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the said Mr. Gwin did, and would have done more had he been 

 suffer'd to live. I say— suffer'd to Hve, (SerSi^to ifvJ)— for that 

 he was so harrased by villanous false informations, that it may 

 be said he died upon the spot thereby. 



In the late warr the town in general reap'd great benefit 

 from the Dutch privateers frequenting ye harbour, some one or 

 more of them being alternately in port to refitt and victual, at 

 the expence of about £100 a day, as I remember was then 

 computed ; besides which the town's people enrich'd ihemselves 

 greatly by the cheap bargains of plunder they bought of the 

 Dutch seamen. But Stephen Eead, a Quaker, being so firmly 

 established agent for these Dutch privateers, that by all his 

 attempts Mr. Corker not being able to get any of the said 

 beneficial business to himself, and seeing the tenants to the 

 estate (*'tie°State°) enriching themselves thereby, he set his brains 

 to work how to disturb, disgust, and provoke the said privateers 

 to leave the place, which sort of villanous practices must have 

 been very gross and apparent for them (they) ^ observe them ; 

 and in my frequent absence having but poor intelligence of what 

 was doing, was first supris'd with the town's being, as it were, 

 in arms, — on a capital privateer, the Grreat Pearl, of 50 guns, 

 and 400 men, being brought into the peer to clean, victual, 

 (v?tuie) ^^^ refresh, and watch set and proclamation made 

 of the said ship its being infected with the plague, and 

 by Mr. Pender, Mayor, a poor creature, Mr. Corker's tool, 

 —none else being admitted* (^^--ttf Body ™*° ) *« or from the 

 ship, with strict charge to the watch not to suffer any of 

 ye said seamen to enter the Town ; nay, they had so frighted all 

 people with ye plague, that I could not get any of my Publiek 

 Houses, not within the Lords' jurisdiction, to take in these poor 

 people. But I, fortunately for them, being upon the spot, and, 

 being a fine season of weather, ye middle of May, after my 

 having been on board ye ship for my being better satisfied as too 

 ye true state of their Health, I found 17 of the men apparently 

 down of their wounds received in their late fight, and by their 

 Book but two dead in the ship of sickness in 5 months time since 

 since they had left Holland, and 100 and odd down of the Scurvy, 



* Wade MS. ends here. 



