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Rh the uninhabited Bahama’s, and lot their Sloop; the Men got all ahore, and lived up and down in the Wood, for a little Time, till Governor Rogers happening to hear of their Expedition, and where they had got to, ent out an armed Sloop to the aforeaid Iland; the Mater of which, with good Words and fair Promies, got them on Board, and brought them all to Providence, being a eleven Perons, ten of which were try’d at a Court of Admiralty, convicted, and hanged by the other’s Evidence, in the Sight of all their former Companions and fellow Thieves. The Criminals would fain have pirited up the pardoned Pyrates, to recue them out of the Hands of the Officers of Jutice, telling them from the Gallows, that, One Hamphrey Morrice urged the Matter further than the ret, taxing them with Puilanimity and Cowardice, as if it were a Breach of Honour in them not to rie and ave them from the ignominious Death they were going to uffer. But ’twas all in vain, they were now told, it was their Buines to turn their Minds to another World, and incerely to repent of what Wickednes they had done in this. , anwered one of them,. , ays another:, ays a third; and then they were all turned off, without making any other dying Speeches, except one Dennis Macarty, who told the People, , and o kicked them off. And thus ended the Lives, with their Adventures, of thoe mierable Wretches, Rh