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for he fo burnt his Flelh diftant from the Place of 

 Amputation,^ that it had like to have mortify'd ; 

 however nature performed a Cure at lalt without a- 

 liy other Affiftance, 



From Tobago they flood away to thS Kofthward 

 and t6ok a Portugzieze bound for Brdz^H^ and two or 

 three Sloops froiri Jamaita^ in one of which. Fern the 

 Carpentei*, endeavouriiig to go otF, was kilFd by 

 Phi/lips the Captain, purfuant to their Articles ^ ano- 

 ther had the fame Fate Ibme Days after for the like 

 Attempt/ Thefe Severities made it daugeroti^ for 

 any to confult or projeft an Efcape ^ the Terror of 

 which made feveral lign their Articles and fet dowil 

 quietly, waiting impatiently for Redemption, which 

 as yet they faw no great Hkelyhood of, and fhould 

 they have been taken before fuch Circumftance^ 

 appearM in their Adions or Characters, a^ after- 

 Avards happen'd, to denote their Innocence^ they 

 might have loft their Lives upon a Tryal at a Court 

 of Admiralty ; for pretty ftrong Ev^idence is ex- 

 pefted in their Favour, to ballance that of bein^ 

 taken aboard a Veflel which is prov'd to be in actual 

 Pyracy, and they affifting therein. 



Thus was manyanhoneft Man's Cafe made riioft 

 defperate by the confumrnate Villany of a few hard- 

 ned Wretches, who fear neither God or Devil, a^ 

 this Phillifi us'd often blafphemoufly to expreli 

 himfelf. 



On the 25th of March they took two Shi^s fromf 

 Virginia for London^ John Phillips the Py rate Captain's 

 Namefake, was Maifter of one, and Captain Robert 

 Mortimer^ the other, a brisk young Fellow, that de- 

 lerv'd a better Fate than he met with. Phittifs the 

 Pyrate ftaid on Board of C^pt^m Mortitner^i ShJp^ 

 while they tranfported the Crew to the Sloop, and 

 the Boat returning along fide, one of the Py rates 

 therein calls to Phillips^ and tells him, there was a 

 Mutiny aboard their VeffeU Mortimer had two Men 



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