grft rifled, and then burnt thereabouts. = a pe both the Ships, fending the Spaniards away in their ‘ On vise Launch, aa ee See » ~ neither Times, nor. Seafons 358 Of Capt.GEORGE LOWTHER, Launeh, and turning all the Englifh Sailors into Pycates: eos. Bie oe eg ote ae _ After:a few Days Cruife, Zowther'took a: {mall Sloop belonging to St. Ghriftophers, which they mann’d and carried along with them ‘to. a fmalt Ifland, where they ‘cleaned, and ftay’d fome'Time to take their Diverfions, ‘which confifted Gn’ un- ‘heard of Debaucheries, with. drinking, fwéearing and rioting, in. which.there feemed to. bea kind ~ of Emulation among them, refembling rathel Devils than Men, ftriying who fhould out do one ‘another jn new invented Oaths and Execrations. °°)" _ They all got aboard about Chriftmas, obfetving ons, for perpetrating their villainous Aétions, and failed towards the Bay’ of Flonduras, but ftopping at the Grand Caimi Pr rok Water, -they met, with a fmall Veffel-with 13 Hands, in the fame honourable Employment’ with themfelves ; .the Captain of. this Gang ‘was’ one Edward Lowe, whom we fhall particularly difcourfe of ina Chapter by it felf: Lowther received them as Friends, and treated them with all imaginable Refpeét, inviting them, as they were few in Num- ber, and in no Condition to purfue the Account, ‘(as they called it) to join their Strength together, which on the Confideration aforefaid, was accepted 01, Lowther Rill continuing Commander, and ‘Lowe - was made Lieutenant: The Veffel the new Pyrates came out gf, they funk,and the Confederates proceed on the Voyage as Lowther before intended. alee __ The 10th of January, the Pyrates came into'the Bay, and fell upon a Ship of 200 Tun, called’ the Greyhound, Benjamin Edwards Commander, belong- ing to. Boftoy. Lowther hoifted his pyratical’ Co- Jours, and fired a Gun for the Greyhound to bring to, which fhe refufing, the A’zppy Delivery (the Namé of the Pyrate) edg’d down, and gave her a a ; oi eeaner hee ide. de, « Of Capt. GEORGE LOWTHER. 359 fide, which was returned by, Caplan Ate Mats } bravely, and the Baa eteet te pyfate too ftrong aptain Edwards, finding t g for rae ad fearing the Gonlequence of too ob ftinate a Refiftance. againft thofe pled Po be ordered his’ Enfign’ to be ftruck. he wee Boat came aboard, and not only rifled t a hip Be, whipp’d, beat, and cut. the Men ina crue poe urned'them aboard their own Ship, and t CO Pive to their's.) e oi ee tad fe bart about the Bay, they aa siete : veral other Veflels without any Refi nee? a two Brigantines of Boffoz ‘New Englan rare which they burnt, and funk the other eee P belonging to Cynneétiout, Captain Airs, whic ‘ed alfo burnt ; a Sloop 0 pera eee ie hey took for their own Ufe; a Sloop ot F wginia Chet amladed! and was fo A pa tt? ack to the Mafter that own Det”. @ slsb8° of yoo Ton, belonging to, Rhode Ifland, Syhich: they “were pleafed to keep, and mount ‘with eight, Carriage, and ten Swivel Guns. a “AW this little Pleet, viz. Admiral Lowther, : the Happy Delivery ; ae Low, 12 Penner er * i is, (who. was. late S08 Seed a Hares in Hamilton's Sloop, and 4c litle Sloop formerly mentioned, ferving as a Faas F ite with this Fleet Pape its rae pee ciery : Cin. to ‘Port Mayo m e su ue Tigi aud eared wile Preparations to careen; sed afhore all their Sails, nares Sa he Watet-Side, wherein they laid ther Plunder, hs “Oe and "fell to’ work; and at the gui that the Ships were apan the fae a ye ne ‘din heaving down, {crubing, f me: Beth ; of a fudden came down a confi- 955 < Nati k’d the Py- derable Body of the ee and attac i y < the Greyhound when tak 5 VE IAP Eat Bt TE ee 2 oF i. - == © 8 A TTY LTV EVIL ILIV TL UE VEVTV LEVON! 360 Of Capt. GrorGE Low THER. Of Capt. GEORGE. LOWTHER. 361 Yates unprepared. Ags they were in no Condition ‘with the fame Number ftay’d in the Sloop, and to defend themfelves, they fled to their Sloops, lea- feparated that very Night, being the 28th of ving them Mafters of the Fieldand the Spoil thereof, May 1722. ‘ weed. which was of great Value, and fet Fire to the Ha- ~~ Lowther proceeding on his Way to the Main- py Delivery, theircapital Ship. == SS Coaft, took three or four fithing Veffels off New-York, Lowther made the beft Provifion he could in the which was no great Booty to the Captors. The 3d. largeft Sloop, which he called the Ranger, having | of June, they met with a fmall New-England Ship, \ ten Guns ane eight Swivels, and fhe failing beft, the bound home from Barbadoes, which ftood an Attack _ Company went all aboard of her, and left the other a {mall Time, but finding it to no Purpofe, yielded at Sea. Provifions was now very fhort, which, | herfelf a Prey to the Booters: The Pyrates took with the late Lofs, put them ina confounded ill . out of her fourteen Hogfheads of Rum, fix Barrels Humour, infomuch that they were every now and of Sugar, a large Box of En lifh Goods, feveral then going together by the Ears, laying the Blame - Casks of Loaf Sugar, a confiderable Quantity of of their ill Condu& fometimes upon one, then up- Pepper, fix Negroes, befidesa Sum of Money and on another, ee Plate, and then let her goon her Voyage. The Beginning of May 1722, they got to the |. ‘The next Adventure was not fo fortunate for Weft-Indies, and near the Mland of Difeada, took them, for coming pretty near the Coaft of South. a Brigantine, one Payne Mafter, that afforded them Carolina, they. met witha Ship juft come out, on what they ftood in need of, which put them | ‘her Voyage to England, Lowther gave her a Gun, in better Temper, and Bufinefs feemed to goon and hoifted his pyratical Colours; but this Ship, wellagain. After they had pretty well. plundered which was called the Amy, Happ before: he was. able to “pat to i ‘pitched upon for that Pur] ole,’ which” ‘lies in the - $a ‘again. eee Yan ae ee {19-50.m nN. about 30. Ledgues ‘from Prana and his Créw | ‘Taid” ‘up ‘al ena? Winter and. > “the Main ofthe Spanifh Amttica, Ba ween, the Iflands thifted as ‘well ‘ds. ‘they “could” among: ‘the ‘Woods, f Vartaritaend Rocas, and not far f Mn \ Torti an Iti is divided themfelves into ‘fall’ Parties, and hunted i, Hk osaile ‘Tfland, bat ‘healthy dry, uninh habi; a generally inthe Day Times, killing of black Cat.’ hed gas about t v6 Leagues in catanu ies, with tle, Hon" Oe. rie their ‘Subliftanice, and: in the’ DYghEy oP! Lint V Vite Trees‘ ‘thereon, growing Night retired | to théitTents and’ Huts, which they G am with fhru bby Buihes of ‘other Wood about made for Lodging ! and fometimes when’ the Wea- ee : ‘There are, pefides Turtle, ‘great Numbers of ther ‘grdw very” cold, they would: fay ‘Aboard of *Guances, which is an Amphibious Creature like a Le ae sere epee Lizard; but much larger, the Body | of it being ; as Inthe Spring of the Year. 17 723; they area Shite pig’ asa Man’s Leg; ‘they are very ‘good, to eat, fo get'to Sea, oe fteered their’ Courfe for New- ane are much ufed by the Pyrates that come here: {rindland, and upon the Banks took a Scooner, calla | “The ie GE divers Colours, but fuch as live upon the Swift, Sohn Hood Matter, they found a good =f ‘dry Tans -as hére at Blanco, are commonly yel- Quantity of Provifions aboard her, which thes . ow!’ On the N. W. End of this Ifland, there is very much wanted at 'that- ‘Time, and after ‘taking eat Cove or {andy Bay, all round the reft of three‘of their Hands, and plundering her of what ‘the Tfland is deep Water, ’and fteep ‘clofe to the they thought fit, they let Her depart.’ They OBIE Ifland. © Here Lowther reforted to, the Beginning feveral ovher- Vellels upon the Bake and in th OF Offober late: uarigeed his Sloop,. fent his Guns, Harbour, but none’ of. any great’ Account ; an “Sails, Ri ing ce. adhore, and put his Veffel upon then fleering for a’ warmer Climate, ‘in Aaguft anf Ha Gar mae “PHS Eagle Sloop of Barbadoes, belong- ved at the WeftIndics. ' In their Paffage thither, “ane to the South-Sea Company, with 35 Hands, com~ they met witha Brigantine, called the “Fob and Ene Smriidad by Walter Moore, coming near this ifland, zabeth, Richard Stanny “Mafter, bound ‘for Boftor, aie her Woy age Chenega. on es Spani{h Continent, which they plundered, ‘took two oF ae Men, ; and ~ {aw the faid Sloop juft careen’d, with her Guns out, difcharged er. Taha and Sails unbent, which fhe fuppofed to be a Pyrate, , ine Be becaufe | HER. 365 364 Of Capt. Grorox Lowrner, Of erase becaufe it was a Place where Traders did not com- fon, Roger Grange, Ralph suede the other thirteen monly ufe, fo took the Advantage of attacking the three laft were acqui of which were recoms her, as the was then unprepared ; the Eagle having ‘were found Guilty, it Court, and accordingly fired a Gun to oblige her to shew her Colours, the ‘mended to Mercy by the uted at that Iland, on yrate hoifted the St. George’s Flag at their Topmaft- pardoned ; and the reft a ted : lead, as it were to bid Defiance to her ; but when — the 2oth of the fame Mont eis faid that he after- they found Afoore and his Crew refolved to board As for Captain Lowther, peti fatal Ifland, where them in good earneft, the Pyrates cut their Cable wards fhot himfelf upon found, by fome Sloop’s and hawled their Stern on’ Shore, which obliged his Pyracies ended, ee rft by his Side. the Eagle to come to an Anchor a-thwart their Men, dead, and a Piftol bu finan Hawfe, where the engaged them till they called Seg RO TH ¢ : for Quarter and ftruck; at which Time Lowther KAS and twelve of the Crew made their Efcape out of the Cabin Window. The Mafter of the Eagle got the Pyrate Sloop off, fecured her, and went afhore with 25 Hands, in Purfuit of Lowther and his Gang ; but after five Day’s fearch, they could find but five of them, which they brought aboard, | and then proceeded with the Sloop and Pyrates to ‘ -Comena aforefaid, where they foon arrived. rath __ The Spanifh Governor being informed of this brave Aétion, condemned the Sloop to the Captors, and fent a {mall Sloop with 23 Hands to fcower the Bushes and other Places of the Ifland of Blanco, for the Pyrates that remained there, and took four more, with feven {mall Arms, leaving behind them Captain Lowther, three Men, anda little Boy, which they could not take; the above four the Spaniards ‘try’d and condemned to Slavery for Life; three to the Gallies, and the other to the Caftle of Are YArtds : ; The Eagle Sloop brought all their Prifoners af. terwards to St. Chriftopher’s, where the following were try’d by a Court of Vice Admiralty, there held Afarch the 11th, 1722, viz. Johan Churchill, Bie 7 Edward Mackdonald, Nicholas Lewis, Richard We a ved CHAP Sam. Levercott, Robert White, Fchn Shaw, Andrew Hun= SOs Se bites ter, Jonathan Delve, Matthew Freebarn, Henry Wat | - for, iPS bis i Fee) 44 ita aGsal Edward Low, And his Crew. Ree Low was born in Weftminfter, and had 3 his Education there, fuch as it was, for he could neither write or‘tead. Nature feem’d to have defigned him for a Pyrate trom his Child- hood, for very early he began the Trade of plun- ‘dering, and was wont to raife Contributions among enough to refufe it, a Battle was the Confequence ; but Low was fo hardy, as well as bold, there was no getting the better of him, fo that he robbed the Youths of their Farthings,. with Impunity ; when he grew bigger he took to Gaming ina low Way, for it was commonly among the Footmen in the Lobby of the Houfe of Commons, where he ufed to play the whole Game, (as they term it,) that is, cheat all he could, and thofe who pretended to difpute it with him, muft fight him. The Virtues of fome of his Family were equal to his; one of his Brothers was a Youth of Genius, when he was but feven Years old, he ufed to be carried in a Basket, upon a Porter’s Back, into a Crowd, and {hatch Hats and Wigs: According ie Bead aS : the -” Yandy to fee his Mother, who is yet all the Boys of Weftminfter; and if any were bold. OF Capt, EDWARDLOW — sep the exatt Ehroriology. of Nemgate, he waa tbe Bs swho prattifed this ingenious Trick. A ter ahs ‘ he. applied himfelf to. picking, of Pockets: 5.when a ; he,’attempted. greater he ‘increafed: in Strength, he, attemp fe after Things, fuch..as, Houle-breaking; Ces i are ait erate he iad the ewe = ‘ending his Days at Tyburn, in Coneny ae ae : Bunce, and the celebrated Sachatta gine C Tat cy bon ove Ol it Nan, ech ine mie to Ned, when ay SAE EP cane Eflate, at his eldeft, Brother's; Defire, he went £0 Sea. with. him,, aud fo.continued, for, thtee or tour Years, and then parted, and Nedworked in. a.Rige : ees in New-England;, for a while. Sing-Houfe in Boftow in New-Eng at peniien t ‘About fix Years,ago, he took a rip ee A fi : was not long'here 5 but, taking Leave or ius eee fe (eee for the laft Time: he . leafed to fay, he should fee them, ofan {0 ot s Year or two lons - et Boftons, and : a Mga eee ee Bufinefs.- But) being ny sept 4 free with his Mafters, he left them, an hipp 4 himielf in.a/ Sloop, that was bound to the Bay o > Say 4 , Seeman bys ‘ i Pay 4 . oS 4 y ki eee the Sloop anrived oe the. Bays sie pales wa 03 P. ua oat, whi -em- was appointed Patron of the. ae vee ae sloy’d .in cutting ef \Logwood,. and. br fete lade the. Ship 5 for that, 1s: eh Comme -dity they make the Voyage for: Inthe ont pte twelve Men.befides Low, who all aeons tsi be caufe of the Spaniards, from whom this 08 u pnd is but little better than ftole. It happened : the Boat one Day’ came aboard. juft. betore Pinney was ready, and Low defired that they senate was, nd. ; be | Dine ;,,but the Captain, Deng neuen e sading, ordered. them, a_ Bottle,.of 21 AER pS her Trip, becaufeno,Time fhould be loft ; >s Crew, bu ticularly. This provoked. she, Boat's Crews but, PARC aE i ¢ 368 ~ Of Capt. Epward Low. Low, who takes up a loaded Mufquet and fires at’ the Captain, but miffing him, fhot another poor Fellow thro’ the Head, then put off the Boat, and with his twelve Companions goes to Sea: The next Day they took a {mall Vetfel, and go in her, make a black Flag, and declare War againft all the World. Says ls Hebe They then proceeded to the Ifland of the Grand Caimanes, intending to have fitted up their {imal Veffel, and prepare themfelves as weil as their Cir- cumftances would permit, for their honourable- Employment; but falling in Company with George Lowther, another Pyrate there, who paying his Com- pliments to Low, as great Folks do to one another when they meet, and offering himfelf as an Ally ; Low accepted of the Terms, and fo the Treaty was prefently fign’d without Plenipo’s or any other For- malities. SP URIERBU DOR. Jee ebes ~ We have already given an Account of their joynt Pyracies, under Lowther as chief Commander, till the 28th of A/a, 1722, when they took a Bri- gantine of Bofon, bound thither from St. Chriffos phers, at which Time they parted, and Edward Low went into the Brigantine, with forty four others, who chofe him their Captain: They took with them two Guns, four Swivels, fix Quarter-Caské of Powder, Provifions and fome Stores, and {0 left Lowther to profecute his Adventures, with the Men he had left. eves Their firft Adventure in the Brigantine, was oti Sunday the 3d Day of Sune, when they took a Ve fel belonging to Amboy, Foha Hance Matter, whom he rifled of his Provifions, and let go ; the fame Day he met with a Sloop, Fames Calquhoon Matter, Off of Rhode Ifland, bound into that Port, whom he firft plundered, and then cut away his Boltfpric, and all his Rigging, alfo his Sails from the Yards, and wounded the Mafter, to prevent his getting in. ONES Nae ie SA SAAS : Of Capt. EDWARD Low: 369 in to give) Intelligence, and then, ftood away tothe -South-Baftward, with all the Sail he could make, there being then but little Wind \ soe aa right pemiaane pret the Ce for a. longer ftay had proved fatal to him, fox fee i aimee -difabled Condition Be = rendered the Sloop in, fhe made fhift to. gel = 0 Block Tland, at 12, 0°Clock that Night, a oe 5 diately difpatched.a Whale-Boat to Rhode es which, got thither by feven the next Merits, a an: Account of the Pyrate, his Force, As lw at had happened to him: As foon as the Governor had received this Information, he ordered eae to beat up for Volunteers, and two of t e beft Sloops then in the Harbour, to be fitted out: EG gave Commiffions to’ one Captain John Headland, and Captain Yoh Brown, ‘jun. for ten Days; the former had-eight.Guns and. two Swivels, and the | latter { ns, well fitted with {mall Arms, and Pugleen ees ete 40 ftout Fellows; all this was performed with fo much Expedition, that belo Sun-fet, they were under Sail, turning out of : @ Harbour, at the fame Time the Pyrate “se Een from Block Iland, which gave great Hopes t] att f Sloops. would be Mafters,of her the next Day, whic however did not happen, for the Sloops returned in- to Harbour fome Days afterwards, without fo much “ ing their Enemy. ~ son ; pi ae ins Riise, Coupon Low, went into Port, upon the Coaft, for he had not frefh Water enough - to run tothe Iflands, where he ftaid a few Days, getting Provifions and what Neceffaries the Crew wanted, and then failed for Purchafe, (as they call ic) fering their Courfe towards Afarblehead. About the 12th of July, the Brigantine failed — $to the Harbour of Port Rofemary, and there found thirteen Ships and Velfels, NG aa of One, at Anchor, they {pread od ag, an tise ; ager LIVEVIVIL EVEL ILE V8 VEV OLE OVS 370 Of Capt. EDWARD Low. among them; Low telling them from the Brigans tine, they fhould have no Quarters if they res fifted ; in the mean Time they mann’d and arm’d their Boat, and took Poffeffion of every one of them, plundered them of what they thought fit, and converted one to their own Ufe, viz. a Scoo- ner of 80 Tuns, aboard of which they put 10 Car-. Hage Guns, and 50 Men, and Low himfelf went Captain, and nam’d her the Fancy, making one Charles Harris, (who was at firft forced into their Service out of the Greyhound of Boftor, by Lowther, of which Ship Harris was fecond Mate) Captain of the Brigantine: Out of thefe Veffels they took feve- ral Heid and encreafed the Company to 80 Men, who, all figned the Articles, fome willingly, an a few perhaps by Force, and fo failed away from Marblehead. hinges Phat e ag ale ~’ Some Time after this, they met with two Sloops bound for Boftox, with Provifions for the ‘Garrifon, and the Scooner coming up firft, attacked them, but there happening to be an Officer and fome Sol- diers on Board, who gave them a warm Reception, Low chof to ftay till he fhould ‘be joyned by the Brigantine ; in the mean while the Sloops made the beft of their Way, and the Pyrates gave them Chace two Days, and at laft loft fight of them ‘in a Fog. oie inst aoe They now fteered for the Leeward -Iflands, but in their Voyage met with fuch a Hurricane of Wind, that the like had not been known; the Sea ran Mountains high, and feemed to thréatex them every Moment with Deftruéion ; it was’ no Time now to look out for Plunder, but to fave themfelves, if poffible, from perifhing. All Hands were continually employed Night, and Day, on ‘Board the Brigantine, and all little enough, for “the Waves went over her, fo that they were forced “to keep the pump conftantly going, befides sat van wit ‘loftSight of the Scooner 5 \. aah styrene ye are oe ee ; — ~ Wee sy, as, rs VOY ILIV EV IY. SVey CVU SVEVEVa Wwsewve Wt v fap Sips Of Capt. EDWARD Low. 37% with Buckets; but finding themfelves not able to keep her free, and feeing the utmoft Danger before their Eyes, they turn’d to the Takle, and hoifted out their Provifions, and other heavy Goods, and threw them over-board, with fix of their Guns, {0 that by lightening the Vellel, the might rife to the Top of the Sea with the Wavés: They wete alfo going to cutaway their Maft; but confidering how dan- gerous it would be, to be left in fuch a Condition, they refolved to delay it to the laft,. which was Prudence in them to do; for.a Ship without Matts Or Sails, lies like a Log upon the Water, and if at- tack’d, muft fight with Difadvantage, the working of her being the moft artful Part of the Engage- ment, becaufe fhe may. fometimes bring all her great ‘Guns on one Side, to bear upon her Enemy, when the difabled Ship can do litele or nothing. — : But to proceed; by their throwing over-board the heavy Goods, the Veffel made confiderable lefs Water, and they could keep it under with the Pump only, which gave them Hopes and new Life; fo that inftead of cutting all away, they took ne- ceflary Meafures to fecure the Maft, by making, Preventor-Shtowds, ¢e. and then wore and lay too upon the other Tack, till the Storm was over, The Scooner made fomewhat better Weather of it, of the two, but was pretty roughly handled not- withfanding, having fplit her Main-fail, fprung her Boltfprit, and cut her Anchors from her ‘Bows. The Brigantine by running. away to Lee- ward, when fhe wore upon the Larboard Tack, had but not knowing whe- ther the might be fafe or not, as foon_as the Wind abated, fhe fet her ,Main-Sail and Top-Sail, and made fhort Trips to Windward, and the next Day had the good Fortune to come in Sight of their Confort, who, upona Signal, which the other \ knew, bore down to her, and the Crew were over- Aa 2 - joy’d 372 «= Of Capt. Epwarp Lom joy’d to meetagain, after fuch ill Treatment from the Winds and Seas. Bits 2911990 G9o4 After the Storm, Low got fafeto-a fmall Ifland, one of the Weathermoft of the Curibbees, and there fitted their Veffels, as well as the Place could af- fords; they got Provifions of the ‘Natives,.in ex- — change for Goods of their own; and’ as foon as the Brigantine was ready, “twas judg’d neceffary to take a fhort Cruize, and leave the’Scooner in the Harbour till her Return. © The Brigantine fail’d out accordingly, and had not been out many Days before they met a Ship at Sea, that had loft all her Mafts; on Board of: whom they went, and took from her in Money and Goods, to the Value | of roool. and fo left her in the Condition they found her: This Ship was bound home from Bar- badoes, but lofing her Mafts in the late Storm, was making for Antegoa; to refit, where fhe afterwards ; farrivid. 5 t4Agiis Veet, Geo eRe GE The Storm juft fpoken of, was found to have’ done incredible Damage in thofe Parts of the World; but however, it appear’d to have'been more violént at Jamaica, both to the Ifland and Shipping, ‘there was fuch a prodigious Swell of the Sea, that feveral hundred Tuns of Stones and Rocks, were thrown over the Wall of the Town of Port Royal, and the Town ic felf was overflowed, and above half ‘deftroy’d, there being the next Morning’ five Foot - Water from one End to the other ;.the Cannon of -Fort Charles. were difmounted, and fome wathed . into the Sea, and four hundred People loft their -Lives;, a more melancholly Sight was fcarce ever feeén when the Water ebb’d away, all the Streets ‘being covered with Ruins of Houfes, Wrecks of Veffels, and a great Number of dead: Bodies, for forty Sail of Ships, in the Harbour, were caft Bway Cos res ate on bcos Of Capt. EDWARD Low: 373 ‘The Brigantine return’d to the Iland, where fhe had. left the Scooner, who being ready to fail, it was put to the Vote of the Company, what Voyage to take next ; and herein. they follow’d the Advice of the Captain, who thought it ee hae able to go-any farther to Leeward, becau e i e Mei of. Wari who were cruifing 1n their fevera Stations, which they were not at all eee cares ing, and: therefore it was agreed to go a the Azore > or Weftern Iflands. "The latter End of July; Low took a French Ship ‘Guns, and carried her along with him to the ee nee ‘came into St. Afichael’s Road the 3d of sAueuft, and took feven Sail that were lying there, viz. the Noftre Dame, Mere de Dien, Capram Roach Commander; the Dove, Capt. Cox 5 the Rafé Pink, formerly a Man of War, Capt. Thompfon ; ad ther Exglifh Ship, Capt« Chandler ;-and three other Veflels: He threatened, all'with prefent. Death who. refiftéd, which ftruck fuch a Terror to: eee that they! yielded themfelves up a Prey to the Vi lains, ithont firing a:Guiae eid 2 Tes ; v Rlberiiysotch being i Ca ata of Water as frefly Provifions, Lom tent: \the Governor 0 “ . MichaePs for a Supply, and promifed: Sees . Condition.to releafe the Ships be had taken, ee otherwife to burn them all; which Demand ‘ e Governor thought it. not prudent to. refufe, but fent the Provifion he required, upon which he ne . leafed fix of the Ships, (after he had plundere them of what he thought fit,) and the other, ee the Rofe: Pink, ;was. ye a ee Ship, which int ook the Gommandof. a ee took feveral of the Guns.out of the French Ship, and. moynted-them aboard hi Rofe, which proved very fit for their’ Turn, an coaes demned, theformer,to the, Flames. They took a | yee ae rid, the Crel out ofther, butehe Go's who, bes ti 374 Of Capt. EDWARD Low, being a greazy Fellow would fry well in the Fire; fo the poor Man was bound to the Main-Maft, and burnt in the Ship, tothe no fmall Diverfion of Low and his Atirmidons. nats a to Low ordered the Scooner to lye inthe Fare be- tween St. Michael’s end ‘St. MMary’s, where, «about the 20th of Auguft, Captain Carter in the Wright Galley, had the ill Fortune to come in her Way; and becaufe at firft they fhewed Inclinations to de- _ fend themfelves, and what they had, the Pyrates “cut and mangled themin a’barbarous Manner 3 par- ticularly fome Porruguefe Paffengers, two of which being Friers, they triced tp at each Arm of the Fore-Yard, but let them down again. before they were quite dead, and this they repeated feveral Times out of ‘Sport? dio) st - Another Portuguefe, who was alfo Captain .Car- ter’s Paffenger, putting on a forrowful Counte~ nance at what he faw aéted, one of this vile-Crew attacked him ‘upon the Deck, faying, he did zor like his Looks, and thereupon gave him one Blow a-crofs his Belly with his Cutlafh, that cut out his Bowels, and he fell*lown dead without’ {peaking a Word. At the farie ‘Time. another of thefe Rogues cutting at a Prifoner, ‘miffed his Mark, and Captain Low ftanding in his Way, very oppor- tunely received the Stroke upon hisounder Jaw, which laid the Teeth bare’, upon this the Surgeon was called, who immediately ftitched’ up the Wound, but Low finding fault with the Operation, the Surgeon being tollerably drunk, ‘a8 it'was cufto- mary for every Body to be, ftruck ‘Low {uch a Blow with his Fift, that broke out all the Stitches, and then bid him few up his Chops himfelf and be damned, fo that Low made'a very pitiful Figure for fome Time after. 4s SM BO VOL Mais y . When they had plundered Captain 'Carter’s Ship, feveral of them were for burning her, 'as whey hae , BO one | 4 ow. 375 > Capt. EDWARD LOW | Aone th Soe thea it was otherwife eeia Yee iy f + after they had cut her Cables, igging. parting Pieces, they left her to the Mercy 0 these sredations, they fteered for the ter redations, they 1te€ tind of aaa Piers miffing Stee HT they 4 p OF £4 cays. --Boat wi | ; ore Le med ee which they eiare a ee the other afhore with 2 Flag o f taking. away the ~ ‘whom they threatened to. Te a on thei 1: but the Thing bem wich, Chee aee honoured as as Janes fay) difeh much han ‘Laced, and all, the three MUCH An: pyle when they took them. , From this ; ‘the Canaries, but, meeting Ans they teehee te aa ‘continued their Courfe ith n there, t ntinued thet ‘4 fe Satnav Verd {flands, and at Banetilids pasa "Ship aed the Liverpool Merchant, an ee ain ech whom they ftole @ Br ous we wy Provifions and dry Goods 356 6 yard and Haw- ‘two Guns and Carriages, a Matt, 3a ota hoe fers; befides fix of his Men, and then © “Jet them Trade there, 00 at St. Wscnoass ‘ged, Captain Goulding to £0 | Afle of Mays among thele {flands, a Ship | if took among pad Fe es . : longing 0 ee ST Sth So Pip oa pound for Brafil; af{mal} J ‘3 i Les eee fter, bound. to Santa i ale Ma ‘zading there, Jee Tom St. Thomas bound to fms eer Mafters Names were Lily, Sales an ee all which they Oe aa nate ‘ ir Bufinels,. a go about their_ lowing Purpole. : they fitted ie eae as “i above mentioned besten cba coneaye 1) Gallies were expetted ayeiy 4 Se " 4 . y but obli- th his Ship, to the AOL MSP NS BW WN IY BY BUY YW VS LPO BS Be GOO EC IVE VIL EVEL Wa BA a WES S Y Y F.. 88 af 0 376 3 Of Capt. EDWARD Low. Day at the Weffern J ands: viza the Gi vhost, Cas tain Glafs, and the lini tating ree mer of which was detignéd to be feed op Leta pyratical Trade to, Brafil, if Things had ha ait to their Minds. They ‘muin’d the Sloop} aad en her in Queft “of one’ or ‘both of thefe Ships’ tovehe Wefere Ilands aforefaid, whilft they carréen’d their Ship Rofe, at one of the Cape dé Verds: But iow For- tune that had hitherto been {0 propitious to then deft, her Minions, and baffled’ for the’: vefent’ all ‘their Hopes, for the Sloop miffing of their Prey ‘was reduced to great Neceflities for’ want of Pre. vifions and Water, fo that they ventured to” b afhore at St. Adichael’s fora Supply, and ‘pafs tite ‘Trader 5 but they play’d their Parts fo aukwardly. that they were fulpetted by the Governor tobe Awhat they really were, and he was ‘oon put: out of doubt “'by ane ifit tome 'Portuguefe made: them who happened unluckily tobe Paifengers in’Cap_ ‘tain Carter's’ ee when Lem took her, and: kr a the Gentlemen’s Faces very well s°upon which: tite they were provided for'as long as they liv’d. ) Low, in the mean Time, did not fare quite foil! ? But’ had his intended Voyage: to’ Brajil {poil’d, by z ? the overfetting of his Ship, when the was upon — the Careen, whereby fhe was loft, fo that: he w ‘a en, where Jas loft, fo he‘ Fedyc’d’ to “his’ old Scooner, ‘which fie called Teh Fancy, aboard of which they all went, to the Nuri- ‘ber of 100, as ‘vile Rogues as ever ended’ thei Lives at, Tyburn.« They proceeded now to'the’ Wop didies, but “before they had gotten’ far on. their Voyage; ‘they attack’d a tich Portuguefe Ship, call'd the Nofire ‘Signiora de Vittoria, bound’ home from Babia, wad _aftér fome Refiftance, ‘took her. Lay tortur’d feveral of the Men, to make them decide where, the “Money, (which he fuppos’d they “had pn Board) lay; and extorted by* that Means, a‘Con- ve ope eae : fe ‘whole Crew ‘was condutted into the Caftle, where 3 — Of March 1722-3, Shs any IE I ay - LIT ORY PV IVE VIVA USE VEE V OLE VON Of Capt. EDW AR Dom 372 feffion that the!Captain had, during the Chace, hung out of the Cabin Window, a Bag with 11,000 Moidores, which, afloon as he-was taken, he cut the Rope off, and let it drop into the Sean . Willians / _°“'Phefe two were fou 882 Of Capt. EDWARD Low. Of Capt. EDWARD ech 383 the Man of War, immy Opinion, could never have William Shutfield ; 4o. Lancaf@r 1D aes hurted them. 2 3)? sige on Tsk Edward Eaton | Ae g8 Wrexham in W. fh The Greyhound carried in their Prize to Rhode Sohn Brown egy! Zigg* County, ot ch Ce Tland, to'the great Joy of the whole Province, tho’ Edward Lawfon «29. fle of Ata it’ had been more compleat, if the great LOW him- Owen Rice 27, South-Wales. felfhad grac’d the Triumph. The Prifoners were Solin Tomkins 23, Gloucefterfhire. or firongly {ecured in a Goal, till a Court of Vice- John Fitzgerrald sin ar Limerick aA ive te Admiralty could be held for their: Tryals, which "Abrahan Lacy ooh Devonfhire. begun on the roth of July, at Newport; and conti- Thomas Linifter ax Lancafrire.. vt _ nued three Days. The Court was made up of the Francis Leyton ge soe ent is] : following Gentlemen. | aes a mods Sohn Waters, Quart.-Mr+35 County 0 seatcrosis ‘ cid boil s.3il endseisorl William Jones 28, London. t's, Welt. 2 William Dummer, E{g, Lieutenant Governor of the Charles Church 9 > 21. St. Margaret wes UG eX Maffachufers, Prefident. sc3 Thomas Hazel ic |e ereemat weer 24.6 OF Sohn Bright 25 ; 5 cee oe fou uilty,. an s ae nh abl ox near Newport: in Rhede- Ifland. , phe 3m . 7 Liverpoole. — = but refpited for ed to the King’s — Sohn Brown dessins Patrick Cunningham OS 4 guilt “one Year, and, recommen sig “Favour. oe lage On ibn Wilfon 23. sen woe RY hike: Ub tl WS) Barvaaoes. Henry Barnes © ek Flur in Wales. Thomas Jones’ a Se rp-Bnelenll Feat 24 Boffon 10. ew he ye vapor asta Mather’s ani yi E. Sohn Hincher, Doctor 22 Near Edinburgh, Scot. ohn Fletcher 7 Soe Lae ae x aie # found Not Guilty. -'Thefe eight were a a t : e S yas by wie that the whole Corporation. do wait upon tari, Fe Prene. Li Cy cee wR EWE RP: By Order but he defired to be excufed that Honour, and at length pofitively refufed it, fo they agreed to break up the Company, and leave the Mate in Poffeffion of the Veffel: Accordingly they went afhore at the Caimanes, Carrying with them about nine thoufand Pounds among thirty Frans 5 and it being fair Weather, the Mate anda Boy brought the Veflel into Port Royal, in Jamaica. »- Ge, ) PETALS Xe ROS IB TG | ath ; ay At Nal sa i : 39. ds te Bin Bex oo ee oe Phe } Ea et 3 x 5 ‘ a) te <— v \ e = CloAD eV Ors | ES ve! Faia} aw i USWA ee SWART t ast i phe addy adangid a fia wo sa ae “pe Captain John Phillip And his Crew. Ties Phillips was bred a Carpenter, and fail- fags id J; ing to Newfoundland in’ a Weit-Country Ship, was taken by Anftis in the Good Fortune Brigan- tine, the next Day after ke had left his Confort and Commadore, Captain Roberts. Phillips was foon reconciled to the Life of a Pyrate, and being a brisk Fellow, was-appointed Carpenter of the Veffel, for at firft his Any ition reach’d no higher; there he remain’d-till they broke up at Tabago, and was one of thofe who came. homé_in a Sloop that we have mentioned to befunk in Byiftol Channel. His Stay was not long in England, for whilft he was paying his firft Vifits to his Friends in Devon- foire, he heard of the Misfortune of fome of his Companions, that’is, of their being taken and com- mitted, to Briffol Goal ; and there being good Rea- fon for his apprehending Danger froma Wind that blew from the fame Quarter, he mov’d off imme- diately to Topfham, the neareft Port, and there shipp’d himfelf with one Captain Wadham, for a Voyage to Newfoundland, and home again; which, by the way, Mr. Phillips never defign’d to perform, or oY TCU SATA RATIO WATE, ER Ur ne Or nae Of Capt. FOHN PHILLIPS. 397 . er to fee England any more. When the Ship came to,-Peter Harbour in Newfoundland aforefaid, he\ran away, from her, and hired him#elf, a. Splitter in, the Fithery, for ‘the Seafon: But-\this was only till he could have an Opportunity of profecu- ting.-his intended Rogueries 5 inorder’ to: which, he combined with feveral others, inthe fame Em-, ploy, to gooff with one of the Veffels that Jay. in the Harbour, upon the pyratical Account , accor- dingly the Time was fix'd, viz. theszgth of Auguft 1723, at Night but whether Remorfe or Fear prevented their coming together, 1.know not, but of fixteen Men that were in the Combination, five “only kept the Appointment : Notwithftanding which, Phillips was for pufhing forward with that finall Number, affuring his Companions, that they fhould foon encreafe their Company; and they: agreeing, a Velfel was feiz’d on, and out of the E ‘they failed.’ » tant neta ae ‘fart Thing they had now: ‘todo, was to. chufé Officers, draw up Articies, and. fettle ‘their little Commonwealth, to prevent Difputesand Rang-. lings afterwards , fo John Phillips was made Captain, john Nutt, Mafter, (or Navigator) of the Veffel ; ames Sparks, Gunner; Thomas Ferny Carpenter 5 and Wiliam White -was\ the only private\ Man in the whole Crew : When this was done, one of them writ out the following Articles (which we have taken verbatim) and all fwore to "em upon a Hatchet for .want of a Bible.. as: ss scant er The Articles on Board the Revenge. oo oa saOnmall sik Cqiak Man foal obey civil Command , the Captai "hat eel Shere and ahalf in all Prizes , the Mafter, Carpenter, Boatfwain and Gunner Sah have one Share and quarters: 00 IO 5 FF 398 Of Capt. Foun PHILr IPs. oo df any Man fhall ‘offe from the Company, be #fiaatt @) 3 VETL OL df any Man fall: fteal any Thing im\the Co mpany, or er to run amay, or-keep any Secret he fhall be marroon’d, with one Botele of Powder, one Battleof Water, one fmall Arm, and Shot. Same, to the Value of a Piece of Eight, he fhall be marroon'd or fhot. “20998 2JANOIIA, isaiistys orls-noqu ig td Sit « Dfat any Time-me fhould meet another Afarrooner Pyrate,] that Adan that fhall ign his Articles without the i. Lebar is; Confent of our Company, hall fuffer fuch Punifhment as thé Captain and Company fhall think fit.: pals are °° That Man that fhall ‘Gradt neparia whilst thefe Articles arein force, {hall receive Mofes's Law (that is, 40 Stripes Facking one) on the bare Back) <0 ais Fie bis 10 se Sat ene Perio, That Man that hall {nap his Arms, or fimoak Tobatco ia the Hold, without a Cap'to his Pipe, or carry a Candle lighted without a Lanthorn, thal fuffer the fame Punilbment asin the former Article. 2 + BORE 2S Vis Jari. Ole £ ; That Man that fhall not keep bis Arms clean, fit» for an Engagement, or neglett his Bufinels, {hall be cut off from his Share, and fuffer fuch other Punifhmient as the Captain and the Company fhall think fite > 007 sp) ho re 8. “Af any Man hall lofe a Foint ‘in time of an Engage- ment, fhall have 400 Pieces of Eight.;'if a Limb, 800. » aes ene If at any time You meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Confent, fhall fuffer prefent Death. » Thus prepar’d, this bold Crew fet out, and before they left ghe Banks they made Prize of feveral fmall Fifhing-Vetfels, out of whigh they got a few aoa ‘ cs Bs me er ey Pee fome rie A Ss Re arty Of. Capt. JOHN. PHILEIPS. 399. French and, fome Englifh, and then fail’d for the ee roe. hae of thefe Veffels they took out one John Role Archer, who having been a Pyrate un- der the famous Black-beard, was immediately pre- ferr’d ‘over other People’s Heads, to be Quarter- Mafter to ~ the Company,,, which fudden Promo- tion fo difgnited fome ‘of, the older Standers, efpe- Cially Ferm, the Carpenter, that it occafioned fome wich f to follow, as we fhall thew by aud by, ; ~The Pyrates came off Barbadoes the beginning, 0 Oéober, and cruifed there, and among other Iflands, above three, Months, without {peaking with a Vet Ee fo, that they were almoft ftarv’d for want, of >rovilions, being, reduc’d to.a Pound:of Meat a Jay between ten; at length they fell in with a Adar inico Man,of 12 Guns and.35'Hands, far fuperior Ue tes kad-what they would not have vencurd ae at, another Time, but Hunger will break down Stone \ Walls’ they were refolyed tofhew the French Men their black Flag; and if that would not. do, ee ‘mutt. feek out elfewhere ; accordingly, they boldly ran up a-long-fide of the Sloop, with their pyratical Colours flying, and told them, if they ‘did not firike immediately, they would give them no Quarters; which fo intimidated the Frenchmen, that they never fired a Gun.. This proved a fea- pate Supply ; they took her Provifions, and four of ber Men, and let her go. They took prefently after aA Sloop De ODEENE to New-York, and a Virginia Matter. : : .. Having. now occafion to. clean their Veffel, Phil- lips propos’d Tobago, where the Company he for- merly belong’d to, under Auftis and Fenn, broke up, to induce them to it, he told them when he ieft the Ifland, there was left behind fix or eight of their Company that were not willing to gu to:Eng- land, with three Negroes : Whereupon they fail’d to the Ifland, ang after a careful Search, found only one LSTA BY TV EV IVY SUS LIVE V GUI V GEV OUI goo - Of Capl. Foun Purrrips, | one of the Nees, whofe } ame’ Was Pedyo, who inform’d Captain Philips, that’ thofe ‘that were ‘le: behind'were taken bya Man of War’s Crew, atid hang’d at Antegoa,’ among whom ‘Was’ Fenn, theit ‘Captain: oF ees & Iq >) cee oe 1gVG oe [a ~'Phey took Pedro on B ard, ‘aiid hen’ fell to Bafi: nels, careening their vere’ 5 aid’ juft‘as they ‘had finithed their Work,''a, Man“6f' Wat's Boat came into’the Harbour, the Ship being’ eruiffig to Lees _ ward of the Tfland. Ir'was eafily gue('U upon what Brrant the was fent, ‘and eReshava aie (loft no Time, but, as fooir'as the Boat (eile away warped out, and ply’d to Windward for” sé nity bit! lefé | the-four French Men, they took out of the’ Afarrinice “SiSbp5 Pati HOLMOM Ala 3 Eg HOR MB og YoU “In’a-few Days they took’ 4-Show, with’ ‘a few Hands; ‘and Fern, the Carpenter, one William Phils Lips; Wood and Taylor, went aboard to raké Péiieition of her.** Fern, ‘not ‘forgetting the ‘Afffert, 6f ha: ving Archer prefert’d before him, tefoly’d’ t6°¢o off with the Prize; and brought 'the reft ‘nto’the fame Meafures ; however Phillips, the Captain, kee: ping a'good Look-out,’perceiv’d their Defign)*akd gave them Chace,’ who.coming up with the Veffel, aSkirmifh énfird, wherein Woed was killd and Tay lor wounded in hig Legs upon which the other twa furrender’d. There’ was‘ no Surgeon ‘aboard, ahd therefore it’was advis’dy upon a learned Confulta- tion, that Phillips’s ‘Leg fhould be cut off; but whd fhould perform the Operation was’ theDifpute ; at fength' the Carpenter was appointed, as the moft proper Man: Upon which, he fetch’d up the big= geft Saw, and taking the Limb under his Arm, fell té Work, and ‘feparated: it from the Body’ of thé Patient, in as little Time as he could have cuta Deal Board in two ;'after that he heated his Ax red hot inthe Fire, and cauteriz’d the Wound, but not with fo much Art as he perform’d the other ae ii , or Vv TROIS Ny) VIVIL ILIV LIV EVE VEY OVE VSEVEV AVE VOUS i a | Of Capt. PHILLIPS: 408 for he fo burnt his Flefh diftant from the Place of Amputation, that it had like to have mortify’d ; however nature perform’d a Cure at laft without a- ny other A ffiftance. ie r From Tobago they ftood away to the Northward and took a Portuguexe bound for Brazil, and two or three Sloops from Yamaica, in one of which, Fern the Carpenter, ‘endeavouring to go off, was kilPd by Phillips the Captain, purfuant to their Articles ; ano- ther had the fame Fate fome Days after for the like Attempt. -Thefé Severities made it dangerous for, any to‘confult or project an Efcape ; the Terror of which made feveral fign their Articles and fet down quietly, waiting impatiently for Redemption, which - as yet they faw no great likelyhood of, and: fhould they have been taken before fuch Circumftances appear’d in-itheir’ A&tions or Characters, as after) wards happen’d, to denote their Innocence, they might have loft their Lives upon a Tryal ata Court of Admiralty ; for pretty ftrong Evidence is ex- petted in their Favour, to ballance that of being taken aboard a Veffel which i: prov'd to be in attuak racy, and they aflifting therein. I3 els Beet was fey an opel Man’s Cafe made moft: defperate by the confummate Villany ofa few hard- ned Wretches, who fear neither God or Devil, as. this Phillips us’d often blafphemoufly to exprefs imfelfi : ts fe On the 2th of Afarch they took two Ships from Virginia for London, Fobn Phillips, the Pyrate Captain’s Namefake, was Mafter of one; and Captain Robert Mortimer, the other; a brisk young Fellow, that de- ferv’d a better Fate than he met with. Phillips the Pyrate ftaid on Board of Captain Aortimer's Ship; while they tranfported the Crew to the Sloop, and the Boat returning along fide, one of the Pyrates therein calls to Phillips, and tells him, there was a Mutiny aboard their sag Mortimer hadtwo en i ; c te Shy pu STs As = \ Ri ape th ta SVS vTy BYEVLIVEY Ty SY UEy c) Vag Vay TRY WS aw Of Capt. FoHN PHILLIPS. 403. There was one. Jahn Philmore of Ipfmich, formerly ‘taken by them, ordered to row Cheefeman aboard of Mortimer’s Ship, which the Pyrates . poilets’d theméelves of, who, feeing with what Re aes and Uneafinels Cheefeman was brought away, tol “462. Of Capt. PHILIPLS. > in his Ship, and the Pyrate Captain had two, thete® ’ fore thought it a good Opportunity to recover hi « - Ship, and dire&ly took up a Handfpike and ftruck | Phillips over the Head, giving him a dangerous: wound;-but not knocking him down, he recovered ‘hin, he would join with, him, in iome Meatirres and wounded Adortimer with his Sword 3 and the two: to ovei-throw the pyratical. Government, tellin Pyrates” that. were aboard. coming in to Captain ; him witha] their, prefenct Condition, what Diff- Philips’s Afaftance, Captain A4Zortimer was prefently cut to Pieces, while his own two Men ftood. by and‘ _ did nothing. Lgmorais Sods bed w5it - This was the firft Voyage that AdZortimer had the. Command of a Veffel, by, whofe Death’ is a poor: difconfolate Widow made miferable, more in res gard of the mutual Loye.and Fidelity they lived in, than the Lofs of what would have been a handfome and comfortable Provifion for themfelves and Chil-° dren, which, I think, now ought to be made up by the Publick, fince ’twas in the publick Service he fell;..for had his Attempt. fiicceeded, in all Pro- bability he would not only have regained his own Ship, but entirely -fubdued and deftroy’d) the, Enemy, there being feveral, as it afterwards pros ved, that would have feconded fuch an Enterprize when ever they founda Beginning made...) © - This, Affair ended’ without any~ other. Confe- quence than a ftritt Search after.a Brother: of Cap-: tain Mortimer, who. was! on Board, in. order to: - have put him likewife to death; but he had the! good Fortune, to meet with a Townflman among the Crew, who hid him for four and twenty Hours! jn aStay-Sail, tillthe Heat of their Fury was over, ’ and by that Means happily miffed of the Fate de- figned him. sa cats 9it4 . Out of the other’ Virginia Man before fpoken of, they took one Edward Chée/eman, a Carpenter, to fupply the Place of their late Carpenter, Ferm. He: was a modeft fober young Man, very averfe to - their unlawful Practice, anda brave gallant ss iit : o2 There ‘culties Phi lip shad met with to make up his Com- pany, and how few voluntary Pyrates there were on. Board, and the like. But, however fpecious. this feemed,. Gheeféman out of Prudence rejefted hig Offers oF Adiitance, till he fay fome Proofs of his Sincerity, which after a few Days he was convinced of, and then they often confulted; but as the old Pyrates were always jealous of the new Comers, and , confequently obfervant of their Behaviour , this was done with the utmoft Caution, chiefly when they wete lying down together, as tho’ afleep, and, at other Times, when they were playing vat Cards; bot Ne they feigned often .to do for that..Purpole, aot i saints a ; ee! Pyrates went on all the while, plundering and robbing feveral Ships and Veffels, bending their Courfe towards Newfoundland, where they defigned ‘to raife more Men, and do all the Mifchief they could on the Banks, andinthe Harbours, Newfoundland is an Mland.on the North Continent & € America, contained, between the 46 and 53° of igen? difcovered frit by St. Sebaftion Cabot “A. D..1497, but never. fettled till the Year isto; when Mr... Guy. of Briffol revived the Affair, and ‘obtained a Patent, and himfelf to be.Governor. The Iland is deferted by the Natives and neglected by. us, being defolate and Woody, and the, Coaft ‘and Harbour only held for the Conveniency of the Cod Fifhery, for which alone they were fettled, Gea ena » “404 Of Capt. FOHN PHILLIPS. ' The Baysand Harbours about it, are very nu- merous and convenient, and being deeply indented, makes it eafy for any Intelligence quickly to’ pafs from one Ha‘ bour to another over Land ; efpecially the principal, St. Yobn’s and Placentia, when the Ap- pearance ofan Enemy makes them apprehend Danger. _ They are able to cure and export about 1C¢0000 Quintals (roo Weight each) of Fith, annually, which returns to Exgland in Money, or the necef- Lary Commodities of Portugal, Spain and Italy. « As it therefore expends abundance of Rum, Moloffus and Sugar, the Produ& of our Weft-India Colonies, and employsa Number of Fifhermen from home every Seafon, by whofe Induftry and Labour only this Fifh is purchafed, it may very. well be reckon’d an ad- vauntagious Branch of Trade. Ries Se, But the prefent Defign of this Digreffion being: not to give an exatt Defcription of the Country or Fifhery; but rather how it accidentally con- tributes to raife, or fupport the Pyrates already rais’d, I fhall obferve, Cake che apt ay Sect — Firft, That our Weft Country Fifhing-Ships, oz. from Topfham, Barnftable and Briftol, who chiefly at- tend the Fifhing Seafons, tranfport over a confi- derable Number of poor Fellows every Summer, whom they engage at ow. Wages, and are by their Terms to pay for Paffage back to England. When the Newfoundland Ships left that Country, towards Winter, in the Year 1720, thefe Paffengers mufter’d tro0, who, during the Seafon of Bufinefs, (the Hardnefs of their Labour, and Chilnefs of the Nights, pinching them very much) are moftly fond of drinking Black Strap, (a ftrong Liquor ufed there, and made from Rum, Moloffus, and Chow- der Beer 3) by this the Majority of them out-run the Conftable, and then are neceffitated to come. under hard Articles of Servitude for their Mainte- napce in the Winter; no ordinary Charge, fades, oie ae when Of Capt. JOHN PHILLIPS. 4054 — when the Barreinefs of the Country is confider’d, and the Stock o. Provifion laid in, happen to fall fhort, in Proportion to the Computation made of the People remaining there the Winter, which are generally about 17 or 1800. The Matters refiding there think Advantages taken on their Necelfities, no more than a juit and lawful Gains and either bind fuch for the next. Summer’s Service, or fell their Provifions out to them at extravagau.t Rates ; Bread from 158. to 50, immediately at the depar- ting of the Ships, and fo of other forts of Food in Proportion ; wherefore not being able to fubfitt themfelves, or inany likely Way ot clearing the Reckoning to the Mafters, they fometimes run away with shallops and Boats, and begin on pyrati- cal Exploits, as Phillips and his Companions, whom we are now treating of, had done. ~ And fecondly (which is more opportunely for them,) they are vifited every Summer, almott, by fome Set of Pyrates or other, already rais d, who cail here for the fame Purpofe, (if young Beginners) and to lay in a Store of Water and Provifions, which they find pporees much or little, by all the Ships that ufe the Trade. pope this Country Phillips was making his Way, and took on the Voyage, befides thofe above- mentioned, one Salter, 10a Sloop off the Ifle of Sa- bles, which Veilel they made ufe of themfelves, and gave back Mortimer’s ship tothe Mate andrew. The fame Day, viz. the qth of April, took a Scooner, one Chadwell, Matter, which they fcuttled, in or- der to fink; but Capt. Phillips underftanding that fhe belong’d to Mr. A4inors at Newfoundland, with whofe Velfel they firft went off a pyrating, aQualm of Confcience came athwart his Stomach, and he faid to. his Companions, We have done him Injury enough already 3 10 Sees ae ai Homeciately to repaired, and return’d her to the Matter. peat Cc 3 That 4eo. Of Capt: FOHN PHILLIPS. . That Afternoon they chac’d another Veffél, and’ at Night: came up with her, the Mafter of which’ Was a Sait of New-England, nam’d Dependance Elle~ ry, who-takiig Phillips for a Pyrate, he told him was the Reafon that he gave him thé Trouble of cha- cing {0 long ; which being refented by thefe Men of Honour, they made poor Dependance dance abotit the Deck til he wasiweury.220 0 <0 raul ba ( Within few Days feveral other Veffels had the fame Misfortune, the Mafters Namés were as fol- low, ‘Fofhud Elivel!, Samuel Elwell, Mi. Combs, Mrs Lav- fY, Fame’ Babfton, Edmard Fretiiab, Mr. Starts Obe- dith Beal, Erick Erickfon and Bexjamin Wheeler. > The rath of April they-took a Sloop belonging to Cape Ain, Andrem Harradine Matter; they look’d upon this Veffel more fit for theit Purpofe, and fa came aboard, keepifig oily. the Mafter of her Pris foner, aid fending Farradine’s Crew away in’ Sal- res Vettel, which ‘they; till this Time, detain’d! To this Harradine, Cheeferran the Carpenter, broke ‘his Mind, ‘and brought him into the Confederacy to defitoy ‘the Crew, which was put in Execution four Days afterwardsei6) 9) ys Harrading’ and the reft were for doing the Bu- - finefs'in thé Night, as believing they might be more opportunely furpriz’d; for Nur, thé Mafter, being a ellow of wreat Strength, and no lefs Courage, it was thought dangerous to attack him without'Fire-Arms ; however, Checfeman was refolute ‘to’ have it pér- form’d by Day-light, as the leaft Hable to Contu- fion; and as to the Mafter, he offer?d to lay Hands on him firft; Upon this “eas cohcluded on, 12 at Noon was the appointed Time; inordér for the Bufi- nefsCheefeman leaves his working Tools'on the Deck, as though he had -been going to ufe them, and wals ked aft; but perceiving fome Signs of Timidity in Harrgdine, he comes pack, fetches his Brandy Bottle and gives ‘him and the reft a Dram, then drnak tq Shean ® Of Gopt. JOHN PHIEL TPs. to Burril, the Boatiwain, next merry Meeting, and up he takes:a Turn with Wut, as : d-fuch like. . of ate tae and turns it found. up- Poi if at Play, then both he and Har- eae him, thereby letting him know they sua “ready ; upon which Signal he {eizes Nut hy the Collar, with one. - Filemore ta to{s’d him over by Cheefeman’s Sleeve, phat are you going to do, Ca yeaa ary Queftion, ” are a dead Man, 10 ftrikes him over the Arm, Nut oofes his Hold, tumbles into the Sea, and never an ununece - {poke more. By this time t cas Filemore pate His Enemy’s Head in two: The Noife brought the Captain upon Deck, whom Cheefe- man faluted witht his Jaw-Bone, radine came int the Gun ous : Pope Phillips, Cheefeman trips up his Heels, and 2 him into the Arms of Charles Fuymay, one of flung his Conforts, ‘e Sen Ane av) , ge ufinefs' with the Captain aforefaid : _paffed his B Cheefernan hott sd, and was abc he Brains i Hold, and was about to beat out the Brai of sare the Quarter-Mafter, having {track him 407 and the Mafter, To rheir he puts the Bottle ; then king what he thought In the mean while | Hand ‘between’ his Legs, and the Side of the Veffel, but, he holding {aid; Lord have Merey upon me! ypeoter ? He told him it was For, fays he, Afaffer, you he Boat{wain was dead; for as foon e Mafter laid hold of, he raifed up he Blow of a Mallet, which broke but did. not knock him down, Han hen with the Carpenter’s Adds, but ner, interpofing between him and who that Inftant difcharg’d him in- } at the fame Time Harradine com- no Time, but from the Deck jumps two or three Blows with his blunt Weapon the Mal- “Jet, when Harry Giles, ter him, and sdence of their own Innocence, that he having - meee Spoil and Plunder in his Cuftody, it may ap- nt thefe-tragick Proceedings were not un-, pear, that th 5 dertaken ayoung Lad, came down af- defirrd his Life might be fpar’d, as an Ce 4 408 Of Capt. FOHN PHILLIPS, dertaken with any difho.ieft View of. feizing or ap- propriating the Effects to them{elves; which pru- lent Advice prevail’d, and he and three more were made Prifoners, and fecured.. no 645-36 The Work being done, they went about Ship, al- tered the Courfe from Nemfoundland to Boffon, and arrived fafe the 3d of May following, to the great Joy of that Province, On the rath of Afay, 1 724, a {pecial Court of Ad- miralty was held for the Tryal of thefe ‘Pyrates, when John Filmore, Edward Cheefeman, John Combs, FTenry Giles, Charles luymay, John Bootman, and Hey- ry Payne, the feven that ‘confederated together for the Pyrates Deftruction, were honourably’ acquit. ted; as alfo three French Men, Sohn Baptis, Peter Faf- fery, and Ifaac Laffen, and three Negroes, Pedro, Frau- cifto, and Pierra. And John Rofe Archer, the Quarter- Mattes, Wiliam White, William Taylor, and William Phillips, were condemned ; the two latter were re- _prieved for a Year anda Day, in order to be re- commended (though I don’t know for what) as Ob- jects of his Majefty’s Mercy. The two former were executed on the 2d of Fuze, and dy’d very penitent- ly, making the following Declarations at the Place of Execution, with the Affiftance of two. grave Di- vines that attended them, The dying Declarations of John Rofe Archer i nds William White, on the Day of their Exe- _ Vion at Bofton, June 2, 1724, for the Crimes of Pyracy, . SE ai . Firft, feparately, of Archer. : Na J Greatly bewail my Profanations of the Lord’s Day, and my Difobedience to my Parents. "And my Curfing and Swearing, and my blafpe- yning the Name of the glorious Go : Unto Of Capt. FOHN PHILLIPS. 409 . Unto\which | have added, the Sins of Unchaftity. AndI have provoked the Holy One, at length, to »deave me unto the Crimes of Pyracy and Robbery ; “ nave at laft, | have brought my felf under the Guilt of Murder alto. ~~ But one Wickednefs that has led me as much 11 the reft, has been my brutifh Drua- Tennslats By ftrong Drink I have been heated and hardened into the Crimes that. are now more bit- th unto me. ae pa swith that Mafters of Veffels would not ufe _ their Men with fo much Severity, as many of them _ do, which expofes to great Temptations, _ And then of hokage on ous Tam now, with Sorrow, reaping the Fruits of my Difobedience to my Parents, who ufed their Endea- yours to have me inftructed in my Bible, and my Catechifm. : ; Fruits of my negletting the publickWor- Gaon ae and prophaning the holy Sabbath. And of my blafpheming the Name of God, my ~ Maker. Jand in '* But my Drunkennefs has had a great Han Sey Ruin upon me. I was drunk when I iced aboard the Pyrate, ae ey huacntes for all the vile Things I did aboard, I own the Juftice of God and Man, in what is done unto me. = + "OF both together. ‘We hope, we truly hate the Sins, whereof we have the Burthen lying fo heavy upon our Con- i S. A ioher sf #43 : avec all People, and particularly young Peo- ple, againft fuch Sins as thefe. We with, all may take Warning by us. We beg for Pardon, for the fake of Chrift, our is in him : ! thar- -'Saviour ; isin himalones Oh ! thar “Saviour ; and our Hope 4iz cato = Of \Capt. ae PHIDTIPS. Sy bis Blood our fers ng et, sages ~Y be all i “ed away! >. of ' We ate fos fible of | an hard: ‘Hades in) us: full of °NWickednefs.: Andi we look eel (God! for his renew-~ ing Grace upon us. We bletis God for:the ee 36 Repentance neh Pay has given uss and that he has tiot cut us off in’ bthe! wid and Heig hth of our-Wickednefs.. + ~< We arenot ata Hope, that God fs ides fa- ingly at work upon our Soulsicc © ' We are made fenfible of out abtbliite Need of the eBighteouthet of Chrift; thatavé may ftand jufti- fied before God in that, We. renounce. all Depen- danee on our own. We are humbly thankful to® the Minifters of w@hrift, for the aut Pains they have taken for’ our Good’ The Lord Reward their Kinduefs. a5 = We don’t Detpair of Mercy 5 ‘Chrift that when we dye, we {hall find. ‘Mercy: with “God, and be received into his Kingdom. We with ory ane efj Letty ‘the Sea-faity, Bn ie us. aS 5 te - uw. Date is Declared id the Bre Pike fa put hope, through SO ET ELs Hist ; 2 { on vs Aa opetnian eo tee XVI rout te Capesin SPR 1G GS i “And his Crew. or or gs | Glen. ich, Low for aerane while, ‘and I believe came away from Lowther, along with him; he was Quarter-Mafter to the Compa- ny, and confequently had a.great Share in all tie Batbaritiescommitted by that execrable Gang, till the Time they parted; which. was, about, Chrift= er Jatt, when Low took a Ship of 22 Guns,jon the | aft afi Guiney, called the Delight,(formerly the Squir- rel Man of \Warj) commanded, by Captain. Flynt. Spriggs took: Poffeffion. of the.Ship, with eighteen Mens left Low in the Night, and came to oe Weft+ Joddinnd:s Thid Separation was occafioned by a Quar- rel with Lom, concerning a Piece of Juice Spris would have executed upon one of the Crew, yo killing a Man in cold Blood, as they call it, one in- fifting that he dhould be- hang’d, and. ‘the other that hefhould not. © -oA Day or two after they oe ‘Syria was chofe Captain by -the reft, and a black Enfign was, made, which ‘they called *cfolly Rogers ,with the fame ,De- yice that Captain Dow carried, viz. awhite Skeliton ay iythe Middie of it, with a Rart in-One Hand ftrik- PY erty Bae ps VOY EY TUEEVIV TV SV IVT VSVEV EV EV aU MK ay prhnictiaina tbat dala to nde hike wade CF aS ti che esd Reena Be BEND IESE ss ew oTor 4i2 Of Captain SPRIGGS. ing ableeding Heart, and inthe other, an Hour- Glafs; when this was finifhed and hoifted, they fired all their Guns to falute their Captain and themfelves, and‘then looked out for Prey. - Intheir Voyage to the Weft.Jndies, thefe Pyrates took a Portuguefe Bark, wherein they got valuable Plunder, but not contented with that alone, they faid they would have a little Game with the Men, and fo ordered them a Sweat, more for the Brutes _ Diverfion, than the poor Mens Healths; which Operation is performed after this Manner,; they. fiick up lighted Candles circularly round the Mi- zon-Maft, between Decks, within which the Pati- ents one ata Time enter ; without the Candles, the Pyrates poft themfelves, as many as can ftand, forming another Circle, and armed with Pen- Knives, Tucks, Forks, Compafles, Ge. and as he runs round and round, the Mufick’playing at the fame Time, they prick him with thofe Inftuments ; this ufually lafts fur 10 or 12 Minutes, which is as Jong as the miferable Man can fupport himfelft When the Sweating was over, they gave the Porru- guefe their Boat with a fmall Quantity of Provifions, and fet their Veflelon Fire 9 9 Near the Ifland of St. Lucia, they took a Sloop belonging to Barbadoes; which they plundered, and then burnt, forcing fome of the Men to fign their Articles, the others°they beat aud cut in a barba- yous Manner, becaufe they refufed to take on with the Crew, and then fent them away in the Boat, whoall got fafe afterwards to Barbadoes. [ia ~The next was a Afartinico Man, which they fer- Z ved as bad asthey had done the others, but did not burn their Ship... Some Days afterwards in run- ning ‘down to Leeward, they took one Captain Hawkins, coming from Yamaica, loaden chiefly with Logwood; they took out of her, Stores, Arms, Ammunition, and feveral other Things, as they thought Of Captain SPRIGGS. Aig thought fit,” and what they did not want they threw over-board or deftroy d; they cut the Ca- ‘ples to pieces, knocked down the Cabins, broke all the Windows, ‘and in fhort took all the Pains it ‘the World to be Mifchievous. They took by ‘Force, out of her, Mr. Burridge and Mr. Stephens, ‘the two Mates, and fome other Hands; and after detaining the Ship from the 22d of March, to the ‘20th, they let her go. On the 27th they took a ‘Rhode Ifland Sloop, Captain Pikes and all his Men were obliged to go aboard the Pyrate; but the ‘Mate being a grave fober Man, and not inclinable to ftay, they told him, he fhould have’ his Dif charge, and that it fhoutd be immediately writ on this Back’; whereupon he was fentenced to receive ten Lafhes ftom every Manin the Ship, which was -rigoroufly put in Execution. Seeapyy “es “> The next Day Mr. Burridge, Captain Hawkins’s Mate, fign’d their Articles, which was fo agreéa- ple to them (he being a good Artift and Sailor) that they gave three Huzza’s, fir’d all the Guns in the Ship, and appointed him Mafter: The Day was fpent in boyfterous Mirth, roaring and drink- ing ‘of Healths, among’ which was, by Miftake, that of King George the II. for you muft know, now and then the Gentry are provok’d to fudden Fits of Loyalty, by the Expettation ‘of an A& of Grace: It feems Captain Pike had heard at Yamaica that the King was dead, fo the Pyrates immediately hoifted their Enfign Half-Maft (the Death Signa!) and proclaim’d his Royal Highnelfs, faying, They doubted not but there would be a general Pardon ia a tivelve Month, which they would embrace and come in up- on, but damn em if they fhould be excepted out of it, they would murder every Eng\ihman that fhould fall into their Hands. : "> The fecond of April, they {py’d a Sail, and gave her Chace till 12 o’Clock at Night, the Pyrates he lieve them Powder and Ball, and a Mufquet, with which 414 Of Captain SPRIGGS, lieved her to be a Spauiard, when they came clofe up toher, they difcharged a Broadfide, with {mall and. great Shot, which was follow’d by another, byt the Ship making a, lamentable Cry for Quarters, they ceas’d firing, and ordered the Captain to come aboard, which he did, but how.difappointed the Rogues were when they found ’twas their old Friend Captain Hamkins, whom they had fent,away three Days, before, worth not one Penny, ?,. This was fuch a Baulk to them, that, they refolved he should faf- _ fer for: falling in their Way, tho’ it, was fo contra- ry to his own Inclinations: About.15 of them firs rounded the poor Man with fharp, Cutlathes, and fell.upon. him, syhereby he was.;foon aid flat on the Déck ; at that Inftant Buridge flew amongt the thickeft of the. Villains, and begg’d earnefily for his Life, upon whofe. Requeft: twas granted. They. were now moft of ’em drunk, as is ufyal at this Time of Night, fo they ynanimoufily agreed to make a\ Bonfire of Hawkins’s Ship, which was im- eer done, and in half an Hour fhe was allofa blaze, Mid pein oges brs jertte ed} . After this, they. wanted a little more Diyerfion, and fo Captain Hawkins was fent for down to the Cabin. to Supper; what fhould the Provifion be, “but a Difh of Candles, which he was forced to eat, shaving a. naked Sword and a Piftol held to -his Breaft.all the while; when this was. over, they buffeted him about for fome Time, and. fent him forward amongft the other Prifoners, who had been treated with the fame Delicacies, be? . Two Days afterwards, they anchor’d at a little uninhabited Ifland, call’d Rattan, near the Bay of Hons duras, and put afhore Captain Hawkins, and feveral other Men, (one of them his Paflenger) who dy’d there of the Hardfhips he underwent. | They gave they. DS ae OV BIE V IV BVO US VOUT VEY Of Captain SPRIGGS. they were to fhiftas they could, failing away thenexé Day for other Adventures)» 0) wool oo 2) Captain Aapkins, and his unfortunate. Compani~ ons,. ftaid 19 Days upon this Ifland, fupplying them- felves with both Fifh and Fowl, {uch as they were, at which Time came two Men. in a)Canoe,: that, had -been left.upon another marroon Ifland near Renacca,. who: catryd the Company at fevyerals Times thither, it being.more.convenient in haying a good Well of frefh Water, and Pleuty of .Fith, Gec... Twelve Days afterwards they, fpy’d. a Sloop of at Sea, which,-upon their making a great Smokes! food in, and took them off ; fhe was the Aderriam, Captain Fones, lately.efcaped out of the Bay of Ho's duras, fom being taken by. the Spaniards... ow At an Mand tothe Weftward, the Pyrates clean’d their Ship, and fail’d. towards. the Mland of Ste Chriftophers, to wait for one Captain Afvor, who coma manded the Eagle Sloop, when fhe took Lowrber’s upon the Careen, at, Blanco 5 Spriggs refolved to put him to Death, whenever he took him, for falling upon his Friend and Brother, but inftead of Advory he founda French Man of Wax from, Aartinica, up= on the Coaft, which Spriggs not thinking fit to con« tend with, run away with all the; Sail he could make, the French Man crowded after him, and was very, likely to fpeak with Mr. Spriggs, when une fortunately his: Main-Fop-Maft came by the Boards " which obliged him to give over the Chace. ahi _ Spriggs then, ftood to the Northward, towards Burmudas, or the Summer Iles, and took a Scooner belonging to Boffoa, he took out all the Men: and funk the Veffel,,and had. the Impudence to tell the Mafter, that he defigned to encreafe his Compa ny on the Banks of Newfoundland, and then would fail for the Coatt: of Wem-England in queft of Cap- tain Solgard, who attagk’d and took their Confort: Charles Harris; Spriggs being then in Low's Sloop, who . & . WO ys \! " x: é “8 Wé ANA RCE aS ‘* Ny NY NS a SSDNA SUS Soe AS 5 Seen DE Toy ee ne fa NY » Se SSS ee eee eee era rye Sp As SRAR AR ‘ « 1 é)y « a . oN weal: QD " Nb wl AN} AN bh NY 16 Of Captain SPRIGGS, who very fairly run for it. The Pyrate ask’d tlie Matter if he knew Captain Solgard, who an{wering No; he ask’d another the fame Queftion, and then a third, who faid he knew him very well, uport’ which Spriggs ordered him to be fweated, which was done in the Manner before deferib’d. Ove 38 Inftead of going to Newfoundland as the Pyrates. threat’ned, they came back to the Iflands, and to. Windward of St: Chriffophers, on the 4th of Sune laft, took a Sloop; Nicholas Trot Matter, belonging” to St. Enffatia, and wanting a little Diverfion, they ° hoifted the Men as high as the Main and Fore Tops; .and Jet them run down amain, enough to break all. the Bones in their Skins, and after they had pret- ty well crippled them by this cruel Ufage, and whipp’d them about the Deck, they gave Tyor his Sloop, and let him go, keeping back only 2 of ‘his Men, befides the Plunder of the Veilél. 3 Within two or three Days they took a Ship coz Ming from Rbode-Ifland to St. Chriftophers, loaden ? mounted the Horfés and rid them about the Deck backwards and forwards a full Gallop, like Mad« men at New-Market, curfing, fwearing, and hallow. ing, at fuch a Rate, that made the poor Creatures wild, andat length, two or three of them throw. mg their: Riders, they fell upon the Ship’s Crew, and whipp’d, and cut, and beat them ina hevbatens Manner, telling them, it was for bringing Horfes without Boots and Spurs, for want of which they Were not abletoridethem. = This is the laft Account we have had of Captain riggs, 1 thall only add the two following Relations, and conclude. With Provifions and fome Horfes ; the Pyrates 7 Brigantine belon ing to Briftol, one Afr. Roma & 7y Mafter, had been trading at Gambia, in Africa, and falling as low as Cape A4ounr, to finith | the Shy: apne toa _ TTT TET Te a - ~~ SS / ae Thea ST & ‘ ~ * . | ( 417 ) . the flavirig of the Veffel, he had, by a Misfortune ufual at that Part of the Coaft, his Mate, Surgeon, and two more of his Men, * Panyarr'd by the Ne- groes. ©The Remainder of his Company, which was not above 5 or 6 in Number, took this Opportunity, and feiz’d the Veffel in the Road, making the Ma- fter Prifoner. © “ : You will think it prodigious impudent that fo finall. a Number fhould undertake to proceed a pyrating, efpecially when neither of them had fuf- ficient Skill in Navigation: Yet this they did, lea- ving thofe People, their Ship-Mates abovemention’d, to the Mercy of the barbarous Natives, and fail’d away down the Coaft, making them a black Flag, which they merrily faid, would be as good as 50 Men more, i.e. would carry as much Terror; and that they did not doubt of foon increafing their Crew, to put them in an enterprizing Capacity ; but their vain Projection was foon happily fruftrated, and after this Manner. ‘The Mafter whofe Life they had preferved, (per- haps orily for fupplying their own Unskillfulnefs in Navigation,) advited them, that fince contrary to their Expettations, they had met with no Ship between Cape Mount, aud the B'te ef Calabar, to pro- ceed to the Ifland of St. Thomas’s, where they might recruit with Provifions and Water, and fell off the Slaves (about 70 of them) which they perceived would be a ufelefs Lumber, and incommodious to their Defign. They arrived there in Auguft 1721, and one Evening, while Part of them were on Shore, applying for this Purpofe to the Governor, and the other Part carelefly from the Deck, Mr. Rowry ftepp’d into the Boat belonging to the Veifel, and puthed off, very fuddenly: They heard the ‘Noife * Term for ftealing of Men ufed all over the Coafe : Dd ving SY. We Tw yy, i) ” ye. tw le, "no ey ~ . on t Xe BFE VI FOIE VOU VA EV aU ( 418 ) ving no other Boat to purfue, nor a Musket, ready to fire, he got fate on Shore, and ran to the Gover- nor with his Complaint, who immediately impri- foned thofe already there, and fent a Launch off to take the reft out of the Ship. _ The Swallow arrived at St. Thomas’s the Beginning of Oétober following, where, on Mr. Rowry’s Remon-, ftrance/ Application was made to the Portuguefe Go- vernor of that Ifland, fora Surrendery of thefe five . -Englifh Prifoners then in the Caftle; but he noton- -. ly peremptorily excufed himfelf from it, jas a Mat- ter out of his Power, without particular Direé&tion . from the Court: of Portugal, but withal infinuated, that they had only taken Refuge there from the. Hardhhips and. Severity they had met with from their Mafter, The manner of Denial, and the ava- ritious Temper of the Gentleman, which I had Oc- cafion to be acquainted with, makes it very fufpi- cious, that he propofed confiderable Gains to him- felf; for if Mr. Rowry had not made fuch an Efcape to him, the Slaves had been his for little or nothing, asa Bribe to filence his Sufpicions, which any Man, lefs acute than he, muft have had from the awkward and unskilful Carriage of fueh Merchants. But e- nough of this; perhaps he is not the only Governor abroad that finds an Intereftin countenancing thefe Fellows. ; 12,e Ne MA Ee NE EOE SA NESE, ME SIA SE Me OA. SAIS Ne. oe, NEDCNGNOSIGNON NO nIGoLCo COGE:CBORONCHEDSRICD GES ae Pi oy, Sais An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, ce. is G - EAilip Roche was bornin Jreland,and from hisYouth _ had been bred up to the Sea; he was, a. brisk xenteel Fellow, of 30 Years of Age at the Time of his Death; one whofe black and favage Nature did no ee | ¢ ato ) rie ho Ways anfwer the Comlinefs of his Perfon, his Life being almoft one continued Scene of Villany, be+ fore he was difcovered to have committed the hor- tid Murders we are now {peaking of. This inhumane Monfter had been concerned with others, in infuring Ships to a great Value, and then déftroying them ; by which Means, and other Rogueries, the had got a little Money 3 and being Mate of a Ship, was dilligent enough in trading for himfelf between Ireland and France, fo that he was ina Way of wetting himfelf a comfortable Liveli- Tiood : But, as he refolved to be rich, and finding fiir Dealing brought in Wealth but flowly, he con= triv’d to put other Things in Execution, and cers tainly ‘had murthered feveral innocent Perfons in the Profecuation of his abominable Schemes; but as I ‘have now forgot the particular Circumftances of thof Relations, { fhall confine my felf at prefent to the Faé for which he fuffer’d. Ps Roch getting acquainted with one Neal, a Fifher= man at Cork, whom he found ready for any villainous Attempt, he imparted his Defign to him, who be- ing pleas’d with the Project, brings one Pierce Cullen aad his Brother into the Confederacy, together With one Wife, who at firft was very unwilling to come into theit Meafures, and, indeed, had the leaft Hand it'the Perpetration of what follows. They pitch’d Le a Veffel in the Harbour, bes longing to Peter Tartowe, a French Man, to execute their cruel Intentions upon, becaufe it was a {mall one, and had not a great Number of Hands on Board, attd “twas eafy afterwards to éxchange it for one tore fit for Pyracy , and therefore they ap- ply’d themfelves to the Mafter of her, for a Paffie to Nantz, whereto the Ship was bound; and accor- dingly, the Beginning of November 1721, they went aboard, and when at Sea, Philip Roche being an expe. rienced Sailor, the Mafter of the Veilél teadily semi ey Da thufted : A ‘> 4 ~-s a, ae os they’ LEMON) v SUES eyes « WANN ( 420 ) trufted him with the Care of her, at times, while he and the Mate went to reft. sf The 15th of November, at Night, was the Time defigned for the Tragedy ; but Francis Wife relented, and appear’d defirous to divert them from their bloody Purpofes. Roche (fometimes called Cap- tain) told him, That as Cullen and he had fuftained great Loffes at Sea, unlefs every [rifhman prefent would alfift in repairing their Loffes, by murthering allthe French Rogues, and: running away with the Ship, he fhould fuffer the fame.Fate with the French Aden ; but if all mould af- fift, all [ould have a Share in the Booty. Upon this, they all refolved alike, and Captain Roche, ordered three Frenchmen.and a Boy up to hand the Topfails, the Mafter and Mate being then afleep in their Ca- bins, The two firft that came down, they beat out their. Brains and threw them over-board; The other two feeing what was done, ran up to the Top- maft Head, but Cullen followed them, and taking the Boy by the Arm, toft him into the Sea; then dri- ving down the Man, thofe below knocked him on the Head, and threw him over-board. | ~ Thole who were afleep, being awakened by the difmal Skrieks and Groans of dying Men, ran upon Deck in Cohfufion, to enquire into the. Caufe of fuch unufual Noifes; but the fame Cruelty was immediately acted towards them, e’er they. could befenfible of the Danger that threat’ned: them. They were now (as Roche himfelf. afterwards cons fefs’d) all over as wet with the Blood that, had. been fpilt, as if they had been dipp'd in Water, or flood in a Shower of Rain, nor did they cegard. it any more. . Roche. faid, Captain Tartoue ufed. many Words for Mercy, and asked them, if he had nor ufed them with Civility and Kindnefs? If they were not of the fame Chri ftian Religion, and owned the fame bleffed Fe/us, an the like ? But they, not regarding what he faid, rook Cords and bound the poor Mafter and_ his ic are ~ Mate DE EE ray SEC Tg Oe : wo ye esa UTS PV GY BL IV VV IY SV OEY OVE VEE ey gyn Ca a. © fr Og a 9 a “ - 4 .. j A Hy i it ae =f tp OO eS J Sto a~ STs. @ Ne Mate Back to Back, and while that was doing, both of them begged with the utmoft Earneftneis, and ufed the moft folemn Intreaties, that they would at leaft allow them afew Minutes to fay their Pra- yers, and beg Mercy of God for the various Sins and Offences'of their Lives: But-it did not move them, Sig allthe reft were dead, and no Danger could e apprehended from them two alone) for the bound ‘Perfons were hurry’d up and thrown into the Sea. The Maffacre being finifhed, they wafhed them- felves a little from the Blood, and fearched the Chefts and Lockers, and all Places about the Ship, and then fet down in the Captain’s Cabin, and refrefhed themfelves with fome Rum they found there, atid (as Roche confefled) were never merrier in their Lives. They invefted Roche with the Command of the Ship, and calling him Captain, talked over their Liquor, what rare Attions they would perform about Cape Briton, Sable Ifle, and the Banks of Newfoundland, whither they defigned to go as foon as they had recruited their Company, and got a better Ship, which they propoled {pee- dily to do, Roche taking upon himfelf the Command of the Velfel, Andrew Cullen was to pafs for a Merchant or Super-cargo; but when they bethought themfelves, that they were in Danger of being difcovered by the Papers of the Ship, relating to the Cargo, as Bills of Lading, cc. therefore they erafe and take out the Name of the French Mafter, and inftead thereof. inferted the Name of Roche, fo that it ftood in the Ship’s Papers, Peter Roche Mafter; that then having ‘fo few Hands on Board, they contri- ved if they met any Ships, to give out, that they had loft fome Hands by their being wafhed over- board ina Storm, and by that Means fcreen them- felves from being fufpetted of having committed fome fuch wicked Act, by Reafon of the Fewnefs of aoe Dd 3 their —- - - e-t—r ee a Ee Ss ae id ts off 6.42% 2°" ( 433 ) their Hands on Board; and alfo might. prevail with fome Ship to {pare them fome, on Confideration their pretended Difafter. In going to Cales they were in Diftrefs by the Weather, and being near Lishon, they made Com- plaint toa Ship, but obtained no Affiftance. They were then obliged to fail back for England, and put into the Port of Dartviouth; but then they were in fear leaft they might be difcovered, therefore to pre- vent that, they refolve to. alter the Ship, and getting Workmen, they take down the Mizzen-Maft, and build a Spar Deck, and made Rails, (on pretence that the Sailors had been wafh’d overboard) to fe- cure the Men. Then they took down the Image of St. Peter at the Head of the Ship, and put up a Lion in its Place, and painted over the Stern of the Ship with Red, and new nam/’d her the Aggry Snow. The Ship being thus alter’d that they thought it could not be known, they fancy’d themfelves pretty {e- cure ; but wanting Money to defray the Charge of thefe Alterations, Roche, as Mafter of the Veffel, and Andrew Cullen, as Merchant, apply themfelves to the Officers of the Cuftoms for Liberty to difpofe of fome of the Cargo, in order to pay-the Work. men ; which they having obtained, they fold fifty eight Barrels of Beef, and haying hired three more Hands, they fet Sail for Offend, and there having fold more Barrels of Beef, they fteer their Courfe +0 Rotterdam, difpofe of the reft of the Pate and took in one Mr. Asuefy, who freighted the: iP for England; but in their Paffage, in a ftormy Night, it being very dark, they took up Mr. Aanepy their Paffenger, and threw him into the Sea, who fwam about the.Ship a pretty while, calling out for Life, and telling them they fhould have all his Goods, iM they would receive him again into the Veffel : But in yain were his Cries | After eS es After this, they were obliged to put into feve- val. Ports, and by contrary Winds, came to the Coat of France, and hearing there was an Enqui- ry made after the Ship, Roche quits her at Havre de Grace, and leaves the Management to Cullen and the reft ; who having fhipp’d other Men, fail’d away to Scotland, and there quitted the V effel, which was afterwards feized and brought imto the River of Si Time after this, Philip Roche came to London, and making fome Claim for Money, he had made Infirance of, in the Name of Jon Euftace, the Officer was apprized of the Fraud, and he arrefted and flung into. the Compter 5 from whence directing a Letter to his Wife, fhe fhewed it to a Friend, who: difcovered by. it, that he was the principal Villain concerned in the Deftruction of Peter Tartoue, and the Grew. Upon this, an Information was given to my Lord Carteret, that the Perfon who went by the Name of Fobn Euftace, was Philip Roche, as aforefaid ; and being brought down by his Lordihips Warrant, he ftifly deny’d it for fome Time, notwithftanding a Letter was found in his Pocket, directed to him by the Name of Roche, but being confronted by a Captain of a Ship, who knew him well, he con- feffed it, but prevaricated in feveral Particulars ; whereupon he was committed to Nemgare upon violent Sufpicion, and the next Day was brought down again at his own Requett, confeifed the whole, defired to be made an Evidence, and promifed to convict three Men worfe than himfelf. Two were difcovered by him, who died miferably i the Mar- fralfea, and Roche himfelf was afterwards try’d, (no “more being taken,) found Guilty of the -Pyracy, and executed. D d 4. p y An An ABSTRACT of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Re- Jation to Pyracy, = f 4 Pyrate is Hoftis humanis generis, 4 common i Exemy, with whom neither Eaith wor Oath is Sz 10 be kept, according to Tully. And by the a 3 LADS OF Nature, Princes and States are re# Sponfible for their Neglett, if they do xot provide Reme= dies for reflraining thefe fort ‘of Robberies. Though Py- rates are called common Enemies, yet they are properly not to be term’d fo. He is only to be honour’d with that Name, fays Cicero, who hath aCommonwealth, a Court, a Trea- _ fury, Confent and Concord of Citizens, and fome Way, if Occafion be, of Peace and League : But when they have reduced themJelves into a Government or State, as thofe of Algier, Sally, Tripoly, Tunis, aed the like, they then ave allowed the Solemnities of War, and the Rights of Le- ation. p If Letters of Marque be granted to a Merchant, and Be furnifhes cut a Ship, with a Captain and Maviners, and they, inftead of taking the Goods, cr Ships of that Nation Againft whom their Commiffion is awarded, take the Ship and Goods of a Friend, this is Pyracy, and if the Ship arrive in any Part of his Majefty’s Dominions, it will be Seized, and for ever loft to the Owners, but they are no way liable to make Satisfattion. PR hs Uf a Ship is affaulted and taken by the Pyrates, for Re- demption of which, the Mafter becomes a Slave to the Cap- tors, by the Law Marine, the Ship and Lading are tacitly - obliged for his Redemption, by a general Contribution ; but if ore se kat mae i eect a LE am - es pamed, eet it hpben through his own Folly, then no Contribution és to ye pare in Enmity with the Crowa of England, are uglifh Pyrate, in Company with Englith, and Spanien eee: aitd they are taken , it is Felony in the Englifh, but not in the Stranger 5 for it mas e ee vacy in them, but the ple of an Enemy, and they pi j Martial Law. aie 88 ied by Subjeits in Enmity with Eng- land, upon the Britith Seas, it is properly. only rests by the Crown of England, who have iftud. regimen Dominnm exelufive of all other Power. . If Pyracy be committed on the Ocean, and the tyne the Attempt be overcome, the Captors may without ke a : lemnity of Condemnation, bang them up at the hese ard 3 af they are brought to the next Port, and the as lee re= jects the Tryal, or the Captors cannot wait for seid without Peril. or Lofs, Fuftice may be done upon t em by ie Tee chilled be delivered to a Majter, to carry to one Port, and he carries it to another, and fells and difpofes of it, this is not Felony 3 but if, after unlading it at the first Porty it, it 1s Pyracy. ‘ SS : : eS aye a ship and the Mafter for Redemption, gives his Oath to pay a Sum of Money, tho’ there be nothing ‘taken, yet it is Pyracy by the Law deine ? aadiend Ship ¢s riding at Anchor, andthe ariners A yh fhore, and a Pyrate attack her, and rob hers this is Pyracy. If a Man commie Pyracy upon the Subjects of any cae or Republick, (though in Amity with us,) and brings the Goods into England, \and fells them in a Market Overt, the Same {hall bind, and the Owners are for ever excluded. If aPyrate enters a Port of this Kingdom, and robs a _ Ship at Anchor there, it. is not Pyracy, becaufe not done, -faper altum Mare ; but is Robbery at common Law, be- ’ caufe infra Corpus Comitatus. A Pardon of all Felonies dies not extend to Pyracy, but the fame ought to be e/pecially by ————— —— > YEUEVEVELT POR PLOT LOE SURED EVEL TY. ee = fo. wa Wrrg oe r ; ae “ | "uae 3! RS ey I CUS aE US ey ee rea eres a C426 ) a 3 Ww nee : sy : tural born Sub KZ By 28 H. 8. Méurthers and Robberies committed upon By tt and t2-Wex $66 7 Oe ee "Z| the Sea, or in other Places, where the Admiral ook a jects or Demizons of England, gy ae * pS al Seti SFurifdittion, hall be enquired into, try'd, heard, and de- of Hoftility, againft his Majeh a —“y om oa ? ‘in wf enquire of fuch Offences by twelve lawful Men of the Coun- | gh DC AASUALY . ce ae Pa of ay in se ae my fuch Offences were 4 p All Perfons who after the he . ee or prea i oa done at Land, within the fame County; and every Inditt- | foal fe Lightings dace = Ac 5 or (i or fhall AT, ment {0 found and prefented, frall be good in Law; and fuch Pyrate,) commit dy Diba 3 y Keffel. or Goo ¢? pyri so fuch Order, Progrefs, Judgment, and Execution fall be ufed, ipa an ary er cof ry to fuch Pyracy, and had, done, and made thereupon, us against Offenders for cally a nico AAaUaged abecyjary Fe dis nH Murder and Felony done at Land. Alfo the Tryal of fuch fuffer a Eregopars: | : 25 Offences (if they be denied) fhall be bad by twelve Men of 4 id 4G. @. 11, Setk. % rons e yarn: aad ar @ <7. the County, limited in the [aid Commiffion, (as aforefaid,) ted, oF fhall commit any if “i : wid 12.3. +, 4 and no Challenge fall be had for the Hundred: And fuch @ be adjudged Pycates, yy the ot gg vA ee nes 46 fhall be convitt of fuch Offences, {hall fuffer Death with- nay ve tried far query [uch Of st Bs or the T yal of Py- = out Benefit of Clergy, and forfeit Land and Goods, as in the Act 28 H. 8. vi ye Benefit of Clergy. wi 4 o Cafe of Felonies and Murders done at Land. rates , and foall ROE aS EE énd. to Perfons convifted or ze «Ths AB fal we pre xy Been Pesos, Bit be Wit (hk fink ea SNES Soe il | UKE Neceffity ) for taking Vittuals, Cables, Ropes, attainted in SC . ee a! = Saint yond prey he of wits? Ship that may {pare them, Sek. 9, This A - se tag . ae ; Domins aN | fo as they either. pay ready Money, or Afoney worth for them, ons in America, ana be taken 46 4 P , || or give a Bill for the Payment thereof; if on this Side the 1s 25 Straits of Gibraltar, within four Months, if beyond, ee ee , 77 within twelve Adonths. ) 7 ey | When any. fuch Commiffion fhall be fent to any Place ae within the Furifdittion of the Cimque-Ports, it fhall be of | divetted to the Warden of the faid Ports, or his Deputy ¢ S- with three or four ether Perfons, as the Lord Chancellor {hak Name; and the Inquifition or Tyal of fuch Offences, ' there, {hall be made and had, by the Inhabitants of the faid Ports, and Members of the fame. 7 ¢ >» i rt a * , 7 | [a % ; 4 * ita [3 | 4h AN ws . * -— o> ii | ) | ) “SW EVR LY EVES BAN ba SPS . y - Se - wo De ee ee eee _ > wot; - Tvs ’ a7, 3 re > FR e Pew ee? — owt? . ; . ia a _ eer’ 9) a | » we L . . ; ; f- ee » ~ “ ii 4 Pat tag p , | po =o < = we _ | will be publ | j po ke Kee Son feveral C hyrurgical Bobjette | Be De JOHN ATKI Surgeon, | +NB One entire Chapter on the Diftempe | Of Guiney, ‘Printed s T. 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