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 Conervation of their Society, and doing Jutice to one another; excluding all Irih Men from the Benefit of it, to whom they had an implacable Averion upon the Account of Kennedy. How indeed Roberts could think that an Oath would be obligatory, where Defiance had been given to the Laws of God and Man, I can’t tell, but he thought their greatet Security lay in this,

I.
(no uncommon Thing among them)

II.
This was a Barbarous Cutom of putting the Offender on Shore, on ome deolate or uninhabited Cape or Iland, with a Gun, a few Shot, a Bottle of Water, and a Bottle of Powder, to ubit with, or tarve. III.