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As to their Behaviour after they were taken, it 

 was found that they had great Inciinatioas to rebel, 

 if they eould have laid hold of any Opportunity. 

 For they were very uneafy under Reftraint, having 

 been lately all Commanders themfelves ^ nor could 

 they brook their Diet, or Quarters, without curfing 

 and fwearing, and upbraiding each other, with the 

 Folly that had brought them to 

 - So that to (ecure themfelves agai'nft any mad def^ 

 perate Undertaking of theirs, they ftrongly bar- 

 ricadoM the Gun-Room, and made another Prifbu 

 before it ; an Officer, with Piftols and Cutlafheg, 

 doing Duty, Night and Day, and the Prifoners 

 within, manacled and fhackled. 



They would yet in thefe Circumftances be im-^ 

 pudently merry, faying, when they viewed their 

 Nakednefs, that they had not left them a halfpemiy^ ta 

 give old Charon, to ferry them over Stix : And at their 

 thin Commons, they would obferve, that they fell 

 away fo faft, that they fhould not have Weight 

 ieft to hang them. Sutton ufed to be very pro- 

 phane ^ he happening to be in the fame Irons with 

 another Prifoner, who was more ferious than ordi* 

 nary, and read and pray'd often, as became his 

 Condition • this Man Sutton uled to fwear at, and 

 ask him, what hie propofed by fo much Noife and Tie* 

 motion? Heaven y fays the other, 1 hope. Heaven^ you 

 Fooly fays Sutton^ did you ever hear of any Pyrates going 



thither? Give me H //^ it'^s a merrier Place : I'll give 



Roberts a Salute of 13 Guns at Entrance. And when 

 he found fuch ludicrous Expreffions had no Effect 

 on him, he made a formal Complaint, and requefted 

 that the Officer would either remove this Man, or 

 take his Prayer-Book away, as a common Difturber. 



A Combination and Conlpiracy was formed, be* 

 twixt Moody^ A^.plant^ Magnesy Mare^ and others, 

 to rife, and kill the Officers, and run away with 

 th& Ship/ This they had ca,rried oa by Mean$ of 



