296 Capt. Bartho. Roberts^ 



WILLI AM church, Phil. Haai, James WhiteyNlch. 

 Brattle, Hugh Riddle, William "Thomas, Tho. Ro^ 

 herts, Jo, Richards, Joi Cane, R. Wood, R. Scop, IVm* 

 Davtfon^ Sam. Morwell, Edward Evans, Wm^ Guineys^ 

 and 1 8 French Men. 



The four firft of thefe Prifoners, it was evident 

 to the Court, ferved as Mufick on Board the Py- 

 rate, were forced lately from the feveral Merchant 

 Ships they belonged to, and that they had, du- 

 ring this Confinement, an uneafy Life of it, ha- 

 ving fometimes their Fiddles, and often their Heads 

 broke, only for excufmg themfelves, or faying 

 they were tired, when any Fellow took it in his 

 Head to demand a Tune. 



The other Englijh had been a very few Days on 

 Board the Pyrate, only from Whydah to Cape Loj^ez,, 

 pnd no Capture or Robbery done by them in that 

 Time. And the French Men were brought with a 

 Defign to reconduft their own Ship ( or the Little 

 ganger m Exchange) to Whydah Road again, and 

 were ufed like Prifoners; neither quartered nor 

 futfered to carry Arms. So that the Court imme- 

 diately acquielced in. Acquitting them* 



THO. Sutton, David Symffon, Chrijlofher Moody, 

 Phil. Bill, R. Hardy, Hen. Dennis, David Rice, 

 Wm. Williams, R. Harris, Geo* Smith, Ed. Watts, Jo. 

 Mitchell and James Barrow. 



The^ Evidence ugainft thefe Prifoners, w^re Geret 

 de Haen, Mafter of the Flujhingham, taken nigh 

 A^^im, the Beginning of January laft. 



Benj. Kreft Mafter, and James Groet R^ate of the 

 Gertruycht, taken nigh Gabone in December laft, and 

 Mr. Cafiel, Wingfield and others, that had been Pri- 

 foners with the Pyrates. 



The former depofed, that all thefe Prifoners 

 (ei^eepting i/^r^y) were on Board at the Robbery 

 gml plunder of their Ships/ behaving in a yile out* 



