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HOMAS Antis hip’d himelf at Providence in the Year 1718, aboard the Buck Sloop, and was one of ix that conpired together to go off a pyrating with the Veel; the ret were, Howel Davis, Roberts’s Predeceor, killed at the Iland of Princes; Dennis Topping, killed at the taking of the rich Portuguee Ship on the Coat of Brail; Walter Kennedy, hanged at Execution-Dock, and two others, which I forbear to name, becaue, I undertand they are at this Day employ’d in an honet Vocation in the City.

What followed concerning Antis’s Pyracies, has been included in the two preceeding Chapters; I hall only oberve that the Combination of thee ix Men abovementioned, was the Beginning of that Company, that afterwards proved o formidable under Captain Roberts, from whom Antis eparated the 18th of April 1721, in the Good Fortune Brigantine, leaving his Commadore to purue his Adventures upon the Coat of Guiney, whilt he returned to the Wet-Indies, upon the like Deign.