thought it reaſonable that Glaſby ſhould be acquitted; and ſo they all came over to his Opinion, and allowed it to be Law.
But all the Mitigation that could be obtained for the other Priſoners, was, that they ſhould have the Liberty of chooſing any four of the whole Company to be their Executioners. The poor Wretches were ty’d immediately to the Maſt, and there ſhot dead, purſuant to their villainous Sentence.
When they put to Sea again, the Prizes which had been detained only for fear of ſpreading any Rumour concerning them, which had like to have been ſo fatal at Corvocoo, were thus diſpoſed of: They burnt their own Sloop, and mann’d Norton’s Brigantine, ſending the Maſter away in the Dutch Interloper, not diſſatiſfied.
With the Royal Fortune, and the Brigantine, which they chriſtened the Good Fortune, they puſhed towards the Latitude of Deſeada, to look out for Proviſions, being very ſhort again, and juſt to their Wiſh, Captain Hingſtone’s ill Fortune brought him in their Way, richly laden for Jamaica; him they carried to Berbudas and plundered; and ſtretching back again to the Weſt-Indies, they continually met with ſome Conſignment or other, (chiefly French,) which ſtored them with Plenty of Proviſions, and recruited their ſtarving Condition; ſo that ſtocked with this ſort of Ammunition, they began to think of ſomething worthier their Aim, for theſe Robberies that only ſupplied what was in conſtant Expenditure, by no Means anſwered their Intentions; and accordingly they proceeded again for the Coaſt of Guiney, where they thought to buy Gold-Duſt very cheap. In their Paſſage thither, they took Numbers of Ships of all Nations, ſome of which they
