Capi. Bartho. Roberts. 50^ 



in having been the firfl Surgeon that had done lb, 

 (for before this, it was their Cuftom to change 

 their Surgeons, when they defired it, after ha- 

 ving lerved a Time, and never obliged them to 

 lign, but he was refolded to break thro' this^ for 

 the good of thofe who were to follow,) fwearing im- 

 mediately upon ic, he was now, he hoped, as great a 

 Rogue as any of them. 



Captain Jo. iVahern^ and George Venn^ his Mate, 

 depoftd, the Prifoner to have taken out of the 

 King Solomon^ their Surgeon's capital Inftruments, 

 Ibme Medicines, and a Back«Gammon Table which 

 latter became the Means of a Quarrel between one 

 Wincoriy and he, whole Property they Ihould be, and 

 were yielded to the Prifoner. 



Jo. Sharpy Mafter of the EliTLaheth^ heard the 

 Prifoner ask Roberts leave to force Comry^ his Sur- 

 geon, from him, which was accordingly done, and 

 with him, carried alfo fome of the Ship's Medi^ 

 cines : But what gave a fuller Proof of the diflio- 

 iiefty of his Principles, was, the treacherous De- 

 lign he had formed of running away with the 

 Prize, in her Paifage to Ov^^Corfo^ though he had 

 been treated with all Humanity, and very unlike 

 a Prifoner, on Account of his Employ and better 

 Education, which had rendred him lefs to be fuf^ 

 • 



Mr. Childy (acquitted ) depos'd, that in their PaC* 

 Hige from the Ifland of St. Thomas, in the Fortune 

 Prize, this Prifoner was feveral Times tempting 

 him, into Meafures of rifing with the Negroes, 

 and killing the Swalloxvs People, fhewing him^ 

 how ealily the white Men might be demoliflied, 

 and a new Company raifed at Angola^ and that 

 Part ot the Coaft, for^ fays he, / underfiand how to 

 navigate a ShiP^ and can foon teach you to fteer j 

 and is it not better to do thisy than to go back to 

 Cape^Corlb, and be hanged and Sun-dryed ? To 



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