Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/17

 Pyrates arrive to great Power. The Inhabitants decribed, .Their Policy, Government, &c. Places decrib’d, .The Arrival of Captain Woods Rogers at that Part of the Iland, .Their Deign of urprizing his Ship, .One of thee Princes formerly a Waterman on the Thames, .Their Secretaries, Men of no Learning. Could neither write nor read, ib.

AY to uppres Pyrates, .The Increae of Pyrates accounted for, .Where Martel learned his Trade, ib.The Names of everal Prizes taken, by him,, , .His Strength at Sancta Cruz, .His Manner of fortifying himelf there, ib.Is attack’d by the Scarborough Man of War, .His defence by Land and Sea, ib.His deperate Ecape, .His mierable End, ib.

IS Beginning, .His Confederacy with HornygoldHornigold [sic], ib.The Confederacy broke, .Takes a large Guiney Man, ib.Engages the Scarborough Man of War, ib.His Alliance with Major Stede Bonnet, ib.Depoes his new Ally, ib.His Advice to the Major, ib.His Progres and Succes, .Takes Prizes in Sight of Charles-Town, .Sends Ambaadors to the Governor of Carolina, upon an impudent Demand, ib.Runs his Ship aground deignedly, .His Cruelty to ome of his own Companions.Surrenders to the King’s Proclamation, .The Governor of North-Carolina’s exceeding Generoity to him, ib.He marries, ib.The Number of his Wives then living, ib.His conjugal Virtues,, .Makes a econd Excurion in the Way of pyrating, .Some State Legerdemain betwixt him and the Governor, ib.His modet Behaviour in the River, .His Frolicks on Shore, ib.The Merchants apply for a Force againt him, and where, .A Proclamation with a Reward for taking or killing of Pyrates, , .Lieutenant Maynard ent in puruit of him, .Black-beard’s good Intelligence, .The Lieutenant engages Black-beard, ib.A mot execrable Health drank by Black-beard- .The Fight bloody; the Particulars of it, , , .Black-beard kill’d, .His Sloop taken, ib.The Lieutenant’s Conduct, , .A Reflection on the Humours of Seamen, .Black-beard’s Correpondents