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and Veels of his Majety’s Subjects, and other trading Nations.

Particularly ye tand indicted at the Information and Intance of Captain Chaloner Ogle, as Traytors, Robbers, Pyrates, and common Enemies to Mankind.

For that on the th of February lat, in a Ship ye were poes’d of called the Royal Fortune, of Guns, ye did maintain a hotile Defence and Reitance for ome Hours, againt his Majety’s Ship the Swallow, nigh Cape Lopez Bay, on the Southern Coat of Africa.

That this Fight and inolent Reitance againt the King’s Ship, was made, not only without any Pretence of Authority, more than that of your own private depraved Wills, but was done alo under a black Flag, flagrantly by that, denoting your elves common Robbers and Traitors, Oppoers and Violators of the Laws.

And latly, that in this Reitance, ye were all of you Voluntiers, and did, as uch, contribute your utmot Efforts, for diabling and ditreing the aforeaid King’s Ship, and deterring his Majety’s Servants therein, from their Duty.

Whereupon the Officers of his Majety’s Ship, the Swallow, were called again, and tetified as follows.

That they had een all the Prioners now before the Court, and knew them to be the ame which were taken out of one or other of the Pyrate Ships, Royal Fortune or Ranger, and verily believe them to be thoe taken out of the Royal Fortune.

That the Prioners were poes’d of a Ship of 40 Guns, called the Royal Fortune, and were at an Anchor under Cape Lopez, on the Coat of Africa, with two others: When his Majety’s Ship the Swallow, (to which the Deponents belong’d, and were Officers,) tood in for the Place, on Saturday the 10th of February 1721-2: The larget had a Jack, Rh