gio Capt. Bartho. Roberts. 



which the Deponent replying, he was not afraid 

 of behig hanged, Sciidamore bid hinj be ftill, and no 

 Harm fliould come to him ^ but before the next 

 Day-Evening, \ii/hich was the defigned Time of 

 exeepting this ProjeO:, the Deponent difcovered it 

 to the Officer," and aflured him, Scudamore had been 

 talking all the preceeding I^ight to the Kegroes, ia 

 Angolan Language. 



If aac Burnet heard the Prifoner ask ^ames Harris^ 

 a Pyrate, (left with the wounded in the Prize,) 

 whether he was willing to come into the Projeft of 

 running away with the Ship, and endeavour th^ 

 raifing of a new Company, but turned the Dif- 

 cburfe to Horfe-Racing, as the Deponent crept 

 Higher he acquainted the Officer with what ha 

 had heard, who kept the People under Arms all 

 Night, their Apprehenfions of the Negroes not be- 

 ing groundlefs for many of them having lived a 

 long Timq in this pyratical Way, were, by the thin 

 Commons they were now reduced to, as ripe for 

 Mifchief as any. . k 



The Prifoner in his Defence faid, he was a forced 

 Man from Captain Rolls/ in OEiober laft, and if he 

 had not fliewti fuch a Concern as became him, at 

 the Alteration, he muft remark the Occafion tQ 

 be, the Difagreement and Enmity between them ; 

 but that both Roberts^ and Val. ^pflanty threatened 

 him into ligning their Articles, and that he did it 

 in Terror; 



The Kwg Solomon^ and EHxiabeth Medicine-Cheft, 

 he owns he plundered, by Order of Hunter^ tha 

 then chief Surgeon, who, by the Pyrates Laws, 

 always directs in this Province, and Mr. Child^ 

 (tho' acquitted) had by the fame Orders taken 

 but a whole Fw/cl? Medicine-Cheft, which he muft 

 be fenfible fpr me, as well as for himfeif, we nei^ 

 mer of us dared to have denied ^ it was their 

 being the proper Judges, m^de fo ungrateful an 

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