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 Harry Glaby, Mater.

Here appearing everal Perons in Court, who had been taken by Roberts’s Ship, whereof the Prioner was Mater, their Evidence was accepted as follows.

''Jo. Trahern, Commander of the King Solomon'', depoed, the Prioner, indeed, to act as Mater of the Pyrate Ship (while he was under Retraint there) but was oberved like no Mater, every one obeying at Dicretion, of which he had taken Notice, and complained to him, how hard a Condition it was, to be a Chief among Brutes; and that he was weary of his Life, and uch other Expreions, (now out of his Memory,) as hew’d in him a great Diinclination to that Coure of Living.

''Jo. Wingfield, a Prioner with them at Calabar, ays the ame, as to the Quality he acted in, but that he was Civil beyond any of them, and verily believes, that when the Brigantine he erved on Board of, as a Factor for the AricanAfrican [sic]'' Company, was voted to be burnt, this Man was the Intrument of preventing it, expreing himelf with a great deal of Sorrow, for this and the like malicious Rogueries of the Company he was in; that to him hewed, he had acted with Reluctancy, as one who could not avoid what he did. He adds further, that when one Hamilton, a Surgeon, was taken by them, and the Articles about to be impoed on him, he oppoed, and prevented it. And that Hunter, another Surgeon, among them, was cleared at the Prioner’s Intance and Perwaion; from which lat, this Deponent had it aured to him, that Glaby had once been under Sentence of Death, on Board of them, with two more, for endeavouring an Ecape in the West-Indies, and that the other two were really hot for it.