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 * *Rowland Sharp, of Bath-Town, Mariner.
 * *Jonathan Clarke, late of Charles-Town, South Carolina, Mariner.
 * *Thomas Gerrard, late of Antegoa, Mariner.

And all, except the three lat, and Thomas Nicholas, were found Guilty, and received Sentence of Death.

They were mot of them try’d upon two Indictments, as follows.

HE Jurors for our Sovereign Lord the King, do upon their Oath preent, that Stede Bonnet, late of Barbadoes, Mariner, Robert Tucker, &c. &c. The d Day of Augut, in the fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, &c. By Force of Arms upon the High-Sea, in a certain Place called Cape James, &c. did pyratically, and fellonionlyfelloniouſly [sic] et upon, break, board, and enter, a certain Merchant Sloop, called the Frances, Peter Manwaring Commander, by Force, &c. upon the High-Sea, in a certain Place, called Cape James, alias Cape Inlopen, about two Miles ditant from the Shore, in the Lattitude of, or thereabouts; and within the Juridiction of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, of South-Carolina, being a Sloop of certain Perons, (to the Jurors, unknown) and then, and there, pyratically, and felloniouly did make an Aault, in, and upon the aid Peter Manwaring, and others his Mariners, (whoe Names to the Jurors aforeaid, are unknown,) in the ame Sloop, againt the Peace of God, and of our aid now Sovereign Lord the King, then, and there being, pyratically and felloniouly, did put the aforeaid Peter Manwaring, and others, his Mariners, of the ame Sloop, in the Sloop aforeaid, then being, in corporal Fear of their Lives, then and there, in the Sloop aforeaid, upon the High-Sea, in the Place aforeaid, called Cape James, alias Cape Inlopen, about two Miles from the Shore, in the Lattitude of , or thereabouts, as aforeaid, and within the Juridiction aforeaid; pyratically, and felloniouly, did teal, take