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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pirates, by Anonymous
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+Title: Pirates
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Commentator: Claud Lovat Fraser
+
+Illustrator: Claud Lovat Fraser
+
+Release Date: January 27, 2008 [EBook #24439]
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+Language: English
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+           THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES
+                   OF SUNDRY
+               NOTORIOUS PIRATES
+
+                [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                   PIRATES
+
+
+ _With a _Foreword_ and sundry _Decorations_ by_
+
+                C. Lovat Fraser
+
+
+                [Illustration]
+
+
+                  _NEW YORK:_
+         ROBERT M. McBRIDE AND COMPANY
+                     1922
+
+
+
+
+_First American Edition_
+
+_Printed in the United States of America_
+
+_Printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford and
+Esher._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN AVERY]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                        PAGE
+    Foreword                                             vii
+
+    The Life of Captain Avery                              1
+
+    Captain John Rackham, and his Crew                    17
+
+    Captain Spriggs, and his Crew                         29
+
+    Captain Edward Lowe, and his Crew                     37
+
+    Captain George Lowther, and his Crew                  51
+
+    Captain Anstis, and his Crew                          65
+
+    Captain John Phillips, and his Crew                   77
+
+    Captain Teach, _alias_ Blackbeard                     87
+
+    Major Stede Bonnet and his Crew                      101
+
+    Captain William Kid                                  117
+
+    Captain Edward England, and his Crew                 135
+
+    Captain John Gow, _alias_ Smith, and his Crew        145
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+    Captain Avery                             _frontispiece_
+
+    Captain John Rackham                   _facing page_  19
+
+    Captain Edward Lowe                          "        39
+
+    Captain Teach                                "        89
+
+    Major Stede Bonnet                           "       103
+
+    Captain William Kid                          "       119
+
+    Captain Edward England                       "       137
+
+    Captain John Gow                             "       147
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+Time, though a good Collector, is not always a reliable Historian.
+That is to say, that although nothing of interest or importance is
+lost, yet an affair may be occasionally invested with a glamour that
+is not wholly its own. I venture to think that Piracy has fortuned in
+this particular. We are apt to base our ideas of Piracy on the
+somewhat vague ambitions of our childhood; and I suppose, were such a
+thing possible, the consensus of opinion in our nurseries as to a
+future profession in life would place Piracy but little below the
+glittering heights of the police force and engine-driving. Incapable
+of forgetting this in more mature years, are we not inclined to deck
+Her (the "H" capital, for I speak of an ideal), if not in purple and
+fine linen, at least with a lavish display of tinsel and gilt? Nursery
+lore remains with us, whether we would or not, for all our lives; and
+generations of ourselves, as schoolboys and pre-schoolboys, have
+tricked out Piracy in so resplendent a dress that she has fairly
+ousted in our affections, not only her sister profession of "High Toby
+and the Road," but every other splendid and villainous vocation. Yet
+Teach, Kid, and Avery were as terrible or grim as Duval, Turpin, and
+Sheppard were courtly or whimsical. And the terrible is a more vital
+affair than the whimsical. Is it, then, unnatural that, after a lapse
+of nigh on two centuries, we should shake our wise heads and allow
+that which is still nursery within us to deplore the loss of those
+days when we ran--before a favouring "Trade"--the very good chance of
+being robbed, maimed, or murdered by Captain Howel Davis or Captain
+Neil Gow? It is as well to remember that the "Captains" in this book
+were seamen whose sole qualifications to the title were ready wit, a
+clear head, and, maybe, that certain indefinable "power of the eye"
+that is the birth-right of all true leaders. The piratical hero of our
+childhood is traceable in a great extent to the "thrillers," toy
+plays, and penny theatres of our grandfathers. Here our Pirate was, as
+often as not, a noble, dignified, if gloomy gentleman, with a leaning
+to Byronic soliloquy. Though stern in exterior, his heart could (and
+would) melt at the distresses of the heroine. Elvira's eyes were
+certain to awaken in his mind the recollection of "other eyes as
+innocent as thine, child." In short, he was that most touching of all
+beings, the Hero-cum-Villain. And it was with a sigh of relief that we
+saw him at the eleventh hour, having successfully twitted the
+"Government Men" and the Excise (should he have an additional penchant
+for smuggling), safely restored to the arms of the long-suffering
+possessor of the other eyes.
+
+Alas! this little book mentions no Poll of Portsmouth, nor does it
+favour us with a "Yeo, heave, oh!" nor is there so very much "cut and
+thrust" about it. It was written in that uninspiring day when Pirates
+were a very real nuisance to such law-abiding folk as you and I; but
+it has the merit of being written, if not by a Pirate, at least by one
+who came into actual contact with them. I am not at all sure that
+"merit" is the right word to use in this instance, for to be a Pirate
+does not necessarily ensure you making a good author. Indeed, it might
+almost be considered as a ban to the fine literary technique of an
+Addison or a Temple. It has, however, the virtue of being in close
+touch with some of the happenings chronicled. Not that our author saw
+above a tithe of what he records--had he done so he would have been
+"set a-sun-drying" at Execution Dock long before he had had the
+opportunity of putting pen to paper; but, as far as posterity was
+concerned, he was lucky in his friend William Ingram--evidently a
+fellow of good memory and a ready tongue--"who," as our author states
+in his Preface, "was a Pirate under Anstis, Roberts, and many others,"
+and who eventually was hanged in good piratical company on the 11th
+of June, 1714.
+
+The actual history of the little book, the major part of which is here
+reprinted, is as follows:
+
+Its full title is "The History and Lives of all the most Notorious
+Pirates and their Crews," and the fifth edition, from which our text
+is taken, was printed in 1735. A reproduction of the original
+title-page is given overleaf.
+
+As a matter of fact, the title is misleading. How could a book that
+makes no mention of Morgan or Lollonois be a history of _all_ the most
+notorious Pirates? It deals with the last few years of the seventeenth
+century and the first quarter of the eighteenth, a period that might
+with justice be called "The Decline and Fall of Piracy," for after
+1730 Piracy became but a mean broken-backed affair that bordered
+perilously on mere sea-pilfering.
+
+[Illustration: THE
+
+HISTORY _and_ LIVES
+
+Of all the most Notorious
+
+PIRATES,
+
+AND THEIR
+
+CREWS;
+
+From Capt. AVERY, who first settled at _Madagascar_, to Captain _John
+Gow_, and _James Williams_, his Lieutenant, _&c._ who were hang'd at
+_Execution Dock_, _June_ 11, 1725, for Piracy and Murther; and
+afterwards hang'd in Chains between _Blackwall_ and _Deptford_. And in
+this Edition continued down to the present Year 1735.
+
+Giving a more full and true Account than any yet Publish'd, of all
+their Murthers, Piracies, Maroonings, Places of Refuge, and Ways of
+Living.
+
+The Fifth Edition.
+
+Adorned with Twenty Beautiful CUTS, being the Representation of each
+Pirate.
+
+To which is prefixed, _An Abstract of the Laws against Piracy_.
+
+LONDON: Printed for _A. Bettesworth_ and _C. Hitch_, at the _Red Lyon_
+in _Pater-noster-Row_; _R. Ware_, at the _Sun_ and _Bible_ in
+_Amen-Corner_; and _J. Hodges_, at the _Looking-glass_ on
+_London-bridge_. 1735.]
+
+A little research into the book's history shows us that it is
+consistent throughout, and that it is a "piracy," in the publisher's
+sense of the word, of a much larger and more pretentious work by
+Captain Charles Johnson, entitled, "A General History of the Pyrates
+from their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to
+the Present Time; With the Remarkable Actions and Adventures of the
+two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny."
+
+This was published in London, in 8vo., by Charles Rivington in 1724. A
+second edition, considerably augmented, was issued later in the same
+year, a third edition in the year following, and a fourth edition--in
+two volumes, as considerable additions in the form of extra "Lives,"
+and an appendix necessitated a further volume--in 1725.
+
+This two-volume edition contained the history of the following
+Pirates: Avery, Martel, Teach, Bonnet, England, Vane, Rackham, Davis,
+Roberts, Anstis, Morley, Lowther, Low, Evans, Phillips, Spriggs,
+Smith, Misson, Bowen, Kid, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly,
+Howard, Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, and North, together with
+a short abstract on the Statute and Civil Law in relation to
+"Pyracy," and an appendix, completing the Lives in the first volume,
+and correcting some mistakes.
+
+The work evidently enjoyed a great vogue, for it was translated into
+Dutch by Robert Hannebo, of Amsterdam, in 1727, and issued there, with
+several "new illustrations," in 12mo. A German version by Joachim
+Meyer was printed at Gosslar in the following year, while in France it
+saw the light as an appendix to an edition of Esquemeling's "Histoire
+des Avanturiers," 1726.
+
+But little is known of the author, Captain Charles Johnson, excepting
+that he flourished from 1724 to 1736, and it is more than probable
+that the name by which we know him is an assumed one. It is possible
+that his knowledge of Pirates and Piracy was of such a nature to have
+justified awkward investigations on the part of His Majesty's
+Government.
+
+There is one thing that we do know for certain about him, and that is
+that the worthy Captain's spelling, according to the pirated version
+of his book, was indefinite even for his own day. He was one of those
+inspired folk who would be quite capable of spelling "schooner" with
+three variations in as many lines. In this edition the spelling has
+been more or less modernized.
+
+Lastly, it is to be remembered that the ships of this period,
+according to our modern ideas, would be the veriest cockle-shells, and
+so that we should know what manner of vessel he refers to in these
+pages, I had recourse to a friend of mine whose knowledge of things
+nautical is extensive enough to have gained for him the coveted "Extra
+Master's Certificate," and who was kind enough to supply me with the
+following definitions:
+
+
+[Illustration: SLOOP.
+
+A vessel rigged as a cutter, but with one head-sail only set on a very
+short bowsprit.]
+
+
+[Illustration: SCHOONER.   TOPSAIL SCHOONER.
+
+Two-masted vessels, fore and aft rigged, sometimes having square
+topsails on the fore-mast.]
+
+
+[Illustration: BRIGANTINE.
+
+A two-masted vessel, square rigged on fore-mast.]
+
+
+GALLEY.
+
+A large vessel rowed by oars and sometimes having auxiliary sail of
+various rigs.
+
+
+PINK.
+
+Probably a small, fast vessel used as a tender and despatch boat for
+river work.
+
+
+[Illustration: SNOW.
+
+A two-masted vessel with a stay, known as a "Horse," from the
+main-mast to the poop on which the trysail was set. Sometimes a spar
+was fitted instead of a stay. The rig was most likely of a brig
+(_i.e._, a two-masted ship, square sails on both masts), and the
+triangular trysail set on the stay in bad weather or when hove to.]
+
+    C. L. F.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN AVERY
+
+
+He was the son of _John Avery_, a victualler near _Plymouth_, in
+_Devonshire_, who in a few years was grown as opulent in his purse as
+in his body, by scoring two for one; and when he had so done, drinking
+the most of the liquor himself. By which means, and having a handsome
+wife, who knew her business as well as if she had been brought up to
+it from a child (which, indeed, she mostly was, her mother keeping the
+House before she married _Mr. Avery_), they soon became very rich and
+very able to give credit to a whole ship's crew upon their tickets,
+which in those days were sold for less than half their value.
+
+Having but one child (afterwards the Captain), they at first resolved
+to bring him up a scholar, that he might advance the dignity of the
+family. But instead of learning his book, he was taught by such
+companions that he could soon swear to every point of his compass,
+which was a very diverting scene for the Boatswain and his crew, who
+were then drinking in the kitchen, having just received ten pounds
+apiece short allowance money on board the _Revenge_, every farthing of
+which they spent before leaving the house.
+
+But as soon as their money was spent, they were all like to have been
+imprisoned by their Landlady for a riot, as she called it, so they
+were soon glad to sheer off, and he thought himself happiest that
+could get first aboard. Indeed, it would have been happy for them if
+they had, for the ship was unmoored and gone to sea; which put the
+Boatswain and his crew swearing in earnest, and not knowing what to
+do, they resolved to return to their Landlady, _Mrs. Avery_, at "the
+Sign of the _Defiance_." But she shut them out of doors, calling them
+a parcel of beggarly rascals, and swearing that if they would not go
+from the door she would send for the Constable; and notwithstanding
+all the entreaties and tears of her only son, who was then about six
+years of age, she could not be prevailed upon to let them in, so they
+were obliged to stroll about the street all night. In the morning,
+spying the ship at anchor, being driven back by contrary winds, they
+resolved to make the best of their way aboard; but on the way, whom
+should they meet but young _Avery_, who had no sooner seen them, but
+he cried after them. "Zounds," says the Boatswain, "let's take the
+young dog aboard, and his mother shall soon be glad to adjust the
+reckoning more to our satisfaction before she shall have her son."
+
+This was agreed upon by all hands, and the boy was as willing as any
+of them. So, stepping into the boat, in about an hour's time they
+reached the ship, which they had no sooner boarded but they were
+brought before the Captain, who, being in want of hands, contented
+himself with bidding them all go to their business; for the wind
+turned about, and there was occasion for all hands to be at work to
+carry out the ship.
+
+All this while young _Avery_ was at the heels of the Boatswain, and
+was observed to swear two oaths to one of the Boatswain's; which being
+soon observed by the Captain, he inquired who brought that young
+rascal aboard.
+
+To which the Boatswain replied that he did, that the boy's mother was
+his Landlady on shore, and he had taken him up in jest, but was afraid
+that they would now have to keep him in earnest.
+
+When the hurry was a little over, the Captain commanded the boy to be
+brought to him in his cabin. He had not talked long to him before he
+took a fancy to him, telling him that if he would be a good boy, he
+should live with him.
+
+He, being a mighty lover of children, would often divert himself by
+talking to the boy, till at length he took such a fancy to him, that
+he ordered him a little hammock in his own cabin, and none were so
+great as the Captain and his boy _Avery_, which had like to have
+proved very fatal to him; for Avery one night, observing the Captain
+to be very drunk with some passengers that were on board, got a
+lighted match and had like to have blown up the ship, had not the
+Gunner happened accidentally to follow him into the store-room. This
+made the Captain ever after very shy of his new Acquaintance, and
+_Avery_, after he had been well whipped, was ordered down into the
+hold, where he remained until they arrived at _Carolina_, which
+happened four or five days after.
+
+The boy was given to a merchant, who, taking a fancy to him, put him
+to school; but he made so little progress in learning, and committed
+so many unlucky tricks, that the merchant, in about three years,
+shipped him off to his friends at _Plymouth_ on board the _Nonesuch_,
+where he was no sooner arrived but his mother was overjoyed with the
+sight of her son, his father being dead about a month before his
+arrival.
+
+And, indeed, it was thought the loss of their son broke his heart, for
+it was observed the father never held up his head after, the
+neighbours often reflecting upon him for his ill-usage of the seamen,
+who had spent so much money at his house; saying he could never expect
+that all his ill-gotten riches could prosper him, which so happened,
+as you shall hear presently. For his mother, dying soon after, the boy
+was left under the guardianship of one Mr. _Lightfoot_, a merchant,
+who, having great losses at sea, became a bankrupt, and so young
+_Avery_ was left to look out after himself; there he continued for
+many years in pilfering and stealing till the country was too hot for
+him, when he betook him to sea again, where in time he became as
+famous for robbing as _Cromwell_ for rebellion.
+
+He entered himself on board the _Duke_, Captain _Gibson_ Commander,
+being one of the two ships of twenty-four guns and one hundred men
+which were fitted out by the merchants of _Bristol_ for the service of
+_Spain_, which they had no sooner done, but they were ordered by their
+agents at _Bristol_ to sail for the _Groyne_ to receive their orders.
+
+On board one of which ships _Avery_, being at this time above twenty
+years old, entered himself, where he had not been long before he
+observed the Captain was much addicted to drunkenness.
+
+He endeavoured to spirit up not only his own ship's crew, but having
+also given the word to part of the other ship's crew, the conspirators
+gave the signal.
+
+At which the _Duchess_, as the other ship was named, put off her
+longboat; which the conspirators hailing were answered by the men in
+the boat, "Is your drunken Boatswain on board?" This being the word
+agreed upon, Avery answered, "All is safe;" upon which twenty lusty
+fellows came aboard and joined them, which they had no sooner done but
+they secured the hatches and went to work, putting to sea without any
+disorder, although there were several ships in the bay, amongst whom
+was a frigate of forty-four guns.
+
+The Captain, by this time being awaked by the noise of the
+conspirators working the ship, rung the bell, inquiring what was the
+matter, to whom _Avery_ and some of the crew replied, "Nothing. Are
+you mutinous in your cups? Can't you lie down, sleep, and be quiet?"
+
+"No," saith the Captain. "I am sure something's the matter with the
+ship. Does she drive? What weather is it? Is it a storm?"
+
+Saith _Avery_: "Cannot you lie quiet while you are quiet? I tell you
+all's well; we are at sea in a fair wind and good weather."
+
+"At sea," saith the Captain; "that can't be."
+
+"Be not frightened," saith Avery, "and I'll tell you. You must note, I
+am now the Captain of the ship; nay, you must turn out, for this is my
+cabin, and I am bound for _Madagascar_, to make my own fortune as well
+as my companions."
+
+The Captain, being more terrified than ever, did not know what to say,
+which _Avery_ perceiving, bid him take heart. "For," saith he, "if you
+will join me and these brave fellows, my companions, in time you may
+get some post under me. If not, step into the longboat and get about
+your business."
+
+This the Captain was glad to hear, but yet began to expostulate with
+them upon the injustice of such doings. Saith _Avery_: "What do I
+care? Every man for himself. Come, come, Captain, if you will go, get
+you gone; the longboat waits for you, and if there be any more cowards
+in the ship, you may all go together." Which words so affrighted the
+whole crew, that there was not above nine or ten of them that durst
+venture, who made the best of their way to the shore as fast as they
+could, and thought they were well off.
+
+The Captain was no sooner gone, but they called a Council, which
+agreed to own _Avery_ as their Captain; which he accepted of with all
+humility imaginable, seeming to excuse himself on account of his
+inexperience at sea. But he did it so artfully that it more confirmed
+them in the good opinion of their choice. "Gentlemen," said he, "what
+we have done we must live or die by; let us all be hearty and of one
+mind, and I don't question but we shall make our fortune in a little
+time. I propose that we sail first to _Madagascar_, where we may
+settle a correspondence, in order to secure our retreats, whenever we
+think fit to lie by."
+
+To which they all agreed, "Nemine contradicente."
+
+"But hold," saith _Avery_; "it is necessary that we make some order
+among us, for the better governing of the ship's crew." Which were in
+a few days drawn up by the clerk of the ship.
+
+And _Avery_ promising them vast things, they all came into them at
+last, although some things went very much against the grain of many of
+them.
+
+It took up all their spare time till they arrived at _Madagascar_,
+where they saw a Ship lying at the N.E. part of the Island, with which
+the men had run away from _New England_; and seeing _Avery_, they
+supposed that he had been sent after them to take them, but _Avery_
+soon undeceived them, and promised them protection; therefore they
+resolved to sail together. In the whole company, there was not above
+ten that pretended to any skill in navigation; for _Avery_ himself
+could neither write nor read very well, he being chosen Captain of the
+_Duke_ purely for his courage and contrivance.
+
+In the latitude of _Descada_, one of the Islands, they took two other
+sloops, which supplied them with provisions, and then they agreed to
+proceed to the _West Indies_; and coming to _Barbadoes_, they fell in
+with a ship for _London_ with twelve guns, from which they took some
+clothes and money, ten barrels of powder, ten casks of beef, and
+several other goods, and five of her men, and then let her go. From
+thence he went to the Island of _Dominico_, and watered; there he met
+with six _Englishmen_, who willingly entered with _Avery_. They stayed
+not long before they sailed for the _Granada_ Island to clean their
+ships; which being known to the _French_ Colony, the Governor of
+_Martenico_ sent four sloops well manned after them. But they stayed
+there not long, but made the best of their way for _Newfoundland_,
+entering the harbour of _Trepasse_ with black colours, drums beating,
+and trumpets sounding.
+
+It is impossible to relate the havoc they made there, burning all
+before them. When they left _Newfoundland_ they sailed for the _West
+Indies_, and from thence to the Island _Descada_, it being judged the
+most convenient place, at that time of the year, to meet with a rich
+booty.
+
+From hence they steered towards the _Arabian_ Coast, near the River
+_Indus_, where, spying a sail, they gave chase. At their near approach
+she hoisted _Mogul_ colours and seemed as if she would stand upon her
+defence, whilst _Avery_ contented himself by cannonading her at a
+distance, which made many of his men begin to mutiny, thinking him a
+coward.
+
+But _Avery_ knew better, and commanding his sloops to attack her, one
+in the Bow, and the rest on the Quarter, clapt her on board, upon
+which she struck her colours and yielded. Aboard her was one of the
+_Mogul's_ own daughters, with several persons of distinction, who
+were carrying rich offerings of jewels and other valuable presents to
+_Mecca_; which booty was the more considerable, because these people
+always travel with great magnificence, having all their slaves and
+attendants always with them, besides jewels and great sums of money to
+defray the charges. But _Avery_, not content with this, seized the
+young Princess, and taking her with him into his own ship, made the
+best of his way to _Madagascar_, where she soon broke her heart and
+died. Also her father, the _Great Mogul_, did no sooner hear of it but
+he threatened all _Europe_ with revenge. And when he knew they were
+_Englishmen_ who had captured his daughter and robbed him, he
+threatened to send a mighty army, with fire and sword, to extirpate
+all the _English_ from their settlements on the _Indian_ Coasts, which
+gave no small uneasiness to the _Indian Company_ at _London_, when
+they heard of it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN JOHN RACKHAM]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN RACKHAM, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+John Rackham was Quarter-Master to _Vane's_ Company, till _Vane_ was
+turned out for not fighting the French Man-of-War, and _Rackham_ put
+in Captain in his place, which happened about the 24th day of
+_November_, 1718. His first cruise was among the _Caribbe_ Islands,
+where he took and plundered several vessels. Afterwards, to the
+windward of _Jamaica_, he fell in with a _Madeira_ Man, which he
+detained till he had made his market out of her, and then restored her
+to her Master, suffering _Hosea Tisdel_, a tavern-keeper at _Jamaica_,
+whom he had taken among his Prizes, to go aboard her, she being bound
+for that Island.
+
+Afterwards he sailed towards the Island _Bermuda_, where he took a
+Ship bound to _England_ from _Carolina_, and a small Ship from _New
+England_, both which he carried to the _Bahama Islands_, and there
+clean'd. But staying too long in that Neighbourhood, Captain _Rogers_
+sent out a Sloop well mann'd, which retook both the Prizes, the Pirate
+making his Escape.
+
+From hence they proceeded to the Back of _Cuba_, where _Rackham_ staid
+a long Time with his Delilahs, till their Provision was consumed, when
+he concluded it Time to look out for more. As he was putting to Sea, a
+_Garda del Costa_ came in with a small _English_ Sloop, which he had
+taken as an interloper on that coast. The _Spaniards_ seeing the
+Pirate, attacked her; but finding he could not come to her that night,
+because she lay close behind a little island, he warps into the
+channel, to make sure of her in the morning. Upon this _Rackham_ took
+his Crew into the Boat, with their pistols and cutlasses, and falls
+aboard the _Spaniards_ in the night, without being discovered, telling
+them, if they spoke a word they were dead men: And so shipping their
+cables, drove out to sea, commanding them to take the Boat, and go
+aboard their Sloop immediately, or else they were all dead men.
+Afterwards they waking the Captain and his men in the Hammocks, who
+rose full of their expectation of the Prizes, they sent them aboard
+their empty Sloop.
+
+In the Beginning of _September_, they went off of the French part of
+_Hispaniola_, where they took two or three _Frenchmen_ on board, that
+were looking after some cattle grazing near the waterside. Then
+plundered two Sloops, they returned to _Jamaica_, where they took a
+Schooner.
+
+_Rackham_ continuing about this Island longer than a Man of his
+business ought to have done, gave time to a Canoe, which he had
+surprised in _Ocho_ Bay, to inform the Governor of _Jamaica_ of his
+civilities to all he met with going or coming from the Island.
+Thereupon a Sloop was sent out in quest of him, well mann'd and arm'd,
+under Captain _Barnet_, to repay him for all his good-natured
+Actions, and, if possible, to bring him into the Island. In the mean
+Time _Rackham_ met, near the _Negril_ Point, a small Pettiauger,
+which, upon sight of him, ran ashore, and landed her Men; but
+_Rackham_ hailing them, desired the Pettiauger's men to come aboard
+him, and drink a bowel of punch; swearing, _They were all Friends and
+would do no Harm_. Hereupon they agreed to his Request, and went
+aboard him, though it proved fatal to every one of them, they being
+nine in all. For, they were no sooner got aboard, and had laid down
+their muskets and cutlasses, in order to take up their pipes, and make
+themselves merry with their new acquaintance over a can of Flip, but
+Captain _Barnet's_ Sloop was in sight, which soon put a damp to all
+their merriment: Finding she stood directly towards them, they
+immediately weighed their anchor and stood off. _Barnet_ gave them
+chase, and having the advantage of the wind, soon came up with her,
+gave her a broadside or two, and, after a very small dispute, took her
+and his nine new guests, and brought them all together into
+_Port-Royal_ in _Jamaica_, in about a fortnight's time.
+
+_November_ the 10th, 1720, a Court of Admiralty was held at _St. Jago
+de la Vega_, where the following Persons were tried and convicted of
+Piracy, and accordingly Sentence of Death was passed upon them by the
+Governor, viz.: _John Rackham_, Captain; _George Fetherstone_, Master;
+_Richard Corner_, Quarter-Master; _John Davis_, _John Howel_, _Patrick
+Carty_, _Thomas Earle_, _James Dobbin_, and _Noah Harwood_; Five of
+whom was hang'd the next day at _Gallows-point_, and the rest the day
+after. The three first were taken and hanged in Chains; _Rackham_ at
+_Plumb-point_, _Fetherstone_ at _Bush-key_, and _Corner_ at _Gun-key_.
+
+But what was yet more strange was the conviction of the nine guests,
+that knew nothing of the matter, or at least they pretended so; but
+the People would not believe them, because it was proved that they
+came on board with pistols and cutlasses: However, they were so much
+favoured as to have the Court adjourned to the 24th of January
+following, to give a better Account of themselves than at the time
+appeared to the Court: Beside, the Jury also then wanted sufficient
+evidence to prove the piratical intention of going aboard the said
+Sloops. The two _Frenchmen_ taken by _Rackham_ from the Island of
+_Hispaniola_, deposed, That _John Eaton_, _Edward Warner_, _Thomas
+Baker_, _Thomas Quick_, _John Cole_, _Benjamin Palmer_, _Walter
+Rouse_, _John Hanson_, and _John Howard_, came on board the Pirate's
+Sloop at _Negril Point_ in _Jamaica_. Indeed they owned, That at first
+Sight of them, they run away from _Rackham's_ Sloop, but that he
+hailing them, they returned, and _Rackham_ sent his canoe ashore to
+fetch them aboard him, when they saw them all armed with guns and
+cutlasses, which they brought with them; and that when they were
+chased by Captain _Barnet_, they were frank and free, some drinking
+and walking about the deck not at all dispirited; during which time
+there was a great gun, and small arms, fired by the Pirate Sloop at
+Captain _Barnet's_ Sloop; but that they could not say that the
+Prisoners were any way concerned in it: However, they were certain
+that when Captain _Barnet's_ Sloop fired at _Rackham's_, the Prisoners
+at the Bar went under Deck, for cowardice, as they supposed; not so
+much as once peeping up during the time of the whole action: But when
+Captain _Barnet_ drew nigh to them to board them, all of them came up,
+and helped to row the sloop, in order to escape from him: And that
+_Rackham's_ Men and they seemed to agree very well together, and that
+they did verily believe they were all of a Party, having heard them
+say, when they came on board, _They liked them never the worse for
+being Pirates, since they were all honest Boys, and loved their
+Bottles_.
+
+To which the Prisoners answered, in their own Defence; That they were
+a great way off from friends and acquaintance, and, therefore it was
+impossible to have any one to give an account of them. That they were
+very honest pains-taking men, and came out to go a-turtling to provide
+for their families; accordingly going ashore at _Negril_ Point they
+saw a Sloop, with a white pendant, making towards them, whereupon they
+took up their arms, which were no other but what all people carry upon
+such occasions, and ran into the woods, to hide themselves among the
+bushes, not knowing what she might be. But when they hailed them and
+told them they were _Englishmen_, they ventured out, and came aboard
+them, as they desired, to drink a bowl of punch, they being poor men,
+who get their livelihood very hardily, and such a thing was very
+acceptable to them. But when they came on board the Sloop, to their
+very great surprise, they found they were Pirates; upon which they
+begged to be released; but _Rackham_ swore, That if they did not stay
+and assist them against that Sloop that was coming down against them,
+he would cut all their throats. So being compelled thereunto by
+_Rackham_ and his men, to save their Lives, they did assist him, and
+with no other design but to prevent their being cut in pieces, but as
+soon as Captain _Barnet_ came up with them, they all very readily and
+willingly submitted.
+
+This being all they had to say in their own Defence, the Prisoners
+were ordered from the Bar: The Court were divided in their Judgments;
+but the majority were of opinion, that they were all guilty of the
+Piracy and Felony they were charged with; thereupon they all received
+Sentence of Death, as usual in such cases, the Judge making a very
+pathetic Speech to them, exhorting them to bear their Sufferings
+patiently, assuring them, that if they were innocent, which he very
+much doubted, then their reward would be greater in the Other World:
+But everybody must own their case was very hard in this.
+
+February the 17th, _John Eaton_, _Thomas Quick_, and _Thomas Baker_,
+were accordingly executed at _Gallows-Point_; and the next Day, _John
+Cole_, _John Howard_, and _Benjamin Palmer_, underwent the same fate
+at _Kingston_. The other three got a Reprieve, they being against
+going aboard the Pirate's Sloop, and are now living.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN SPRIGGS, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Spriggs_ sailed at first with _Lowe_, and came away with him from
+_Lowther_. Afterwards _Lowe_ took a ship of twelve guns on the Coast
+of _Guinea_, called the _Delight_, which _Spriggs_ went off on board
+with twenty men, and leaving _Lowe_ in the night, came to the _West
+Indies_. In their passage they made a Black Ensign, which they called
+the _Jolly Roger_, with a skeleton in the middle holding a dart in one
+hand, striking a bleeding heart; and in the other an hour-glass; and
+being hoisted, they fired all their guns to salute _Spriggs_, whom
+they chose Captain, and then went to look out for prey.
+
+In their voyage they took a _Portugueze_ barque, wherein they had rich
+plunder. Near _St. Lucia_, they took a Sloop belonging to
+_Barbadoes_, which they first plundered, and then burnt, forcing some
+of the men into their Service, and beating, in a barbarous manner,
+those that refused to join with them, and afterwards sent them away in
+the Boat, half dead with their wounds, the rest got to _Barbadoes_,
+with much ado, though some of them died soon after of their cuts and
+slashes. After this they took a _Martinico_ Man, which they used in
+like manner, save that they did not burn the ship. Then running down
+to the Leeward, they took one Captain _Hawkins_ coming from _Jamaica_,
+laden with Logwood; out of which, they took her stores, arms, and
+ammunition, and what they did not want they threw over-board; they cut
+the cables to pieces, knocked down the cabins, broke the windows, and
+did what mischief they could, taking _Burridge_ and _Stephens_, the
+two Mates, and some other Hands, by force; and then after keeping her
+a week, they let her go. On the 27th they took a _Rhode_ Island Sloop,
+compelling the Captain, and all his men, to go on board the Pirate:
+One of them not being willing to stay with them, they told him he
+should have a discharge presently, which was to receive ten lashes
+from every man on board.
+
+The next day _Burridge_ signed their Articles; which pleased them so
+much, that they fired all the Guns, and made him Master, spending that
+day in rejoicings and drinking healths.
+
+The First of _April_ they spied a sail, and gave her chase all night,
+believing she had been a _Spaniard_; but when they came up to her, and
+gave her a broadside, she cried out for Quarters, which made them
+cease firing, and ordered the Captain to come aboard, which proved to
+be Captain _Hawkins_, whom they had dismissed three days before, not
+worth a groat. Two Days after, they anchored at _Ratran_, not far from
+_Honduras_, and put ashore Captain _Hawkins_, and several others,
+giving them powder and ball, and a musquet, and then left them to
+shift as well as they could. Here they staid three weeks, when two men
+came in a canoe, that had been left in another Maroon Island near
+_Benecca_, and carried them thither. A fortnight after they espied a
+Sloop at sea, which had lately escaped from the _Spaniards_ at the Bay
+of _Honduras_, which, upon a signal stood in and took them all off.
+
+At an Island to the westward, the Pirates cleaned their ship, and then
+sailed towards _St. Christophers_ to meet Captain _Moor_.
+
+_Spriggs_ next stood towards _Bermudas_, where he took a Schooner
+belonging to _Boston_, from which he took all the Men, and sunk the
+Vessel.
+
+Instead of going to _Newfoundland_, they came back to the Islands, and
+on the 8th of _June_, to windward of _St. Christophers_, they took a
+Sloop, _Nicholas Trot_, Master, belonging to _St. Eustatia_, whose men
+they hoisted as high as the main fore-tops, and so let them fall down
+again; then whipping them about the deck, they gave _Trot_ his Sloop,
+and let him go, keeping only two of his men, besides the plunder. Two
+or three days after, they took a ship coming from _Rhode Island_ to
+_St. Christophers_, laden with provisions and some horses, and burnt
+ship, men, and horses: Since when _Spriggs_ has not been heard of:
+though it is supposed he went to _Madagascar_, to spend, in rioting
+and wantonness, his ill gotten plunder; till by a letter from
+_Jamaica_, of the 2nd of _March_ last, we understood, That he had been
+again at the Bay of _Honduras_, and taken sixteen Sail.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Edward Lowe_, born at _Westminster_, very early began the Trade of
+Plundering; for if any Child refused him what he had, he must fight
+him. When he grew bigger, he took to Gaming among Blackshoe Boys upon
+the _Parade_, with whom he used to play the _Whole Game_, as they call
+it; that is, cheat every Body, and if they refused, they had to fight
+him.
+
+_Ned_ went to Sea with his eldest Brother, and leaving him in
+_New-England_, he worked in a Rigging House, at Boston, for some
+Time, when not liking that, he returned to _England_ to see his
+Mother, with whom he did not stay long before he took his Leave of
+her, for the last Time, as he said, and returned to _Boston_, where he
+shipped himself in a Sloop that was bound to the Bay of _Honduras_;
+and when he arrived there, he was made Patron of the Boat, to bring
+the logwood on board to lade the ship; where he differing with the
+Captain about the hurry of taking the logwood on board, _Lowe_ takes
+up a loaden Musquet, and fired at him; then putting off the Boat, he,
+with twelve of his companions, goes to sea. Next day they met a small
+vessel, which they took, made a Black Flag, and declared War against
+all the world. From hence they proceed to the Island of the _Grand
+Caimanes_, where they met with _George Lowther_, who took him under
+his protection as an ally, without any formal Treaty; which _Lowe_
+readily agreed to. But parting with _Lowther_ on the 28th of _May_, as
+we have already given in an Account in _Lowther's_ Life, _Lowe_ took a
+Vessel belonging to _Amboy_, which he plundered, and then stood away
+to the South East, by which he avoided two Sloops which the Governor
+had sent to take him from _Rhode_ Island.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_July_ the 12th, he sailed into the Harbour of Port _Rosemary_, where
+he found 13 small vessels at anchor, whom he told they would have no
+quarters if they resisted; which so frightened the Masters of the
+vessels, that they all yielded. Out of them he took whatever he
+wanted, keeping for his own Use a Schooner of 80 Tons, on board of
+which he put 10 Carriage Guns, and 50 men, and named her the _Fancy_
+making himself Captain, and appointing _Charles Harris_ Captain of the
+Brigantine. Making up a complement of 80 men out of the vessels, some
+by force, and others by their own inclinations, he sailed away from
+_Mablehead_, and soon after he met two Sloops bound for _Boston_, with
+provisions for the garrison; but there being an officer and soldiers
+on board, he thought it the safest way, after some small resistance,
+to let them go on about their business.
+
+They then steered for the _Leeward_ Islands; but in their voyage met
+with such a hurricane, as had not been known in the memory of man.
+After the storm was over, they got safe to one of the small Islands of
+the _Carribees_, and there refitted their vessels as well as they
+could. As soon as the Brigantine was ready, they took a short cruise,
+leaving the Schooner in the harbour till their return; which had not
+been many days at sea, before she met a ship that had lost all her
+masts, on board of which they went, and took, in money and goods, to
+the value of 1000_l._ Upon this success, the Brigantine returned to the
+Schooner, which being then ready to sail, they agreed to go to the
+_Azores_, or Western Islands, where _Lowe_ took a _French_ Ship of 32
+Guns, and in _St. Michael's_ Road, he took several sail that were
+lying there, without firing a gun. Being in great want of water, he
+sent to the Governor of _St. Michael's_ for a Supply, promising upon
+that Condition, to release the Ships he had taken, otherwise to burn
+them all; which the Governor, for the sake of the Ships, agreed to.
+Thereupon he released six, keeping only the _Rose_ Pink, of which he
+took the Command.
+
+The Pirates took several of the Guns out of the ships, and mounted
+them on board the _Rose_. _Lowe_ ordered the Schooner to lie in the
+Fare between _St. Michael's_ and _St. Mary's_, where he met with
+Captain _Carter_ in the _Wright_ Galley; who, defending himself, they
+cut and mangled him and his Men in a barbarous manner; after which,
+they were for burning the ship, but contented themselves with cutting
+her cable, rigging, and sails to pieces, and so left her to the mercy
+of the seas. From hence they sailed to the Island of _Maderas_, where
+they took a fishing boat, with two old men and a boy in her, one of
+whom they sent ashore, demanding a boat of water, otherwise they would
+kill the old man, which being complied with, the old man was
+discharged. From hence they sailed to the _Canaries_, and thence
+continued their course for the _Cape de Verde_ Islands, where they
+took a ship called the _Liverpool Merchant_, from which they took 300
+gallons of brandy, two guns and carriages, besides six of the men, and
+then obliged them to go to the Isle of _May_. They also took two
+_Portugueze_ ships bound to _Brazil_, and three Sloops from _St.
+Thomas's_ bound to _Curaso_: All of which they plundered, and let them
+go, except one Sloop, by which they heard that two Gallies were
+expected at the Western Islands. Her they manned, and sent in Quest of
+these Ships whilst they careened the _Rose_ at _Cape de Verde_; but
+the Sloop missing the prey, was reduced to great want of water and
+provisions, so that they ventured to go ashore _St. Michael's_, and
+pass for Traders; where, being suspected by the Governor, they were
+conducted into the Castle, and provided for as long as they lived.
+
+_Lowe's_ ship was overset a-careening, so that he was reduced to his
+old Schooner, aboard of which there went about an hundred as bold
+rogues as ever was hanged, and sailed to the _West-Indies_, where they
+took a rich _Portugueze_ ship bound Home from _Bahia_, putting to the
+torture several of the men, who confest the Captain flung into the sea
+a bag of 11000 Moidores. This made _Lowe_ swear a thousand oaths; and
+after cutting off his lips, he murdered him and all his Crew, being 36
+men.
+
+After this, they cruised to the Northward, and took several Vessels
+and then steered for the Bay of _Honduras_, where they took Five
+_English_ Sloops, and a Pink, and a _Spaniard_ of 6 Guns and 70 men,
+whom they killed every man; which being done they rummaged the
+_Spanish_ Ship, bringing all the booty on board their own vessel.
+
+In the next cruise, between the _Leeward Islands_ and the Main, they
+took two Snows from Jamaica to Liverpool, and just after a Ship called
+the _Amsterdam Merchant_, the Captain thereof he slit his Nose, cut
+his Ears off, and then plundered the ship and let her go. Afterwards
+he took a Sloop bound to _Amboy_, of whose Men he tied lighted
+matches between the fingers, which burnt the flesh off the bones, and
+afterwards set them ashore in an uninhabited part of the country, as
+also other ships which fell a prey to those villains.
+
+One of His Majesty's Men-of-War called the _Greyhound_, of 20 guns and
+120 men, hearing of their barbarous actions, went in search of them
+and, seeing the Pirates, allowed _Lowe_ to chase them at first, till
+they were in readiness to engage him, and when he was within gunshot,
+tacked about and stood towards him. The Pirates edged away under the
+Man-of-War's stern, making a running fight for about two hours. But
+little wind happening, the Pirates gained from her; thereupon the
+_Greyhound_ left off firing, and turned all her hands to her oars, and
+came up with them, when the fight was renewed with a brisk fire on
+both sides, till the _Ranger's_ main-yard was shot down; upon which,
+the _Greyhound_ pressing close, _Lowe_ bore away and left his consort,
+who seeing the cowardice of his Commadore, and that there was no
+possibility of escaping, called out for quarters.
+
+_Lowe's_ conduct in this engagement shewed him to be a cowardly
+villain; for had he fought half as briskly as _Harris_, the Man-of-War
+could never have taken either of them. The _Greyhound_ carried her
+Prize to _Rhode-Island_, which was looked upon to be of such signal
+Service to the Colony, that in Council they resolved to compliment
+_Peter Sulgard_ Captain, with the Freedom of their Corporation. They
+secured the prisoners under a strong guard in Jail, till a Court of
+Vice-Admiralty could be held for their Trials, which was on the 10th
+of _July_ at _Newport_, lasting three Days. The Judges were _William
+Dummer_, Esq; Lieutenant Governor of the _Massachusets_, President;
+_Nathaniel Payne_, Esq; _John Lechmore_, Esq; Surveyor General; _John
+Valentine_, Esq; Advocate General; _Samuel Cranston_, Governor of
+_Rhode Island_; _John Menzies_, Esq; Judge of the Admiralty; _Richard
+Ward_, Esq; Registrar; and Mr. _Jahleet Brinton_, Provost Marshal.
+_Robert Auchmuta_, Esq, was appointed by the Court, Counsel for the
+prisoners here under mentioned.
+
+_Charles Harris_, Captain, _William Blads_, _Daniel Hyde_, _Thomas
+Powel_, jun., _Stephen Munden_, _Thomas Hugget_, _William Read_,
+_Peter Kneeves_, _James Brinkley_, _Joseph Sound_, _William
+Shutfield_, _Edward Eaton_, _John Brown_, _Edward Lawson_, _Owen
+Rice_, _John Tomkins_, _John Fitzgerald_, _Abraham Lacy_, _Thomas
+Linester_, _Francis Leyton_, _John Walters_, Quarter-master, _William
+Jones_, _Charles Church_, _Thomas Hazel_, and _John Bright_, who were
+all executed the 19th of _July_, 1723, near _Newport_ in _Rhode
+Island_; but _John Brown_ and _Patrick Cunningham_ were recommended to
+Mercy.
+
+The eight following were found Not Guilty; _John Wilson_, _Henry
+Barnes_, _Thomas Jones_, _Joseph Switzer_, _Thomas Mumper_, Indian,
+_John Hencher_, Doctor, _John Fletcher_, and _Thomas Child_.
+
+Instead of working repentance in _Lowe_, this deliverance made him ten
+times worse, vowing revenge upon all they should meet with for the
+future, which they executed upon _Nathan Skiff_, Master of a
+_Whale-fishing_ Sloop, whom they whipt naked about the deck, and then
+cut off his ears, making his torture their sport. At length being
+weary thereof, they shot him through the head, and sunk his vessel.
+Some days after, he took a fishing boat off of _Black_ Island, and
+only cut off the master's head; but next day taking two Whale Boats
+near _Rhode_ Island, he brutally killed one of the masters and cut off
+the ears of the other. From hence he went to _Newfoundland_, where he
+took 23 _French_ Vessels, and mann'd one of them of 22 Guns with
+pirates; after which, they took and plundered 18 ships, some of which
+they destroyed.
+
+The latter end of _July_, _Lowe_ took a large ship called the _Merry
+Christmas_, and mounted her with 34 Guns, on which he goes aboard,
+taking the title of Admiral, and sails to the Western Islands, where
+he took a Brigantine manned with _English_ and _Portugueze_, the
+Latter of whom he hanged.
+
+Afterwards _Lowe_ went to the Coast of _Guinea_, but nothing happened
+till he came to _Sierra Leon_, in _Africa_, when he met with the
+_Delight_, which he took, mounting her with 16 Guns, and 60 men,
+appointing _Spriggs_ Captain, and from whom two days after he
+separated.
+
+In _January_ after, he took a Ship called _Squirrel_, but what came of
+him afterwards we cannot tell.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN GEORGE LOWTHER, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_George Lowther_ went second Mate on board the _Gambia Castle_,
+belonging to the _Royal African_ Company, on board which was Captain
+_Massey_, with soldiers that he was to command under Colonel
+_Whitney_, whom were landed on _James_ Island; but the Fort and
+Garrison not agreeing the Company soon after lost a Galley worth
+10000_l._ by it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Massey_ finding he must be over-ruled by the merchants, soon began to
+complain of their ill-treatment of his men in their allowance, saying
+he did not come to be a _Guinea_ Slave; and that if they did not use
+him and his men better, he should take other measures.
+
+At the same time, there happened a dispute between the Captain of the
+ship and _Lowther_, which very much contributing to Lowther's design:
+For _Lowther_ finding himself neglected by the Captain, found means to
+ingratiate himself into the favour of the sailors, who, upon the
+Captain's going to punish him, swore, They would knock down the first
+man that should offer to lay hands on him; which _Lowther_ improved to
+a general disaffection of the ship's Crew. _Massey_ in the meantime,
+having contracted an intimacy with _Lowther_, they agreed to curb
+their enemies, and provide for themselves some other way; which the
+Captain perceiving, he goes on shore to the Governor and Factor, to
+consult what methods to take. But _Lowther_ apprehending it was
+against him, he sent a letter in the same boat to _Massey_, advising
+him to repair on board, to put their project in execution.
+
+Upon which _Massey_ harangued the Soldiers, saying, _You that have a
+Mind to return to England_, may now do it; which they all agreed to.
+Then he went to the Governor's appartment, and took his bed, baggage,
+plate and furniture, believing the Governor would go with him, which
+he refused; however _Massey_ came aboard with the Governor's son.
+After demolishing all the guns of the Fort, they weighed anchor, and
+fell down, but soon ran the ship aground; upon which _Massey_ returns
+to the Fort, remounts the guns, and keeps garrison till the ship got
+clear. In the meantime Captain _Russell_ got off but was not suffered
+to come on board, although he offered _Lowther_ what terms he pleased.
+Next tide they got the ship afloat, having first nailed up and
+dismounted all the cannon. Then putting the Governor's son ashore,
+they put out to sea, when _Lowther_ called upon the men, and told
+them, _It was Madness to think of returning to _England_; for what
+they had done, would be judged a Capital Offence_; and therefore,
+since they had a good ship under them, he proposed that they should
+seek their fortunes upon the Seas, as others had done before them,
+which they all agreed to, calling the ship _The Delivery_, and swore
+to stand by one another.
+
+_Lowther_ left the Fort the 13th of _June_, and on the 20th, near
+_Barbadoes_, he came up with a Brigantine, belonging to _Boston_,
+which he plundered, and then let go. After this he proceeded to
+_Hispaniola_, where he met with a _French_ Sloop loaden with wine and
+brandy, on board whom Captain _Massey_ went, pretending at first to be
+a merchant; but finding her to be a Ship of value, he told Monsieur,
+He must have it all without money. On board her, there was 30 casks of
+brandy, 5 hogsheads of wine, several pieces of chintz, and 70_l._ in
+money, all of which they took, only _Lowther_ return'd the French
+Master five pounds again.
+
+But this good harmony did not last long amongst them, _Massey_ was
+uneasy, and resolved to leave them; which _Lowther_ agreed to, giving
+him a Sloop he had just before taken, to go where he thought fit.
+Accordingly _Massey_ goes aboard, with ten men, and comes in directly
+for _Jamaica_, where, putting a bold face on the matter, he informs
+Sir _Nicholas Laws_, the then Governor, how he had left _Lowther_ the
+pirate, and of all that had been transacted before, adding, That he
+assisted him at the River _Gambia_ only to save so many of His
+Majesty's subjects, and return to _England_.
+
+_Massey_ was well received, and, at his own report, he was sent on
+board the _Happy Sloop_, to cruise off _Hispaniola_ for _Lowther_; but
+not meeting with him, he returned to _Jamaica_, and getting a
+Certificate, he came home to _England_, where, when he arrived, he
+writes to the _African_ Company, relating the whole transaction of his
+voyage, but excuses it as an inadvertency, by his being ill-used; for
+which, if they would not forgive him, he begged to die like a soldier,
+and not be hanged like a dog. This not producing so favourable an
+answer as he expected, he went the next day to the Lord Chief Justice
+Chambers, and enquired, If there had been ever a Warrant granted and
+against one Captain _Massey_ for Piracy. But being told, There was
+not, he said, He was the Man, and that the _African_ Company would
+soon apply to my Lord for one, which if they did, he lodged in
+_Aldersgate street_, where the Officer might at any time find him.
+This the Clerk took down in writing, and a Warrant being soon granted,
+the Tipstaff went accordingly, and took him without any trouble.
+
+But still there was no person to charge him, neither could they prove
+the letter to be his own hand-writing, till the Justice interrogated
+him, _Whether he did write the letter or not_; which he readily
+confessed, as also gave an ample account of the whole voyage,
+thereupon he was committed to _Newgate_, though soon after he was
+admitted out upon bail.
+
+_July_ the 5th, 1723, he was tried at the _Old-Baily_ by a Court of
+Admiralty, when Captain _Russell_ and others appeared against him: But
+he would have saved them all that trouble, for he confessed more than
+they knew, fixing the facts so firm upon himself, that he was found
+Guilty, received Sentence of Death, and was executed three weeks
+after at _Execution Dock_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But to return to _Lowther_, whom _Massey_ left cruising off of
+_Hispaniola_, who plying to the Windward near _Porto Rico_, took two
+sail, one was a small _Bristol_ Ship, the other a _Spanish_ Pirate,
+who had taken the _Bristol_ Ship; which so provoked _Lowther_, that he
+threatened to put all the _Spaniards_ to Death, for daring to
+intermeddle in his Affairs: But at last he contented himself with
+burning both their ships; and the _Spaniards_ getting away in their
+launch, they thought they were well off.
+
+Afterwards he took a small Sloop from _St. Christophers_, which he
+manned; and carried with him to an island where they cleaned, and then
+going aboard, they sailed towards the Bay of _Honduras_, where they
+met with a small vessel with 13 Hands, of the same employment, under
+Captain _Lowe_, whom _Lowther_ received as friends, inviting them, as
+they were few in number, to join their strength together; which being
+accepted of, _Lowther_ continued Captain, and _Lowe_ was made
+Lieutenant, burning his own ship. Then coming into the Bay, they fell
+upon a ship of two hundred tons, called the _Greyhound_; against whom
+_Lowther_ firing his guns, hoisted the piratical Colours, which
+Captain _Edward_ bravely returned; but at length finding the Pirate
+too strong for him he yielded, and the Pirate came on Board, and not
+only rifling the ship, but beat and cut the men in a cruel manner. In
+crusing about the Bay, they took several other vessels without any
+resistance, particularly a Sloop of 100 Tons, which they mounted with
+8 carriages and 10 swivel guns. With this fleet, _Lowther_ in the
+_Happy Delivery_, _Lowe_ in the _Rhode Island_ Sloop, _Harris_ in
+_Hamilton's_ Sloop, left the Bay, and came to _Port Mayo_, where they
+made preparations to careen, carrying ashore all their sails, to lay
+their plunder and stores in; but when they were busy at work, a body
+of the natives came down and attacked the Pirates unprepared, who were
+glad to fly to their Sloops, and leave them masters of the field,
+leaving the _Happy Delivery_ behind them, contenting themselves with
+the _Ranger_, which had only 20 guns, and 8 swivels, taking all the
+men on board her, wherein they presently began to quarrel, laying the
+blame upon one another. Being very much in want of provisions, they
+got to the _West Indies_, _May_ 1722, and near the Island of _Descada_
+took a Brigantine stored with provisions and necessaries, which put
+them in better temper. Then they watered and stood to the Northward,
+intending to visit the North Coast of _America_, and in Latitude 38,
+they took the _Rebecca_ of _Boston_, at which Time the Crews divided,
+_Lowe_ with 44 Hands went on board the Brigantine, and _Lowther_ with
+the same number, staid in the Sloop, separating that very night, being
+the 28th of May 1722.
+
+_Lowther_ cruised a pretty while among the Islands to no purpose,
+till at length he fell in with a _Martinico_ Man, which proved a
+seasonable relief, he being reduced to great want of provisions, and
+after that a _Guinea_ Man. After which they thought it time to clean,
+in order to prepare for new adventures; for which purpose they sailed
+to the Island of _Blanco_, which is a low Island 30 leagues from the
+main of _Spanish America_, where he unrigged his Sloop, sending his
+guns, rigging, and sails ashore, and putting his vessel upon the
+careen. But the _Eagle_ Sloop of _Barbadoes_, coming near this Island,
+and seeing her, supposing her to be a Pirate, took the advantage of
+attacking her when unprepared, who immediately hoisted the _St.
+George's_ Flag at her top-mast head to bid them defiance: But when
+they found the _Eagle_ resolved to board them in good earnest, the
+Pirates cut their cable, and hawled the stern on shore, which obliged
+the _Eagle_ to come to an anchor athwart the hawse, where they engaged
+them till they cried out for Quarters. At which time _Lowther_ and 12
+men made their escape, but they took the rest, and brought them to
+_Camena_, where the _Spanish_ Governor condemned the Sloop to the
+captors, and sent 23 Hands to scour the Bushes of _Blanco_ for the
+Pirates, when they took 40; but could not find _Lowther_, three men
+and a little Boy. _John Churchill_, _Edward Mackonald_, _Nicholas
+Lewis_, _Rich. West_, _Sam Lavercot_, _Rob. White_, _John Shaw_, _And.
+Hunter_, _Jonathan Delve_, _Matthew Freeborn_, and _Henry Watson_,
+were hanged, _Roger Granger_, _Ralph Candem_, and _Robert Willis_,
+were acquitted. And Captain _Lowther_, it is said, afterwards shot
+himself, being found dead, and a pistol burst by his side.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN ANSTIS, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Thomas Anstis_ shipped himself at _Providence_, in the Year 1718,
+aboard the _Buck_ Sloop, and was one of the six that conspired
+together to get off with the vessel, along with _Howel Davis_, _Dennis
+Topping_, and _Walter Kennedy_, etc. I shall only observe, that this
+combination was the beginning of Captain _Roberts's_ company, which
+afterwards proved so formidable, from whom _Anstis_ separated the 18th
+of _April_, 1721, leaving his Commodore to pursue his adventures upon
+the Coasts of _Guinea_, whilst he returned to the _West Indies_, upon
+the same design.
+
+About the middle of _June_, he met with one Captain _Maiston_,
+between _Hispaniola_ and _Jamaica_, bound to _New-York_, from which he
+took all the wearing apparel, liquors and provisions, and six men.
+Afterwards he met with the _Irwin_, Captain _Ross_ from _Cork_, on the
+Coast of _Martinico_, which ship had Colonel _Doyly_ of _Montserrat_
+on board, and his Family, and 600 barrels of beef.
+
+Afterwards they went into one of the Islands to clean, and thence
+proceeding towards _Bermudas_, they met with a stout ship called the
+_Morning Star_, bound from _Guinea_ to _Carolina_, which they kept for
+their own use. Just after, they took a ship from _Barbadoes_ bound to
+_New England_, from whence taking her guns, they mounted the _Morning
+Star_ with 32 pieces of cannon, and 100 men, appointing _John Fenn_
+Captain: For _Anstis_ was so in love with his own vessel, she being a
+good sailor, he made it his choice to stay in her, and let _Fenn_ have
+the other ship. Though they were not sufficiently strong, yet being
+most new men, they could not agree, but resolving to break up company,
+sent a Petition to His Majesty by a Merchant Ship, expecting her
+Return at _Cuba_.
+
+Here they staid about nine months; but not having provisions for above
+two, they were obliged to take what the Island afforded; which is many
+sorts of fish, particularly turtle; though they eat not a bit of
+bread, nor flesh meat, during their being on the Island.
+
+They passed their time here in dancing, and other diversions,
+agreeable to these sort of folks. Among the rest, they appointed a
+mock Court of Judicature, to try one another for Piracy, and he that
+was a Criminal one day, was made a Judge another. I shall never forget
+one of their Trials, which for the curiosity of it, I shall relate.
+The Judge got up into a tree, having a dirty tarpaulin over his
+shoulders for a robe, and a Thrum Cap upon his head, with a large pair
+of spectacles upon his nose, and a monkey bearing up his train, with
+abundance of Officers attending him, with crows and hand-spikes
+instead of wands and tip-staves in their hands. Before whom the
+Criminals were brought out, making 1000 wry Faces; when the
+Attorney-General moved the Court, and said, An't please your Lordship,
+and you Gentlemen of the Jury, this fellow before you is a sad dog, a
+sad, a sad dog, and I hope your Lordship will order him to be hanged
+out of the way; he has committed Piracy upon the High Seas; nay, my
+Lord, that's not all; this fellow, this sad dog before you, has
+out-rid a hundred storms, and you know, my Lord, _He that's born to be
+hanged, will never be drowned_. Nor is this all, he has been guilty of
+worse villany than this, and that is of drinking of small beer; and
+your Lordship knows, there was never a sober fellow but what was a
+rogue--My Lord, I should have said more, but your Lordship knows our
+rum is out, and how should a Man speak that has drunk a dram to-day.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    _Judge._ Harkee me, Sirrah--you ill-looked dog. What
+    have you to say why you may not be tucked up, and set
+    a-sun-drying like a scare-crow?--Are you Guilty, or not?
+
+    _Prisoner._ Not Guilty, an't please your Worship.
+
+    _Judge._ Not Guilty! say so again, and I will have you
+    hanged without any Trial.
+
+    _Prisoner._ An't please your Worship's Honour, my Lord,
+    I am as honest a fellow as ever went between stem and
+    stern of a ship, and can hand, reef, steer, and clap two
+    ends of a rope together, as well as e'er a He that ever
+    crossed Salt-water; but I was taken by one _George
+    Bradley_ (the name of the Judge) a notorious Pirate, and
+    a sad rogue as ever was hanged, and he forced me, an't
+    please your Honour.
+
+    _Judge._ Answer me, Sirrah--how will you be tried?
+
+    _Prisoner._ By God and my country.
+
+    _Judge._ The Devil you will.... Then, Gentlemen of the
+    Jury, we have nothing to do but to proceed to Judgment.
+
+    _Attorney-Gen._ Right, my Lord; for if the fellow should
+    be suffered to speak, he might clear himself; and that,
+    you know, is an affront to the Court.
+
+    _Prisoner._ Pray, my Lord, I hope your Lordship will
+    consider.
+
+    _Judge._ Consider!--How dare you talk of
+    considering!--Sirrah, Sirrah, I have never considered in
+    all my life.--I'll make it Treason to consider.
+
+    _Pris._ But I hope your Lordship will hear reason.
+
+    _Judge._ What have we to do with Reason?--I would have
+    you to know, Sirrah, we do not sit here to hear
+    Reason--we go according to Law.--Is our dinner ready?
+
+    _Attorney-General._ Yes, my Lord.
+
+    _Judge._ Then harkee you rascal at the Bar, hear me,
+    Sirrah, hear me.--You must be hanged for three reasons:
+    _First_, because it is not fit that I should sit as
+    Judge, and no-body to be hang'd: _Secondly_, You must be
+    hang'd because you have a damn'd hanging Look:
+    _Thirdly_, You must be hanged, because I am hungry.
+    There's Law for you, ye dog; take him away, Gaoler.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+By this we may see how these fellows can jest upon things, the
+thoughts of which should make them tremble.
+
+_August_ 1722, they made ready the Brigantine, and came out to sea,
+where meeting their correspondent returning, and finding nothing done,
+they all agreed to ply their old trade. So they sailed with the ship
+and Brigantine to the Southward, where they ran the _Morning Star_
+upon the _Grand Carmanes_, and wrecked her; the next Day _Anstis_ went
+ashore to fetch the men off, who were all safe. _Anstis_ had just time
+to get Captain _Fenn_, and a few others on board, before the _Hector_
+and _Adventure_ came down upon him; but he got to sea, and one of the
+Men-of-War after him, keeping within gun-shot several hours, when the
+wind dying away, the Pirates got to their oars, and rowed for their
+lives.
+
+The _Hector_ landed her men, and took 40 of the _Morning Star's_ Crew,
+without any resistance, they pretending they were glad of this
+opportunity; the rest hid themselves in the woods.
+
+The Brigantine after her escape, sailed to an Island, near the Bay of
+_Honduras_, to clean, and in her way took a Sloop, Captain _Durfey_
+Commander, which they destroyed, but brought the men on board. While
+she was cleaning, _Durfey_ conspired with some of the prisoners, to
+carry off the Brigantine; but it being discovered, he and four or
+five more got ashore, with arms and ammunition; and when the Pirates'
+Canoe came in for Water, seized the boat and men; upon which, _Anstis_
+sent another boat with 30 hand ashore; but _Durfey_ gave them such a
+warm reception that they were glad to return back again.
+
+In _December_ 1722, _Anstis_ left this place, taking in his cruise a
+good ship. He mounted her with 24 Guns and made _Fenn_ Commander. From
+hence they went to the _Bahama_ Islands, taking what they wanted.
+
+As they were cleaning their ship the _Winchelsea_ came down upon them,
+when most of them escaped to the woods; but _Anstis_ having a light
+pair of heels, escaped in the Brigantine. Afterwards, some of the
+Company, being tired of this trade, shot _Anstis_ in his Hammock, and
+put the rest in irons, and then carried the Brigantine to _Curacco_, a
+_Dutch_ Settlement, where they were hanged, and those that delivered
+up the vessel acquitted. _Fenn_ was soon after taken by the
+Man-of-War's Men, straggling in the woods, with a few more, and
+carried to _Antegoa_ and hanged. But some escaped among the negroes,
+and were never heard of since.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN PHILLIPS, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_John Phillips_ was bred a carpenter, but sailing in a West Country
+ship to _Newfoundland_, was taken by _Anstis_, who soon persuaded him
+to join with him, making him Carpenter of the Vessel, in which station
+he continued till they broke up at _Tobago_, when he came Home in a
+Sloop that was sunk in _Bristol_ Channel. But he did not stay long in
+_England_; for hearing of some of his companions being taken in
+_Bristol_ Gaol, he moved off to _Topsham_, and there shipped himself
+with one Captain _Wadham_ for _Newfoundland_, where when the ship
+came he ran away, and hired himself a splitter in the Fishery for the
+season: but he soon combined with others in the Fishery, to go off
+with one of the vessels that lay in the Harbour, and turn Pirate, and
+accordingly fixed upon the 29th of _August_, 1713, at Night; but of 16
+Men that promised five only were as good as their Word.
+Notwithstanding, _Phillips_ was for pushing on, assuring them that
+they should soon increase their company. Hereupon they seized a
+vessel, and went out to sea, when they soon began to settle their
+Officers to prevent dispute, appointing, _John Phillips_, Captain;
+_John Nutt_, Navigator of the Vessel; _James Sparks_, Gunner; _Thomas
+Fern_, Carpenter; and _William White_ was only a private man among
+them.
+
+Before they left the Banks, they took several small fishing vessels,
+out of which they took some more Hands, and then sailed to the
+_West-Indies_: Among those that were taken, was one _John Rose Archer_
+who having been a pirate under _Blackbeard_ was made Quarter-Master to
+the company: They came off _Barbadoes_ in _October_, and cruised
+about the Islands about three Months, without meeting with a vessel,
+so that they were almost starved for want of provisions, when at
+length they fell in with a _Martinico_ Man of 12 guns and 35 hands,
+upon which they hoisted the Black Flag and ran up along side of the
+Sloop, with piratical Colours flying, swearing, If they did not strike
+immediately, they must expect no quarters; which so frightened the
+_Frenchman_, that he never fired a gun. Having got this supply, they
+took her provisions, and four of her men.
+
+Having occasion to clean their vessel, _Phillips_ proposed _Tobago_;
+and just as they had done, a Man-of-War's boat came into the Harbour,
+the ship cruising to the Leeward of the Island; which was no sooner
+gone, but they warped out, and plied to the Windward for safety.
+
+In a few days they took a Snow with a few Hands in it, on board of
+which they sent _Fern_ the Carpenter, _William Smith_, _Philips Wood_,
+and _Taylor_; but _Fern_ being dissatisfied at _Archer's_ being
+preferred before him to be Quarter-Master, persuaded the rest to go
+off with the prize; but _Phillips_ gave them Chase, and coming up with
+them, shot _Wood_, and wounded _Taylor_ in the leg; upon which the
+other two surrendered.
+
+From _Tobago_ they stood away to the Northward, and took a
+_Portugueze_ bound for _Brazil_, and two or three Sloops for
+_Jamaica_, in one of which _Fern_ endeavouring to go off, was killed
+by _Phillips_, as was also another man for the like attempt, which
+made all the others more fearful of discovering their Minds, dreading
+the villany of a few hardened wretches, who feared neither God nor
+Devil, as _Phillips_ was often used blasphemously to say.
+
+On the 25th of March, they took two ships from _Virginia_, the
+Master's name of one was _John Phillips_, the Pirate's Name-sake; of
+the other, _Robert Mortimer_, a stout young man. _Phillips_ staid on
+board _Mortimer's_ Ship, while they transported the crew to the Sloop,
+when _Mortimer_ took up a hand-spike and struck _Phillips_ over the
+Head; but not knocking him down, he recovered and wounded _Mortimer_
+with his sword; and the other two Pirates who were on board, coming
+to _Phillip's_ assistance they cut _Mortimer_ to pieces, while his own
+two men stood and looked on. Out of the other _Virginia_ Man, they
+took _Edward Cheesman_, a carpenter, to supply the Place of _Fern_,
+who being averse to that way of life, proposed to _J. Philamore_, who
+was ordered to row _Cheesman_ on board _Mortimer's_ ship, to overthrow
+their Piratical government; which from time to time, as occasion
+offered, they consulted how to do. The Pirates, in the mean time,
+robbed and plundered several ships and vessels, bending their course
+towards _Newfoundland_, where they designed to raise more men, and do
+all the mischief they could on the Banks, and in the harbours. Towards
+which country, _Phillips_ making his way, took one _Salter_ in a Sloop
+on the Isle of _Sables_, which he kept, and gave _Mortimer's_ Ship to
+the Mate and crew; also a Schooner, one _Chadwell_ Master, which they
+scuttled in order to sink: But _Phillips_ understanding that she
+belonged to Mr. _Menors_ of _Newfoundland_, with whose Vessel they
+first went off a-Pirating, said, _We have done him injury enough
+already_, and so ordering his Vessel to be repaired, returned her to
+the Master.
+
+In the Afternoon, they chased another vessel, whose Master was an
+Inward Light Man, named _Dependence Ellery_, who told _Phillips_ he
+took him for a Pirate as soon as he saw him, otherwise he would not
+have given him the Trouble of chasing him so long. This so provoked
+_Phillips_ and his Crew, that they made poor _Dependence_, for his
+Integrity, dance about the Ship till he was weary. After which they
+took 10 other ships and vessels; and on the 14th of _April_, they took
+a Sloop belonging to Cape _Anne_, _Andrew Harradine_ Master; which
+looking upon to be more fit for their purpose, they came on board,
+keeping only the Master of her Prisoner, and sending the crew away in
+_Salter's_ vessel. _Cheesman_ broke his mind to _Harradine_, to
+destroy the crew. Upon this, it was concluded to be 12 a Clock at
+Noon, when _Cheesman_ leaves his working-tools on the deck, as if he
+had been going to use them, walks off. But perceiving some signs of
+fear in _Harradine_, he fetches his brandy bottle, and gives him and
+the rest a dram, saying, _Here's to our next Meeting_; then he talks
+to _Nutt_, in the mean while _Philamore_ takes up an axe, while
+_Cheesman_ and _Harradine_ seize _Nutt_ by the Collar, and toss him
+over the Side of the Vessel.
+
+By this Time the Boatswain was dead; for as soon as _Philamore_ saw
+the Master laid hold on, he up with the axe, and cut off the
+Boatswain's head, which Noise soon brought the Captain upon Deck, whom
+_Cheesman_ saluted with the blow of a mallet, which broke his
+jaw-bone, but did not knock him down; upon which _Harradine_ came to
+the Carpenter's aid, when _Sparks_ the Gunner interposing, _Cheesman_
+trips up his Heels, and flung him into the arms of _Charles Ivemay_,
+who at that moment threw him into the Sea; and at the same Time
+_Harradine_ throws Captain _Phillips_ after him, bidding the Devil
+take them both. This done, _Cheesman_ jumps from the deck into the
+Hold, to knock _Archer_ on the Head, when _Harry Gyles_ came down
+after him, desired his Life might be spared; which being agreed to, he
+was made a Prisoner, and secured.
+
+All being over, they altered their course from _Newfoundland_ to
+_Boston_, where they arrived the 3rd of _May_, to the great joy of the
+Province, and on the 12th of _May_, a special Court of Admiralty was
+held for the Trial of these Pirates, when _John Philamore_, _Edward
+Cheesman_, _John Cobs_, _Henry Gyles_, _Charles Joymay_, _John
+Bootman_, and _Henry Payne_, were honourably acquitted; as also three
+_French_ Men, _John Baptis_, _Peter Taffery_, and _Isaac Lassen_, as
+also three Negroes, _Pedro_, _Francisco_, and _Pierro_. _John Rose
+Archer_, the Quarter-Master, _William White_, _William Taylor_, and
+_William Phillips_ were condemned; altho' the two latter got a
+Reprieve, and the two former, _Archer_ and _White_, were executed the
+2nd of _June_ following.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN TEACH]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN TEACH, _ALIAS_ BLACKBEARD
+
+
+_Edward Teach_ was a _Bristol_ Man, and had served many years in the
+late wars, in a Privateer fitted out from _Jamaica_, in which he had
+often distinguished himself for his boldness. He was never thought fit
+to be entrusted with any Command, till he went a-pirating in the Year
+1716, when Captain _Benjamin Hornigold_ put him into a Prize Sloop,
+with whom he kept company till _Hornigold_ surrendered.
+
+In 1727, _Teach_ and _Hornigold_ sailed from _Providence_ for
+_America_, where, in their way, they took a vessel with above 100
+Barrels of Flour, as also a Sloop from _Bermudas_, and a Ship bound to
+_Carolina_; from which they had a good plunder. After cleaning at
+_Virginia_, they returned to the _West-Indies_, and made Prize of a
+_French Guinea_ Man bound to _Martinico_, which _Teach_ was made
+Captain of; but _Hornigold_ with his Sloop returned to _Providence_,
+and surrendered to mercy. Aboard the _French Guinea_ Ship, _Teach_
+mounted 46 guns, and called her _Queen Anne's Revenge_. Not long after
+he fell in with the _Scarborough_ Man-of-War, who, after a long fight
+finding she could do no good with _Teach_, left him, and returned to
+_Barbadoes_, while _Teach_ sailed to _Spanish America_. In his way, he
+met with Major _Bonnet_ a Gentleman, formerly of a good estate in
+_Barbadoes_, in a small Sloop with which he had turned Pirate: But
+_Teach_ finding _Bonnet_ knew nothing of the matter, took him into his
+own Ship, and put one _Richards_ Captain in his room, telling the
+Major, _That he had not been us'd to the Fatigues of the Sea, he had
+better decline it, and take his pleasure aboard his Ship_. At
+_Turnissi_ they took in fresh water; but seeing a Sloop coming in,
+they ran to meet her, which struck her sail, upon the sight of the
+Black Flag, to _Teach_, who took the Captain and his men aboard, and
+put _Israel Hands_ to mann the Sloop: From thence they sailed to the
+Bay, where they found a ship and four Sloops. _Teach_ hoisted his
+Black Colours, at the Sight of which, the Captain and his men left the
+Ship, and ran into the woods. _Teach's_ Quarter-Master, with some of
+his Men, took possession of her, and _Richards_ secured the Sloops:
+One of which they burnt, because she belonged to _Boston_, where some
+of his Men had been hanged; but the others they let go after
+plundering them.
+
+From hence they sailed to the _Grand Canaries_, then to the _Bahama_
+Wrecks, and then to _Carolina_, where they took a Brigantine and two
+Sloops, lying off the Bar of _Charles Town_; as also a Ship bound for
+_London_, with some passengers aboard. The next Day they took another
+Vessel coming out, and two Pinks going in, and a Brigantine with
+negroes, in the Face of the Town; which put the Inhabitants into a sad
+fright, being in no condition to help themselves.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Teach_, alias _Blackbeard_, sent _Richards_ along with Mr. _Mark_,
+one of the Prisoners, to demand a chest of medicines of the Governor,
+several of his Men being sick aboard; threatening otherwise to burn
+the Ships, and destroy all the prisoners, among whom was Mr. _Samuel
+Wrag_, one of his Council. Altho' this went very much against the
+inhabitants, yet they were forced to comply with it to save the lives
+of the many souls had in his custody. So sending him a chest worth
+about 3 or 4 hundred Pounds, _Richards_ went back safe to the ships
+with his booty; which as soon as _Blackbeard_ had received, (for so I
+shall call him for the future) he let the ships and the prisoners go,
+having first taken 1500_l._ Sterling, and some provisions out of her.
+From thence they sailed to North _Carolina_, where he had thoughts of
+breaking up the company, and securing the money and the best of the
+effects for himself and friends. Accordingly he ran a-ground, as if it
+had been by accident, and calling _Israel Hands_ to his assistance, he
+ran the Sloop ashore near the other, and so they were both lost. This
+done _Blackbeard_ goes into the _Revenge_ and maroons 17 men upon a
+desert island; where they must inevitably have perished, if _Bonnet_
+had not after taken them up.
+
+_Blackbeard_ goes straight to the Governor of _North Carolina_, with
+Twenty of his Men, and pleads his Majesty's Pardon, and receives
+Certificates thereupon. He went to his Sloop which lay at _Okere-Cock_
+Inlet, and set out for Sea upon another expedition, steering his Ship
+towards _Bermudas_. Meeting with one or two _English Vessels_ in his
+way, he robb'd them only of provisions for his present occasion; but
+meeting with a _French_ Ship laden with sugar and cocoa, he brought
+her home with her cargoe to _North Carolina_, where the Governor and
+the Pirates shared the plunder. He had no sooner arrived there, but he
+and four of his Men made affidavit, That they found the _French_ Ship
+at Sea, without ever a Man on board; upon which she was condemned. The
+Governor had sixty hogheads of sugar for his dividend, his Secretary
+twenty, and the rest were shared amongst the other Pirates. And for
+fear the ship might be discovered by some that might come into the
+River, _Blackbeard_, under pretence that she was leaky, and might
+sink, obtained an order from the Governor to bring her out into the
+River, and burn her; which they did, and sunk her bottom.
+
+The Sloops trading in the River, being so often pillaged by
+_Blackbeard_, consulted with the traders what course to take, knowing
+it was in vain to make any application to the Governor; therefore they
+sent a deputation to the Governor of _Virginia_, to sollicit a force
+from the Men-of-War to destroy this Pirate. Accordingly the Governor
+consulted with the Captains of the _Pearl_ and _Lime_ Men-of-War,
+which lay in _St. James's_ River; whereupon it was agreed, That the
+Governor should have a couple of small Sloops, and they should be
+mann'd out of the Men of War, the Command of which was given to Mr.
+_Robert Maynard_, first Lieutenant of the _Pearl_. But before they
+sailed, it was agreed in Council, to offer a reward of 100_l._ for _any
+one that should take _Edward Teach_, commonly called _Blackbeard_;
+_for every_ Lieutenant, Master, Quarter-Master, Boatswain, _or_
+Carpenter Twenty Pounds; For every inferior Officer, Fifteen Pounds;
+And for every Man taken on Board each Sloop, Ten Pounds_.
+
+Upon this, the Lieutenant sailed from _James's_ River in _Virginia_,
+the 17th of _November_, 1718, and the 21st in the evening came to
+_Okere-cock_ Inlet, where he had fight of the Pirate: And altho' this
+Expedition was made with all the Secrecy imaginable, yet _Blackbeard_
+had notice of it from the Governor of North _Carolina_ and his
+Secretary: But having heard several false reports before, he gave the
+less credit to this, till he saw the Sloops; and then he put himself
+in a Posture of defence, with his 25 Men.
+
+Lieutenant _Maynard_ came to an anchor that night, because the Channel
+was so intricate that there was no getting in, in the dark. In the
+Morning, coming within gun-shot of the Pirate, he received his fire:
+whereupon the _Maynard_ stood directly towards him, endeavouring to
+make a running fight. _Maynard's_ men being most expos'd, he lost
+twenty at one broadside; upon which he ordered his men under deck, and
+bid them get ready for close fighting upon the first signal. Then
+_Blackbeard's_ men pour'd in grenadoes; after which, seeing no Hands
+aboard, he told his men they were all kill'd; _Let's jump in, and fall
+to Plunder_: Which they had no sooner done, but the Lieutenant and his
+men gave them as unwelcome a reception as ever they met with before.
+The Lieutenant and _Blackbeard_ fired first at each other, and then
+they went to it sword in hand, whilst the men on each side were as
+warmly engaged as their Captains, until the vessel was all over
+blood. _Blackbeard_ stood it till he had received above twenty wounds,
+five of them being shots, before he fell down dead. Eight of his
+fourteen men being kill'd, and the other six being much wounded, they
+call'd for quarters; which was granted, and then the Lieutenant
+attacked with equal bravery the men that remained in the Sloop and
+took them.
+
+The Lieutenant caused _Blackbeard's_ head to be cut off, and hung at
+the bowsprit end; with which he sailed to _Bath Town_ to get his
+wounded men cured, and then began to rummage the Pirate Sloop, aboard
+which they found several Letters of Correspondence betwixt the
+Governor of _North Carolina_, his Secretary, and some Traders of _New
+York_ and _Blackbeard_. Thereupon going to _Bath Town_ in _North
+Carolina_, he seized in the Governors Store-house, the Sixty Hogsheads
+of Sugar, and Mr. _Knight_ his Secretary's 20, which was their
+dividend of the plunder taken in the _French_ Ship before-mentioned.
+
+After his Men were a little recovered, he returned to the Men-of-War
+in _James's_ River in _Virginia_, with _Blackbeard's_ head hanging at
+his bowsprit, and 15 prisoners, 13 of whom were hanged, one of them
+being taken but the night before out of a trading Sloop: The other,
+not being in the fight, was taken at _Bath Town_, being just before
+disabled by _Blackbeard_ in one of his drunken humours.
+
+The night before he was killed, being ask'd if he should chance to be
+killed, whether his wife knew where his money was; he answered, _That
+no-body but himself and the Devil, knew where it was, and the longest
+Liver should take all_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Names of the Pirates killed in the engagement were _Edward
+Blackbeard_, Commander; _Philip Morton_, Gunner; _Garnet Gibbons_,
+Boatswain; _Owen Roberts_, Carpenter; _Thomas Miller_, Quarter-Master;
+_John Husk_, _Joseph Curtice_, _Joseph Brooks_, _Nath. Jackson_.
+
+The following, except the two last, were hanged, viz.: _John Carnes_,
+_Jo. Brookes, jun._, _James Blake_, _John Gibbs_, _Thomas Gates_,
+_James White_, _Richard Styles_, _Cesar_, _Joseph Philip_, _James
+Robbins_, _John Martyn_, _Edward Salter_, _Stephen Daniel_, _Richard
+Greensarl_, _Israel Hands_, and _Samuel Odel_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MAJOR STEDE BONNET]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+MAJOR STEDE BONNET, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+The Major was a Gentleman of Fortune and Distinction in the Island of
+_Barbadoes_, who before his Piracy bore the character of a worthy
+honest _man_, and no-body could ever account for this his undertaking,
+for he wanted neither learning nor understanding. He fitted out a
+Sloop with ten guns and sixty men, which he named the _Revenge_, at
+his own expence, and sailed from _Barbadoes_ for the Cape of
+_Virginia_, where he took the _Anne_ from _Glasgow_, the _Turbet_ from
+_Barbadoes_, the _Endeavour_ from _Bristol_, the _Young_ from _Leith_,
+and many others. From thence he went to _New York_, and there took a
+Sloop, and then stood in at _Gardiner's_ Island where he bought
+provisions, and went off. _August_, 1717, he came off at the Bar of
+_South Carolina_, and took a Sloop and Brigantine, which they
+plundered, and then he dismissed the Brigantine, but took the Sloop
+with him to an Inlet in _North-Carolina_, where he careened, and set
+her on fire.
+
+Afterwards he put to sea, but could not agree with the men what course
+to take; for the Major being no sailor, was obliged to submit to many
+things his men imposed upon him, when falling in with _Edward Teach_,
+alias _Blackbeard_, who was a good sailor, but a hardened villain,
+_Bonnet's_ Crew joined with him, and put _Bonnet_ aboard
+_Blackbeard's_ Ship.
+
+But _Blackbeard_ losing his Ship at _Topsail_ Inlet, surrendered to
+the King's Proclamation; when _Bonnet_ re-assumed the command of his
+own Sloop, and sailed directly for _Bath_ Town in _North-Carolina_,
+where he also surrenders himself, and receives a certificate. There
+getting a clearance for his Sloop, he pretended to sail for the
+Island of _St. Thomas_, to get the Emperor's Commission to go
+a-Privateering upon the _Spaniards_. But returning to _Topsail_ Inlet,
+he found that _Blackbeard_ and his gang were gone, with their effects;
+and that they had set on shore, on a small sandy island about a league
+from the continent, seventeen men, without any provisions, or vessel
+to escape. There they had been two nights and one day without any
+sustenance, when, to their inexpressible joy, they saw Major _Bonnet_,
+who had been informed of their being there by two of _Blackbeard's_
+crew, who had escaped to avoid his cruelty.
+
+Then he steered his course towards _Virginia_, where meeting with a
+Pink having Provisions on board, and they being in want, he took out
+of her ten barrels of pork, and five hundredweight of bread, and gave
+her, in exchange, ten casks of Rice, and an old cable.
+
+Two days after they took a Sloop of sixty tons, from which they took
+two hogsheads of rum, and two of molasses, and then put in her eight
+men, to take care of the Prize; but they not liking her new
+acquaintance took the first opportunity to get off with her.
+
+After this the Major threw off all restraint, and became a downright
+Pirate, by the name of Captain _Thomas_, taking and plundering all the
+vessels he met with. He took off Cape _Henry_, two Ships from
+_Virginia_, bound to _Glasgow_; the next day a small Sloop from
+_Virginia_ bound to _Bermudas_; from which they took twenty barrels of
+pork, and gave her in return, two barrels of rice, and as much
+molasses. The next day they took another _Virginia_ man, bound to
+_Glasgow_, out of which they took two men, and a few small things, and
+gave her a barrel of pork, and another of bread. From thence they
+sailed to _Philadelphia_, where they took a Schooner coming from
+_North Carolina_ to _Boston_, from which they took two men, and two
+dozen of calves skins, to make covers for guns. In the latitude of
+32°, off of _Delaware_ River, near _Philadelphia_, they took two Snows
+bound to _Bristol_, from which they took money and goods to the value
+of two hundred pounds; as also a Sloop of sixty tons, from
+_Philadelphia_ to _Barbadoes_, from which they took a few goods, and
+let her go. The 29th of _July_, they took a Sloop of fifty tons, bound
+from _Philadelphia_ to _Barbadoes_, laden with provisions, which they
+kept; as also another of sixty tons, from _Antegoa_ to _Philadelphia_,
+having on board, rum, molasses, sugar, cotton and indigo, to the value
+of five hundred Pounds, all of which they kept. Then they left
+_Delaware_ Bay, and sailed to Cape _Fear_ River, where they staid
+almost two months to repair their Sloop, which proved very leaky, till
+news came to _Carolina_ of a Pirate's Sloop, with her Prizes, being
+there a-careening.
+
+Whereupon Colonel _William Rhet_ offered to go with two Sloops to
+attack them; which being by the Governor and Council approved of, he
+was commissioned on board the _Henry_, with eight guns and seventy
+men, commanded by Captain _John Masters_; and the _Sea Nymph_,
+commanded by Captain Farier-Hall, with as many guns and men; both
+under the Direction of the Colonel, who went on board the _Henry_ the
+14th of _September_, and sailed from _Charles_ Town to _Swillivant's_
+Island, in order to cruise: where he was informed, by a small ship
+from _Antegoa_, which in sight of the Bar, was taken and plundered by
+_Charles Vane_, in a Brigantine of sixteen guns, and a hundred men;
+that he had taken two Sloops, one Captain _Dill_, Master, from
+_Barbadoes_; the other Captain _Thompson_, from _Guinea_, with seventy
+negroes, which they put on board one _Yeats_ his consort, being a
+small Sloop with twenty-five men, who being weary of this course of
+life, ran into _Edisto_ River, and surrender'd to his Majesty's
+Pardon, by which the owners got their negroes again, and _Yeats_ and
+his men had their certificates sign'd.
+
+_Vane_ cruised for some time thereabouts, in hopes to take _Yeats_,
+and be revenged on him; during which time, he took a ship bound to
+London, to whom he gave out, that he designed to go to the southward;
+which Colonel _Rhet_ hearing, sailed over the Bar the 15th with the
+two Sloops, and went after the Pirate _Vane_; but not meeting with
+him, tack'd and stood for Cape _Fear_, according to his first Design;
+and on the 26th following he entered the River, where he saw _Bonnet_,
+and the three Sloops his Prizes, at anchor; but the Pilot running the
+Sloops a-ground, hindered their getting up that Night. The Pirates
+seeing the Sloops, and not knowing who they were, mann'd three canoes,
+and sent them down to take them; but finding their mistake, _Bonnet_
+took all the men out of the Prizes to engage them. Colonel _Rhet's_
+Sloops the next morning getting under sail, stood for the Pirates, who
+designed only to make a running fight; but the Colonel getting upon
+his quarters, he edged in upon the shore, and ran his Sloop a-ground.
+The Colonel's Sloops were soon in the same condition: The _Henry_
+grounded within pistol-shot of the Pirate, on his bow; the other,
+right a-head of him, almost out of gun-shot, which made it of but very
+little use to the Colonel. By this time the Pirate had a very great
+advantage: For his Sloop lifted from Colonel _Rhet's_, which converted
+them all over; and the Colonel's Sloop lifting the same way, was much
+exposed for about five hours, whilst they lay a-ground. The Colonel's
+Sloop being first a-float, he got into deeper water, and after mending
+his rigging, he stood for the Pirate, to go directly on board him;
+which they prevented, by hoisting a flag of truce, and surrendering
+soon after. The Colonel lost in this action ten men, and had fourteen
+wounded. The _Sea Nymph_ had two killed, and four wounded. Among the
+Pirates were none killed, and three were wounded. The next day the
+Colonel weighed from Cape _Fear_, and arrived at _Charles Town_ the 3d
+of _October_, to the no small joy of the people of _Carolina_.
+
+There being no publick prison, _Bonnet_ was committed into the custody
+of the marshal, and his Men were kept at the Watch-house under a
+strict guard; a little before the trial, _David Harriot_ the Master,
+and _Ignatius Rathe_ Boatswain, the evidences, were removed from the
+Crew, to the Marshal's house, from whence on the 24th _Bonnet_ and
+_Harriott_ made their escape; which as soon as the Governor heard of,
+he published a Proclamation, promising a reward of 700_l._ to any one
+that would take him, and also sent several boats with armed men in
+pursuit of him.
+
+_Bonnet_ stood to the northward, in a small vessel; but through stress
+of weather, and want of necessaries, he was forced to _Swillivant's_
+Island. Of which information being given to the Governor, he sent for
+Colonel _Rhet_, and desired him once more to go in pursuit of him;
+which the Colonel readily accepted of; and having got all Things
+ready, went that Night for _Swillivant's_ Island, where, after a long
+search, he discovered them. After the Colonel's men had fired upon
+them, and killed _Harriott_, _Bonnet_ immediately surrendered himself,
+and was, next Morning, brought back to _Charles Town_, and confined
+under a strong guard till his trial, which was hastened for fear he
+should give them the slip again.
+
+On the 28th of _October_, 1718, a Court of Vice-Admiralty was held at
+_Charles Town_, and, by several adjournments continued to the 12th of
+_November_ following, by _Nicholas Trot_, Esq; Judge of the
+Vice-Admiralty, and Chief Judge of _Carolina_, and other Assistant
+Judges; where, after the King's Commission was read, and a Grand Jury
+sworn, _Judge Trot_ gave them a learned Charge: And then the _Grand
+Jury_ went out, and found the Bills; upon which, a _Petit-Jury_ was
+sworn, and the following Persons were arraingn'd and try'd.
+
+    _Stede Bonnet_, alias _Edwards_, alias _Thomas_, late of
+    _Barbadoes_, Merchant.
+
+    _Robert Tucker_, late of _Jamaica_, Merchant.
+
+    _Edward Robinson_, late of _Newcastle_-upon-_Tine_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Neal Peterson_, late of _Aberdeen_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Scot_, late of _Aberdeen_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Eddy_, alias _Neddy_, late of _Aberdeen_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Alexander Annand_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _George Rose_, late of _Glasgow_, Mariner.
+
+    _George Dubin_, late of _Glasgow_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Ridge_, late of _London_, Mariner.
+
+    _Matthew King_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _Daniel Perry_, late of _Guernsey_, Mariner.
+
+    _Henry Virgin_, late of _Bristol_, Mariner.
+
+    _James Rattle_, alias _Robbins_, late of _London_,
+    Merchant.
+
+    _James Mullet_, alias _Millet_, late of _London_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Price_, late of _Bristol_, Mariner.
+
+    _James Wilson_, late of _Dublin_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Lopez_, late of _Oporto_, Mariner.
+
+    _Zachariah Long_, late of the Province of _Holland_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Job. Barley_, late of _London_, Mariner.
+
+    _John William Smith_, late of _Charles_ Town in
+    _Carolina_, Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Carman_, late of _Maidstone_ in _Kent_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Thomas_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Morrison_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _Samuel Booth_, late of _Charles_ Town, Mariner.
+
+    _William Howet_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Kent_, late of _North Carolina_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Livres_, alias _Evis_, late of _Carolina_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _John Brierly_, alias _Timberhead_, late of _Bath_ Town
+    in _North Carolina_, Mariner.
+
+    _Robert Boyd_, late of _Bath_ Town in North _Carolina_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Nicholas_, late of _London_, Mariner.
+
+    _Rowland Sharp_, late of _Bath_ Town, Mariner.
+
+    _Jonathan Clark_, late of _Charles_ Town, Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Gerrard_, late of _Antegoa_, Mariner.
+
+All of whom, except the four last, were found Guilty, and received
+Sentence of Death, upon two Indictments, for Robbing upon the High Sea
+the _Francis_, _Peter Manwaring_, Commander; and for seizing, in a
+Piratical Manner, the Sloop _Fortune_, _Thomas Read_, Commander: To
+which they all pleaded Not Guilty, except _James Wilson_ and _John
+Levit_, who pleaded Guilty to both Indictments, and _Daniel Piercy_
+to one only. _Bonnet_ moved to go through both the Indictments at
+once; but the Court overruling it, he was found Guilty of one, and
+retracted his Plea to the other. They made but little Defence,
+pretending they were taken off a _Maroon_ Shore, and were shipped with
+Major _Bonnet_ to go to _St. Thomas's_, but wanting provisions they
+were obliged to do what they did; and the Major himself pretended it
+was _Necessity_ and not _Inclination_ that compelled them to do it.
+But that not appearing, they having all shared ten or eleven Pounds a
+man, except the four last, they were all found Guilty. After which the
+Judge set forth the enormity of their Crimes: And then pronounced
+Sentence of Death upon the persons aforesaid, except Major _Bonnet_,
+who not being brought back in time, was not tried till the 10th of
+_November_; and being then also found Guilty, he received Sentence in
+like manner as the others; before whom Judge _Trot_ made an excellent
+speech, saying afterwards.
+
+_And now, having discharged my Duty as a Christian, I must do my
+Office as a Judge, which is_
+
+_You the said _Stede Bonnet_ shall go from hence, to the Place from
+whence you came, and from thence to the Place of Execution, where you
+shall be hanged by the Neck till you are dead._
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID
+
+
+We are now going to give an account of one whose name is better known
+in _England_, than most of those whose histories we have already
+related; the person we mean is Captain _Kid_, whose public Trial and
+Execution here, rendered him the subject of all conversation.
+
+In the beginning of King _William's_ War, Captain _Kid_ commanded a
+Privateer in the _West-Indies_, and by several adventurous actions
+acquired the reputation of a brave man, as well as an experienced
+seaman. About this time the Pirates were very troublesome in those
+parts, wherefore Captain _Kid_ was recommended by the Lord
+_Bellamont_, then Governor of _Barbadoes_, as well as by several other
+persons, to the Government here, as a person very fit to be entrusted
+with the command of a Government Ship, and to be employed in cruising
+upon the Pirates, as knowing those Seas perfectly well, and being
+acquainted with their lurking places; but what reasons governed the
+politics of those times, I cannot tell, but this proposal met with no
+encouragement here, though it is certain it would have been of great
+consequence to the subject, our merchants suffering incredible damages
+by those robbers.
+
+Upon this neglect the Lord _Bellamont_, and some others who knew what
+great captures had been made by the Pirates, and what a prodigious
+wealth must be in their possession, were tempted to fit out a ship at
+their own private charge, and to give the command of it to Captain
+_Kid_; and to give the thing a greater reputation, as well as to keep
+their seamen under the better command, they procured the King's
+Commission for the said Captain _Kid_.
+
+Captain _Kid_ had also another Commission, which was called a
+Commission of Reprisals; for it being then War time, this Commission
+was to justify him in the taking of _French_ Merchant Ships, in case
+he should meet with any. He sail'd out of _Plymouth_ in _May_ 1696, in
+the _Adventure_ Galley of thirty guns, and eighty men; the place he
+first design'd for was _New York_; in his Voyage thither he took a
+French _Banker_, but this was no Act of Piracy, he having a Commission
+for that purpose, as we have just observed.
+
+When he arrived at _New York_ he put up Articles for engaging more
+Hands, it being necessary to his Ship's crew, since he proposed to
+deal with a desperate enemy: The terms he offered were, that every man
+should have a share of what was taken, reserving for himself and
+Owners forty shares. Upon this encouragement he soon increas'd his
+company to a hundred and fifty five men.
+
+With this company he first sail'd for _Maderas_, where he took in wine
+and some other necessaries; from thence he proceeded to _Bonavist_,
+one of the _Cape de Verd Islands_, to furnish the ship with salt, and
+from thence went immediately to _St. Jago_, another of the _Cape de
+Verd Islands_, in order to stock himself with provisions. When all
+this was done, he bent his course to _Madagascar_, the known
+rendezvous of Pirates; in this way he fell in with Captain _Warren_,
+Commodore of three Men-of-War; he acquainted them with his design,
+kept them company two or three days, and then leaving them, made the
+best way for _Madagascar_, where he arrived in _February_ 1696, just
+nine months from his departure from _Plymouth_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It does not appear all this while that he had the least design of
+turning Pirate; for near _Mahala_ and _Joanna_ both he met with
+several _Indian_ ships richly laden, to which he did not offer the
+least violence, tho' he was strong enough to have done what he pleas'd
+with them; and the first outrage or depredation I find he committed
+upon mankind, was after his repairing his ship, and leaving _Joanna_;
+he touch'd at a place call'd _Mabbee_, upon the _Red Sea_, where he
+took some _Guinea_ Corn from the natives, by force.
+
+After this he sail'd to _Bab's Key_, a Place upon a little Island at
+the entrance of the _Red Sea_; here it was that he first began to open
+himself to his ship's company, and let them understand that he
+intended to change his measures; for, happening to talk of the _Moca_
+Fleet, which was to sail that way, he said _We have been unsuccessful
+hitherto, but courage, my Boys, we'll make our fortunes out of this
+Fleet_: And finding that none of them appear'd averse to it, he
+order'd a boat out, well mann'd, to go upon the coast to make
+discoveries, commanding them to take a prisoner and bring to him, or
+get intelligence any way they could. The boat return'd in a few days,
+bringing him word, that they saw fourteen or fifteen ships ready to
+sail, some with _English_, some with _Dutch_, and some with _Moorish_
+Colours. He therefore order'd a man continually to watch at the
+mast-head, least this Fleet should go by them; and about four days
+after, towards evening, it appear'd in sight, being convoy'd by one
+_English_ and one _Dutch_ Man-of-War. _Kid_ soon fell in with them,
+and getting into the midst of them, fir'd at a _Moorish_ ship which
+was next him; but the Men-of-War taking the Alarm, bore down upon
+_Kid_, and firing upon him, obliged him to sheer off, he not being
+strong enough to contend with them. Now he had begun hostilities, he
+resolv'd to go on, and therefore he went and cruis'd along the coast
+of _Malabar_; the first Prize he met was a small vessel belonging to
+_Aden_, the vessel was _Moorish_, and the Owners were _Moorish_
+Merchants, but the Master was an _Englishman_, his name was _Parker_.
+_Kid_ forc'd him and a _Portugueze_ that was call'd _Don Antonio_,
+which were all the _Europeans_ on Board, to take on with them; the
+first he design'd as a pilot, and the last as an interpreter. He also
+used the men very cruelly, causing them to be hoisted up by the arms,
+and drubb'd with a naked cutlass, to force them to discover whether
+they had money on board, and where it lay; but as they had neither
+gold nor silver on board, he got nothing by his cruelty; however, he
+took from them a bale of pepper, and a bale of coffee, and so let them
+go.
+
+Soon after this he came up with a _Moorish_ Ship, the Master whereof
+was a _Dutchman_, call'd _Schipper Mitchel_, and chased her under
+_French_ Colours, which they observing, hoisted _French_ Colours too:
+When he came up with her, he hail'd her in _French_, and they having a
+_Frenchman_ on board, answer'd him in the same language; upon which he
+order'd them to send their boat on board; they were oblig'd to do so,
+and having examin'd who they were, and from whence they came; he ask'd
+the _Frenchman_, who was a passenger, if he had a _French_ pass for
+himself? The _Frenchman_ gave him to understand that he had. Then he
+told the _Frenchman_ he must pass for Captain, _and by God_, says he,
+_you are the Captain_: The _Frenchman_ durst not refuse doing as he
+would have him: The meaning of this was, that he would seize the Ship
+as fair Prize, and as if she belonged to _French_ Subjects, according
+to a commission he had for that purpose; tho', one would think, after
+what he had already done, that he need not have recourse to a quibble
+to give his actions a colour.
+
+In short, he took the cargoe and sold it some time after, yet still he
+seem'd to have some fears upon him least these proceedings should have
+a bad end; for, coming up with a _Dutch_ Ship some time, when his men
+thought of nothing but attacking her, _Kid_ oppos'd it; upon which a
+mutiny arose, and the majority being for taking the said ship, and
+arming themselves to man the boat to go and seize her, he told them,
+such as did, never should come on Board him again; which put an end to
+the design, so that he kept company with the said ship some time,
+without offering her any violence: However, this dispute was the
+occasion of an accident, upon which an indictment was afterwards
+grounded against _Kid_; for _Moor_, the Gunner, being one day upon
+deck, and talking with _Kid_ about the said _Dutch_ Ship, some words
+arose betwixt them, and _Moor_ told _Kid_, that he had ruin'd them
+all; upon which, _Kid_, calling him _Dog_, took up a bucket and struck
+him with it, which breaking his skull, he died the next day.
+
+But _Kid's_ penitential fit did not last long, for coasting along
+_Malabar_, he met with a great number of boats, all which he
+plunder'd. Upon the same Coast he also lit upon a _Portugueze_ Ship,
+which he kept possession of a week, and then having taking out of her
+some chests of _Indian_ goods, thirty jars of butter, and some wax,
+iron, and a hundred bags of rice, he let her go.
+
+The _Adventure_ Galley was now so old and leaky, that they were forced
+to keep two pumps continually going, wherefore _Kid_ shifted all the
+guns and tackle out of her into the _Queda_ Merchant, intending her
+for his Man-of-War; and as he had divided the Money before, he now
+made a division of the remainder of the cargo: Soon after which, the
+greatest part of the company left him, some going on board Captain
+_Culliford_, and others absconding in the Country, so that he had not
+above forty men left.
+
+He put to sea and happened to touch at _Amboyna_, one of the _Dutch_
+Spice Islands, where he was told, that the news of his Actions had
+reach'd _England_, and that he was there declared a Pirate.
+
+The truth on't is, his Piracies so alarmed our Merchants, that some
+motions were made in Parliament, to enquire into the commission that
+was given him, and the persons who fitted him out: These proceedings
+seem'd to lean a little hard upon the Lord _Bellamont_, who thought
+himself so much touch'd thereby, that he published a Justification of
+himself in a pamphlet after _Kid's_ execution. In the mean time, it
+was thought advisable, to publish a Proclamation, offering the King's
+free Pardon to all such Pirates as should voluntarily surrender
+themselves, whatever Piracies they had been guilty of at any time,
+before the last day of _April_, 1699--That is to say, for all
+Piracies committed Eastward of the _Cape of Good_ Hope, to the
+Longitude and Meridian of _Socatora_, and _Cape Camorin_. In which
+Proclamation, _Avery_ and _Kid_ were excepted by Name.
+
+When _Kid_ left _Amboyna_ he knew nothing of this Proclamation, for
+certainly had he had notice of his being excepted in it, he would not
+have been so infatuated, to run himself into the very jaws of danger;
+but relying upon his interest with the Lord _Bellamont_, and fancying,
+that a _French_ Pass or two he found on board some of the ships he
+took, would serve to countenance the matter, and that part of the booty
+he got would gain him new friends--I say, all these things made him
+flatter himself that all would be hushed, and that justice would but
+wink at him. Wherefor he sail'd directly for _New York_, where he was
+no sooner arrived, but by the Lord _Bellamont's_ orders, he was secured
+with all his papers and effects. Many of his fellow-adventurers who had
+forsook him at _Madagascar_, came over from thence passengers, some to
+_New England_ and some to _Jersey_; where hearing of the King's
+Proclamation for pardoning of Pirates, they surrendered themselves to
+the Governor of those places: At first they were admitted to bail, but
+soon after were laid in strict confinement, where they were kept for
+some time, till an opportunity happened of sending them with their
+Captain over to _England_ to be tried.
+
+Accordingly a Sessions of Admiralty being held at the _Old Baily_, in
+_May_, 1701, _Captain Kid_, _Nicholas Churchill_, _James How_, _Robert
+Lumley_, _William Jenkins_, _Gabriel Loff_, _Hugh Parrot_, _Richard
+Barlicorn_, _Abel Owens_, and _Darby Mullins_, were arraingn'd for
+Piracy and Robbery on the High Seas, and all found guilty, except
+three; these were _Robert Lumley_, _William Jenkins_, and _Richard
+Barlicorn_, who proving themselves to be apprentices to some of the
+officers of the ship, and producing their Indentures in Court, were
+acquitted.
+
+_Kid_ was tried upon an indictment of Murder also, _viz._ for killing
+_Moor_ the Gunner, and found guilty of the same. _Nicholas Churchill_
+and _James How_ pleaded the King's Pardon, as having surrendered
+themselves within the time limited in the Proclamation, and Colonel
+_Bass_, Governor of _West Jersey_, to whom they surrendered, being in
+Court, and called upon, proved the same; however, this plea was
+over-ruled by the Court, because there being four Commissioners named
+in the Proclamation, it was adjudged no other person was qualified to
+receive their surrender, and that they could not be intitled to the
+benefit.
+
+As to Captain _Kid's_ Defence, he insisted much upon his own
+innocence, and the villany of his men; he said he went out in a
+laudable employment and had no occasion, being then in good
+circumstances, to go a-Pirating; that the men often mutinied against
+him, and did as they pleas'd; that he was threatened to be shot in his
+cabin, and that ninety five left him at one time, and set fire to his
+boat, so that he was disabled from bringing his ship home, or the
+Prizes he took, to have them regularly condemn'd, which he said were
+taken by virtue of a commission under the broad seal, they having
+_French_ Passes--The Captain called one Col. _Hewson_ to his
+Reputation, who gave him an extraordinary character, and declared to
+the Court, that he had served under his command, and been in two
+engagements with him against the _French_, in which he fought as well
+as any man he ever saw; that there were only _Kid's_ Ship and his own
+against Monsieur _du Cass_, who commanded a squadron of six sail, and
+they got the better of him, but this being several years before the
+facts mentioned in the Indictment were committed, prov'd of no manner
+of service to the Prisoner on his Trial.
+
+As to the friendship shown to _Culliford_, a notorious Pirate, _Kid_
+denied, and said, he intended to have taken him, but his men being a
+parcel of rogues and villains refused to stand by him, and several of
+them ran away from his ship to the said Pirate.--But the evidence
+being full and particular against him, he was found Guilty as before
+mentioned.
+
+When _Kid_ was asked what he had to say why Sentence should not pass
+against him, he answered, That _he had nothing to say, but that he had
+been sworn against by perjured wicked People_. And when Sentence was
+pronounced, he said, _My Lord it is a very hard Sentence. For my part
+I am the innocentest Person of them all, only I have been sworn
+against by perjured Persons_.
+
+Wherefore about a week after, Capt. _Kid_, _Nicholas Churchill_,
+_James How_, _Gabriel Loff_, _Hugh Parrot_, _Abel Owen_, and _Darby
+Mullins_, were executed at _Execution Dock_, and afterwards hung up in
+Chains, at some distance from each other, down the river, where their
+Bodies hung exposed for many years.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Edward England_ went Mate of a Sloop that sailed out of _Jamaica_,
+and was taken by _Winter_, a Pirate, from whom he had the Command of a
+Sloop just before their Settlement at _Providence_. The man was brave
+and good natured, and far from being cruel, as most of them are; and
+would not have committed such barbarous actions as he did, had not his
+comrades compelled him to it.
+
+He sailed to the Coast of _Africa_, after the Island of _Providence_
+was inhabited by the _English_. In his Passage he took several Ships,
+particularly the _Cadogan_ Snow belonging to _Bristol_, one _Skinner_
+Master, who was murdered by those very men who had formerly served
+under him, upon a quarrel that happened between _Skinner_ and them,
+about their wages: He shipped them on board a Man-of-War, from whence
+they deserted, and went on board a ship in the _West-Indies_, where
+they were taken by a pirate, and brought to _Providence_, and then
+they sailed with Captain _England_ a-Pirating.
+
+As soon as _Skinner_ came on board, he saw his old Boatswain, who
+said, _Ah! Captain Skinner is it you, I am much in your Debt, and now
+I shall pay you in your own Coin_. These words put the Captain in a
+panic Fear: And indeed he had Reason enough to be afraid, for they
+immediately seized him, bound him to the Windlass, pelted him with
+Glass Bottles, afterwards whipt him about the Deck, and then said,
+because he had been a good Master, he should have an easy Death, and
+so shot him through the Head; the vessel and her Cargoe being given to
+_Howel Davis_.
+
+After this _England_ went into an _Harbour_ to clean his Ship, and
+also fitted up the _Peterborough_, which he called the _Victory_.
+Then putting out to sea, they sailed for the _East-Indies_, and took
+_Madagascar_, by the Way. From thence, after taking in water and
+provisions, they went for _Malabar_, in the Empire of the _Mogul_.
+Here they took several _Indian_ Vessels, and one _European_, a _Dutch_
+Ship, which they exchanged for one of their own, and then came back to
+_Madagascar_, where they sent several Hands on shore to kill venison,
+and then resolved to seek out for the remains of _Avery's_ Crew; but
+returning without success, they being settled on the other side, they
+stay'd no longer than till they had cleaned their ships, and then
+sailed to _Juanna_.
+
+In the Year 1720, the _Bombay_ Fleet, consisting of four _Grabs_, the
+_London Chandois_, and some other ships, carried 1000 Men to bombard
+and batter _Gapra_, a fort belonging to _Angria_, on the _Malabar_
+Coast; which they not being able to do, fell in with the Pirates, in
+their return to _Bombay_: But Captain _Upton_ the Commodore, having no
+orders, would not engage them; which so provoked the Governor, for
+missing so favourable an opportunity of cutting the Pirates all off,
+that he gave the command to Captain _Mackra_, with orders to fight
+them wherever he met with them.
+
+But the Pirates proceeded to the southward, and took a small ship out
+of _Orincro_ Road, with a _Dutch_ and two _Portugueze_ Men on board,
+one of which they sent to the Captain, to inform him, that if he would
+supply them with provisions and water he should have his ship again.
+But the Master would not agree to it; thereupon they sent other
+persons ashore, and swore he should be the last man they would give
+quarter to, and so put directly for _Laccadeva_ Island, and arrived
+there in three days. But being informed by a _Menchew_, there was no
+anchor-ground there, they went to the next Island, called _Melincha_,
+whence they were driven by a storm, leaving behind them a hundred
+people, and all their water-casks: But in a week's time, they regained
+the island, took their people on board, and filled the water-casks.
+Provisions being scarce, they resolved to visit the _Dutch_ at
+_Cochin_, and after three days sail, arrived off of _Tellechery_,
+where they took a small Vessel belonging to Governor _Adams_; who
+giving an account of Captain _Mackra's_ fitting out against them, put
+them into a grievous passion.
+
+Afterward they arrived at _Mauritius_, where they refitted the
+_Victory_, and then sailed the 5th of April for _Madagascar_, but
+called first at the Island _Mascarine_, at which they found a
+_Portugueze_ ship of seventy guns at anchor, disabled by a violent
+storm, so that they easily became a Prize to the Pirates. She had on
+board the _Conde Ereceira_ Vice-Roy of _Goa_, also they found on board
+her, in diamonds only, to the value of four millions of Dollars. They
+made the Vice-Roy a prisoner; but in consideration of his losses,
+accepted of a ransom of 2000 dollars and then set him and his
+followers ashore. Learning that an _Ostender_ was on the leeward of
+that Island, they sailed and took her, and sent her to _Madagascar_
+with news of their success, where they followed themselves soon
+after, with two hundred _Mozambique_ Negroes in the _Portugueze_ Ship.
+
+When _Taylor_ came with the _Portugueze_ Prize to _Madagascar_, they
+found that the _Ostender_ had made his men drunk, and seized his ship,
+which they carried to the _Mozambique_; from thence the Governor
+ordered her to _Goa_. But the Pirates staid and clean'd the
+_Cassandra_, and divided very great plunder. Some, who thought they
+had got enough, staid at _Madagascar_, and the rest, having no
+occasion for two ships, burnt the _Victory_, she being leaky, and went
+on board the _Cassandra_, under the Command of Captain _Taylor_,
+designing to go for _Cochin_ to dispose of his diamonds, amongst his
+old Friends the _Dutch_, and also to avoid the dangers of the
+Men-of-War that were in pursuit of them. But as he was preparing to
+sail, and heard of four Men-of-War coming after him; therefore he
+altered his mind, and sailed for the Main of _Africa_, and put in at
+_Delagoa_: But the Pirates were surprized in the evening with some
+shot from the shore. They took it for a desert shore, but it proved
+otherwise; for a few months before, the _Dutch East India Company_ had
+settled one hundred men upon it, who, not being supplied with
+necessaries, were reduced to about sixteen; whom _Taylor_, upon their
+humble petition took aboard, and they all became Pirates with him.
+
+Here they stayed about four months, careened their ships, and left
+_Delagoa_ the latter end of _December_: But not agreeing among
+themselves, they parted those who were weary of that sort of life,
+went on board the _Portugueze_ Prize, and sailed for _Madagascar_; the
+others went on board the _Cassandra_, and sailed for the _Spanish West
+Indies_. The _Mermaid_ Man-of-War, which was a convoy to some
+Merchant-men, about 30 leagues distance, would have gone to attack
+them, had not the Merchants, whom he had the care of, declar'd their
+protection was of more service than destroying the Pirates; and so he
+was oblig'd to be content with only dispatching the news of it to
+_Jamaica_. This brought down the _Lanceston_, though it was a day or
+two too late, for they had just before surrendered, with all their
+riches, to the Governor of _Porto-Bello_, where they now live upon
+their Spoils, saying, others would have done as much, had they had the
+same opportunity; swearing, _That whatever Robberies they had
+committed they are not the only Rogues in the World; for that the
+South-Sea[A] did more Mischief in one Year, than they were able to do
+in their whole Lives_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] The South-Sea Bubble.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN JOHN GOW]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN GOW, _ALIAS_ SMITH, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_John Gow_, alias _Smith_, was born at a place called _Caristoun_, in
+the _Orkney_ Islands, and was brought up a sailor from his youth,
+having served on board several Men-of-War, and last of all on board
+the _Suffolk_, along with _T. Swan_, who was engaged with him in the
+conspiracy to murder Captain _Ferneau_, and seize the ship and cargoe,
+as they went off the _Texel_, but they were prevented by _James
+Belvin_, who was led into the secret and discovered it. Captain
+_Ferneau_ taking little notice of it, contented himself with turning
+off _Swan_, and preferred _Gow_ to be second Mate and Gunner.
+
+They sailed on board the _George_ Galley, August the 1st, 1724, from
+the _Texel_ to _Santa Cruz_, having 15000_l._ on board, when Gow
+designed to have seized the Ship as they went out, but could not get a
+party strong enough to join with him, till he worked up a
+misunderstanding between the Captain and part of the crew, concerning
+the provisions of the ship, particularly _Winter_, _Peterson_, _and
+Mc.Cawley_, who came upon the Quarter-Deck, in presence of the Owners,
+just before they sailed, and made a long complaint against the
+Captain; who assured them that if there was any wrong done them, it
+was not by his consent; and that he would enquire into it as soon as
+they had unmoored the ship.
+
+About eight a clock at night, Captain _Ferneau_, as usual, called them
+up to prayers in the great Cabin, and then set the watch, and went to
+sleep, little thinking his end was so near, when _Winter_,
+_Rawlisson_, and _Melvin_, begun the scene of blood, _Gow_ lying snug
+in his hammock, as if he knew nothing of the matter, till he saw
+whether the villany would succeed, or not. _Winter_ cut the Doctor's
+throat as he was asleep in his hammock, and then went up to _Melvin_
+and _Rawlisson_, who in the mean time had seized the Captain and cut
+his throat also, but not touching the windpipe, _Gow_ stept up and
+shot him with a brace of bullets, and then threw him over-board.
+_Mc.Cawley_ cut _Stephen Algiers_ the Clerk's throat, as he lay in the
+hammock, and _Williams_ shot him dead afterwards. _Peterson_ cut the
+throat of _Bonaventure Jelphs_, the Chief Mate; and _Michael Moor_, at
+the Command of _Williams_, shot him.
+
+After this _Williams_ came upon the Quarter-Deck, and saluted _Gow_
+with Captain _Ferneau's_ sword, first striking it upon one of the
+guns, and saying, _Welcome Captain_ Gow, _welcome to your new
+Command_. After which, _Gow_ told the men, That if any of them durst
+murmur or cabal together, they must expect to meet with the same Fate;
+and then calling a Council, they agreed to go, _Upon the Account_, as
+they called it.
+
+They called the ship the _Revenge_, and mounted six more of her guns,
+she being able to carry four and twenty in all. But instead of going
+to _Genoa_ as intended, they sailed for the coasts of _Spain_ and
+_Portugal_, in hopes of getting a ship laden with wine, to keep up
+their spirits; but all was alike they met with; and instead of wine,
+they contented themselves with fish, which they took out of a ship
+called the _Delight_ of _Poole_, _Thomas Wise_, Master, bound from
+_New-England_ to _Cadiz_, out of which they took the men, and what
+they wanted, and then sunk the Ship, to prevent their being discovered
+to the _English_ Men-of-War who lay in the _Straights_.
+
+On the 18th of _December_, they took the _Snow-Galley_, out of which
+Crew they kept _Rob_, and discharged the Captain and the rest of the
+men, after having plundered the Ship of the arms, ammunition, cloth,
+provisions, sails, anchors, cables, and then let her go.
+
+By this time, they were got a great way to the southward; and being in
+want of water as well as wind, they agreed to go to _Maderas_, which
+Island they made in two days, cruising about it near a week, expecting
+some vessel to come in or come out; but the Country discovering what
+they were, they were disappointed in their attempts. Then they stood
+away for _Porto Santa_, where they put up _British_ Colours, and sent
+their Boat ashore with a compliment to the Governor, desiring leave to
+Water, and buy some refreshments; which he readily agreed to, and went
+with them to pay the _English_ Captain a Visit, who received him in a
+very grand Manner. But the refreshments not coming as expected, he at
+length told him he was his Prisoner, and must remain so till the
+provisions were come on board, which was not till next day, when _Gow_
+discharged him, giving him three Cerons of Bees-wax, and three Guns at
+his going away.
+
+Having now got provisions, they agreed to return to the Coasts of
+_Spain_ and _Portugal_; where they had not been above two days, before
+they met with the _Batchelor_, _Benjamin Cross_ Master, from
+_New-England_ bound to _Cadiz_; out of which they took _Cross_ and
+his Men, and gave the Ship to Captain _Wise_, as also 24 Cerons of
+Bees-wax to him and his mate, and to his four men 8 Cerons. After this
+they took a _French_ Ship from _Cadiz_, loaded with wine, oil, and
+fruit, which was what they wanted, and manned her with their own men,
+taking on board the _Revenge_ the _French_ Master, and his 12 Men, and
+most Part of the cargoe, with five guns and their carriages,
+ammunition, small arms, and sails, and gave the ship to _Somerville_,
+Captain of the _Snow Galley_; and to Captain _Cross_ the _New-English_
+Man, to who they gave half the ship and cargoe and _Somerville_ had
+all his Men, but _Alexander Rob_, whom they detained, and who was
+executed in 1725, for engaging along with them.
+
+Soon after they saw a large ship to the windward bearing down upon
+them, which at first they thought to have been a _Portugueze_
+Man-of-War; but they found afterwards, it was a _French_ Merchant Ship
+coming home from the _West-Indies_, which not fearing them, came on to
+the windward. _Gow_ perceiving she was a Ship of great strength,
+called all his men together, telling them they had a great many
+prisoners on board, and that he could not trust many of his own men;
+besides, six of his best Hands were on Board the other Ship, therefore
+he advised them not to meddle with her, she being far superior in
+Force. This so exasperated _Williams_, that he demanded of _Gow_ to
+give his orders for fighting; but he, by the advice of the whole crew,
+declined it; whereupon _Williams_ snapt his pistol at his Face; which
+not going off, made him still madder. _Winter_ and _Peterson_ standing
+by him fired each a Pistol at _Williams_, one shooting him through the
+arm, and the other in the belly; at which he fell, and they believing
+he was killed, were going to throw him overboard, when he leapt up,
+and ran into the Powder-Room, with his pistol cocked in his hand,
+swearing he would blow them all up; which he had certainly done, had
+they not prevented him that very moment, he having opened the scuttle
+to do it.
+
+They immediately put him in irons, and hand-cuffed him, and then put
+him between decks, in a place prepared for prisoners.
+
+Two days after this, they took the _Triumvirate_, a _Bristol_ Sloop,
+_Joel Davis_ Master, bound from _Newfoundland_ to _Oporto_, with fish;
+from whence they took all her provisions, arms, sails, and two of her
+men, and then let her go with the rest, and all her cargoe. Not
+knowing what to do with _Williams_, they resolved to put him on board
+them, and send him away, for fear of further danger, ordering the
+Master to put him on board the first _English_ man of War he should
+meet with, to hang him for Piracy; which when _Williams_ found they
+were resolved to do, he made all the submission he was able to Captain
+_Gow_, begging for pardon, knowing if he was carried to _Lisbon_ he
+should meet with his deserts. But all his entreaties would not do, he
+was brought up double fettered, when he begged they would throw him
+into the sea, and drown him, rather than give him up to be hanged in
+chains, which he knew he deserved from the _Portugueze_ as well as
+_English_. This made many of them begin to relent and pity him; but
+considering his savage disposition, they knew there was no safety to
+keep him on board, and so resolved to let him go, and give him a
+hearty curse at parting, wishing him a safe voyage to the gallows, not
+dreaming that they themselves should accompany him.
+
+The _Bristol_ Captain obeyed their orders, and as soon as he came to
+_Lisbon_ put him on board the _Argyle_ man of War, Captain _Bowler_
+Commander, who brought him home not above three days before Gow and
+his Crew came to keep him company.
+
+In the middle of last _January_, they arrived at _Caristoun_ in the
+Isles of _Orkney_, when _Gow_ gave them instructions, what account
+they should give of themselves to the people of the country, to avoid
+suspicion. But now began their misfortunes, for several of their men
+began to think of making their escape, the first was one _Read_, who
+took an opportunity to get away when the boat went ashore, who went to
+a farm-house which lay under a hill where he hired a horse and rode
+to _Kirkwall_, a market town about twelve miles off, where he informed
+them what they were; whereupon they raised the Country to defend
+themselves. The Pirates soon hearing what was done, ten more of them
+went away with the longboat, making the best of their way for
+_Scotland_, who were some time after taken in the _Frith_ of
+_Edinburgh_, and made Prisoners.
+
+This so provoked _Gow_, that he resolved to plunder the Country, be
+the consequence what it would, and in order thereto, he sent _Belvin_
+his Boatswain, with _Rob_ and Four more, to Mr. _Honnyman's_ house,
+the Sheriff, who not being at home, his Servants let them in, not
+suspecting their design. They immediately fell to work, but Mr.
+_Honnyman's_ Daughter had the presence of mind to hide the money in a
+tub of feathers, till she found an opportunity to carry it away, by
+the contrivance of _Alexander Rob_, who was placed centinel at the
+door. But when the Boatswain found the treasure was gone, Gow having
+before told them where it lay, he swore he would burn the house, and
+all that was in it, which the young Lady hearing, she runs to the
+Charter-room where the Treasure lay, and threw it out of the Window,
+jumping herself after. However, they plundered the house of about
+fifty pounds, and some plate, and then forced a servant who played on
+the bag-pipes, to pipe before them to the ship, whom they also
+detained, and was brought along with them to the _Marshalsea_, where
+he was sick till his release.
+
+The next day they weighed anchor, and came to _Calf-Sound_, where the
+boatswain went ashore again with four armed Men, meeting with no
+Plunder. From thence they went to the Island of _Eda_, to plunder the
+house of Mr. _Fea_, whom _Gow_ had formerly been School-fellow with,
+and knowing him to be a Man of Courage, believed that the Alarm at
+_Caristoun_ had drawn him thither: But Mr. _Fea's_ wife at that Time
+being very sick in Bed, kept him at home, and having notice of them he
+sent a letter to _Gow_ by _James Laing_, to desire him to withdraw,
+assuring him that most of the inhabitants were fled to the mountains
+on the report of his being a Pirate, desiring him to send the
+messenger safe back, at whose return the affrights of the people would
+be over. _Gow_ sent him word back, that he would write to nobody, but
+if Mr. _Fea_ would send his men with a Boat, he would reward them
+handsomely, which Mr. _Fea_ hearing, he ordered his great Boat to be
+staved, and sunk, and the sails to be carried out of sight. In the
+mean time, perceiving _Gow's_ boat come on shore, with five men in it,
+well armed, he met them, and said if they would go to a Publick House
+in the neighbourhood, and take a cup of ale with him, he would see
+what he could do to serve them, which they agreed to, seeing Mr. _Fea_
+was all alone, not suspecting any danger. Mr. _Fea_ had before given
+orders for half a dozen men, well armed, to lie in ambush to surprize
+them, which being done, Mr. _Fea_ sent to Mr. _Gow_ to let him know,
+that the country was alarmed, and that it would be his best way
+peaceable to surrender, which _Gow_ did in a day or two, thinking
+thereby to make himself an evidence; but it would not do, although he
+complied so far as to delude all his men ashore one after another, who
+would certainly have cut his throat, had they known of any ways
+afterwards to have escaped.
+
+They were put on board the _Greyhound_, which delivered them into the
+_Marshalsea_, _March_ 30, 1714, where they continued till _June_
+following, when eight of them were hanged at _Execution Dock_, viz.
+_John Gow_, _James Williams_, _James Belvin_, _John Winter_, _Peter
+Rawlisson_, _Daniel Mc.Cawley_, _William Ingram_, for another Piracy
+under _Anstis_, and a month afterwards _Alexander Rob_ was hanged for
+Piracy under _Gow_.
+
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+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+Fraser notes in his foreword to this book that the original author's
+spelling was "indefinite even for his own day", and adds that it has
+"has been more or less modernized" in this edition; however, there are
+still many inconsistencies in spelling, use of hyphenation and
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+where they sent several Hands ..."), for the sentence to make sense.
+Two instances of transposed letters have also been corrected--sieze
+changed to seize, and Goaler changed to Gaoler. The original title
+page illustration also contained an error, Jnae, which referred to a
+month. This was cross-checked with the rest of the text, and has been
+amended to read June in the transcription of the text.
+
+The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the front matter.
+
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+
+
+<h3 style="padding-top: 3em;">THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES<br />
+OF SUNDRY<br />
+NOTORIOUS PIRATES</h3>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates01.png" width="500" height="222"
+alt="Ship in a bottle" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h1 style="padding-top: 3em;">PIRATES</h1>
+
+<p class="center" style="padding-top: 3em;"><b>With a <i>Foreword</i> and sundry <i>Decorations</i> by</b></p>
+
+<h2>C. Lovat Fraser</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/pirates02.png" width="325" height="500"
+alt="A pirate, holding a pistol" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="padding-top: 3em;"><i>NEW YORK:</i><br />
+ROBERT M. McBRIDE AND COMPANY<br />
+1922</p>
+
+<p class="center" style="padding-top: 3em;"><i>First American Edition</i></p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>Printed in the United States of America</i></p>
+
+<p class="center" style="padding-bottom: 3em;"><i>Printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford and Esher.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;">
+<a name="Avery" id="Avery"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates03.jpg" width="360" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN AVERY</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg&nbsp;v]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates04.png" width="500" height="308"
+alt="A pirate with two wooden legs" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="60%" summary="Table of contents">
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><span class="smcap lowercase">PAGE</span></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Foreword</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_vii">vii</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">The Life of Captain Avery</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain John Rackham, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Spriggs, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Edward Lowe, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain George Lowther, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Anstis, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain John Phillips, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Teach, <i>alias</i> Blackbeard</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Major Stede Bonnet and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain William Kid</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Edward England, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_135">135</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain John Gow, <i>alias</i> Smith, and his Crew</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_145">145</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg&nbsp;vi]</a></span></p>
+<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="60%" summary="List of illustrations">
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Avery</td>
+    <td class="tdrb" colspan="2"><a href="#Avery"><i>frontispiece</i></a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain John Rackham</td>
+    <td class="tdct"><i>facing page</i></td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Rackham">19</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Edward Lowe</td>
+    <td class="tdct">&rdquo;</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Lowe">39</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Teach</td>
+    <td class="tdct">&rdquo;</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Teach">89</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Major Stede Bonnet</td>
+    <td class="tdct">&rdquo;</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Bonnet">103</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain William Kid</td>
+    <td class="tdct">&rdquo;</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Kid">119</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain Edward England</td>
+    <td class="tdct">&rdquo;</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#England">137</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="tdlt">Captain John Gow</td>
+    <td class="tdct">&rdquo;</td>
+    <td class="tdrb"><a href="#Gow">147</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg&nbsp;vii]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates05.png" width="500" height="238"
+alt="An inn, the Pirates' Rest" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h2>FOREWORD</h2>
+
+
+<p>Time, though a good Collector, is not
+always a reliable Historian. That is to say,
+that although nothing of interest or importance
+is lost, yet an affair may be occasionally
+invested with a glamour that is not wholly
+its own. I venture to think that Piracy has
+fortuned in this particular. We are apt to
+base our ideas of Piracy on the somewhat
+vague ambitions of our childhood; and I
+suppose, were such a thing possible, the
+consensus of opinion in our nurseries as
+to a future profession in life would place
+Piracy but little below the glittering heights
+of the police force and engine-driving.
+Incapable of forgetting this in more mature
+years, are we not inclined to deck Her (the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[Pg&nbsp;viii]</a></span>
+&ldquo;H&rdquo; capital, for I speak of an ideal), if not
+in purple and fine linen, at least with a lavish
+display of tinsel and gilt? Nursery lore
+remains with us, whether we would or not,
+for all our lives; and generations of ourselves,
+as schoolboys and pre-schoolboys, have
+tricked out Piracy in so resplendent a dress
+that she has fairly ousted in our affections, not
+only her sister profession of &ldquo;High Toby
+and the Road,&rdquo; but every other splendid and
+villainous vocation. Yet Teach, Kid, and
+Avery were as terrible or grim as Duval,
+Turpin, and Sheppard were courtly or whimsical.
+And the terrible is a more vital
+affair than the whimsical. Is it, then, unnatural
+that, after a lapse of nigh on two
+centuries, we should shake our wise heads
+and allow that which is still nursery within
+us to deplore the loss of those days when
+we ran&mdash;before a favouring &ldquo;Trade&rdquo;&mdash;the
+very good chance of being robbed, maimed,
+or murdered by Captain Howel Davis or
+Captain Neil Gow? It is as well to remember
+that the &ldquo;Captains&rdquo; in this book
+were seamen whose sole qualifications to the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[Pg&nbsp;ix]</a></span>
+title were ready wit, a clear head, and,
+maybe, that certain indefinable &ldquo;power of
+the eye&rdquo; that is the birth-right of all true
+leaders. The piratical hero of our childhood
+is traceable in a great extent to the
+&ldquo;thrillers,&rdquo; toy plays, and penny theatres
+of our grandfathers. Here our Pirate was,
+as often as not, a noble, dignified, if gloomy
+gentleman, with a leaning to Byronic soliloquy.
+Though stern in exterior, his heart
+could (and would) melt at the distresses of
+the heroine. Elvira&rsquo;s eyes were certain to
+awaken in his mind the recollection of
+&ldquo;other eyes as innocent as thine, child.&rdquo; In
+short, he was that most touching of all beings,
+the Hero-cum-Villain. And it was with a sigh
+of relief that we saw him at the eleventh hour,
+having successfully twitted the &ldquo;Government
+Men&rdquo; and the Excise (should he have an
+additional penchant for smuggling), safely
+restored to the arms of the long-suffering
+possessor of the other eyes.</p>
+
+<p>Alas! this little book mentions no Poll
+of Portsmouth, nor does it favour us with
+a &ldquo;Yeo, heave, oh!&rdquo; nor is there so very
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[Pg&nbsp;x]</a></span>
+much &ldquo;cut and thrust&rdquo; about it. It was
+written in that uninspiring day when Pirates
+were a very real nuisance to such law-abiding
+folk as you and I; but it has the merit of
+being written, if not by a Pirate, at least by
+one who came into actual contact with them.
+I am not at all sure that &ldquo;merit&rdquo; is the
+right word to use in this instance, for to be
+a Pirate does not necessarily ensure you
+making a good author. Indeed, it might
+almost be considered as a ban to the fine
+literary technique of an Addison or a
+Temple. It has, however, the virtue of
+being in close touch with some of the happenings
+chronicled. Not that our author
+saw above a tithe of what he records&mdash;had
+he done so he would have been &ldquo;set a-sun-drying&rdquo;
+at Execution Dock long before he
+had had the opportunity of putting pen to
+paper; but, as far as posterity was concerned,
+he was lucky in his friend William
+Ingram&mdash;evidently a fellow of good memory
+and a ready tongue&mdash;&ldquo;who,&rdquo; as our author
+states in his Preface, &ldquo;was a Pirate under
+Anstis, Roberts, and many others,&rdquo; and who
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi">[Pg&nbsp;xi]</a></span>
+eventually was hanged in good piratical
+company on the 11th of June, 1714.</p>
+
+<p>The actual history of the little book, the
+major part of which is here reprinted, is
+as follows:</p>
+
+<p>Its full title is &ldquo;The History and Lives
+of all the most Notorious Pirates and their
+Crews,&rdquo; and the fifth edition, from which
+our text is taken, was printed in 1735. A
+reproduction of the original title-page is given
+overleaf.</p>
+
+<p>As a matter of fact, the title is misleading.
+How could a book that makes no mention
+of Morgan or Lollonois be a history of <em>all</em>
+the most notorious Pirates? It deals with
+the last few years of the seventeenth century
+and the first quarter of the eighteenth, a
+period that might with justice be called
+&ldquo;The Decline and Fall of Piracy,&rdquo; for
+after 1730 Piracy became but a mean
+broken-backed affair that bordered perilously
+on mere sea-pilfering.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii">[Pg&nbsp;xii]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 284px;">
+<img src="images/pirates06.png" width="284" height="500"
+alt="Facsimile of the original title page" />
+<a name="text01back" id="text01back"></a>
+<span class="caption" style="font-size: small">[<a href="#text01">Transcription of text</a>]</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>A little research into the book&rsquo;s history
+shows us that it is consistent throughout, and
+that it is a &ldquo;piracy,&rdquo; in the publisher&rsquo;s sense
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[Pg&nbsp;xiii]</a></span>
+of the word, of a much larger and more pretentious
+work by Captain Charles Johnson,
+entitled, &ldquo;A General History of the Pyrates
+from their first Rise and Settlement in the
+Island of Providence to the Present Time;
+With the Remarkable Actions and Adventures
+of the two Female Pyrates Mary
+Read and Anne Bonny.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>This was published in London, in 8vo.,
+by Charles Rivington in 1724. A second
+edition, considerably augmented, was issued
+later in the same year, a third edition in the
+year following, and a fourth edition&mdash;in
+two volumes, as considerable additions in the
+form of extra &ldquo;Lives,&rdquo; and an appendix
+necessitated a further volume&mdash;in 1725.</p>
+
+<p>This two-volume edition contained the
+history of the following Pirates: Avery,
+Martel, Teach, Bonnet, England, Vane,
+Rackham, Davis, Roberts, Anstis, Morley,
+Lowther, Low, Evans, Phillips, Spriggs,
+Smith, Misson, Bowen, Kid, Tew, Halsey,
+White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly, Howard,
+Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, and
+North, together with a short abstract on
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[Pg&nbsp;xiv]</a></span>
+the Statute and Civil Law in relation to
+&ldquo;Pyracy,&rdquo; and an appendix, completing the
+Lives in the first volume, and correcting
+some mistakes.</p>
+
+<p>The work evidently enjoyed a great
+vogue, for it was translated into Dutch by
+Robert Hannebo, of Amsterdam, in 1727,
+and issued there, with several &ldquo;new illustrations,&rdquo;
+in 12mo. A German version by
+Joachim Meyer was printed at Gosslar in
+the following year, while in France it saw
+the light as an appendix to an edition of
+Esquemeling&rsquo;s &ldquo;Histoire des Avanturiers,&rdquo;
+1726.</p>
+
+<p>But little is known of the author, Captain
+Charles Johnson, excepting that he flourished
+from 1724 to 1736, and it is more than
+probable that the name by which we know
+him is an assumed one. It is possible that
+his knowledge of Pirates and Piracy was
+of such a nature to have justified awkward
+investigations on the part of His Majesty&rsquo;s
+Government.</p>
+
+<p>There is one thing that we do know for
+certain about him, and that is that the worthy
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[Pg&nbsp;xv]</a></span>
+Captain&rsquo;s spelling, according to the pirated
+version of his book, was indefinite even for
+his own day. He was one of those inspired
+folk who would be quite capable of spelling
+&ldquo;schooner&rdquo; with three variations in as many
+lines. In this edition the spelling has been
+more or less modernized.</p>
+
+<p>Lastly, it is to be remembered that the
+ships of this period, according to our modern
+ideas, would be the veriest cockle-shells, and
+so that we should know what manner of
+vessel he refers to in these pages, I had
+recourse to a friend of mine whose knowledge
+of things nautical is extensive enough
+to have gained for him the coveted &ldquo;Extra
+Master&rsquo;s Certificate,&rdquo; and who was kind
+enough to supply me with the following
+definitions:</p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates07.png" width="250" height="197" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">SLOOP.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p class="incaption" style="margin-top: -2em; margin-bottom: 3em;">A vessel rigged as a cutter, but with one head-sail only set on a
+very short bowsprit.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xvi" id="Page_xvi">[Pg&nbsp;xvi]</a></span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Types of schooners">
+  <tr>
+    <td>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates08.png" width="250" height="152" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">SCHOONER.</span>
+</div></td>
+    <td>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates09.png" width="250" height="155" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">TOPSAIL SCHOONER.</span>
+</div></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+     <td class="incaption" colspan="2">Two-masted vessels, fore and aft rigged, sometimes having square topsails on
+the fore-mast.</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates10.png" width="250" height="142" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">BRIGANTINE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p class="incaption" style="margin-top: -2em; margin-bottom: 3em;">A two-masted vessel, square rigged on fore-mast.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>GALLEY.</b></p>
+
+<p class="incaption">A large vessel rowed by oars and sometimes having auxiliary sail of various rigs.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="padding-top: 3em;"><b>PINK.</b></p>
+
+<p class="incaption">Probably a small, fast vessel used as a tender and despatch boat for river work.</p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates11.png" width="250" height="183" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">SNOW.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p class="incaption" style="margin-top: -2em; margin-bottom: 3em;">A two-masted vessel with a stay, known as a &ldquo;Horse,&rdquo; from the main-mast to the
+poop on which the trysail was set. Sometimes a spar was fitted instead of a stay.
+The rig was most likely of a brig (<i>i.e.</i>, a two-masted ship, square sails on both
+masts), and the triangular trysail set on the stay in bad weather or when hove to.]</p>
+
+<p class="sig">C. L. F.</p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg&nbsp;3]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates12.png" width="500" height="128"
+alt="A group of pirates" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN AVERY</h2>
+
+
+<p>He was the son of <i>John Avery</i>, a victualler
+near <i>Plymouth</i>, in <i>Devonshire</i>, who in a few
+years was grown as opulent in his purse as
+in his body, by scoring two for one; and
+when he had so done, drinking the most of
+the liquor himself. By which means, and
+having a handsome wife, who knew her business
+as well as if she had been brought up to
+it from a child (which, indeed, she mostly
+was, her mother keeping the House before
+she married <i>Mr. Avery</i>), they soon became
+very rich and very able to give credit to a
+whole ship&rsquo;s crew upon their tickets, which
+in those days were sold for less than half
+their value.</p>
+
+<p>Having but one child (afterwards the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg&nbsp;4]</a></span>
+Captain), they at first resolved to bring him
+up a scholar, that he might advance the
+dignity of the family. But instead of learning
+his book, he was taught by such companions
+that he could soon swear to every
+point of his compass, which was a very
+diverting scene for the Boatswain and his
+crew, who were then drinking in the kitchen,
+having just received ten pounds apiece short
+allowance money on board the <i>Revenge</i>,
+every farthing of which they spent before
+leaving the house.</p>
+
+<p>But as soon as their money was spent,
+they were all like to have been imprisoned
+by their Landlady for a riot, as she called it,
+so they were soon glad to sheer off, and he
+thought himself happiest that could get first
+aboard. Indeed, it would have been happy
+for them if they had, for the ship was unmoored
+and gone to sea; which put the
+Boatswain and his crew swearing in earnest,
+and not knowing what to do, they resolved
+to return to their Landlady, <i>Mrs. Avery</i>,
+at &ldquo;the Sign of the <i>Defiance</i>.&rdquo; But she
+shut them out of doors, calling them a
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg&nbsp;5]</a></span>
+parcel of beggarly rascals, and swearing that
+if they would not go from the door she
+would send for the Constable; and notwithstanding
+all the entreaties and tears of her
+only son, who was then about six years of age,
+she could not be prevailed upon to let them
+in, so they were obliged to stroll about the
+street all night. In the morning, spying the
+ship at anchor, being driven back by contrary
+winds, they resolved to make the best of
+their way aboard; but on the way, whom
+should they meet but young <i>Avery</i>, who
+had no sooner seen them, but he cried after
+them. &ldquo;Zounds,&rdquo; says the Boatswain, &ldquo;let&rsquo;s
+take the young dog aboard, and his mother
+shall soon be glad to adjust the reckoning
+more to our satisfaction before she shall
+have her son.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>This was agreed upon by all hands, and
+the boy was as willing as any of them. So,
+stepping into the boat, in about an hour&rsquo;s
+time they reached the ship, which they had
+no sooner boarded but they were brought
+before the Captain, who, being in want of
+hands, contented himself with bidding them
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg&nbsp;6]</a></span>
+all go to their business; for the wind turned
+about, and there was occasion for all hands
+to be at work to carry out the ship.</p>
+
+<p>All this while young <i>Avery</i> was at the
+heels of the Boatswain, and was observed to
+swear two oaths to one of the Boatswain&rsquo;s;
+which being soon observed by the Captain,
+he inquired who brought that young rascal
+aboard.</p>
+
+<p>To which the Boatswain replied that he
+did, that the boy&rsquo;s mother was his Landlady
+on shore, and he had taken him up in jest,
+but was afraid that they would now have to
+keep him in earnest.</p>
+
+<p>When the hurry was a little over, the
+Captain commanded the boy to be brought
+to him in his cabin. He had not talked long
+to him before he took a fancy to him, telling
+him that if he would be a good boy, he
+should live with him.</p>
+
+<p>He, being a mighty lover of children,
+would often divert himself by talking to the
+boy, till at length he took such a fancy to him,
+that he ordered him a little hammock in his
+own cabin, and none were so great as the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg&nbsp;7]</a></span>
+Captain and his boy <i>Avery</i>, which had like
+to have proved very fatal to him; for Avery
+one night, observing the Captain to be very
+drunk with some passengers that were on
+board, got a lighted match and had like to
+have blown up the ship, had not the Gunner
+happened accidentally to follow him into
+the store-room. This made the Captain
+ever after very shy of his new Acquaintance,
+and <i>Avery</i>, after he had been well whipped,
+was ordered down into the hold, where he
+remained until they arrived at <i>Carolina</i>,
+which happened four or five days after.</p>
+
+<p>The boy was given to a merchant, who,
+taking a fancy to him, put him to school; but
+he made so little progress in learning, and
+committed so many unlucky tricks, that the
+merchant, in about three years, shipped him
+off to his friends at <i>Plymouth</i> on board the
+<i>Nonesuch</i>, where he was no sooner arrived
+but his mother was overjoyed with the sight
+of her son, his father being dead about a
+month before his arrival.</p>
+
+<p>And, indeed, it was thought the loss of
+their son broke his heart, for it was observed
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg&nbsp;8]</a></span>
+the father never held up his head after, the
+neighbours often reflecting upon him for his
+ill-usage of the seamen, who had spent so
+much money at his house; saying he could
+never expect that all his ill-gotten riches
+could prosper him, which so happened, as
+you shall hear presently. For his mother,
+dying soon after, the boy was left under
+the guardianship of one Mr. <i>Lightfoot</i>, a
+merchant, who, having great losses at sea,
+became a bankrupt, and so young <i>Avery</i>
+was left to look out after himself; there he
+continued for many years in pilfering and
+stealing till the country was too hot for him,
+when he betook him to sea again, where in
+time he became as famous for robbing as
+<i>Cromwell</i> for rebellion.</p>
+
+<p>He entered himself on board the <i>Duke</i>,
+Captain <i>Gibson</i> Commander, being one of
+the two ships of twenty-four guns and one
+hundred men which were fitted out by the
+merchants of <i>Bristol</i> for the service of <i>Spain</i>,
+which they had no sooner done, but they
+were ordered by their agents at <i>Bristol</i> to
+sail for the <i>Groyne</i> to receive their orders.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg&nbsp;9]</a></span>
+On board one of which ships <i>Avery</i>,
+being at this time above twenty years old,
+entered himself, where he had not been long
+before he observed the Captain was much
+addicted to drunkenness.</p>
+
+<p>He endeavoured to spirit up not only his
+own ship&rsquo;s crew, but having also given the
+word to part of the other ship&rsquo;s crew, the
+conspirators gave the signal.</p>
+
+<p>At which the <i>Duchess</i>, as the other ship
+was named, put off her longboat; which
+the conspirators hailing were answered
+by the men in the boat, &ldquo;Is your drunken
+Boatswain on board?&rdquo; This being the
+word agreed upon, Avery answered,
+&ldquo;All is safe;&rdquo; upon which twenty lusty
+fellows came aboard and joined them,
+which they had no sooner done but they
+secured the hatches and went to work,
+putting to sea without any disorder, although
+there were several ships in the bay, amongst
+whom was a frigate of forty-four guns.</p>
+
+<p>The Captain, by this time being awaked
+by the noise of the conspirators working
+the ship, rung the bell, inquiring what was
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg&nbsp;10]</a></span>
+the matter, to whom <i>Avery</i> and some of the
+crew replied, &ldquo;Nothing. Are you mutinous
+in your cups? Can&rsquo;t you lie down, sleep,
+and be quiet?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; saith the Captain. &ldquo;I am sure
+something&rsquo;s the matter with the ship. Does
+she drive? What weather is it? Is it a
+storm?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>Saith <i>Avery</i>: &ldquo;Cannot you lie quiet while
+you are quiet? I tell you all&rsquo;s well; we are
+at sea in a fair wind and good weather.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;At sea,&rdquo; saith the Captain; &ldquo;that can&rsquo;t
+be.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Be not frightened,&rdquo; saith Avery, &ldquo;and
+I&rsquo;ll tell you. You must note, I am now the
+Captain of the ship; nay, you must turn
+out, for this is my cabin, and I am bound
+for <i>Madagascar</i>, to make my own fortune
+as well as my companions.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The Captain, being more terrified than
+ever, did not know what to say, which <i>Avery</i>
+perceiving, bid him take heart. &ldquo;For,&rdquo;
+saith he, &ldquo;if you will join me and these
+brave fellows, my companions, in time you
+may get some post under me. If not,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg&nbsp;11]</a></span>
+step into the longboat and get about your
+business.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>This the Captain was glad to hear, but
+yet began to expostulate with them upon
+the injustice of such doings. Saith <i>Avery</i>:
+&ldquo;What do I care? Every man for himself.
+Come, come, Captain, if you will go, get
+you gone; the longboat waits for you, and
+if there be any more cowards in the ship,
+you may all go together.&rdquo; Which words so
+affrighted the whole crew, that there was
+not above nine or ten of them that durst
+venture, who made the best of their way to
+the shore as fast as they could, and thought
+they were well off.</p>
+
+<p>The Captain was no sooner gone, but
+they called a Council, which agreed to
+own <i>Avery</i> as their Captain; which he
+accepted of with all humility imaginable,
+seeming to excuse himself on account of
+his inexperience at sea. But he did it so
+artfully that it more confirmed them in the
+good opinion of their choice. &ldquo;Gentlemen,&rdquo;
+said he, &ldquo;what we have done we must live
+or die by; let us all be hearty and of one
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg&nbsp;12]</a></span>
+mind, and I don&rsquo;t question but we shall
+make our fortune in a little time. I propose
+that we sail first to <i>Madagascar</i>, where we
+may settle a correspondence, in order to
+secure our retreats, whenever we think fit
+to lie by.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>To which they all agreed, &ldquo;Nemine contradicente.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;But hold,&rdquo; saith <i>Avery</i>; &ldquo;it is necessary
+that we make some order among us, for the
+better governing of the ship&rsquo;s crew.&rdquo; Which
+were in a few days drawn up by the clerk of
+the ship.</p>
+
+<p>And <i>Avery</i> promising them vast things,
+they all came into them at last, although
+some things went very much against the
+grain of many of them.</p>
+
+<p>It took up all their spare time till they
+arrived at <i>Madagascar</i>, where they saw a
+Ship lying at the N.E. part of the Island,
+with which the men had run away from <i>New
+England</i>; and seeing <i>Avery</i>, they supposed
+that he had been sent after them to take
+them, but <i>Avery</i> soon undeceived them, and
+promised them protection; therefore they
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg&nbsp;13]</a></span>
+resolved to sail together. In the whole company,
+there was not above ten that pretended
+to any skill in navigation; for <i>Avery</i> himself
+could neither write nor read very well,
+he being chosen Captain of the <i>Duke</i> purely
+for his courage and contrivance.</p>
+
+<p>In the latitude of <i>Descada</i>, one of the
+Islands, they took two other sloops, which
+supplied them with provisions, and then they
+agreed to proceed to the <i>West Indies</i>;
+and coming to <i>Barbadoes</i>, they fell in with
+a ship for <i>London</i> with twelve guns, from
+which they took some clothes and money,
+ten barrels of powder, ten casks of beef, and
+several other goods, and five of her men, and
+then let her go. From thence he went to
+the Island of <i>Dominico</i>, and watered; there
+he met with six <i>Englishmen</i>, who willingly
+entered with <i>Avery</i>. They stayed not long
+before they sailed for the <i>Granada</i> Island to
+clean their ships; which being known to
+the <i>French</i> Colony, the Governor of <i>Martenico</i>
+sent four sloops well manned after
+them. But they stayed there not long, but
+made the best of their way for <i>Newfoundland</i>,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg&nbsp;14]</a></span>
+entering the harbour of <i>Trepasse</i> with
+black colours, drums beating, and trumpets
+sounding.</p>
+
+<p>It is impossible to relate the havoc they
+made there, burning all before them. When
+they left <i>Newfoundland</i> they sailed for the
+<i>West Indies</i>, and from thence to the Island
+<i>Descada</i>, it being judged the most convenient
+place, at that time of the year, to meet with
+a rich booty.</p>
+
+<p>From hence they steered towards the
+<i>Arabian</i> Coast, near the River <i>Indus</i>, where,
+spying a sail, they gave chase. At their near
+approach she hoisted <i>Mogul</i> colours and
+seemed as if she would stand upon her
+defence, whilst <i>Avery</i> contented himself by
+cannonading her at a distance, which made
+many of his men begin to mutiny, thinking
+him a coward.</p>
+
+<p>But <i>Avery</i> knew better, and commanding
+his sloops to attack her, one in the Bow,
+and the rest on the Quarter, clapt her on
+board, upon which she struck her colours
+and yielded. Aboard her was one of the
+<i>Mogul&rsquo;s</i> own daughters, with several persons
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg&nbsp;15]</a></span>
+of distinction, who were carrying rich offerings
+of jewels and other valuable presents
+to <i>Mecca</i>; which booty was the more considerable,
+because these people always travel
+with great magnificence, having all their
+slaves and attendants always with them,
+besides jewels and great sums of money to
+defray the charges. But <i>Avery</i>, not content
+with this, seized the young Princess, and
+taking her with him into his own ship,
+made the best of his way to <i>Madagascar</i>,
+where she soon broke her heart and died.
+Also her father, the <i>Great Mogul</i>, did no
+sooner hear of it but he threatened all
+<i>Europe</i> with revenge. And when he knew
+they were <i>Englishmen</i> who had captured
+his daughter and robbed him, he threatened
+to send a mighty army, with fire and sword,
+to extirpate all the <i>English</i> from their settlements
+on the <i>Indian</i> Coasts, which gave no
+small uneasiness to the <i>Indian Company</i> at
+<i>London</i>, when they heard of it.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates13.png" width="250" height="189"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 416px;">
+<a name="Rackham" id="Rackham"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates14.jpg" width="416" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN JOHN RACKHAM</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg&nbsp;19]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates15.png" width="500" height="324"
+alt="A large group of armed men" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN JOHN RACKHAM, AND HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p>John Rackham was Quarter-Master to
+<i>Vane&rsquo;s</i> Company, till <i>Vane</i> was turned out
+for not fighting the French Man-of-War,
+and <i>Rackham</i> put in Captain in his place,
+which happened about the 24th day of
+<i>November</i>, 1718. His first cruise was
+among the <i>Caribbe</i> Islands, where he took
+and plundered several vessels. Afterwards,
+to the windward of <i>Jamaica</i>, he fell in with
+a <i>Madeira</i> Man, which he detained till he
+had made his market out of her, and then
+restored her to her Master, suffering <i>Hosea
+Tisdel</i>, a tavern-keeper at <i>Jamaica</i>, whom he
+had taken among his Prizes, to go aboard
+her, she being bound for that Island.</p>
+
+<p>Afterwards he sailed towards the Island
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg&nbsp;20]</a></span>
+<i>Bermuda</i>, where he took a Ship bound to
+<i>England</i> from <i>Carolina</i>, and a small Ship
+from <i>New England</i>, both which he carried
+to the <i>Bahama Islands</i>, and there clean&rsquo;d.
+But staying too long in that Neighbourhood,
+Captain <i>Rogers</i> sent out a Sloop well
+mann&rsquo;d, which retook both the Prizes, the
+Pirate making his Escape.</p>
+
+<p>From hence they proceeded to the Back
+of <i>Cuba</i>, where <i>Rackham</i> staid a long Time
+with his Delilahs, till their Provision was
+consumed, when he concluded it Time to
+look out for more. As he was putting
+to Sea, a <i>Garda del Costa</i> came in with a
+small <i>English</i> Sloop, which he had taken
+as an interloper on that coast. The
+<i>Spaniards</i> seeing the Pirate, attacked her;
+but finding he could not come to her that
+night, because she lay close behind a little
+island, he warps into the channel, to make
+sure of her in the morning. Upon this
+<i>Rackham</i> took his Crew into the Boat, with
+their pistols and cutlasses, and falls aboard
+the <i>Spaniards</i> in the night, without being
+discovered, telling them, if they spoke a
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg&nbsp;21]</a></span>
+word they were dead men: And so shipping
+their cables, drove out to sea, commanding
+them to take the Boat, and go
+aboard their Sloop immediately, or else they
+were all dead men. Afterwards they waking
+the Captain and his men in the Hammocks,
+who rose full of their expectation of the
+Prizes, they sent them aboard their empty
+Sloop.</p>
+
+<p>In the Beginning of <i>September</i>, they went
+off of the French part of <i>Hispaniola</i>, where
+they took two or three <i>Frenchmen</i> on board,
+that were looking after some cattle grazing
+near the waterside. Then plundered two
+Sloops, they returned to <i>Jamaica</i>, where
+they took a Schooner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Rackham</i> continuing about this Island
+longer than a Man of his business ought
+to have done, gave time to a Canoe, which
+he had surprised in <i>Ocho</i> Bay, to inform
+the Governor of <i>Jamaica</i> of his civilities
+to all he met with going or coming from
+the Island. Thereupon a Sloop was sent
+out in quest of him, well mann&rsquo;d and arm&rsquo;d,
+under Captain <i>Barnet</i>, to repay him for all
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg&nbsp;22]</a></span>
+his good-natured Actions, and, if possible,
+to bring him into the Island. In the mean
+Time <i>Rackham</i> met, near the <i>Negril</i> Point,
+a small Pettiauger, which, upon sight of
+him, ran ashore, and landed her Men; but
+<i>Rackham</i> hailing them, desired the Pettiauger&rsquo;s
+men to come aboard him, and
+drink a bowel of punch; swearing, <em>They
+were all Friends and would do no Harm</em>.
+Hereupon they agreed to his Request, and
+went aboard him, though it proved fatal to
+every one of them, they being nine in all.
+For, they were no sooner got aboard, and
+had laid down their muskets and cutlasses,
+in order to take up their pipes, and make
+themselves merry with their new acquaintance
+over a can of Flip, but Captain
+<i>Barnet&rsquo;s</i> Sloop was in sight, which soon put
+a damp to all their merriment: Finding she
+stood directly towards them, they immediately
+weighed their anchor and stood off.
+<i>Barnet</i> gave them chase, and having the
+advantage of the wind, soon came up with
+her, gave her a broadside or two, and, after
+a very small dispute, took her and his nine
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg&nbsp;23]</a></span>
+new guests, and brought them all together
+into <i>Port-Royal</i> in <i>Jamaica</i>, in about a fortnight&rsquo;s
+time.</p>
+
+<p><i>November</i> the 10th, 1720, a Court of
+Admiralty was held at <i>St. Jago de la Vega</i>,
+where the following Persons were tried and
+convicted of Piracy, and accordingly Sentence
+of Death was passed upon them by the
+Governor, viz.: <i>John Rackham</i>, Captain;
+<i>George Fetherstone</i>, Master; <i>Richard Corner</i>,
+Quarter-Master; <i>John Davis</i>, <i>John
+Howel</i>, <i>Patrick Carty</i>, <i>Thomas Earle</i>, <i>James
+Dobbin</i>, and <i>Noah Harwood</i>; Five of whom
+was hang&rsquo;d the next day at <i>Gallows-point</i>,
+and the rest the day after. The three first
+were taken and hanged in Chains; <i>Rackham</i>
+at <i>Plumb-point</i>, <i>Fetherstone</i> at <i>Bush-key</i>, and
+<i>Corner</i> at <i>Gun-key</i>.</p>
+
+<p>But what was yet more strange was the
+conviction of the nine guests, that knew
+nothing of the matter, or at least they pretended
+so; but the People would not believe
+them, because it was proved that they came
+on board with pistols and cutlasses: However,
+they were so much favoured as to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg&nbsp;24]</a></span>
+have the Court adjourned to the 24th of
+January following, to give a better Account
+of themselves than at the time appeared
+to the Court: Beside, the Jury also then
+wanted sufficient evidence to prove the
+piratical intention of going aboard the said
+Sloops. The two <i>Frenchmen</i> taken by
+<i>Rackham</i> from the Island of <i>Hispaniola</i>,
+deposed, That <i>John Eaton</i>, <i>Edward Warner</i>,
+<i>Thomas Baker</i>, <i>Thomas Quick</i>, <i>John Cole</i>,
+<i>Benjamin Palmer</i>, <i>Walter Rouse</i>, <i>John Hanson</i>,
+and <i>John Howard</i>, came on board the
+Pirate&rsquo;s Sloop at <i>Negril Point</i> in <i>Jamaica</i>.
+Indeed they owned, That at first Sight of
+them, they run away from <i>Rackham&rsquo;s</i> Sloop,
+but that he hailing them, they returned, and
+<i>Rackham</i> sent his canoe ashore to fetch
+them aboard him, when they saw them all
+armed with guns and cutlasses, which they
+brought with them; and that when they were
+chased by Captain <i>Barnet</i>, they were frank
+and free, some drinking and walking about
+the deck not at all dispirited; during which
+time there was a great gun, and small
+arms, fired by the Pirate Sloop at Captain
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg&nbsp;25]</a></span>
+<i>Barnet&rsquo;s</i> Sloop; but that they could not say
+that the Prisoners were any way concerned
+in it: However, they were certain that when
+Captain <i>Barnet&rsquo;s</i> Sloop fired at <i>Rackham&rsquo;s</i>,
+the Prisoners at the Bar went under
+Deck, for cowardice, as they supposed;
+not so much as once peeping up during the
+time of the whole action: But when
+Captain <i>Barnet</i> drew nigh to them to board
+them, all of them came up, and helped to row
+the sloop, in order to escape from him:
+And that <i>Rackham&rsquo;s</i> Men and they seemed
+to agree very well together, and that they
+did verily believe they were all of a Party,
+having heard them say, when they came on
+board, <em>They liked them never the worse for
+being Pirates, since they were all honest Boys,
+and loved their Bottles</em>.</p>
+
+<p>To which the Prisoners answered, in their
+own Defence; That they were a great way
+off from friends and acquaintance, and,
+therefore it was impossible to have any one
+to give an account of them. That they
+were very honest pains-taking men, and
+came out to go a-turtling to provide for
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg&nbsp;26]</a></span>
+their families; accordingly going ashore at
+<i>Negril</i> Point they saw a Sloop, with a
+white pendant, making towards them,
+whereupon they took up their arms, which
+were no other but what all people carry
+upon such occasions, and ran into the
+woods, to hide themselves among the
+bushes, not knowing what she might be.
+But when they hailed them and told them
+they were <i>Englishmen</i>, they ventured out,
+and came aboard them, as they desired, to
+drink a bowl of punch, they being poor
+men, who get their livelihood very hardily,
+and such a thing was very acceptable to
+them. But when they came on board the
+Sloop, to their very great surprise, they found
+they were Pirates; upon which they begged
+to be released; but <i>Rackham</i> swore, That if
+they did not stay and assist them against
+that Sloop that was coming down against
+them, he would cut all their throats. So
+being compelled thereunto by <i>Rackham</i> and
+his men, to save their Lives, they did assist
+him, and with no other design but to prevent
+their being cut in pieces, but as soon as
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg&nbsp;27]</a></span>
+Captain <i>Barnet</i> came up with them, they all
+very readily and willingly submitted.</p>
+
+<p>This being all they had to say in their
+own Defence, the Prisoners were ordered
+from the Bar: The Court were divided in
+their Judgments; but the majority were of
+opinion, that they were all guilty of the
+Piracy and Felony they were charged with;
+thereupon they all received Sentence of
+Death, as usual in such cases, the Judge
+making a very pathetic Speech to them,
+exhorting them to bear their Sufferings
+patiently, assuring them, that if they were
+innocent, which he very much doubted, then
+their reward would be greater in the Other
+World: But everybody must own their case
+was very hard in this.</p>
+
+<p>February the 17th, <i>John Eaton</i>, <i>Thomas
+Quick</i>, and <i>Thomas Baker</i>, were accordingly
+executed at <i>Gallows-Point</i>; and the
+next Day, <i>John Cole</i>, <i>John Howard</i>, and
+<i>Benjamin Palmer</i>, underwent the same fate
+at <i>Kingston</i>. The other three got a Reprieve,
+they being against going aboard the
+Pirate&rsquo;s Sloop, and are now living.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates16.png" width="250" height="206"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg&nbsp;31]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates17.png" width="500" height="308"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN SPRIGGS, AND
+HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>Spriggs</i> sailed at first with <i>Lowe</i>, and came
+away with him from <i>Lowther</i>. Afterwards
+<i>Lowe</i> took a ship of twelve guns on the
+Coast of <i>Guinea</i>, called the <i>Delight</i>, which
+<i>Spriggs</i> went off on board with twenty men,
+and leaving <i>Lowe</i> in the night, came to the
+<i>West Indies</i>. In their passage they made a
+Black Ensign, which they called the <i>Jolly
+Roger</i>, with a skeleton in the middle holding
+a dart in one hand, striking a bleeding
+heart; and in the other an hour-glass; and
+being hoisted, they fired all their guns to
+salute <i>Spriggs</i>, whom they chose Captain,
+and then went to look out for prey.</p>
+
+<p>In their voyage they took a <i>Portugueze</i>
+barque, wherein they had rich plunder.
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg&nbsp;32]</a></span>
+Near <i>St. Lucia</i>, they took a Sloop belonging
+to <i>Barbadoes</i>, which they first plundered, and
+then burnt, forcing some of the men into
+their Service, and beating, in a barbarous
+manner, those that refused to join with
+them, and afterwards sent them away in
+the Boat, half dead with their wounds, the
+rest got to <i>Barbadoes</i>, with much ado, though
+some of them died soon after of their cuts and
+slashes. After this they took a <i>Martinico</i>
+Man, which they used in like manner, save
+that they did not burn the ship. Then running
+down to the Leeward, they took one
+Captain <i>Hawkins</i> coming from <i>Jamaica</i>, laden
+with Logwood; out of which, they took her
+stores, arms, and ammunition, and what
+they did not want they threw over-board;
+they cut the cables to pieces, knocked down
+the cabins, broke the windows, and did
+what mischief they could, taking <i>Burridge</i>
+and <i>Stephens</i>, the two Mates, and some other
+Hands, by force; and then after keeping
+her a week, they let her go. On the 27th
+they took a <i>Rhode</i> Island Sloop, compelling
+the Captain, and all his men, to go on
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg&nbsp;33]</a></span>
+board the Pirate: One of them not being
+willing to stay with them, they told him he
+should have a discharge presently, which
+was to receive ten lashes from every man
+on board.</p>
+
+<p>The next day <i>Burridge</i> signed their
+Articles; which pleased them so much,
+that they fired all the Guns, and made him
+Master, spending that day in rejoicings and
+drinking healths.</p>
+
+<p>The First of <i>April</i> they spied a sail, and
+gave her chase all night, believing she had
+been a <i>Spaniard</i>; but when they came up
+to her, and gave her a broadside, she cried
+out for Quarters, which made them cease
+firing, and ordered the Captain to come
+aboard, which proved to be Captain <i>Hawkins</i>,
+whom they had dismissed three days before,
+not worth a groat. Two Days after, they
+anchored at <i>Ratran</i>, not far from <i>Honduras</i>,
+and put ashore Captain <i>Hawkins</i>, and several
+others, giving them powder and ball, and a
+musquet, and then left them to shift as well
+as they could. Here they staid three weeks,
+when two men came in a canoe, that had
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg&nbsp;34]</a></span>
+been left in another Maroon Island near
+<i>Benecca</i>, and carried them thither. A fortnight
+after they espied a Sloop at sea, which
+had lately escaped from the <i>Spaniards</i> at the
+Bay of <i>Honduras</i>, which, upon a signal stood
+in and took them all off.</p>
+
+<p>At an Island to the westward, the Pirates
+cleaned their ship, and then sailed towards
+<i>St. Christophers</i> to meet Captain <i>Moor</i>.</p>
+
+<p><i>Spriggs</i> next stood towards <i>Bermudas</i>,
+where he took a Schooner belonging to
+<i>Boston</i>, from which he took all the Men,
+and sunk the Vessel.</p>
+
+<p>Instead of going to <i>Newfoundland</i>, they
+came back to the Islands, and on the 8th
+of <i>June</i>, to windward of <i>St. Christophers</i>,
+they took a Sloop, <i>Nicholas Trot</i>, Master,
+belonging to <i>St. Eustatia</i>, whose men they
+hoisted as high as the main fore-tops, and
+so let them fall down again; then whipping
+them about the deck, they gave <i>Trot</i> his
+Sloop, and let him go, keeping only two of
+his men, besides the plunder. Two or three
+days after, they took a ship coming from
+<i>Rhode Island</i> to <i>St. Christophers</i>, laden with
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg&nbsp;35]</a></span>
+provisions and some horses, and burnt ship,
+men, and horses: Since when <i>Spriggs</i> has
+not been heard of: though it is supposed he
+went to <i>Madagascar</i>, to spend, in rioting
+and wantonness, his ill gotten plunder; till
+by a letter from <i>Jamaica</i>, of the 2nd of
+<i>March</i> last, we understood, That he had
+been again at the Bay of <i>Honduras</i>, and
+taken sixteen Sail.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 172px;">
+<img src="images/pirates18.png" width="172" height="250"
+alt="A pirate, sword over his shoulder" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 409px;">
+<a name="Lowe" id="Lowe"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates19.jpg" width="409" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg&nbsp;39]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 458px;">
+<img src="images/pirates20.png" width="458" height="500"
+alt="A three-masted ship" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE,
+AND HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>Edward Lowe</i>, born at <i>Westminster</i>, very
+early began the Trade of Plundering; for
+if any Child refused him what he had,
+he must fight him. When he grew bigger,
+he took to Gaming among Blackshoe Boys
+upon the <i>Parade</i>, with whom he used to
+play the <em>Whole Game</em>, as they call it; that
+is, cheat every Body, and if they refused,
+they had to fight him.</p>
+
+<p><i>Ned</i> went to Sea with his eldest Brother,
+and leaving him in <i>New-England</i>, he worked
+in a Rigging House, at Boston, for some
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg&nbsp;40]</a></span>
+Time, when not liking that, he returned to
+<i>England</i> to see his Mother, with whom he
+did not stay long before he took his Leave
+of her, for the last Time, as he said, and
+returned to <i>Boston</i>, where he shipped himself
+in a Sloop that was bound to the Bay
+of <i>Honduras</i>; and when he arrived there,
+he was made Patron of the Boat, to bring
+the logwood on board to lade the ship;
+where he differing with the Captain about
+the hurry of taking the logwood on board,
+<i>Lowe</i> takes up a loaden Musquet, and fired at
+him; then putting off the Boat, he, with
+twelve of his companions, goes to sea.
+Next day they met a small vessel, which
+they took, made a Black Flag, and declared
+War against all the world. From hence
+they proceed to the Island of the <i>Grand
+Caimanes</i>, where they met with <i>George
+Lowther</i>, who took him under his protection
+as an ally, without any formal Treaty;
+which <i>Lowe</i> readily agreed to. But parting
+with <i>Lowther</i> on the 28th of <i>May</i>, as we have
+already given in an Account in <i>Lowther&rsquo;s</i>
+Life, <i>Lowe</i> took a Vessel belonging to <i>Amboy</i>,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg&nbsp;41]</a></span>
+which he plundered, and then stood away
+to the South East, by which he avoided two
+Sloops which the Governor had sent to take
+him from <i>Rhode</i> Island.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates21.png" width="250" height="217"
+alt="Sketch of a person wearing an ornate headdress" />
+</div>
+
+<p><i>July</i> the 12th, he sailed into the Harbour
+of Port <i>Rosemary</i>, where he found 13 small
+vessels at anchor, whom he told they
+would have no quarters if they resisted;
+which so frightened the Masters of the
+vessels, that they all yielded. Out of them
+he took whatever he wanted, keeping for
+his own Use a Schooner of 80 Tons, on
+board of which he put 10 Carriage Guns,
+and 50 men, and named her the <i>Fancy</i>
+making himself Captain, and appointing
+<i>Charles Harris</i> Captain of the Brigantine.
+Making up a complement of 80 men
+out of the vessels, some by force, and
+others by their own inclinations, he sailed
+away from <i>Mablehead</i>, and
+soon after he met two Sloops
+bound for <i>Boston</i>, with provisions
+for the garrison; but
+there being an officer and
+soldiers on board, he thought
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg&nbsp;42]</a></span>
+it the safest way, after some small resistance,
+to let them go on about their business.</p>
+
+<p>They then steered for the <i>Leeward</i>
+Islands; but in their voyage met with
+such a hurricane, as had not been known
+in the memory of man. After the storm
+was over, they got safe to one of the small
+Islands of the <i>Carribees</i>, and there refitted
+their vessels as well as they could. As
+soon as the Brigantine was ready, they
+took a short cruise, leaving the Schooner
+in the harbour till their return; which
+had not been many days at sea, before
+she met a ship that had lost all her
+masts, on board of which they went, and
+took, in money and goods, to the value of
+1000<i>l.</i> Upon this success, the Brigantine
+returned to the Schooner, which being then
+ready to sail, they agreed to go to the
+<i>Azores</i>, or Western Islands, where <i>Lowe</i>
+took a <i>French</i> Ship of 32 Guns, and in <i>St.
+Michael&rsquo;s</i> Road, he took several sail that
+were lying there, without firing a gun.
+Being in great want of water, he sent to
+the Governor of <i>St. Michael&rsquo;s</i> for a Supply,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg&nbsp;43]</a></span>
+promising upon that Condition, to release
+the Ships he had taken, otherwise to burn
+them all; which the Governor, for the sake
+of the Ships, agreed to. Thereupon he
+released six, keeping only the <i>Rose</i> Pink, of
+which he took the Command.</p>
+
+<p>The Pirates took several of the Guns out
+of the ships, and mounted them on board
+the <i>Rose</i>. <i>Lowe</i> ordered the Schooner to lie
+in the Fare between <i>St. Michael&rsquo;s</i> and <i>St.
+Mary&rsquo;s</i>, where he met with Captain <i>Carter</i>
+in the <i>Wright</i> Galley; who, defending himself,
+they cut and mangled him and his Men
+in a barbarous manner; after which, they
+were for burning the ship, but contented
+themselves with cutting her cable, rigging,
+and sails to pieces, and so left her to the
+mercy of the seas. From hence they sailed
+to the Island of <i>Maderas</i>, where they took
+a fishing boat, with two old men and a
+boy in her, one of whom they sent ashore,
+demanding a boat of water, otherwise they
+would kill the old man, which being complied
+with, the old man was discharged.
+From hence they sailed to the <i>Canaries</i>,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg&nbsp;44]</a></span>
+and thence continued their course for the
+<i>Cape de Verde</i> Islands, where they took
+a ship called the <i>Liverpool Merchant</i>, from
+which they took 300 gallons of brandy,
+two guns and carriages, besides six of the
+men, and then obliged them to go to the
+Isle of <i>May</i>. They also took two <i>Portugueze</i>
+ships bound to <i>Brazil</i>, and three Sloops
+from <i>St. Thomas&rsquo;s</i> bound to <i>Curaso</i>: All of
+which they plundered, and let them go,
+except one Sloop, by which they heard that
+two Gallies were expected at the Western
+Islands. Her they manned, and sent in
+Quest of these Ships whilst they careened
+the <i>Rose</i> at <i>Cape de Verde</i>; but the Sloop
+missing the prey, was reduced to great
+want of water and provisions, so that they
+ventured to go ashore <i>St. Michael&rsquo;s</i>, and pass
+for Traders; where, being suspected by the
+Governor, they were conducted into the
+Castle, and provided for as long as they
+lived.</p>
+
+<p><i>Lowe&rsquo;s</i> ship was overset a-careening, so
+that he was reduced to his old Schooner,
+aboard of which there went about an
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg&nbsp;45]</a></span>
+hundred as bold rogues as ever was hanged,
+and sailed to the <i>West-Indies</i>, where they
+took a rich <i>Portugueze</i> ship bound Home
+from <i>Bahia</i>, putting to the torture several
+of the men, who confest the Captain flung
+into the sea a bag of 11000 Moidores. This
+made <i>Lowe</i> swear a thousand oaths; and
+after cutting off his lips, he murdered him
+and all his Crew, being 36 men.</p>
+
+<p>After this, they cruised to the Northward,
+and took several Vessels and then
+steered for the Bay of <i>Honduras</i>, where they
+took Five <i>English</i> Sloops, and a Pink, and
+a <i>Spaniard</i> of 6 Guns and 70 men, whom
+they killed every man; which being done
+they rummaged the <i>Spanish</i> Ship, bringing
+all the booty on board their own
+vessel.</p>
+
+<p>In the next cruise, between the <i>Leeward
+Islands</i> and the Main, they took two Snows
+from Jamaica to Liverpool, and just after
+a Ship called the <i>Amsterdam Merchant</i>, the
+Captain thereof he slit his Nose, cut his
+Ears off, and then plundered the ship and
+let her go. Afterwards he took a Sloop
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg&nbsp;46]</a></span>
+bound to <i>Amboy</i>, of whose Men he tied lighted
+matches between the fingers, which burnt
+the flesh off the bones, and afterwards set
+them ashore in an uninhabited part of the
+country, as also other ships which fell a
+prey to those villains.</p>
+
+<p>One of His Majesty&rsquo;s Men-of-War called
+the <i>Greyhound</i>, of 20 guns and 120 men, hearing
+of their barbarous actions, went in search
+of them and, seeing the Pirates, allowed <i>Lowe</i>
+to chase them at first, till they were in readiness
+to engage him, and when he was within
+gunshot, tacked about and stood towards
+him. The Pirates edged away under the
+Man-of-War&rsquo;s stern, making a running fight
+for about two hours. But little wind happening,
+the Pirates gained from her; thereupon
+the <i>Greyhound</i> left off firing, and turned
+all her hands to her oars, and came up
+with them, when the fight was renewed
+with a brisk fire on both sides, till the
+<i>Ranger&rsquo;s</i> main-yard was shot down; upon
+which, the <i>Greyhound</i> pressing close, <i>Lowe</i>
+bore away and left his consort, who seeing
+the cowardice of his Commadore, and that
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg&nbsp;47]</a></span>
+there was no possibility of escaping, called
+out for quarters.</p>
+
+<p><i>Lowe&rsquo;s</i> conduct in this engagement shewed
+him to be a cowardly villain; for had
+he fought half as briskly as <i>Harris</i>, the
+Man-of-War could never have taken either
+of them. The <i>Greyhound</i> carried her
+Prize to <i>Rhode-Island</i>, which was looked
+upon to be of such signal Service to the
+Colony, that in Council they resolved to
+compliment <i>Peter Sulgard</i> Captain, with
+the Freedom of their Corporation. They
+secured the prisoners under a strong guard
+in Jail, till a Court of Vice-Admiralty
+could be held for their Trials, which was
+on the 10th of <i>July</i> at <i>Newport</i>, lasting
+three Days. The Judges were <i>William
+Dummer</i>, Esq; Lieutenant Governor of the
+<i>Massachusets</i>, President; <i>Nathaniel Payne</i>,
+Esq; <i>John Lechmore</i>, Esq; Surveyor
+General; <i>John Valentine</i>, Esq; Advocate
+General; <i>Samuel Cranston</i>, Governor of
+<i>Rhode Island</i>; <i>John Menzies</i>, Esq; Judge
+of the Admiralty; <i>Richard Ward</i>, Esq;
+Registrar; and Mr. <i>Jahleet Brinton</i>, Provost
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg&nbsp;48]</a></span>
+Marshal. <i>Robert Auchmuta</i>, Esq, was appointed
+by the Court, Counsel for the
+prisoners here under mentioned.</p>
+
+<p><i>Charles Harris</i>, Captain, <i>William Blads</i>,
+<i>Daniel Hyde</i>, <i>Thomas Powel</i>, jun., <i>Stephen
+Munden</i>, <i>Thomas Hugget</i>, <i>William Read</i>, <i>Peter
+Kneeves</i>, <i>James Brinkley</i>, <i>Joseph Sound</i>, <i>William
+Shutfield</i>, <i>Edward Eaton</i>, <i>John Brown</i>,
+<i>Edward Lawson</i>, <i>Owen Rice</i>, <i>John Tomkins</i>,
+<i>John Fitzgerald</i>, <i>Abraham Lacy</i>, <i>Thomas Linester</i>,
+<i>Francis Leyton</i>, <i>John Walters</i>, Quarter-master,
+<i>William Jones</i>, <i>Charles Church</i>, <i>Thomas
+Hazel</i>, and <i>John Bright</i>, who were all executed
+the 19th of <i>July</i>, 1723, near <i>Newport</i> in <i>Rhode
+Island</i>; but <i>John Brown</i> and <i>Patrick Cunningham</i>
+were recommended to Mercy.</p>
+
+<p>The eight following were found Not
+Guilty; <i>John Wilson</i>, <i>Henry Barnes</i>, <i>Thomas
+Jones</i>, <i>Joseph Switzer</i>, <i>Thomas Mumper</i>, Indian,
+<i>John Hencher</i>, Doctor, <i>John Fletcher</i>, and
+<i>Thomas Child</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Instead of working repentance in <i>Lowe</i>,
+this deliverance made him ten times worse,
+vowing revenge upon all they should meet
+with for the future, which they executed
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg&nbsp;49]</a></span>
+upon <i>Nathan Skiff</i>, Master of a <i>Whale-fishing</i>
+Sloop, whom they whipt naked about the
+deck, and then cut off his ears, making his
+torture their sport. At length being weary
+thereof, they shot him through the head,
+and sunk his vessel. Some days after, he
+took a fishing boat off of <i>Black</i> Island, and
+only cut off the master&rsquo;s head; but next
+day taking two Whale Boats near <i>Rhode</i>
+Island, he brutally killed one of the masters
+and cut off the ears of the other. From
+hence he went to <i>Newfoundland</i>, where he
+took 23 <i>French</i> Vessels, and mann&rsquo;d one of
+them of 22 Guns with pirates; after which,
+they took and plundered 18 ships, some of
+which they destroyed.</p>
+
+<p>The latter end of <i>July</i>, <i>Lowe</i> took a large
+ship called the <i>Merry Christmas</i>, and mounted
+her with 34 Guns, on which he goes aboard,
+taking the title of Admiral, and sails to the
+Western Islands, where he took a Brigantine
+manned with <i>English</i> and <i>Portugueze</i>, the
+Latter of whom he hanged.</p>
+
+<p>Afterwards <i>Lowe</i> went to the Coast of
+<i>Guinea</i>, but nothing happened till he came
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg&nbsp;50]</a></span>
+to <i>Sierra Leon</i>, in <i>Africa</i>, when he met with
+the <i>Delight</i>, which he took, mounting her
+with 16 Guns, and 60 men, appointing <i>Spriggs</i>
+Captain, and from whom two days after he
+separated.</p>
+
+<p>In <i>January</i> after, he took a Ship called
+<i>Squirrel</i>, but what came of him afterwards
+we cannot tell.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 175px;">
+<img src="images/pirates22.png" width="175" height="250"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg&nbsp;53]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 433px;">
+<img src="images/pirates23.png" width="433" height="500"
+alt="A pirate stands on a height looking down at a ship" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN GEORGE LOWTHER,
+AND HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>George Lowther</i> went second Mate on board
+the <i>Gambia Castle</i>, belonging to the <i>Royal
+African</i> Company, on board which was
+Captain <i>Massey</i>, with soldiers that he was
+to command under Colonel <i>Whitney</i>, whom
+were landed on <i>James</i> Island; but the Fort
+and Garrison not agreeing the Company
+soon after lost a Galley worth 10000<i>l.</i> by it.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates24.png" width="250" height="216"
+alt="Sketch map of James Island, South Carolina" />
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Massey</i> finding he must be over-ruled by
+the merchants, soon began to complain of
+their ill-treatment of his men
+in their allowance, saying he
+did not come to be a <i>Guinea</i>
+Slave; and that if they did not
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg&nbsp;54]</a></span>
+use him and his men better, he should take
+other measures.</p>
+
+<p>At the same time, there happened a
+dispute between the Captain of the ship
+and <i>Lowther</i>, which very much contributing
+to Lowther&rsquo;s design: For <i>Lowther</i> finding
+himself neglected by the Captain, found
+means to ingratiate himself into the favour
+of the sailors, who, upon the Captain&rsquo;s
+going to punish him, swore, They would
+knock down the first man that should offer
+to lay hands on him; which <i>Lowther</i> improved
+to a general disaffection of the ship&rsquo;s
+Crew. <i>Massey</i> in the meantime, having
+contracted an intimacy with <i>Lowther</i>, they
+agreed to curb their enemies, and provide
+for themselves some other way; which the
+Captain perceiving, he goes on shore to
+the Governor and Factor, to consult what
+methods to take. But <i>Lowther</i> apprehending
+it was against him, he sent a letter in the
+same boat to <i>Massey</i>, advising him to repair
+on board, to put their project in execution.</p>
+
+<p>Upon which <i>Massey</i> harangued the
+Soldiers, saying, <em>You that have a Mind to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg&nbsp;55]</a></span>
+return to England</em>, may now do it; which
+they all agreed to. Then he went to the
+Governor&rsquo;s appartment, and took his bed,
+baggage, plate and furniture, believing the
+Governor would go with him, which he
+refused; however <i>Massey</i> came aboard with
+the Governor&rsquo;s son. After demolishing all
+the guns of the Fort, they weighed anchor,
+and fell down, but soon ran the ship aground;
+upon which <i>Massey</i> returns to the Fort, remounts
+the guns, and keeps garrison till
+the ship got clear. In the meantime
+Captain <i>Russell</i> got off but was not suffered
+to come on board, although he offered
+<i>Lowther</i> what terms he pleased. Next
+tide they got the ship afloat, having first
+nailed up and dismounted all the cannon.
+Then putting the Governor&rsquo;s son ashore,
+they put out to sea, when <i>Lowther</i> called
+upon the men, and told them, <em>It was Madness
+to think of returning to <span class="roman">England</span>; for what
+they had done, would be judged a Capital Offence</em>;
+and therefore, since they had a good ship
+under them, he proposed that they should
+seek their fortunes upon the Seas, as others
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg&nbsp;56]</a></span>
+had done before them, which they all agreed
+to, calling the ship <i>The Delivery</i>, and swore
+to stand by one another.</p>
+
+<p><i>Lowther</i> left the Fort the 13th of <i>June</i>,
+and on the 20th, near <i>Barbadoes</i>, he came up
+with a Brigantine, belonging to <i>Boston</i>, which
+he plundered, and then let go. After this
+he proceeded to <i>Hispaniola</i>, where he met
+with a <i>French</i> Sloop loaden with wine and
+brandy, on board whom Captain <i>Massey</i>
+went, pretending at first to be a merchant;
+but finding her to be a Ship of value, he
+told Monsieur, He must have it all without
+money. On board her, there was 30 casks
+of brandy, 5 hogsheads of wine, several
+pieces of chintz, and 70<i>l.</i> in money, all of
+which they took, only <i>Lowther</i> return&rsquo;d the
+French Master five pounds again.</p>
+
+<p>But this good harmony did not last long
+amongst them, <i>Massey</i> was uneasy, and resolved
+to leave them; which <i>Lowther</i> agreed
+to, giving him a Sloop he had just before
+taken, to go where he thought fit. Accordingly
+<i>Massey</i> goes aboard, with ten men,
+and comes in directly for <i>Jamaica</i>, where,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg&nbsp;57]</a></span>
+putting a bold face on the matter, he informs
+Sir <i>Nicholas Laws</i>, the then Governor,
+how he had left <i>Lowther</i> the pirate, and of all
+that had been transacted before, adding,
+That he assisted him at the River <i>Gambia</i>
+only to save so many of His Majesty&rsquo;s
+subjects, and return to <i>England</i>.</p>
+
+<p><i>Massey</i> was well received, and, at his
+own report, he was sent on board the
+<i>Happy Sloop</i>, to cruise off <i>Hispaniola</i> for
+<i>Lowther</i>; but not meeting with him, he
+returned to <i>Jamaica</i>, and getting a Certificate,
+he came home to <i>England</i>, where, when
+he arrived, he writes to the <i>African</i> Company,
+relating the whole transaction of his voyage,
+but excuses it as an inadvertency, by
+his being ill-used; for which, if they would
+not forgive him, he begged to die like a
+soldier, and not be hanged like a dog.
+This not producing so favourable an answer
+as he expected, he went the next day to
+the Lord Chief Justice Chambers, and
+enquired, If there had been ever a Warrant
+granted and against one Captain <i>Massey</i> for
+Piracy. But being told, There was not, he
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg&nbsp;58]</a></span>
+said, He was the Man, and that the <i>African</i>
+Company would soon apply to my Lord for
+one, which if they did, he lodged in <i>Aldersgate
+street</i>, where the Officer might at any
+time find him. This the Clerk took down
+in writing, and a Warrant being soon
+granted, the Tipstaff went accordingly, and
+took him without any trouble.</p>
+
+<p>But still there was no person to charge
+him, neither could they prove the letter to
+be his own hand-writing, till the Justice
+interrogated him, <em>Whether he did write the
+letter or not</em>; which he readily confessed,
+as also gave an ample account of the whole
+voyage, thereupon he was committed to
+<i>Newgate</i>, though soon after he was admitted
+out upon bail.</p>
+
+<p><i>July</i> the 5th, 1723, he was tried at the
+<i>Old-Baily</i> by a Court of Admiralty, when
+Captain <i>Russell</i> and others appeared against
+him: But he would have saved them all
+that trouble, for he confessed more than
+they knew, fixing the facts so firm upon
+himself, that he was found Guilty, received
+Sentence of Death, and was
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg&nbsp;59]</a></span>
+executed three weeks after at <i>Execution
+Dock</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates25.png" width="250" height="183"
+alt="A burning ship" />
+</div>
+
+<p>But to return to <i>Lowther</i>, whom <i>Massey</i>
+left cruising off of <i>Hispaniola</i>, who plying to
+the Windward near <i>Porto Rico</i>, took two
+sail, one was a small <i>Bristol</i> Ship, the other
+a <i>Spanish</i> Pirate, who had taken the <i>Bristol</i>
+Ship; which so provoked <i>Lowther</i>, that he
+threatened to
+put all the <i>Spaniards</i>
+to Death,
+for daring to
+intermeddle in
+his Affairs: But
+at last he contented
+himself
+with burning
+both their ships; and the <i>Spaniards</i> getting
+away in their launch, they thought they
+were well off.</p>
+
+<p>Afterwards he took a small Sloop from
+<i>St. Christophers</i>, which he manned; and
+carried with him to an island where they
+cleaned, and then going aboard, they sailed
+towards the Bay of <i>Honduras</i>, where they
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg&nbsp;60]</a></span>
+met with a small vessel with 13 Hands, of
+the same employment, under Captain <i>Lowe</i>,
+whom <i>Lowther</i> received as friends, inviting
+them, as they were few in number, to join
+their strength together; which being accepted
+of, <i>Lowther</i> continued Captain, and
+<i>Lowe</i> was made Lieutenant, burning his own
+ship. Then coming into the Bay, they fell
+upon a ship of two hundred tons, called
+the <i>Greyhound</i>; against whom <i>Lowther</i> firing
+his guns, hoisted the piratical Colours,
+which Captain <i>Edward</i> bravely returned;
+but at length finding the Pirate too strong
+for him he yielded, and the Pirate came on
+Board, and not only rifling the ship, but
+beat and cut the men in a cruel manner.
+In crusing about the Bay, they took several
+other vessels without any resistance, particularly
+a Sloop of 100 Tons, which they
+mounted with 8 carriages and 10 swivel
+guns. With this fleet, <i>Lowther</i> in the
+<i>Happy Delivery</i>, <i>Lowe</i> in the <i>Rhode Island</i>
+Sloop, <i>Harris</i> in <i>Hamilton&rsquo;s</i> Sloop, left the
+Bay, and came to <i>Port Mayo</i>, where they
+made preparations to careen, carrying
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg&nbsp;61]</a></span>
+ashore all their sails, to lay their plunder
+and stores in; but when they were busy
+at work, a body of the natives came down
+and attacked the Pirates unprepared, who
+were glad to fly to their Sloops, and leave
+them masters of the field, leaving the <i>Happy
+Delivery</i> behind them, contenting themselves
+with the <i>Ranger</i>, which had only 20
+guns, and 8 swivels, taking all the men on
+board her, wherein they presently began
+to quarrel, laying the blame upon one
+another. Being very much in want of
+provisions, they got to the <i>West Indies</i>,
+<i>May</i> 1722, and near the Island of <i>Descada</i>
+took a Brigantine stored with provisions
+and necessaries, which put them in better
+temper. Then they watered and stood to
+the Northward, intending to visit the North
+Coast of <i>America</i>, and in Latitude 38, they
+took the <i>Rebecca</i> of <i>Boston</i>, at which Time
+the Crews divided, <i>Lowe</i> with 44 Hands
+went on board the Brigantine, and <i>Lowther</i>
+with the same number, staid in the Sloop,
+separating that very night, being the 28th
+of May 1722.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg&nbsp;62]</a></span>
+<i>Lowther</i> cruised a pretty while among
+the Islands to no purpose, till at length he
+fell in with a <i>Martinico</i> Man, which proved
+a seasonable relief, he being reduced to
+great want of provisions, and after that a
+<i>Guinea</i> Man. After which they thought it
+time to clean, in order to prepare for new
+adventures; for which purpose they sailed
+to the Island of <i>Blanco</i>, which is a low
+Island 30 leagues from the main of <i>Spanish
+America</i>, where he unrigged his Sloop,
+sending his guns, rigging, and sails
+ashore, and putting his vessel upon the
+careen. But the <i>Eagle</i> Sloop of <i>Barbadoes</i>,
+coming near this Island, and seeing her,
+supposing her to be a Pirate, took the
+advantage of attacking her when unprepared,
+who immediately hoisted the <i>St.
+George&rsquo;s</i> Flag at her top-mast head to bid
+them defiance: But when they found the
+<i>Eagle</i> resolved to board them in good
+earnest, the Pirates cut their cable, and
+hawled the stern on shore, which obliged
+the <i>Eagle</i> to come to an anchor athwart the
+hawse, where they engaged them till they
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg&nbsp;63]</a></span>
+cried out for Quarters. At which time <i>Lowther</i>
+and 12 men made their escape, but they
+took the rest, and brought them to <i>Camena</i>,
+where the <i>Spanish</i> Governor condemned
+the Sloop to the captors, and sent 23 Hands
+to scour the Bushes of <i>Blanco</i> for the Pirates,
+when they took 40; but could not find <i>Lowther</i>,
+three men and a little Boy. <i>John
+Churchill</i>, <i>Edward Mackonald</i>, <i>Nicholas Lewis</i>,
+<i>Rich. West</i>, <i>Sam Lavercot</i>, <i>Rob. White</i>, <i>John
+Shaw</i>, <i>And. Hunter</i>, <i>Jonathan Delve</i>, <i>Matthew
+Freeborn</i>, and <i>Henry Watson</i>, were hanged,
+<i>Roger Granger</i>, <i>Ralph Candem</i>, and <i>Robert
+Willis</i>, were acquitted. And Captain <i>Lowther</i>,
+it is said, afterwards shot himself, being
+found dead, and a pistol burst by his side.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 191px;">
+<img src="images/pirates26.png" width="191" height="250"
+alt="Silhouette of a sailor" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg&nbsp;67]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates27.png" width="500" height="164"
+alt="A sinking ship" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN ANSTIS, AND HIS
+CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>Thomas Anstis</i> shipped himself at <i>Providence</i>,
+in the Year 1718, aboard the <i>Buck</i> Sloop,
+and was one of the six that conspired
+together to get off with the vessel, along
+with <i>Howel Davis</i>, <i>Dennis Topping</i>, and <i>Walter
+Kennedy</i>, etc. I shall only observe, that this
+combination was the beginning of Captain
+<i>Roberts&rsquo;s</i> company, which afterwards proved
+so formidable, from whom <i>Anstis</i> separated
+the 18th of <i>April</i>, 1721, leaving his Commodore
+to pursue his adventures upon the
+Coasts of <i>Guinea</i>, whilst he returned to the
+<i>West Indies</i>, upon the same design.</p>
+
+<p>About the middle of <i>June</i>, he met with
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg&nbsp;68]</a></span>
+one Captain <i>Maiston</i>, between <i>Hispaniola</i>
+and <i>Jamaica</i>, bound to <i>New-York</i>, from which
+he took all the wearing apparel, liquors and
+provisions, and six men. Afterwards he
+met with the <i>Irwin</i>, Captain <i>Ross</i> from <i>Cork</i>,
+on the Coast of <i>Martinico</i>, which ship had
+Colonel <i>Doyly</i> of <i>Montserrat</i> on board, and
+his Family, and 600 barrels of beef.</p>
+
+<p>Afterwards they went into one of the
+Islands to clean, and thence proceeding
+towards <i>Bermudas</i>, they met with a stout
+ship called the <i>Morning Star</i>, bound from
+<i>Guinea</i> to <i>Carolina</i>, which they kept for
+their own use. Just after, they took a
+ship from <i>Barbadoes</i> bound to <i>New England</i>,
+from whence taking her guns, they mounted
+the <i>Morning Star</i> with 32 pieces of cannon,
+and 100 men, appointing <i>John Fenn</i> Captain:
+For <i>Anstis</i> was so in love with his own
+vessel, she being a good sailor, he made it
+his choice to stay in her, and let <i>Fenn</i> have
+the other ship. Though they were not
+sufficiently strong, yet being most new men,
+they could not agree, but resolving to break
+up company, sent a Petition to His Majesty
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg&nbsp;69]</a></span>
+by a Merchant Ship, expecting her Return
+at <i>Cuba</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Here they staid about nine months; but
+not having provisions for above two, they
+were obliged to take what the Island afforded;
+which is many sorts of fish, particularly
+turtle; though they eat not a bit of bread,
+nor flesh meat, during their being on the
+Island.</p>
+
+<p>They passed their time here in dancing,
+and other diversions, agreeable to these
+sort of folks. Among the rest, they appointed
+a mock Court of Judicature, to try
+one another for Piracy, and he that was a
+Criminal one day, was made a Judge
+another. I shall never forget one of their
+Trials, which for the curiosity of it, I shall
+relate. The Judge got up into a tree, having
+a dirty tarpaulin over his shoulders for a
+robe, and a Thrum Cap upon his head,
+with a large pair of spectacles upon his
+nose, and a monkey bearing up his train,
+with abundance of Officers attending him,
+with crows and hand-spikes instead of
+wands and tip-staves in their hands.
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg&nbsp;70]</a></span>
+Before whom the Criminals were brought
+out, making 1000 wry Faces; when the
+Attorney-General moved the Court, and
+said, An&rsquo;t please your Lordship, and you
+Gentlemen of the Jury, this fellow before
+you is a sad dog, a sad, a sad dog, and I
+hope your Lordship will order him to be
+hanged out of the way; he has committed
+Piracy upon the High Seas; nay, my Lord,
+that&rsquo;s not all; this fellow, this sad dog before
+you, has out-rid a hundred storms, and you
+know, my Lord, <em>He that&rsquo;s born to be hanged,
+will never be drowned</em>. Nor is this all, he
+has been guilty of worse villany than this,
+and that is of drinking of small beer; and
+your Lordship knows, there was never a
+sober fellow but what was
+a rogue&mdash;My Lord, I should
+have said more, but your
+Lordship knows our rum is
+out, and how should a Man
+speak that has drunk a dram
+to-day.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 180px;">
+<img src="images/pirates28.png" width="180" height="250"
+alt="Portrait of a pirate, hands bound behind his back" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p><i>Judge.</i> Harkee me, Sirrah&mdash;you
+ill-looked
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg&nbsp;71]</a></span>
+dog. What have you to say why you
+may not be tucked up, and set a-sun-drying
+like a scare-crow?&mdash;Are you
+Guilty, or not?</p>
+
+<p><i>Prisoner.</i> Not Guilty, an&rsquo;t please your
+Worship.</p>
+
+<p><i>Judge.</i> Not Guilty! say so again, and I
+will have you hanged without any
+Trial.</p>
+
+<p><i>Prisoner.</i> An&rsquo;t please your Worship&rsquo;s
+Honour, my Lord, I am as honest a
+fellow as ever went between stem
+and stern of a ship, and can hand,
+reef, steer, and clap two ends of
+a rope together, as well as e&rsquo;er a He
+that ever crossed Salt-water; but I
+was taken by one <i>George Bradley</i> (the
+name of the Judge) a notorious
+Pirate, and a sad rogue as ever was
+hanged, and he forced me, an&rsquo;t please
+your Honour.</p>
+
+<p><i>Judge.</i> Answer me, Sirrah&mdash;how will you
+be tried?</p>
+
+<p><i>Prisoner.</i> By God and my country.</p>
+
+<p><i>Judge.</i> The Devil you will.... Then,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg&nbsp;72]</a></span>
+Gentlemen of the Jury, we have
+nothing to do but to proceed to
+Judgment.</p>
+
+<p><i>Attorney-Gen.</i> Right, my Lord; for if
+the fellow should be suffered to
+speak, he might clear himself; and
+that, you know, is an affront to the
+Court.</p>
+
+<p><i>Prisoner.</i> Pray, my Lord, I hope your
+Lordship will consider.</p>
+
+<p><i>Judge.</i> Consider!&mdash;How dare you talk
+of considering!&mdash;Sirrah, Sirrah, I
+have never considered in all my
+life.&mdash;I&rsquo;ll make it Treason to consider.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pris.</i> But I hope your Lordship will hear
+reason.</p>
+
+<p><i>Judge.</i> What have we to do with Reason?&mdash;I
+would have you to know, Sirrah,
+we do not sit here to hear Reason&mdash;we
+go according to Law.&mdash;Is our
+dinner ready?</p>
+
+<p><i>Attorney-General.</i> Yes, my Lord.</p>
+
+<p><i>Judge.</i> Then harkee you rascal at the
+Bar, hear me, Sirrah, hear me.&mdash;You
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg&nbsp;73]</a></span>
+must be hanged for three reasons:
+<em>First</em>, because it is not fit that I should
+sit as Judge, and no-body to be
+hang&rsquo;d: <em>Secondly</em>, You must be hang&rsquo;d
+because you have a damn&rsquo;d hanging
+Look: <em>Thirdly</em>, You must be hanged,
+because I am hungry. There&rsquo;s Law
+for you, ye dog; take him away,
+Gaoler.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 223px;">
+<img src="images/pirates29.png" width="223" height="250"
+alt="Silhouette of a person wearing a broad-brimmed hat" />
+</div>
+
+<p>By this we may see how these fellows
+can jest upon things, the thoughts of which
+should make them tremble.</p>
+
+<p><i>August</i> 1722, they made ready the Brigantine,
+and came out to sea, where meeting
+their correspondent returning, and finding
+nothing done, they all agreed to ply their
+old trade. So they sailed with the ship
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg&nbsp;74]</a></span>
+and Brigantine to the Southward, where they
+ran the <i>Morning Star</i> upon the <i>Grand Carmanes</i>,
+and wrecked her; the next Day
+<i>Anstis</i> went ashore to fetch the men off,
+who were all safe. <i>Anstis</i> had just time
+to get Captain <i>Fenn</i>, and a few others on
+board, before the <i>Hector</i> and <i>Adventure</i>
+came down upon him; but he got to sea,
+and one of the Men-of-War after him,
+keeping within gun-shot several hours,
+when the wind dying away, the Pirates
+got to their oars, and rowed for their
+lives.</p>
+
+<p>The <i>Hector</i> landed her men, and took
+40 of the <i>Morning Star&rsquo;s</i> Crew, without any
+resistance, they pretending they were glad
+of this opportunity; the rest hid themselves
+in the woods.</p>
+
+<p>The Brigantine after her escape, sailed
+to an Island, near the Bay of <i>Honduras</i>, to
+clean, and in her way took a Sloop, Captain
+<i>Durfey</i> Commander, which they destroyed,
+but brought the men on board. While she
+was cleaning, <i>Durfey</i> conspired with some
+of the prisoners, to carry off the Brigantine;
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg&nbsp;75]</a></span>
+but it being discovered, he and four or five
+more got ashore, with arms and ammunition;
+and when the Pirates&rsquo; Canoe came in
+for Water, seized the boat and men; upon
+which, <i>Anstis</i> sent another boat with 30
+hand ashore; but <i>Durfey</i> gave them such a
+warm reception that they were glad to
+return back again.</p>
+
+<p>In <i>December</i> 1722, <i>Anstis</i> left this place,
+taking in his cruise a good ship. He
+mounted her with 24 Guns and made <i>Fenn</i>
+Commander. From hence they went to the
+<i>Bahama</i> Islands, taking what they wanted.</p>
+
+<p>As they were cleaning their ship the
+<i>Winchelsea</i> came down upon them, when
+most of them escaped to the woods; but
+<i>Anstis</i> having a light pair of heels, escaped
+in the Brigantine. Afterwards, some of the
+Company, being tired of this trade, shot
+<i>Anstis</i> in his Hammock, and put the rest
+in irons, and then carried the Brigantine to
+<i>Curacco</i>, a <i>Dutch</i> Settlement, where they
+were hanged, and those that delivered up the
+vessel acquitted. <i>Fenn</i> was soon after taken
+by the Man-of-War&rsquo;s Men, straggling in the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg&nbsp;76]</a></span>
+woods, with a few more, and carried to
+<i>Antegoa</i> and hanged. But some escaped
+among the negroes, and were never heard
+of since.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates30.png" width="250" height="232"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg&nbsp;79]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates31.png" width="500" height="316"
+alt="A three-masted ship" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN JOHN PHILLIPS,
+AND HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>John Phillips</i> was bred a carpenter, but
+sailing in a West Country ship to <i>Newfoundland</i>,
+was taken by <i>Anstis</i>, who soon
+persuaded him to join with him, making
+him Carpenter of the Vessel, in which
+station he continued till they broke up at
+<i>Tobago</i>, when he came Home in a Sloop that
+was sunk in <i>Bristol</i> Channel. But he did not
+stay long in <i>England</i>; for hearing of some
+of his companions being taken in <i>Bristol</i>
+Gaol, he moved off to <i>Topsham</i>, and there
+shipped himself with one Captain <i>Wadham</i>
+for <i>Newfoundland</i>, where when the ship came
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg&nbsp;80]</a></span>
+he ran away, and hired himself a splitter in
+the Fishery for the season: but he soon
+combined with others in the Fishery, to go
+off with one of the vessels that lay in the
+Harbour, and turn Pirate, and accordingly
+fixed upon the 29th of <i>August</i>, 1713, at Night;
+but of 16 Men that promised five only were
+as good as their Word. Notwithstanding,
+<i>Phillips</i> was for pushing on, assuring them
+that they should soon increase their company.
+Hereupon they seized a vessel, and
+went out to sea, when they soon began
+to settle their Officers to prevent dispute,
+appointing, <i>John Phillips</i>, Captain; <i>John Nutt</i>,
+Navigator of the Vessel; <i>James Sparks</i>, Gunner;
+<i>Thomas Fern</i>, Carpenter; and <i>William
+White</i> was only a private man among them.</p>
+
+<p>Before they left the Banks, they took
+several small fishing vessels, out of which
+they took some more Hands, and then sailed
+to the <i>West-Indies</i>: Among those that were
+taken, was one <i>John Rose Archer</i> who having
+been a pirate under <i>Blackbeard</i> was made
+Quarter-Master to the company: They
+came off <i>Barbadoes</i> in <i>October</i>, and cruised
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg&nbsp;81]</a></span>
+about the Islands about three Months, without
+meeting with a vessel, so that they were
+almost starved for want of provisions, when
+at length they fell in with a <i>Martinico</i> Man
+of 12 guns and 35 hands, upon which they
+hoisted the Black Flag and ran up along side
+of the Sloop, with piratical Colours flying,
+swearing, If they did not strike immediately,
+they must expect no quarters; which
+so frightened the <i>Frenchman</i>, that he never
+fired a gun. Having got this supply, they
+took her provisions, and four of her men.</p>
+
+<p>Having occasion to clean their vessel,
+<i>Phillips</i> proposed <i>Tobago</i>; and just as they
+had done, a Man-of-War&rsquo;s boat came into
+the Harbour, the ship cruising to the Leeward
+of the Island; which was no sooner
+gone, but they warped out, and plied to the
+Windward for safety.</p>
+
+<p>In a few days they took a Snow with a
+few Hands in it, on board of which they
+sent <i>Fern</i> the Carpenter, <i>William Smith</i>,
+<i>Philips Wood</i>, and <i>Taylor</i>; but <i>Fern</i> being
+dissatisfied at <i>Archer&rsquo;s</i> being preferred before
+him to be Quarter-Master, persuaded
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg&nbsp;82]</a></span>
+the rest to go off with the prize; but <i>Phillips</i>
+gave them Chase, and coming up with them,
+shot <i>Wood</i>, and wounded <i>Taylor</i> in the leg;
+upon which the other two surrendered.</p>
+
+<p>From <i>Tobago</i> they stood away to the
+Northward, and took a <i>Portugueze</i> bound
+for <i>Brazil</i>, and two or three Sloops for
+<i>Jamaica</i>, in one of which <i>Fern</i> endeavouring
+to go off, was killed by <i>Phillips</i>, as was also
+another man for the like attempt, which
+made all the others more fearful of discovering
+their Minds, dreading the villany
+of a few hardened wretches, who feared
+neither God nor Devil, as <i>Phillips</i> was often
+used blasphemously to say.</p>
+
+<p>On the 25th of March, they took two ships
+from <i>Virginia</i>, the Master&rsquo;s name of one
+was <i>John Phillips</i>, the Pirate&rsquo;s Name-sake;
+of the other, <i>Robert Mortimer</i>, a stout young
+man. <i>Phillips</i> staid on board <i>Mortimer&rsquo;s</i>
+Ship, while they transported the crew to
+the Sloop, when <i>Mortimer</i> took up a hand-spike
+and struck <i>Phillips</i> over the Head;
+but not knocking him down, he recovered
+and wounded <i>Mortimer</i> with his sword;
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg&nbsp;83]</a></span>
+and the other two Pirates who were on
+board, coming to <i>Phillip&rsquo;s</i> assistance they
+cut <i>Mortimer</i> to pieces, while his own two
+men stood and looked on. Out of the other
+<i>Virginia</i> Man, they took <i>Edward Cheesman</i>,
+a carpenter, to supply the Place of <i>Fern</i>,
+who being averse to that way of life, proposed
+to <i>J. Philamore</i>, who was ordered to
+row <i>Cheesman</i> on board <i>Mortimer&rsquo;s</i> ship,
+to overthrow their Piratical government;
+which from time to time, as occasion
+offered, they consulted how to do. The
+Pirates, in the mean time, robbed and
+plundered several ships and vessels, bending
+their course towards <i>Newfoundland</i>,
+where they designed to raise more men,
+and do all the mischief they could on the
+Banks, and in the harbours. Towards
+which country, <i>Phillips</i> making his way,
+took one <i>Salter</i> in a Sloop on the Isle of
+<i>Sables</i>, which he kept, and gave <i>Mortimer&rsquo;s</i>
+Ship to the Mate and crew; also a Schooner,
+one <i>Chadwell</i> Master, which they scuttled in
+order to sink: But <i>Phillips</i> understanding
+that she belonged to Mr. <i>Menors</i> of
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg&nbsp;84]</a></span>
+<i>Newfoundland</i>, with whose Vessel they first went
+off a-Pirating, said, <em>We have done him injury
+enough already</em>, and so ordering his Vessel to
+be repaired, returned her to the Master.</p>
+
+<p>In the Afternoon, they chased another
+vessel, whose Master was an Inward Light
+Man, named <i>Dependence Ellery</i>, who told
+<i>Phillips</i> he took him for a Pirate as soon as
+he saw him, otherwise he would not have
+given him the Trouble of chasing him so
+long. This so provoked <i>Phillips</i> and his
+Crew, that they made poor <i>Dependence</i>, for
+his Integrity, dance about the Ship till he
+was weary. After which they took 10 other
+ships and vessels; and on the 14th of <i>April</i>,
+they took a Sloop belonging to Cape <i>Anne</i>,
+<i>Andrew Harradine</i> Master; which looking
+upon to be more fit for their purpose, they
+came on board, keeping only the Master of
+her Prisoner, and sending the crew away
+in <i>Salter&rsquo;s</i> vessel. <i>Cheesman</i> broke his mind
+to <i>Harradine</i>, to destroy the crew. Upon
+this, it was concluded to be 12 a Clock at
+Noon, when <i>Cheesman</i> leaves his working-tools
+on the deck, as if he had been going
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg&nbsp;85]</a></span>
+to use them, walks off. But perceiving some
+signs of fear in <i>Harradine</i>, he fetches his
+brandy bottle, and gives him and the rest
+a dram, saying, <em>Here&rsquo;s to our next Meeting</em>;
+then he talks to <i>Nutt</i>, in the mean while
+<i>Philamore</i> takes up an axe, while <i>Cheesman</i>
+and <i>Harradine</i> seize <i>Nutt</i> by the Collar,
+and toss him over the Side of the Vessel.</p>
+
+<p>By this Time the Boatswain was dead;
+for as soon as <i>Philamore</i> saw the Master laid
+hold on, he up with the axe, and cut off the
+Boatswain&rsquo;s head, which Noise soon brought
+the Captain upon Deck, whom <i>Cheesman</i>
+saluted with the blow of a mallet, which
+broke his jaw-bone, but did not knock him
+down; upon which <i>Harradine</i> came to the
+Carpenter&rsquo;s aid, when <i>Sparks</i> the Gunner
+interposing, <i>Cheesman</i> trips up his Heels,
+and flung him into the arms of <i>Charles
+Ivemay</i>, who at that moment threw him
+into the Sea; and at the same Time <i>Harradine</i>
+throws Captain <i>Phillips</i> after him, bidding
+the Devil take them both. This done,
+<i>Cheesman</i> jumps from the deck into the
+Hold, to knock <i>Archer</i> on the Head, when
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg&nbsp;86]</a></span>
+<i>Harry Gyles</i> came down after him, desired
+his Life might be spared; which being agreed
+to, he was made a Prisoner, and secured.</p>
+
+<p>All being over, they altered their course
+from <i>Newfoundland</i> to <i>Boston</i>, where they
+arrived the 3rd of <i>May</i>, to the great joy of
+the Province, and on the 12th of <i>May</i>, a
+special Court of Admiralty was held for the
+Trial of these Pirates, when <i>John Philamore</i>,
+<i>Edward Cheesman</i>, <i>John Cobs</i>, <i>Henry Gyles</i>,
+<i>Charles Joymay</i>, <i>John Bootman</i>, and <i>Henry
+Payne</i>, were honourably acquitted; as also
+three <i>French</i> Men, <i>John Baptis</i>, <i>Peter Taffery</i>,
+and <i>Isaac Lassen</i>, as also three Negroes,
+<i>Pedro</i>, <i>Francisco</i>, and <i>Pierro</i>. <i>John Rose Archer</i>,
+the Quarter-Master, <i>William White</i>, <i>William
+Taylor</i>, and <i>William Phillips</i> were condemned;
+altho&rsquo; the two latter got a Reprieve, and the
+two former, <i>Archer</i> and <i>White</i>, were executed
+the 2nd of <i>June</i> following.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates32.png" width="250" height="143"
+alt="A small group of armed men" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 307px;">
+<a name="Teach" id="Teach"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates33.jpg" width="307" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN TEACH</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg&nbsp;89]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates34.png" width="500" height="259"
+alt="Two ships, the smaller one apparently being burned" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN TEACH, <i>ALIAS</i>
+BLACKBEARD</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>Edward Teach</i> was a <i>Bristol</i> Man, and had
+served many years in the late wars, in a
+Privateer fitted out from <i>Jamaica</i>, in which
+he had often distinguished himself for his
+boldness. He was never thought fit to be
+entrusted with any Command, till he went
+a-pirating in the Year 1716, when Captain
+<i>Benjamin Hornigold</i> put him into a Prize
+Sloop, with whom he kept company till
+<i>Hornigold</i> surrendered.</p>
+
+<p>In 1727, <i>Teach</i> and <i>Hornigold</i> sailed from
+<i>Providence</i> for <i>America</i>, where, in their way,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg&nbsp;90]</a></span>
+they took a vessel with above 100 Barrels
+of Flour, as also a Sloop from <i>Bermudas</i>,
+and a Ship bound to <i>Carolina</i>; from which
+they had a good plunder. After cleaning at
+<i>Virginia</i>, they returned to the <i>West-Indies</i>,
+and made Prize of a <i>French Guinea</i> Man
+bound to <i>Martinico</i>, which <i>Teach</i> was made
+Captain of; but <i>Hornigold</i> with his Sloop
+returned to <i>Providence</i>, and surrendered to
+mercy. Aboard the <i>French Guinea</i> Ship,
+<i>Teach</i> mounted 46 guns, and called her
+<i>Queen Anne&rsquo;s Revenge</i>. Not long after he
+fell in with the <i>Scarborough</i> Man-of-War,
+who, after a long fight finding she could do
+no good with <i>Teach</i>, left him, and returned
+to <i>Barbadoes</i>, while <i>Teach</i> sailed to <i>Spanish
+America</i>. In his way, he met with Major
+<i>Bonnet</i> a Gentleman, formerly of a good
+estate in <i>Barbadoes</i>, in a small Sloop with
+which he had turned Pirate: But <i>Teach</i>
+finding <i>Bonnet</i> knew nothing of the matter,
+took him into his own Ship, and put one
+<i>Richards</i> Captain in his room, telling the
+Major, <em>That he had not been us&rsquo;d to the Fatigues
+of the Sea, he had better decline it, and take his
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg&nbsp;91]</a></span>
+pleasure aboard his Ship</em>. At <i>Turnissi</i> they
+took in fresh water; but seeing a Sloop
+coming in, they ran to meet her, which
+struck her sail, upon the sight of the Black
+Flag, to <i>Teach</i>, who took the Captain and
+his men aboard, and put <i>Israel Hands</i> to
+mann the Sloop: From thence they sailed
+to the Bay, where they found a ship and
+four Sloops. <i>Teach</i> hoisted his Black Colours,
+at the Sight of which, the Captain and his
+men left the Ship, and ran into the woods.
+<i>Teach&rsquo;s</i> Quarter-Master, with some of his
+Men, took possession of her, and <i>Richards</i>
+secured the Sloops: One of which they
+burnt, because she belonged to <i>Boston</i>,
+where some of his Men had been hanged;
+but the others they let go after plundering
+them.</p>
+
+<p>From hence they sailed to the <i>Grand
+Canaries</i>, then to the <i>Bahama</i> Wrecks,
+and then to <i>Carolina</i>, where they took a
+Brigantine and two Sloops, lying off the Bar
+of <i>Charles Town</i>; as also a Ship bound for
+<i>London</i>, with some passengers aboard.
+The next Day they took another Vessel
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg&nbsp;92]</a></span>
+coming out, and two Pinks going in, and a
+Brigantine with negroes, in the Face of the
+Town; which put the Inhabitants into a
+sad fright, being in no condition to help
+themselves.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 94px;">
+<img src="images/pirates35.png" width="94" height="250"
+alt="A silhouette of a figure, possibly a slave" />
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Teach</i>, alias <i>Blackbeard</i>, sent <i>Richards</i> along
+with Mr. <i>Mark</i>, one of the Prisoners, to demand
+a chest of medicines of the Governor,
+several of his Men being sick
+aboard; threatening otherwise to
+burn the Ships, and destroy all the
+prisoners, among whom was Mr.
+<i>Samuel Wrag</i>, one of his Council.
+Altho&rsquo; this went very much against
+the inhabitants, yet they were forced
+to comply with it to save the lives
+of the many souls had in his custody. So
+sending him a chest worth about 3 or 4
+hundred Pounds, <i>Richards</i> went back safe
+to the ships with his booty; which as
+soon as <i>Blackbeard</i> had received, (for so
+I shall call him for the future) he let
+the ships and the prisoners go, having
+first taken 1500<i>l.</i> Sterling, and some provisions
+out of her. From thence they
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg&nbsp;93]</a></span>
+sailed to North <i>Carolina</i>, where he had
+thoughts of breaking up the company, and
+securing the money and the best of the
+effects for himself and friends. Accordingly
+he ran a-ground, as if it had been
+by accident, and calling <i>Israel Hands</i> to
+his assistance, he ran the Sloop ashore
+near the other, and so they were both
+lost. This done <i>Blackbeard</i> goes into
+the <i>Revenge</i> and maroons 17 men upon a
+desert island; where they must inevitably
+have perished, if <i>Bonnet</i> had not after
+taken them up.</p>
+
+<p><i>Blackbeard</i> goes straight to the Governor
+of <i>North Carolina</i>, with Twenty of his Men,
+and pleads his Majesty&rsquo;s Pardon, and receives
+Certificates thereupon. He went to
+his Sloop which lay at <i>Okere-Cock</i> Inlet, and
+set out for Sea upon another expedition,
+steering his Ship towards <i>Bermudas</i>. Meeting
+with one or two <i>English Vessels</i> in his
+way, he robb&rsquo;d them only of provisions for
+his present occasion; but meeting with a
+<i>French</i> Ship laden with sugar and cocoa,
+he brought her home with her cargoe to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg&nbsp;94]</a></span>
+<i>North Carolina</i>, where the Governor and
+the Pirates shared the plunder. He had
+no sooner arrived there, but he and four of
+his Men made affidavit, That they found the
+<i>French</i> Ship at Sea, without ever a Man on
+board; upon which she was condemned.
+The Governor had sixty hogheads of sugar
+for his dividend, his Secretary twenty, and
+the rest were shared amongst the other
+Pirates. And for fear the ship might be
+discovered by some that might come into
+the River, <i>Blackbeard</i>, under pretence that
+she was leaky, and might sink, obtained an
+order from the Governor to bring her out
+into the River, and burn her; which they
+did, and sunk her bottom.</p>
+
+<p>The Sloops trading in the River, being so
+often pillaged by <i>Blackbeard</i>, consulted with
+the traders what course to take, knowing it
+was in vain to make any application to the
+Governor; therefore they sent a deputation
+to the Governor of <i>Virginia</i>, to sollicit a
+force from the Men-of-War to destroy this
+Pirate. Accordingly the Governor consulted
+with the Captains of the <i>Pearl</i> and
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg&nbsp;95]</a></span>
+<i>Lime</i> Men-of-War, which lay in <i>St. James&rsquo;s</i>
+River; whereupon it was agreed, That the
+Governor should have a couple of small
+Sloops, and they should be mann&rsquo;d out of
+the Men of War, the Command of which
+was given to Mr. <i>Robert Maynard</i>, first
+Lieutenant of the <i>Pearl</i>. But before they
+sailed, it was agreed in Council, to offer a
+reward of 100<i>l.</i> for <em>any one that should take
+<span class="roman">Edward Teach</span>, commonly called <span class="roman">Blackbeard;
+for every</span> Lieutenant, Master, Quarter-Master,
+Boatswain, <span class="roman">or</span> Carpenter Twenty Pounds;
+For every inferior Officer, Fifteen Pounds; And
+for every Man taken on Board each Sloop, Ten
+Pounds</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Upon this, the Lieutenant sailed from
+<i>James&rsquo;s</i> River in <i>Virginia</i>, the 17th of
+<i>November</i>, 1718, and the 21st in the evening
+came to <i>Okere-cock</i> Inlet, where he had fight
+of the Pirate: And altho&rsquo; this Expedition
+was made with all the Secrecy imaginable,
+yet <i>Blackbeard</i> had notice of it from the
+Governor of North <i>Carolina</i> and his Secretary:
+But having heard several false
+reports before, he gave the less credit
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg&nbsp;96]</a></span>
+to this, till he saw the Sloops; and then he
+put himself in a Posture of defence, with
+his 25 Men.</p>
+
+<p>Lieutenant <i>Maynard</i> came to an anchor
+that night, because the Channel was so
+intricate that there was no getting in, in the
+dark. In the Morning, coming within gun-shot
+of the Pirate, he received his fire:
+whereupon the <i>Maynard</i> stood directly towards
+him, endeavouring to make a running
+fight. <i>Maynard&rsquo;s</i> men being most expos&rsquo;d,
+he lost twenty at one broadside; upon
+which he ordered his men under deck,
+and bid them get ready for close fighting
+upon the first signal. Then <i>Blackbeard&rsquo;s</i>
+men pour&rsquo;d in grenadoes; after which,
+seeing no Hands aboard, he told his men
+they were all kill&rsquo;d; <em>Let&rsquo;s jump in, and fall to
+Plunder</em>: Which they had no sooner done,
+but the Lieutenant and his men gave them
+as unwelcome a reception as ever they met
+with before. The Lieutenant and <i>Blackbeard</i>
+fired first at each other, and then they went
+to it sword in hand, whilst the men on
+each side were as warmly engaged as their
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg&nbsp;97]</a></span>
+Captains, until the vessel was all over
+blood. <i>Blackbeard</i> stood it till he had received
+above twenty wounds, five of them being
+shots, before he fell down dead. Eight of
+his fourteen men being kill&rsquo;d, and the other
+six being much wounded, they call&rsquo;d for
+quarters; which was granted, and then the
+Lieutenant attacked with equal bravery the
+men that remained in the Sloop and took
+them.</p>
+
+<p>The Lieutenant caused <i>Blackbeard&rsquo;s</i> head
+to be cut off, and hung at the bowsprit end;
+with which he sailed to <i>Bath Town</i> to get
+his wounded men cured, and then began to
+rummage the Pirate Sloop, aboard which
+they found several Letters of Correspondence
+betwixt the Governor of <i>North
+Carolina</i>, his Secretary, and some Traders
+of <i>New York</i> and <i>Blackbeard</i>. Thereupon
+going to <i>Bath Town</i> in <i>North Carolina</i>, he
+seized in the Governors Store-house, the
+Sixty Hogsheads of Sugar, and Mr. <i>Knight</i>
+his Secretary&rsquo;s 20, which was their dividend
+of the plunder taken in the <i>French</i> Ship
+before-mentioned.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg&nbsp;98]</a></span>
+After his Men were a little recovered, he
+returned to the Men-of-War in <i>James&rsquo;s</i> River
+in <i>Virginia</i>, with <i>Blackbeard&rsquo;s</i> head hanging
+at his bowsprit, and 15 prisoners, 13 of
+whom were hanged, one of them being
+taken but the night before out of a trading
+Sloop: The other, not being in the fight,
+was taken at <i>Bath Town</i>, being just before
+disabled by <i>Blackbeard</i> in one of his drunken
+humours.</p>
+
+<p>The night before he was killed, being
+ask&rsquo;d if he should chance to be killed,
+whether his wife knew where his money
+was; he answered, <em>That no-body but himself
+and the Devil, knew where it was, and the
+longest Liver should take all</em>.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 15%;" />
+
+<p>The Names of the Pirates killed in the
+engagement were <i>Edward Blackbeard</i>, Commander;
+<i>Philip Morton</i>, Gunner; <i>Garnet
+Gibbons</i>, Boatswain; <i>Owen Roberts</i>, Carpenter;
+<i>Thomas Miller</i>, Quarter-Master; <i>John Husk</i>,
+<i>Joseph Curtice</i>, <i>Joseph Brooks</i>, <i>Nath. Jackson</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The following, except the two last, were
+hanged, viz.: <i>John Carnes</i>, <i>Jo. Brookes, jun.</i>,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg&nbsp;99]</a></span>
+<i>James Blake</i>, <i>John Gibbs</i>, <i>Thomas Gates</i>, <i>James
+White</i>, <i>Richard Styles</i>, <i>Cesar</i>, <i>Joseph Philip</i>,
+<i>James Robbins</i>, <i>John Martyn</i>, <i>Edward Salter</i>,
+<i>Stephen Daniel</i>, <i>Richard Greensarl</i>, <i>Israel
+Hands</i>, and <i>Samuel Odel</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates36.png" width="250" height="183"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 393px;">
+<a name="Bonnet" id="Bonnet"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates37.jpg" width="393" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">MAJOR STEDE BONNET</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg&nbsp;103]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates38.png" width="500" height="264"
+alt="A single-masted ship, with a flock of seabirds circling overhead" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h2>MAJOR STEDE BONNET,
+AND HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Major was a Gentleman of Fortune
+and Distinction in the Island of <i>Barbadoes</i>,
+who before his Piracy bore the character
+of a worthy honest <em>man</em>, and no-body
+could ever account for this his undertaking,
+for he wanted neither learning nor understanding.
+He fitted out a Sloop with ten
+guns and sixty men, which he named the
+<i>Revenge</i>, at his own expence, and sailed
+from <i>Barbadoes</i> for the Cape of <i>Virginia</i>,
+where he took the <i>Anne</i> from <i>Glasgow</i>, the
+<i>Turbet</i> from <i>Barbadoes</i>, the <i>Endeavour</i> from
+<i>Bristol</i>, the <i>Young</i> from <i>Leith</i>, and many
+others. From thence he went to <i>New York</i>,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg&nbsp;104]</a></span>
+and there took a Sloop, and then stood in
+at <i>Gardiner&rsquo;s</i> Island where he bought provisions,
+and went off. <i>August</i>, 1717, he came
+off at the Bar of <i>South Carolina</i>, and took a
+Sloop and Brigantine, which they plundered,
+and then he dismissed the Brigantine, but
+took the Sloop with him to an Inlet in <i>North-Carolina</i>,
+where he careened, and set her
+on fire.</p>
+
+<p>Afterwards he put to sea, but could not
+agree with the men what course to take;
+for the Major being no sailor, was obliged
+to submit to many things his men imposed
+upon him, when falling in with <i>Edward Teach</i>,
+alias <i>Blackbeard</i>, who was a good sailor, but
+a hardened villain, <i>Bonnet&rsquo;s</i> Crew joined
+with him, and put <i>Bonnet</i> aboard <i>Blackbeard&rsquo;s</i>
+Ship.</p>
+
+<p>But <i>Blackbeard</i> losing his Ship at <i>Topsail</i>
+Inlet, surrendered to the King&rsquo;s Proclamation;
+when <i>Bonnet</i> re-assumed the command
+of his own Sloop, and sailed directly for
+<i>Bath</i> Town in <i>North-Carolina</i>, where he also
+surrenders himself, and receives a certificate.
+There getting a clearance for his
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg&nbsp;105]</a></span>
+Sloop, he pretended to sail for the Island
+of <i>St. Thomas</i>, to get the Emperor&rsquo;s Commission
+to go a-Privateering upon the
+<i>Spaniards</i>. But returning to <i>Topsail</i> Inlet,
+he found that <i>Blackbeard</i> and his gang were
+gone, with their effects; and that they had
+set on shore, on a small sandy island about
+a league from the continent, seventeen
+men, without any provisions, or vessel to
+escape. There they had been two nights
+and one day without any sustenance, when,
+to their inexpressible joy, they saw Major
+<i>Bonnet</i>, who had been informed of their
+being there by two of <i>Blackbeard&rsquo;s</i> crew,
+who had escaped to avoid his cruelty.</p>
+
+<p>Then he steered his course towards
+<i>Virginia</i>, where meeting with a Pink having
+Provisions on board, and they being in want,
+he took out of her ten barrels of pork, and
+five hundredweight of bread, and gave her,
+in exchange, ten casks of Rice, and an old
+cable.</p>
+
+<p>Two days after they took a Sloop of
+sixty tons, from which they took two
+hogsheads of rum, and two of molasses,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg&nbsp;106]</a></span>
+and then put in her eight men, to take care
+of the Prize; but they not liking her new
+acquaintance took the first opportunity to
+get off with her.</p>
+
+<p>After this the Major threw off all restraint,
+and became a downright Pirate, by
+the name of Captain <i>Thomas</i>, taking and
+plundering all the vessels he met with. He
+took off Cape <i>Henry</i>, two Ships from <i>Virginia</i>,
+bound to <i>Glasgow</i>; the next day a small
+Sloop from <i>Virginia</i> bound to <i>Bermudas</i>;
+from which they took twenty barrels of
+pork, and gave her in return, two barrels
+of rice, and as much molasses. The next
+day they took another <i>Virginia</i> man, bound
+to <i>Glasgow</i>, out of which they took two men,
+and a few small things, and gave her a
+barrel of pork, and another of bread.
+From thence they sailed to <i>Philadelphia</i>,
+where they took a Schooner coming from
+<i>North Carolina</i> to <i>Boston</i>, from which they
+took two men, and two dozen of calves
+skins, to make covers for guns. In the
+latitude of 32&deg;, off of <i>Delaware</i> River, near
+<i>Philadelphia</i>, they took two Snows bound to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg&nbsp;107]</a></span>
+<i>Bristol</i>, from which they took money and
+goods to the value of two hundred pounds;
+as also a Sloop of sixty tons, from <i>Philadelphia</i>
+to <i>Barbadoes</i>, from which they took
+a few goods, and let her go. The 29th of
+<i>July</i>, they took a Sloop of fifty tons, bound
+from <i>Philadelphia</i> to <i>Barbadoes</i>, laden with
+provisions, which they kept; as also another
+of sixty tons, from <i>Antegoa</i> to <i>Philadelphia</i>,
+having on board, rum, molasses, sugar,
+cotton and indigo, to the value of five hundred
+Pounds, all of which they kept. Then
+they left <i>Delaware</i> Bay, and sailed to Cape
+<i>Fear</i> River, where they staid almost two
+months to repair their Sloop, which proved
+very leaky, till news came to <i>Carolina</i> of a
+Pirate&rsquo;s Sloop, with her Prizes, being there
+a-careening.</p>
+
+<p>Whereupon Colonel <i>William Rhet</i> offered
+to go with two Sloops to attack them; which
+being by the Governor and Council approved
+of, he was commissioned on board
+the <i>Henry</i>, with eight guns and seventy
+men, commanded by Captain <i>John Masters</i>;
+and the <i>Sea Nymph</i>, commanded by
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg&nbsp;108]</a></span>
+Captain Farier-Hall, with as many guns
+and men; both under the Direction of the
+Colonel, who went on board the <i>Henry</i> the
+14th of <i>September</i>, and sailed from <i>Charles</i>
+Town to <i>Swillivant&rsquo;s</i> Island, in order to
+cruise: where he was informed, by a small
+ship from <i>Antegoa</i>, which in sight of the
+Bar, was taken and plundered by <i>Charles
+Vane</i>, in a Brigantine of sixteen guns, and
+a hundred men; that he had taken two
+Sloops, one Captain <i>Dill</i>, Master, from
+<i>Barbadoes</i>; the other Captain <i>Thompson</i>,
+from <i>Guinea</i>, with seventy negroes, which
+they put on board one <i>Yeats</i> his consort,
+being a small Sloop with twenty-five men,
+who being weary of this course of life, ran
+into <i>Edisto</i> River, and surrender&rsquo;d to his
+Majesty&rsquo;s Pardon, by which the owners
+got their negroes again, and <i>Yeats</i> and his
+men had their certificates sign&rsquo;d.</p>
+
+<p><i>Vane</i> cruised for some time thereabouts,
+in hopes to take <i>Yeats</i>, and be revenged on
+him; during which time, he took a ship
+bound to London, to whom he gave out,
+that he designed to go to the southward;
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg&nbsp;109]</a></span>
+which Colonel <i>Rhet</i> hearing, sailed over the
+Bar the 15th with the two Sloops, and went
+after the Pirate <i>Vane</i>; but not meeting with
+him, tack&rsquo;d and stood for Cape <i>Fear</i>, according
+to his first Design; and on the 26th
+following he entered the River, where he
+saw <i>Bonnet</i>, and the three Sloops his Prizes,
+at anchor; but the Pilot running the Sloops
+a-ground, hindered their getting up that
+Night. The Pirates seeing the Sloops, and
+not knowing who they were, mann&rsquo;d three
+canoes, and sent them down to take them;
+but finding their mistake, <i>Bonnet</i> took all
+the men out of the Prizes to engage them.
+Colonel <i>Rhet&rsquo;s</i> Sloops the next morning
+getting under sail, stood for the Pirates,
+who designed only to make a running fight;
+but the Colonel getting upon his quarters,
+he edged in upon the shore, and ran his
+Sloop a-ground. The Colonel&rsquo;s Sloops were
+soon in the same condition: The <i>Henry</i>
+grounded within pistol-shot of the Pirate,
+on his bow; the other, right a-head of him,
+almost out of gun-shot, which made it of but
+very little use to the Colonel. By this time
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg&nbsp;110]</a></span>
+the Pirate had a very great advantage: For
+his Sloop lifted from Colonel <i>Rhet&rsquo;s</i>, which
+converted them all over; and the Colonel&rsquo;s
+Sloop lifting the same way, was much
+exposed for about five hours, whilst they
+lay a-ground. The Colonel&rsquo;s Sloop being
+first a-float, he got into deeper water, and
+after mending his rigging, he stood for the
+Pirate, to go directly on board him; which
+they prevented, by hoisting a flag of truce,
+and surrendering soon after. The Colonel
+lost in this action ten men, and had fourteen
+wounded. The <i>Sea Nymph</i> had two
+killed, and four wounded. Among the
+Pirates were none killed, and three were
+wounded. The next day the Colonel
+weighed from Cape <i>Fear</i>, and arrived at
+<i>Charles Town</i> the 3d of <i>October</i>, to the no
+small joy of the people of <i>Carolina</i>.</p>
+
+<p>There being no publick prison, <i>Bonnet</i>
+was committed into the custody of the
+marshal, and his Men were kept at the
+Watch-house under a strict guard; a little
+before the trial, <i>David Harriot</i> the Master,
+and <i>Ignatius Rathe</i> Boatswain, the evidences,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg&nbsp;111]</a></span>
+were removed from the Crew, to the Marshal&rsquo;s
+house, from whence on the 24th
+<i>Bonnet</i> and <i>Harriott</i> made their escape;
+which as soon as the Governor heard of,
+he published a Proclamation, promising a
+reward of 700<i>l.</i> to any one that would take
+him, and also sent several boats with armed
+men in pursuit of him.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bonnet</i> stood to the northward, in a small
+vessel; but through stress of weather, and
+want of necessaries, he was forced to <i>Swillivant&rsquo;s</i>
+Island. Of which information being
+given to the Governor, he sent for Colonel
+<i>Rhet</i>, and desired him once more to go in
+pursuit of him; which the Colonel readily
+accepted of; and having got all Things ready,
+went that Night for <i>Swillivant&rsquo;s</i> Island,
+where, after a long search, he discovered
+them. After the Colonel&rsquo;s men had fired
+upon them, and killed <i>Harriott</i>, <i>Bonnet</i> immediately
+surrendered himself, and was, next
+Morning, brought back to <i>Charles Town</i>, and
+confined under a strong guard till his trial,
+which was hastened for fear he should give
+them the slip again.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg&nbsp;112]</a></span>
+On the 28th of <i>October</i>, 1718, a Court of
+Vice-Admiralty was held at <i>Charles Town</i>,
+and, by several adjournments continued to
+the 12th of <i>November</i> following, by <i>Nicholas
+Trot</i>, Esq; Judge of the Vice-Admiralty,
+and Chief Judge of <i>Carolina</i>, and other
+Assistant Judges; where, after the King&rsquo;s
+Commission was read, and a Grand Jury
+sworn, <i>Judge Trot</i> gave them a learned
+Charge: And then the <i>Grand Jury</i> went
+out, and found the Bills; upon which, a
+<i>Petit-Jury</i> was sworn, and the following
+Persons were arraingn&rsquo;d and try&rsquo;d.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p><i>Stede Bonnet</i>, alias <i>Edwards</i>, alias <i>Thomas</i>,
+late of <i>Barbadoes</i>, Merchant.</p>
+
+<p><i>Robert Tucker</i>, late of <i>Jamaica</i>, Merchant.</p>
+
+<p><i>Edward Robinson</i>, late of <i>Newcastle</i>-upon-<i>Tine</i>,
+Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Neal Peterson</i>, late of <i>Aberdeen</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>William Scot</i>, late of <i>Aberdeen</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>William Eddy</i>, alias <i>Neddy</i>, late of <i>Aberdeen</i>,
+Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Alexander Annand</i>, late of <i>Jamaica</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>George Rose</i>, late of <i>Glasgow</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg&nbsp;113]</a></span>
+<i>George Dubin</i>, late of <i>Glasgow</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>John Ridge</i>, late of <i>London</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Matthew King</i>, late of <i>Jamaica</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Daniel Perry</i>, late of <i>Guernsey</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Henry Virgin</i>, late of <i>Bristol</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>James Rattle</i>, alias <i>Robbins</i>, late of <i>London</i>,
+Merchant.</p>
+
+<p><i>James Mullet</i>, alias <i>Millet</i>, late of <i>London</i>,
+Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Thomas Price</i>, late of <i>Bristol</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>James Wilson</i>, late of <i>Dublin</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>John Lopez</i>, late of <i>Oporto</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Zachariah Long</i>, late of the Province of
+<i>Holland</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Job. Barley</i>, late of <i>London</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>John William Smith</i>, late of <i>Charles</i> Town
+in <i>Carolina</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Thomas Carman</i>, late of <i>Maidstone</i> in <i>Kent</i>,
+Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>John Thomas</i>, late of <i>Jamaica</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>William Morrison</i>, late of <i>Jamaica</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Samuel Booth</i>, late of <i>Charles</i> Town,
+Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>William Howet</i>, late of <i>Jamaica</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg&nbsp;114]</a></span>
+<i>John Kent</i>, late of <i>North Carolina</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>William Livres</i>, alias <i>Evis</i>, late of <i>Carolina</i>,
+Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>John Brierly</i>, alias <i>Timberhead</i>, late of <i>Bath</i>
+Town in <i>North Carolina</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Robert Boyd</i>, late of <i>Bath</i> Town in North
+<i>Carolina</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Thomas Nicholas</i>, late of <i>London</i>, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Rowland Sharp</i>, late of <i>Bath</i> Town, Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Jonathan Clark</i>, late of <i>Charles</i> Town,
+Mariner.</p>
+
+<p><i>Thomas Gerrard</i>, late of <i>Antegoa</i>, Mariner.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>All of whom, except the four last, were
+found Guilty, and received Sentence of
+Death, upon two Indictments, for Robbing
+upon the High Sea the <i>Francis</i>, <i>Peter
+Manwaring</i>, Commander; and for seizing,
+in a Piratical Manner, the Sloop <i>Fortune</i>,
+<i>Thomas Read</i>, Commander: To which they
+all pleaded Not Guilty, except <i>James Wilson</i>
+and <i>John Levit</i>, who pleaded Guilty to both
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg&nbsp;115]</a></span>
+Indictments, and <i>Daniel Piercy</i> to one only.
+<i>Bonnet</i> moved to go through both the Indictments
+at once; but the Court overruling it,
+he was found Guilty of one, and retracted
+his Plea to the other. They made but little
+Defence, pretending they were taken off a
+<i>Maroon</i> Shore, and were shipped with Major
+<i>Bonnet</i> to go to <i>St. Thomas&rsquo;s</i>, but wanting
+provisions they were obliged to do what
+they did; and the Major himself pretended
+it was <em>Necessity</em> and not <em>Inclination</em> that compelled
+them to do it. But that not appearing,
+they having all shared ten or eleven Pounds
+a man, except the four last, they were all
+found Guilty. After which the Judge set
+forth the enormity of their Crimes: And
+then pronounced Sentence of Death upon
+the persons aforesaid, except Major <i>Bonnet</i>,
+who not being brought back in time, was
+not tried till the 10th of <i>November</i>; and
+being then also found Guilty, he received
+Sentence in like manner as the others;
+before whom Judge <i>Trot</i> made an excellent
+speech, saying afterwards.</p>
+
+<p><em>And now, having discharged my Duty as a
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg&nbsp;116]</a></span>
+Christian, I must do my Office as a Judge,
+which is</em></p>
+
+<p><em>You the said <span class="roman">Stede Bonnet</span> shall go from
+hence, to the Place from whence you came, and
+from thence to the Place of Execution, where you
+shall be hanged by the Neck till you are dead.</em></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 232px;">
+<img src="images/pirates39.png" width="232" height="250"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;">
+<a name="Kid" id="Kid"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates40.jpg" width="366" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg&nbsp;119]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates41.png" width="500" height="463"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID</h2>
+
+
+<p>We are now going to give an account of one
+whose name is better known in <i>England</i>,
+than most of those whose histories we have
+already related; the person we mean is
+Captain <i>Kid</i>, whose public Trial and Execution
+here, rendered him the subject of
+all conversation.</p>
+
+<p>In the beginning of King <i>William&rsquo;s</i> War,
+Captain <i>Kid</i> commanded a Privateer in the
+<i>West-Indies</i>, and by several adventurous
+actions acquired the reputation of a brave
+man, as well as an experienced seaman.
+About this time the Pirates were very
+troublesome in those parts, wherefore
+Captain <i>Kid</i> was recommended by the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg&nbsp;120]</a></span>
+Lord <i>Bellamont</i>, then Governor of <i>Barbadoes</i>,
+as well as by several other persons,
+to the Government here, as a person very
+fit to be entrusted with the command of
+a Government Ship, and to be employed in
+cruising upon the Pirates, as knowing those
+Seas perfectly well, and being acquainted
+with their lurking places; but what reasons
+governed the politics of those times, I
+cannot tell, but this proposal met with no
+encouragement here, though it is certain it
+would have been of great consequence to
+the subject, our merchants suffering incredible
+damages by those robbers.</p>
+
+<p>Upon this neglect the Lord <i>Bellamont</i>,
+and some others who knew what great
+captures had been made by the Pirates,
+and what a prodigious wealth must be in
+their possession, were tempted to fit out a
+ship at their own private charge, and to
+give the command of it to Captain <i>Kid</i>;
+and to give the thing a greater reputation,
+as well as to keep their seamen under the
+better command, they procured the King&rsquo;s
+Commission for the said Captain <i>Kid</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg&nbsp;121]</a></span>
+Captain <i>Kid</i> had also another Commission,
+which was called a Commission
+of Reprisals; for it being then War time,
+this Commission was to justify him in the
+taking of <i>French</i> Merchant Ships, in case he
+should meet with any. He sail&rsquo;d out of
+<i>Plymouth</i> in <i>May</i> 1696, in the <i>Adventure</i>
+Galley of thirty guns, and eighty men; the
+place he first design&rsquo;d for was <i>New York</i>;
+in his Voyage thither he took a French
+<i>Banker</i>, but this was no Act of Piracy, he
+having a Commission for that purpose, as
+we have just observed.</p>
+
+<p>When he arrived at <i>New York</i> he put up
+Articles for engaging more Hands, it being
+necessary to his Ship&rsquo;s crew, since he proposed
+to deal with a desperate enemy: The
+terms he offered were, that every man should
+have a share of what was taken, reserving
+for himself and Owners forty shares. Upon
+this encouragement he soon increas&rsquo;d his
+company to a hundred and fifty five men.</p>
+
+<p>With this company he first sail&rsquo;d for
+<i>Maderas</i>, where he took in wine and some
+other necessaries; from thence he
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg&nbsp;122]</a></span>
+proceeded to <i>Bonavist</i>, one of the <i>Cape de Verd
+Islands</i>, to furnish the ship with salt, and
+from thence went immediately to <i>St. Jago</i>,
+another of the <i>Cape de Verd Islands</i>, in order
+to stock himself with provisions. When all
+this was done, he bent his course to <i>Madagascar</i>,
+the known rendezvous of Pirates; in
+this way he fell in with Captain <i>Warren</i>,
+Commodore of three Men-of-War; he
+acquainted them with his design, kept
+them company two or three days, and
+then leaving them, made the best way for
+<i>Madagascar</i>, where he arrived in <i>February</i>
+1696, just nine months from his departure
+from <i>Plymouth</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates42.png" width="250" height="250"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+<p>It does not appear all this while that he
+had the least design of turning Pirate; for
+near <i>Mahala</i> and <i>Joanna</i> both
+he met with several <i>Indian</i> ships
+richly laden, to which he did not
+offer the least violence, tho&rsquo; he
+was strong enough to have done
+what he pleas&rsquo;d with them; and
+the first outrage or depredation I find he
+committed upon mankind, was after his
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg&nbsp;123]</a></span>
+repairing his ship, and leaving <i>Joanna</i>; he
+touch&rsquo;d at a place call&rsquo;d <i>Mabbee</i>, upon the
+<i>Red Sea</i>, where he took some <i>Guinea</i> Corn
+from the natives, by force.</p>
+
+<p>After this he sail&rsquo;d to <i>Bab&rsquo;s Key</i>, a Place
+upon a little Island at the entrance of the
+<i>Red Sea</i>; here it was that he first began to
+open himself to his ship&rsquo;s company, and let
+them understand that he intended to change
+his measures; for, happening to talk of the
+<i>Moca</i> Fleet, which was to sail that way, he
+said <em>We have been unsuccessful hitherto, but
+courage, my Boys, we&rsquo;ll make our fortunes out
+of this Fleet</em>: And finding that none of them
+appear&rsquo;d averse to it, he order&rsquo;d a boat out,
+well mann&rsquo;d, to go upon the coast to make
+discoveries, commanding them to take a
+prisoner and bring to him, or get intelligence
+any way they could. The boat
+return&rsquo;d in a few days, bringing him word,
+that they saw fourteen or fifteen ships ready
+to sail, some with <i>English</i>, some with <i>Dutch</i>,
+and some with <i>Moorish</i> Colours. He therefore
+order&rsquo;d a man continually to watch at
+the mast-head, least this Fleet should go
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg&nbsp;124]</a></span>
+by them; and about four days after, towards
+evening, it appear&rsquo;d in sight, being convoy&rsquo;d
+by one <i>English</i> and one <i>Dutch</i> Man-of-War.
+<i>Kid</i> soon fell in with them, and getting into
+the midst of them, fir&rsquo;d at a <i>Moorish</i> ship
+which was next him; but the Men-of-War
+taking the Alarm, bore down upon <i>Kid</i>, and
+firing upon him, obliged him to sheer off,
+he not being strong enough to contend with
+them. Now he had begun hostilities, he
+resolv&rsquo;d to go on, and therefore he went and
+cruis&rsquo;d along the coast of <i>Malabar</i>; the first
+Prize he met was a small vessel belonging
+to <i>Aden</i>, the vessel was <i>Moorish</i>, and the
+Owners were <i>Moorish</i> Merchants, but the
+Master was an <i>Englishman</i>, his name was
+<i>Parker</i>. <i>Kid</i> forc&rsquo;d him and a <i>Portugueze</i> that
+was call&rsquo;d <i>Don Antonio</i>, which were all the
+<i>Europeans</i> on Board, to take on with them;
+the first he design&rsquo;d as a pilot, and the last
+as an interpreter. He also used the men
+very cruelly, causing them to be hoisted up
+by the arms, and drubb&rsquo;d with a naked
+cutlass, to force them to discover whether
+they had money on board, and where it
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg&nbsp;125]</a></span>
+lay; but as they had neither gold nor
+silver on board, he got nothing by his
+cruelty; however, he took from them a
+bale of pepper, and a bale of coffee, and
+so let them go.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after this he came up with a <i>Moorish</i>
+Ship, the Master whereof was a <i>Dutchman</i>,
+call&rsquo;d <i>Schipper Mitchel</i>, and chased her under
+<i>French</i> Colours, which they observing, hoisted
+<i>French</i> Colours too: When he came up with
+her, he hail&rsquo;d her in <i>French</i>, and they having
+a <i>Frenchman</i> on board, answer&rsquo;d him in
+the same language; upon which he order&rsquo;d
+them to send their boat on board; they
+were oblig&rsquo;d to do so, and having examin&rsquo;d
+who they were, and from whence they
+came; he ask&rsquo;d the <i>Frenchman</i>, who was
+a passenger, if he had a <i>French</i> pass for
+himself? The <i>Frenchman</i> gave him to
+understand that he had. Then he told the
+<i>Frenchman</i> he must pass for Captain, <em>and
+by God</em>, says he, <em>you are the Captain</em>: The
+<i>Frenchman</i> durst not refuse doing as he
+would have him: The meaning of this was,
+that he would seize the Ship as fair Prize,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg&nbsp;126]</a></span>
+and as if she belonged to <i>French</i> Subjects,
+according to a commission he had for that
+purpose; tho&rsquo;, one would think, after what
+he had already done, that he need not have
+recourse to a quibble to give his actions a
+colour.</p>
+
+<p>In short, he took the cargoe and sold it
+some time after, yet still he seem&rsquo;d to have
+some fears upon him least these proceedings
+should have a bad end; for, coming up
+with a <i>Dutch</i> Ship some time, when his
+men thought of nothing but attacking her,
+<i>Kid</i> oppos&rsquo;d it; upon which a mutiny arose,
+and the majority being for taking the said
+ship, and arming themselves to man the
+boat to go and seize her, he told them, such
+as did, never should come on Board him
+again; which put an end to the design, so
+that he kept company with the said ship
+some time, without offering her any
+violence: However, this dispute was the
+occasion of an accident, upon which an
+indictment was afterwards grounded against
+<i>Kid</i>; for <i>Moor</i>, the Gunner, being one day
+upon deck, and talking with <i>Kid</i> about the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg&nbsp;127]</a></span>
+said <i>Dutch</i> Ship, some words arose betwixt
+them, and <i>Moor</i> told <i>Kid</i>, that he had ruin&rsquo;d
+them all; upon which, <i>Kid</i>, calling him <em>Dog</em>,
+took up a bucket and struck him with it,
+which breaking his skull, he died the next
+day.</p>
+
+<p>But <i>Kid&rsquo;s</i> penitential fit did not last long,
+for coasting along <i>Malabar</i>, he met with
+a great number of boats, all which he
+plunder&rsquo;d. Upon the same Coast he also
+lit upon a <i>Portugueze</i> Ship, which he kept
+possession of a week, and then having
+taking out of her some chests of <i>Indian</i>
+goods, thirty jars of butter, and some
+wax, iron, and a hundred bags of rice, he
+let her go.</p>
+
+<p>The <i>Adventure</i> Galley was now so old
+and leaky, that they were forced to keep
+two pumps continually going, wherefore
+<i>Kid</i> shifted all the guns and tackle out of
+her into the <i>Queda</i> Merchant, intending her
+for his Man-of-War; and as he had divided
+the Money before, he now made a division
+of the remainder of the cargo: Soon after
+which, the greatest part of the company
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg&nbsp;128]</a></span>
+left him, some going on board Captain
+<i>Culliford</i>, and others absconding in the
+Country, so that he had not above forty
+men left.</p>
+
+<p>He put to sea and happened to touch at
+<i>Amboyna</i>, one of the <i>Dutch</i> Spice Islands,
+where he was told, that the news of his
+Actions had reach&rsquo;d <i>England</i>, and that he
+was there declared a Pirate.</p>
+
+<p>The truth on&rsquo;t is, his Piracies so alarmed
+our Merchants, that some motions were
+made in Parliament, to enquire into the
+commission that was given him, and the
+persons who fitted him out: These proceedings
+seem&rsquo;d to lean a little hard upon
+the Lord <i>Bellamont</i>, who thought himself so
+much touch&rsquo;d thereby, that he published a
+Justification of himself in a pamphlet after
+<i>Kid&rsquo;s</i> execution. In the mean time, it was
+thought advisable, to publish a Proclamation,
+offering the King&rsquo;s free Pardon to all
+such Pirates as should voluntarily surrender
+themselves, whatever Piracies they had
+been guilty of at any time, before the last
+day of <i>April</i>, 1699&mdash;That is to say, for all
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg&nbsp;129]</a></span>
+Piracies committed Eastward of the <i>Cape of
+Good</i> Hope, to the Longitude and Meridian
+of <i>Socatora</i>, and <i>Cape Camorin</i>. In which
+Proclamation, <i>Avery</i> and <i>Kid</i> were excepted
+by Name.</p>
+
+<p>When <i>Kid</i> left <i>Amboyna</i> he knew nothing
+of this Proclamation, for certainly had he
+had notice of his being excepted in it, he
+would not have been so infatuated, to run
+himself into the very jaws of danger; but
+relying upon his interest with the Lord
+<i>Bellamont</i>, and fancying, that a <i>French</i> Pass
+or two he found on board some of the ships
+he took, would serve to countenance the
+matter, and that part of the booty he got
+would gain him new friends&mdash;I say, all
+these things made him flatter himself that
+all would be hushed, and that justice would
+but wink at him. Wherefor he sail&rsquo;d directly
+for <i>New York</i>, where he was no sooner
+arrived, but by the Lord <i>Bellamont&rsquo;s</i> orders,
+he was secured with all his papers and
+effects. Many of his fellow-adventurers
+who had forsook him at <i>Madagascar</i>, came
+over from thence passengers, some to <i>New
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg&nbsp;130]</a></span>
+England</i> and some to <i>Jersey</i>; where hearing
+of the King&rsquo;s Proclamation for pardoning
+of Pirates, they surrendered themselves to
+the Governor of those places: At first they
+were admitted to bail, but soon after were
+laid in strict confinement, where they were
+kept for some time, till an opportunity
+happened of sending them with their Captain
+over to <i>England</i> to be tried.</p>
+
+<p>Accordingly a Sessions of Admiralty
+being held at the <i>Old Baily</i>, in <i>May</i>, 1701,
+<i>Captain Kid</i>, <i>Nicholas Churchill</i>, <i>James How</i>,
+<i>Robert Lumley</i>, <i>William Jenkins</i>, <i>Gabriel Loff</i>,
+<i>Hugh Parrot</i>, <i>Richard Barlicorn</i>, <i>Abel Owens</i>,
+and <i>Darby Mullins</i>, were arraingn&rsquo;d for
+Piracy and Robbery on the High Seas,
+and all found guilty, except three; these
+were <i>Robert Lumley</i>, <i>William Jenkins</i>, and
+<i>Richard Barlicorn</i>, who proving themselves
+to be apprentices to some of the
+officers of the ship, and producing their
+Indentures in Court, were acquitted.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kid</i> was tried upon an indictment of
+Murder also, <i>viz.</i> for killing <i>Moor</i> the
+Gunner, and found guilty of the same.
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg&nbsp;131]</a></span>
+<i>Nicholas Churchill</i> and <i>James How</i> pleaded
+the King&rsquo;s Pardon, as having surrendered
+themselves within the time limited in the
+Proclamation, and Colonel <i>Bass</i>, Governor
+of <i>West Jersey</i>, to whom they surrendered,
+being in Court, and called upon, proved the
+same; however, this plea was over-ruled by
+the Court, because there being four Commissioners
+named in the Proclamation, it
+was adjudged no other person was qualified
+to receive their surrender, and that they
+could not be intitled to the benefit.</p>
+
+<p>As to Captain <i>Kid&rsquo;s</i> Defence, he insisted
+much upon his own innocence, and the
+villany of his men; he said he went out
+in a laudable employment and had no
+occasion, being then in good circumstances,
+to go a-Pirating; that the men often mutinied
+against him, and did as they pleas&rsquo;d;
+that he was threatened to be shot in his
+cabin, and that ninety five left him at one
+time, and set fire to his boat, so that he
+was disabled from bringing his ship home,
+or the Prizes he took, to have them regularly
+condemn&rsquo;d, which he said were taken by
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg&nbsp;132]</a></span>
+virtue of a commission under the broad
+seal, they having <i>French</i> Passes&mdash;The Captain
+called one Col. <i>Hewson</i> to his Reputation,
+who gave him an extraordinary
+character, and declared to the Court, that
+he had served under his command, and
+been in two engagements with him against
+the <i>French</i>, in which he fought as well as
+any man he ever saw; that there were only
+<i>Kid&rsquo;s</i> Ship and his own against Monsieur <i>du
+Cass</i>, who commanded a squadron of six
+sail, and they got the better of him, but
+this being several years before the facts
+mentioned in the Indictment were committed,
+prov&rsquo;d of no manner of service to
+the Prisoner on his Trial.</p>
+
+<p>As to the friendship shown to <i>Culliford</i>,
+a notorious Pirate, <i>Kid</i> denied, and said, he
+intended to have taken him, but his men
+being a parcel of rogues and villains
+refused to stand by him, and several of
+them ran away from his ship to the said
+Pirate.&mdash;But the evidence being full and
+particular against him, he was found Guilty
+as before mentioned.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg&nbsp;133]</a></span>
+When <i>Kid</i> was asked what he had to say
+why Sentence should not pass against him,
+he answered, That <em>he had nothing to say, but
+that he had been sworn against by perjured
+wicked People</em>. And when Sentence was
+pronounced, he said, <em>My Lord it is a very
+hard Sentence. For my part I am the innocentest
+Person of them all, only I have been
+sworn against by perjured Persons</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Wherefore about a week after, Capt.
+<i>Kid</i>, <i>Nicholas Churchill</i>, <i>James How</i>, <i>Gabriel
+Loff</i>, <i>Hugh Parrot</i>, <i>Abel Owen</i>, and <i>Darby
+Mullins</i>, were executed at <i>Execution Dock</i>,
+and afterwards hung up in Chains, at some
+distance from each other, down the river,
+where their Bodies hung exposed for many
+years.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 224px;">
+<img src="images/pirates43.png" width="224" height="250"
+alt="Two figures swinging from the gallows" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 440px;">
+<a name="England" id="England"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates44.jpg" width="440" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg&nbsp;137]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/pirates45.png" width="500" height="330"
+alt="A small group of pirates huddled together" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND,
+AND HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>Edward England</i> went Mate of a Sloop that
+sailed out of <i>Jamaica</i>, and was taken by
+<i>Winter</i>, a Pirate, from whom he had the
+Command of a Sloop just before their
+Settlement at <i>Providence</i>. The man was
+brave and good natured, and far from being
+cruel, as most of them are; and would not
+have committed such barbarous actions
+as he did, had not his comrades compelled
+him to it.</p>
+
+<p>He sailed to the Coast of <i>Africa</i>, after the
+Island of <i>Providence</i> was inhabited by the
+<i>English</i>. In his Passage he took several
+Ships, particularly the <i>Cadogan</i> Snow belonging
+to <i>Bristol</i>, one <i>Skinner</i> Master, who
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg&nbsp;138]</a></span>
+was murdered by those very men who had
+formerly served under him, upon a quarrel
+that happened between <i>Skinner</i> and them,
+about their wages: He shipped them on board
+a Man-of-War, from whence they deserted,
+and went on board a ship in the <i>West-Indies</i>,
+where they were taken by a pirate, and
+brought to <i>Providence</i>, and then they sailed
+with Captain <i>England</i> a-Pirating.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as <i>Skinner</i> came on board, he saw
+his old Boatswain, who said, <em>Ah! Captain
+Skinner is it you, I am much in your Debt, and
+now I shall pay you in your own Coin</em>. These
+words put the Captain in a panic Fear:
+And indeed he had Reason enough to be
+afraid, for they immediately seized him,
+bound him to the Windlass, pelted him with
+Glass Bottles, afterwards whipt him about
+the Deck, and then said, because he had
+been a good Master, he should have an
+easy Death, and so shot him through the
+Head; the vessel and her Cargoe being
+given to <i>Howel Davis</i>.</p>
+
+<p>After this <i>England</i> went into an <i>Harbour</i>
+to clean his Ship, and also fitted up the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg&nbsp;139]</a></span>
+<i>Peterborough</i>, which he called the <i>Victory</i>.
+Then putting out to sea, they sailed for the
+<i>East-Indies</i>, and took <i>Madagascar</i>, by the
+Way. From thence, after taking in water
+and provisions, they went for <i>Malabar</i>, in
+the Empire of the <i>Mogul</i>. Here they took
+several <i>Indian</i> Vessels, and one <i>European</i>,
+a <i>Dutch</i> Ship, which they exchanged for
+one of their own, and then came back to
+<i>Madagascar</i>, where they sent several Hands
+on shore to kill venison, and then resolved
+to seek out for the remains of <i>Avery&rsquo;s</i>
+Crew; but returning without success, they
+being settled on the other side, they stay&rsquo;d
+no longer than till they had cleaned their
+ships, and then sailed to <i>Juanna</i>.</p>
+
+<p>In the Year 1720, the <i>Bombay</i> Fleet, consisting
+of four <i>Grabs</i>, the <i>London Chandois</i>,
+and some other ships, carried 1000 Men
+to bombard and batter <i>Gapra</i>, a fort belonging
+to <i>Angria</i>, on the <i>Malabar</i> Coast; which
+they not being able to do, fell in with the
+Pirates, in their return to <i>Bombay</i>: But
+Captain <i>Upton</i> the Commodore, having no
+orders, would not engage them; which so
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg&nbsp;140]</a></span>
+provoked the Governor, for missing so
+favourable an opportunity of cutting the
+Pirates all off, that he gave the command
+to Captain <i>Mackra</i>, with orders to fight
+them wherever he met with them.</p>
+
+<p>But the Pirates proceeded to the southward,
+and took a small ship out of <i>Orincro</i>
+Road, with a <i>Dutch</i> and two <i>Portugueze</i> Men
+on board, one of which they sent to the
+Captain, to inform him, that if he would
+supply them with provisions and water he
+should have his ship again. But the Master
+would not agree to it; thereupon they sent
+other persons ashore, and swore he should
+be the last man they would give quarter
+to, and so put directly for <i>Laccadeva</i> Island,
+and arrived there in three days. But
+being informed by a <i>Menchew</i>, there was
+no anchor-ground there, they went to the
+next Island, called <i>Melincha</i>, whence they
+were driven by a storm, leaving behind
+them a hundred people, and all their
+water-casks: But in a week&rsquo;s time, they
+regained the island, took their people on
+board, and filled the water-casks.
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg&nbsp;141]</a></span>
+Provisions being scarce, they resolved to visit
+the <i>Dutch</i> at <i>Cochin</i>, and after three days
+sail, arrived off of <i>Tellechery</i>, where they
+took a small Vessel belonging to Governor
+<i>Adams</i>; who giving an account of Captain
+<i>Mackra&rsquo;s</i> fitting out against them, put them
+into a grievous passion.</p>
+
+<p>Afterward they arrived at <i>Mauritius</i>,
+where they refitted the <i>Victory</i>, and then
+sailed the 5th of April for <i>Madagascar</i>,
+but called first at the Island <i>Mascarine</i>, at
+which they found a <i>Portugueze</i> ship of
+seventy guns at anchor, disabled by a
+violent storm, so that they easily became a
+Prize to the Pirates. She had on board the
+<i>Conde Ereceira</i> Vice-Roy of <i>Goa</i>, also they
+found on board her, in diamonds only, to
+the value of four millions of Dollars. They
+made the Vice-Roy a prisoner; but in consideration
+of his losses, accepted of a ransom
+of 2000 dollars and then set him and
+his followers ashore. Learning that an
+<i>Ostender</i> was on the leeward of that Island,
+they sailed and took her, and sent her to
+<i>Madagascar</i> with news of their success,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg&nbsp;142]</a></span>
+where they followed themselves soon after,
+with two hundred <i>Mozambique</i> Negroes in
+the <i>Portugueze</i> Ship.</p>
+
+<p>When <i>Taylor</i> came with the <i>Portugueze</i>
+Prize to <i>Madagascar</i>, they found that the
+<i>Ostender</i> had made his men drunk, and
+seized his ship, which they carried to the
+<i>Mozambique</i>; from thence the Governor
+ordered her to <i>Goa</i>. But the Pirates staid
+and clean&rsquo;d the <i>Cassandra</i>, and divided very
+great plunder. Some, who thought they had
+got enough, staid at <i>Madagascar</i>, and the rest,
+having no occasion for two ships, burnt the
+<i>Victory</i>, she being leaky, and went on board
+the <i>Cassandra</i>, under the Command of
+Captain <i>Taylor</i>, designing to go for <i>Cochin</i>
+to dispose of his diamonds, amongst his old
+Friends the <i>Dutch</i>, and also to avoid the
+dangers of the Men-of-War that were in
+pursuit of them. But as he was preparing
+to sail, and heard of four Men-of-War
+coming after him; therefore he altered his
+mind, and sailed for the Main of <i>Africa</i>,
+and put in at <i>Delagoa</i>: But the Pirates were
+surprized in the evening with some shot
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg&nbsp;143]</a></span>
+from the shore. They took it for a desert
+shore, but it proved otherwise; for a
+few months before, the <i>Dutch East India
+Company</i> had settled one hundred men
+upon it, who, not being supplied with
+necessaries, were reduced to about sixteen;
+whom <i>Taylor</i>, upon their humble petition
+took aboard, and they all became Pirates
+with him.</p>
+
+<p>Here they stayed about four months,
+careened their ships, and left <i>Delagoa</i> the
+latter end of <i>December</i>: But not agreeing
+among themselves, they parted those who
+were weary of that sort of life, went on
+board the <i>Portugueze</i> Prize, and sailed for
+<i>Madagascar</i>; the others went on board the
+<i>Cassandra</i>, and sailed for the <i>Spanish West
+Indies</i>. The <i>Mermaid</i> Man-of-War, which
+was a convoy to some Merchant-men, about
+30 leagues distance, would have gone to
+attack them, had not the Merchants, whom
+he had the care of, declar&rsquo;d their protection
+was of more service than destroying the
+Pirates; and so he was oblig&rsquo;d to be content
+with only dispatching the news of it to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg&nbsp;144]</a></span>
+<i>Jamaica</i>. This brought down the <i>Lanceston</i>,
+though it was a day or two too late, for they
+had just before surrendered, with all their
+riches, to the Governor of <i>Porto-Bello</i>, where
+they now live upon their Spoils, saying,
+others would have done as much, had they
+had the same opportunity; swearing, <em>That
+whatever Robberies they had committed they
+are not the only Rogues in the World; for that
+the South-Sea<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> did more Mischief in one Year,
+than they were able to do in their whole Lives</em>.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 124px;">
+<img src="images/pirates46.png" width="124" height="250"
+alt="A pirate walking along, pipe in his mouth and hands in his pockets" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> The South-Sea Bubble.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;">
+<a name="Gow" id="Gow"></a>
+<img src="images/pirates47.jpg" width="345" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAPTAIN JOHN GOW</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg&nbsp;147]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;">
+<img src="images/pirates48.png" width="385" height="500"
+alt="A pirate walking with a large sack slung over his shoulder" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>CAPTAIN JOHN GOW, <i>ALIAS</i> SMITH,
+AND HIS CREW</h2>
+
+
+<p><i>John Gow</i>, alias <i>Smith</i>, was born at a place
+called <i>Caristoun</i>, in the <i>Orkney</i> Islands, and
+was brought up a sailor from his youth,
+having served on board several Men-of-War,
+and last of all on board the <i>Suffolk</i>,
+along with <i>T. Swan</i>, who was engaged with
+him in the conspiracy to murder Captain
+<i>Ferneau</i>, and seize the ship and cargoe, as
+they went off the <i>Texel</i>, but they were prevented
+by <i>James Belvin</i>, who was led into
+the secret and discovered it. Captain
+<i>Ferneau</i> taking little notice of it, contented
+himself with turning off <i>Swan</i>, and preferred
+<i>Gow</i> to be second Mate and Gunner.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg&nbsp;148]</a></span>
+They sailed on board the <i>George</i> Galley,
+August the 1st, 1724, from the <i>Texel</i> to
+<i>Santa Cruz</i>, having 15000<i>l.</i> on board, when
+Gow designed to have seized the Ship as
+they went out, but could not get a party
+strong enough to join with him, till he
+worked up a misunderstanding between
+the Captain and part of the crew, concerning
+the provisions of the ship, particularly
+<i>Winter</i>, <i>Peterson</i>, <i>and Mc.Cawley</i>,
+who came upon the Quarter-Deck, in
+presence of the Owners, just before they
+sailed, and made a long complaint against
+the Captain; who assured them that if there
+was any wrong done them, it was not by his
+consent; and that he would enquire into it
+as soon as they had unmoored the ship.</p>
+
+<p>About eight a clock at night, Captain
+<i>Ferneau</i>, as usual, called them up to prayers
+in the great Cabin, and then set the watch,
+and went to sleep, little thinking his end
+was so near, when <i>Winter</i>, <i>Rawlisson</i>, and
+<i>Melvin</i>, begun the scene of blood, <i>Gow</i>
+lying snug in his hammock, as if he knew
+nothing of the matter, till he saw whether
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg&nbsp;149]</a></span>
+the villany would succeed, or not. <i>Winter</i>
+cut the Doctor&rsquo;s throat as he was asleep in
+his hammock, and then went up to <i>Melvin</i>
+and <i>Rawlisson</i>, who in the mean time had
+seized the Captain and cut his throat also,
+but not touching the windpipe, <i>Gow</i> stept
+up and shot him with a brace of bullets,
+and then threw him over-board. <i>Mc.Cawley</i>
+cut <i>Stephen Algiers</i> the Clerk&rsquo;s throat, as he
+lay in the hammock, and <i>Williams</i> shot him
+dead afterwards. <i>Peterson</i> cut the throat
+of <i>Bonaventure Jelphs</i>, the Chief Mate; and
+<i>Michael Moor</i>, at the Command of <i>Williams</i>,
+shot him.</p>
+
+<p>After this <i>Williams</i> came upon the Quarter-Deck,
+and saluted <i>Gow</i> with Captain
+<i>Ferneau&rsquo;s</i> sword, first striking it upon one
+of the guns, and saying, <em>Welcome Captain
+<span class="roman">Gow</span>, welcome to your new Command</em>. After
+which, <i>Gow</i> told the men, That if any of
+them durst murmur or cabal together, they
+must expect to meet with the same Fate;
+and then calling a Council, they agreed to
+go, <em>Upon the Account</em>, as they called it.</p>
+
+<p>They called the ship the <i>Revenge</i>, and
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg&nbsp;150]</a></span>
+mounted six more of her guns, she being
+able to carry four and twenty in all. But
+instead of going to <i>Genoa</i> as intended, they
+sailed for the coasts of <i>Spain</i> and <i>Portugal</i>,
+in hopes of getting a ship laden with wine,
+to keep up their spirits; but all was alike
+they met with; and instead of wine, they
+contented themselves with fish, which they
+took out of a ship called the <i>Delight</i> of <i>Poole</i>,
+<i>Thomas Wise</i>, Master, bound from <i>New-England</i>
+to <i>Cadiz</i>, out of which they took
+the men, and what they wanted, and then
+sunk the Ship, to prevent their being discovered
+to the <i>English</i> Men-of-War who lay
+in the <i>Straights</i>.</p>
+
+<p>On the 18th of <i>December</i>, they took the
+<i>Snow-Galley</i>, out of which Crew they kept
+<i>Rob</i>, and discharged the Captain and the
+rest of the men, after having plundered
+the Ship of the arms, ammunition, cloth,
+provisions, sails, anchors, cables, and then
+let her go.</p>
+
+<p>By this time, they were got a great way
+to the southward; and being in want of
+water as well as wind, they agreed to go
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg&nbsp;151]</a></span>
+to <i>Maderas</i>, which Island they made in two
+days, cruising about it near a week, expecting
+some vessel to come in or come out;
+but the Country discovering what they were,
+they were disappointed in their attempts.
+Then they stood away for <i>Porto Santa</i>, where
+they put up <i>British</i> Colours, and sent their
+Boat ashore with a compliment to the
+Governor, desiring leave to Water, and
+buy some refreshments; which he readily
+agreed to, and went with them to pay the
+<i>English</i> Captain a Visit, who received him
+in a very grand Manner. But the refreshments
+not coming as expected, he at length
+told him he was his Prisoner, and must
+remain so till the provisions were come on
+board, which was not till next day, when
+<i>Gow</i> discharged him, giving him three
+Cerons of Bees-wax, and three Guns at
+his going away.</p>
+
+<p>Having now got provisions, they agreed
+to return to the Coasts of <i>Spain</i> and <i>Portugal</i>;
+where they had not been above two days,
+before they met with the <i>Batchelor</i>, <i>Benjamin
+Cross</i> Master, from <i>New-England</i> bound to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg&nbsp;152]</a></span>
+<i>Cadiz</i>; out of which they took <i>Cross</i> and his
+Men, and gave the Ship to Captain <i>Wise</i>, as
+also 24 Cerons of Bees-wax to him and his
+mate, and to his four men 8 Cerons.
+After this they took a <i>French</i> Ship from
+<i>Cadiz</i>, loaded with wine, oil, and fruit,
+which was what they wanted, and manned
+her with their own men, taking on board
+the <i>Revenge</i> the <i>French</i> Master, and his 12
+Men, and most Part of the cargoe, with
+five guns and their carriages, ammunition,
+small arms, and sails, and gave the ship
+to <i>Somerville</i>, Captain of the <i>Snow Galley</i>; and
+to Captain <i>Cross</i> the <i>New-English</i> Man, to
+who they gave half the ship and cargoe and
+<i>Somerville</i> had all his Men, but <i>Alexander
+Rob</i>, whom they detained, and who was executed
+in 1725, for engaging along with them.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after they saw a large ship to the
+windward bearing down upon them, which
+at first they thought to have been a <i>Portugueze</i>
+Man-of-War; but they found afterwards,
+it was a <i>French</i> Merchant Ship
+coming home from the <i>West-Indies</i>, which
+not fearing them, came on to the windward.
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg&nbsp;153]</a></span>
+<i>Gow</i> perceiving she was a Ship of great
+strength, called all his men together, telling
+them they had a great many prisoners on
+board, and that he could not trust many of
+his own men; besides, six of his best Hands
+were on Board the other Ship, therefore he
+advised them not to meddle with her, she
+being far superior in Force. This so exasperated
+<i>Williams</i>, that he demanded of
+<i>Gow</i> to give his orders for fighting; but
+he, by the advice of the whole crew,
+declined it; whereupon <i>Williams</i> snapt his
+pistol at his Face; which not going off,
+made him still madder. <i>Winter</i> and <i>Peterson</i>
+standing by him fired each a Pistol at
+<i>Williams</i>, one shooting him through the
+arm, and the other in the belly; at which
+he fell, and they believing he was killed,
+were going to throw him overboard, when
+he leapt up, and ran into the Powder-Room,
+with his pistol cocked in his hand, swearing
+he would blow them all up; which he
+had certainly done, had they not prevented
+him that very moment, he having opened
+the scuttle to do it.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg&nbsp;154]</a></span>
+They immediately put him in irons, and
+hand-cuffed him, and then put him between
+decks, in a place prepared for prisoners.</p>
+
+<p>Two days after this, they took the
+<i>Triumvirate</i>, a <i>Bristol</i> Sloop, <i>Joel Davis</i>
+Master, bound from <i>Newfoundland</i> to <i>Oporto</i>,
+with fish; from whence they took all her
+provisions, arms, sails, and two of her
+men, and then let her go with the rest,
+and all her cargoe. Not knowing what to
+do with <i>Williams</i>, they resolved to put him
+on board them, and send him away, for fear
+of further danger, ordering the Master to
+put him on board the first <i>English</i> man of
+War he should meet with, to hang him for
+Piracy; which when <i>Williams</i> found they
+were resolved to do, he made all the submission
+he was able to Captain <i>Gow</i>, begging
+for pardon, knowing if he was carried to
+<i>Lisbon</i> he should meet with his deserts. But
+all his entreaties would not do, he was brought
+up double fettered, when he begged they
+would throw him into the sea, and drown
+him, rather than give him up to be hanged
+in chains, which he knew he deserved from
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg&nbsp;155]</a></span>
+the <i>Portugueze</i> as well as <i>English</i>. This made
+many of them begin to relent and pity him;
+but considering his savage disposition, they
+knew there was no safety to keep him on
+board, and so resolved to let him go, and
+give him a hearty curse at parting, wishing
+him a safe voyage to the gallows, not dreaming
+that they themselves should accompany
+him.</p>
+
+<p>The <i>Bristol</i> Captain obeyed their orders,
+and as soon as he came to <i>Lisbon</i> put him
+on board the <i>Argyle</i> man of War, Captain
+<i>Bowler</i> Commander, who brought him home
+not above three days before Gow and his
+Crew came to keep him company.</p>
+
+<p>In the middle of last <i>January</i>, they arrived
+at <i>Caristoun</i> in the Isles of <i>Orkney</i>, when <i>Gow</i>
+gave them instructions, what account they
+should give of themselves to the people of
+the country, to avoid suspicion. But now
+began their misfortunes, for several of their
+men began to think of making their escape,
+the first was one <i>Read</i>, who took an opportunity
+to get away when the boat went
+ashore, who went to a farm-house which
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg&nbsp;156]</a></span>
+lay under a hill where he hired a horse
+and rode to <i>Kirkwall</i>, a market town about
+twelve miles off, where he informed them
+what they were; whereupon they raised
+the Country to defend themselves. The
+Pirates soon hearing what was done, ten
+more of them went away with the longboat,
+making the best of their way for
+<i>Scotland</i>, who were some time after taken in
+the <i>Frith</i> of <i>Edinburgh</i>, and made Prisoners.</p>
+
+<p>This so provoked <i>Gow</i>, that he resolved
+to plunder the Country, be the consequence
+what it would, and in order thereto, he sent
+<i>Belvin</i> his Boatswain, with <i>Rob</i> and Four
+more, to Mr. <i>Honnyman&rsquo;s</i> house, the Sheriff,
+who not being at home, his Servants let
+them in, not suspecting their design. They
+immediately fell to work, but Mr. <i>Honnyman&rsquo;s</i>
+Daughter had the presence of mind
+to hide the money in a tub of feathers, till
+she found an opportunity to carry it away,
+by the contrivance of <i>Alexander Rob</i>, who
+was placed centinel at the door. But when
+the Boatswain found the treasure was gone,
+Gow having before told them where it
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg&nbsp;157]</a></span>
+lay, he swore he would burn the house, and
+all that was in it, which the young Lady hearing,
+she runs to the Charter-room where the
+Treasure lay, and threw it out of the Window,
+jumping herself after. However, they plundered
+the house of about fifty pounds, and
+some plate, and then forced a servant who
+played on the bag-pipes, to pipe before them
+to the ship, whom they also detained, and
+was brought along with them to the <i>Marshalsea</i>,
+where he was sick till his release.</p>
+
+<p>The next day they weighed anchor, and
+came to <i>Calf-Sound</i>, where the boatswain
+went ashore again with four armed Men,
+meeting with no Plunder. From thence
+they went to the Island of <i>Eda</i>, to plunder
+the house of Mr. <i>Fea</i>, whom <i>Gow</i> had
+formerly been School-fellow with, and
+knowing him to be a Man of Courage,
+believed that the Alarm at <i>Caristoun</i> had
+drawn him thither: But Mr. <i>Fea&rsquo;s</i> wife at
+that Time being very sick in Bed, kept him
+at home, and having notice of them he
+sent a letter to <i>Gow</i> by <i>James Laing</i>, to
+desire him to withdraw, assuring him that
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg&nbsp;158]</a></span>
+most of the inhabitants were fled to the
+mountains on the report of his being a
+Pirate, desiring him to send the messenger
+safe back, at whose return the affrights of
+the people would be over. <i>Gow</i> sent him
+word back, that he would write to nobody,
+but if Mr. <i>Fea</i> would send his men with a
+Boat, he would reward them handsomely,
+which Mr. <i>Fea</i> hearing, he ordered his great
+Boat to be staved, and sunk, and the sails
+to be carried out of sight. In the mean
+time, perceiving <i>Gow&rsquo;s</i> boat come on
+shore, with five men in it, well armed, he
+met them, and said if they would go to a
+Publick House in the neighbourhood, and
+take a cup of ale with him, he would see
+what he could do to serve them, which they
+agreed to, seeing Mr. <i>Fea</i> was all alone, not
+suspecting any danger. Mr. <i>Fea</i> had before
+given orders for half a dozen men, well
+armed, to lie in ambush to surprize them,
+which being done, Mr. <i>Fea</i> sent to Mr.
+<i>Gow</i> to let him know, that the country was
+alarmed, and that it would be his best way
+peaceable to surrender, which <i>Gow</i> did in
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg&nbsp;159]</a></span>
+a day or two, thinking thereby to make
+himself an evidence; but it would not do,
+although he complied so far as to delude
+all his men ashore one after another, who
+would certainly have cut his throat, had
+they known of any ways afterwards to have
+escaped.</p>
+
+<p>They were put on board the <i>Greyhound</i>,
+which delivered them into the <i>Marshalsea</i>,
+<i>March</i> 30, 1714, where they continued till
+<i>June</i> following, when eight of them were
+hanged at <i>Execution Dock</i>, viz. <i>John Gow</i>,
+<i>James Williams</i>, <i>James Belvin</i>, <i>John Winter</i>,
+<i>Peter Rawlisson</i>, <i>Daniel Mc.Cawley</i>, <i>William
+Ingram</i>, for another Piracy under <i>Anstis</i>,
+and a month afterwards <i>Alexander Rob</i>
+was hanged for Piracy under <i>Gow</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 239px;">
+<img src="images/pirates49.png" width="239" height="250"
+alt="Sketch portrait of a pirate" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160"><!-- unnumbered page --></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/pirates50.png" width="250" height="105"
+alt="A small cottage" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="bbox">
+<p><b>Transcriber's Note</b></p>
+
+<p>Fraser notes in his foreword to this book that the original author's spelling was
+"indefinite even for his own day", and adds that it has "has been more or less
+modernized" in this edition; however, there are still many inconsistencies in
+spelling, use of hyphenation and italics, and capitalisation of words. These
+inconsistencies, along with archaic spelling, have been retained throughout.</p>
+
+<p>Minor typographic errors in punctuation have been corrected without note.
+The word 'with' was printed as 'htiw' (page <a href="#Page_138">138</a>),
+and has been corrected. The word 'were' has been amended to 'where'
+(page <a href="#Page_139">139</a>, "... where they sent several Hands ..."), for
+the sentence to make sense.Two instances of transposed letters have also been
+corrected&mdash;sieze changed to seize, and Goaler changed to Gaoler. The
+original title page illustration also contained an error, Jnae, which referred
+to a month. This was cross-checked with the rest of the text, and has been
+amended to read June in the transcription of the text.</p>
+
+<p>Gaps in page numbering were originally unnumbered blank, illustration, or
+section title pages. The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow
+the front matter.</p>
+
+<p>Transcription of the text in the illustration on page <a href="#Page_xii">xii</a>:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><a name="text01" id="text01"></a>
+<p class="center">THE<br />
+<span class="smcap">History</span> <i>and</i> <span class="smcap">Lives</span><br />
+Of all the most Notorious<br />
+PIRATES,<br />
+AND THEIR<br />
+CREWS;</p>
+
+<p class="indent">From Capt. <span class="smcap">Avery</span>, who first settled at
+<i>Madagascar</i>, to Captain <i>John Gow</i>, and <i>James
+Williams</i>, his Lieutenant, <i>&amp;c.</i> who were hang&rsquo;d
+at <i>Execution Dock</i>, <i>June</i> 11, 1725, for Piracy and
+Murther; and afterwards hang&rsquo;d in Chains between
+<i>Blackwall</i> and <i>Deptford</i>. And in this Edition
+continued down to the present Year 1735.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">Giving a more full and true Account than any yet
+Publish&rsquo;d, of all their Murthers, Piracies, Maroonings,
+Places of Refuge, and Ways of Living.</p>
+
+<p class="center">The Fifth Edition.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Adorned with Twenty Beautiful <span class="smcap">Cuts</span>, being the<br />
+Representation of each Pirate.</p>
+
+<p class="center">To which is prefixed,<br />
+<i>An Abstract of the Laws against Piracy</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="center">LONDON:</p>
+
+<p class="indent">Printed for <i>A. Bettesworth</i> and <i>C. Hitch</i>, at the
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pirates, by Anonymous
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+
+Title: Pirates
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Commentator: Claud Lovat Fraser
+
+Illustrator: Claud Lovat Fraser
+
+Release Date: January 27, 2008 [EBook #24439]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIRATES ***
+
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+Produced by Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading
+Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from
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+
+
+           THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES
+                   OF SUNDRY
+               NOTORIOUS PIRATES
+
+                [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                   PIRATES
+
+
+ _With a _Foreword_ and sundry _Decorations_ by_
+
+                C. Lovat Fraser
+
+
+                [Illustration]
+
+
+                  _NEW YORK:_
+         ROBERT M. McBRIDE AND COMPANY
+                     1922
+
+
+
+
+_First American Edition_
+
+_Printed in the United States of America_
+
+_Printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford and
+Esher._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN AVERY]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                        PAGE
+    Foreword                                             vii
+
+    The Life of Captain Avery                              1
+
+    Captain John Rackham, and his Crew                    17
+
+    Captain Spriggs, and his Crew                         29
+
+    Captain Edward Lowe, and his Crew                     37
+
+    Captain George Lowther, and his Crew                  51
+
+    Captain Anstis, and his Crew                          65
+
+    Captain John Phillips, and his Crew                   77
+
+    Captain Teach, _alias_ Blackbeard                     87
+
+    Major Stede Bonnet and his Crew                      101
+
+    Captain William Kid                                  117
+
+    Captain Edward England, and his Crew                 135
+
+    Captain John Gow, _alias_ Smith, and his Crew        145
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+    Captain Avery                             _frontispiece_
+
+    Captain John Rackham                   _facing page_  19
+
+    Captain Edward Lowe                          "        39
+
+    Captain Teach                                "        89
+
+    Major Stede Bonnet                           "       103
+
+    Captain William Kid                          "       119
+
+    Captain Edward England                       "       137
+
+    Captain John Gow                             "       147
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+Time, though a good Collector, is not always a reliable Historian.
+That is to say, that although nothing of interest or importance is
+lost, yet an affair may be occasionally invested with a glamour that
+is not wholly its own. I venture to think that Piracy has fortuned in
+this particular. We are apt to base our ideas of Piracy on the
+somewhat vague ambitions of our childhood; and I suppose, were such a
+thing possible, the consensus of opinion in our nurseries as to a
+future profession in life would place Piracy but little below the
+glittering heights of the police force and engine-driving. Incapable
+of forgetting this in more mature years, are we not inclined to deck
+Her (the "H" capital, for I speak of an ideal), if not in purple and
+fine linen, at least with a lavish display of tinsel and gilt? Nursery
+lore remains with us, whether we would or not, for all our lives; and
+generations of ourselves, as schoolboys and pre-schoolboys, have
+tricked out Piracy in so resplendent a dress that she has fairly
+ousted in our affections, not only her sister profession of "High Toby
+and the Road," but every other splendid and villainous vocation. Yet
+Teach, Kid, and Avery were as terrible or grim as Duval, Turpin, and
+Sheppard were courtly or whimsical. And the terrible is a more vital
+affair than the whimsical. Is it, then, unnatural that, after a lapse
+of nigh on two centuries, we should shake our wise heads and allow
+that which is still nursery within us to deplore the loss of those
+days when we ran--before a favouring "Trade"--the very good chance of
+being robbed, maimed, or murdered by Captain Howel Davis or Captain
+Neil Gow? It is as well to remember that the "Captains" in this book
+were seamen whose sole qualifications to the title were ready wit, a
+clear head, and, maybe, that certain indefinable "power of the eye"
+that is the birth-right of all true leaders. The piratical hero of our
+childhood is traceable in a great extent to the "thrillers," toy
+plays, and penny theatres of our grandfathers. Here our Pirate was, as
+often as not, a noble, dignified, if gloomy gentleman, with a leaning
+to Byronic soliloquy. Though stern in exterior, his heart could (and
+would) melt at the distresses of the heroine. Elvira's eyes were
+certain to awaken in his mind the recollection of "other eyes as
+innocent as thine, child." In short, he was that most touching of all
+beings, the Hero-cum-Villain. And it was with a sigh of relief that we
+saw him at the eleventh hour, having successfully twitted the
+"Government Men" and the Excise (should he have an additional penchant
+for smuggling), safely restored to the arms of the long-suffering
+possessor of the other eyes.
+
+Alas! this little book mentions no Poll of Portsmouth, nor does it
+favour us with a "Yeo, heave, oh!" nor is there so very much "cut and
+thrust" about it. It was written in that uninspiring day when Pirates
+were a very real nuisance to such law-abiding folk as you and I; but
+it has the merit of being written, if not by a Pirate, at least by one
+who came into actual contact with them. I am not at all sure that
+"merit" is the right word to use in this instance, for to be a Pirate
+does not necessarily ensure you making a good author. Indeed, it might
+almost be considered as a ban to the fine literary technique of an
+Addison or a Temple. It has, however, the virtue of being in close
+touch with some of the happenings chronicled. Not that our author saw
+above a tithe of what he records--had he done so he would have been
+"set a-sun-drying" at Execution Dock long before he had had the
+opportunity of putting pen to paper; but, as far as posterity was
+concerned, he was lucky in his friend William Ingram--evidently a
+fellow of good memory and a ready tongue--"who," as our author states
+in his Preface, "was a Pirate under Anstis, Roberts, and many others,"
+and who eventually was hanged in good piratical company on the 11th
+of June, 1714.
+
+The actual history of the little book, the major part of which is here
+reprinted, is as follows:
+
+Its full title is "The History and Lives of all the most Notorious
+Pirates and their Crews," and the fifth edition, from which our text
+is taken, was printed in 1735. A reproduction of the original
+title-page is given overleaf.
+
+As a matter of fact, the title is misleading. How could a book that
+makes no mention of Morgan or Lollonois be a history of _all_ the most
+notorious Pirates? It deals with the last few years of the seventeenth
+century and the first quarter of the eighteenth, a period that might
+with justice be called "The Decline and Fall of Piracy," for after
+1730 Piracy became but a mean broken-backed affair that bordered
+perilously on mere sea-pilfering.
+
+[Illustration: THE
+
+HISTORY _and_ LIVES
+
+Of all the most Notorious
+
+PIRATES,
+
+AND THEIR
+
+CREWS;
+
+From Capt. AVERY, who first settled at _Madagascar_, to Captain _John
+Gow_, and _James Williams_, his Lieutenant, _&c._ who were hang'd at
+_Execution Dock_, _June_ 11, 1725, for Piracy and Murther; and
+afterwards hang'd in Chains between _Blackwall_ and _Deptford_. And in
+this Edition continued down to the present Year 1735.
+
+Giving a more full and true Account than any yet Publish'd, of all
+their Murthers, Piracies, Maroonings, Places of Refuge, and Ways of
+Living.
+
+The Fifth Edition.
+
+Adorned with Twenty Beautiful CUTS, being the Representation of each
+Pirate.
+
+To which is prefixed, _An Abstract of the Laws against Piracy_.
+
+LONDON: Printed for _A. Bettesworth_ and _C. Hitch_, at the _Red Lyon_
+in _Pater-noster-Row_; _R. Ware_, at the _Sun_ and _Bible_ in
+_Amen-Corner_; and _J. Hodges_, at the _Looking-glass_ on
+_London-bridge_. 1735.]
+
+A little research into the book's history shows us that it is
+consistent throughout, and that it is a "piracy," in the publisher's
+sense of the word, of a much larger and more pretentious work by
+Captain Charles Johnson, entitled, "A General History of the Pyrates
+from their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to
+the Present Time; With the Remarkable Actions and Adventures of the
+two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny."
+
+This was published in London, in 8vo., by Charles Rivington in 1724. A
+second edition, considerably augmented, was issued later in the same
+year, a third edition in the year following, and a fourth edition--in
+two volumes, as considerable additions in the form of extra "Lives,"
+and an appendix necessitated a further volume--in 1725.
+
+This two-volume edition contained the history of the following
+Pirates: Avery, Martel, Teach, Bonnet, England, Vane, Rackham, Davis,
+Roberts, Anstis, Morley, Lowther, Low, Evans, Phillips, Spriggs,
+Smith, Misson, Bowen, Kid, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly,
+Howard, Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, and North, together with
+a short abstract on the Statute and Civil Law in relation to
+"Pyracy," and an appendix, completing the Lives in the first volume,
+and correcting some mistakes.
+
+The work evidently enjoyed a great vogue, for it was translated into
+Dutch by Robert Hannebo, of Amsterdam, in 1727, and issued there, with
+several "new illustrations," in 12mo. A German version by Joachim
+Meyer was printed at Gosslar in the following year, while in France it
+saw the light as an appendix to an edition of Esquemeling's "Histoire
+des Avanturiers," 1726.
+
+But little is known of the author, Captain Charles Johnson, excepting
+that he flourished from 1724 to 1736, and it is more than probable
+that the name by which we know him is an assumed one. It is possible
+that his knowledge of Pirates and Piracy was of such a nature to have
+justified awkward investigations on the part of His Majesty's
+Government.
+
+There is one thing that we do know for certain about him, and that is
+that the worthy Captain's spelling, according to the pirated version
+of his book, was indefinite even for his own day. He was one of those
+inspired folk who would be quite capable of spelling "schooner" with
+three variations in as many lines. In this edition the spelling has
+been more or less modernized.
+
+Lastly, it is to be remembered that the ships of this period,
+according to our modern ideas, would be the veriest cockle-shells, and
+so that we should know what manner of vessel he refers to in these
+pages, I had recourse to a friend of mine whose knowledge of things
+nautical is extensive enough to have gained for him the coveted "Extra
+Master's Certificate," and who was kind enough to supply me with the
+following definitions:
+
+
+[Illustration: SLOOP.
+
+A vessel rigged as a cutter, but with one head-sail only set on a very
+short bowsprit.]
+
+
+[Illustration: SCHOONER.   TOPSAIL SCHOONER.
+
+Two-masted vessels, fore and aft rigged, sometimes having square
+topsails on the fore-mast.]
+
+
+[Illustration: BRIGANTINE.
+
+A two-masted vessel, square rigged on fore-mast.]
+
+
+GALLEY.
+
+A large vessel rowed by oars and sometimes having auxiliary sail of
+various rigs.
+
+
+PINK.
+
+Probably a small, fast vessel used as a tender and despatch boat for
+river work.
+
+
+[Illustration: SNOW.
+
+A two-masted vessel with a stay, known as a "Horse," from the
+main-mast to the poop on which the trysail was set. Sometimes a spar
+was fitted instead of a stay. The rig was most likely of a brig
+(_i.e._, a two-masted ship, square sails on both masts), and the
+triangular trysail set on the stay in bad weather or when hove to.]
+
+    C. L. F.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN AVERY
+
+
+He was the son of _John Avery_, a victualler near _Plymouth_, in
+_Devonshire_, who in a few years was grown as opulent in his purse as
+in his body, by scoring two for one; and when he had so done, drinking
+the most of the liquor himself. By which means, and having a handsome
+wife, who knew her business as well as if she had been brought up to
+it from a child (which, indeed, she mostly was, her mother keeping the
+House before she married _Mr. Avery_), they soon became very rich and
+very able to give credit to a whole ship's crew upon their tickets,
+which in those days were sold for less than half their value.
+
+Having but one child (afterwards the Captain), they at first resolved
+to bring him up a scholar, that he might advance the dignity of the
+family. But instead of learning his book, he was taught by such
+companions that he could soon swear to every point of his compass,
+which was a very diverting scene for the Boatswain and his crew, who
+were then drinking in the kitchen, having just received ten pounds
+apiece short allowance money on board the _Revenge_, every farthing of
+which they spent before leaving the house.
+
+But as soon as their money was spent, they were all like to have been
+imprisoned by their Landlady for a riot, as she called it, so they
+were soon glad to sheer off, and he thought himself happiest that
+could get first aboard. Indeed, it would have been happy for them if
+they had, for the ship was unmoored and gone to sea; which put the
+Boatswain and his crew swearing in earnest, and not knowing what to
+do, they resolved to return to their Landlady, _Mrs. Avery_, at "the
+Sign of the _Defiance_." But she shut them out of doors, calling them
+a parcel of beggarly rascals, and swearing that if they would not go
+from the door she would send for the Constable; and notwithstanding
+all the entreaties and tears of her only son, who was then about six
+years of age, she could not be prevailed upon to let them in, so they
+were obliged to stroll about the street all night. In the morning,
+spying the ship at anchor, being driven back by contrary winds, they
+resolved to make the best of their way aboard; but on the way, whom
+should they meet but young _Avery_, who had no sooner seen them, but
+he cried after them. "Zounds," says the Boatswain, "let's take the
+young dog aboard, and his mother shall soon be glad to adjust the
+reckoning more to our satisfaction before she shall have her son."
+
+This was agreed upon by all hands, and the boy was as willing as any
+of them. So, stepping into the boat, in about an hour's time they
+reached the ship, which they had no sooner boarded but they were
+brought before the Captain, who, being in want of hands, contented
+himself with bidding them all go to their business; for the wind
+turned about, and there was occasion for all hands to be at work to
+carry out the ship.
+
+All this while young _Avery_ was at the heels of the Boatswain, and
+was observed to swear two oaths to one of the Boatswain's; which being
+soon observed by the Captain, he inquired who brought that young
+rascal aboard.
+
+To which the Boatswain replied that he did, that the boy's mother was
+his Landlady on shore, and he had taken him up in jest, but was afraid
+that they would now have to keep him in earnest.
+
+When the hurry was a little over, the Captain commanded the boy to be
+brought to him in his cabin. He had not talked long to him before he
+took a fancy to him, telling him that if he would be a good boy, he
+should live with him.
+
+He, being a mighty lover of children, would often divert himself by
+talking to the boy, till at length he took such a fancy to him, that
+he ordered him a little hammock in his own cabin, and none were so
+great as the Captain and his boy _Avery_, which had like to have
+proved very fatal to him; for Avery one night, observing the Captain
+to be very drunk with some passengers that were on board, got a
+lighted match and had like to have blown up the ship, had not the
+Gunner happened accidentally to follow him into the store-room. This
+made the Captain ever after very shy of his new Acquaintance, and
+_Avery_, after he had been well whipped, was ordered down into the
+hold, where he remained until they arrived at _Carolina_, which
+happened four or five days after.
+
+The boy was given to a merchant, who, taking a fancy to him, put him
+to school; but he made so little progress in learning, and committed
+so many unlucky tricks, that the merchant, in about three years,
+shipped him off to his friends at _Plymouth_ on board the _Nonesuch_,
+where he was no sooner arrived but his mother was overjoyed with the
+sight of her son, his father being dead about a month before his
+arrival.
+
+And, indeed, it was thought the loss of their son broke his heart, for
+it was observed the father never held up his head after, the
+neighbours often reflecting upon him for his ill-usage of the seamen,
+who had spent so much money at his house; saying he could never expect
+that all his ill-gotten riches could prosper him, which so happened,
+as you shall hear presently. For his mother, dying soon after, the boy
+was left under the guardianship of one Mr. _Lightfoot_, a merchant,
+who, having great losses at sea, became a bankrupt, and so young
+_Avery_ was left to look out after himself; there he continued for
+many years in pilfering and stealing till the country was too hot for
+him, when he betook him to sea again, where in time he became as
+famous for robbing as _Cromwell_ for rebellion.
+
+He entered himself on board the _Duke_, Captain _Gibson_ Commander,
+being one of the two ships of twenty-four guns and one hundred men
+which were fitted out by the merchants of _Bristol_ for the service of
+_Spain_, which they had no sooner done, but they were ordered by their
+agents at _Bristol_ to sail for the _Groyne_ to receive their orders.
+
+On board one of which ships _Avery_, being at this time above twenty
+years old, entered himself, where he had not been long before he
+observed the Captain was much addicted to drunkenness.
+
+He endeavoured to spirit up not only his own ship's crew, but having
+also given the word to part of the other ship's crew, the conspirators
+gave the signal.
+
+At which the _Duchess_, as the other ship was named, put off her
+longboat; which the conspirators hailing were answered by the men in
+the boat, "Is your drunken Boatswain on board?" This being the word
+agreed upon, Avery answered, "All is safe;" upon which twenty lusty
+fellows came aboard and joined them, which they had no sooner done but
+they secured the hatches and went to work, putting to sea without any
+disorder, although there were several ships in the bay, amongst whom
+was a frigate of forty-four guns.
+
+The Captain, by this time being awaked by the noise of the
+conspirators working the ship, rung the bell, inquiring what was the
+matter, to whom _Avery_ and some of the crew replied, "Nothing. Are
+you mutinous in your cups? Can't you lie down, sleep, and be quiet?"
+
+"No," saith the Captain. "I am sure something's the matter with the
+ship. Does she drive? What weather is it? Is it a storm?"
+
+Saith _Avery_: "Cannot you lie quiet while you are quiet? I tell you
+all's well; we are at sea in a fair wind and good weather."
+
+"At sea," saith the Captain; "that can't be."
+
+"Be not frightened," saith Avery, "and I'll tell you. You must note, I
+am now the Captain of the ship; nay, you must turn out, for this is my
+cabin, and I am bound for _Madagascar_, to make my own fortune as well
+as my companions."
+
+The Captain, being more terrified than ever, did not know what to say,
+which _Avery_ perceiving, bid him take heart. "For," saith he, "if you
+will join me and these brave fellows, my companions, in time you may
+get some post under me. If not, step into the longboat and get about
+your business."
+
+This the Captain was glad to hear, but yet began to expostulate with
+them upon the injustice of such doings. Saith _Avery_: "What do I
+care? Every man for himself. Come, come, Captain, if you will go, get
+you gone; the longboat waits for you, and if there be any more cowards
+in the ship, you may all go together." Which words so affrighted the
+whole crew, that there was not above nine or ten of them that durst
+venture, who made the best of their way to the shore as fast as they
+could, and thought they were well off.
+
+The Captain was no sooner gone, but they called a Council, which
+agreed to own _Avery_ as their Captain; which he accepted of with all
+humility imaginable, seeming to excuse himself on account of his
+inexperience at sea. But he did it so artfully that it more confirmed
+them in the good opinion of their choice. "Gentlemen," said he, "what
+we have done we must live or die by; let us all be hearty and of one
+mind, and I don't question but we shall make our fortune in a little
+time. I propose that we sail first to _Madagascar_, where we may
+settle a correspondence, in order to secure our retreats, whenever we
+think fit to lie by."
+
+To which they all agreed, "Nemine contradicente."
+
+"But hold," saith _Avery_; "it is necessary that we make some order
+among us, for the better governing of the ship's crew." Which were in
+a few days drawn up by the clerk of the ship.
+
+And _Avery_ promising them vast things, they all came into them at
+last, although some things went very much against the grain of many of
+them.
+
+It took up all their spare time till they arrived at _Madagascar_,
+where they saw a Ship lying at the N.E. part of the Island, with which
+the men had run away from _New England_; and seeing _Avery_, they
+supposed that he had been sent after them to take them, but _Avery_
+soon undeceived them, and promised them protection; therefore they
+resolved to sail together. In the whole company, there was not above
+ten that pretended to any skill in navigation; for _Avery_ himself
+could neither write nor read very well, he being chosen Captain of the
+_Duke_ purely for his courage and contrivance.
+
+In the latitude of _Descada_, one of the Islands, they took two other
+sloops, which supplied them with provisions, and then they agreed to
+proceed to the _West Indies_; and coming to _Barbadoes_, they fell in
+with a ship for _London_ with twelve guns, from which they took some
+clothes and money, ten barrels of powder, ten casks of beef, and
+several other goods, and five of her men, and then let her go. From
+thence he went to the Island of _Dominico_, and watered; there he met
+with six _Englishmen_, who willingly entered with _Avery_. They stayed
+not long before they sailed for the _Granada_ Island to clean their
+ships; which being known to the _French_ Colony, the Governor of
+_Martenico_ sent four sloops well manned after them. But they stayed
+there not long, but made the best of their way for _Newfoundland_,
+entering the harbour of _Trepasse_ with black colours, drums beating,
+and trumpets sounding.
+
+It is impossible to relate the havoc they made there, burning all
+before them. When they left _Newfoundland_ they sailed for the _West
+Indies_, and from thence to the Island _Descada_, it being judged the
+most convenient place, at that time of the year, to meet with a rich
+booty.
+
+From hence they steered towards the _Arabian_ Coast, near the River
+_Indus_, where, spying a sail, they gave chase. At their near approach
+she hoisted _Mogul_ colours and seemed as if she would stand upon her
+defence, whilst _Avery_ contented himself by cannonading her at a
+distance, which made many of his men begin to mutiny, thinking him a
+coward.
+
+But _Avery_ knew better, and commanding his sloops to attack her, one
+in the Bow, and the rest on the Quarter, clapt her on board, upon
+which she struck her colours and yielded. Aboard her was one of the
+_Mogul's_ own daughters, with several persons of distinction, who
+were carrying rich offerings of jewels and other valuable presents to
+_Mecca_; which booty was the more considerable, because these people
+always travel with great magnificence, having all their slaves and
+attendants always with them, besides jewels and great sums of money to
+defray the charges. But _Avery_, not content with this, seized the
+young Princess, and taking her with him into his own ship, made the
+best of his way to _Madagascar_, where she soon broke her heart and
+died. Also her father, the _Great Mogul_, did no sooner hear of it but
+he threatened all _Europe_ with revenge. And when he knew they were
+_Englishmen_ who had captured his daughter and robbed him, he
+threatened to send a mighty army, with fire and sword, to extirpate
+all the _English_ from their settlements on the _Indian_ Coasts, which
+gave no small uneasiness to the _Indian Company_ at _London_, when
+they heard of it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN JOHN RACKHAM]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN RACKHAM, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+John Rackham was Quarter-Master to _Vane's_ Company, till _Vane_ was
+turned out for not fighting the French Man-of-War, and _Rackham_ put
+in Captain in his place, which happened about the 24th day of
+_November_, 1718. His first cruise was among the _Caribbe_ Islands,
+where he took and plundered several vessels. Afterwards, to the
+windward of _Jamaica_, he fell in with a _Madeira_ Man, which he
+detained till he had made his market out of her, and then restored her
+to her Master, suffering _Hosea Tisdel_, a tavern-keeper at _Jamaica_,
+whom he had taken among his Prizes, to go aboard her, she being bound
+for that Island.
+
+Afterwards he sailed towards the Island _Bermuda_, where he took a
+Ship bound to _England_ from _Carolina_, and a small Ship from _New
+England_, both which he carried to the _Bahama Islands_, and there
+clean'd. But staying too long in that Neighbourhood, Captain _Rogers_
+sent out a Sloop well mann'd, which retook both the Prizes, the Pirate
+making his Escape.
+
+From hence they proceeded to the Back of _Cuba_, where _Rackham_ staid
+a long Time with his Delilahs, till their Provision was consumed, when
+he concluded it Time to look out for more. As he was putting to Sea, a
+_Garda del Costa_ came in with a small _English_ Sloop, which he had
+taken as an interloper on that coast. The _Spaniards_ seeing the
+Pirate, attacked her; but finding he could not come to her that night,
+because she lay close behind a little island, he warps into the
+channel, to make sure of her in the morning. Upon this _Rackham_ took
+his Crew into the Boat, with their pistols and cutlasses, and falls
+aboard the _Spaniards_ in the night, without being discovered, telling
+them, if they spoke a word they were dead men: And so shipping their
+cables, drove out to sea, commanding them to take the Boat, and go
+aboard their Sloop immediately, or else they were all dead men.
+Afterwards they waking the Captain and his men in the Hammocks, who
+rose full of their expectation of the Prizes, they sent them aboard
+their empty Sloop.
+
+In the Beginning of _September_, they went off of the French part of
+_Hispaniola_, where they took two or three _Frenchmen_ on board, that
+were looking after some cattle grazing near the waterside. Then
+plundered two Sloops, they returned to _Jamaica_, where they took a
+Schooner.
+
+_Rackham_ continuing about this Island longer than a Man of his
+business ought to have done, gave time to a Canoe, which he had
+surprised in _Ocho_ Bay, to inform the Governor of _Jamaica_ of his
+civilities to all he met with going or coming from the Island.
+Thereupon a Sloop was sent out in quest of him, well mann'd and arm'd,
+under Captain _Barnet_, to repay him for all his good-natured
+Actions, and, if possible, to bring him into the Island. In the mean
+Time _Rackham_ met, near the _Negril_ Point, a small Pettiauger,
+which, upon sight of him, ran ashore, and landed her Men; but
+_Rackham_ hailing them, desired the Pettiauger's men to come aboard
+him, and drink a bowel of punch; swearing, _They were all Friends and
+would do no Harm_. Hereupon they agreed to his Request, and went
+aboard him, though it proved fatal to every one of them, they being
+nine in all. For, they were no sooner got aboard, and had laid down
+their muskets and cutlasses, in order to take up their pipes, and make
+themselves merry with their new acquaintance over a can of Flip, but
+Captain _Barnet's_ Sloop was in sight, which soon put a damp to all
+their merriment: Finding she stood directly towards them, they
+immediately weighed their anchor and stood off. _Barnet_ gave them
+chase, and having the advantage of the wind, soon came up with her,
+gave her a broadside or two, and, after a very small dispute, took her
+and his nine new guests, and brought them all together into
+_Port-Royal_ in _Jamaica_, in about a fortnight's time.
+
+_November_ the 10th, 1720, a Court of Admiralty was held at _St. Jago
+de la Vega_, where the following Persons were tried and convicted of
+Piracy, and accordingly Sentence of Death was passed upon them by the
+Governor, viz.: _John Rackham_, Captain; _George Fetherstone_, Master;
+_Richard Corner_, Quarter-Master; _John Davis_, _John Howel_, _Patrick
+Carty_, _Thomas Earle_, _James Dobbin_, and _Noah Harwood_; Five of
+whom was hang'd the next day at _Gallows-point_, and the rest the day
+after. The three first were taken and hanged in Chains; _Rackham_ at
+_Plumb-point_, _Fetherstone_ at _Bush-key_, and _Corner_ at _Gun-key_.
+
+But what was yet more strange was the conviction of the nine guests,
+that knew nothing of the matter, or at least they pretended so; but
+the People would not believe them, because it was proved that they
+came on board with pistols and cutlasses: However, they were so much
+favoured as to have the Court adjourned to the 24th of January
+following, to give a better Account of themselves than at the time
+appeared to the Court: Beside, the Jury also then wanted sufficient
+evidence to prove the piratical intention of going aboard the said
+Sloops. The two _Frenchmen_ taken by _Rackham_ from the Island of
+_Hispaniola_, deposed, That _John Eaton_, _Edward Warner_, _Thomas
+Baker_, _Thomas Quick_, _John Cole_, _Benjamin Palmer_, _Walter
+Rouse_, _John Hanson_, and _John Howard_, came on board the Pirate's
+Sloop at _Negril Point_ in _Jamaica_. Indeed they owned, That at first
+Sight of them, they run away from _Rackham's_ Sloop, but that he
+hailing them, they returned, and _Rackham_ sent his canoe ashore to
+fetch them aboard him, when they saw them all armed with guns and
+cutlasses, which they brought with them; and that when they were
+chased by Captain _Barnet_, they were frank and free, some drinking
+and walking about the deck not at all dispirited; during which time
+there was a great gun, and small arms, fired by the Pirate Sloop at
+Captain _Barnet's_ Sloop; but that they could not say that the
+Prisoners were any way concerned in it: However, they were certain
+that when Captain _Barnet's_ Sloop fired at _Rackham's_, the Prisoners
+at the Bar went under Deck, for cowardice, as they supposed; not so
+much as once peeping up during the time of the whole action: But when
+Captain _Barnet_ drew nigh to them to board them, all of them came up,
+and helped to row the sloop, in order to escape from him: And that
+_Rackham's_ Men and they seemed to agree very well together, and that
+they did verily believe they were all of a Party, having heard them
+say, when they came on board, _They liked them never the worse for
+being Pirates, since they were all honest Boys, and loved their
+Bottles_.
+
+To which the Prisoners answered, in their own Defence; That they were
+a great way off from friends and acquaintance, and, therefore it was
+impossible to have any one to give an account of them. That they were
+very honest pains-taking men, and came out to go a-turtling to provide
+for their families; accordingly going ashore at _Negril_ Point they
+saw a Sloop, with a white pendant, making towards them, whereupon they
+took up their arms, which were no other but what all people carry upon
+such occasions, and ran into the woods, to hide themselves among the
+bushes, not knowing what she might be. But when they hailed them and
+told them they were _Englishmen_, they ventured out, and came aboard
+them, as they desired, to drink a bowl of punch, they being poor men,
+who get their livelihood very hardily, and such a thing was very
+acceptable to them. But when they came on board the Sloop, to their
+very great surprise, they found they were Pirates; upon which they
+begged to be released; but _Rackham_ swore, That if they did not stay
+and assist them against that Sloop that was coming down against them,
+he would cut all their throats. So being compelled thereunto by
+_Rackham_ and his men, to save their Lives, they did assist him, and
+with no other design but to prevent their being cut in pieces, but as
+soon as Captain _Barnet_ came up with them, they all very readily and
+willingly submitted.
+
+This being all they had to say in their own Defence, the Prisoners
+were ordered from the Bar: The Court were divided in their Judgments;
+but the majority were of opinion, that they were all guilty of the
+Piracy and Felony they were charged with; thereupon they all received
+Sentence of Death, as usual in such cases, the Judge making a very
+pathetic Speech to them, exhorting them to bear their Sufferings
+patiently, assuring them, that if they were innocent, which he very
+much doubted, then their reward would be greater in the Other World:
+But everybody must own their case was very hard in this.
+
+February the 17th, _John Eaton_, _Thomas Quick_, and _Thomas Baker_,
+were accordingly executed at _Gallows-Point_; and the next Day, _John
+Cole_, _John Howard_, and _Benjamin Palmer_, underwent the same fate
+at _Kingston_. The other three got a Reprieve, they being against
+going aboard the Pirate's Sloop, and are now living.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN SPRIGGS, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Spriggs_ sailed at first with _Lowe_, and came away with him from
+_Lowther_. Afterwards _Lowe_ took a ship of twelve guns on the Coast
+of _Guinea_, called the _Delight_, which _Spriggs_ went off on board
+with twenty men, and leaving _Lowe_ in the night, came to the _West
+Indies_. In their passage they made a Black Ensign, which they called
+the _Jolly Roger_, with a skeleton in the middle holding a dart in one
+hand, striking a bleeding heart; and in the other an hour-glass; and
+being hoisted, they fired all their guns to salute _Spriggs_, whom
+they chose Captain, and then went to look out for prey.
+
+In their voyage they took a _Portugueze_ barque, wherein they had rich
+plunder. Near _St. Lucia_, they took a Sloop belonging to
+_Barbadoes_, which they first plundered, and then burnt, forcing some
+of the men into their Service, and beating, in a barbarous manner,
+those that refused to join with them, and afterwards sent them away in
+the Boat, half dead with their wounds, the rest got to _Barbadoes_,
+with much ado, though some of them died soon after of their cuts and
+slashes. After this they took a _Martinico_ Man, which they used in
+like manner, save that they did not burn the ship. Then running down
+to the Leeward, they took one Captain _Hawkins_ coming from _Jamaica_,
+laden with Logwood; out of which, they took her stores, arms, and
+ammunition, and what they did not want they threw over-board; they cut
+the cables to pieces, knocked down the cabins, broke the windows, and
+did what mischief they could, taking _Burridge_ and _Stephens_, the
+two Mates, and some other Hands, by force; and then after keeping her
+a week, they let her go. On the 27th they took a _Rhode_ Island Sloop,
+compelling the Captain, and all his men, to go on board the Pirate:
+One of them not being willing to stay with them, they told him he
+should have a discharge presently, which was to receive ten lashes
+from every man on board.
+
+The next day _Burridge_ signed their Articles; which pleased them so
+much, that they fired all the Guns, and made him Master, spending that
+day in rejoicings and drinking healths.
+
+The First of _April_ they spied a sail, and gave her chase all night,
+believing she had been a _Spaniard_; but when they came up to her, and
+gave her a broadside, she cried out for Quarters, which made them
+cease firing, and ordered the Captain to come aboard, which proved to
+be Captain _Hawkins_, whom they had dismissed three days before, not
+worth a groat. Two Days after, they anchored at _Ratran_, not far from
+_Honduras_, and put ashore Captain _Hawkins_, and several others,
+giving them powder and ball, and a musquet, and then left them to
+shift as well as they could. Here they staid three weeks, when two men
+came in a canoe, that had been left in another Maroon Island near
+_Benecca_, and carried them thither. A fortnight after they espied a
+Sloop at sea, which had lately escaped from the _Spaniards_ at the Bay
+of _Honduras_, which, upon a signal stood in and took them all off.
+
+At an Island to the westward, the Pirates cleaned their ship, and then
+sailed towards _St. Christophers_ to meet Captain _Moor_.
+
+_Spriggs_ next stood towards _Bermudas_, where he took a Schooner
+belonging to _Boston_, from which he took all the Men, and sunk the
+Vessel.
+
+Instead of going to _Newfoundland_, they came back to the Islands, and
+on the 8th of _June_, to windward of _St. Christophers_, they took a
+Sloop, _Nicholas Trot_, Master, belonging to _St. Eustatia_, whose men
+they hoisted as high as the main fore-tops, and so let them fall down
+again; then whipping them about the deck, they gave _Trot_ his Sloop,
+and let him go, keeping only two of his men, besides the plunder. Two
+or three days after, they took a ship coming from _Rhode Island_ to
+_St. Christophers_, laden with provisions and some horses, and burnt
+ship, men, and horses: Since when _Spriggs_ has not been heard of:
+though it is supposed he went to _Madagascar_, to spend, in rioting
+and wantonness, his ill gotten plunder; till by a letter from
+_Jamaica_, of the 2nd of _March_ last, we understood, That he had been
+again at the Bay of _Honduras_, and taken sixteen Sail.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN EDWARD LOWE, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Edward Lowe_, born at _Westminster_, very early began the Trade of
+Plundering; for if any Child refused him what he had, he must fight
+him. When he grew bigger, he took to Gaming among Blackshoe Boys upon
+the _Parade_, with whom he used to play the _Whole Game_, as they call
+it; that is, cheat every Body, and if they refused, they had to fight
+him.
+
+_Ned_ went to Sea with his eldest Brother, and leaving him in
+_New-England_, he worked in a Rigging House, at Boston, for some
+Time, when not liking that, he returned to _England_ to see his
+Mother, with whom he did not stay long before he took his Leave of
+her, for the last Time, as he said, and returned to _Boston_, where he
+shipped himself in a Sloop that was bound to the Bay of _Honduras_;
+and when he arrived there, he was made Patron of the Boat, to bring
+the logwood on board to lade the ship; where he differing with the
+Captain about the hurry of taking the logwood on board, _Lowe_ takes
+up a loaden Musquet, and fired at him; then putting off the Boat, he,
+with twelve of his companions, goes to sea. Next day they met a small
+vessel, which they took, made a Black Flag, and declared War against
+all the world. From hence they proceed to the Island of the _Grand
+Caimanes_, where they met with _George Lowther_, who took him under
+his protection as an ally, without any formal Treaty; which _Lowe_
+readily agreed to. But parting with _Lowther_ on the 28th of _May_, as
+we have already given in an Account in _Lowther's_ Life, _Lowe_ took a
+Vessel belonging to _Amboy_, which he plundered, and then stood away
+to the South East, by which he avoided two Sloops which the Governor
+had sent to take him from _Rhode_ Island.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_July_ the 12th, he sailed into the Harbour of Port _Rosemary_, where
+he found 13 small vessels at anchor, whom he told they would have no
+quarters if they resisted; which so frightened the Masters of the
+vessels, that they all yielded. Out of them he took whatever he
+wanted, keeping for his own Use a Schooner of 80 Tons, on board of
+which he put 10 Carriage Guns, and 50 men, and named her the _Fancy_
+making himself Captain, and appointing _Charles Harris_ Captain of the
+Brigantine. Making up a complement of 80 men out of the vessels, some
+by force, and others by their own inclinations, he sailed away from
+_Mablehead_, and soon after he met two Sloops bound for _Boston_, with
+provisions for the garrison; but there being an officer and soldiers
+on board, he thought it the safest way, after some small resistance,
+to let them go on about their business.
+
+They then steered for the _Leeward_ Islands; but in their voyage met
+with such a hurricane, as had not been known in the memory of man.
+After the storm was over, they got safe to one of the small Islands of
+the _Carribees_, and there refitted their vessels as well as they
+could. As soon as the Brigantine was ready, they took a short cruise,
+leaving the Schooner in the harbour till their return; which had not
+been many days at sea, before she met a ship that had lost all her
+masts, on board of which they went, and took, in money and goods, to
+the value of 1000_l._ Upon this success, the Brigantine returned to the
+Schooner, which being then ready to sail, they agreed to go to the
+_Azores_, or Western Islands, where _Lowe_ took a _French_ Ship of 32
+Guns, and in _St. Michael's_ Road, he took several sail that were
+lying there, without firing a gun. Being in great want of water, he
+sent to the Governor of _St. Michael's_ for a Supply, promising upon
+that Condition, to release the Ships he had taken, otherwise to burn
+them all; which the Governor, for the sake of the Ships, agreed to.
+Thereupon he released six, keeping only the _Rose_ Pink, of which he
+took the Command.
+
+The Pirates took several of the Guns out of the ships, and mounted
+them on board the _Rose_. _Lowe_ ordered the Schooner to lie in the
+Fare between _St. Michael's_ and _St. Mary's_, where he met with
+Captain _Carter_ in the _Wright_ Galley; who, defending himself, they
+cut and mangled him and his Men in a barbarous manner; after which,
+they were for burning the ship, but contented themselves with cutting
+her cable, rigging, and sails to pieces, and so left her to the mercy
+of the seas. From hence they sailed to the Island of _Maderas_, where
+they took a fishing boat, with two old men and a boy in her, one of
+whom they sent ashore, demanding a boat of water, otherwise they would
+kill the old man, which being complied with, the old man was
+discharged. From hence they sailed to the _Canaries_, and thence
+continued their course for the _Cape de Verde_ Islands, where they
+took a ship called the _Liverpool Merchant_, from which they took 300
+gallons of brandy, two guns and carriages, besides six of the men, and
+then obliged them to go to the Isle of _May_. They also took two
+_Portugueze_ ships bound to _Brazil_, and three Sloops from _St.
+Thomas's_ bound to _Curaso_: All of which they plundered, and let them
+go, except one Sloop, by which they heard that two Gallies were
+expected at the Western Islands. Her they manned, and sent in Quest of
+these Ships whilst they careened the _Rose_ at _Cape de Verde_; but
+the Sloop missing the prey, was reduced to great want of water and
+provisions, so that they ventured to go ashore _St. Michael's_, and
+pass for Traders; where, being suspected by the Governor, they were
+conducted into the Castle, and provided for as long as they lived.
+
+_Lowe's_ ship was overset a-careening, so that he was reduced to his
+old Schooner, aboard of which there went about an hundred as bold
+rogues as ever was hanged, and sailed to the _West-Indies_, where they
+took a rich _Portugueze_ ship bound Home from _Bahia_, putting to the
+torture several of the men, who confest the Captain flung into the sea
+a bag of 11000 Moidores. This made _Lowe_ swear a thousand oaths; and
+after cutting off his lips, he murdered him and all his Crew, being 36
+men.
+
+After this, they cruised to the Northward, and took several Vessels
+and then steered for the Bay of _Honduras_, where they took Five
+_English_ Sloops, and a Pink, and a _Spaniard_ of 6 Guns and 70 men,
+whom they killed every man; which being done they rummaged the
+_Spanish_ Ship, bringing all the booty on board their own vessel.
+
+In the next cruise, between the _Leeward Islands_ and the Main, they
+took two Snows from Jamaica to Liverpool, and just after a Ship called
+the _Amsterdam Merchant_, the Captain thereof he slit his Nose, cut
+his Ears off, and then plundered the ship and let her go. Afterwards
+he took a Sloop bound to _Amboy_, of whose Men he tied lighted
+matches between the fingers, which burnt the flesh off the bones, and
+afterwards set them ashore in an uninhabited part of the country, as
+also other ships which fell a prey to those villains.
+
+One of His Majesty's Men-of-War called the _Greyhound_, of 20 guns and
+120 men, hearing of their barbarous actions, went in search of them
+and, seeing the Pirates, allowed _Lowe_ to chase them at first, till
+they were in readiness to engage him, and when he was within gunshot,
+tacked about and stood towards him. The Pirates edged away under the
+Man-of-War's stern, making a running fight for about two hours. But
+little wind happening, the Pirates gained from her; thereupon the
+_Greyhound_ left off firing, and turned all her hands to her oars, and
+came up with them, when the fight was renewed with a brisk fire on
+both sides, till the _Ranger's_ main-yard was shot down; upon which,
+the _Greyhound_ pressing close, _Lowe_ bore away and left his consort,
+who seeing the cowardice of his Commadore, and that there was no
+possibility of escaping, called out for quarters.
+
+_Lowe's_ conduct in this engagement shewed him to be a cowardly
+villain; for had he fought half as briskly as _Harris_, the Man-of-War
+could never have taken either of them. The _Greyhound_ carried her
+Prize to _Rhode-Island_, which was looked upon to be of such signal
+Service to the Colony, that in Council they resolved to compliment
+_Peter Sulgard_ Captain, with the Freedom of their Corporation. They
+secured the prisoners under a strong guard in Jail, till a Court of
+Vice-Admiralty could be held for their Trials, which was on the 10th
+of _July_ at _Newport_, lasting three Days. The Judges were _William
+Dummer_, Esq; Lieutenant Governor of the _Massachusets_, President;
+_Nathaniel Payne_, Esq; _John Lechmore_, Esq; Surveyor General; _John
+Valentine_, Esq; Advocate General; _Samuel Cranston_, Governor of
+_Rhode Island_; _John Menzies_, Esq; Judge of the Admiralty; _Richard
+Ward_, Esq; Registrar; and Mr. _Jahleet Brinton_, Provost Marshal.
+_Robert Auchmuta_, Esq, was appointed by the Court, Counsel for the
+prisoners here under mentioned.
+
+_Charles Harris_, Captain, _William Blads_, _Daniel Hyde_, _Thomas
+Powel_, jun., _Stephen Munden_, _Thomas Hugget_, _William Read_,
+_Peter Kneeves_, _James Brinkley_, _Joseph Sound_, _William
+Shutfield_, _Edward Eaton_, _John Brown_, _Edward Lawson_, _Owen
+Rice_, _John Tomkins_, _John Fitzgerald_, _Abraham Lacy_, _Thomas
+Linester_, _Francis Leyton_, _John Walters_, Quarter-master, _William
+Jones_, _Charles Church_, _Thomas Hazel_, and _John Bright_, who were
+all executed the 19th of _July_, 1723, near _Newport_ in _Rhode
+Island_; but _John Brown_ and _Patrick Cunningham_ were recommended to
+Mercy.
+
+The eight following were found Not Guilty; _John Wilson_, _Henry
+Barnes_, _Thomas Jones_, _Joseph Switzer_, _Thomas Mumper_, Indian,
+_John Hencher_, Doctor, _John Fletcher_, and _Thomas Child_.
+
+Instead of working repentance in _Lowe_, this deliverance made him ten
+times worse, vowing revenge upon all they should meet with for the
+future, which they executed upon _Nathan Skiff_, Master of a
+_Whale-fishing_ Sloop, whom they whipt naked about the deck, and then
+cut off his ears, making his torture their sport. At length being
+weary thereof, they shot him through the head, and sunk his vessel.
+Some days after, he took a fishing boat off of _Black_ Island, and
+only cut off the master's head; but next day taking two Whale Boats
+near _Rhode_ Island, he brutally killed one of the masters and cut off
+the ears of the other. From hence he went to _Newfoundland_, where he
+took 23 _French_ Vessels, and mann'd one of them of 22 Guns with
+pirates; after which, they took and plundered 18 ships, some of which
+they destroyed.
+
+The latter end of _July_, _Lowe_ took a large ship called the _Merry
+Christmas_, and mounted her with 34 Guns, on which he goes aboard,
+taking the title of Admiral, and sails to the Western Islands, where
+he took a Brigantine manned with _English_ and _Portugueze_, the
+Latter of whom he hanged.
+
+Afterwards _Lowe_ went to the Coast of _Guinea_, but nothing happened
+till he came to _Sierra Leon_, in _Africa_, when he met with the
+_Delight_, which he took, mounting her with 16 Guns, and 60 men,
+appointing _Spriggs_ Captain, and from whom two days after he
+separated.
+
+In _January_ after, he took a Ship called _Squirrel_, but what came of
+him afterwards we cannot tell.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN GEORGE LOWTHER, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_George Lowther_ went second Mate on board the _Gambia Castle_,
+belonging to the _Royal African_ Company, on board which was Captain
+_Massey_, with soldiers that he was to command under Colonel
+_Whitney_, whom were landed on _James_ Island; but the Fort and
+Garrison not agreeing the Company soon after lost a Galley worth
+10000_l._ by it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Massey_ finding he must be over-ruled by the merchants, soon began to
+complain of their ill-treatment of his men in their allowance, saying
+he did not come to be a _Guinea_ Slave; and that if they did not use
+him and his men better, he should take other measures.
+
+At the same time, there happened a dispute between the Captain of the
+ship and _Lowther_, which very much contributing to Lowther's design:
+For _Lowther_ finding himself neglected by the Captain, found means to
+ingratiate himself into the favour of the sailors, who, upon the
+Captain's going to punish him, swore, They would knock down the first
+man that should offer to lay hands on him; which _Lowther_ improved to
+a general disaffection of the ship's Crew. _Massey_ in the meantime,
+having contracted an intimacy with _Lowther_, they agreed to curb
+their enemies, and provide for themselves some other way; which the
+Captain perceiving, he goes on shore to the Governor and Factor, to
+consult what methods to take. But _Lowther_ apprehending it was
+against him, he sent a letter in the same boat to _Massey_, advising
+him to repair on board, to put their project in execution.
+
+Upon which _Massey_ harangued the Soldiers, saying, _You that have a
+Mind to return to England_, may now do it; which they all agreed to.
+Then he went to the Governor's appartment, and took his bed, baggage,
+plate and furniture, believing the Governor would go with him, which
+he refused; however _Massey_ came aboard with the Governor's son.
+After demolishing all the guns of the Fort, they weighed anchor, and
+fell down, but soon ran the ship aground; upon which _Massey_ returns
+to the Fort, remounts the guns, and keeps garrison till the ship got
+clear. In the meantime Captain _Russell_ got off but was not suffered
+to come on board, although he offered _Lowther_ what terms he pleased.
+Next tide they got the ship afloat, having first nailed up and
+dismounted all the cannon. Then putting the Governor's son ashore,
+they put out to sea, when _Lowther_ called upon the men, and told
+them, _It was Madness to think of returning to _England_; for what
+they had done, would be judged a Capital Offence_; and therefore,
+since they had a good ship under them, he proposed that they should
+seek their fortunes upon the Seas, as others had done before them,
+which they all agreed to, calling the ship _The Delivery_, and swore
+to stand by one another.
+
+_Lowther_ left the Fort the 13th of _June_, and on the 20th, near
+_Barbadoes_, he came up with a Brigantine, belonging to _Boston_,
+which he plundered, and then let go. After this he proceeded to
+_Hispaniola_, where he met with a _French_ Sloop loaden with wine and
+brandy, on board whom Captain _Massey_ went, pretending at first to be
+a merchant; but finding her to be a Ship of value, he told Monsieur,
+He must have it all without money. On board her, there was 30 casks of
+brandy, 5 hogsheads of wine, several pieces of chintz, and 70_l._ in
+money, all of which they took, only _Lowther_ return'd the French
+Master five pounds again.
+
+But this good harmony did not last long amongst them, _Massey_ was
+uneasy, and resolved to leave them; which _Lowther_ agreed to, giving
+him a Sloop he had just before taken, to go where he thought fit.
+Accordingly _Massey_ goes aboard, with ten men, and comes in directly
+for _Jamaica_, where, putting a bold face on the matter, he informs
+Sir _Nicholas Laws_, the then Governor, how he had left _Lowther_ the
+pirate, and of all that had been transacted before, adding, That he
+assisted him at the River _Gambia_ only to save so many of His
+Majesty's subjects, and return to _England_.
+
+_Massey_ was well received, and, at his own report, he was sent on
+board the _Happy Sloop_, to cruise off _Hispaniola_ for _Lowther_; but
+not meeting with him, he returned to _Jamaica_, and getting a
+Certificate, he came home to _England_, where, when he arrived, he
+writes to the _African_ Company, relating the whole transaction of his
+voyage, but excuses it as an inadvertency, by his being ill-used; for
+which, if they would not forgive him, he begged to die like a soldier,
+and not be hanged like a dog. This not producing so favourable an
+answer as he expected, he went the next day to the Lord Chief Justice
+Chambers, and enquired, If there had been ever a Warrant granted and
+against one Captain _Massey_ for Piracy. But being told, There was
+not, he said, He was the Man, and that the _African_ Company would
+soon apply to my Lord for one, which if they did, he lodged in
+_Aldersgate street_, where the Officer might at any time find him.
+This the Clerk took down in writing, and a Warrant being soon granted,
+the Tipstaff went accordingly, and took him without any trouble.
+
+But still there was no person to charge him, neither could they prove
+the letter to be his own hand-writing, till the Justice interrogated
+him, _Whether he did write the letter or not_; which he readily
+confessed, as also gave an ample account of the whole voyage,
+thereupon he was committed to _Newgate_, though soon after he was
+admitted out upon bail.
+
+_July_ the 5th, 1723, he was tried at the _Old-Baily_ by a Court of
+Admiralty, when Captain _Russell_ and others appeared against him: But
+he would have saved them all that trouble, for he confessed more than
+they knew, fixing the facts so firm upon himself, that he was found
+Guilty, received Sentence of Death, and was executed three weeks
+after at _Execution Dock_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But to return to _Lowther_, whom _Massey_ left cruising off of
+_Hispaniola_, who plying to the Windward near _Porto Rico_, took two
+sail, one was a small _Bristol_ Ship, the other a _Spanish_ Pirate,
+who had taken the _Bristol_ Ship; which so provoked _Lowther_, that he
+threatened to put all the _Spaniards_ to Death, for daring to
+intermeddle in his Affairs: But at last he contented himself with
+burning both their ships; and the _Spaniards_ getting away in their
+launch, they thought they were well off.
+
+Afterwards he took a small Sloop from _St. Christophers_, which he
+manned; and carried with him to an island where they cleaned, and then
+going aboard, they sailed towards the Bay of _Honduras_, where they
+met with a small vessel with 13 Hands, of the same employment, under
+Captain _Lowe_, whom _Lowther_ received as friends, inviting them, as
+they were few in number, to join their strength together; which being
+accepted of, _Lowther_ continued Captain, and _Lowe_ was made
+Lieutenant, burning his own ship. Then coming into the Bay, they fell
+upon a ship of two hundred tons, called the _Greyhound_; against whom
+_Lowther_ firing his guns, hoisted the piratical Colours, which
+Captain _Edward_ bravely returned; but at length finding the Pirate
+too strong for him he yielded, and the Pirate came on Board, and not
+only rifling the ship, but beat and cut the men in a cruel manner. In
+crusing about the Bay, they took several other vessels without any
+resistance, particularly a Sloop of 100 Tons, which they mounted with
+8 carriages and 10 swivel guns. With this fleet, _Lowther_ in the
+_Happy Delivery_, _Lowe_ in the _Rhode Island_ Sloop, _Harris_ in
+_Hamilton's_ Sloop, left the Bay, and came to _Port Mayo_, where they
+made preparations to careen, carrying ashore all their sails, to lay
+their plunder and stores in; but when they were busy at work, a body
+of the natives came down and attacked the Pirates unprepared, who were
+glad to fly to their Sloops, and leave them masters of the field,
+leaving the _Happy Delivery_ behind them, contenting themselves with
+the _Ranger_, which had only 20 guns, and 8 swivels, taking all the
+men on board her, wherein they presently began to quarrel, laying the
+blame upon one another. Being very much in want of provisions, they
+got to the _West Indies_, _May_ 1722, and near the Island of _Descada_
+took a Brigantine stored with provisions and necessaries, which put
+them in better temper. Then they watered and stood to the Northward,
+intending to visit the North Coast of _America_, and in Latitude 38,
+they took the _Rebecca_ of _Boston_, at which Time the Crews divided,
+_Lowe_ with 44 Hands went on board the Brigantine, and _Lowther_ with
+the same number, staid in the Sloop, separating that very night, being
+the 28th of May 1722.
+
+_Lowther_ cruised a pretty while among the Islands to no purpose,
+till at length he fell in with a _Martinico_ Man, which proved a
+seasonable relief, he being reduced to great want of provisions, and
+after that a _Guinea_ Man. After which they thought it time to clean,
+in order to prepare for new adventures; for which purpose they sailed
+to the Island of _Blanco_, which is a low Island 30 leagues from the
+main of _Spanish America_, where he unrigged his Sloop, sending his
+guns, rigging, and sails ashore, and putting his vessel upon the
+careen. But the _Eagle_ Sloop of _Barbadoes_, coming near this Island,
+and seeing her, supposing her to be a Pirate, took the advantage of
+attacking her when unprepared, who immediately hoisted the _St.
+George's_ Flag at her top-mast head to bid them defiance: But when
+they found the _Eagle_ resolved to board them in good earnest, the
+Pirates cut their cable, and hawled the stern on shore, which obliged
+the _Eagle_ to come to an anchor athwart the hawse, where they engaged
+them till they cried out for Quarters. At which time _Lowther_ and 12
+men made their escape, but they took the rest, and brought them to
+_Camena_, where the _Spanish_ Governor condemned the Sloop to the
+captors, and sent 23 Hands to scour the Bushes of _Blanco_ for the
+Pirates, when they took 40; but could not find _Lowther_, three men
+and a little Boy. _John Churchill_, _Edward Mackonald_, _Nicholas
+Lewis_, _Rich. West_, _Sam Lavercot_, _Rob. White_, _John Shaw_, _And.
+Hunter_, _Jonathan Delve_, _Matthew Freeborn_, and _Henry Watson_,
+were hanged, _Roger Granger_, _Ralph Candem_, and _Robert Willis_,
+were acquitted. And Captain _Lowther_, it is said, afterwards shot
+himself, being found dead, and a pistol burst by his side.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN ANSTIS, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Thomas Anstis_ shipped himself at _Providence_, in the Year 1718,
+aboard the _Buck_ Sloop, and was one of the six that conspired
+together to get off with the vessel, along with _Howel Davis_, _Dennis
+Topping_, and _Walter Kennedy_, etc. I shall only observe, that this
+combination was the beginning of Captain _Roberts's_ company, which
+afterwards proved so formidable, from whom _Anstis_ separated the 18th
+of _April_, 1721, leaving his Commodore to pursue his adventures upon
+the Coasts of _Guinea_, whilst he returned to the _West Indies_, upon
+the same design.
+
+About the middle of _June_, he met with one Captain _Maiston_,
+between _Hispaniola_ and _Jamaica_, bound to _New-York_, from which he
+took all the wearing apparel, liquors and provisions, and six men.
+Afterwards he met with the _Irwin_, Captain _Ross_ from _Cork_, on the
+Coast of _Martinico_, which ship had Colonel _Doyly_ of _Montserrat_
+on board, and his Family, and 600 barrels of beef.
+
+Afterwards they went into one of the Islands to clean, and thence
+proceeding towards _Bermudas_, they met with a stout ship called the
+_Morning Star_, bound from _Guinea_ to _Carolina_, which they kept for
+their own use. Just after, they took a ship from _Barbadoes_ bound to
+_New England_, from whence taking her guns, they mounted the _Morning
+Star_ with 32 pieces of cannon, and 100 men, appointing _John Fenn_
+Captain: For _Anstis_ was so in love with his own vessel, she being a
+good sailor, he made it his choice to stay in her, and let _Fenn_ have
+the other ship. Though they were not sufficiently strong, yet being
+most new men, they could not agree, but resolving to break up company,
+sent a Petition to His Majesty by a Merchant Ship, expecting her
+Return at _Cuba_.
+
+Here they staid about nine months; but not having provisions for above
+two, they were obliged to take what the Island afforded; which is many
+sorts of fish, particularly turtle; though they eat not a bit of
+bread, nor flesh meat, during their being on the Island.
+
+They passed their time here in dancing, and other diversions,
+agreeable to these sort of folks. Among the rest, they appointed a
+mock Court of Judicature, to try one another for Piracy, and he that
+was a Criminal one day, was made a Judge another. I shall never forget
+one of their Trials, which for the curiosity of it, I shall relate.
+The Judge got up into a tree, having a dirty tarpaulin over his
+shoulders for a robe, and a Thrum Cap upon his head, with a large pair
+of spectacles upon his nose, and a monkey bearing up his train, with
+abundance of Officers attending him, with crows and hand-spikes
+instead of wands and tip-staves in their hands. Before whom the
+Criminals were brought out, making 1000 wry Faces; when the
+Attorney-General moved the Court, and said, An't please your Lordship,
+and you Gentlemen of the Jury, this fellow before you is a sad dog, a
+sad, a sad dog, and I hope your Lordship will order him to be hanged
+out of the way; he has committed Piracy upon the High Seas; nay, my
+Lord, that's not all; this fellow, this sad dog before you, has
+out-rid a hundred storms, and you know, my Lord, _He that's born to be
+hanged, will never be drowned_. Nor is this all, he has been guilty of
+worse villany than this, and that is of drinking of small beer; and
+your Lordship knows, there was never a sober fellow but what was a
+rogue--My Lord, I should have said more, but your Lordship knows our
+rum is out, and how should a Man speak that has drunk a dram to-day.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    _Judge._ Harkee me, Sirrah--you ill-looked dog. What
+    have you to say why you may not be tucked up, and set
+    a-sun-drying like a scare-crow?--Are you Guilty, or not?
+
+    _Prisoner._ Not Guilty, an't please your Worship.
+
+    _Judge._ Not Guilty! say so again, and I will have you
+    hanged without any Trial.
+
+    _Prisoner._ An't please your Worship's Honour, my Lord,
+    I am as honest a fellow as ever went between stem and
+    stern of a ship, and can hand, reef, steer, and clap two
+    ends of a rope together, as well as e'er a He that ever
+    crossed Salt-water; but I was taken by one _George
+    Bradley_ (the name of the Judge) a notorious Pirate, and
+    a sad rogue as ever was hanged, and he forced me, an't
+    please your Honour.
+
+    _Judge._ Answer me, Sirrah--how will you be tried?
+
+    _Prisoner._ By God and my country.
+
+    _Judge._ The Devil you will.... Then, Gentlemen of the
+    Jury, we have nothing to do but to proceed to Judgment.
+
+    _Attorney-Gen._ Right, my Lord; for if the fellow should
+    be suffered to speak, he might clear himself; and that,
+    you know, is an affront to the Court.
+
+    _Prisoner._ Pray, my Lord, I hope your Lordship will
+    consider.
+
+    _Judge._ Consider!--How dare you talk of
+    considering!--Sirrah, Sirrah, I have never considered in
+    all my life.--I'll make it Treason to consider.
+
+    _Pris._ But I hope your Lordship will hear reason.
+
+    _Judge._ What have we to do with Reason?--I would have
+    you to know, Sirrah, we do not sit here to hear
+    Reason--we go according to Law.--Is our dinner ready?
+
+    _Attorney-General._ Yes, my Lord.
+
+    _Judge._ Then harkee you rascal at the Bar, hear me,
+    Sirrah, hear me.--You must be hanged for three reasons:
+    _First_, because it is not fit that I should sit as
+    Judge, and no-body to be hang'd: _Secondly_, You must be
+    hang'd because you have a damn'd hanging Look:
+    _Thirdly_, You must be hanged, because I am hungry.
+    There's Law for you, ye dog; take him away, Gaoler.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+By this we may see how these fellows can jest upon things, the
+thoughts of which should make them tremble.
+
+_August_ 1722, they made ready the Brigantine, and came out to sea,
+where meeting their correspondent returning, and finding nothing done,
+they all agreed to ply their old trade. So they sailed with the ship
+and Brigantine to the Southward, where they ran the _Morning Star_
+upon the _Grand Carmanes_, and wrecked her; the next Day _Anstis_ went
+ashore to fetch the men off, who were all safe. _Anstis_ had just time
+to get Captain _Fenn_, and a few others on board, before the _Hector_
+and _Adventure_ came down upon him; but he got to sea, and one of the
+Men-of-War after him, keeping within gun-shot several hours, when the
+wind dying away, the Pirates got to their oars, and rowed for their
+lives.
+
+The _Hector_ landed her men, and took 40 of the _Morning Star's_ Crew,
+without any resistance, they pretending they were glad of this
+opportunity; the rest hid themselves in the woods.
+
+The Brigantine after her escape, sailed to an Island, near the Bay of
+_Honduras_, to clean, and in her way took a Sloop, Captain _Durfey_
+Commander, which they destroyed, but brought the men on board. While
+she was cleaning, _Durfey_ conspired with some of the prisoners, to
+carry off the Brigantine; but it being discovered, he and four or
+five more got ashore, with arms and ammunition; and when the Pirates'
+Canoe came in for Water, seized the boat and men; upon which, _Anstis_
+sent another boat with 30 hand ashore; but _Durfey_ gave them such a
+warm reception that they were glad to return back again.
+
+In _December_ 1722, _Anstis_ left this place, taking in his cruise a
+good ship. He mounted her with 24 Guns and made _Fenn_ Commander. From
+hence they went to the _Bahama_ Islands, taking what they wanted.
+
+As they were cleaning their ship the _Winchelsea_ came down upon them,
+when most of them escaped to the woods; but _Anstis_ having a light
+pair of heels, escaped in the Brigantine. Afterwards, some of the
+Company, being tired of this trade, shot _Anstis_ in his Hammock, and
+put the rest in irons, and then carried the Brigantine to _Curacco_, a
+_Dutch_ Settlement, where they were hanged, and those that delivered
+up the vessel acquitted. _Fenn_ was soon after taken by the
+Man-of-War's Men, straggling in the woods, with a few more, and
+carried to _Antegoa_ and hanged. But some escaped among the negroes,
+and were never heard of since.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN PHILLIPS, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_John Phillips_ was bred a carpenter, but sailing in a West Country
+ship to _Newfoundland_, was taken by _Anstis_, who soon persuaded him
+to join with him, making him Carpenter of the Vessel, in which station
+he continued till they broke up at _Tobago_, when he came Home in a
+Sloop that was sunk in _Bristol_ Channel. But he did not stay long in
+_England_; for hearing of some of his companions being taken in
+_Bristol_ Gaol, he moved off to _Topsham_, and there shipped himself
+with one Captain _Wadham_ for _Newfoundland_, where when the ship
+came he ran away, and hired himself a splitter in the Fishery for the
+season: but he soon combined with others in the Fishery, to go off
+with one of the vessels that lay in the Harbour, and turn Pirate, and
+accordingly fixed upon the 29th of _August_, 1713, at Night; but of 16
+Men that promised five only were as good as their Word.
+Notwithstanding, _Phillips_ was for pushing on, assuring them that
+they should soon increase their company. Hereupon they seized a
+vessel, and went out to sea, when they soon began to settle their
+Officers to prevent dispute, appointing, _John Phillips_, Captain;
+_John Nutt_, Navigator of the Vessel; _James Sparks_, Gunner; _Thomas
+Fern_, Carpenter; and _William White_ was only a private man among
+them.
+
+Before they left the Banks, they took several small fishing vessels,
+out of which they took some more Hands, and then sailed to the
+_West-Indies_: Among those that were taken, was one _John Rose Archer_
+who having been a pirate under _Blackbeard_ was made Quarter-Master to
+the company: They came off _Barbadoes_ in _October_, and cruised
+about the Islands about three Months, without meeting with a vessel,
+so that they were almost starved for want of provisions, when at
+length they fell in with a _Martinico_ Man of 12 guns and 35 hands,
+upon which they hoisted the Black Flag and ran up along side of the
+Sloop, with piratical Colours flying, swearing, If they did not strike
+immediately, they must expect no quarters; which so frightened the
+_Frenchman_, that he never fired a gun. Having got this supply, they
+took her provisions, and four of her men.
+
+Having occasion to clean their vessel, _Phillips_ proposed _Tobago_;
+and just as they had done, a Man-of-War's boat came into the Harbour,
+the ship cruising to the Leeward of the Island; which was no sooner
+gone, but they warped out, and plied to the Windward for safety.
+
+In a few days they took a Snow with a few Hands in it, on board of
+which they sent _Fern_ the Carpenter, _William Smith_, _Philips Wood_,
+and _Taylor_; but _Fern_ being dissatisfied at _Archer's_ being
+preferred before him to be Quarter-Master, persuaded the rest to go
+off with the prize; but _Phillips_ gave them Chase, and coming up with
+them, shot _Wood_, and wounded _Taylor_ in the leg; upon which the
+other two surrendered.
+
+From _Tobago_ they stood away to the Northward, and took a
+_Portugueze_ bound for _Brazil_, and two or three Sloops for
+_Jamaica_, in one of which _Fern_ endeavouring to go off, was killed
+by _Phillips_, as was also another man for the like attempt, which
+made all the others more fearful of discovering their Minds, dreading
+the villany of a few hardened wretches, who feared neither God nor
+Devil, as _Phillips_ was often used blasphemously to say.
+
+On the 25th of March, they took two ships from _Virginia_, the
+Master's name of one was _John Phillips_, the Pirate's Name-sake; of
+the other, _Robert Mortimer_, a stout young man. _Phillips_ staid on
+board _Mortimer's_ Ship, while they transported the crew to the Sloop,
+when _Mortimer_ took up a hand-spike and struck _Phillips_ over the
+Head; but not knocking him down, he recovered and wounded _Mortimer_
+with his sword; and the other two Pirates who were on board, coming
+to _Phillip's_ assistance they cut _Mortimer_ to pieces, while his own
+two men stood and looked on. Out of the other _Virginia_ Man, they
+took _Edward Cheesman_, a carpenter, to supply the Place of _Fern_,
+who being averse to that way of life, proposed to _J. Philamore_, who
+was ordered to row _Cheesman_ on board _Mortimer's_ ship, to overthrow
+their Piratical government; which from time to time, as occasion
+offered, they consulted how to do. The Pirates, in the mean time,
+robbed and plundered several ships and vessels, bending their course
+towards _Newfoundland_, where they designed to raise more men, and do
+all the mischief they could on the Banks, and in the harbours. Towards
+which country, _Phillips_ making his way, took one _Salter_ in a Sloop
+on the Isle of _Sables_, which he kept, and gave _Mortimer's_ Ship to
+the Mate and crew; also a Schooner, one _Chadwell_ Master, which they
+scuttled in order to sink: But _Phillips_ understanding that she
+belonged to Mr. _Menors_ of _Newfoundland_, with whose Vessel they
+first went off a-Pirating, said, _We have done him injury enough
+already_, and so ordering his Vessel to be repaired, returned her to
+the Master.
+
+In the Afternoon, they chased another vessel, whose Master was an
+Inward Light Man, named _Dependence Ellery_, who told _Phillips_ he
+took him for a Pirate as soon as he saw him, otherwise he would not
+have given him the Trouble of chasing him so long. This so provoked
+_Phillips_ and his Crew, that they made poor _Dependence_, for his
+Integrity, dance about the Ship till he was weary. After which they
+took 10 other ships and vessels; and on the 14th of _April_, they took
+a Sloop belonging to Cape _Anne_, _Andrew Harradine_ Master; which
+looking upon to be more fit for their purpose, they came on board,
+keeping only the Master of her Prisoner, and sending the crew away in
+_Salter's_ vessel. _Cheesman_ broke his mind to _Harradine_, to
+destroy the crew. Upon this, it was concluded to be 12 a Clock at
+Noon, when _Cheesman_ leaves his working-tools on the deck, as if he
+had been going to use them, walks off. But perceiving some signs of
+fear in _Harradine_, he fetches his brandy bottle, and gives him and
+the rest a dram, saying, _Here's to our next Meeting_; then he talks
+to _Nutt_, in the mean while _Philamore_ takes up an axe, while
+_Cheesman_ and _Harradine_ seize _Nutt_ by the Collar, and toss him
+over the Side of the Vessel.
+
+By this Time the Boatswain was dead; for as soon as _Philamore_ saw
+the Master laid hold on, he up with the axe, and cut off the
+Boatswain's head, which Noise soon brought the Captain upon Deck, whom
+_Cheesman_ saluted with the blow of a mallet, which broke his
+jaw-bone, but did not knock him down; upon which _Harradine_ came to
+the Carpenter's aid, when _Sparks_ the Gunner interposing, _Cheesman_
+trips up his Heels, and flung him into the arms of _Charles Ivemay_,
+who at that moment threw him into the Sea; and at the same Time
+_Harradine_ throws Captain _Phillips_ after him, bidding the Devil
+take them both. This done, _Cheesman_ jumps from the deck into the
+Hold, to knock _Archer_ on the Head, when _Harry Gyles_ came down
+after him, desired his Life might be spared; which being agreed to, he
+was made a Prisoner, and secured.
+
+All being over, they altered their course from _Newfoundland_ to
+_Boston_, where they arrived the 3rd of _May_, to the great joy of the
+Province, and on the 12th of _May_, a special Court of Admiralty was
+held for the Trial of these Pirates, when _John Philamore_, _Edward
+Cheesman_, _John Cobs_, _Henry Gyles_, _Charles Joymay_, _John
+Bootman_, and _Henry Payne_, were honourably acquitted; as also three
+_French_ Men, _John Baptis_, _Peter Taffery_, and _Isaac Lassen_, as
+also three Negroes, _Pedro_, _Francisco_, and _Pierro_. _John Rose
+Archer_, the Quarter-Master, _William White_, _William Taylor_, and
+_William Phillips_ were condemned; altho' the two latter got a
+Reprieve, and the two former, _Archer_ and _White_, were executed the
+2nd of _June_ following.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN TEACH]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN TEACH, _ALIAS_ BLACKBEARD
+
+
+_Edward Teach_ was a _Bristol_ Man, and had served many years in the
+late wars, in a Privateer fitted out from _Jamaica_, in which he had
+often distinguished himself for his boldness. He was never thought fit
+to be entrusted with any Command, till he went a-pirating in the Year
+1716, when Captain _Benjamin Hornigold_ put him into a Prize Sloop,
+with whom he kept company till _Hornigold_ surrendered.
+
+In 1727, _Teach_ and _Hornigold_ sailed from _Providence_ for
+_America_, where, in their way, they took a vessel with above 100
+Barrels of Flour, as also a Sloop from _Bermudas_, and a Ship bound to
+_Carolina_; from which they had a good plunder. After cleaning at
+_Virginia_, they returned to the _West-Indies_, and made Prize of a
+_French Guinea_ Man bound to _Martinico_, which _Teach_ was made
+Captain of; but _Hornigold_ with his Sloop returned to _Providence_,
+and surrendered to mercy. Aboard the _French Guinea_ Ship, _Teach_
+mounted 46 guns, and called her _Queen Anne's Revenge_. Not long after
+he fell in with the _Scarborough_ Man-of-War, who, after a long fight
+finding she could do no good with _Teach_, left him, and returned to
+_Barbadoes_, while _Teach_ sailed to _Spanish America_. In his way, he
+met with Major _Bonnet_ a Gentleman, formerly of a good estate in
+_Barbadoes_, in a small Sloop with which he had turned Pirate: But
+_Teach_ finding _Bonnet_ knew nothing of the matter, took him into his
+own Ship, and put one _Richards_ Captain in his room, telling the
+Major, _That he had not been us'd to the Fatigues of the Sea, he had
+better decline it, and take his pleasure aboard his Ship_. At
+_Turnissi_ they took in fresh water; but seeing a Sloop coming in,
+they ran to meet her, which struck her sail, upon the sight of the
+Black Flag, to _Teach_, who took the Captain and his men aboard, and
+put _Israel Hands_ to mann the Sloop: From thence they sailed to the
+Bay, where they found a ship and four Sloops. _Teach_ hoisted his
+Black Colours, at the Sight of which, the Captain and his men left the
+Ship, and ran into the woods. _Teach's_ Quarter-Master, with some of
+his Men, took possession of her, and _Richards_ secured the Sloops:
+One of which they burnt, because she belonged to _Boston_, where some
+of his Men had been hanged; but the others they let go after
+plundering them.
+
+From hence they sailed to the _Grand Canaries_, then to the _Bahama_
+Wrecks, and then to _Carolina_, where they took a Brigantine and two
+Sloops, lying off the Bar of _Charles Town_; as also a Ship bound for
+_London_, with some passengers aboard. The next Day they took another
+Vessel coming out, and two Pinks going in, and a Brigantine with
+negroes, in the Face of the Town; which put the Inhabitants into a sad
+fright, being in no condition to help themselves.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Teach_, alias _Blackbeard_, sent _Richards_ along with Mr. _Mark_,
+one of the Prisoners, to demand a chest of medicines of the Governor,
+several of his Men being sick aboard; threatening otherwise to burn
+the Ships, and destroy all the prisoners, among whom was Mr. _Samuel
+Wrag_, one of his Council. Altho' this went very much against the
+inhabitants, yet they were forced to comply with it to save the lives
+of the many souls had in his custody. So sending him a chest worth
+about 3 or 4 hundred Pounds, _Richards_ went back safe to the ships
+with his booty; which as soon as _Blackbeard_ had received, (for so I
+shall call him for the future) he let the ships and the prisoners go,
+having first taken 1500_l._ Sterling, and some provisions out of her.
+From thence they sailed to North _Carolina_, where he had thoughts of
+breaking up the company, and securing the money and the best of the
+effects for himself and friends. Accordingly he ran a-ground, as if it
+had been by accident, and calling _Israel Hands_ to his assistance, he
+ran the Sloop ashore near the other, and so they were both lost. This
+done _Blackbeard_ goes into the _Revenge_ and maroons 17 men upon a
+desert island; where they must inevitably have perished, if _Bonnet_
+had not after taken them up.
+
+_Blackbeard_ goes straight to the Governor of _North Carolina_, with
+Twenty of his Men, and pleads his Majesty's Pardon, and receives
+Certificates thereupon. He went to his Sloop which lay at _Okere-Cock_
+Inlet, and set out for Sea upon another expedition, steering his Ship
+towards _Bermudas_. Meeting with one or two _English Vessels_ in his
+way, he robb'd them only of provisions for his present occasion; but
+meeting with a _French_ Ship laden with sugar and cocoa, he brought
+her home with her cargoe to _North Carolina_, where the Governor and
+the Pirates shared the plunder. He had no sooner arrived there, but he
+and four of his Men made affidavit, That they found the _French_ Ship
+at Sea, without ever a Man on board; upon which she was condemned. The
+Governor had sixty hogheads of sugar for his dividend, his Secretary
+twenty, and the rest were shared amongst the other Pirates. And for
+fear the ship might be discovered by some that might come into the
+River, _Blackbeard_, under pretence that she was leaky, and might
+sink, obtained an order from the Governor to bring her out into the
+River, and burn her; which they did, and sunk her bottom.
+
+The Sloops trading in the River, being so often pillaged by
+_Blackbeard_, consulted with the traders what course to take, knowing
+it was in vain to make any application to the Governor; therefore they
+sent a deputation to the Governor of _Virginia_, to sollicit a force
+from the Men-of-War to destroy this Pirate. Accordingly the Governor
+consulted with the Captains of the _Pearl_ and _Lime_ Men-of-War,
+which lay in _St. James's_ River; whereupon it was agreed, That the
+Governor should have a couple of small Sloops, and they should be
+mann'd out of the Men of War, the Command of which was given to Mr.
+_Robert Maynard_, first Lieutenant of the _Pearl_. But before they
+sailed, it was agreed in Council, to offer a reward of 100_l._ for _any
+one that should take _Edward Teach_, commonly called _Blackbeard_;
+_for every_ Lieutenant, Master, Quarter-Master, Boatswain, _or_
+Carpenter Twenty Pounds; For every inferior Officer, Fifteen Pounds;
+And for every Man taken on Board each Sloop, Ten Pounds_.
+
+Upon this, the Lieutenant sailed from _James's_ River in _Virginia_,
+the 17th of _November_, 1718, and the 21st in the evening came to
+_Okere-cock_ Inlet, where he had fight of the Pirate: And altho' this
+Expedition was made with all the Secrecy imaginable, yet _Blackbeard_
+had notice of it from the Governor of North _Carolina_ and his
+Secretary: But having heard several false reports before, he gave the
+less credit to this, till he saw the Sloops; and then he put himself
+in a Posture of defence, with his 25 Men.
+
+Lieutenant _Maynard_ came to an anchor that night, because the Channel
+was so intricate that there was no getting in, in the dark. In the
+Morning, coming within gun-shot of the Pirate, he received his fire:
+whereupon the _Maynard_ stood directly towards him, endeavouring to
+make a running fight. _Maynard's_ men being most expos'd, he lost
+twenty at one broadside; upon which he ordered his men under deck, and
+bid them get ready for close fighting upon the first signal. Then
+_Blackbeard's_ men pour'd in grenadoes; after which, seeing no Hands
+aboard, he told his men they were all kill'd; _Let's jump in, and fall
+to Plunder_: Which they had no sooner done, but the Lieutenant and his
+men gave them as unwelcome a reception as ever they met with before.
+The Lieutenant and _Blackbeard_ fired first at each other, and then
+they went to it sword in hand, whilst the men on each side were as
+warmly engaged as their Captains, until the vessel was all over
+blood. _Blackbeard_ stood it till he had received above twenty wounds,
+five of them being shots, before he fell down dead. Eight of his
+fourteen men being kill'd, and the other six being much wounded, they
+call'd for quarters; which was granted, and then the Lieutenant
+attacked with equal bravery the men that remained in the Sloop and
+took them.
+
+The Lieutenant caused _Blackbeard's_ head to be cut off, and hung at
+the bowsprit end; with which he sailed to _Bath Town_ to get his
+wounded men cured, and then began to rummage the Pirate Sloop, aboard
+which they found several Letters of Correspondence betwixt the
+Governor of _North Carolina_, his Secretary, and some Traders of _New
+York_ and _Blackbeard_. Thereupon going to _Bath Town_ in _North
+Carolina_, he seized in the Governors Store-house, the Sixty Hogsheads
+of Sugar, and Mr. _Knight_ his Secretary's 20, which was their
+dividend of the plunder taken in the _French_ Ship before-mentioned.
+
+After his Men were a little recovered, he returned to the Men-of-War
+in _James's_ River in _Virginia_, with _Blackbeard's_ head hanging at
+his bowsprit, and 15 prisoners, 13 of whom were hanged, one of them
+being taken but the night before out of a trading Sloop: The other,
+not being in the fight, was taken at _Bath Town_, being just before
+disabled by _Blackbeard_ in one of his drunken humours.
+
+The night before he was killed, being ask'd if he should chance to be
+killed, whether his wife knew where his money was; he answered, _That
+no-body but himself and the Devil, knew where it was, and the longest
+Liver should take all_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Names of the Pirates killed in the engagement were _Edward
+Blackbeard_, Commander; _Philip Morton_, Gunner; _Garnet Gibbons_,
+Boatswain; _Owen Roberts_, Carpenter; _Thomas Miller_, Quarter-Master;
+_John Husk_, _Joseph Curtice_, _Joseph Brooks_, _Nath. Jackson_.
+
+The following, except the two last, were hanged, viz.: _John Carnes_,
+_Jo. Brookes, jun._, _James Blake_, _John Gibbs_, _Thomas Gates_,
+_James White_, _Richard Styles_, _Cesar_, _Joseph Philip_, _James
+Robbins_, _John Martyn_, _Edward Salter_, _Stephen Daniel_, _Richard
+Greensarl_, _Israel Hands_, and _Samuel Odel_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MAJOR STEDE BONNET]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+MAJOR STEDE BONNET, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+The Major was a Gentleman of Fortune and Distinction in the Island of
+_Barbadoes_, who before his Piracy bore the character of a worthy
+honest _man_, and no-body could ever account for this his undertaking,
+for he wanted neither learning nor understanding. He fitted out a
+Sloop with ten guns and sixty men, which he named the _Revenge_, at
+his own expence, and sailed from _Barbadoes_ for the Cape of
+_Virginia_, where he took the _Anne_ from _Glasgow_, the _Turbet_ from
+_Barbadoes_, the _Endeavour_ from _Bristol_, the _Young_ from _Leith_,
+and many others. From thence he went to _New York_, and there took a
+Sloop, and then stood in at _Gardiner's_ Island where he bought
+provisions, and went off. _August_, 1717, he came off at the Bar of
+_South Carolina_, and took a Sloop and Brigantine, which they
+plundered, and then he dismissed the Brigantine, but took the Sloop
+with him to an Inlet in _North-Carolina_, where he careened, and set
+her on fire.
+
+Afterwards he put to sea, but could not agree with the men what course
+to take; for the Major being no sailor, was obliged to submit to many
+things his men imposed upon him, when falling in with _Edward Teach_,
+alias _Blackbeard_, who was a good sailor, but a hardened villain,
+_Bonnet's_ Crew joined with him, and put _Bonnet_ aboard
+_Blackbeard's_ Ship.
+
+But _Blackbeard_ losing his Ship at _Topsail_ Inlet, surrendered to
+the King's Proclamation; when _Bonnet_ re-assumed the command of his
+own Sloop, and sailed directly for _Bath_ Town in _North-Carolina_,
+where he also surrenders himself, and receives a certificate. There
+getting a clearance for his Sloop, he pretended to sail for the
+Island of _St. Thomas_, to get the Emperor's Commission to go
+a-Privateering upon the _Spaniards_. But returning to _Topsail_ Inlet,
+he found that _Blackbeard_ and his gang were gone, with their effects;
+and that they had set on shore, on a small sandy island about a league
+from the continent, seventeen men, without any provisions, or vessel
+to escape. There they had been two nights and one day without any
+sustenance, when, to their inexpressible joy, they saw Major _Bonnet_,
+who had been informed of their being there by two of _Blackbeard's_
+crew, who had escaped to avoid his cruelty.
+
+Then he steered his course towards _Virginia_, where meeting with a
+Pink having Provisions on board, and they being in want, he took out
+of her ten barrels of pork, and five hundredweight of bread, and gave
+her, in exchange, ten casks of Rice, and an old cable.
+
+Two days after they took a Sloop of sixty tons, from which they took
+two hogsheads of rum, and two of molasses, and then put in her eight
+men, to take care of the Prize; but they not liking her new
+acquaintance took the first opportunity to get off with her.
+
+After this the Major threw off all restraint, and became a downright
+Pirate, by the name of Captain _Thomas_, taking and plundering all the
+vessels he met with. He took off Cape _Henry_, two Ships from
+_Virginia_, bound to _Glasgow_; the next day a small Sloop from
+_Virginia_ bound to _Bermudas_; from which they took twenty barrels of
+pork, and gave her in return, two barrels of rice, and as much
+molasses. The next day they took another _Virginia_ man, bound to
+_Glasgow_, out of which they took two men, and a few small things, and
+gave her a barrel of pork, and another of bread. From thence they
+sailed to _Philadelphia_, where they took a Schooner coming from
+_North Carolina_ to _Boston_, from which they took two men, and two
+dozen of calves skins, to make covers for guns. In the latitude of
+32 deg., off of _Delaware_ River, near _Philadelphia_, they took two Snows
+bound to _Bristol_, from which they took money and goods to the value
+of two hundred pounds; as also a Sloop of sixty tons, from
+_Philadelphia_ to _Barbadoes_, from which they took a few goods, and
+let her go. The 29th of _July_, they took a Sloop of fifty tons, bound
+from _Philadelphia_ to _Barbadoes_, laden with provisions, which they
+kept; as also another of sixty tons, from _Antegoa_ to _Philadelphia_,
+having on board, rum, molasses, sugar, cotton and indigo, to the value
+of five hundred Pounds, all of which they kept. Then they left
+_Delaware_ Bay, and sailed to Cape _Fear_ River, where they staid
+almost two months to repair their Sloop, which proved very leaky, till
+news came to _Carolina_ of a Pirate's Sloop, with her Prizes, being
+there a-careening.
+
+Whereupon Colonel _William Rhet_ offered to go with two Sloops to
+attack them; which being by the Governor and Council approved of, he
+was commissioned on board the _Henry_, with eight guns and seventy
+men, commanded by Captain _John Masters_; and the _Sea Nymph_,
+commanded by Captain Farier-Hall, with as many guns and men; both
+under the Direction of the Colonel, who went on board the _Henry_ the
+14th of _September_, and sailed from _Charles_ Town to _Swillivant's_
+Island, in order to cruise: where he was informed, by a small ship
+from _Antegoa_, which in sight of the Bar, was taken and plundered by
+_Charles Vane_, in a Brigantine of sixteen guns, and a hundred men;
+that he had taken two Sloops, one Captain _Dill_, Master, from
+_Barbadoes_; the other Captain _Thompson_, from _Guinea_, with seventy
+negroes, which they put on board one _Yeats_ his consort, being a
+small Sloop with twenty-five men, who being weary of this course of
+life, ran into _Edisto_ River, and surrender'd to his Majesty's
+Pardon, by which the owners got their negroes again, and _Yeats_ and
+his men had their certificates sign'd.
+
+_Vane_ cruised for some time thereabouts, in hopes to take _Yeats_,
+and be revenged on him; during which time, he took a ship bound to
+London, to whom he gave out, that he designed to go to the southward;
+which Colonel _Rhet_ hearing, sailed over the Bar the 15th with the
+two Sloops, and went after the Pirate _Vane_; but not meeting with
+him, tack'd and stood for Cape _Fear_, according to his first Design;
+and on the 26th following he entered the River, where he saw _Bonnet_,
+and the three Sloops his Prizes, at anchor; but the Pilot running the
+Sloops a-ground, hindered their getting up that Night. The Pirates
+seeing the Sloops, and not knowing who they were, mann'd three canoes,
+and sent them down to take them; but finding their mistake, _Bonnet_
+took all the men out of the Prizes to engage them. Colonel _Rhet's_
+Sloops the next morning getting under sail, stood for the Pirates, who
+designed only to make a running fight; but the Colonel getting upon
+his quarters, he edged in upon the shore, and ran his Sloop a-ground.
+The Colonel's Sloops were soon in the same condition: The _Henry_
+grounded within pistol-shot of the Pirate, on his bow; the other,
+right a-head of him, almost out of gun-shot, which made it of but very
+little use to the Colonel. By this time the Pirate had a very great
+advantage: For his Sloop lifted from Colonel _Rhet's_, which converted
+them all over; and the Colonel's Sloop lifting the same way, was much
+exposed for about five hours, whilst they lay a-ground. The Colonel's
+Sloop being first a-float, he got into deeper water, and after mending
+his rigging, he stood for the Pirate, to go directly on board him;
+which they prevented, by hoisting a flag of truce, and surrendering
+soon after. The Colonel lost in this action ten men, and had fourteen
+wounded. The _Sea Nymph_ had two killed, and four wounded. Among the
+Pirates were none killed, and three were wounded. The next day the
+Colonel weighed from Cape _Fear_, and arrived at _Charles Town_ the 3d
+of _October_, to the no small joy of the people of _Carolina_.
+
+There being no publick prison, _Bonnet_ was committed into the custody
+of the marshal, and his Men were kept at the Watch-house under a
+strict guard; a little before the trial, _David Harriot_ the Master,
+and _Ignatius Rathe_ Boatswain, the evidences, were removed from the
+Crew, to the Marshal's house, from whence on the 24th _Bonnet_ and
+_Harriott_ made their escape; which as soon as the Governor heard of,
+he published a Proclamation, promising a reward of 700_l._ to any one
+that would take him, and also sent several boats with armed men in
+pursuit of him.
+
+_Bonnet_ stood to the northward, in a small vessel; but through stress
+of weather, and want of necessaries, he was forced to _Swillivant's_
+Island. Of which information being given to the Governor, he sent for
+Colonel _Rhet_, and desired him once more to go in pursuit of him;
+which the Colonel readily accepted of; and having got all Things
+ready, went that Night for _Swillivant's_ Island, where, after a long
+search, he discovered them. After the Colonel's men had fired upon
+them, and killed _Harriott_, _Bonnet_ immediately surrendered himself,
+and was, next Morning, brought back to _Charles Town_, and confined
+under a strong guard till his trial, which was hastened for fear he
+should give them the slip again.
+
+On the 28th of _October_, 1718, a Court of Vice-Admiralty was held at
+_Charles Town_, and, by several adjournments continued to the 12th of
+_November_ following, by _Nicholas Trot_, Esq; Judge of the
+Vice-Admiralty, and Chief Judge of _Carolina_, and other Assistant
+Judges; where, after the King's Commission was read, and a Grand Jury
+sworn, _Judge Trot_ gave them a learned Charge: And then the _Grand
+Jury_ went out, and found the Bills; upon which, a _Petit-Jury_ was
+sworn, and the following Persons were arraingn'd and try'd.
+
+    _Stede Bonnet_, alias _Edwards_, alias _Thomas_, late of
+    _Barbadoes_, Merchant.
+
+    _Robert Tucker_, late of _Jamaica_, Merchant.
+
+    _Edward Robinson_, late of _Newcastle_-upon-_Tine_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Neal Peterson_, late of _Aberdeen_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Scot_, late of _Aberdeen_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Eddy_, alias _Neddy_, late of _Aberdeen_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Alexander Annand_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _George Rose_, late of _Glasgow_, Mariner.
+
+    _George Dubin_, late of _Glasgow_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Ridge_, late of _London_, Mariner.
+
+    _Matthew King_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _Daniel Perry_, late of _Guernsey_, Mariner.
+
+    _Henry Virgin_, late of _Bristol_, Mariner.
+
+    _James Rattle_, alias _Robbins_, late of _London_,
+    Merchant.
+
+    _James Mullet_, alias _Millet_, late of _London_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Price_, late of _Bristol_, Mariner.
+
+    _James Wilson_, late of _Dublin_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Lopez_, late of _Oporto_, Mariner.
+
+    _Zachariah Long_, late of the Province of _Holland_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Job. Barley_, late of _London_, Mariner.
+
+    _John William Smith_, late of _Charles_ Town in
+    _Carolina_, Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Carman_, late of _Maidstone_ in _Kent_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Thomas_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Morrison_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _Samuel Booth_, late of _Charles_ Town, Mariner.
+
+    _William Howet_, late of _Jamaica_, Mariner.
+
+    _John Kent_, late of _North Carolina_, Mariner.
+
+    _William Livres_, alias _Evis_, late of _Carolina_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _John Brierly_, alias _Timberhead_, late of _Bath_ Town
+    in _North Carolina_, Mariner.
+
+    _Robert Boyd_, late of _Bath_ Town in North _Carolina_,
+    Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Nicholas_, late of _London_, Mariner.
+
+    _Rowland Sharp_, late of _Bath_ Town, Mariner.
+
+    _Jonathan Clark_, late of _Charles_ Town, Mariner.
+
+    _Thomas Gerrard_, late of _Antegoa_, Mariner.
+
+All of whom, except the four last, were found Guilty, and received
+Sentence of Death, upon two Indictments, for Robbing upon the High Sea
+the _Francis_, _Peter Manwaring_, Commander; and for seizing, in a
+Piratical Manner, the Sloop _Fortune_, _Thomas Read_, Commander: To
+which they all pleaded Not Guilty, except _James Wilson_ and _John
+Levit_, who pleaded Guilty to both Indictments, and _Daniel Piercy_
+to one only. _Bonnet_ moved to go through both the Indictments at
+once; but the Court overruling it, he was found Guilty of one, and
+retracted his Plea to the other. They made but little Defence,
+pretending they were taken off a _Maroon_ Shore, and were shipped with
+Major _Bonnet_ to go to _St. Thomas's_, but wanting provisions they
+were obliged to do what they did; and the Major himself pretended it
+was _Necessity_ and not _Inclination_ that compelled them to do it.
+But that not appearing, they having all shared ten or eleven Pounds a
+man, except the four last, they were all found Guilty. After which the
+Judge set forth the enormity of their Crimes: And then pronounced
+Sentence of Death upon the persons aforesaid, except Major _Bonnet_,
+who not being brought back in time, was not tried till the 10th of
+_November_; and being then also found Guilty, he received Sentence in
+like manner as the others; before whom Judge _Trot_ made an excellent
+speech, saying afterwards.
+
+_And now, having discharged my Duty as a Christian, I must do my
+Office as a Judge, which is_
+
+_You the said _Stede Bonnet_ shall go from hence, to the Place from
+whence you came, and from thence to the Place of Execution, where you
+shall be hanged by the Neck till you are dead._
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID
+
+
+We are now going to give an account of one whose name is better known
+in _England_, than most of those whose histories we have already
+related; the person we mean is Captain _Kid_, whose public Trial and
+Execution here, rendered him the subject of all conversation.
+
+In the beginning of King _William's_ War, Captain _Kid_ commanded a
+Privateer in the _West-Indies_, and by several adventurous actions
+acquired the reputation of a brave man, as well as an experienced
+seaman. About this time the Pirates were very troublesome in those
+parts, wherefore Captain _Kid_ was recommended by the Lord
+_Bellamont_, then Governor of _Barbadoes_, as well as by several other
+persons, to the Government here, as a person very fit to be entrusted
+with the command of a Government Ship, and to be employed in cruising
+upon the Pirates, as knowing those Seas perfectly well, and being
+acquainted with their lurking places; but what reasons governed the
+politics of those times, I cannot tell, but this proposal met with no
+encouragement here, though it is certain it would have been of great
+consequence to the subject, our merchants suffering incredible damages
+by those robbers.
+
+Upon this neglect the Lord _Bellamont_, and some others who knew what
+great captures had been made by the Pirates, and what a prodigious
+wealth must be in their possession, were tempted to fit out a ship at
+their own private charge, and to give the command of it to Captain
+_Kid_; and to give the thing a greater reputation, as well as to keep
+their seamen under the better command, they procured the King's
+Commission for the said Captain _Kid_.
+
+Captain _Kid_ had also another Commission, which was called a
+Commission of Reprisals; for it being then War time, this Commission
+was to justify him in the taking of _French_ Merchant Ships, in case
+he should meet with any. He sail'd out of _Plymouth_ in _May_ 1696, in
+the _Adventure_ Galley of thirty guns, and eighty men; the place he
+first design'd for was _New York_; in his Voyage thither he took a
+French _Banker_, but this was no Act of Piracy, he having a Commission
+for that purpose, as we have just observed.
+
+When he arrived at _New York_ he put up Articles for engaging more
+Hands, it being necessary to his Ship's crew, since he proposed to
+deal with a desperate enemy: The terms he offered were, that every man
+should have a share of what was taken, reserving for himself and
+Owners forty shares. Upon this encouragement he soon increas'd his
+company to a hundred and fifty five men.
+
+With this company he first sail'd for _Maderas_, where he took in wine
+and some other necessaries; from thence he proceeded to _Bonavist_,
+one of the _Cape de Verd Islands_, to furnish the ship with salt, and
+from thence went immediately to _St. Jago_, another of the _Cape de
+Verd Islands_, in order to stock himself with provisions. When all
+this was done, he bent his course to _Madagascar_, the known
+rendezvous of Pirates; in this way he fell in with Captain _Warren_,
+Commodore of three Men-of-War; he acquainted them with his design,
+kept them company two or three days, and then leaving them, made the
+best way for _Madagascar_, where he arrived in _February_ 1696, just
+nine months from his departure from _Plymouth_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It does not appear all this while that he had the least design of
+turning Pirate; for near _Mahala_ and _Joanna_ both he met with
+several _Indian_ ships richly laden, to which he did not offer the
+least violence, tho' he was strong enough to have done what he pleas'd
+with them; and the first outrage or depredation I find he committed
+upon mankind, was after his repairing his ship, and leaving _Joanna_;
+he touch'd at a place call'd _Mabbee_, upon the _Red Sea_, where he
+took some _Guinea_ Corn from the natives, by force.
+
+After this he sail'd to _Bab's Key_, a Place upon a little Island at
+the entrance of the _Red Sea_; here it was that he first began to open
+himself to his ship's company, and let them understand that he
+intended to change his measures; for, happening to talk of the _Moca_
+Fleet, which was to sail that way, he said _We have been unsuccessful
+hitherto, but courage, my Boys, we'll make our fortunes out of this
+Fleet_: And finding that none of them appear'd averse to it, he
+order'd a boat out, well mann'd, to go upon the coast to make
+discoveries, commanding them to take a prisoner and bring to him, or
+get intelligence any way they could. The boat return'd in a few days,
+bringing him word, that they saw fourteen or fifteen ships ready to
+sail, some with _English_, some with _Dutch_, and some with _Moorish_
+Colours. He therefore order'd a man continually to watch at the
+mast-head, least this Fleet should go by them; and about four days
+after, towards evening, it appear'd in sight, being convoy'd by one
+_English_ and one _Dutch_ Man-of-War. _Kid_ soon fell in with them,
+and getting into the midst of them, fir'd at a _Moorish_ ship which
+was next him; but the Men-of-War taking the Alarm, bore down upon
+_Kid_, and firing upon him, obliged him to sheer off, he not being
+strong enough to contend with them. Now he had begun hostilities, he
+resolv'd to go on, and therefore he went and cruis'd along the coast
+of _Malabar_; the first Prize he met was a small vessel belonging to
+_Aden_, the vessel was _Moorish_, and the Owners were _Moorish_
+Merchants, but the Master was an _Englishman_, his name was _Parker_.
+_Kid_ forc'd him and a _Portugueze_ that was call'd _Don Antonio_,
+which were all the _Europeans_ on Board, to take on with them; the
+first he design'd as a pilot, and the last as an interpreter. He also
+used the men very cruelly, causing them to be hoisted up by the arms,
+and drubb'd with a naked cutlass, to force them to discover whether
+they had money on board, and where it lay; but as they had neither
+gold nor silver on board, he got nothing by his cruelty; however, he
+took from them a bale of pepper, and a bale of coffee, and so let them
+go.
+
+Soon after this he came up with a _Moorish_ Ship, the Master whereof
+was a _Dutchman_, call'd _Schipper Mitchel_, and chased her under
+_French_ Colours, which they observing, hoisted _French_ Colours too:
+When he came up with her, he hail'd her in _French_, and they having a
+_Frenchman_ on board, answer'd him in the same language; upon which he
+order'd them to send their boat on board; they were oblig'd to do so,
+and having examin'd who they were, and from whence they came; he ask'd
+the _Frenchman_, who was a passenger, if he had a _French_ pass for
+himself? The _Frenchman_ gave him to understand that he had. Then he
+told the _Frenchman_ he must pass for Captain, _and by God_, says he,
+_you are the Captain_: The _Frenchman_ durst not refuse doing as he
+would have him: The meaning of this was, that he would seize the Ship
+as fair Prize, and as if she belonged to _French_ Subjects, according
+to a commission he had for that purpose; tho', one would think, after
+what he had already done, that he need not have recourse to a quibble
+to give his actions a colour.
+
+In short, he took the cargoe and sold it some time after, yet still he
+seem'd to have some fears upon him least these proceedings should have
+a bad end; for, coming up with a _Dutch_ Ship some time, when his men
+thought of nothing but attacking her, _Kid_ oppos'd it; upon which a
+mutiny arose, and the majority being for taking the said ship, and
+arming themselves to man the boat to go and seize her, he told them,
+such as did, never should come on Board him again; which put an end to
+the design, so that he kept company with the said ship some time,
+without offering her any violence: However, this dispute was the
+occasion of an accident, upon which an indictment was afterwards
+grounded against _Kid_; for _Moor_, the Gunner, being one day upon
+deck, and talking with _Kid_ about the said _Dutch_ Ship, some words
+arose betwixt them, and _Moor_ told _Kid_, that he had ruin'd them
+all; upon which, _Kid_, calling him _Dog_, took up a bucket and struck
+him with it, which breaking his skull, he died the next day.
+
+But _Kid's_ penitential fit did not last long, for coasting along
+_Malabar_, he met with a great number of boats, all which he
+plunder'd. Upon the same Coast he also lit upon a _Portugueze_ Ship,
+which he kept possession of a week, and then having taking out of her
+some chests of _Indian_ goods, thirty jars of butter, and some wax,
+iron, and a hundred bags of rice, he let her go.
+
+The _Adventure_ Galley was now so old and leaky, that they were forced
+to keep two pumps continually going, wherefore _Kid_ shifted all the
+guns and tackle out of her into the _Queda_ Merchant, intending her
+for his Man-of-War; and as he had divided the Money before, he now
+made a division of the remainder of the cargo: Soon after which, the
+greatest part of the company left him, some going on board Captain
+_Culliford_, and others absconding in the Country, so that he had not
+above forty men left.
+
+He put to sea and happened to touch at _Amboyna_, one of the _Dutch_
+Spice Islands, where he was told, that the news of his Actions had
+reach'd _England_, and that he was there declared a Pirate.
+
+The truth on't is, his Piracies so alarmed our Merchants, that some
+motions were made in Parliament, to enquire into the commission that
+was given him, and the persons who fitted him out: These proceedings
+seem'd to lean a little hard upon the Lord _Bellamont_, who thought
+himself so much touch'd thereby, that he published a Justification of
+himself in a pamphlet after _Kid's_ execution. In the mean time, it
+was thought advisable, to publish a Proclamation, offering the King's
+free Pardon to all such Pirates as should voluntarily surrender
+themselves, whatever Piracies they had been guilty of at any time,
+before the last day of _April_, 1699--That is to say, for all
+Piracies committed Eastward of the _Cape of Good_ Hope, to the
+Longitude and Meridian of _Socatora_, and _Cape Camorin_. In which
+Proclamation, _Avery_ and _Kid_ were excepted by Name.
+
+When _Kid_ left _Amboyna_ he knew nothing of this Proclamation, for
+certainly had he had notice of his being excepted in it, he would not
+have been so infatuated, to run himself into the very jaws of danger;
+but relying upon his interest with the Lord _Bellamont_, and fancying,
+that a _French_ Pass or two he found on board some of the ships he
+took, would serve to countenance the matter, and that part of the booty
+he got would gain him new friends--I say, all these things made him
+flatter himself that all would be hushed, and that justice would but
+wink at him. Wherefor he sail'd directly for _New York_, where he was
+no sooner arrived, but by the Lord _Bellamont's_ orders, he was secured
+with all his papers and effects. Many of his fellow-adventurers who had
+forsook him at _Madagascar_, came over from thence passengers, some to
+_New England_ and some to _Jersey_; where hearing of the King's
+Proclamation for pardoning of Pirates, they surrendered themselves to
+the Governor of those places: At first they were admitted to bail, but
+soon after were laid in strict confinement, where they were kept for
+some time, till an opportunity happened of sending them with their
+Captain over to _England_ to be tried.
+
+Accordingly a Sessions of Admiralty being held at the _Old Baily_, in
+_May_, 1701, _Captain Kid_, _Nicholas Churchill_, _James How_, _Robert
+Lumley_, _William Jenkins_, _Gabriel Loff_, _Hugh Parrot_, _Richard
+Barlicorn_, _Abel Owens_, and _Darby Mullins_, were arraingn'd for
+Piracy and Robbery on the High Seas, and all found guilty, except
+three; these were _Robert Lumley_, _William Jenkins_, and _Richard
+Barlicorn_, who proving themselves to be apprentices to some of the
+officers of the ship, and producing their Indentures in Court, were
+acquitted.
+
+_Kid_ was tried upon an indictment of Murder also, _viz._ for killing
+_Moor_ the Gunner, and found guilty of the same. _Nicholas Churchill_
+and _James How_ pleaded the King's Pardon, as having surrendered
+themselves within the time limited in the Proclamation, and Colonel
+_Bass_, Governor of _West Jersey_, to whom they surrendered, being in
+Court, and called upon, proved the same; however, this plea was
+over-ruled by the Court, because there being four Commissioners named
+in the Proclamation, it was adjudged no other person was qualified to
+receive their surrender, and that they could not be intitled to the
+benefit.
+
+As to Captain _Kid's_ Defence, he insisted much upon his own
+innocence, and the villany of his men; he said he went out in a
+laudable employment and had no occasion, being then in good
+circumstances, to go a-Pirating; that the men often mutinied against
+him, and did as they pleas'd; that he was threatened to be shot in his
+cabin, and that ninety five left him at one time, and set fire to his
+boat, so that he was disabled from bringing his ship home, or the
+Prizes he took, to have them regularly condemn'd, which he said were
+taken by virtue of a commission under the broad seal, they having
+_French_ Passes--The Captain called one Col. _Hewson_ to his
+Reputation, who gave him an extraordinary character, and declared to
+the Court, that he had served under his command, and been in two
+engagements with him against the _French_, in which he fought as well
+as any man he ever saw; that there were only _Kid's_ Ship and his own
+against Monsieur _du Cass_, who commanded a squadron of six sail, and
+they got the better of him, but this being several years before the
+facts mentioned in the Indictment were committed, prov'd of no manner
+of service to the Prisoner on his Trial.
+
+As to the friendship shown to _Culliford_, a notorious Pirate, _Kid_
+denied, and said, he intended to have taken him, but his men being a
+parcel of rogues and villains refused to stand by him, and several of
+them ran away from his ship to the said Pirate.--But the evidence
+being full and particular against him, he was found Guilty as before
+mentioned.
+
+When _Kid_ was asked what he had to say why Sentence should not pass
+against him, he answered, That _he had nothing to say, but that he had
+been sworn against by perjured wicked People_. And when Sentence was
+pronounced, he said, _My Lord it is a very hard Sentence. For my part
+I am the innocentest Person of them all, only I have been sworn
+against by perjured Persons_.
+
+Wherefore about a week after, Capt. _Kid_, _Nicholas Churchill_,
+_James How_, _Gabriel Loff_, _Hugh Parrot_, _Abel Owen_, and _Darby
+Mullins_, were executed at _Execution Dock_, and afterwards hung up in
+Chains, at some distance from each other, down the river, where their
+Bodies hung exposed for many years.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_Edward England_ went Mate of a Sloop that sailed out of _Jamaica_,
+and was taken by _Winter_, a Pirate, from whom he had the Command of a
+Sloop just before their Settlement at _Providence_. The man was brave
+and good natured, and far from being cruel, as most of them are; and
+would not have committed such barbarous actions as he did, had not his
+comrades compelled him to it.
+
+He sailed to the Coast of _Africa_, after the Island of _Providence_
+was inhabited by the _English_. In his Passage he took several Ships,
+particularly the _Cadogan_ Snow belonging to _Bristol_, one _Skinner_
+Master, who was murdered by those very men who had formerly served
+under him, upon a quarrel that happened between _Skinner_ and them,
+about their wages: He shipped them on board a Man-of-War, from whence
+they deserted, and went on board a ship in the _West-Indies_, where
+they were taken by a pirate, and brought to _Providence_, and then
+they sailed with Captain _England_ a-Pirating.
+
+As soon as _Skinner_ came on board, he saw his old Boatswain, who
+said, _Ah! Captain Skinner is it you, I am much in your Debt, and now
+I shall pay you in your own Coin_. These words put the Captain in a
+panic Fear: And indeed he had Reason enough to be afraid, for they
+immediately seized him, bound him to the Windlass, pelted him with
+Glass Bottles, afterwards whipt him about the Deck, and then said,
+because he had been a good Master, he should have an easy Death, and
+so shot him through the Head; the vessel and her Cargoe being given to
+_Howel Davis_.
+
+After this _England_ went into an _Harbour_ to clean his Ship, and
+also fitted up the _Peterborough_, which he called the _Victory_.
+Then putting out to sea, they sailed for the _East-Indies_, and took
+_Madagascar_, by the Way. From thence, after taking in water and
+provisions, they went for _Malabar_, in the Empire of the _Mogul_.
+Here they took several _Indian_ Vessels, and one _European_, a _Dutch_
+Ship, which they exchanged for one of their own, and then came back to
+_Madagascar_, where they sent several Hands on shore to kill venison,
+and then resolved to seek out for the remains of _Avery's_ Crew; but
+returning without success, they being settled on the other side, they
+stay'd no longer than till they had cleaned their ships, and then
+sailed to _Juanna_.
+
+In the Year 1720, the _Bombay_ Fleet, consisting of four _Grabs_, the
+_London Chandois_, and some other ships, carried 1000 Men to bombard
+and batter _Gapra_, a fort belonging to _Angria_, on the _Malabar_
+Coast; which they not being able to do, fell in with the Pirates, in
+their return to _Bombay_: But Captain _Upton_ the Commodore, having no
+orders, would not engage them; which so provoked the Governor, for
+missing so favourable an opportunity of cutting the Pirates all off,
+that he gave the command to Captain _Mackra_, with orders to fight
+them wherever he met with them.
+
+But the Pirates proceeded to the southward, and took a small ship out
+of _Orincro_ Road, with a _Dutch_ and two _Portugueze_ Men on board,
+one of which they sent to the Captain, to inform him, that if he would
+supply them with provisions and water he should have his ship again.
+But the Master would not agree to it; thereupon they sent other
+persons ashore, and swore he should be the last man they would give
+quarter to, and so put directly for _Laccadeva_ Island, and arrived
+there in three days. But being informed by a _Menchew_, there was no
+anchor-ground there, they went to the next Island, called _Melincha_,
+whence they were driven by a storm, leaving behind them a hundred
+people, and all their water-casks: But in a week's time, they regained
+the island, took their people on board, and filled the water-casks.
+Provisions being scarce, they resolved to visit the _Dutch_ at
+_Cochin_, and after three days sail, arrived off of _Tellechery_,
+where they took a small Vessel belonging to Governor _Adams_; who
+giving an account of Captain _Mackra's_ fitting out against them, put
+them into a grievous passion.
+
+Afterward they arrived at _Mauritius_, where they refitted the
+_Victory_, and then sailed the 5th of April for _Madagascar_, but
+called first at the Island _Mascarine_, at which they found a
+_Portugueze_ ship of seventy guns at anchor, disabled by a violent
+storm, so that they easily became a Prize to the Pirates. She had on
+board the _Conde Ereceira_ Vice-Roy of _Goa_, also they found on board
+her, in diamonds only, to the value of four millions of Dollars. They
+made the Vice-Roy a prisoner; but in consideration of his losses,
+accepted of a ransom of 2000 dollars and then set him and his
+followers ashore. Learning that an _Ostender_ was on the leeward of
+that Island, they sailed and took her, and sent her to _Madagascar_
+with news of their success, where they followed themselves soon
+after, with two hundred _Mozambique_ Negroes in the _Portugueze_ Ship.
+
+When _Taylor_ came with the _Portugueze_ Prize to _Madagascar_, they
+found that the _Ostender_ had made his men drunk, and seized his ship,
+which they carried to the _Mozambique_; from thence the Governor
+ordered her to _Goa_. But the Pirates staid and clean'd the
+_Cassandra_, and divided very great plunder. Some, who thought they
+had got enough, staid at _Madagascar_, and the rest, having no
+occasion for two ships, burnt the _Victory_, she being leaky, and went
+on board the _Cassandra_, under the Command of Captain _Taylor_,
+designing to go for _Cochin_ to dispose of his diamonds, amongst his
+old Friends the _Dutch_, and also to avoid the dangers of the
+Men-of-War that were in pursuit of them. But as he was preparing to
+sail, and heard of four Men-of-War coming after him; therefore he
+altered his mind, and sailed for the Main of _Africa_, and put in at
+_Delagoa_: But the Pirates were surprized in the evening with some
+shot from the shore. They took it for a desert shore, but it proved
+otherwise; for a few months before, the _Dutch East India Company_ had
+settled one hundred men upon it, who, not being supplied with
+necessaries, were reduced to about sixteen; whom _Taylor_, upon their
+humble petition took aboard, and they all became Pirates with him.
+
+Here they stayed about four months, careened their ships, and left
+_Delagoa_ the latter end of _December_: But not agreeing among
+themselves, they parted those who were weary of that sort of life,
+went on board the _Portugueze_ Prize, and sailed for _Madagascar_; the
+others went on board the _Cassandra_, and sailed for the _Spanish West
+Indies_. The _Mermaid_ Man-of-War, which was a convoy to some
+Merchant-men, about 30 leagues distance, would have gone to attack
+them, had not the Merchants, whom he had the care of, declar'd their
+protection was of more service than destroying the Pirates; and so he
+was oblig'd to be content with only dispatching the news of it to
+_Jamaica_. This brought down the _Lanceston_, though it was a day or
+two too late, for they had just before surrendered, with all their
+riches, to the Governor of _Porto-Bello_, where they now live upon
+their Spoils, saying, others would have done as much, had they had the
+same opportunity; swearing, _That whatever Robberies they had
+committed they are not the only Rogues in the World; for that the
+South-Sea[A] did more Mischief in one Year, than they were able to do
+in their whole Lives_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] The South-Sea Bubble.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN JOHN GOW]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CAPTAIN JOHN GOW, _ALIAS_ SMITH, AND HIS CREW
+
+
+_John Gow_, alias _Smith_, was born at a place called _Caristoun_, in
+the _Orkney_ Islands, and was brought up a sailor from his youth,
+having served on board several Men-of-War, and last of all on board
+the _Suffolk_, along with _T. Swan_, who was engaged with him in the
+conspiracy to murder Captain _Ferneau_, and seize the ship and cargoe,
+as they went off the _Texel_, but they were prevented by _James
+Belvin_, who was led into the secret and discovered it. Captain
+_Ferneau_ taking little notice of it, contented himself with turning
+off _Swan_, and preferred _Gow_ to be second Mate and Gunner.
+
+They sailed on board the _George_ Galley, August the 1st, 1724, from
+the _Texel_ to _Santa Cruz_, having 15000_l._ on board, when Gow
+designed to have seized the Ship as they went out, but could not get a
+party strong enough to join with him, till he worked up a
+misunderstanding between the Captain and part of the crew, concerning
+the provisions of the ship, particularly _Winter_, _Peterson_, _and
+Mc.Cawley_, who came upon the Quarter-Deck, in presence of the Owners,
+just before they sailed, and made a long complaint against the
+Captain; who assured them that if there was any wrong done them, it
+was not by his consent; and that he would enquire into it as soon as
+they had unmoored the ship.
+
+About eight a clock at night, Captain _Ferneau_, as usual, called them
+up to prayers in the great Cabin, and then set the watch, and went to
+sleep, little thinking his end was so near, when _Winter_,
+_Rawlisson_, and _Melvin_, begun the scene of blood, _Gow_ lying snug
+in his hammock, as if he knew nothing of the matter, till he saw
+whether the villany would succeed, or not. _Winter_ cut the Doctor's
+throat as he was asleep in his hammock, and then went up to _Melvin_
+and _Rawlisson_, who in the mean time had seized the Captain and cut
+his throat also, but not touching the windpipe, _Gow_ stept up and
+shot him with a brace of bullets, and then threw him over-board.
+_Mc.Cawley_ cut _Stephen Algiers_ the Clerk's throat, as he lay in the
+hammock, and _Williams_ shot him dead afterwards. _Peterson_ cut the
+throat of _Bonaventure Jelphs_, the Chief Mate; and _Michael Moor_, at
+the Command of _Williams_, shot him.
+
+After this _Williams_ came upon the Quarter-Deck, and saluted _Gow_
+with Captain _Ferneau's_ sword, first striking it upon one of the
+guns, and saying, _Welcome Captain_ Gow, _welcome to your new
+Command_. After which, _Gow_ told the men, That if any of them durst
+murmur or cabal together, they must expect to meet with the same Fate;
+and then calling a Council, they agreed to go, _Upon the Account_, as
+they called it.
+
+They called the ship the _Revenge_, and mounted six more of her guns,
+she being able to carry four and twenty in all. But instead of going
+to _Genoa_ as intended, they sailed for the coasts of _Spain_ and
+_Portugal_, in hopes of getting a ship laden with wine, to keep up
+their spirits; but all was alike they met with; and instead of wine,
+they contented themselves with fish, which they took out of a ship
+called the _Delight_ of _Poole_, _Thomas Wise_, Master, bound from
+_New-England_ to _Cadiz_, out of which they took the men, and what
+they wanted, and then sunk the Ship, to prevent their being discovered
+to the _English_ Men-of-War who lay in the _Straights_.
+
+On the 18th of _December_, they took the _Snow-Galley_, out of which
+Crew they kept _Rob_, and discharged the Captain and the rest of the
+men, after having plundered the Ship of the arms, ammunition, cloth,
+provisions, sails, anchors, cables, and then let her go.
+
+By this time, they were got a great way to the southward; and being in
+want of water as well as wind, they agreed to go to _Maderas_, which
+Island they made in two days, cruising about it near a week, expecting
+some vessel to come in or come out; but the Country discovering what
+they were, they were disappointed in their attempts. Then they stood
+away for _Porto Santa_, where they put up _British_ Colours, and sent
+their Boat ashore with a compliment to the Governor, desiring leave to
+Water, and buy some refreshments; which he readily agreed to, and went
+with them to pay the _English_ Captain a Visit, who received him in a
+very grand Manner. But the refreshments not coming as expected, he at
+length told him he was his Prisoner, and must remain so till the
+provisions were come on board, which was not till next day, when _Gow_
+discharged him, giving him three Cerons of Bees-wax, and three Guns at
+his going away.
+
+Having now got provisions, they agreed to return to the Coasts of
+_Spain_ and _Portugal_; where they had not been above two days, before
+they met with the _Batchelor_, _Benjamin Cross_ Master, from
+_New-England_ bound to _Cadiz_; out of which they took _Cross_ and
+his Men, and gave the Ship to Captain _Wise_, as also 24 Cerons of
+Bees-wax to him and his mate, and to his four men 8 Cerons. After this
+they took a _French_ Ship from _Cadiz_, loaded with wine, oil, and
+fruit, which was what they wanted, and manned her with their own men,
+taking on board the _Revenge_ the _French_ Master, and his 12 Men, and
+most Part of the cargoe, with five guns and their carriages,
+ammunition, small arms, and sails, and gave the ship to _Somerville_,
+Captain of the _Snow Galley_; and to Captain _Cross_ the _New-English_
+Man, to who they gave half the ship and cargoe and _Somerville_ had
+all his Men, but _Alexander Rob_, whom they detained, and who was
+executed in 1725, for engaging along with them.
+
+Soon after they saw a large ship to the windward bearing down upon
+them, which at first they thought to have been a _Portugueze_
+Man-of-War; but they found afterwards, it was a _French_ Merchant Ship
+coming home from the _West-Indies_, which not fearing them, came on to
+the windward. _Gow_ perceiving she was a Ship of great strength,
+called all his men together, telling them they had a great many
+prisoners on board, and that he could not trust many of his own men;
+besides, six of his best Hands were on Board the other Ship, therefore
+he advised them not to meddle with her, she being far superior in
+Force. This so exasperated _Williams_, that he demanded of _Gow_ to
+give his orders for fighting; but he, by the advice of the whole crew,
+declined it; whereupon _Williams_ snapt his pistol at his Face; which
+not going off, made him still madder. _Winter_ and _Peterson_ standing
+by him fired each a Pistol at _Williams_, one shooting him through the
+arm, and the other in the belly; at which he fell, and they believing
+he was killed, were going to throw him overboard, when he leapt up,
+and ran into the Powder-Room, with his pistol cocked in his hand,
+swearing he would blow them all up; which he had certainly done, had
+they not prevented him that very moment, he having opened the scuttle
+to do it.
+
+They immediately put him in irons, and hand-cuffed him, and then put
+him between decks, in a place prepared for prisoners.
+
+Two days after this, they took the _Triumvirate_, a _Bristol_ Sloop,
+_Joel Davis_ Master, bound from _Newfoundland_ to _Oporto_, with fish;
+from whence they took all her provisions, arms, sails, and two of her
+men, and then let her go with the rest, and all her cargoe. Not
+knowing what to do with _Williams_, they resolved to put him on board
+them, and send him away, for fear of further danger, ordering the
+Master to put him on board the first _English_ man of War he should
+meet with, to hang him for Piracy; which when _Williams_ found they
+were resolved to do, he made all the submission he was able to Captain
+_Gow_, begging for pardon, knowing if he was carried to _Lisbon_ he
+should meet with his deserts. But all his entreaties would not do, he
+was brought up double fettered, when he begged they would throw him
+into the sea, and drown him, rather than give him up to be hanged in
+chains, which he knew he deserved from the _Portugueze_ as well as
+_English_. This made many of them begin to relent and pity him; but
+considering his savage disposition, they knew there was no safety to
+keep him on board, and so resolved to let him go, and give him a
+hearty curse at parting, wishing him a safe voyage to the gallows, not
+dreaming that they themselves should accompany him.
+
+The _Bristol_ Captain obeyed their orders, and as soon as he came to
+_Lisbon_ put him on board the _Argyle_ man of War, Captain _Bowler_
+Commander, who brought him home not above three days before Gow and
+his Crew came to keep him company.
+
+In the middle of last _January_, they arrived at _Caristoun_ in the
+Isles of _Orkney_, when _Gow_ gave them instructions, what account
+they should give of themselves to the people of the country, to avoid
+suspicion. But now began their misfortunes, for several of their men
+began to think of making their escape, the first was one _Read_, who
+took an opportunity to get away when the boat went ashore, who went to
+a farm-house which lay under a hill where he hired a horse and rode
+to _Kirkwall_, a market town about twelve miles off, where he informed
+them what they were; whereupon they raised the Country to defend
+themselves. The Pirates soon hearing what was done, ten more of them
+went away with the longboat, making the best of their way for
+_Scotland_, who were some time after taken in the _Frith_ of
+_Edinburgh_, and made Prisoners.
+
+This so provoked _Gow_, that he resolved to plunder the Country, be
+the consequence what it would, and in order thereto, he sent _Belvin_
+his Boatswain, with _Rob_ and Four more, to Mr. _Honnyman's_ house,
+the Sheriff, who not being at home, his Servants let them in, not
+suspecting their design. They immediately fell to work, but Mr.
+_Honnyman's_ Daughter had the presence of mind to hide the money in a
+tub of feathers, till she found an opportunity to carry it away, by
+the contrivance of _Alexander Rob_, who was placed centinel at the
+door. But when the Boatswain found the treasure was gone, Gow having
+before told them where it lay, he swore he would burn the house, and
+all that was in it, which the young Lady hearing, she runs to the
+Charter-room where the Treasure lay, and threw it out of the Window,
+jumping herself after. However, they plundered the house of about
+fifty pounds, and some plate, and then forced a servant who played on
+the bag-pipes, to pipe before them to the ship, whom they also
+detained, and was brought along with them to the _Marshalsea_, where
+he was sick till his release.
+
+The next day they weighed anchor, and came to _Calf-Sound_, where the
+boatswain went ashore again with four armed Men, meeting with no
+Plunder. From thence they went to the Island of _Eda_, to plunder the
+house of Mr. _Fea_, whom _Gow_ had formerly been School-fellow with,
+and knowing him to be a Man of Courage, believed that the Alarm at
+_Caristoun_ had drawn him thither: But Mr. _Fea's_ wife at that Time
+being very sick in Bed, kept him at home, and having notice of them he
+sent a letter to _Gow_ by _James Laing_, to desire him to withdraw,
+assuring him that most of the inhabitants were fled to the mountains
+on the report of his being a Pirate, desiring him to send the
+messenger safe back, at whose return the affrights of the people would
+be over. _Gow_ sent him word back, that he would write to nobody, but
+if Mr. _Fea_ would send his men with a Boat, he would reward them
+handsomely, which Mr. _Fea_ hearing, he ordered his great Boat to be
+staved, and sunk, and the sails to be carried out of sight. In the
+mean time, perceiving _Gow's_ boat come on shore, with five men in it,
+well armed, he met them, and said if they would go to a Publick House
+in the neighbourhood, and take a cup of ale with him, he would see
+what he could do to serve them, which they agreed to, seeing Mr. _Fea_
+was all alone, not suspecting any danger. Mr. _Fea_ had before given
+orders for half a dozen men, well armed, to lie in ambush to surprize
+them, which being done, Mr. _Fea_ sent to Mr. _Gow_ to let him know,
+that the country was alarmed, and that it would be his best way
+peaceable to surrender, which _Gow_ did in a day or two, thinking
+thereby to make himself an evidence; but it would not do, although he
+complied so far as to delude all his men ashore one after another, who
+would certainly have cut his throat, had they known of any ways
+afterwards to have escaped.
+
+They were put on board the _Greyhound_, which delivered them into the
+_Marshalsea_, _March_ 30, 1714, where they continued till _June_
+following, when eight of them were hanged at _Execution Dock_, viz.
+_John Gow_, _James Williams_, _James Belvin_, _John Winter_, _Peter
+Rawlisson_, _Daniel Mc.Cawley_, _William Ingram_, for another Piracy
+under _Anstis_, and a month afterwards _Alexander Rob_ was hanged for
+Piracy under _Gow_.
+
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+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+Fraser notes in his foreword to this book that the original author's
+spelling was "indefinite even for his own day", and adds that it has
+"has been more or less modernized" in this edition; however, there are
+still many inconsistencies in spelling, use of hyphenation and
+italics, and capitalisation of words. These inconsistencies, along
+with archaic spelling, have been retained throughout.
+
+Minor typographic errors in punctuation have been corrected without
+note. The word 'with' was printed as 'htiw' (page 138), and has been
+corrected. The word 'were' has been amended to 'where' (page 139, "...
+where they sent several Hands ..."), for the sentence to make sense.
+Two instances of transposed letters have also been corrected--sieze
+changed to seize, and Goaler changed to Gaoler. The original title
+page illustration also contained an error, Jnae, which referred to a
+month. This was cross-checked with the rest of the text, and has been
+amended to read June in the transcription of the text.
+
+The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the front matter.
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