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ACCOUNT
O F
T
H E
Condua
and
Proceedings
Of
the late
"John
Qow
alias
E^niih,
Captain
of
the
late
PIRATES,
Executed
for
M
u
R T
H E
R
and P
I R A C Y
Committed
on
Board
the
GEORGE
Gally,
after^
wards
calPd
the
Re
V
E N
G E

WITH
A
Relation
of all
the horrid
MuPvTHERS
they
committed
in
cold
Blood
:
AS
ALSO
Of
their
hclng taken
at
the Iflands
of
OrUe^,
ancl
fent up P R I s o N E R s to
London.
L
N D
N:
Printed and
Sold by John
Applebee,
in
Blacky
Fryers,
[Price
One
ghiUing.jl
[iiil
INTRODUCTION.
HO* this Work
feems
principally t9
enter into the liijlory
of
one Man^
namely. The late Captain
John
Gow
alias Smith, theLeaderor Commander
in the defperate a?id bloody ABio7is
for
which he has been Condem?i*d
,
yet the Share
which
feveral others hadin
the whole Scene, and
who aBedin
Concert with him, ccmes
fo
necejfarily
to
be
Defcrib^d, and takes up
fo
much Room in
the
Relation, that it may indeed be call'd
the
Hifory
Gfall
the late Pirates
fo far
as they
a^edtogether
in
thefe
wicked Adventures,
NO R does the calling him (I mean th'u Gow
or
Smith) their Captain, denominate him any
thing deeper in the Crime than the re?i
,
for
'tis
eminently known, that a?no?ig
fuch
Fellorvs asthefe^
when once they have abandon'd thetnfelvestofuch
a
dreadfidhight
of
Wickednefs,
there is
fo
little
Government or Subordination among
them, that
they are, on Occafion^ all Captains,all Leaders. And
tho they
generally put in this
or
that Man
to
adt
as Commander
for
this
cr that Voyage, or Enter"
prife,
they frequently remove them again upon the
fmalleB Occafton,
nay^ even without any
Occafion
at all^ hut asHwnours
andPaffions
govern at
thofe
Times : And this
is
done
fo
nften^ that I once knew
a
Buccaneering Pirate VeRel, whofe
Crew were
A 2 towards
Civ]
u'pWiirch
ofyo
Men^ who^ in pne Voyage^
had
fa
often
changed^
fet
up^ andpull'
d down
their Cap-
tains and other
Officers,
that above
Seven
and
Forty
of
the Ships Company had^ at
feveralTimes^
been in
Ojfice
of
one kind or other
,
and
anions^ the
rest they
had^ in particular had^
1
5 Captains,
NO
W^
however^ it was
7Wtfohere \yet
itfeems^
even in this Ship, Gow
himfelf
tho'
caWd Cap-
tain, had not an ahfolute Command
\
and was,
at
onethne,
fo
Infulted
by Lz^z/iT.
Wiliiams,
becaufe
he decliiid Attacking a French
Ship
from Marti-
nico, that it
wantedbut little
ofDepofing him at
that Time, and murthering him too.
I ISf this Account^ therefore^
we fJjall have
fome
Relation
of
the ConduB
of
the v^hole Ships Crew,
as
well
as
of
Captain Goiv, 7ior will it
(/
hope
)
make the Work the
lefs
Agreeable to the Reader^
but the
mere
fo,
by how mitch the greater Variety
of
Incidents will cowe in fuy way to
f
peak
of
AS to Gow
himfelf
he
was, indeed^ a Super-
lative, a Capital Rogue
^
and had been
fo
even
before
he
came to Embark in this particular Ship,
And he is more than ordinarily Remarkable^
fir
having
firm'
d the like Defign
of
going a Pirating
when he fervd
as
Boatfwain
on board anjr\^\{h
Merchant Ship, Bound Home
from
Uisbon ?^ Lon-
don, ifi which he
formd
a Farty to have
fei:zd
on
the Captain and
Officers,
and to run away
with
the Ship
: When no doitht, had he accom-
phfljdhis Work,
the
f
aid Captain and
Officers
had
run the
fame
fate
as thrfe did we are noiv to
mention.
THIS
[v]
THIS
I am
fo
afcertain'd
of
the
Truth
of^
that
the
Captain
himfelf
is ready
to Attejl
it^
to
whom
it
vpas
afterwards
difcoverd-^ that
he
Gow
had
made
four
of
the Seameti
acquainted
with his
bloody
T)ejign^ and had gaind
them
over
to it
:
But not
being able to drav;>
in any
more^
and
not
beingJirong
enough with
thefe who
he had
fo
Jje-I
baucFd,
they did not make
their
Attempt,
THIS, it
feems^
was not
di
fcover d to the
Captain^
till
after
the Ship was
difchargd in the
Fort
of
London, and the Men
paid
off
and
dif
mifs^d

when Inforpiation being
given, the
faid
Captain endeavour d to have
apprehended Gow
and his Accomplices
j
but
having
(as ^twas
fup-
pos'd) gotten
fome
'Notice
of
the
Defi^ji^
made
off
and
f
01
f
ted
for
themfelves as
well
as they could^
m
which it was
his Lot togo
over to Holland.
HE
R E it was, viz. at
Amfterdain,
that Gow
fiip'd
himfelf afore
the
Mafl^
(as
the Seamen call
it) that is to
fay,
as a Common
Sailor^ on Board
an
Englifli Ship
of
200 Tons
Burden^ called
the
George Galley
^
hefiip^d himfelf at
firjl^
as I
have faid,
afore
the Ma
ft
^
but
afterwards, v^hich
added to the great
Misfortune, appearing
to be an
aBive
skilfid
Sailor he obtain''d the
Favour
of
being
made Second Mate
^
the
Ship
was Com^
manded by one Oliver Fcrneaii,
a Frenchman,
but
a Subject
of
Great Britain,
being
of
the
If
and
of
Gucvnky, to which
alfo dnl the Ship
belong, but was then in
the
Service
of
the
M^y.
chants
of
Amfterdam,
'
CAF'
[vi]
CAPTAIt^
Ferneau l/emg a Man
ofRepu^
tation
among the Merchants at Amf|:erdam, got
a Voyage
for
his
Ship
from
thence f/?
Santa Cruz,
vn the
Coajl
of
Barbary, to Load Bees
Wax^ and
to carry it to Genoa, which was his delivering
Fort
;
and as the Dutch having
JV^r with
the
Turks
of
AJgier, were willing to employ hiiti as
/in Englifli Ship
J
fo
he was as willitig tq be
Mann d
with Engliih Seamen
\
and accordingly^
/nnong
the rejl^ he unhappily took on Board this
Gow with
his wretchedGang^ fiich as Maccauly,
Melvin
,
Williams , and others
\
hut not
being able
to
Man
themfelves wholly with Engliih
cr Scots,
they were obligd to take
fame
Swedes,
and other
Seamen to make itp his Compliment^
V^hich
was
2
9
in all
,
among the latter Sort^ one
was namd
Winter, ayid another Peterfon, both
of
them-
Swedes by t^ation^ but as wicked too as
Gow
and his
other FeUov^s were*
THET
SaiVd
from
the Texel in the Month
of
A\\%n^^ 17*49
and arrivd at Santa Cruz on
the id
of
Septemper foUovymg^ where having a
Super
Cargo
on Board who took Charge
of
the
Loading
and
fu'tir
Chejls
of
Money to Vitrchafe
it,
they foon
got the Bees Wax
07i Board,
and on
the
"^dof
November they appointed to
fet
Sail
to pnrfue
the
Voyage,
THUS
mnch^feeuis
however
proper to
fgni-
fy
to the
World, before
they enter into the
reft of
'Gow'j
Story
^ becattfe
'tis evident from
hence,
that
the
late
barbarous
and inhuman
A^ini. was
not the Effect of
a
fudden
Fury rais'din
the
Minds
I
vii
3
^f
the
whole Company^ hy the III
TJfage they had
receivd from
Captain f
crneau, in the Matter
of
their Frovifons,
or
from
their
having over- heard
the
f
aid f
crneau threaten them
when he
fpoke
to
the
Mate^
upon the Qnarler Deck, to get
fmall
Arms into
the great Cahbin^ which they
might
fuppofe
was in order to
feize
on them, and
bring
them to
CorreUion,
andfo^ in their Heat
of
Bloody
Tnight run
them itp to
fuch
a highth
of
Rage
as
to
commit the Murthers which they didnot intend
before,
BUT ^tis evident, that this GoWy in particular.
Matever the
reft
?night have done, hade7itertai?id
this bloody Refolutioii in General, (Imean
of
turn^
ing Pirate^ long before
this
Voyage
\
he had endea^
vourd
to
put it in VraUice, at
leafi
once
before^
namely.
In the Ship
(
mentioned above ) Bound
from
Lisbon
for
London, and had only
faiVd
for
want
of
being able to bring over a
fufficienth
Gang
of
Rogues to his Party
,
whether he
had
not had the
fam.e Defgn
in his Head long
before,
that we do net know
^
but it
feems
he had not
been able to bring
it to
pafs
till now^ when
find"
ingfome
little
Dif
content among the
Men^
on
ac^
count
of
their Provijions,
he was made
the
De-
viVs Injlrument to run up
thofe
'Difconpnts
to
fuch
a
dreadful bight
of
Fury and
Rage,
as W4
Jhall
find they did.
4ND this
jufily
intitles Gov/ to the Charge
of
being the Principal, as well Author as Agent
in the Tragedy that follow d : l^or
does it at all
tak^
tale
of
the
Charge^ that Winter and
Peterfofi
l?e^an the
mutinous Language
towards
the
Captain*
THE T^efign
muH certainly have been
laid
a-
mong them before^
,
how
elfe JJjouId
fo
many
of
them
fo
eaftly form
fuch
a wkked Scheme
in
the few
Minittes they had to talk together
.<?
GOW therefore
is^Ifay^
jujlly charged
as
Author
of
all the
vmked Conclnfwns among
them^
(ind
as
having,
formd
a
Refilution, in his own
Mind, to turn Pirate
the
firjl
Time he had an
Opportunity^
whatever Ship, or whatever Voyage
he
went
itpon.
1. ^;.,'i w^
THE
to
A N
ACCOUNXfe
3&*s) H E following Account being chiefly
confin'd to the Conduct of this outra-
gious Pirate, Captain Gove^ after his
having adtually turn'd Pirate, in this
particular
Ship the George Galley,
we
mufl:
content ourlelves with beginning
where he
began, that is to fay, when they feiz'd
the Captain,
murdered him
and his Men, and run
away
with the
Ship, on the Coaft of Barbary,
ill
Jhe
'Mediterranean Sea.
/IT was
the
3d of
November,^ Anno
1724,
when,
as
has been
obferv'd,
the Ship having lain two
Months in
the Road at Saiita Cruz, taking in her
Lading,
the Captain
made Preparations to put to
Sea, and the
ufual
Signals for Sailing having been
given, fome
of
the Merchants from on Shore, who
had
been
concerned in furniftiing
the Cargoe, came
on
Board in the
Forenoon, to talce
their Leave of
the
Captain,
and
wilh him a
good Voyage, as is
uCual
on f^ach
Occaiions.
WHETHER
it was concerted by the whole
Gang
before-hand we know
not,
but while the
Cipiain was
treating
and entertaining
the Mer-
B
chants
to
clnants
under tlie Awning upon tTie
Qaarter-Dcclc,
as is the Cnftom in thofe hot Countries, three of
the Seamen, (viz) Whiter aizd Peterfoft, two Swedes,
and
MacccttiJy
s
Scotchnan, cam^ rudely
upon the
Qtiarter-Decic, and as if they took that Opportunity
becaufe the Merchants were prefent,
believing the
Captain would not ufe any Violence with them, in
the prefence of the Merchants, they made
a
long
Complaint of their ill Ufage, and particularly of
their
Provilions and Allowance (as they faid) being
not
fufficicnt, ncr fuch as was
ordinarily made in
other
Merchant Ships-, feeming to load the Captain,
Monfieur
Fenieau^ .with being the Occalion of
it,
'
and
that he did it for his private Gain
5
which
however had
not been true
if the Fatt had been
true, "the
Overplus of Proviiions ('if the Stores had
been more than fufficientj belonging
to the Owners,
not to
the Captain, at the end of the Voyage
5
there
being al.fo a Steward on Board to rake the
Account.
-'-^
^'
I
N their making this Complaint,
they feem'd
to
direft their Speech to the Merchants, as
well as
to
the Captain, as if they had been concern'd in
the
Ship (which they were notj or, as if defiring
them to
intercede for them with the Captain, that
they might have
Redrefs,
and
might have a
better
Allr^wance.
THE Captain was
highly provoFd at this
P^udenefsj as indeed he had reafon
^
it being a dou-
ble Affront to him, as it was done in the view of
the Merchants who were come on Board to him, and
to do him an Honour at Parting , however, he re-
ftrain'd
his PalFion, and gave them not the leafi:
angry
Word, only, that if they were aggrie\'\l
they had no more to do, but to have let him known
it, "that if they were ill ufed it v.^as not by
his
Order, that he
would enquire into it, and that
if
any thing was
amifs it iliould be sedify'd
^
v/ith
which
L 3 ]
wliich
tlie Seamen
withdrew,
feeming well fatisiied
with
his Anfwrr.
AB OU T five
the fame Evening they
unmoor'd
the Ship, and hove fliort upon their befl:> bswer
Anchor, expeding
the Land Breeze, as is ufual on
that Coaft, to carry
them out to Sea
;
but inftead
of that, it fell ftark Calm, and the Captain fearing
the Ship Ihould fall
foul of her own Anchor, or-
dered the Mizen-top Sail to be farl'd.
PETERSON, one of the malecontent Seamen,
being the neareft Man
at hand, feem'd to go
about it, but mov'd fj
carelefsly, and heavily,
that
it appear'd
plainly he did not care whether
it
was done or no
;
and
particularly, as if he had
a
mind the Captain fhould fee it, and take Notice
of
it
;
and the Captain did fa, for perceiving how
awkardly he went about it, he fpoke a little tartly
to him, and ask'd him what was the reafon he did
not ftir a little, and furl the Sail,
PETERSON,
as if he had waited for the
Qaeftio;i, anfwered in a
furly Tone, and with a.
kind of DiPJuin, So as we
Eat
fo
Jhall
we Worh
: This
he fpoke aloud fo as that he might be fire the
Cap-
tain fhould hear him, and the reft of the Men
allb;
and 'twas evident, that as he fpoke in the
plural
Number V^e, fo he fpoke their Minds as well as his
Own, and Words which they had all agreed
to
before.
TH.E Captain however, tho' he heard plain
enough what he faid, took not the leafi: Notice
cf
it, or gave him the leaft room to believe he had
heard him, being not willing to begin a Qj^arrel
with the Men, and knowing that if he took any
Kotice
at all cf it, he muft refent it and punilh
it too. ..
SOON after this the
Calm went oft,and the
Land-
Breeze fprung
up, as is ufual on that Coafl:, and
thtj
immediately wejgh'd and ilood off to
Sea
5
bat
B 2 the
[4]
(Tie Captain having
had thofe two
Ruffles with fii's
Men, juft at their putting to Sea,
was very
uneafy
in his Mind, as indeed
he
had reafbn to he\ and the
fame Evening, foon after they were under Sail,
the Mate being walking on the Quarter
Deck, he
went, and, taking two or three Turns with him,
told him how he had been us'd by the Men, par-
ticularly
how they afrronted him before the Mer-
chants, and what an Anfwer Feterfon had given
him on the Qaarter-Deck, when he ordered him to
furl the Mizen-top Sail.
THE Mate was furpriz'd at the Thing as well
as the
Captain, and after fome other Difcourfe
about it, 271 which ^twas their Ujihappinejs not to be
fo
ijm'
private as they ought to have been in a
Cafe
of
fuch
Importance,
the Captain told him, he thought it
was abfblutely
neceilary to have a Quantity of
fmall Arms
brought immediately into the great
Cabbin, not only to defend
themfelves if there
ftiould be occafion, but alfo that he might be in
a
J^ofture to correct thofe Fellows for their Infolence,
cfpecially if he fhould meet with any more of it
:
The Mate agreed that it was
neccllarjr to be done,
and had they
faid no more, and faid this more
privately all had been well, and the wicked Defign
i:ad been
much more difficult, if not the execution
of it effcclually prevented.
\
BUT two Miftakes in this Part waj the ruin
'i
of
them
all.
(i.) That the Captain
fpoke
it without
due Caution, fo that Winter
and Feterfon^ the
two
principal
Malecontents, and who were exprefsly
mentioned
by the Captain to be corrected, over-
heard it,
and Vn^w by that Means what they had
to exper,
if they did not immediately beftir
themfelves
to prevent it.
(2.^
The other Miftake
was, that when the Captain and Mate agreed that
It was
neceilary to have the Arms got ready and
brought
into the great Cabbin, the Captain
unhap-
pily
C5]
pily
bacl him go immediatel7 to Gov, the
fecond
Mate
and Gunner, and
give him Orders to
get
the Arms cleared and loaded for
him
,
and fa to bring them up to the great
Cabbin

which was, in ihort, to tell the
Confpirators
/
that
the Captain was
preparing to be too
ftrong
for them iT thej did not fall to work with
him
immediately.
IFINTER
and "Peter
fon went immediately For-
ward, where they knew the reft of the Mutineers
were, and to whom they communicated what they
had heard-, telling them that it was time to provide
for their own Safety, for otherwife their Deftrudtion
was refolv'd on, and the Captain would foon be in
fuch
a
Pofture that there would be no meddling
with him.
AVHILE they were thus confulting at firft, a?
they faid, only for their own Safety, Gow
and
Williams came in to them, with fome others to the
Number of eight-, and no fooner were they join'd
by
thefe two, but they fell downright to the Point,
which Gow had fo long form'd in his own Mind,
{viz..) to feize upon the Captain and Mate, and all
thofe that they could not bring to
joyn with them
5
in ihort, to throw them into the Sea. and
to go u^on
the Accoimt.
ALL thofe who are acquainted with the Sea
Language, know the Meaning
of that Exprefiion,
and that it is in few Words, to run away with ths/
Ship and turn Pirates.
VILLANOUS Defigns are fooneft concluded
;
as they
had but little Time to confult upon what
Meafiires they fliould take, fo a very little Conful-
tation ferv'd for what was before them, and thcv
came to this fhort but helliili Refolution, (viz,^)
That they would immediatelj^ that very Night,
ir.urther
the Captain, and fuch others as they
liam'd.
16-]
iiaitid, and afterwards proceed witli the Ship as
they ihould fee
Caufe.
AND here it is to be obferv'd,
that tho^inmer
and Peterfon were in the firft Propofal,
nameljr, to
prevent their being brought to Corregion
by the
Captain, yet Gom and
WilUajm
were the principal
Advifers in
the bloody Part, which however the
reft foon came into
^
for, as I faid before^ as they
h^d but little Time to refolve in, fo they had but
very little Debate about it : But what was firft
proposed,
was forthwith engag'd in and confented to.
BESIDES, it inuft not be omitted, that as I have
faid, upon good
Grounds, that Gow had always had
the wicked Game of Pirating in his Head, and that
he had attempted it, or rather try'd to attempt it
"before, but was not able to bring it to pafs : So he
bad, and
JftUiams
alfb had feveral times, even in
this very Voyage, dropt f)me Hints of this vile De-
lign, as
they thought there was Room for it , and
touch'd two or three Times at what a noble Opper*
tunity they had of Enriching themfelves, and ma-
king their
Fortunes,
as they wickedly call'd it
:
Tiiis was when they
had the four Chefts of
Money
on Board- and Ifillmm made it a kind of ajeft
in his Difcourfe,how eatily they might carry it oft.
Ship and all
: But as they did not find themfelves
Seconded, or that any of
the Men ftiewed them-
felves in Favour
of fuch a
Thing, but rather
fpoke
of it with
Abhorrence, they pafs'd it
over^ as a
kind of Difcourfe that had nothing at all in it -,
except that
one of the Men, {vi-z..) the Surgeon,
took them up
ihort once, for fa much as mentio-
ning fdch a Things
told them the Thought was
Criinin'il, and
it ought not to be fpoken of
among
them.
Which Reproof 'twas
fuppos'd
coft him
his Life afterwards.
A S
Gow and his Comrade had
thus ftarted
ih&
Tiiingat
a
Diftaace
before, tho' it was then
without
3iJccefs,
[73
Succefs,
yet they had
the lefs to do noiv^ when
o*
ther
Difcontents
had rais'd a fecret Fire in
the
Breafts
of the Men^ for now being, as it were,
Mad
and
Defperate,
with Ai^preheniions cf their being
to
te
feverely Punirn'd by
the Captain, they
wanted
no
Perfwaiions to come into the moft wicked
Un-
dertaking
that the Devil, or
any of his Agents?,
cou'd
propofe to them. Kor do we find, that upon
any
of their Examinations, they pretended to have
made any
Scruples of, or Objcdions againft thp
Cruelty
of the bloody Attempt that
was to be
made,
but came into it at once, and
refolved to
put it
in EzecutioK immediately, that is to fay, the
i-ery fame Evening.
~^
I T was the Captain's condant Cuftom to call all
the
Ships Company every >^ight, at
Eight a-Clock,
into the Great Cabbin to prayers
;
and then the
Watch
being fet, one Watch went upon Deck, and!
the
other turn'd in, (as the Seamen call.it) that is,
went to their Hammocks to Sleep
: And here they
concerted their deviiiOi Plot. It was the Turn
of
five of the Confpirators to go to Sleep, and of thefe.
Gov and
JfilUams were two
5
the three, who were
to be
upon the Deck, were Jfinter^
Rolfony and
Melvht a Scotchman.
THE Perfons they had immediately defign''d
for Deftrudion, were four, (vi-x..) the Captain, the
Mate, the Super Cargo, and the Surgeon, whereof
all, but the Captain, were gone to Sleep , the
Caj)-
tain himfelf being upon the
Quarter-deck.
BETWEEN Nine and Ten
at Night, all being
quiet and fecure, and the poor Gentlemen, that
were to be Murther'd, faft afleep, the Villains, that
were below, gave the WatcJi-Word, which was, who
'
Tires next ? at which they all got out of their
Hammocks, with as little Noife as they could,
and
going, in the Dark, to the Hammocks of the Chief
.Mate, Super Cargo, and Surgeon, they cut
all their
Throats
en
Throats
^
the Stirgeoits Throat was cut fo efFedtually^
that he could ftruggle
very little with them,
but
leaping out of his Hammock, ran up to
get
upon
the Deck, holding his Hand
upon
his Throat,
but
ftumbled at the Tiller,
and
falling down,
had no
Breatb, and confequentlj no Strength, to
raifehim-
felf, but dyed where he lay.
THE Mate, whofe Throat was cut, but not his
"Windpipe, had ftrugled fo Vigoroufly with theVil-
lain, that attempted him, that he got from him, and
got into the Hold
;
and the -Super Cargo, in the
lame Condition, got forwards between Decks, un-
der fome Deals, and both of them begg'd, with the
moft moving Cries and Intreaties, for their Lives
5
and when nothing could pret^ail, they beg'd, with
the fame Earneftnefs, but for a
few Moments to
Pray to j3od, and Recommend their Souls to his
Mercy
5
but alike, in Vain, for the wretched Mur-
therers, heated with Blood, were pafs'd all Pitty
;
and not being able to come at
them with their
Knives, with which they had begun the Execution,
they fhot them with their Piftols,
Firing feveral
times upon each of them, till they found they were
^uite
dead.
A
S all this, before the Firings, could not be
done
without fome Noife, the Captain, who was
walking
alone upon the Qiiarter-Deck, call'd out,
and ask'd, what was the Matter ? The Boatfwain,
who fat
on the After Bits, and was
not ofthe Party,
anfwer'd.
He
could not tell , but was afraid there
was fome Body Over-board
^
upon which the Cap-
tain flep'd
towards the Ships Side,
to look over^
when
TFrnter^ Roipllnfon and
Melvin, coming that
Moment
behind him, lay'd Hands
on him, and lift-
ing him up, at once attempted to
throw him Over-
board into
the Sea ; but he being a
nimble, ilrong
Man, got
hold of the Shrouds, and ftrugled fo hard
with them, that they could not break his
Hold ,
but
turning
C 9 J
turning
his HeacI, to look behind
him, to
fee who
f
lie had
to deal with, one of them
cut
his
Throat
with a broad Dutch Knife
^
but neither
was that
Wound
Mortal
:
And the Captain
ftill
firugled
with
them, tho' feeing he ihould undoubtedly
be
Mur-
ther'd, he conftantly cry'd out to
God
for Mercy,
for he found there was no Mercy to
be expedted
from them :
During this Struggle,
another
of
the
Murthers ftab'd him with a Knife in
the
Back,
and
that with fuch Force,
that the Villain
could
not
draw the Knife out again to repeat his
Blow,
which
he would otherwife have done.
A T this Moment Gojp came up from the
Butche-
ry he had been at between Decks,
and feeing
the
Captain ftill alive, he went clofe up to him,
and
Ihot him (as he confefs'd) with a Brace of
Bullets.
WHAT Part he ihot him into, could
not
be
known
;
tho' they faid that he fhot him into
the
Head
^
however he had yet Life enough,
tho' they
threw him Overboard,
to take hold of
a Rope,
and would itill have faved himfelf,
bnt they
cut
that Rope, and then he fell into the Sea, and
was
feen no more. Thus they finifhed the
Trage-
dy, having nurther'd four of the principal
Men
of Command in the Ship, fo that there
was now
no Body to Oppofe them , for Gon;
being
Second
Mate and Gunner
^
the
Command fell to
him of
Courfe, and the reft of the Men having no
Arms rea*
dy, nor knowing how to get at any, were in
the
ut
moft Confternation, expeding they
would
go on
with the Work, and cut all their Throats.
I N this Fright, every one fiiifted for
himfelf
j
as for thofe who were upon Delcy fome
got vg
into the
Round Tops, others got into the
Shi^s
Head, refolving to throw themfelves
into the
Se?^
rather than to be mangled with Knives, and
mu.-
ther' in
Cold Blood, as the
Captain and Matf^;
^c, had been , Thofe who were below,
not
C
knowing
/
Icnowing
wTiat
to do, or whofe Turn it fhould
be
next, lay flill in their Hammocks, expedting
Death
every Moment ; and not daring to
ftir, leaft the
Villains ihould think they did it in order to make
Refinance, which however they were no way ca-
pable of doing, having no Concert one with ano-
ther, nor knowing any Thing in Particular of one
another, as xvho was Alive or who was Dead
$
whereas had the Captain, who was himfelf
a
bold
and ftout Man, been in his Great Cabbin with
three or four Men with him, and his Fire-Arms, as
he intended to have had, thofe
eight Fellows had
never been Able to have done their AVork
;
but e-
very Man was taken Unprovided, and in the ut-
mofi:
Surprife, fj that the Murtherers met with no
Reliflance : And as for thofe that were left, they
were Icfs Able to make Refiftance than the other
5
fo that, as I have faid, they were in the utmoffc
Terror and Amazement, expedting every Minute
to be Marthered as the reft had
been,
BUT the Villains had done: The Perfons who
had
anyCommandjWereDifpatch'd , fo they Coord
a
little as to
Blood. The firdXhing they did afterward,
was to call up all the Eight upon
the Quarter-Deck,
where
they Congratulated one another, and
{hook
Hands
together engaging to proceed, by unanimous
Confent,
in their refoived Deiign, that is to lay, of
turning
Pirates
;
in Order to which, they with
a
Nem. Con. cliofe Gotp to Command the Ship, prorai-
ling all
Subjection and Obedience
to his Orders :
(fo that
nov/ we muft call him Captain Gow) and
he, by
the fame Confent of the reft, named
Jf^U*
Hams to
be his Lieutenant. Other Officers they
ai:)pointed
afterv/ards.
THE
firft Order they IlTued, was to let all
the
reft
of the Men know. That if they continu-
ed
Quiet, and offer'd
not to Meddle with any
of
their
Affairs,
they
ihouid receive no Hurt :
But
C"3
Il:rii:l7
forbid
an^r
Man among them tq fet a Foot
Abaft
the
Main-nialt, except tlie)^ were callM to
the Helm,
upon Pain of being immediately Cur in
Pieces t, keeping, for that Purpofe, one Man at
the
Steerage-
door, and one upon the Qjiarter-deck,
with
drawn
Cutlafhes in their Hands
^
but
there was
no
need for
it, for the Men were fo terrified with
the
bloody Doings
they had feen, that they never offer'd
to come in fight till they were cali'd.
THEIR next Wovk
was to throw
the three
dead Bodies, of the Mate, the Surgeon, and the Su'
per Cargo, over Board, which, they faid, lay in their
Way, and that was foon done, their Pockets being
firft fearch'd and rifled
5
From thence
they went
to work with the
Great Cabbin, and
with all the
Lockers, Chefts, Boxes, and Trunks ,
Thefe
they Broke open and Rifled, th&t is, fuch of them
as belong'd to the murthered Perlbns; and
whatever
they found there, they Ihar'd among
themfelves :
"When they had done this, they calFd
{or Li-
quor, and fat down to Drinking till
Morning, lea-
ving the Men (as above) to keep Guard,
and parti-
cularly to guard the Arms, bat Relieved them from
Time to Time, as they faw Occalion.
B Y this Time they had drawn in four more of
the Men to approve of what they had done, and
promife to
Joyn
with them, fo that now
they
were twelve in Number, and being but
24
at firfl,
whereof four were Murthered, they had but eight
Men to be
Apprehenfiv^e of,
and thofe
they could
.
eafily look after , fo the nest Day they lent for
them all to appear before their neivCaptain
^
where
they were told by
Gojp,what his Refolution was, viz^,
to go
a Cruifing,or to go upon theAccount,(as above)
that if they were willing tojoj^n with them, and i^o
into their Meafures, they fhould be well ufed,
and
there
fliould be no Diftindtion among them* but
ithey
ihould all fare alike
^
that they had been fcr-
C
z
^'-4
tl2]
ced by
tlie LarLarous Ufage cf
Ferneau to do
what
they had done, but that now there was no looking
back
y
and therefore as they had not been concerned
in what was
paf^, tney had nothing to do but to
adfc
in
Concert/ do their Duty as Sailors, and obey Or-
ders for the good of the Ship, and no Harm fhould
be done to any of them.
A S they all look'd like condemn'd Prifoners
brought up to the
Bar to receive Sentence of Death,
fo they all anfvver'd by a profound Silence
5
not
one Word being
faid by any of them, which Gov
took, as they meant it, (viz..) for a Confent, be-
caufe they
durft not refufe , fo they were then
permitted to go
up and down every where as
they ufed to do, Tho' fuch of them as fometimes
afterward fnewed any Reluftance to at as Princi-
pals, v/ere never Trufted, alv/ays Sufpected, and
often fevereljr Beaten, and fomeof them were ma-
ny ways inhumanly Treated, and that particularly
hy
Tfilliams^ the Lieutenant, who was, in his Na-
ture, a merciiefs,
cruel, and inexorable
Wretch,
as we fhall have
occafion to take Notice of again
in its Place.
THEY were now in a new Circumftance
of
Life, and ading upon a different Stage
of Bulinefs,
tho' upon the fame Stage
as to the Element, the
Water
i
before,, they were a Merchant Ship, loaden,
upon a
good Account, with Merchants Goods from
the Ccaft of
Barbary,
and bound to the Coaft of
Italy : But they were now a Crew of Pirates, or
as they call them in the Levant^ Corfaires^ Bound
no where, but to look out for Purchafe and Spoil
wherever they could find it.
I N perfuit of this wicked Trade, they firfi:
chang'd the Nam6 of the Ship, which was before
calFd the George Gaily,
and which they call
nov/ the Revenge, a Kame indeed fuitable to
the
bloody Steps they had taken ; In the next
place,
they
tJiey
made
the beft of the Ships Forces : The
Ship
had but
twelve Guns mounted when they came out
o?
Holland
^
but as they had fix more good Guns
in
the Hold,
with Carriages and every Thing proper
for
Service, which they had in Store, becaufe be-
ing
Freighted for the Dutch
Merchants, and the
Algerbies being at War v^ith the Djitcb^ they fup-
pos'd they might want them for Defence: Now
they took care to Mount them for a much worfe
Defign
;
fo that now they had 1 8 Guns, tho' too
many for the number of Hands they had on Board.
IN the third Pkce, inftead of periling their
Voyage to Gejwa with the Siiips Cargo, they took
s clear contrary Courfe, and refolv'd to Station
themfelves upon the Coafts of Spaht and
PortngAl^
and to Cruife upon all Nations , but what ihey
chiefly aim'd
at, v/as a Ship with Wine, if poJiible,
for that they wanted Extreamly.
THE firft Prize they took
was an
Evglijl) Sloop,
belonging to Fool^ Thomas
V^ife^ Commander, bound
from Newfoutidlani with Fiih,
'cn-^
Cadiz : This was
a Prize of no Value to them, ior they knew not
what to do with the Fifli
, fo they took out the Ma-
iler,
Mr. TFife, and his Men, who were but Five in
Number, with their Anchors, and Cables, and Sails,
and what elfe they found worth taking out, and
funk the VeiTel.
N. B.
Here it is to he
ohferv'd, they
found
a Man
zjery
ft for
their Turn, one
James Belvin
^
he
was
Xoatfwain
of
the
Sloop^afout, brisk Fellorp, and a very
good Sailor , hut otherways wicked enough to
fuit
with
their Occajion, and as
Jhon
as he came.amovg them,
he
difcover^d it
-,
for
tho" he was mt in the
frji
bloody Cayitrivance^
nor in the
terrible Execution
of
Tfihich I have given a Relation^
that is to
fay,
lie
was
not guilty of running
away'with the Ship, Georgs
Gaily, nor of munhering "the four Innocent Men,
whicli
wTiicTi
we have given an Account of above

yef
'tis Evident he joyn'd Heartily in all the
Villanies
which foliow'd. And indeed this Man's Fate is
a
juft and net^dful Caution to all thofe Sailors,
who
being taken in other Ships hy the
Pirates, think
that is
a fufficient Plea for them to ad as real
Pi-
rates afterwards
^
and that the Plea, or Pretence of
be-
ing Forced, will be a fufficient Protedion to them,
however Guilty they may have been afterward,
/ and however Volunteir they may have Adted
when
tlfiey come among the Pirates.
DOUBTLESS 'tis poiTible for
a Man to prove a
hearty Rogue after he is forced into the Service of
the Pirates, however Honeil he was
before, and
however Un lelignedly or againft his Confent he
at firfi: came among them : Therefore thofe who ex-
pert to
be Acquitted in a Court of Juftice
afterward,
on Pretence of their being at firft Forced into the
Company of Rogues, mult take care not to afc any
thing
in Concert with them, while they are Em-
bark'd togc-ther, but v/hat they really cannot Avoid,
and are apparently under
a
Conftraint in the doing.
BUT
this Man, 'twas plain, adfced a quite dif-
ferent Part
J
for after he took on with them, he
took all
Occafions
to engage their Confidence, and
to convince them that he was Hearty in his
Joyning
them. In a Word, he was
the moft adive and vi-
gorous Fellow of any that were, as it
may
be faid,
forced into their Service , for many of the other,
tho' they
ated with them, and
were apparently
Aflifting,
yet there was always a kind of Back-
wardnefs and Difgnft at
the Villainy, for which
they were often maltreated,and
always fufpedted by,
their Mailers.
THE
next
Prize they took was a
ScotchYefTd^
t)onnd
from Glaffgow,
with Herrings and
Salmon,,
from thence
to Gennt^ and Commanded by
one Mr,
John
SomerviUe, of
Fort
Patrick
j
this
VeiTel
was
iikewiie
C
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1
likewife of little Value to
theml except t^af^llief
took
out, as they had done from the other, theit
Arms,
Ammunition, Cloths, Provilions, Sails, An
chors, Cables,
GTr;.
and every Thing of Value,
and
therefore
they funk her too,
as they had done
the
Sloop.
The Realbn they
gave for finking thele
two
VelTels was, to prevent their being Difcover'd
5
for as they were now Cruifing on the Coaft of
Por-
tugal, had they let the Ships have gone with
feve-
ral of their Men on Board, they would prefently
have flood in for the Shore,
and have given the A-
larm
;
and the Men of War, of which there were
feveral, as well Dutch
as Efiglijb^
in the River o
Lisbon, would prefently have put out to Sea in/
Queft of them
;
And they were very unwilling to
leave the Coaft of Portugal, till they had got a
Ship
with Wine,
which they very much wanted.
THEY Cruifed eight or ten Days after this,
v/ithout
feeing fo much as one VeiTel upon the Seas,
and were juft refolving to ftand more to the Nor-
ward, to
the Coaft of GalJitia^
when they defcryed
a Sail to the Soutlmardr being a Ship about as big
as their own, tho' they could not perceive what
Force ftie had
\
however they gave Chafe, and the
VelTel perceiving it, crouded from them with all
the Sail they could
make, hoifting up French Co-
lours, and ftanding
away to the Southward.
THEY continued the Chafe three Days and
three Nights, and rho' they did not gain much up-
on her, the Frenchman
Sailing very well, yet they
kept her in fight ail the while, and for the
moft
part within Guii-fhot : But the third Night, the
Weather proving a little
Haizy,
the Frenchman
chang'd his Courfe in the Night, and fo got clear of
them, and good Reafon intj had to blefs them-
felves in the Efcape they
had made ; If they had
but known what
a dreadful Crew of Rogues thty
had fallen among, if they
had been taken.
THEY
[i6
3
THEY were now gotten a long Way to the
Southward, and being greatly Difappointed, and in
want of Water, as v/ell as Wine, the3r refolved to
ftand awav
for the Maderas, which they knew was
not far off, lb they accordingly
made the Ifland in
two Days more , and keeping a large Offing, they
Cruiz'd for three or four Days more, expecting to
meet with
feme Portuguefe "Veflel going in or co-
ming out , but 'twas in "Vain, for nothing ftirr'd
:
So tir'd with Expe6ting, they flood in for the Road,
and came to an Anchor, tho' at a great Diftance,
then they fent their Boat towards the Shore with fe-
ven Men all well Arm'd, to fee whether it might
not be Prafticable to Board one of the Ships in the
Road, and, cutting her away from her Anchors,
bring her off
^
or if they found that could not be
done, then their Orders were to Intercept fome of
the Boats, belonging to the Place, which carry
Wines off on Board the Ships in the Road, or from
one Place to another on the Coaft
5
but they came
back vghln difappointed in both
^
every Body be-
ing allarm'd and aware of them, knowing by their
Pofture what they were.
HAVING thus fpent feveral Days to no Pur-
pofe, and finding themfelves Difcovered, (at
length
being apparently under a
NecelTity to make
an
Attempt fbme where^ they ftood away
for Porte
Santa, about ten Leagues to the Windward of Ma-
deras, and belonging aifo to the Porttigitefe
-,
here
putting
up Britijh Colours, they lent their Boat a-
fhore with Captain SomerviUs Bill of Health, and a
prefent
to the Governour of three Barrels of
Salmon,
and fix
Barrels of Herrings, and a very civil
Mel-
fage, deiiring leave to Water, and to buy fome Re-
^reihments, pretending to be Bound to
THE Governour very courteoufly granted
their Deiire, but with more Courtefie than Difcre-
lion, went off himfelf, with about Nine or ten
of
hi
C
17
]
Ills
principal People, to
pay
the
IRvgliJJ)
Captain
a
Vifit,
little thinking what a kind of a
Captain
it
was they
were going to Compliment,
and
what
Price
it might have Coft them.
HOWEVER Gow, handfomly drefs'd,
receiv'd
them
with fome Ceremony,and entertaiii'd
them
tol-
lerably
well for
a
while
^
but the Governour
having
been kept as long by Civillity as they
could,and
the
Refrefhraents from the Shore not appearing,
he
was
forced
to Unmask, and when the
Governour
and
his Company rofe up to take their leave,
they
were,
to their great Snrprize, fuddenly
fiirrounded
with
a gang of Fellows with Mufquets
and an
Officer
at
the Head
of
them, v^fh.o told them, in fo
many
Words, they were the
Captains Prifoners,
andmnffc
not think of going on
Shore
any more, till
the
Wa-
ter and Provifions, which were promifed,
lliould
come on Board.
I T
is impoffible to conceive the
Confternation
and
Surprize the Porhigneje Gentry
were
in
^
nor
is it very
Decently to be exprels'd
^
the
poor
Governour was fo much more than half
Dead
with
the Fright, that he really Befourd
himfelf
in
a
piteous Manner
j
and the reft were in no much
.bet^
ter Condition
^
they trembled, cry'd,
begg'd,
crofs'd
themfelves, and faid their Prayers as Men
going ^
to Execution ; but 'twas all one, the}^
were
told*
flatly the Captain was not to be Trifled
with,
tjiat
the Ship was in want of Provifions, and they
would
-have them, or they would carry them
all
away
;
They were however well enougli Treated,
except
the
Reftraint of their Perfons, and were
often
ask'd to Refreih themfelves, but they
would
nei- f
ther Eat or Drink any more ail the
while
they
'
ftay'd on Board, which was
till the next
Day
in
the
Evening, when to their great Satisfaction
they
iaw
a great Boat come oft
from the Fort,
and which
D
"
came
I
i8
]
came
diredly on Board with feven Buts of
Water,'
a Cow and a Calf, and a good number
of Fowls.
"WHEN the Boat came on Board,
and had de-
livered
the Stores, Captain
Gow
Complimented
the
Governour and his Gentlemen, and Difcharg'd
them to their great
Joy
-,
and beiides difcharging
them, he gave them, in return for the Provifions
they brought, two Ccrons of Bees Wax, and fir'd
(them three Guns at their going
away. I fup-
pofe however,
they
will have a
care how they go on
Board of any Ship again in Compliment to their
Captain,
unlefs they are very fnre who they are.
HAVING had no better Succefs in this out of
the way run, to the Mdi^^'^s, they refolved to make
the beft
of their way back again to the Coaft of
Spain or
Fortiigal , they accordingly left Forto Santa
the next Morning - with a
fair Wind, Handing di-
redly
for Cape St. Vhicent^ or the Southward Cape,
THEY
had not been upon the Coaft of
Spaht
above two or three
Days, before they met with a
^ew
England Ship

Crofs Commander,
la-
den with Staves, and bound for Lisbon, and being
to Load
there with Wine for London
^
this was
a
Prize
alfo of no Value to them, and they
began to
be
very much difcouraged with their bad
Fortune.
However they took out Captain Crofs and his Men,
which were feven or eight in Number, with moft of
the
Proviiions and fome of the Sails, and gave the ,
Ship to Captain
/fz/g the Poo/
Man,
who they took I
at firft
in a Sloop from Newjoundland
^
and in order
to pay TFife and his Men for what he took
from
them, and made them Satisfadion, as
he
called
it,
he gave to Captain T^ife and his Mate 24Cerons of
Bees Wax, and to each of his Men, who were four
in Number, two Cerons of Wax each , thus he
pretended Honeily, and to make Keperation
of Da-
mages by giving them the Goods which he had
robb'd the 2)?itc7j
Merchants of, whofe
Suj^er-Cargo
he had Murthered.
AFTER.
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AFTER
this Cruizing forneDnys off of the
Bay,
tliey
mtt with a
French Ship from
Cadiz^ la-
den with
Wine, Oyl, and Fruit ,
this was, in feme
refpedt,
the very Thing they wanted
s
fo they
Mann'd
her with their own Men, and flood ofF to
Sea, that they might divide the Spoil
oF her with
more
Safety, for they were then too near the Land.
AND
firft they took out
theJT-ew&Mafterand all
his Men, which were twelve in Number
5
then they
fliifted great Part of the Cargo,
efpecially of the
Wine, with fome 0)'-l, and
a
large
quantity of
AU
monds, out of the French
Ship
into their own ..with
five of his heft Guns, and their
Carriages, all their
Ammunition and fmall Arms,
and all the beft of
their Sails, and then they gave
that
Ship to Captain
Somerville, the
Glafcow Captain,
whofe Ship they
had funk, and to Captain Crofs,
the
JSIew Evglavd
Captain, who they had taken but juft
before , and
to do
Juftice, as thejr calFd it,
here alfo, they gave
half the Ship
and Cargo to
Somervllle, one quar-
ter to his Mate, and the other
quarter to Captain
Cro/i,
and 16 Cerons of "Wax to the Men to be
fhar'd among them.
I T is to be obferv'd here, that Captain Somer*
ville carry ed all his Men along with him
j
except
one who chofe to enter among the Pirates,
fo that
he cou'd never
pretend he was forced into their Ser^
I'ice
i
but G'o/i's Men where all
detained,
whether
by Force, or
by their own Confent, does not ap*
pear at prefent.
THE Day before this Diviiion of the Spoil,
ihQj faw a large Ship to Windward,
which at firit
put them into fome Surprize, for (he came bearing
dov/n diredly upon them, and they thought Die
had been a Portuguefs Man of
War, but
they found
foon after that it was a Merchant Ship, had French
Colours, and bound Home, as
they
fupposM, from
Xh^WeJi hiuiesj
and it
was foj for as we
afterwards
D 2
learn'd
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]
learn'd,
fhe was loaden at
Marthiico, and bound
for
Rochelle.
THE
Frenchman, not fearing them, came on
large to
the Wind, being a
Ship of much greater
Force than Gof's Ship, and carr3'-ing
52
Guns and
80 Men, belides a great many Paflengers
5
how-
ever Gotp at firft made as if he would lye by for
them, but feeing plainly what a Ship
it was, and
that they Ihould have their Hands full of her, he
began to c onlider, and calling his Men all together
upon the Deck, told them his Mind, (i^fxJThat the
Frenchman was apparently fuperior in Force
every
way, that they
were but ili-mann'd, and had a
great man}?" Prifoners on Board, and that fome of
their own People were not very well to be trufted,
that iix cf their beft Hands were on Board the
Prize, and that all they had left were not fufficient
to ply their Guns and ftand by the Sails , and
that therefore as they were under no NeceiTity to
engage, fo he thought it would be next to Madnefs
to think of it, the French Ship being fo very much
Superior to them in Force.
THE generallity of the Men were of
Gout's
Mind,a!id agreed to decline the Fight, but
Williams,
his Lieu^ ftrenuoufly oppos'd it, and being not to be
appeas'dby all thatGos? could fay to him,or any
one
elfe, flew
out in
a Rage at
Gow, upbraiding him
with being a Coward, and not fit to command a
Ship of
Force.
THE
Truth is. Gong's Reafoning was
Good, and
the Thing
was
Juit,
confidering their own
Conditi-
on
: But
Williams
was a
Fellow uncapable of any
iolid Thinking, had a kind of a favage, brutal Cou-
rage, but nothing of true Bravery in him -,
and
this made him the moft
defperate and outragious
Villain in the World, and the
moft
cruel and inhu-
piane
tothofe v/hcfe Difafter it was to fall
into
his
Ilands,
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Hands, as had frequently appearM in his Ufage of
the Prifoners, under his Power, in this veryVoyage.
GO
If was a Man of
Temper, and notwithftand-
ing all the ill Language
JFiUiafns gave him, faid lit-
tle or nothing, hut by way of Argument, againft
attacking the French Ship, which would certainly
have been
too ilrong for them : But this provolc'd
IFilliams the more
5
and he grew to fuch an extrava-
gant height, that he demanded boldly of Gow to
give his Orders for Fighting, which Gow
declining
ftill, WiJlia77is prefented his Piftol at him, and
fnapc
it, but it did not
go off, which enrag'd him the
more.
jriNTE
R and 'Peter
fon ftanding nearell: to WiU
Jiams, and feeing him fo furious, flew
at him im-
mediately, and each of them fir'd a Piftol at him,
one ihot him thro' the Arm, and the other into
his Belly, at which he fell, and the Men about
him laid hold of him to throw him Over-board,
be-
lieving he was dead
;
but as they lifted him. up, he
ftarted violently out of their Hands, and leaped
direftly into the Hold, and from thence run defpe-
perately into the Powder-Room, with his Piftol
cock'd in his Hand, fwearing
he would blow them
ail up
^
and had certainly done it, if they had not
fciz'd him juft as he had gotten the Scuttle open,
and was that Moment going in
to put his hellifti Re-
folution in practice.
HAVING thus fecufd the demented raving
Creature, they carryed him forward to the Place
which they had made on Puvpofe, between Decks,
to fecure their Prifoners, and put him in amongft
them,
having firft loaded him with Irons, and par-
ticularly
Hand-cufted him with his Hands behind
him, to the great Satisfaction of the other Prifb-
foncrs, who knowing what a butcherly, furious
Fellow he was, were terri^ed, to the laft Degree,
to
fee him come
in among them
,
till they
faw
the
Conditioa
C3
Condition he came in. He was indeed
theTerror of
all the Prifbners, for he iifually
treated
them in a
barbarous manner, without the leaft
Provocation,
and
meerly for his Humonr
,
prefenting
Piftols
to
their
Breafts, fwearing he would ihoot them that
Moment,
and
then would beat them
unmercifully,
and all for hisDiveriion, as he call'd it
HAVING thus laid him faft, they prefently
refolv'd
to ftand away to the Jfejlward,
by which
they
quitted
the Mxrtinico
Ship, who by that time
was come nearer to them, and farther convinc'd
them they were in no Condition to have Engag'd
her, for flie was a ftout Ship and full of Men.
ALL this
happened
juft
the Day before they
ihar'd their laft Prize among the Prifoners, (as
I
have faid) in which they put on fucli
a Moclc face
of
doing Juftice to the feveral Captains and Mates,
and other
Men,
their Prifoners, whofe Ships they
had taken
away,
and who now they made a Repa-
ration to, by giving them what
they had taken Vio-
lently from another, that it was a ftrange Medly
of Mock-JuHice made up of Rapine and Genero
Hty blended together,
TWO Days after this they took
a
Brijlol Ship
tound from Newfoundland to
Oporto with Fiih
;
they
let her Cargo alone, for they had no ocrafi-
on for Fifh, but they took out alfo almoft all their
Provifions, all the Ammunition, Arms, &c. all her
good Sails, alfo her beft Cables, and forced two of
her Men to go away with them, and then put lo
of
the
FfenchMtn on Board
her, and let her go.
BUT juft
as they were parting
with her, they
confuUed
together what to do with
Williann their
Lieutenant,
who was then among their Prifoners,
and in Irons , and after a ftiort
Debate, they re-
folved to put him on Board the
Bnjiol Man and
fend
him away too, which accordingly was
done
5
with
Directions to ths Mufter to deliver
him on
Board
[33 1
Board
the firfl:
EnglijI) Man of War they Ihoulcl
meet
with, in order to his being hang'd for a Pi-
rate
(fo they Jeeringly call'd him) as foon as he
came
ro
h7ighnd, giving them alio an Account of
fome
of his Villanies,
THE Truth is, this Ifilliams was a ?;lonfl:er,
rather
than a Man
;
he was the moft inhuman,
bloody and defperate Creature that
theWorld could
produce , he was even too wicked for Gow and all
his Crew,
tho' they were
Pirates and Murtherers
as
has been faid , his
Temper was fo Savage, fo
Villainous, fo Mercilefs, that even the Pirates
themfelves told him it was Time he was hang'd
out of the Way.
ONE Inftance of this Barbarity in Williams
can
not be omitted, and will be fufficient to jufti-
fy
all that can be faid of him, namely, that when
Gow gave it as a Reafon againft engaging with the
MartinlcQ Ship, that he had a great many Prifbners
on Board, ("as above) and fome of
their own Men
that they could not depend upon
\
If^illiams
pro-
posed
to have them all calFd up, one by one, and
to cut their Throats, and throw them Overboard

A
Propofal fo Horrid, that the worft of the Crew
Ihook their Hesds at it
^
yet Gow anfwer'd him ve-
ry handfomly. That there had been too much Blood
fpilt
already
;
yet the refufing this, highten'd
the
Q_aarrel, and was the chief Occafion of his
offer-
ing
to Piftol Gow himfjlf, as has been faid at large
:
After which, his Behaviour
was fuch, as made all
the Ships Crew refolve to be rid of him.
And
'twas thought, if they had not had an Opportunity
to fend him away, as they did by the Brijlol
Ship,
they would have been oblig'd to have hang'd hini
themfelves.
THIS cruel and butcherly Temper of Ifilliams
i)eing carry'd to fuch a height,
and fo near to the
ruine of them all, ihock'd fome of them, and as
th^y
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3
tTiey
acknowledg'd gave them
fbme check m the
heat of
their wicked Progrefs, and had thej
had
a
fair
Opportunity to have gone on Shore at that
Time,
without falling into the Hands of
Juftice,
'tis
believ'd the greateft Part of them would have
abandon'd the Ship, and perhaps the very Trade
of a
Pirate too. But they had dipt their
Hands
in Blood, and Heaven had no doubt
determined
to
bring them, that
is to
fay,
the Chief of them to
the Gallows for it, as indeed they all deferv'd, fo
they went on.
WHE N they put Williams on board the Brijiol
Man, and he was told what Directions they gave
with him,
he began to relent, and made all the In-*
terceflion
he could to Captain Gow for Pardon, or
at leaft not to be put on board the Ship, knowing
if he was carried to Lisbojj, he fhould meet with
his Due from the Portvguefe if not from xheBvgliJh-^
for it feems he had been
concerned
in fame Villanies
among
the Portitgiiefe, before he came on Board the
George Galley
^
what they were he did not confefs,
nor
indeed did his own Ship's Crew
trouble them-
lelves to examine him about it : He
had been
wicked
enough among them, and it was fufficient
to make them ufe him as they did
^
it was more to
be
wonder'd indeed, they did not cut him in pieces
upon the Spot, and throw him into the Sea, half
on one fide of the Ship, and half on the other-, for
there was fcarce a Man in the Ship,
but on one Oc*
Gallon or other, had fbme
apprehenlions of him,
and might be faid to go in danger of his Life from
him.
BUT
they chofe to ihift their Hands
of him
this bloodlefs way
j
fo they double fetter'd
him and
brought him up : When they brought him out among
the Men, he begg'd they would throw him into
tlie
Sea and drown him
^
then entreated for his
Liffe
with
a
meanaefs which made them
difpife him,
and
with
t
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]
with
Tears,
fothat one Time -they' began to relent*
but then
the deviliflh Temper oi the Fellow over-
rul'd it again -,
'
fo at laft they -refjlVd to let him
go, and did accordingly put him on
Board, and
gave him many a hearty Curfe at parting, wifliing
him a good Voyage to the Gallows, as was made
good afterwards, tho'in fuch Company as they
lit-
tle
thought of at that Time.
THE
Brijiol Captain was very juH to them,
for according to their Orders, as foon as they came
to
Lisbo)!, they put him on Board the Argyle^ one
of His Majefty's Ships, Captain Bov?ler,
Comman-
der, then lying in the Tagus,
and bound Home for
Englavdj who accordingly brought hian -Home
,
tho', as it
happened.
Heaven brought the
Captain
and the reft of the Crew fo quickly to the End of
all their Villainies, that thejr all came Home time
enough to be hang'd with their Lieutenant. But
I
return to Gotp and his Crew, Having thus
dif^
mifs'd the BriJlol Man, and clear'd his Fiaiids af
moft of hisPrilbners, he, with the fame wicked
Ge^
nerolity, gave the Brijt'l
Captain
(
3 Cerons of
Bees Wax, as a Gratuity for his Trouble
and
Charge with the Prifoners, and in Recomjiencc,
as
he cali'd it, for the Goods he had taken froni
him,
and fo they
parted.
WHAT thefe feveral Captains did,
to whom
vtliey thus divided the Spoil of poor Fenwans
Car-
go, or
as I ought rather to.call it, of the
Merchant's
Cargo, which
was loaded in Africa-^ I -fay,
what
was done with the Bees-wax, and other
Things
which they
diftributed to th^ Captains,
and xhtit
Crews, who they thus tranfpos'd from Snip
to Ship,
that we cannot
tell, nor indeed coula rr.cfe
People
either
well know how to keep it, or
how to part
Avith it.
'
-^
IT was
certainty
'a Gift they
had na
power to
give, nor
had the'other any Right to
it by
their
E
"Dona*
Donation
;
but as the Owners were unlcnoWn, and
the feveral Perfons pofTeffing it are not eafily
known,
I do not fee which way the poor Dutchmen
can
come at their Goods again.
It is true, indeed, the Ships which they exchang'd
may, and ought to be reftored, and
the honeft
Owners put in PolTdlion of them again, and
I
fuppofe will be fo in a legal Manner
\
but the
Goods were fo difpers'd that it was jmpoiTible.
THIS was the laft Prize they took, not only
on the Coafi: of Portugal, but any where elfe , for
/ Gow who, to give him his due, was a Fellow of
Council, and had a great Prefrnce of Mind iu Ca-"-
\
fes of Exigence, conlider'cl that as foon as the Bri-
fol
Ship came into the River
of Lubon^ they would
certainly give an Account of them, as well of
their Strength, as of their Station in which they
Cruized
^
and that coiifrquently the
EngUJh Men
of War, o'i which there are generally fome in that
River, would immediately come Abroad to look
for them : So he began t( jRcafbn
with hisOfficers, that
now
the Coaft of Fortiigal would be no proper Place
at
all for them, unlels they refolved to fall into
the Hands of the faid Men of War
;
and that they
ought to conlider immediately what to do
I
N thefe Debates, fome advifed one Tiling,
fome another, as is ufual in like Cafts^ fome where
for going
to the Coaft of Guinea^ where (as they
faid)
was Purchafe enough, and very rich Ships to
be
taken
J
others v/ere for going to the
Jf^ejl
hi-
dies, and to Cruize among the liiands, and take up
\ their
Station at
Tobago
;
others, and that not thofe
'
of the moft Ignorant, proix)s'd the ftapdiijg
Jn
to the Bay o't
Mexico^
and
to jojrn in with fome
of ft
new
fort of Pirates at St.
Jago
de la Cuba, who are
all
Spaniards, and call themfelvesGnrrr^^^ del CoaJIa^
that is, Guardlhips for the
Coaft
^
but
under that
pretence make Prize of
Shijps-
of all
Nations, and
fomp-
L
-^7
J
fometimes
even of their own Countrymen too,
but
efpecially of the
Evglip , but when
this was pro-
pose it was anfyvcred,
they durft
not
truft the
Spaniards.
'ol'-'\
ANOTHER'fort was for going to
the
North
of
America, and af*-er having taken
a Sioop
oi two
on
the Coaft of
New-Evgland.^ or I^ew-Tork^
laden
with Provilions for the Ifeji-Indics, v/hich
would
not have been very hard to do, TLich being often
pairing and re-paffing there, and by which they
might nave been fuffidentlv ftor'dwith Provifion,
-then to hiive gone away to the South Seas ,
'
ut Gon^
objeded, t^iat they were not Mann'd fifficiently
for fuch an Undertaking

and likewife, that they
had not i'uffident Scores
of
Ammunition, efpedally
of Powder, and of fmall Arms for any confidera-
ble Ation with the Spaniards
.
THEN it was offered
bv
the
Boatfwain, who
it feems had been iu that Part of the World,
to go
away to the Honduras,
and to the Bay
o^
Campeachy
among the
Buccaniers and Logwood Cutteis, and
/
there they ihould
in
the
firft Place be fure to pick
;'
up forty or fifty ftout Fdlows,
good Sailois,
and'
bold, enterprizing Men, who undeiftand the Spa-
jiiardi^
and the Spanijh Coafl: on both lides
of Ame-
rica as well as any Men in the "World,
and had all
Fire- Arms with them, and Ammunition too, and
then being well Mann'd, they might take their
hazard for Provifions, which might be
had any
where, at leaft of one Sort if not of another
^
be-
lides, vAitn they were thoroughly Mann'd,
they
might cruize for Provifions any
where, and
might
be as likely to meet with the
New-Tork
and
JN't-n;-
England Sloops,
on the back of the Iflands-
in
their
Way to Barhadoes and Jamaica as any
where.
Others faid they fhould
go iirft
to the
Iflan
Js of
New-Providence^
or to the
Month of the
Gulph
of
Florida^sindihen
cruiling on
the Coaft cf North-Atne^
E 2 ricd
t7BJ
rica, and malcing
their Retreat
at
Nev^ IrovUenrJ^
Cruize from
t'^e Gulf of
Florida^ North
upon the
Coaft of
Carolina^ and as high as the Capes of Vir*
^hi'ia. But nothing could be refolv'd on .
till at
kit Gow let theni^ into
the Secret ot a
Projeft,
v/hich, as
he told them, he had
long
had in his
Thoughts
, and which was, to go away to the North
of
Scotla7idj near the Coaft of
which, as he faid, he
was
Born and
Bred
^
and where
he faid, if they
met
with no Purchafe upon the Sea, he could tell
them how they Ihould Enrich themfeives by going
on
Shore.
T O
bring them to concur with this Deiign, he
reprefented
the Danger they were in, where they
wet^.
(as
above :)
The Want they were in of frelli
Water,
and of.feveral kinds
of Provifions, but
above
all, the Neceihty they were in of careening
arid-
cleaning their Ship ; That it was too
Jong a
Run
-for
thtm to goto the
Soiithrvard
-^
and that
they, had nov Pjovilious to ferve them till the}'- could
reach to any Place proper for that Purpofe
^
and
inig'.t
be driven to
the utmoft Diftrefs, if
they
iliould
be put
by from
AVatering, either by
Wca^*
ther or Enemies. ^i'rivj
ALSO he told them, if any of the Men of
"War came out in Search of them, they would ne-
ver
Imagine they were gene away to the
Northward
;
fb
that
their P..:n that Way was perfectly Secure :
And he could aiTure them of his own
Knowledge,
that if
they landed in fuch Places as he fhould di-
red:,
they
could not fail cf a
eonfiderable Booty
in plundering feme Gentlemens Houfes,
who liv'd
Secure and Unguarded very near
the Shore : And
that tho' the Country fhould be
Alkrm'd,
yet be-
fore the Government could fend any
Men of War to
Attack them, they might clean their Ship, lay in
a
Store of freCi Provifions, and be gone
^
and
be
lides
that, they v/culd get a good many,
itout
Fel-
lows
l^9l
lows
to
go along
with them, upon
his Encourage-
ment
J
fo that
they fhould be better
Mann'd than
they
were
yet, and Ihould be Ready
againft all
Events.
THESE
Arguments, and their
approaching
Fate
Concurring,
had
a
fufficient Influence,
on the
Ships
Company,
to prevail on them to
Confent:
So they
made
the bell of their Way to the Norths
ward,
and
about the middle of laft
Jamury^
th-y
arriv'd
at
Carrijioiin,
in the Ifles o^ Orkvey^
and
came
to an
Anchor in a Place, which Gow
told
them,
was
fafe Riding under the
Lee of
a fmall
ifland
at
feme Diftance from the
Port.
G
01^ being nowfole Diredor, as well as
Com-
mander
of the Ship,caird them all together,
fo
tell
them
what
Account they ihould
give of
themfelves,
when
they came to Converfe with any of the
Peo-
ple of the Ifland, that they might
agree in
their
Story,
and
give
no Caufe of Sufpicion
;
and
'tis
moft
certain, that had they been
careful to
ob-
ferve his Directions, and not betray'd and exposed
themfelvs,
they might have pafs'd
undifcover'd,
and done all
t^iQ Mifchief they intended,
without
allarming
the Country. Kis Orders
were,
that
they
iliould fay they came from Cadiz.,
and
were
bound for
Stockholm, and thence to
Dantzjck
5
but
that
they had had a long
Paflage,
by reafon
of
contrary
Winds, and lofi: their
Opportunity
of
paiiing
the
Smiid, which was
now full of Ice, if
not
frozen up , and that they
had
been
driven fo
far
to the Norwards by Strcfs of
V/eather,
that
they
wanted Water and frelh
ProviiTons,
and to
clean
their Ship , that they
would
pav for wliat-
^i- r. i'j -..i, __j A . 7 .Y
them
to proceed on their Voyage.
This Tale
was
^alie to tell, and propable enough,
and tiierefore
likely
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likely enough to be Believed
;
and tney all olDlJgM
themfelves ro give the fame Account
exactly,
and
not to vary the leaft Tittle from it, or fo much as
Wifper
otherwife, upon Pain of immediate
Death.
I N Carrijfoiin Harbour they found
a fmall Scots
Bark,

Liunfdale^ Mafter, loaden withWine
and Brandy, and bound about to t}\t Ifle of Man
y
this was a welcome Thing to them all
; and had it
been any
where elfe, they would have made it
a*
good Prize : But as they had Goods fufficient on
Board, and fuch
as where very Acceptable Mer-
chandize,
Lmnfdale traded freely with them,' and
GoF
bartred fjven Gro7/s of Wax, and about 200I.
"Weight of Barbary Copper with him for a Hogfliead
of Geveva
and an Anchor of Brandy^ and fome o
ther
Goods
^
and
it was believed that Gcc? had
fome Money into the Bargain.
A Day or two
after, a SwedlUxVe^t\ came into
the Road, bound from Stockholm to Glafgorv, and
laden with Stvedes
Iron,
and
Bajl Country Plank
j
they
traded with her alio for 10
Coil of new Rope,
for which Gow
gave the Mafter eleven Cerons
of Bees Wai : It has
been faid, th^j
plundered
this Veflll of feveral other Goods, and obligM the
the Mafter to promife to Sail direlly to his Port,
without fpeaking to any
Bodjr, on Pain of Unking
the Ship
^
But this wants
Confirmation, nor is it
Probable they would venture to do fo in a Port
where they refolv'd to ftay any long Time, and
where they knew it v/as lb NecelTary to be en-
tirely Gonceal'd.
f
BUT
now their Misfortunes
began to come on,
j
and Things lookM but with an indifferent Afpedt
]
upon them
^
for feveral oF
their Men, efpecially
fuch of them
as had been forc'd or dccoy'd into
their Service,
began to think of making their E-
fcape from
them
^
and to caft about for Means
to
biingit topafs.
The firft w^s a
young Man,
who
was
was
originally
one of the Ships Company,
but
was
Forced b)''
fear of being Murther'd, as has been
ohfervd^
to give a filent i\irent to go with them,
he took
an Opportunity to get away.
I T was
"one Evening when the
Boat went on
Shore, (for they kept a civil Correfpondence
with
iho. People of
the Town) this yom^g Fellow
being
one of the Ships Crew, and having been
feveral
Times on Shore before, and therefore not fupedted,
gave them the Slip, and got away to
a Farm-houfe
which lay under a Hill, out of light
5
and there,
for two or three Pieces of Eight, he got a Horfe,
and foon, by that
_
means, efcap'd to Kirkwall^
a
Market-Town, and the Chief of the Orhteys,
a-
bout 12 Miles from the
Place where the Ship lay.
A S foon as he came there, he furrender'd him-
felf to the Government, deiiringProtedlion,
andfin-
form'd them who Gow was, and what the
Ships
Crew were, and upon what Bufinefs they were
A-
broad
^
with what elfe he knew of their Deligns,
as to Plundering the GentlemensHoufes, &c.
Up-
on which they immediatel)r rais'd the Countrjr,
and
got a ftrength together to
defend themfelves.
BUT the next Diftafter that attended
them,
was, (for Misfortunes feldam come alone^ more
fa-
tal than this, for 1 o of
Gown's
Men, moft of them
likewife Men forced into their Service, went
away
with the long Boat, making the beft of their Way
for the main Land of Scotland.
N. B. Thefe Men however they did,
or
what
(
Shift foever they m.ade to get fo far, were
taken
in the Firth of Bdenburg^
and made Prifoners
there,
i
HAD Gob? taken the Alarm, as he
ought
to
have done,
at eitheir of thefe Accidents, and
put
to Sea, eitlier ftood over for the Coafl of Norway^
or have run thro"* JFcJiward, between the
Iflands]
and gone
for the
IJls
oj Man,
or for the North
of
Ireland,
he might
have eafily
have gone clear
off.
for
t
32]
for there was no VefTel in the Country that
was of
Force
fafficient to have
fpolcen with him.
.
BUT
hardened
for his own Deftrudion,
and
Juftice
evidently purfuing him, he grew the Bolder
for the Difafter
^
and notwithftanding that the
Country
was alarm'd, and that he was fully difco-
verM,
inftead of making a timely Efcape^ he re-
folved to Land upon them, and to put his intend-
ed Projefts,
(vix.) of Plundring the Gentlemens
Houfes,
in Execution, whatever it coft him.
I N
Order to this, he fent the Boatfwain and lo
Men
on Shore, the very fame Night, very well
Arm'd,
directing them to go to the Houfe
of Mr.
Homtyvian of Grahamfs^, Sheriff of the County,
and who was himfelf at that Time, to his great
good
Fortune, from Home : The People of the
Houfe
had not the leaft Notice of their coming, fo
4 that which
they
knock'd at the Door,it was immedi-
ately
open'd
;
upon when they all
entered
the
I
Houfe at once, except one Pantojij who they fet
'
Centinel, and order'd him to ftand at the Door to
fecure
their Retreat, and to fecure any from co-
ming
in after them.
MRS.
Honnyman and her Daughter were ei*
/
treamly
Frighted at
the iight of fo many Armed

Men
coming into the Houfe, and ran
fcreaming a-
tout, like People Diftraded, while the Pirates,
rot
regarding them, were looking about for-Ghefls
and Trunks, where they might expect
to find fome
, ^Plunder : And Mrs. Hovnyvmt^ in her Fright, co-
\
aning to the Door, ask'd
Pantoit, the Man who
they fet Centinel there, what the Meaning of it all
was? and he told her freelj'-, they were Pirates, and
that they came to
Plunder the Houfe. At
this ftie
\
recovered fome Courage, and run back into
thf?
'
.Houfe immediately , and knowing, to be fure,
where her Money lay, which was very
Conlidera-
hie, and ail in Gold, fhe put the Bags
in her Lap,
and
C 331
and
boldly rufhing
hy Vanton, who
thought
flie
was
only
running from
them, in a Fright,
carryed
it all
off,
and
fo made her Eicape with
the
Treafure.
The
Boatfwain being infonn'd that tht
Money
was
carryedofl^
refblved to revenge himfelf
by
burning
the
Writings and Papers, which they call there,
the
Charters of their Eftates, and are always
of
great
Value in Gentlemens Houfes of
Eftatts
j
but
the
young Lady, Mr.
Honeymans Daughther,
hearing
them threaten to burn the "Writings,
watch'd
her
Opportunity, and running to the Charter
Room
where they lay, and tying the mofl- roniiderable
of
them up in a
Napkin, threw them out of the
Win-
dow, jumpt after them herfelf, and
Efcaped
without the Damage
5
tho"* theWnidow
was one
Sto-
ry high at leaft.
HOWEVER the Pirates had the Plundering
of all the reft of the Houfe, and carryed of a
great
deal of Plate and
Things of Value
^
and forced
one
of the Servants, who
played very well on the
Bag-
pipe, to march along,
Piping
before them,
when
they carryed them
off to the S'^ip.
THE next Day they weigh'd Anchor, intend^
ing, tho' they had
clean'd but one iide of the
Ship,
to put out to Sea
and quit the Coaft
5
but failing
Eajiward, they came
to
an
Anchor again,
at a little
Ifland, call'd Caljfound
5
and, having fome farther
Mifchief in their
view here, the Boatfwain
went
on Shore again, with
fome Armed Men
^
our meet-
ing with no other
Plunder, they carryed off three /
Womeuj who they kept on
Board fome time,
and
/
ufed fo Inhumanly, that
when they fet them
on
Shore again, they were not able to go or to
ftand
i
and we hear that one of them dyed on the
Beacia
where they left them.
THE next Day they weigli'd again, hoL^ng
the fame Courfe Eajiward, thro' the
Openings I^e-
iween the Iflands,
till
thty came off of Roptefs %
F
'
"
And
[34]
And
now Gom refolved to malce the beft
of hh
"Way for the Ifland of Bda, to Plunder the
Houfe
of Mr.
Fea^
a Gentleman of a confiderable
Eftate,
and who Gow had fome Acquaintance with, having
"been at
School together when they were
Youths.
I T feems Gow^s Reafbn for refolving to
attack
this Gentleman, w'lo was his old Acquaintance,
was, that he thought the Alarm, given at Carri"
Jloun,
would ne^eflarily draw the Gentlemen,
and
the t.-ft
of
their Focces, that Way
j
wbich
Guefs
.was
f;r tioni being Imp'obahle
j
for j"ft fo it was,
only wi::- R'-fpeft to M..
F.t,
w''o having had the
Allarm wit . the rf ft, yet ilay'd at Home, on a par-
ticular OccafI-l^ 'lis Wile being, at that lime, ve-
ry
much Indifpofld.
I T is to be obferv'd here, that
CaryiJI.un and
_Eda
lye with Rerp.6t to each
other, (A\
j/ and
S.
If^eji) and the Bodies of the chief Iflanas lye be-
tween
tnem.
ON
the
nth
of February^ in the Morning,
Gow
appearing with his Ship off of the Ifland,
caird
the Calffoujid, Mr. Fea and his Family were
very
much alarm'd, not being able to get together
above
fix or feven Men for his Defence
.,
he there-
fore wrote a Letter to Gow, intending to fend it
on Board, as foon as he fliould get into the Har-
bour, to defire him
to forbear
the ufual Salutes
with his great Guns

becaufe Mrs.
Fea his
Wife was
fo
very much Indifpos'd : And this as he would o-
blige his old School-fellow, telling hjm at
the fame
time, that the Inhabitants were all fled to the
Mountains, on the Report of his being a Pirate,
which he
hoped would not prove true
^
in which
Cafe, he
fhould be very ready to fupply
him with
all fuch
NecelTaries as the Ifland would
afford
5
.defiling him to fend the Mellenger fafe back, at
whofe Return, the. Allarms of the People
would
immediately
be at an End.
THE
C35
3
THE
Tide it feems runs extreamly Rapid a?.,
inong
thofe Iflands, and the Navigation is thereby'
render'd
very daiigeous and uncei:ti\in : Gorv was
an able
Seaman : but he was no PiLot for that Place,
and which
was worfe, he had no Boat to AiTift, in
cafe of
Extremit}', to ware the Ship
^
and in turn-
ing
into Calf
Sound, he flood
a
little to near the;
Point of a
little Ifland, call'd the Calj, and which
lay in the
middle of thePaiT-ge-, here!. is Ship miC-
ling Stays, was in great Danger of going a Snore

to avoid which, he drop'd an .Anchor under his
Foot, which talcing good hold,
brought him up, and
he thought the Daugtr
was over.
BUT as the WiM
was, he lay fo near the
Shore, that he could not get under Sail again, for'
want of a Boat
to
Tow him out into the Channel,
or to carry oif an Anchor to heave him out.
THAT litde Ifland above, is uninhabited, but
affords Pafture
to
five or fix Hundred Sheep,
which Mr. Fea always keeps upon it, for it be-
longs wholly to him : Gow was novv in Diftrefs,
and had no Remedy but to fend his fmall Boat on
Shore to Mr. Fea, to delire his Aifiltance,
that is to
fay, to deiire him to lend him a Boat to carry out
an Anchor to heave off the Ship.
Mr. Fea
fent back the
Boat, and one ^ames
Lahg in it, with the Letter, which I have already
mentioned
^
Gow fent him back immediately with
this Anfwer, by
AVord
of Mouth, (viz.) that he
would write to no Body

But if Mr.
Fea would
order his People to aiiift him with a Boat, to carry
out an Anchor, he would Reward them
handfomly :
Mr.
Fea,
in the mean time, orderM his great Boat
(for he had fuch a Boat as Gow wantedj
to be ftav'd
and launchM into the Water and funk, and the
Mafbs,
Sails and Oars to be carryed privately out
of Sight.
F 2 WHILE
1^6
1
"WHILE
this was doing Mr.
Fea
percelv'd Gobi's
Boat
corai'-g
on Shore, with five Perfons in her
:
Thefe
Men having landed on the main Ifland,
left
their
Boat on the Beach, and all together
march'd
direftly
lip to the Manfion Houfe. This put him
into
fonie Surprize at firft, however, he refolv'd to
meet them in a peaceable Manner, tho' he perceiv'd
they we' e all double Arm'd
^
when he came up to
them he entreated them not to go up to the Houfe,
becaufe of the languifliing Condition of his Wife
y
that f}ie was already frighted with
the Rumours
which had been rais'd of their being Pirates, and
that fhe would certainly die with the fear flie was
5n for herfelf and Family, if they came to
the
Door.
'
THE Boatfwain anfwer'd. They did not deflre
to fright his Wife, or any Body
elfe
;
but they
came to deiire the affiftance of his Boat, and if he
would not grant them fo fmall
a
Favour,' he
had
nothing to expert from them but the utmoft Ex-
tremity. Mr. Fea return'd, that they knew well
enough he could not anfwer giving them, or lend-
ing
them his Boat, or any Help, as they
appeared
to be fuch People
as was reported
^
but that if they
would take them by Force, he could not help
himfelf.
'*'
^
BU T in the niean time, talking flill
in
a friend-
ly
Manner to them, he ask'd them to go to
4
iieighbouring Houfe, which he faid was
a Change
Honfe,
that is a Fvblick
Houfe^ and take a Cup of
j\.le witn him.
THIb
they confented to, feeing Mr. F^^ was
all
alone, fo ihey went all with him ,. Mr. Fea
m
the mean time found means to give private Orders
that the Oars, and Maft, and Sails of the Pirate$
Boat Ihould be all
carry'd away, and that in a
quarter of an Hour after they had fat together, h6
fliould
be
CalFd hailily out of the Room on
fome
'=
: "
^
"
-pre^
C37l
pretence
or otlier of fome Body to fpeak witfi him,'
all
which was perrorm"'d to
a Tittle.
WHEN
he
was
got from them he gave Orders
that
his Six Men, who, as
before, he had got -o-
gether,and who were now come to him wellarm'd,
Ihould place themfelves at a certain Stile, behind
a
thick
Hedge, and which was about half the way
between
the Ale-Houfe and his own Houfe
5
that if
he came that way with the Boatfwain alone, they
fhould
fuddenly ftart out upon them fat)th,
and
throwing
him down, fhould feize upon the other
5
but that if all the five came with him, he would
take an Occafion to be either before or behind
them, fo that they might all fire upon them with-
out
danger of hurting him.
HAVING given thefe Orders, and depending
upon their being well executed, he return'd to the
Company, and having given them more Ale,
told
them he would gladly do them any S.
rvice that he
could lawfully do, and that if thrj would take the
trouble of walking up to his Houfe in a peaceable /
Manner, that his Family might not
be frighted
/
with feeing himfelf among them, they ihould have
'
all
the
Alliftance that was in his Power.
THE Fellows, whether they had taken too much
Ale, or whether the Condition of their 8!np, and
the
Hopes of getting a Boat to help them, blinded
their Eyes, is not certain, fell with eafe inro this
Snare, and agreed readily to go along with Mr^Fea-^
but after a while refolv'd not to go all of them,
only deputed the Boatfwain to go, which was w'lat
Mr.
Fea
indeed moft delir'd : The Boatfwain was
very willing to accept of the Truft, but it was
ob-
ferv'd, he took a great deal of care of his Arms,
which was no lefs than four Piftols, all loaded
with a brace of Bullets each
;
nor would he be per-
fwaded to leave any
of them behind him,
no not
with his own Men,
..r
IN
C
58
]
IN this Polture Mr.
Fea
and tTie
Boatfwam
walk'd along together very quietly till they came
to the Stile,
which having got over, Mr. Fea^V^ting
his Men all ready, turn'd fliort about upon the
Boatfwain, and taking him by the Collar, told
him he
was his Prifoner, and the fame Moment the
reft of his Men ruQiing in upon them, threw them
both down, and
ib fecur'd the Boatfwain without
giving him time f
> much as to fire one Piftol. He
cry'd out indeed with all his Might to allarm his
Men, but they f.ion ftopt his Mouth, by firft forcing
a Piftol into it, and then a Handkerchief, and ha-
ving difarm'd him, and bound his Hands behind
him, and his Feet
together, Mr. Fea left him there
under a Guard, and with his other five Men, but
without any Arms,
at leaft that could be feen,
returned
to the Ale-Houfe to the reft : The Houfe
having two Doors, they divided themfelves and
having rufli'd in at both the Doors at the fame time,
they fciz'd all the fourMen before they were aware,
or had time to lay hold of their Arms : They did
indeed what Men could do, and one of them fnapp'd
a
Piflnl at
Mr. Fea^ but it did not
go off; and Mr.
Fea fnatching at the Piftol at the fame Moment to
divert the Shot if it
had fir'd, ftruck his Hand
with fuch force againft the Cock, as very much
bruifed
his Hand.
THEY
were all five notv in his Power, and he
fent
them away under a good Guard to a Village in
the
middle of the Ifland, where they were kept
feparate
from one another, and
fuftlciently fecur'd.
Then Mr. J^^^
difpatch'd ExprefTes to the Gentle-
men in
the
neighbouring Iflands, to acquaint
them
with what
he had
done, and
to deiire their fpeedy
Alfiftance
;
alfo
defiring earneftly that they
would
take
care that no Boat
ihould go within reach of
the Pirate's
Gunsj and at
Night he, Mr. Fea, caus'd
Fires to
be made
upon the Hills round him,
to al-
larm
C39 1
tTie
Country,
and
ordered all the Boats round the
Ifland
to
\e
har.Vd up
upon the
Btrach as far as was
poiFible,
and
difabled alfo, leaft the Pirates fllould
fwim
from
the bhip and
get any of them into their
Pcflt-ilion.
NEXT
Day,
the 14th, it blew very hard all
Dav
, and
in the Evening, about
High "Water, it
ihifted
to
/r. N. If. upon which the
Pirates fet their
Sails,
expeftingto
get oiF, and fo to
lay it round the
Ifland,
and
put out to Sea , but the Fellow who
wasotder'd
to cut the Cable, miffing feveral Strokes,
the
Cable
check'd
the Ships Way,
and confequent-
137-, on a
fudden,
fhe took all a-back , then the Ca-
ble
being
parted, when it fhould have held, the
Ship,
run
direftly
on Shore on the
Calf IJland
^
nor
could
all their Skill prevent it : ThenGon?, with an
Air
of
Defperation, told them they were all dead
Men
: Nor indeed could it be otherways, for ha-
ving
loft the only Boat they had, and five of their
beft
Hands, they were able to do little or nothing
towards
getting
their Ship off
^
befides, as fhe went
on
Shore,
on the Top of High Water, and a Spring
Tide,
there was no Hope of getting her off after-
ward:
Wherefore, the next Morning, being Afow-
day the l-jth,
they hung out a white Flag,
as a Sig-
nal for
Parlee, and fent a Man
on Shore, upon
Calf
TJlajid, for now they cou'd go on Shore out of
the
Ship almoft at half Flood.
NOW Mr.
Fea thought he might talk
withGon?
in a
difPering
Stile from what he did before^
fbhe
wrote a
Letter to him, wherein he
complained of
the rude
Behaviour of his five Men; for which
he
told him,
he had been
obliged
to feize on them and
jnake
them Prifoners
^
letting him know
that
th
Country,
being all allarm'd, would foon be too
many
for him -, and therefore advis'd him
to fur-
render himfelf Peaceably, and be the Author of
n
quiet Surrender of the reft, as the only
Means
t6
obtain
[40
3
ol)tain
any Favour , and then he might become
ah
Evidence againft the reft, and fo might fave his
own Life.
THIS Letter Mr.
Tea fent
hj a Boat
with
four armed Men to the Ifland, to be given to the
Ftllow that Gorp
had fent on Shore, and who wait-
ed there -, and he
at
the fame time gave them
a
Letter from Gotp to Mr.
Fea
j
for
now he was hum-
ble enough to Write, which before he refufed.
G
/T'
s Letter to Mr.
Fea,
was to let him have
iomc Men and Boats to take out the beft of the
Cciigoe, in order
to lighten the Ship and fet her
a-
fl oat
;
and offering himfelf to come on Shore and
be Hoftage, for the Security
of the Men and BoatSj
and to give Mr. Fea a thoufand Pounds in Goods
for the Service : Declaring at the fame time, if
this fmall Succour was refus'd him, he would take
care no Body fhould better
himfelf by his Misfor-
tune , for that rather than to
be taken, they would
fet Fire to the Ship, and
would all Perim toge-
ther.
Mr.
Fea reply'd to this
Letter, That he had
a
Boat indeed, th^ would have been fit for his Ser-
vice, but that fhe was ftav'd and funk
^
but if he
would come on Shore quietly, without Arms, and
fering his Carpenter with him to repair
the Boat,
he might have her. This Mr. Fea did to give Gojp
an Opportunity to embrace his firft
offer of
Surren-
dering. But GoTv was neither Humble
enough to
come in,
nor Sincere enough to
treat with him
fairly, if
he had intended to let him have the
Boat
j
and if he had, 'tis propable that the former
Letter had made the Men Sufpicious of him
5
So
that now he could do
nothing without
communica*
ting
it to the reft of the
Crew.
ABOUT four in the
Afternoon Mr.
Fea receij-
Ved a.i
Aiifwer to his
laft
Letter ; The
Copy
of
which is
exactly as follows*
Bonovr'i
C40
5-T ii o Tu
From on Board our
Ship ths
Homir d S
IR,
K^y,,,^., Feb.
16, 17
2
j.
**
T am fbrry
to hear of the irregular Proceedings
*'
X of my
Men. I gave no Or.lers to thatEiF-iS,
**
And
what
hath teen wrongfully done to
the
Country,was
contrary to
my Iriclination. Itibmy
Misfortune
to be in this Condition at prefent :
It
was in your Power to ftave done otherwife,
iri
making my Fortune better. Since
my being
in
the Country I have wrong'd no Man, nor taken
*'
any Thing, but v/hat
I have paid for. ?vly
De-
lign in coming, was ^o make the
Countrv the
better, which I am ftill capable to do, providing
you are juft to me. I thank you for tht
Concern
you have for my bad Fortune
5
and am forry
I
**
cannot embrace your Propofal, as being Evi-
*'
dence
^
my
People have already made ufe of
*'
that Advantage. I have hy my lafl: fignified
my
*'
Defign of Proceeding, provided I can
procure
*'
no better Terms. Pleafe to fend
James
Laing
*'
on Board to continue till my return.
I ftionid
**
be glad
to have the good Forfune to commune
"
with you upon that Subjed. I beg you will af-
"
fill me with a Boat , and be aflured I do no
Man
*'
Harm, wer't in my Power, as I
am now at your
Mercy.
I cannot furrender
my
Telf Prifoner
5
I'd rather commit my felf to the Mercy of the
Seas : So that if you
will incline to contribute
to
my Efcape, Ihall leave you
Ship and Ccirgo
at
*'
your DifpofaJ.
J conthmi. Honour''d Sir,
&c."
John Smith,
UPON this Letter, and, efpecially that Part
wherein Gow defires to commune with him, Mr.
Tea believing he might
do Icme bervice in perf-A^a-
G
dins.
C
4=
J
cingWjTi
to fabmit, went over to
Cr?/
IJJavd,
and
went
on Shore alone, ordering his Boat to
lie
in
readinefs
to take him in ag;i>:, but not one
Man
to fiiir
ouc of her : And ralHng to Gow, with
a
Speaking-Trnmpet, deiir'd him to come on Shore,
which the other readily did: But Mr. Fea,
before
he
venturM, wifely forefaw, that wnlft he
was a-
lone, upon the Ifiand, the Pirates might, unknown
to him, get frnm the Ship by different Ways, and
under (.over of Shore, might get behind and fur-
round ')im , to prevent which, he fet a Man upon
the top of his own Houfe, which was on the oppo-
fue
Snore,
and over-look'd the
whole
Ifland, and
order'd hirn to make Signals with his Flag,
waving
his Flag once for every Man that he faw come on
Shore , but if four or more cam.eon Shore, then
to keep ^he Flag waving continually, till
he, Mr.
Fea^ fh juld retire.
THIS Precaution was verv needful, for na
fooner was
Mr. Fea
advanc'd upon the Ifland, ex-
ptdting Gow to come on Shore, to meet him
5
but
he law a
Fellow
come from the Ship with a white
Flag, and a Bottle, and aGlafs, and a Bundle
5
then
turning to his own Houfe, he faw his Man make
the
cignals appointed, and that the Man kept the
Flag
continually waving
^
upon which he imme-
diately
retired
to his Boat, and he was no fooner
got into it, but he faw five Fellows running under
^5ho^e with
lighted Matches and Granadoes in their
Hands,
to have Intercepted him, but feeing him out
of
their Reach, they retir'd to the Ship.
AFTER
this the Fellow with the white Flag came
up,
and
gave Mr.
Fea
iwo Letters , he would have
left
the Bundle, which he faid was a prefent to
Mr.
Fea , and th.e Bottle, which he faid, was aBot-
tle
of Brandyfi
but Mr. Fea would not take
them
^
but told the Fellow his Captain was a
trea-
cherous
Villain, and he did not doubt but he
Ihould
ice
[43 1
fee
Iiim
hang'd ; and as to him,
the
Fellow, he
had a
great Mind to flioot him -, upon
vyhich
the
Fellow
took to his Heels, and Mr.
Fea, being in
h is
Boat,
did not think it worth
while to Land
again
to
perfue him. This put an End
to all
Parlee for
the
prefent. But had the Pirates
fucceeded io this
Attempt, they would fo far have gained
their Point,
either that they mull: have been AlTifted, or Mr.
Fee mull: 'lave been Sacrific'd,
THE Two Letters from Gow, were only for
Mr.
Fee^ and the other for his
Wife
,
the fii ft was
much to the fame Purpofe as
the former , only that
in
this, Gojp requefted the great B^at with her
Mafts,
and Sails, and Oars, with fome Proviiions,
to tranfport themfelves whether
ihey thoug':t fit
to go for their own Safety
^
oftering to leave the
Ship and Cargo to
Mr.
Fea , and threatning, that if
the
Men of War arriv d, (for Mr=
Fea had given
him Notice that he expeded two Men of War) be-
fore he was thus aiiifted, they
would fet Fire
to
the
Ship,
and blow themf Ives up
: io that as
they
had
liv'a, they would all eye together.
THE Letter to Mrs. Fea, was to deiire her to
Interceed with her Husband
j
and
Pleading that
he was their Countryman, and
had been her Hus-
bands School-fellow, &c. but no Anfwer was re-
turned to either of thefe Letters,
O N the 17th, in the Morning, contrary
to Ex-
pectation, Gotp hinifeif came on Shore, upon the
Calf-ljlaud, unarm'd, except his Sv/ord, and
alone,
except one Man at a diftance, carrying a
white
Flag, making Signals for a Parlee.
Mr. Fea
who by this time had gotten more Peo-
ple
about him, immediately fent
one Mr.
Fea of
Jf^hhehall,
to a
Gentleman of his own Family,
with
five other Perfoiis, well Armed,
over to thQ liland,
with
Orders to fecure Gow, if it was
poillbie, by any
means, either Dead or Alive :
When they came oil
G 2
Shore
Shore, lie propofed that one of
tRem, wliofer
Kanie was ScoUary, a Mafter of a Veflel, fhoald
go
on. Board t e Slip, as Hoftage for this Gore's
Safety
^
i-.ud Scollary confenting, Gob? himfelf con-
ducted him to the Ships lide.
Air. Fea perceiving this from his own Houfe,
immediatelv took another Boat, and went over to
the Ifland himfelf: And while he was expoftula-
ting with his Men, for letting Scollary go for Ho-
ftage, Gorp return'd

and Mr.
Fea made no Heillta-
tion, but told him in ihort he was Im Prijoner
-j^at
which Gow Parting, faid, it ought not to be fo,
iince there was a Hoftage delivered for him. Mr.
Fea faid he gave no Order for it, and it was what
they could .lot
JuftiFy
^
and
Iince Scollary Had ven-
tured wi':hout Orders, he muft take his Fate, he
would
rua the Venture of ir
^
but advis'd Gotp,
as he
expeded good Ufage himf-if, that he would
fend
the Fellow, who carrved
his white Flag, back
to the Ship, with Orders for them to return Scollary
in fit
ety, a.>d to defire Tfinter and Peterfoji to
come
\v\ih
him.
GOJ^ dcclin'd giving any fuch Orders 5
but
the
Fellow faid he ivould readily go and fetch
them,
and did fo, and they came along with him.
Wnen
Gor^ fgw them, he reproached them for be-
ing
fo
evilly impofeu, and
ordered
them to go back
to
the Ship immediately
: But Mr.
Fea^s Men,
who
were
too ftrong f.or them, furrounded them, and
took
them all. When this was done, they de-
manded
Gob? to deliver his Sword, but he faid he
would
rather dye
with it in his Hand,
and beggM
them
iO ftioot him : But that v/as deny'd ,
and
Mr.
Feas Men difarming him of his Sword, carried
him,
with the other two, into their
Boat, and af-
ter
that to the main Ifland where Mr.
Pea liv'd.
HAVING thus fecur'd the Captain, Mr.
Fea
prevailed with him to
go
to the Shore, over-againft
the
C
45 ]

the
Ship, and to call the Gunner and another Man
to
come on Alhore on Calj-IJIayid, which they did
5
but
they was no fooner there, but they alio were
farrounded by fome Men, which Mr. Feahad pla-
ced out of fight UDon the Illand for that Purpofe :
Then they made G^.w to call to the Carpenter to
come on Shore, (till malcing them believe they
jhould have a Boat, and Mr. Fea went over
and
met
him alone-, and talking with him, told him
they could not repair the Boat without Help, and
without Tools, fb perfwaded him to go
back to
the Ship, and bring a Hand or two
with him,
and
fome Tools, fome Ockham, Nails, &, The
Car-
penter, being thus deluded, went back, and
brought
a
Frenchman
2tnd. another with him, with all
Tilings
j)roper for their Work
;
all which, as
fbon
as they
came on Shore, were likewife feiz'd and fecurM
by
Mr. Fea
and his Men.
: .i u .
BUT there
was ftill
a great many Men in tht
Ship, who it was neceffary to bring, if poffibie,
to a quiet Surrender ; So
Mr.
Fea order'd his Men
to make a Feint, as if they would go
to Work up-
on the great Boat which lay on Shore upon the
Ifland, but in light of the Ship , there they ham-
mered,
and
knocked,
and made a Noife,
as if they
were really caulking and repairing her, in order
to her being launch'd oft, and put into their PofTef-
lion. But, towards Night, he
obliged
Gow to write
to the Men,.
That '^lx,Fea would not deliver the
Boat, till he v/as in PofTeffion of the Ship
^
and
therefore he
order'd them all to come on Shore,
without Arms and in a peaceable manner.
THIS occafioned many Debates in the Ship,
but as they Jiad no Officers to guide them,
and
M'ere all in Confulion, they knew not what to do
;
& after f:>ine time bewailing their hard Fate,
and
dividing what Money was left in the Ship
among
them, tnev yielded,
and went on Shore
^
and were
ail
[46]
all made
Pri{bners, to the number of eight
an3
twent
J
, included thofe who were fecnr''d before.
H O
W he brought Gnrp to be fo weak was fome-
thing ftrange
^
Gow being not very fupple, and far
from
being fufficiently humble : But whether it
was that he
hoped to fare the better for it, and to
plead fome Merit
by
obliging his Men to come in
without Blood, and perhaps they might encourage
him infuch Expedtaticns, tho'iiot promife him, for
the laft they could not.
O R whether it was that Gotv, who knew their
Circumftances and Temper
alfo,
wasfatisfyM if he
did not perfwade them to it, they would certainly
do it without any Perfwafion in a Day or two more,
having, indeed, no other Remedy, and fome of
them
being really forced Men, defiring
nothing
more than tofuirender.
AND if it was neither of thefe, perhaps Gnw^
whofe Cafe was now defperate, and who was fully
in the Power of his Enemies, and
in the Hands of
Jnftice
hiinftlf, from whom he had indeed noreafoii
to expedi any Favour, was, perhaps
I fay,
he was
not
over defirous to have the reft: make their Efcape,
and
therefore was ealier to perfwade them to put
themfelves into the fame unhappy Circumftances
with himfelf
^
it being moft Natural to
People in
fuch
Circumftances,
to defire to
have their Com-
rades
ingulpht in the fame Mifery.
B E
it which of thefe it will, Mr.
Fea did cer-
tainly
prevail with
Gojff to be the
Inftrument to
ivrite to them, and to joyn as it
were with Mr.
Feas Stratagem to draw them on Shore, without
which
they had not come, at leaft not at thatTime,
and fo
they faid afterwards, upbraiding
him with
having
betrayM them , and yet it feems plain too,
that when
they went they took it for granted that
%hey ftiould
be made Prifaners^ by their Exclamati-
ons
[47]
bns one
to another, and by their jQiaring
the
'.luiie/
among
them, as is faid above.
I T was
indeed a moft agreeable
Sight,
to fee
inch a Crew
of defperate Fellows fo tamely
fur-
render
to a few almclt nalced Countrymen,
and to
fee t^em fo Circumvented by one Gentleman,
that
they were rendred quite Ufelefs to themfelves,
and
to their own Deliverance
5
the want of
a Boat
was
as
much to them as an adual Imprifonment
5
nay,
they were indeed in Prifon in their Ship, nor
was
they able to flir one way or other. Hand or
Foot
5
it was too Cold to fwim over to the Ifland and
feize
the Boat, and if they had, unlefs they had done
it
immediately at firft, the Peoj^le on
Shore
would
have beeii'too ftrong for them
;
fo that they
were
as fecure on board the Ship, as to any
Efcape
they
could have made, as they were afterwards in the
Condemn'd Hold in Newgate,
AGAIN, never were People more
fooliihly
Circumvented when they had a Boat and
Conve-
niences, for had they gone on Shore
then,
while
they had a Boat, tho' it was but their
fmall
Boat,
yet going at twice, twenty, or five and
twenty
Men
of them, they might have repairM and
launch'd
Mr.
Feas great Boat, in fpite of all he could
have
done to hinder it, and then, if they could
not
have
got their Shipoft^ they might have come
away,
as
the Fellows did, with their own Boat,
and
might
foon have found Means to get a bigger
Boatjbn
the
Coaft, either of Scotland or England,
and
getting
on Shore in the Night in any
convenient
Part of
England, might have difpers'd,and mixt
themfelves
among the People, and made
an cfFedual
Efcape.
But their End was apparently at hand
^
Juftice
was ready for them, their
Crimes had
ripen'd
them
for the Gallows, and the Gallows claira'd
them
;
their Time was come, and it was not
in their
Power to avoid it.
I
aia
[48]
'
I
am
tfie longer upon this particular Part
becaufe
it
is
fo very remarkable, and
the
Circumjftances of
it
are
fo
unaccoimtable : That the Boatfwain
fhould
come
on
Shore with his Boat, and no more but four
Men,
thinkii;g
to fire and plunder Mr. Fea^s
Houfe
with
that little Crew , as if he could imagine Mr.
Fea^
who they knew was alarm'd and had been
acquainted
with what they were, fhould have no
Body at
all with him, or that he could ftorm his
Hnufe
with
that little Force.
THEN
that he fhould be wheedled into an Ale
Houfe
by a
fingle Gentleman
5
as if he would have
ven ur'd
hinifelf into an Ale Houfe with them if
he had not
had help at Hand to refcae him if any
thing
had
been offered to him.
/
THEN,
which was ftill worfe, that they fhould
i
be
taken
with the old Bite of having the Gentlemari
\ caird
out of the Room, when they were together,
as if
he could have any Bulinefs to talk of there
but
to lay a
Trap for them, and which, if they had
their
Eyes about them, or, as we might fay,
any
Eres in
their Heads, they might have feen into
eaiily
enough.
AND
to conclude this fcene of Madnefs and
Ffdly together, they came
all away and left their
Boat,
with no Body either in her to keep her
a
float, or near her to guard and defend her : No-
thing
but Men infatuated to their own Deftrudion,
and
condemned
by the vilible Hand of Heaven to
an
immediate Surprize, could have been fo ftupid
5
they
might have been fare, if there were any Peo-
plv'in the Ifland, they would if pojiible fecure
tlieir Boat
^
and they ought at leaft to have conli"
dered the forlorn Condition of the reft of their
Ccmpaiiy in the Snip, without a Boat to help
themfclvcs: But
blinded by their inevitable Fate,
l
in 4
V.'ord, they run into the Snare with their Eyes
open
V
[ 49 ]
fcpen ,
they f^ood as
\t were loolcirg
on,
and
law
themfelves
taken before it was done.
NAY,
foine of the Men were
heard to fay,
that
if their
Captain,
Gow himfeif,
had
but faid
the
VVord,the7
were able to have built
a Boat on
Board,
with fuch ftufF as they could have
pulTd
from
the
Sides and
Ceilings of the Ship,
at leaft big
enough
to have gone -out to Sea, and failing
along
the
Coall,
have either found a better, or leiz'd
upon
fome
other Veflel in the Night, fo to
have
made
their
Efcape.
BUT never Creatures
were taken fo tamely,
trick'd fo eafily, and fo entirely difabled from
the
leaft Defence, or the leaft Contrivance
for
their
Efcape
.
even Gow himfeif, who, as I faid
before,
never v/anted a refblute Courage or
Prefence
of
Mind before, and was never daunted by an}'-
Diffi^
culties,
yet was now fnapp'd under a pretence
of
a
Hoftage, delivered, and
being himfeif
taken
and
difarm'd, yields himfeif to be made a Tool of,
to
bring all the reft to yield
at Difcretion.
I
N a Word, they were
as void of Counfel
as of
Courage
^
they v/ere outwitted on every
Occajion
;
they
could not fte in the open Day v/hat any
one
elfe would have felt in the
Dark , but they
dro2:)p'd
infenfibly into Mr.
Feas
Hand, by one,"
and two,
and three at
a
time, as if they had told
Iiim
before
hand,
that if he went on with his
Stratagem,
he
fliould
befure to have them all in his Cuftody
\^ery
quickly ;
And tho' every one,
as faft as they
went,
on Shore, were
made Prifjuers, and fecur
d,
ye.t.
the other v/cre
made believe
they were at
Liberty,
and were limple
enougii to come on Shore to
them.
EVERY
thing. we can fay of the
blindnefs
and
foil}?- of thefe People, who Heaven having
de- /
termin'd to
Puniiliment, demented and
blinded
to,
I
prepare them for their beiug brought to it *, I iay^j
sv^ry thing that can be faid to ezpofe
their
Stupi-."
H
diiy
tiity and blindnefs, is
a
juft Panegyrick
upon the
Conduct of that Gentleman, by whofe happy
Con-
dud:, and the dextrous Turn he gave to every
Inci-
dent which
happened
in the whole
Affair,
was,
indeed, the principal Means of tlieir being all
ap-
prehended.
HAD this Gentleman, Icnowing their' Strengtfi
and Number was fo great, being four times as many
Men as he had about him, and better provided for
Mifchief, than he was for Defence , had he,
as it
feems others did, fled with his Family, over the
Firth, or Arm of the Sea which parted his Ifland
from the reftjby which they had fecur'd themfelves
from Danger
5
cr had he, with the few Men and
Fire Arms which he had about him, fortified and
defended themfelves in his Houfe, and refolv'd to
defend themfelves there, the Pirates had in all
probability gone off again, left him, and made
their Efcape : Nay, if they had run their Ship
a-ground, as they afterwards did, and tho' they
had been oblig'd to lay her Bones there, they
would however have got away fome Boat off the
Shore, to have made a Long-boat of, and have
made their Efcape along the Coafl:, till they came
to Newcaftle
vpon Tyne^ and there nothing had been
more eafy than to have feparated and gone to
London^ fome in one Ship, fome in another
;
(jr, as
one of them propos'd, the}?- Ihould have found fome
Coafting
Bark or other riding near the Shore, which
they
might have boarded,
and
fo gone off' to Sea
which
way
they i:)ieas'd,
BXIT
they were come a great Way to bring
themfelves to Jaftice, and here they met with it in
the moft
remarkable Manner, and with fuch Cir-
cumftaiices as I
believe are not to be imitated in
the
World.
WHEN
they were all on Shore, and were told
that
they
were Priibners, they began to re affiinie
a
t5i]
ti
kind of Courage, and to loolc upon one anotHer,
as if to
lay hold on fome Weapons to relifl
j
and
'tis nor doubted but if they had had Arms then in
their Hands, they would have made a defperate
Defence : But it was too late,
the thing wss all
over, they faw their
Captain and all their Officers
in the fame Condition, and there was no room for
Refiftance then
^
all they could have done had
been only to caufe them to be the more effedually
fecur'd, and perhaps to have had fome or other of
them
knocked
on the Head for Example
^
fo feeing
there was no Remedy they all fjbmitted quietly,
and were foon difpers'd one from another,tiH more
Strength came to carry them oft, which was not
long.
THUS ended their defperate Undertaking,
Heaven having by a vifible Infatuation upon them-
felves, and
a
Concurrence of other Circumftances,
brought them all into the Hands of Juftice, and
that by the perticular Bravery and Conduct of one
lingle Gentleman, I mean Mr. Fea, who fj well
manag'd them, that, as above, having .at firft but
five or fix Men with him, he brought the whole
Company partly by Force, and partly by Strata-
gem, to fubmit, and that without any lofs of
Blood on one fide or other.
A MO N G the reft of the Papers found on board
the Ship, was the following Copy of a Draft, or
Agreement of Articles, or Orders, or what you
|
pleafeto call them,which were to have bcenSignM,
and were for the Diredion of the Men, whether
on Shore
or on Board, when they firft came to an
Anchor in the
Orhteys,
THEY would, I fuppofe, have been put up
upon the Mainmaft if they had had longer Time.
but they foon found Articles v/ere of no Value
with fuch
Fellows
^
for the going aw.iy with the
Long-B^at,
and ten Men
in her, confounded all
H 2 their
[52
:i
tTicir Meafures, made them jealous and afraid
of
one anotFier, and made them act afterwards
as
if
they were under a General Infatuation or
Pofleffion,
ailways
Irrefolute and Unfettled, void of
any
Forecafl
or reafona'ole Actings ; but having
the
Plunder
of Mr. Feas Houfe in their View,
when
they Ihould have chiefly regarded their ownSafety,
and making
their Efcape , they pufh'd at the
leaft
Significant,
tho' moft difficult Part, and which
was
their Ruin
in the Undertaking, when they fhould
St firfl;
have fecured their Lives, which, at leaft to
them,
was
the Thing of the moft Value, tho'
the
ealieft
at
that Time to have fecur'd.
BY
this
prepofterous Way of Proceeding they
drew
themfelves into the Labyrinth and werede-
ftro3r'd,
without any poffibility of Recovery
^
na}'',
they muft
have perilh'd by Hunger and Diftrefs, if
there
had
been
no Body to"
have taken them Pri-
foners -, for having no Boat to fupply them with
[Neceilaries,
their Ship faft a-ground upon a barren
and
uninhabited
Idand, and noway to be fupply'd,
they
were
themfelves in the utmoft Defpair, and I
think it was
one of the kindcft Things that could
be
done for them, to bring them off, and hang
ihem
out of
the way.
Their foolifh Articles were as follows, (vh.)
I.
THAT
every Man fhall obey his Commander
in all
Refpcds, as if the Ship was his own, and
we
under
Monthly Pay,
II. THAT no Man fhall give or difpofe of the
Ship's
ProvifionSj whereby may be given
Reafon
of Sufpicion that every one hath not
an
equalShare.
III.
THx\T no Man ftiall open or declare to
any
Peifon or Perfons v/hat we are,
or
what
Deiign
"we
[53 3
we are upon
5
the Offender fliall be puniili'd witH
Peath
upon the fiiot.
IV.
THAT no Man Ihall go on Shore till the
Ship is off
the Ground, and in readinefs to put to
Sea.
V. THAT
every Man fliall keep his Watc&
Night and Day,
and precifely at the Hour
of
Eight leave of Gaming and Drinlcing, and every
one repair to their refped:ive Stations.
VI.
WHOEVER Offends fliall he
punifird
with Death, or otherwife, as we ihall find proper
for our Intereft.
iV.
B. This Draft
of Articles
feems to be
im
perfect, and as it were only begun to be made, for
that there were feveral others intended
to be added,
but it was ruppos''d that their Affairs growing def-
perate, their Long-Boat gone,
and the Boaifwaia
and Boat's Crew, in the Pinnace or fmaller Boat
gone alfc), and made Prifoners, there was no more
need of Articles, nor would any Body be bound
by
them if they were made -, fo the farther making of
Orders and Articles were let alone.
THESE that were made were written with
Goiv's own Hand, and 'tis luppos'd that the reft
tvould have been done fo too,
and then he would
have taken care to have them executed;
but he
fooo found there was no Occaiion
of them, and I
make no Queftion but all their other
Papers and
Articles of any kind were deftroy'd.
BEING now all fecnr'd and in Cu{i:ody in the
moft proper Places in the Ifland, Mr. Fea
took care
to give Notice to the proper Oflicers in the Country,
and by tliem to tiie
Government at Edeitburgh^
in
Older to get help for the carrying them to
Ev^land,
'
The
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The Dlftance teing fo great, this took
np fome
Time, for the Government at Edenhirgh
being
not immediately
concerned
in
it, but rather thQ
Court of Admiralty of
Great Britaht,
Expreffes
were difpatchM from thence to London,
that his
Majefty's Pleafure might be known
5
in return to
which, Orders were difpatch'd into Scotland
to
have them immediately fent up to England^
with
as much Expedition as the Cafe would admit ; and
accordingly they were brought up by Land to
Bdenbiirgh firft, and from thence being put on
Board the Greyhound Frigate, they were brought
hj
Sea to England.
THIS neceflarily took up a great deal of Time,
fo that had they been wife enough to improve the
Hours that were left,
they had almoft half a years
time to prepare themfelves for Death-, t ho' they
cruelly deny'd the poor Mate a few Moments to
commend his Soul to^ God's Mercy, even after he
was half Murther'd before : I fay,
they had almoft
half a year, for they were moft of them in Cufto-
dy the latter end of January^ and they were not
Executed
till the
i
rth of
June,
THE
Greyhound arriv'd in
the River the 26 th,
of March^ and
the next day came to an Anchor
at
JFoolwichj and
the Pyrates being put into Boats ap-
pointed to
receive them, with a ftrong Guard to at-
tend them, were
brought on fhore the 30th, and
convey'd to
the MarJ/jalfea Prifon in Soiithwark,
where
they were
delivered
to the Keeper of the
laid
Prifon, and
were laid in Irons,
and there they
had the
Mortification to meet their Lieutenant
Wil'
Imns^ who was
brought home by
the Argyle Man
of
War from
Lisbon, and had been committed to
the fame Prifon but a very few days.
INDEED
as it was a Mortification to them,
fo it was more to
him, for tho' he might be fecret-
ly
pleased,
that
thole v/ho had fo Cruelly,
^s he
C
55]
calVd
zf, put him
into the Hands of Juftice, lyy
the fending
him to
Lisbon, were brought into the
fame
Cirruinftanccs
with himfelf
-,
yet on the o-
ther hand, it cculd not but be a terrible Mortifica-
tion to him, that
here now were fufficient Wit-
nelTes found to prove his Crimes
upon him,
which
v/ere not fo cafie to be had before.
BEING thus laid
faft,
it remain'd to pro-
ceed againil them in due form,,
and this took up
fome longer time ftill.
O N
Friday
the 2d of ,'4pril, they were all car-
ry'd to DoBors-'Co7nmons, where the proper Judges
being prefent they
were Examin'd, by
which Ex-
amination due Meafures were taken for the farther
Proceedings
;
for as they were not equally Guilty,
fo it was needful to determine who it was proper
to
bring to an immediate Tryal, and who being lefs
Guilty, were more proper Objeds of the Govern-
ments Clemency,
as being under force and fear,
and confequently
necelTitated to A6t as they did
^
and alfo wiio it might be proper to lingle out
as
Evidence againflthe reft
5
after being thus
Exa-
mined,
they were remanded to the
Marpalfea.
O N
Saturday
the 8th, of May, the five who
were appointed for Evidence againft the reft, ajid
whofe Karnes are particularly let down in its Place,
were fent from the Marjhalfea Prifon to Newgate^
in order to give their Informations.
BEING
thus brought up to London,
and c6m-
niitted to
the
Marjhalfea Prifon,
and the Govern-
ment being fully informed
what black uncom-
jnon Offenders they were, it
was thought proper to
bring them to fpeedy
Juftice.
IN
order to this, fome of
them, as is faid, who
were lefs Criminal than the reft, and who apparent-
ly had been forc'd into their Service, were formed
our, and being examin'd, and giving firft an Account
of themfclves, and then
of the whole Fraternity,.
it
[56]
it v/as thought fit to make ufe of their Evidence^'
for the more clear detedling and convincing
of
the reft. Thefe were George Dobfojt, John i'hhtnes,
Timothy Mn/phyj William Booth.
-THESE were the principal Evidence,
and
were indeed more thon fiifficient ; for they fo
ex-
aftlv agreed in their Evidence, and the Prifoners
CPirates) faid fo
little in their Defence, that there
was no room for the
Jury
to queftion their Guilty
or to doubt the Truth of any part of the Account
given in.
ROBERT READ
was a young Man (menti*
cned above)
who efcap'd from the Boat iii the
0;-/:-
jif'jij, and getting a Horfe
at a
Farmer's Houfe,
was
conveyed
to Kirkwall^ the chief Town of the
faid
Ofhii^ys,
where he furrendered
himfelf : Ne-
ver thelcfs he was brought up with the refi: as a Pxi-
foner,
Uf
r was he made ufe of as an Evidence,
but was try'd upon moft, if not all the Indict-
ments, with the reft. But Dohfov^
one of the
Witnefle?, did him the Juftice to teftifie, that
he was forced into their Service, as others were,
for fear of hai'ing their Throats cut, as others
had been fery'd before their Faces
5
and that,
in
particular, he was not prefent at, or con-
cerned
in any of the Murthers for which the
reft
were Indided
5
upon which Evidence, he
was
Acquitted
by the
Jury.
ALSO
he 1 Tought one Archibald Sntor,
the
Man
of the Houfe,
faid
above to be a
Farm-
Koufe,
whether the faid
Read made his Efcape
in the
Orkneys^
who teltiiied that he did fo Efcape
to him, and that he
begg'd him to procure him
^ Horfe to ride oft
to
KirkwaR, which he did,
and that there he farri^ider'd himfelf: Alfo he
teftifisd thit
Read
gave him (Siitor) a full Ac-
count of the Ship, and of the Pirates
that
were in her, and what they were
>
and he
(Siitor)
C 57 3
(Siitor) difcover'd it all to
the Colleaor
of the
Cuftoms , by which means
the Country
was a
larm'd : And he added, that it was by
this
Man's
means that all the Prifbners
were
apprehended

(tho^ that was a little too much
too) for
tis plain,
it was by the Vigilance
and Courage of
Mr.
Fea chiefly : They were reduc'd to fuch
Difi:reC
fes, as
oblig'd them to furrender.
H O
W
E V E R it was true
that
Rear%
Efcape
did allarm the Country,
and that he
merited
very well of the Publick> for the timely
Dif-
covery he made : So he came
ofF clear, as indeed
it was but
Jufl: , for he was
not only
forc'd
to
lerve them, (as above) but
as Dobfon tcftiiied
for him, he Jiad' often exprefs'd his Unealinels,
as
being oblig'd to
aft with them, and that
he
wifh'd he cou'd get
away
\
and that he
was Sin
cere in thofe Wifhes^ as appear'd in that
he
took the firffc Opportunity he could get to
put
it
in Practice.
JV. jS. This
Dohfon was one of the ten
Men
who ran away with the Pirates Long-Boat from
the Orhteys^ and who
were afterwards
made
Prifoners in the Firth of Leigh,
and carryed
up to Edinburgh.
G
OW
was now
a Prifoner among the reft
in
the MarJJjalfea
j
his Behaviour there was
SuUea
and Referv'd, rather than Penitent : It had
been hinted to him by Mr. Fea, as others,
that
he fhould endeavour, by his Behaviour, to
make,
himfelf an Evidence againll others, and to
me-
rit his Life by a readjr Submiilion,
and obli-
ging others to do the like. But
Gov^
was no
Fool
^
and he eafilv faw there were too
many-
gone before who had provided for their
own
Safety at his Expence : And befides
that, he
knew himfelf too deeply guilty
of
Cruelty
and*
I Murthejg
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MurtBier,
td be
excepted hy the puLlick
Juftice
as
an
Evidence,
efpecially were fo
many
other
lefs
Criminals were to be had. This, I fay,
made
him,
and with
good Reaitm too, give over
any
Thoughts
of Efcaping by fuch means as
that
:
And
perhaps feeing fo plainly that there
was
no
Room
for it, might be the Reafbn why
he
feem'd
to rcjed the Offer : otherwife he
was
not a
Perfon, of fuch nice Honour, as that
we
fliould
fuppofe he would not have fecur'd
his
cwn
Life at the Expence of his Comrades.
BUT,
as I fay, Gotp was no Fool : So he
feem'd to
give over all Thought of Life,
from
the fir ft
time
he came to Evgland
, not that he
ihew'd
any
Tokens of his Repentance, or
any
Sence of
his. Condition, fuitable to
what
was
before him
: But continuing (as above^ Sullen
and
Refer
v'd, even to the very time he
was
brought
to
the Bar : When he came there, he
could
not be try'd with the reft , for the Arraign-
ment
being
made in the ufual Form, he refufed
to Plead
: The
Court ufed all the
Arguments,
which
Humanity
Didates in fuch Cafes, to pre-
vail on
him to come into the ordinary Courfe
of other
People in like Government
5
laying be-
fore
him
the Sentence of the
Law in fuch
Ca-
fes
^
namely,
that he muft be prefs'd to Death,
the
only
torturing Execution which remains in
our Law
-, which however they were oblig'd to
Jnfiia.
B
U T
he continued Inflexible, and carryed
on
his
Obftinacy to fuch a height, as to receive
the
Sentence in Form, as ufual in fuch Cafes,
the
Execution
being appointed to be done the
next
Morning,
and he
was
carryed back to Neipgati
an
order to it : But whether he was prevailed
fvith hj
Argument, and the Reafons of
thofe
about
t 59 ]
tihont
him
\
or whetlier the
Apparatus for the
Execution,
and the manner
of the Death he
was to dye, terrified him, v/e cannot
fai^
^
but
the next
Morning he yielded,
and petitioned to
be
allowed
to Plead, and be admitted to be
try'd in the ordinaay Way
^
which being
grant-
ed, he was brought to the Bar by himlelf,
and
pleaded , being
arraigned
again upon the
fame Indidment, upon which he had been len^
tenc'd as a
Mute, and was found Guilty.
TFIL LI A MS, the Lieutenant, who, as has
been faid, was put on Board a
Brijid
Ship, with
Orders to deliver him on Board the firft -
glijlj Man of War they Ihould meet with

comes
cf Courle to have the reft of his HiAory made
up in this Place.
T HE Captain of the Brijlol Ship, tho' he re-
ceived
his Orders from the Crew of Pirates and
Rogues, whofe Inftrudlions he was not
obliged
to follow
;
and whofe Accufation of JFilliains^
they were not
obliged
to give Credit tO;
yec
punctually obey'd the Order, and put him on
Board the Argyle, Captain Bowler^ then lying in
the Port of
Lisbon, and bound for Evgland,
who,
as they took him in Irons, kept him fj, and brought
him to England in the fame Condition.
BUT as the Pirates did not fend any of
their Company, nor indeed could they do it^
along with him, to be Evidence againft him
y
and the Men who went out of the Pirate Ship^
on Board a
Brijlol Ship, being till then kept
as Prilbners en Board the Pirate Ship, and per-
haps could not have faid enough, or given
par-
ticular Evidence fufficient to convict him in
a
Court of
Juftice.
Providence fupplyM the Want^
hj brinking
the
whole Ciev/ to the fame Place,
(ror WilUami
was in the MarJIjalfea Prifan before
themj
and by
that meaiis furnilhing fi^fficient
I
3
Evidence
C6o3
Ex'i3ence againil Williams alfo,
fo
that they were
all try'd together.
1 N
Williams Cafe the Evidence was as par-
ticular as
in
Gows

and Dobfon and the other fwore
politively, that
Williams boafted, that after Macr
cauly had cut the Super Cargo's Throat imperfedly,
he
(Williams) did his Buflnefs, that is to fay mur--
ther'd him -, and added, that he would not give him
Time to fay his Prayers, but fhot him thro' the
Head : Fhimies and Timothy Mvrphey teftifying
the
fame. And to ihew the bloody Difpofition of
this Wretch, William Booth teftifyed that Williams
proposed
afterwards to the Company, that if they
took any more Ships, they fhould not incumber
themfelves with the Men, having already fo ma-
ny Prifoners, that in Cafe of a Fight they Ihould
not be fafe with them -, but that they lliould take
them and tye them Back to Back, and throw them
ail over board into the Sea.
I T ihould not be emitted
here alfo in the Cafe
rf Gow himfelf, that as I
have obferv'd in the
Introduction, that Gow had
long meditated the
kind of Villainy which he now put in Practice,
^nd that it was his Refolution to turn Pyrate the
firft
Opportunity he (hould
get, whatever Voy-
age he undertook, and that I
obferv'd he had in
tended it on Board a Ship in w^hich he came home
from
Lisbon,
but faii'd only
for want of making
^
fufficient Party , fo this Refolution of his, is
Confirm'd by the Teftimony and
Confeffion of
James
Belvin^ on.e
of his fellow
Criminals,
who
upon the Tryai declared, that he knew that Gow
(and he added thQ Crew of the
George Galley)
liad a
Delign to turn Pyrates from
the beginning,
^nd
added, that he difcover'd to
George Dobfon hi
^ivtiliei-davi^ before the Ship went out to Sea;
ibr
the Confirmation of this, Dobfon wascall'd
up
agaiu
again,
after he Bad given his Evidence upon the
Irysiis, and being
confronted
with Belvht, he
did acknowledge that
Belvin
had faid fb, and
that
ill particular he had faid, the Boatfwaiii
and feveral Others had fudi a Deiigo, and in es-
pecial Manner, that the faid Boatfwaiii had 2
Delign to Murther the Mafter, and fbme
O-
thers, and run away with the Ship
5
and being
ask'd what was the Reafon why he did not im-
mediately Difrover it to the
Mafter Captain
Ferneau
5
he anlwer'd, that he heard him Belvin
tell the Mate of it, and that the Mate told the
Captain of it
j
but that the Captain made light
of it
;
and that the' he was perfuaded not to
let the Boatfwain go along with them, yet the
Captain faid, he fear'd them not, and would
ftill take him
5
but that the
Boatfwain finding
himfelf Di(':over'd refus'd to go
5
upon which
Gow was nam'd for Boatfv/ain, but was made
fecond Mate, and then Belvin
was made Boat-
fwain, and had he been as Hoiieft afterward, as
before, whereas on the contrary, he was as forr
ward and aftive as any of them, except
that
he was not in the firft Secret, nor in the
Mur-
thers, he might have efcap'd what
afterwards
becan-ie fo juftly his Due : But as they
.^Adted
together, Juftice
required
they lliould Suffer,
and accordingly Gow and Williams^ Belvin,
Mel-
virtj Wiyitsr, Peterfon^ Rollfoyi, Mackawley^
re-
ceiv'd the Reward of tlicir Cruelty and Blood
at
the Gallows, being all Executed
together
the
jith, of jfmie.
N, B. GO jy as if Providence had
direfled
that he iliould
be
twice Hang'd, his
Crimes be-
ing of a Tv/o-Fold
Nature,
and both
Capital
.
foon after he was
turn'd
oif, fell down
from
the
t
62
1
ITie Gibbef, ihe Rope breaking by the "WeigTit
of
fome that puU'd his Legs to put him out of Pain
;
he was
ftill alive and fenfible, tho' he had Hung
four Minutes, and able to go up the Ladder the
fecond Time, which he did with very little Con-
cern'd, and was Hang'd again
^
and lince that
a
third Time (viz.) in Chains over-againft Green*
wkh, as ^in/d(W5 is
over-againft BlackwalL
FINIS.