Of Major Stede BoiTNET. 95 



be in Want of, they took out of her ten or twelve 

 Barrels of Pork, and about 400 Weight of Bread ; 

 but becaufe they would not have this let down 

 to the Account of Pyracy, they gave them eight 

 or ten Casks of Rice, and an old Cable, in lieu 

 thereof. 



Two Days afterwards they chafed a- Sloop of 

 lixty Ton, and took her two Leagues off of Cape 

 Henry \ they were fo happy here as to get a Supply 

 ot Liquor to their Victuals, for they brought from 

 her two Hogftieads of Rum, and as many of Mo- 

 lofles, which, it feems, they had need of, tho' they 

 had not ready Money to purchale them : What Se- 

 curity they intended to give, I can't tell, but Bonnet 

 lent eight Men to take Care of the Prize Sloop, 

 who, perhaps, not caring to make Ufe of thofe 

 accuftom'd Freedoms, took the firft Opportunity 

 to go off with her, and Bonnet (who was pleafed 

 to have himfeif called Captain Thomas^) faw them 

 no mpre. 



After this, the Major threw off all Reftraint, 

 and though he had juft before received his Ma- 

 jefly's Mercy, in the Name of Stede Bonnet^ he ve-- 

 JapsM in good Earneft into his old Vocation, by 

 the Name of Captain Thomas y and recommenced 

 a down-right Pyrate, by taking and plundering 

 all the VelTel's he met with : He took off Cape 

 Henryy two Ships from Firginia^ bound to Glafcom, 

 out of which they had very little befides an hun- 

 dred Weight of Tobacco. The next Day they 

 took a fmall Sloop bound horn Virginia to Bermu^ 

 dasy which fupply'd them with twenty Barrels of 

 Pork, fome Bacon, and they gave her in return, two 

 Barrels of Rice, and a Hogfhead of Moloffus ^ out 

 of this Sloop two Men enterM voluntarily. The 

 next they took was another Virginia Man, bound to 

 CUfcoWy out of which they had nothing of Value, 

 lave only a few Combs, Pins and Needles, and 



gave 



