Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/117



Ajor Stede Bonnet, you tand here convicted upon two Indictments of Pyracy; one by the Verdict of the Jury, and the other by your own Confeion.

Altho’ you were indicted but for two Facts, yet you know that at your Tryal it was fully proved even by an unwilling Witnes, that you pyratically took and rifled no les than thirteen Veels, ince you ail’d from North-Carolina.

So that you might have been indicted, and convicted of eleven more Acts of Pyracy, ince you took the Benefit of the King’s Act of Grace, and pretended to leave that wicked Coure of Life.

Not to mention the many Acts of Pyracy you committed before; for which if your Pardon from Man was never o authentick, yet you mut expect to anwer for them before God.

You know that the Crimes you have committed are evil in themelves, and contrary to the Light and Law of Nature, as well as the Law of God, by which you are commanded that,. And the Apotle St. Paul exprely affirms, That,.

But to Theft you have added a greater Sin, which is. How many you may have of thoe that reited you in the committing your former Pyracies, I know not: But this we all know, That beides the Wounded, you kill’d no les than eighteen Perons out of thoe that were ent by lawful  tho-