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 which the Deponent replying, he was not afraid of being hanged, Scudamore bid him be till, and no Harm hould come to him; but before the next Day-Evening, which was the deigned Time of executing this Project, the Deponent dicovered it to the Officer, and aured him, Scudamore had been talking all the preceeding Night to the Negroes, in Angolan Language.

Iaac Burnet heard the Prioner ask James Harris, a Pyrate, (left with the wounded in the Prize,) whether he was willing to come into the Project of running away with the Ship, and endeavour the raiing of a new Company, but turned the Dicoure to Hore-Racing, as the Deponent crept nigher; he acquainted the Officer with what he had heard, who kept the People under Arms all Night, their Apprehenions of the Negroes not being groundles; for many of them having lived a long Time in this pyratical Way, were, by the thin Commons they were now reduced to, as ripe for Michief as any.

The Prioner in his Defence aid, he was a forced Man from Captain Rolls, in October lat, and if he had not hewn uch a Concern as became him, at the Alteration, he mut remark the Occaion to be, the Diagreement and Enmity between them; but that both Roberts, and ''Val. Ahplant'', threat’ned him into igning their Articles, and that he did it in Terror.

The King Solomon, and Elizabeth Medicine-Chet, he owns he plundered, by Order of Hunter, the then chief Surgeon, who, by the Pyrates Laws, always directs in this Province, and Mr. Child, (tho’ acquitted) had by the ame Orders taken out a whole French Medicine-Chet, which he mut be enible for me, as well as for himelf, we neither of us dared to have denied; it was their being the proper Judges, made o ungrateful an