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Rh were for fortifying the Iland, to tand upon their own Terms, and Treating with the Government upon the Foot of a Commonwealth; others were alo for trengthening the Iland for their own Security, but were not trenuous for thee Punctillios, o that they might have a general Pardon, without being obliged to make any Retitution, and to retire, with all their Effects, to the neighbouring Britih Plantations.

But Captain Jennings, who was their Commadore, and who always bore a great Sway among them, being a Man of good Undertanding, and good Etate, before this Whim took him of going a Pyrating, reolved upon urrendering, without more ado, to the Terms of the Proclamation, which o diconcerted all their Meaures, that the Congres broke up very abruptly without doing any Thing; and preently Jennings, and by his Example, about 150 more, came in to the Governor of Bermudas, and had their Certificates, tho’ the greatet Part of them returned again, like the Dog to the Vomit. The Commanders who were then in the Iland, beides Captain Jennings abovementioned, I think were thee, Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Teach, John Martel, James Fife, Chritopher Winter, Nicholas Brown, Paul Williams, Charles Bellamy, Oliver la Bouche, Major Penner, ''Ed. England, T. Burges, Tho. Cocklyn, R. Sample, Charles Vane, and two or three others: Hornigold, Williams, Burges and la Bouche were afterwards cat away; Teach and Penner killed, and their Crews taken; James Fife killed by his own Men; Martel’s Crew detroyed, and he forced on an uninhabited Iland; Cocklyn, Sample and Vane hanged; Winter and Brown urrendered to the Spaniards at Cuba, and England lives now at Madagacar''.

In the Month of May or June 1718, Captain Rogers arrived at his Government, with two of his Majety’s Ships, and found everal of the aboveaid Rh