§8 The Introduction. ^ 



who may ferve as fad Examples of the little EfFeCk 

 Mercy has upon Men once Jibandoned to an evil - 

 Courie of Lite. 



Leaft I be thought Ifevere in my An'madverlions 

 upv^n the Span jh Proceedings in the IVeft-hdies^ in 

 refpeftto their Dealings with us I Ihall mention 

 an Inltance or two, wherein Pll be as concife as pof- 

 jfihle, and then tranfcribe Ibme original Letters trom 

 the Governor of Jamaica^ and an Officer of a Man of 

 W^r, to the Alcddees of T'rimdado^ on the Ifland 

 qT Cubay with their Anfvvers, tranflated into Eng- 

 I'ijljj and then proceed to the particular Hiftories 

 Qf the Pyrates and their Crews, that h^ive made 

 ipoft Noiie in the World iii our own Times. 



About March 1722, one of our Men of War 

 trading upon the Goaft, viz.. the Greyhound GMefy 

 C'd^t^iulValron^ the faid Gaptain invited ibme ofc th^ 

 Merchants to Dinner, who with their Attendants and 

 Friends came on Board to the Number of i5 or 18 in 

 all and having concerted Meallires, about fix or 

 eight dined in the Gabin, and the reft were waiting 

 pn the Deck. While the Gaptain and his Guefts ^ 

 were at Dinner, the Boatfwain Pipes for the Ship's ' 

 Company to dine accordingly the Men take their 

 Platters, receive their Provifions, and down they 

 go between Decks, leaving only 4 or 5 Hands be- 

 iides the Spaniards^ above, who were immediately 

 difpatched by them, and the Hatches laid on 

 the reft • thofe in the Cabin were as ready as their 

 Companions, for they pulled out their Piftols and 

 Ihot the Gaptain, Surgeon and another dead, and 

 grievoufly wounded the Lieutenant^ but he get- 

 ingoutof the Window upon a Side-Ladder, there- 

 by fwed his Life, and lb they made themfelves ' 

 Mafters of th6 Ship inanlnftant : But by acciden- 

 tal good Fortune, ftie was recovered before fhe was 

 carryM off;, for Gaptain Walron having mannM a Sloop 

 'with 30 Hand? put of his Ship's Company,- had fenf. 



