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or Hierb for their Subfiftance, and where they muft 

 have periflied if Major Bonnet had not two Days 

 after taken them off. 

 . Teach goes up to the Governor of North-Carolina^ 

 with about twenty of his Men, lurrender to his 

 Majefty's Proclamation, and receive Certificates 

 thereof, from his Excellency ; but it did not ap- 

 pear that their fubmitting to this Pardon was from 

 any Reformation of Manners, but only to wait a 

 more favourable Opportunity to play the fame 

 Game over again ^ which he foon after efFeded, 

 with s;reater Securitv to himfelf, and with much / 

 better ProfpeO: of Succefs, having in this Time cul-^ 

 tivated a very good underftanding with Charles Eden, ")v 

 Elq:, the Governor above mentioned. - A *7^' 



The firft Piece of Service this kind Governor / - Tf, 

 did to Black-Beardy was, to give him a Right to 

 the VelTel which he had taken, when he was a 

 py rating in the great Ship called the Queen Ann^^s 

 Revenge for which purpofe, a Court of Vice-Admi- 

 ralty was held at 5^r/7-7l?Tr;? and, tho' Teach had 

 never any Commifiiion in his Lite^ • and the Sloop 

 belonging to the Englljh Merchants, and taken in 

 Time of Peace yet was {he condemned as a Prize 

 taken from the Spaniards^ by the faid Teach. Thele 

 Proceedings Ihew that Governors are but Men* 



Before he failed upon his Adventures, he mar- 

 ry'd a young Creature of about fixteen Years of 

 Age,^ the Governor performing the Ceremony. As 

 it is aCuftom to marry here by a Prieft, fo it is 

 there by a Magiftrate ^ and this, I have been in- 

 formed, made Teaches fourteenth Wife, whereofj^ 

 about a dozen might be ftill living. His Beha- 

 viour in this State, was fomething extraordinary- 

 for while his Sloop lay in Okerecock Inlet, and he 

 alhore at a Plantation, where his Wife lived, with, 

 whom after he had lain all N^ght, it was his Cu- 

 fiom to invite five or fi?: of liis brutal Compani^ 



