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fare of dying an ignominious Death^ if flie iliould 

 be taken alive ? -She anfvver'd, that as to hang- 

 ing, fhe thought it no great Hardlhip, for^ were iz 

 not for that, every cowardly Fellow would turn 

 Pyrate, and fo infeft the Seas, that Men of Courage 



muft ftarve : That if ic was put to the Choice 



of the Pyrates, they would not have the puailh- 

 ment lefs than Death, the Fear of which^ kept 

 fome daftardly Rogues honeft that many of thofe 

 who are now cheating the Widows and Orphans, 

 and oppreffing their poor Neighbours^ who have 

 no Money to obtain Juftice, would then rob at Sea, 

 and the Ocean would be crowded with Rogues, 

 like the Land, and no Merchant would venture 

 out ; lb that the Trade, in a little Time, would not 

 be worth following. 



Being found quick with Child, as has been oh- 

 ferved, her Execution was refpited, and it is po(^ 

 fible (he would have found Favour, but Ihe was 

 leizM with a violent Fever, foon after her Tryal, 

 of which Ihe died in Prifon* 



The LIF E of Anne Bonny. 



AS we have been more particular in the Lives 

 of thefe two Women, than thofe of other 

 Pyrates, it is incumbent on us, as a faithful Hi- 

 florian, to begin with their Birth, ^nne Bonnv was 

 born at a Town near Corh^ in the Kingdom of Ire-- 

 Undy her Father an Attorney at Law, but Anne 

 was not one of his legitimate llfue, which feems 

 to crofs an old Proverb, which lays, that Bafiards 



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