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 in having been the firt Surgeon that had done o, (for before this, it was their Cutom to change their Surgeons, when they deired it, after having erved a Time, and never obliged them to ign, but he was reolved to break thro’ this, for the good of thoe who were to follow,) wearing immediately upon it, he was now, he hoped, as great a Rogue as any of them.

Captain ''Jo. Trahern, and George Fenn, his Mate, depoed, the Prioner to have taken out of the King Solomon, their Surgeon’s capital Intruments, ome Medicines, and a Back-Gammon Table; which latter became the Means of a Quarrel between one Wincon'', and he, whoe Property they hould be, and were yielded to the Prioner.

''Jo. Sharp, Mater of the Elizabeth, heard the Prioner ak Roberts leave to force Comry, his Surgeon, from him, which was accordingly done, and with him, carried alo ome of the Ship’s Medicines: But what gave a fuller Proof of the dihonety of his Principles, was, the treacherous Deign he had formed of running away with the Prize, in her Paage to Cape Coro'', though he had been treated with all Humanity, and very unlike a Prioner, on Account of his Employ and better Education, which had rendred him les to be upected.

Mr. Child, (acquitted) depos’d, that in their Paage from the Iland of St. Thomas, in the Fortune Prize, this Prioner was everal Times tempting him, into Meaures of riing with the Negroes, and killing the Swallow’s People, hewing him, how eaily the white Men might be demolihed, and a new Company raied at Angola, and that Part of the Coat, ays he,  To Rh