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Petitioners, by the Court held on Friday the th of this Intant; each Prioner was ent for up, igned, ealed and exchanged them in the Preence of

Captain Mungo Herdman, Preident, James Phipps, Eq; Mr. Edward Hyde, Mr. Charles Fanhaw, And Mr. John Atkins, Regiter.

The Indenture of a Peron condemned to erve abroad for Pyracy, which, upon the   humble Petition of the Pyrates therein mentioned, was mot mercifully granted by his Imperial Majety’s Commiioners and Judges appointed to hold a Court of    Admiralty, for the Tryal of Pyrates at Cape Coro-Catle, in Africa, upon Condition of erving even Years, and other Conditions, are as follows, viz.

HIS Indenture made the twenty ixth Day of April, Anno Regni Regis Georgii magnæ Britanniæ, &amp;c. Septimo, Domini, Milleimo, Sepcenteimo viginti duo, between Roger Scot, late of the City of Britol Mariner, of the one Part, and the Royal African Company of England, their Captain General and Commander in Chief, for the Time being, on the other Part, Witneeth, that the aid Roger Scot, doth hereby covenant, and agree to, and with, the aid Royal African Company, their Captain General, and Commander in chief for the Time being, to erve him, or his lawful Succeors, in any of the Royal African Company’s Settlements on the Coat of Africa, from the Day of the Date of thee Preents, to the full Term of even Years, from hence next enuing, fully to be compleat and ended; there to erve in uch Employment, as the aid Captain General, or his Suc-