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 be in Want of, they took out of her ten or twelve Barrels of Pork, and about 400 Weight of Bread; but becaue they would not have this et down to the Account of Pyracy, they gave them eight or ten Caks of Rice, and an old Cable, in lieu thereof.

Two Days afterwards they chaed a Sloop of ixty Ton, and took her two Leagues off of Cape Henry; they were o happy here as to get a Supply of Liquor to their Victuals, for they brought from her two Hogheads of Rum, and as many of Moloes, which, it eems, they had need of, tho’ they had not ready Money to purchae them: What Security they intended to give, I can’t tell, but Bonnet ent eight Men to take Care of the Prize Sloop, who, perhaps, not caring to make Ue of thoe accutom’d Freedoms, took the firt Opportunity to go off with her, and Bonnet (who was pleaed to have himelf called Captain Thomas,) aw them no more.

After this, the Major threw off all Retraint, and though he had jut before received his Majety’s Mercy, in the Name of Stede Bonnet, he relaps’d in good Earnet into his old Vocation, by the Name of Captain Thomas, and recommenced a down-right Pyrate, by taking and plundering all the Veels he met with: He took off Cape Henry, two Ships from Virginia, bound to Glacow, out of which they had very little beides an hundred Weight of Tobacco. The next Day they took a mall Sloop bound from Virginia to Bermudas, which upply’d them with twenty Barrels of Pork, ome Bacon, and they gave her in return, two Barrels of Rice, and a Hoghead of Molous; out of this Sloop two Men enter’d voluntarily. The next they took was another Virginia Man, bound to Glacow, out of which they had nothing of Value, ave only a few Combs, Pins and Needles, and gave