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 ure of dying an ignominious Death, if he hould be taken alive?She anwer’d, that as to hanging, he thought it no great Hardhip, for, were it not for that, every cowardly Fellow would turn Pyrate, and o infet the Seas, that Men of Courage mut tarve:That if it was put to the Choice of the Pyrates, they would not have the punihment les than Death, the Fear of which, kept ome datardly Rogues honet; that many of thoe who are now cheating the Widows and Orphans, and oppreing their poor Neighbours, who have no Money to obtain Jutice, would then rob at Sea, and the Ocean would be crowded with Rogues, like the Land, and no Merchant would venture out; o that the Trade, in a little Time, would not be worth following.

Being found quick with Child, as has been oberved, her Execution was repited, and it is poible he would have found Favour, but he was eiz’d with a violent Fever, oon after her Tryal, of which he died in Prion.

 

S we have been more particular in the Lives of thee two Women, than thoe of other Pyrates, it is incumbent on us, as a faithful Hitorian, to begin with their Birth. Anne Bonny was born at a Town near Cork, in the Kingdom of Ireland, her Father an Attorney at Law, but Anne was not one of his legitimate Iue, which eems to cros an old Proverb, which ays, that Batards  Rh