Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/289

 As to their Behaviour after they were taken, it was found that they had great Inclinations to rebel, if they could have laid hold of any Opportunity. For they were very uneay under Retraint, having been lately all Commanders themelves; nor could they brook their Diet, or Quarters, without curing and wearing, and upbraiding each other, with the Folly that had brought them to it.

So that to ecure themelves againt any mad deperate Undertaking of theirs, they trongly barricado’d the Gun-Room, and made another Prion before it; an Officer, with Pitols and Cutlahes, doing Duty, Night and Day, and the Prioners within, manacled and hackled.

They would yet in thee Circumtances be impudently merry, aying, when they viewed their Nakednes, : And at their thin Commons, they would oberve, that they fell away o fat, that they hould not have Weight left to hang them. Sutton ued to be very prophane; he happening to be in the ame Irons with another Prioner, who was more erious than ordinary, and read and pray’d often, as became his Condition; this Man Sutton ued to wear at, and ask him,  ays the other,   ays Sutton,  And when he found uch ludicrous Expreions had no Effect on him, he made a formal Complaint, and requeted that the Officer would either remove this Man, or take his Prayer-Book away, as a common Diturber.

A Combination and Conpiracy was formed, betwixt Moody, Ahplant, Magnes, Mare, and others, to rie, and kill the Officers, and run away with the Ship. This they had carried on by Means of Rh