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 his Comrade; upon which he cured Roberts, and aid, he ought to be erved o himelf. Roberts hearing Jones’s Invective, ran to him with a Sword, and ran him into the Body; who, notwithtanding his Wound, eized the Captain, threw him over a Gun, and beat him handomely. This Adventure put the whole Company in an Uproar, and ome taking Part with the Captain, and others againt him, there had like to have enued a general Battle with one another, like my Lord Thomont’s Cocks; however, the Tumult was at length appeas’d by the Mediation of the Quarter-Mater; and as the Majority of the Company were of Opinion that the Dignity of the Captain, ought to be upported on Board; that it was a Pot of Honour, and therefore the Peron whom they thought fit to confer it on, hould not be violated by any ingle Member; wherefore they entenced Jones to undergo two Lahes from every one of the Company, for his Midemeanour, which was executed upon him as oon as he was well of his Wound.

This evere Punihment did not at all convince Jones that he was in the wrong, but rather animated him to ome ort of a Revenge; but not being able to do it upon Roberts’s Peron, on Board the Ship, he and everal of his Comrades, correpond with Antis, Captain of the Brigantine, and conpire with him and ome of the principal Pyrates on Board that Veel, to go off from the Company. What made Antis a Malecontent, was, the Inferiority he tood in, with Repect to Roberts, who carried himelf with a haughty and magiterial Air, to him and his Crew, he regarding the Brigantine only as a Tender, and, as uch, left them no more than the Refue of their Plunder. In hort, Jones and his Conort go on Board of Captain Antis, on Pretence of a Viit, and there conulting with