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506 Capt. Bartho. Roberts. 



Jfaying, Captain, what fignifies this Trouble of 2V 

 H^pey and ftraining in hot Weather • there are 

 more Anchors at London^ and befides, your Ship is 

 to be burnt. 



William Smithy (a Prilbner acquitted,) fays Wd^ 

 den was known among the Pyrates moftly, by the 

 Kick-Name of Mifs Nanney (ironically its pre- 

 fumed from the Hardnefs of his Temper) that he 

 was one of the twenty who voluntarily came 011 

 Board the Rangery in the Ghace Ihe made out af- 

 ter the SwalloiVy and by a Shot from that Ship, loft 

 his Leg ^ his Behaviour in the Fight, till then, be- 

 ing bold and daring. 



The Vrefid.enty called for Harry Glashy^ and bid 

 him relate a Charaflrer of the Prifoner, and what 

 Cuftom was among them, in Relation to thefe vo- 

 luntary Expedition^, out of their proper Ship ; 

 and this of going on Board the Ranger^ in par- 

 ticular. 



And he gave in for Evidence, that the Prifoner 

 was looked on as a brisk Hand, (i. e. as he farther 

 explained it, a ftanch Pyrate, a great RogueJ that 

 when the Swallow firft appeared in Sight, every one 

 was willing to believe her a Tortuguefey becaufe Su- 

 gar was very much in Demand, and had made fome 

 Jarring and Diffention between the two Compa- 

 nies, (the Fortune's People drinking Punch, wheuJ 

 the Rangers could notj th2it Roberts^ on Sight of the! 

 Swallowy hailed the new Ranger^ and bid them right| 

 Ship, and get under Sail v there, is, fays he. Sugar 

 in the Offing, bring it in, that We may have no 

 more Mumbling \ ordering at the fame Time the 

 Word to be pafs'd among the Crew, who would 

 go to their Afliflance, and immediately the Boat 

 was full of Men, to tranfport themfelves. 



Trefident^ Th^Ti every one that goes on Board of 

 any Prize, does it voluntarily ? Or were there here 

 any other Reafons for it ? 



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