goo 'Capt. Bartho. Roberts^ 



further evident he became, after this, a Volun- 

 tier amongft them. Firft^ becaule he was prefently 

 very forward and brisk, in robbing the Ship Kl^g 

 Solomon^ of her Provi£ons and Stores. Secondly, 

 becaule he endeavoured to have his Captain ill 

 iifed; and laftly, becaufe he hadconfeffed to Fenny 

 that he had been obliged to figii their Articles 

 that ISiight, (a Piftol being laid on the Table, to 

 Jignify he muft do it, or be fliot,^ when rhe whole 

 appeared to be an Untruth from other Evidence,^ 

 who alfo afferted his being armed in the Aftioii 

 againft the Swallow, 



In anfwer to this, he firfl: obferved upon the 

 Unhappineis of being friendlefs in this Part of 

 the World, which, elfewhere, by witneffing to the 

 Honefty of his former Life, would, he believed, 

 in a great Meafure, have invalidated the wrong Evi- 

 dence had been given of his being a Voluntier with 

 the Pyji^tes. He owns indeed, he made no Appli- 

 cation to his Captain, to intercede for a Difcharge, 

 but excuies it with faying, he had adiiliketo him, 

 and therefore was fure that fuch Application would 

 have avaiPd him nothing. 



The Court obferved the Pretences of this, and 

 other of the Pyrates, of a Piftol and their Articles 

 being ferved up in a Dilh together, or of their 

 being mifufed and forced from an honeft Service, 

 was often a Complotment of the Parties, to ren- 

 der th^m lefs fufpeded of thofe they came from, 

 and was to anfwer the End of being put in a News- | 

 Paper or Affidavit : and the Pyrates were fb ge- 

 nerous as not torefufea Compliment to a Brother 

 that coft them nothing, and, at the fame Time, 

 fecured them the beft Hands the beft I call them, 

 becaufe fuch a Dependance made them afl: more 

 boldly. Guilty. 



Harry 



