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CHAP. 



O F 



Captain Bartho. Roberts, 



And his Crew. 



BArtholomew Roberts failed in an honeft Employ, 

 from London aboard of the Frincefs^ Captain 

 Tlumb Commander, of which Ship he was 

 lecond Mate : He \eh England^ November 1719, and 

 arrived at Guiney about February following, and be- 

 ing at Anamaboe^ taking in Slaves for the Wefl^ 

 Indies^ was taken in the faid Ship by Captain How- 

 el Davis^ as mentioned in the preceeding Chapter, 

 In the beginning he was very averfe to this fort 

 of Life, and would certainly have efcaped fromi 

 them, had a fair Opportunity prefented it felf ^ 

 yet afterwards he changed his Principles, as many 

 befides him have done upon another Element, and 

 perhaps for the fame Reafbn too, viz.. Preferment, 



and what he did not like as a private Man 



be could reconcile to his Confcience as a Com- 

 mander. 



Davis being cut off in the manner beforementi- 

 oned, the Company found themfelves under a Ne- 

 cejfrity of filling up his Poft, for which there ap- 

 pear'd two or three Candidates among the feled Part 



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