Capt. Bartho. Roberts^ P7 



pentai^ce ^ one particular Part of which ought to 

 be, acknowledging the Juftice they had met with. 

 They feem'd heedlefs for the prefent, feme calling 

 for Water to drink, and others applying to the 

 Soldiers for Caps, but when this Gentleman 

 prefs'd them for an Anfwer, they all exclaimed 

 ^^gainft the Severity of the .Court, and were fo 

 hardened, as to curfe, and wifti the fame Juftice 

 . might overtake all the Members of it, as had been 

 dealt to them. They were poc^ Rogues^ they laid, and 

 fo hang^dy while others^ no lefs guilty in another Way^ 



When he endeavoured to compofe their Minds, 

 exhorting them to dye in Charity with all the 

 World, and would have diverted them from liich 

 vain Difcourfe, by asking them their Country, 

 Age, and the like fbme of them anfwered, * What 



* was that to him, they fuffered the Law, and fhould 



* give no Account but to God ' walking to the Gal- 

 lows without a Tear, in Token of Sorrow for 

 their paft Offences, or fliewing as much Concern 

 as a Man would exprefs at travelling a bad Road ; 

 nay, Sympfon^ at feeing a Woman that he knew, faid, 



* lie had lain with that B h three times, and now 



^ flie was come to fee him hang'd. ' And Hardy^ 

 when his Hands were ty'd behind him, (which 

 happened from their not being acquainted with the 

 Way of bringing Malefaftors to Execution,) ob- 

 ferved, ^ that he had feen many a Man hang'd, but 



* this Way of the Hands being ty'd behind them, he 

 ^ was a Stranger to, and never faw before in his 



* Life. ' I mention thefe two little Inftances, to 

 Ihew how ftupid and thoughtlels they were of 

 their End, and that the fame abandoned and re- 

 probate Temper that had carried them thro' their 

 Rogueries, abided with them to the lafl. 



_ Samuel Fletcher ^ another of the Pyrates ordered 

 for Execution, t?ut reprieved, feem'd to have a 



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