Of Captain Ma t? TEU 6$ 



The Multitude of IV^en arid Yeffels, employed 

 tin's Wayj in Time of War^ iu tlie Weft-In'diesy is ano- 

 ther Reafon, for the iSJ umber of Py rates in a Time 

 of Peace : This cannot be fuppofed to be a Re- 

 fledioa On any of our American Governments, much 

 lefs on the King himfelf, by whofe Authority fuch 

 Commiffions are granted, becaufe of the Reafona-» 

 blenefs, and abfolute Neceifity, there is for the 

 doing of it ^ yet the Obfervation is juft, for fo inaay 

 idle People employing themfelves in Privateers,- for 

 the fake dt Plunder and Riches, Which tKey al- 

 ways Ipend as f aft as they get, that vvhen the \/l^ar 

 is over, and they can have no farther Bufineft 

 in the Way of Lite they have been ufed to, they 

 too readily engage in A£ls of Pyracy, which being 

 but the fame Pra^ice without a Commlffion, they 

 'jhfiake very little Diftinftion betwixt the Law- 

 fulnefs of one, and the Unlaw fulnefs of the 

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I have not enquired fo far back, as to know the 

 Original of this Rover, but I believe he and hi$ 

 Gang, were fome Privateer's Men belonging to the 

 Ifland of "jamaica^ in the preceeding War his Story 

 is but fliort, for his Reign walS fo-, an End ha« 

 ving been put to his Adventures in good Timej' 

 when he was growing ftrong and formidable. We 

 find him Commander df a Pyrate Sloop of eight? 

 Guns^ and 80 Men, in the Month September^ ^l^^i 

 cruifirig off Jamaica^ C^^^, C^c. about which Time 

 he took the Berkley Galley, Captain Saunders^ and 

 plundered him of 1000 1. in Money, and after4 

 wards met with a Sloop calPd the King Sokmonj froni 

 whom he took fome Money, <ind Provifions, befides 

 Goods, to> a good Value. ^ 



They proceeded after this to the Port of Cavena^ at 

 the Ifland of CuhayZxiii in their Way took two Sloops/ 

 yhich they plundered, arid let go ^ and oif the 

 Vott fell in with a fine Galley, with 20 Guns,' 



R * calFd 



