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 The Buck Sloop, Captain Sylveter, of Gambia, taken the 27th of May, having 2 Guns and 2 Men on Board, and both turned Pyrates.

The Carteret, Captain Snow, of London, taken the 28th of May, having 4 Guns and 18 Men on Board, 5 of which turned Pyrates.

The Mercury, Captain Maggott, of London, taken the 29th of May, having 4 Guns and 18 Men on Board, 5 of which turned Pyrates.

The Coward Galley, Captain Creed, of London, taken the 17th of June, having 2 Guns and 13 Men on Board, 4 of which turned Pyrates.

The Elizabeth and Katherine, Captain Bridge of Barbadoes, taken June the 27th, having 6 Guns and 14 Men on Board, 4 of which turned Pyrates.

The Eagle Pink being bound to Jamaica, the Sarah to Virginia, and the Buck to Maryland, they let them go, but the Charlotte, the Bentworth, the Carteret, and the Coward Galley, they burnt; and the Mercury, and the Elizabeth and Katherine were fitted up for Pyrate Ships, the former was new nam’d Queen Ann Revenge, and commanded by one Lane, and the other was call’d the Flying King, of which Robert Sample was appointed Captain. Thee two left England upon the Coat, ail’d to the Wet-Indies, where they took ome Prizes, clean’d, and ail’d to Brail in November; they took everal Portuguee Ships there, and did a great deal of Michief, but in the height of their Undertakings, a Portuguee Man of War, which was an excellent Sailor, came a very unwelcome Guet to them, and gave them Chace; the Queen Ann’s Revenge got off, but was lot a little while after upon that Coat; and the Flying King, giving herelf over for lot, ran ahore: There were then 70 Men on Board, 12 of which were kill’d, and the ret taken Prioners, of whom the Portuguee hang’d 38, of which 32 were Englih, three