"140 (>f Capt. England. 



would certainly have had this Reflexion for their 

 Gonfolation, vlZ' *That what ever Robberies they hai 

 committedy they might be pretty fure they were not the 

 greatefi V^ilUins then living in the World. 



It is a difiiGulc Matter to make a Computation 

 of the Mifchiet that was done by this Crew in 

 about fiv^e Years Time, which is much more than 

 the Plunder they gained^ for they often funk or 

 burnt the Veffel they took, as it fuited their Hu- 

 mour or Circumftances, fometimes to prevent gi- 

 ving Intelligence, fometimes becaufe they did not 

 leave Men to navigate them, and at other Times 

 out of W^ntonnefs, or becaule they were dilplea- 

 led at the Matter's Behaviour; for any of thefe 

 it was but to give the Word, and down went Ships 

 and Cargoes to the Bottom of the Sea. 



Since their Surrender to the Spaniards^ I am in- 

 formed feveral of them have left the Place, and 

 difperfed thenifelves elfewhere eight of them 

 were flxigp'd about November laft, in one of the 

 South-Sea Company's Alfiento Sloops, and palTed for 

 Ship-wreck'd Men, came to Jamaica^ and there failed 

 in other VelTels and I know one of them that came 

 to England this Spring from that Ifland. 'Tis laid 

 that Captain T^;//(7>^ has taken a Commiffion in the 

 Spanijh Service, and commanded the Man of War 

 that lately attackM the Englijh Log- Wood Cutters 

 in the Bay of //?;;^^^r^x. 



*^ CHAP' 



