Harry Glaſby, Maſter.
There appearing ſeveral Perſons in Court, who had been taken by Roberts’s Ship, whereof the Priſoner was Maſter, their Evidence was accepted as follows.
Jo. Trahern, Commander of the King Solomon, depoſed, the Priſoner, indeed, to act as Maſter of the Pyrate Ship (while he was under Reſtraint there) but was obſerved like no Maſter, every one obeying at Diſcretion, of which he had taken Notice, and complained to him, how hard a Condition it was, to be a Chief among Brutes; and that he was weary of his Life, and ſuch other Expreſſions, (now out of his Memory,) as ſhew’d in him a great Diſinclination to that Courſe of Living.
Jo. Wingfield, a Priſoner with them at Calabar, ſays the ſame, as to the Quality he acted in, but that he was Civil beyond any of them, and verily believes, that when the Brigantine he ſerved on Board of, as a Factor for the Aſrican Company, was voted to be burnt, this Man was the Inſtrument of preventing it, expreſſing himſelf with a great deal of Sorrow, for this and the like malicious Rogueries of the Company he was in; that to him ſhewed, he had acted with Reluctancy, as one who could not avoid what he did. He adds further, that when one Hamilton, a Surgeon, was taken by them, and the Articles about to be impoſed on him, he oppoſed, and prevented it. And that Hunter, another Surgeon, among them, was cleared at the Priſoner’s Inſtance and Perſwaſion; from which laſt, this Deponent had it aſſured to him, that Glaſby had once been under Sentence of Death, on Board of them, with two more, for endeavouring an Eſcape in the West-Indies, and that the other two were really ſhot for it.
Elizabeth
