312 Capt. Bartho. Roberts. 



He infifted for himfelf likewife, on Captain Tur^ 

 f7er^s Affidavit of his being forced, on which others 

 (his Ship-mates) had been cleared. 



The Court confidering the Partiality that might 

 be objefted in acquttting one, and condemning 

 another of the fame ftanding, thought fit to re- 

 mark it as a clear Teftimony of their Integrity, 

 that their Care and Indulgence to each Man, in 

 allowing his particular Defence, was to exempt 

 from the Rigour of the Law, fuch, who it muft be 

 allowed, would have flood too promifcuoufly con* 

 demned, if they had not been heard upon any 

 other FaO: than that of the Swallow^ and herein what 

 could better direfb them, than a Character and 

 Behaviour from their own Affociates- for tho^ 

 a voluntary Entry with the Py rates may be doubt-, 

 ful, yet his coniequent Aftions are not, and it is 

 TiOt lb material how a Man comes among Py rates, as 

 how he afts when he is there. Guilty. 



George Wllfon* 



JOHN Sharpy Matter of the ElisLaheth^ in which 

 Ship the Prifoner was PalTenger, and tell a fecond 

 Time into the Pyrates Hands, depofes, that he 

 took the faid Wilfon off from Sefiosy on this Coaft, 

 paying to the Negroes for his Ranfom, the Value 

 of three Pound five Shillings in Goods, for which 

 he had taken a Note, that he thought he had done 

 ^ charitable Ad in this, till meeting with one 

 Captain Cannings he was ask'd, why he would re- 

 leafe fuch a Rogue as Wilfon was? For that he had 

 been a Voluntier with the Pyrates, out of John 

 Tdrltofj. And when the Deponent came to be a Pri^ 

 ibner himfelf, he found Ihomas^ the Brother of 

 ihis John Tarltony a Prifoner with the Pyrates alio, 

 who was immediately on Wilfon s Inftigation, in a 

 moft fad manner mifiiled and beat, and had been 

 Ihot, through the Fury ^nd Rage of fome of thofe 



Fellows 



