Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/360

 very obtinately, Hand to Hand, o that in a few Minutes, abundance of Men lay weltering in their Gore; the Pyrates proved as good as their Words, not a Man of them cry’d out for Quarter, nor would accept of uch, when offered, but were all killed except the Captain and another Man, and thoe very much wounded, whom they reerved for the Gallows. They were brought ahore in Irons, and the next Day, which was the 17th of February 1718-19, they were both hanged up, for fear they hould dye, and evade the Punihment as was thought due to their Crimes.