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 for he o burnt his Fleh ditant from the Place of Amputation, that it had like to have mortify’d; however nature perform’d a Cure at lat without any other Aitance.

From Tobago they tood away to the Northward and took a Portugueze bound for Brazil, and two or three Sloops from Jamaica, in one of which, Fern the Carpenter, endeavouring to go off, was kill’d by Phillips the Captain, puruant to their Articles; another had the ame Fate ome Days after for the like Attempt. Thee Severities made it dangerous for any to conult or project an Ecape; the Terror of which made everal ign their Articles and et down quietly, waiting impatiently for Redemption, which as yet they aw no great likelyhood of, and hould they have been taken before uch Circumtances appear’d in their Actions or Characters, as afterwards happen’d, to denote their Innocence, they might have lot their Lives upon a Tryal at a Court of Admiralty; for pretty trong Evidence is expected in their Favour, to ballance that of being taken aboard a Veel which is prov’d to be in actual Pyracy, and they aiting therein.

Thus was many an honet Man’s Cae made mot deperate by the conummate Villany of a few hardned Wretches, who fear neither God or Devil, as this Phillips us’d often blaphemouly to expres himelf.

On the 25th of March they took two Ships from Virginia for London, John Phillips, the Pyrate Captain’s Nameake, was Mater of one, and Captain Robert Mortimer, the other, a brisk young Fellow, that deerv’d a better Fate than he met with. Phillips the Pyrate taid on Board of Captain Mortimer’s Ship, while they tranported the Crew to the Sloop, and the Boat returning along ide, one of the Pyrates therein calls to Phillips, and tells him, there was a Mutiny aboard their Veel, Mortimer had two Men Rh