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 aying, Captain, what ignifies this Trouble of Yo Hope and training in hot Weather; there are more Anchors at London, and beides, your Ship is to be burnt.

William Smith, (a Prioner acquitted,) ays Walden was known among the Pyrates motly, by the Nick-Name of Mis Nanney (ironically its preumed from the Hardnes of his Temper) that he was one of the twenty who voluntarily came on Board the Ranger, in the Chace he made out after the Swallow, and by a Shot from that Ship, lot his Leg; his Behaviour in the Fight, till then, being bold and daring.

The Preident, called for Harry Glaby, and bid him relate a Character of the Prioner, and what Cutom was among them, in Relation to thee voluntary Expeditions, out of their proper Ship; and this of going on Board the Ranger, in particular.

And he gave in for Evidence, that the Prioner was looked on as a brisk Hand, (i. e. as he farther explained it, a tanch Pyrate, a great Rogue) that when the Swallow firt appeared in Sight, every one was willing to believe her a Portuguee, becaue Sugar was very much in Demand, and had made ome Jarring and Diention between the two Companies, (the Fortune’s People drinking Punch, when the Ranger’s could not) that Roberts, on Sight of the Swallow, hailed the new Ranger, and bid them right Ship, and get under Sail; there is, ays he, Sugar in the Offing, bring it in, that we may have no more Mumbling; ordering at the ame Time the Word to be pas’d among the Crew, who would go to their Aitance, and immediately the Boat was full of Men, to tranport themelves.

Preident.