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 dertaken with any dihonet View of eizing or appropriating the Effects to themelves; which prudent Advice prevail’d, and he and three more were made Prioners, and ecured.

The Work being done, they went about Ship, altered the Coure from Newfoundland to Boton, and arrived afe the 3d of May following, to the great Joy of that Province.

On the 12th of May, 1724, a pecial Court of Admiralty was held for the Tryal of thee Pyrates, when John Filmore, Edward Cheeeman, John Combs, Henry Giles, Charles Ivymay, John Bootman, and Henry Payne, the even that confederated together for the Pyrates Detruction, were honourably acquitted; as alo three French Men, John Baptis, Peter Taffery, and Iaac Laen, and three Negroes, Pedro, Francico, and Pierro. And John Roe Archer, the Quarter-Mater, William White, William Taylor, and William Phillips, were condemned; the two latter were reprieved for a Year and a Day, in order to be recommended (though I don’t know for what) as Objects of his Majety’s Mercy. The two former were executed on the 2d of June, and dy’d very penitently, making the following Declarations at the Place of Execution, with the Aitance of two grave Divines that attended them.

Firt, eparately, of Archer.

Greatly bewail my Profanations of the Lord’s Day, and my Diobedience to my Parents.

And my Curing and Swearing, and my blapheming the Name of the glorious God.