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 of little Breezes of Wind, which blew off the Land, came up with her, and, after a very mall Dipute, took her, and brought her into Port Royal, in Jamaica.

In about a Fortnight after the Prioners were brought ahore, viz. November 16, 1720, a Court of Admiralty was held at St. Jago de la Vega, before which the following Perons were convicted, and Sentence of Death paed upon them, by the Preident, Sir Nicholas Laws, viz. John Rackam Captain, George Fetherton Mater, Richard Corner Quarter-Mater, John Davis, John Howell, Patrick Carty, Thomas Earl, James Dobbin and Noah Harwood. The five firt were executed the next Day at Gallows Point, at the Town of Port Royal, and the ret, the Day after, at Kington; Rackam, Feverton and Corner, were afterwards taken down and hang’d up in Chains, one at Plumb Point, one at Buh Key, and the other at Gun Key.

But what was very urprizing, was, the Conviction of the nine Men that came aboard the Sloop the ame Day he was taken. They were try’d at an Adjournment of the Court, on the 24th of January, waiting all that Time, it is uppoed, for Evidence, to prove the pyratical Intention of going aboard the aid Sloop; for it eems there was no Act of Pyracy committed by them, after their coming on Board, as appeared by the Witnees againt them, who were two French Men taken by Rackam, off from the Iland of Hipaniola, and depoed in the following Manner.

‘That the Prioners at the Bar, viz. John Eaton, Edward Warner, Thomas Baker, Thomas Quick, John Cole, Benjamin Palmer, Walter Roue, John Hanon, and John Howard, came aboard the Pyrate’s Sloop at Negril Point, Rackam ending his Canoe ahore for that Purpoe: That they brought Guns and Cutlahes on Board with them: That when tain