1 694-] OUR MEMORIAL. 1G5 



endeavour'd to perswade them we were nothing but 

 Scoundrels and Villians, yet they saw plainly they had been 

 impos'd upon by him ; however, they could do us no Service, 

 being not qualified to determine our Cause,' only we hop'd 

 they would intercede in our behalf, and report the -State of 

 our Case to their Masters. When our two friends found that 

 the Governor pretended still to be apprehensive, least wo 

 should escape with some one of his Chaloupes, they offer'd 

 themselves voluntarily to be laid in Irons again, chusing 

 rather to undergo anything a-shoar, than be conveyed any 

 more to that miserable Eock, but even this was refused : 

 Being order'd to Prison they were put in the Stomhs as 

 before, and next Morning early were convey'd to us, with 

 express Orders not to stir from thence on the severest 

 Penalty : And to the end we might no more pretend to come 

 to Land, they sent us back but one Barrel, and that without 

 a Head. 



The Officers were nevertheless sufficiently inform'd of our 

 Condition, as well by what they had from the Governor and 

 our two Comrades Mouths, as by a MemoriaP which was 

 slily slipp'd into their Hands ; where, among other Things, 

 they were clesir'd to make known to our Relations in Holland 

 how we far'd, that they might procure us an Enlargement.^ 

 These Gentlemen, mov'd at our ill Hap,^ were so kind as to 

 come and visit us on our Eock, that they might more fully 

 inform themselves of the Truth of what we asserted. Tliey 

 were then altogether convinc'd of the Hardships and Bar- 

 barities we underwent, and found we had inserted nothing in 

 our Petition or Memorial but Avhat was too true ; nay, this 

 inhumane Usage so incens'd them, that they vow'd to see our 



^ In orig. : " n'etant pas en droit de demander a entendre les te- 

 moins." 



2 In orig. : " une requete circonstantiee." 



3 In orig. : " afin qu'ils tachassent d'y apporter dii remede." 

 * In orig. : "notre lamentable condition." 



