Of Capt. EnwAkD Low. 977 



felHon that the Captain had, during the Chace, 

 hung out of the Cabin Window, a Bag with i i,ooo 

 Moidores, which, alfoon as he was taken, he cut 

 the Rope off, and let it drop into the Sea, 



Lmy upon hearing what a Prize had efcapMhim, 

 rav'd like a Fury, fwore a thoufand Oaths, and 

 .ordered the Captain's Lips to be cut off, which 

 he broiPd before his Face, and afterwards mur- 

 thered him and all the Crew, beiiig thirty two 

 Perlbns. 



After this bloody A£tion, they continued their 

 Courfe, till they came to the Northward of all the 

 Iflands, and there cruiz'd for about a Month, in 

 which. Time they made Prizes of the follov/ii^^g 

 Veffels, viz* a Snow from New-Tori to Curacoa, Ro^ 

 hen Leonard Mafter a Sloop from the Bay, bouu4 

 to NeW'Torky Craig Mafter a Snow from London and 

 ^amaica^ bound to New-TorTi \ and the Stanhope Pink, 

 IMndrew^' Delhridge Mafter, from Jamaica to Bofton \ 

 which laft they burnt, becaufe of Z^n?'s irreconcilea- 

 ble Averlion to New-England Men. 



After this Cruize, they went into one of the 

 Iflands and clean'd, and then fleered for the Bay 

 of Honduras^ where they arri\red about the Middle 

 of March 1722-3, and met a Sloop turning out of 

 the faid Bay. The Py rates had hoifted up Spamjh 

 Colours, and continued them till they drew near 

 the Sloop, then they halPd (them down, hoifted 

 their black Flag, fired a Broadfide, and boarded 

 her. This Sloop was a Spaniard of fix Guns, and 

 70 Men, that came into the Bay that Morning, 

 and meeting there with five •£»f///& Sloops, and a 

 Pink, made Prizes , of them all, plundered them, 

 and brought the Mafters of the Velfels away Pri- 

 ibners, for the ranfbm of the Logwood • their 

 Names were Tuthill^ Norton^ Newbury^ Spraforty Clark 

 and Parrot. The Spaniards made no Refiftance, fa 

 that the BngUfl) Pyrate3 fbon became their Mafters. 



