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 St. Chritophers, and bound to Philadelphia, the Mate of which igned the Pyrate’s Articles, and was afterwards Captain of the Ranger, Conort to the Royal Fortune.

Out of the Ship and Brigantine, the Pyrates got a good upply of Proviions and Liquor, o that they gave over the deigned Cruie, and watered at Tobago, and hearing of the two Sloops that had been fitted out and ent after them at Corvocoo, they ailed to the Iland of Martinico, to make the Governor ome ort of an Equivalent, for the Care and Expedition he had hewn in that Affair.

It is the Cutom at Martinico, for the Dutch Interlopers that have a Mind to Trade with the People of the Iland, to hoit their Jacks when they come before the Town: Roberts knew the Signal, and being an utter Enemy to them, he bent his Thoughts upon Michief; and accordingly came in with his Jack flying, which, as he expected, they mitook for a good Market, and thought themelves happiet that could oonet dipatch off their Sloops and Veels for Trade. When Roberts had got them within his Power, (one after another,) he told them, he would not have it aid that they came off for nothing, and therefore ordered them to leave their Money behind, for that they were a Parcel of Rogues, and hoped they would always meet with uch a Dutch Trade as this was; he reerved one Veel to et the Paengers on Shore again, and fired the ret, to the Number of twenty.

Roberts was o enraged at the Attempts that had been made for taking of him, by the Governors of Barbados and Martinico, that he ordered a new Jack to be made, which they ever after hoited, with his own Figure pourtray’d, tanding upon two Skulls, and under them the Letters A B H and A M H, Rh