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 pentance; one particular Part of which ought to be, acknowledging the Jutice they had met with. They eem’d heedles for the preent, ome calling for Water to drink, and others applying to the Soldiers for Caps, but when this Gentleman pres’d them for an Anwer, they all exclaim’d againt the Severity of the Court, and were o harden’d, as to cure, and wih the ame Jutice might overtake all the Members of it, as had been dealt to them. they aid,

When he endeavoured to compoe their Minds, exhorting them to dye in Charity with all the World, and would have diverted them from uch vain Dicoure, by asking them their Country, Age, and the like; ome of them anwered, walking to the Gallows without a Tear, in Token of Sorrow for their pat Offences, or hewing as much Concern as a Man would expres at travelling a bad Road; nay, Sympon, at eeing a Woman that he knew, aid,  And Hardy, when his Hands were ty’d behind him, (which happened from their not being acquainted with the Way of bringing Malefactors to Execution,) oberved,  I mention thee two little Intances, to hew how tupid and thoughtles they were of their End, and that the ame abandoned and reprobate Temper that had carried them thro’ their Rogueries, abided with them to the lat.

Samuel Fletcher, another of the Pyrates ordered for Execution, but reprieved, eem’d to have a Rh