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the uninhabited Bahama\ and loft their Sloop the 

 Men got all afliore, and lived np and down in the 

 Wood, for a little Time, till Governor Rogers 

 happening to near of their Expedition, and where 

 they had got to, fent out an armed Sloop to the 

 afbrelaidlfland ^ the Mafter of which, with good 

 Words and fair Promifes, got them on Board, 

 and brought them all to Trovidence^ being a eleven 

 Perfbns^ ten of which were try'd at a Court of Ad- 

 miralty, convicted, and hanged by the other's Evi- 

 dence, in the Sight of all their former Compa- 

 nions and fellow Thieves. The Criminals would 

 fain have fpirited up the pardoned Py rates, to 

 refcue them out of the Hands of the Officers of 

 Juftice, telling them from the Gallows, that. They 

 never thought to have feen the Time^ when ten fuch Men as 

 they fiould be tyd up and hanged like Dogs^ and four 

 hundered of their fvoorn friends and Comf unions quietly 

 jianding by to behold the Spectacle. One Humphrey Mor- 

 rice urged the Matter further than the reft, taxing 

 fhem with Pufilanimity and Cowardice, as if it 

 were a Breach of Honour in them not to rife and 

 lave them from the ignominious Death they were 

 going to fuffer. But 'twas all in vain, they were 

 now told, it was their Bufinefs to turn their Minds 

 to another World, and lincerely to repent of 

 what Wickednefs they had done in this. Tes^ an- 

 fwered one of them, / do heartily repent ^ / repent I 

 had not done more Mifchief and that we did not cut the 

 Throats of them that took us^ and I am extremely forry 

 that you an^t all hanged as well as we* So do /, fays 

 another r And 1^ fays a third and then they were 

 all turned off, without making any other dying 

 Speeches, except one Dennis Macarty^ who told the 

 People, That fome Friends of his had often faid he (l)ould 

 die in his Shoesy but that he would make them Lyars^ and 

 lb kicked them off. And thus ended the Lives, 

 with their Adventures, of thofe miferable Wretches, 



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