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do\vn the Coaft, and raife a new Company, than 

 to proceed to Cape Corfoy anxl be hanged like a Dog, 

 and Sun dry'd. One of them abhorring the Cruel- 

 ty, or fearing the Succefs, difcovered it to the Of- 

 ficer, who made him immediately a Prifoner, and 

 brought the Ship fafe. 



Wken they came to be lodgM in Cape Corfo-Cafile^ 

 their Hopes of this kind all cut off, and that they 

 xvereaffured they muft there foon receive a final 

 Sentence ; the Note was changed among moft af 

 them, aiid from vain infolent jefting, they became 

 ferious and devout, •begging for good Books, and 

 Joyning in publick Prayers, and finging of Pfalms, 

 twice at leaft every Day. 



As to their Tryals, if we fliould give them at 

 length, it may appear tedious to the Reader, for 

 which Reafbn, I have, for the avoiding Tautology 

 arid Repetition, put as many of them together as 

 xvere try'd for the lame Faft, referving the Cir- 

 cumftances which are moft material, with Obfer- 

 vations on the dying Behaviour of fuch of them, as 

 came to my Knowledge. 



And firft, it may be obferved from the Lift, that 

 a great Part of theft Pyrate Ships Crews, were Men 

 entered on the Coaft of Africay not many Months 

 before they were taken *, from whence, it may be 

 conchided, that the pretended Conftraint of RobertSy 

 on them, was very often a Complotnient befvveen 

 Parties equally willing : And this Roberts feveral 

 Times openly declared, particularly to the Onjlbw'^s 

 People, whom he called aft, and. ask'd of thenfi, who 

 was willing to gOj for he would force no Body ? As was 

 depofed, by fome of his beft Hands, after Acquit- 

 tal nor is it reafbnable to think, he fhould reje£fc 

 Jrijh Voluntiers, only from a Pique againft Kennedy, 

 ^nd force others, that might hazard, and, in Time, 

 deftroy his Government : But their Behaviour foon 

 put him out of this Fear, and convinced him, that 



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