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threw them over-board into the Sea all this was 

 done with incefTant curfmg and fwearing, more 

 like Fiends than Men. They carried with them^ 

 Sails, Guns, Powder, Cordage, and 8 or 9000 1. 

 worth of the choiceft Goods ^ and told Captain 

 Cary^ That they Jhould accept of no AEt of Grace that 



j{ and P >t might be damned with their JIB s of 



C for them ^ neither would they go to Hope-Point, 



to be hanged up a Sm dryings as KiddV, and BraddifliV 

 Company were ^ but that if they fhould ever be overpower 

 they would fet Fire to the Powder^ with a Pijioly md go aU 

 $nerrily to Hell together s 



After they had brought all the Booty aboard^ 

 a Confutation was held whether they fliouldfink 

 or burn the Ship, but whilft they were debating 

 the Matter, they fpyed a Sail, and fo left the Sa- 

 muel ^ to give her Chace at Midnight they came 

 up with the fame, which proved to be a Snow from 

 Briftoly bound for Bofion^ Captain Bowles Mafter : 

 They us'd him barbaroufly, becaule of his Coun- 

 try, Captain Rogers ^ who attacked them of[ Barbor 

 doesy being of the City of BrifioL 



July the 1 6th, which was two Days afterwards, 

 they took ^ Virginia Man called the Little Torky James 

 Philips Mafter, and the Love, of Leverpool^ which 

 they plundered and let go ; the next Day a Snow 

 from Bri/}olj calPd the Phmix^ John Richards Mafter, 

 met with the fame Fate from them ^ as alio a Bri- 

 gantine, C2i^t^m Thomas y and a Sloop called the 5;ii- 

 bury they took all the Men out of the Brigantine, 

 and funk the Veffel. 



Wiien they left the Banks of Newfoundland^ they 

 failed for the Wefl-lndiesy and the Provilions grow- 

 ing Ihort, they went for the Latitude of the Ifland 

 Defead^ to cruife, it being efteemed the likelieft 

 Place to meet with fuch Ships as (they ufed in their 

 Mirth to fayj wereconfigned to them, with Sup- 

 plies, And it has been very much fuj^efted that 



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