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Harles Vane was one of thoe who tole away the Silver which the Spaniards had fihed up from the Wrecks of the Galleons, in the Gulph of Florida, and was at Providence (as has been before hinted) when Governor Rogers arrived there with two Men of War.

All the Pyrates who were found at this Colony of Rogues, ubmitted, and received Certificates of their Pardon, except Captain Vane and his Crew; who, as oon as they aw the Men of War enter, lipp’d their Cable, et Fire to a Prize they had in the Harbour, and ailed out with their pyratical Colours flying, firing at one of the Men of War as they went off.

Two Days after they went out, they met with a Sloop belonging to Barbadoes, which they made Prize of, and kept the Veel for their own Ue, putting aboard five and twenty Hands, with one Yeats to command them. A Day or two afterwards they fell in with a mall interloping Trader, with a Quantity of Spanih Pieces of Eight aboard, bound into Providence, called the John and Elizabeth, which