a.30 CaDt. Barthq. Roberts. 



Confervation of their Society, and doing Juftice 

 to one another excludiug all Irijlj Men flora the 

 Benefit of it^ to whom they had an implacable 

 Averlion upon thfe Account of Kennedy. How indeed 

 Roberts coi\\(\ think that an Oath would be obliga- 

 tory, where Defiance had been given to the Laws 

 of God and P^an, I can't tell, but he thought 

 their greateft Security lay in this, That it was eveyy 

 ones Inter eft, ^to obfervc them if they were minded to keep 

 tip fo a^07nlnable a Combimticn^ 



The fonowing5 is the Subftance of the Articles, as 

 taken from the Pyrates own Informations, 



I. 



'W7^'^^yy Man has a P'ote in Affairs of Moment:^ has 

 J_j ecfial Title to the frep Frovifions^ or ftrong Liquors^ 

 4tt any Tme feized^ and nfk 'irhem at fleafure^ tinlefs a 

 'Scarcity (no uncommon Thing among them) make 

 tt neccjfary^ for the good of allj to vote a Retrenchment. 



Every Man to he called fairly in turn^ by Lifiy on Board 

 of Prisicsy bccaufcy (over and above their proper Share^ 

 they were on thefe Occafons allowed a Shift of Cloaths : 

 But if they defrauded the Company to the Vane of a Dollar y 

 in F I ate J Jewels j or Money y M a R 00 n 1 ng was their 

 Funijiimcnt. This was a Barbarous Cuftcm of put- 

 tinr the Offender on Shore, on fome delblate or 

 uninhabited Cape or Iiland, with a Gun, a few Shot, 

 a Bottle of Water, and a Bottle of Powder, to fub- 

 fiiiwith, or ftarve. If the Robbery was only between 

 one another^ they contented themfehes with flitti'ng the 

 Ears and. Nofe of hhn that was Guilty^ and fet him on 

 StjorCy not in an 2minhabited Flace^ but fomewhcrCy where 

 he wasjure to encounter jfJardjhips* 



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