328 Capt. Bartho. Roberts^ 



quicker Senfe of his Cbridition ; for when he faw thol^ 

 he was allotted with gone to Execution, he fent a 

 Melfage by the Provoft-Marlhal to the Court, to be 

 * informed of the Meaning of it, and humbly defir'4 

 ^ to know whether they defign'd hinvM'^rcy^ or not? 

 ^ If they did, he flood infinitely oblig'd'to them, and 

 ^ thought the whole Service of his Life anincomper 

 ^ tent Return for fo great a Favour ^ but that if he 

 ^ was to fuffer, the fooner the better, he faidy that 

 ^ he might be out of his Pain. ' 



There were others of thefe Pyrates the reverie 

 pf this, and tho' deftitute of Minifters, or fit Per^ 

 Ions to reprefent their Sins, and affift them with 

 Spiritual Advice, were yet always imployitig their 

 Time to good Purpofes, and behaved with .a great 

 deal of leeming Devotion and Penitence^V '^mong 

 thefe may be reckoned ^Sci^damore^ Willlams^ Phil pSjf 

 Stefhenfon^ J^jferys^ Lejly^ Harper^ Arfnftrono^^ Buhce^ and 

 Others, 



Scudamore too lately difcerned the Folly and 

 Wickednefs of the Enterprize, that had chiefiy 

 brought him under Sentence of Death, from which, 

 ieeing there was no Hopes of efcaping^ he petitiv 

 oned for two or three Days Reprieve, which wa's 

 granted ^ and for that Time apply'd himfelf in- 

 ceffantly to Prayer, and reading the Scripture?, 

 feem'd to have a deep Senfe of his Sins,of this in par^ 

 ticular, and defired, at the Gallows, they would 

 have Patience with him, to fing the firft Part of 

 the thirty firft Pfalm which he did by himfelf 

 throughout. 



^r;;2/?r^;7|', having been a Deferter from his Ma- 

 jefty's Service, was executed on Board the IVey-r 

 mouthy (an4 the only one that was ;) theris was 

 \po Body to prefs him to an Acknowledgement of the 

 iCrime he died for, nor of Ibrrowing in particular 

 for it^ which would have been exemplary, and 

 apiad^ fuitable Imprefliops on Sgamen j ip that his 



