544 Of Capu TfoRLEY^ 



ill tolerable good Condition, having a VefTel newly 

 cleaned^ with Provifions, &c. they flood off to 

 Sea, and lb miffed the ThmiXy who expeded them 

 to be ftill on the Coaft. 



About flx Weeks afterwards they returned, ha- 

 ving taken both a Sloop and a Brigantine, among 

 the Bahama Iflands • the former they funk, ;and the 

 Other they let go: The Sloop belonged to New- . 

 Tork^ and they thought the finking of her good Poli-? 

 cy, to prevent her returning to tell Tales at Home. 



Worley had by this Time enereafed his Company 

 to about five and twenty Men, had fi^ Guns 

 mounted, and fmall Arms as many as were neeef^ 

 fary for them, and leem'd to be in a good thriving 

 fpxt of a Way. He made a black Enfign, with a 

 white Death's Head in the Middle of it, and other 

 Colours fuitable to it. They all figned Articles, 

 and bound themfelves under a folemn Oath, to 

 take no Quarters, but to ftand by one another to 

 the lafl: Man, wl^ich was ralhly fulftlPd a little 

 afterwards, 



For going into an Inlet in North-CarcUna, to 

 plean^ the Governor received Information of it, and 

 fitted out two Sloops, one of eight Guns, and the 

 Qther with fix, and about feventy Men between 

 them. Worley had cleaned his Sloop, andfail'd ber 

 fore -the Carolina Sloops reached the Place, and 

 fleered to the Northward but the Sloops juft meur 

 tioned, purfuing the fame Courfe, came in fight of 

 Worley^ as he was cruiling off the Capes of Fir^ 

 ginia^ and being in the Offin, he flood in as loon 

 as he faw the Sloops, intending thereby to have 

 cut them off from 7^^?;^^/ River • for he verily belie- 

 ved they had been bound thither, not imagining, in 

 fhe leafl, they weiein Purfuit of him. 



The two Sloops ftanding towards the Capes at 

 the fame Time, and Worley hoifting of his black 

 l^l^g, the Inhabitants of James Town were in 



