of John Cockburn, &c. 97 



ancient Opinion and conftant Pra&ice of the 

 Church to admit of Rebaptifm ; that as to 

 what concerned Ceremony only, we were 

 refolved to continue in the Way we had 

 been taught. Upon the Clofe of my Dif- 

 courfe, the Governor advifed us to confider 

 better of the Matter for our own Sakes, and 

 give a determinate Anfwer to our Country- 

 man, whom we might talk with apart. 



After we were difmilfed by his Ex- 

 cellency, I defired Mr. Colorado, to inform 

 us how he came into this Part of the World > 

 who gave us the following Account of him- 

 felf. That he had been an Affbciate with 

 Spriggs and Lowe, two JLriglijh Pirates, who 

 had been famous many Years about America, 

 as well as feveral other Parts ; and, that be- 

 ing chafed by a Spamjb Man of War, Spriggs, 

 Lowe, himfelf, and fome others got on Shore 

 at Truxillo, where the Indian Look-outs kill'd 

 luow, with' two or three more, dead on the 

 Spot ; but that he and Spriggs got off, and 

 came to this Town : That tho* he had been 

 a Pirate, and guilty of Murthers, Robberies, 

 and many other heinous Offences, he was now 

 become even as a new-born Babe ; for that 



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