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 down the Coat, and raie a new Company, than to proceed to Cape Coro, and be hanged like a Dog, and Sun dry’d. One of them abhorring the Cruelty, or fearing the Succes, dicovered it to the Officer, who made him immediately a Prioner, and brought the Ship afe.

When they came to be lodg’d in Cape Coro-Catle, their Hopes of this kind all cut off, and that they were aured they mut there oon receive a final Sentence; the Note was changed among mot of them, and from vain inolent jeting, they became erious and devout, begging for good Books, and joyning in publick Prayers, and inging of Palms, twice at leat every Day.

As to their Tryals, if we hould give them at length, it may appear tedious to the Reader, for which Reaon, I have, for the avoiding Tautology and Repetition, put as many of them together as were try’d for the ame Fact, reerving the Circumtances which are mot material, with Obervations on the dying Behaviour of uch of them, as came to my Knowledge.

And firt, it may be oberved from the Lit, that a great Part of thee Pyrate Ships Crews, were Men entered on the Coat of Africa, not many Months before they were taken; from whence, it may be concluded, that the pretended Contraint of Roberts, on them, was very often a Complotment between Parties equally willing: And this Roberts everal Times openly declared, particularly to the Onlow’s People, whom he called aft, and ask’d of them, As was depoed, by ome of his bet Hands, after Acquittal; nor is it reaonable to think, he hould reject Irih Voluntiers, only from a Pique againt Kennedy, and force others, that might hazard, and, in Time, detroy his Government: But their Behaviour oon put him out of this Fear, and convinc’d him, that Rh