Capt. Bartho. Roberts. 299 



Warrant for Execution. 



PVRSiUANT to the Sentence given on Saturday^ 

 by the Court of jidmiraltyy at Cape-Corfo-Caftle, 

 ftgninfi Simpfon, Wm* Magnes, R. Hardy, 



Tho. Sutton^ Chriftopher Moody, and Valentine 

 Afhplant. 



Tou are hereby directed to carry the aforefdlU Malefa^ 

 Ctors to the Place of Execution^ without the Gates of this 

 Cajilcy to Morrow Morning at Nine of the Clociy and 

 there within the Flood-Marhy caufe them to be hanged 

 by the Neck till they are deady for which j this Jhall be 

 your Warrant* Given under my Handy this 2d Day of 

 April 1722. 



To Jofeph Gordyn, Mungo Keardman* 



Trovoft'MarfhaL 

 The Bodies remove in ChainSy to the Gibbets already 

 ereHed on the adjacent Hillocks* 



M. H. 



William FhillipSk 



IT appeared by the Evidence of Captain Jo* Tra^ 

 herny and George Fenny Mate of the King Solomon^ 

 that this Prifoner was Boatfwain ot the fame Ship^ 

 when fhe was attacked and taken off Cape Appollonia^ 

 the 6th. of "January laft, by the Py rate's Boat. 



When the Boat drew nigh, (they fay,) it wa^ 

 judged Yrom the Number of Men in her, that they 

 were Py rates, and being hailed, anfwered. Defiance-^ 

 ^t which the Commander hiatched a Mulquet from 

 one of his Men, and fired, asking them at the fam^ 

 Time, whether they would ftand by him, to de-^ 

 fend the Ship? But the Pyrates returning a VoU 

 ley, and crying out, they would give no Quarters 

 if any Reliftance was made ; this Prilbnei: toolc 

 upon him to call out for Quarters, without th^ 

 Mafter's Confent, and miflead the reft to the laying 

 .down their Arms, and giving up the Ship, to half 

 the JNumber of Men^ and in an open Boat. It was 



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