Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/352

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''Attor. Gen.''

Judge.

This is the Tryal jut as it was related to me; the Deign of my etting it down, is only to hew how thee Fellows can jet upon Things, the Fear and Dread of which, hould make them tremble.

The beginning of August 1722, the Pyrates made ready the Brigantine, and came out to Sea, and beating up to Windward, lay in the Track for their Correpondant in her Voyage to Jamaica, and poke with her; but finding nothing was done in England in their Favour, as ’twas expected, they return’d to their Conorts at the Iland with the ill News, and found themelves under a Neceity, as they fancied, to continue that abominable Coure of Life they had lately practis’d; in order thereto, they ail’d with the Ship and Brigantine to the Southward, and the next Night, by intolerable Neglect, they run the Morning Star upon the Grand Caimanes, and wreck’d her; the Brigantine eeing the Fate of her Conort, hall’d off in Time, and o weather’d the Iland. The next Day Captain Antis put in,