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xvere for fortirying the llland, to ftand upon their 

 ownTermSj andTreatiiig vvith thg Government upon 

 the Foot dt-a Commonwealth-, others were alfd 

 for ftrengthening the llland for their own Security, 

 but were not ftrenuous for thefe Punftiilios, ^othac 

 they might have a general Pardon, without bei ig 

 obliged to make any Reftitiition, and to retire^ 

 with all their EffeOis^ to the ne^'ghboiiring Brltlfl^ 

 Plantations. 



But Captain JemmgSy who was their Commadore^ 

 and who always bore a great Sway among 

 them, being a Man of gdod "tJnderftandiiig, and a 

 good Eftate^ before this Wh^m took him of going 

 a Pyratingj refo'lved upon furrendering, withoaC 

 more ado, to the Terms of the Proclamation, which 

 fo difconcerted all their Meafures, that the Co^^ 

 grefs broke up very abruptly without doing any 

 Thing • and prefently Jennings^ and by his Exam-, 

 pie, about 150 more, came in to the Governor of 

 Bermudasy and had their Certificates, tho^ the 

 greateft Part of them returned again, like the Dog 

 to the Vomit. The Commanders who were theii 

 in the Ifland, belides Captain "Jennings abovemen- 

 tioned, 1 think vvere thefe, Benjamin Hornigold^ Edward 

 Teachy John Martel, James Vife^ Chnfiopher Wintevy N'^ 

 cholas Brown J Paul Williams^ Charles Bellamy ^ Oliver U 

 Bouche^ Major Tenner ^Ed. England^ T.BurgefsTho.Cock" 

 lyny R. Samphy Charles Vaney and two or three others : 

 Hornigoldy Williams Burgees and la Bouche were after- 

 wards caft away 7 ^^c/:? and P^TO^r killed, arid their 

 Crews taken- James Fife killed by his ovvn Men;' 

 Martel's Crew deftroyed, and he forced on an un- 

 liihabited Ifland ; Cocklyny Sample and- P'^me hanged 

 Winter and Brown furrendered to the Spaniards ac 

 Cubay and England lives now at Madagafcar, 



In the Month of May or June 1718, Captain 

 Rogers arrived at his Government, with two of his 

 Majefty's Ships, and found fevefal of theabovefaid 



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