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 in tolerable good Condition, having a Veel newly cleaned, with Proviions, &c. they tood off to Sea, and o mied the Phœnix, who expected them to be till on the Coat.

About ix Weeks afterwards they returned, having taken both a Sloop and a Brigantine, among the Bahama Ilands; the former they unk, and the other they let go: The Sloop belonged to New-York, and they thought the inking of her good Policy, to prevent her returning to tell Tales at Home.

Worley had by this Time encreaed his Company to about five and twenty Men, had ix Guns mounted, and mall Arms as many as were neceary for them, and eem’d to be in a good thriving ort of a Way. He made a black Enign, with a white Death’s Head in the Middle of it, and other Colours uitable to it. They all igned Articles, and bound themelves under a olemn Oath, to take no Quarters, but to tand by one another to the lat Man, which was rahly fulfill’d a little afterwards.

For going into an Inlet in North-Carolina, to clean, the Governor received Information of it, and fitted out two Sloops, one of eight Guns, and the other with ix, and about eventy Men between them. Worley had clean’d his Sloop, and ail’d before the Carolina Sloops reached the Place, and teered to the Northward; but the Sloops jut mentioned, puruing the ame Coure, came in ight of Worley, as he was cruiing off the Capes of Virginia, and being in the Offin, he tood in as oon as he aw the Sloops, intending thereby to have cut them off from James River; for he verily believed they had been bound thither, not imagining, in the leat, they were in Puruit of him.

The two Sloops tanding towards the Capes at the ame Time, and Worley hoiting of his black Flag, the Inhabitants of James Town were in