his Comrade; upon which he curſed Roberts, and ſaid, he ought to be ſerved ſo himſelf. Roberts hearing Jones’s Invective, ran to him with a Sword, and ran him into the Body; who, notwithſtanding his Wound, ſeized the Captain, threw him over a Gun, and beat him handſomely. This Adventure put the whole Company in an Uproar, and ſome taking Part with the Captain, and others againſt him, there had like to have enſued a general Battle with one another, like my Lord Thomont’s Cocks; however, the Tumult was at length appeas’d by the Mediation of the Quarter-Maſter; and as the Majority of the Company were of Opinion that the Dignity of the Captain, ought to be ſupported on Board; that it was a Poſt of Honour, and therefore the Perſon whom they thought fit to confer it on, ſhould not be violated by any ſingle Member; wherefore they ſentenced Jones to undergo two Laſhes from every one of the Company, for his Miſdemeanour, which was executed upon him as ſoon as he was well of his Wound.
This ſevere Puniſhment did not at all convince Jones that he was in the wrong, but rather animated him to ſome ſort of a Revenge; but not being able to do it upon Roberts’s Perſon, on Board the Ship, he and ſeveral of his Comrades, correſpond with Anſtis, Captain of the Brigantine, and conſpire with him and ſome of the principal Pyrates on Board that Veſſel, to go off from the Company. What made Anſtis a Malecontent, was, the Inferiority he ſtood in, with Reſpect to Roberts, who carried himſelf with a haughty and magiſterial Air, to him and his Crew, he regarding the Brigantine only as a Tender, and, as ſuch, left them no more than the Refuſe of their Plunder. In ſhort, Jones and his Conſort go on Board of Captain Anſtis, on Pretence of a Viſit, and there conſulting
