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S the Pyrafeg in the tP^efi^Mies hdi^e 

 been fo formidable and numerous, 

 that they have interrupted the 

 Trade of Europe Into tjiofe Parts ; 

 md our EngUjh Merchants^ in parti- 

 alar^ have fuffered more by their 

 Depredations^ than by the united 

 Force of France and Spaing in the late War : We do 

 not doubt but the World will be curious to know 

 the Original and Progrefs of thefe Defperadoes, 

 who were the Terror of the trading Part of the 

 World. 



But before we enter upon their particular Hi-- 

 ftory, it will not be amifs, by way of Introduaion, 

 to fhexv, by fome Examples drawn from Hiftory, 

 the great Mifchiet and Danger which threaten 

 Kingdoms and Commonwealths, from the Increafe 



