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Rh notorious Villains to be equipp’d and fitted out from your Port: otherwie you may depend upon it, thoe that I can meet with, hall be eteemed Pyrates, and treated as uch; of which I thought proper to give you Notice, and am, &c.

Genlemen,

Am ent by Commadore Vernon, Commander in Chief of all his Majety’s Ships in the Wet-Indies to demand in the King our Mater’s Name, all the Veels, with theirs Effects, &c. and alo the Negroes taken from Jamaica ince the Ceation of Arms; likewie all Englihmen now detained, or otherwie remaining in your Port of Trinidado, particularly Nicholas Brown and Chritopher Winter, both of them being Traytors, Pyrates and common Enemies to all Nations: And the aid Commadore hath ordered me to acquaint you, that he is urprized that the Subjects of a Prince in Amity and Friendhip with another, hould give Countenance to uch notorious Villains. In Expectation of your immediate Compliance, I am, Gentlemen,

Off the River Trinidado, Feb. 8. 1720.

Your humble Servant, Joeph Laws.

Capt. Laws,

N Anwer to yours, this erves to acquaint you, that neither in this City, nor Port, are there any Negroes or Veels which have been ken