22% Capt. Bartho. Roberts. 



main Gang alarm'd the Country where-ever they 

 came, drinking and roaring at fuch a Rate, that the? 

 People fhut themfelves up in their Houfes,in Ibme 

 Places, not daring to venture out among fb many 

 mad Fellows In other Villages, they treated the 

 whole Town, iquandering their Money away, as 

 if, like ^fopy they wanted to lighten their Burv 

 thens : This expenfive manner of Living procur 

 red two of their drunken Straglers to be knocked 

 on the Head, they being found murdered in the 

 Road, and their Money taken from them : All the 

 reft, to the Number of leventeen as they drew nigh 

 to Edinburgh^ were arretted and thrown into Goal, 

 upon Sufpicion,ofthey knew not what; However, the 

 Magiftrates were not long at a Lofs for proper Ac^ 

 cufations, for two of the Gang offering themfelves 

 for Evidences were accepted of; and the others were 

 brought to a fpeedy Tryal, whereof nine were conn- 

 vifted and executed. 



Kennedy having fpent all his Money, came over 

 from Ireland^ and kept a common B— y-Houle on 

 Deptford Road, and now and then, 'twas thought^, 

 made an Excurfion abroad in the Way of his for^ 

 mer Profeilion, till one of his Houfhold W — -rs 

 gave Information againft him for a Robbery, for 

 which he was committed to Bridewell ;" but becaufe 

 fhe would not do the Bufmefs by halves, fhe found 

 out a Mate of a Ship that Kennedy had committed 

 Pyracy upon, as he foolilhly confefsM to her. This 

 Mate, whofe Name was Grant^ paid Kennedy a 

 Vifit in Bridewell^ and knowing him to be the Man, 

 procured a Warrant, and had him committed to 

 the Marjl^alfea Prilbn, 



The Game that Kennedy had now to play was to 

 turn Evidence himfelf ; accordingly he gave a Lift 

 of eight or ten of his Comrades; but not being aC'- 

 quainted with their Habitations, one only was ta^ 

 ken, who, tho' eondemn'd, appec^red to be a Maji 



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