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 He inited for himelf likewie, on Captain Turner’s Affidavit of his being forced, on which others (his Ship-mates) had been cleared.

The Court conidering the Partiality that might be objected in acquitting one, and condemning another of the ame tanding, thought fit to remark it as a clear Tetimony of their Integrity, that their Care and Indulgence to each Man, in allowing his particular Defence, was to exempt from the Rigour of the Law, uch, who it mut be allowed, would have tood too promicuouly condemned, if they had not been heard upon any other Fact than that of the Swallow; and herein what could better direct them, than a Character and Behaviour from their own Aociates; for tho’ a voluntary Entry with the Pyrates may be doubtful, yet his conequent Actions are not, and it is not o material how a Man comes among Pyrates, as how he acts when he is there.Guilty.

George Wilon.

OHN Sharp, Mater of the Elizabeth, in which Ship the Prioner was Paenger, and fell a econd Time into the Pyrates Hands, depoes, that he took the aid Wilon off from Setos, on this Coat, paying to the Negroes for his Ranom, the Value of three Pound five Shillings in Goods, for which he had taken a Note, that he thought he had done a charitable Act in this, till meeting with one Captain Canning, he was ask’d, why he would releae uch a Rogue as Wilon was? For that he had been a Voluntier with the Pyrates, out of John Tarlton. And when the Deponent came to be a Prioner himelf, he found Thomas, the Brother of this John Tarlton, a Prioner with the Pyrates alo, who was immediately on Wilon’s Intigation, in a mot ad manner miued and beat, and had been hot, through the Fury and Rage of ome of thoe