Elizabeth Trengrove, who was taken a Paſſenger in the African Company’s Ship Onſlow, ſtrengthen’d the Evidence of the laſt Witneſs; for having heard a good Character of this Glaſby, ſhe enquired of the Quarter-Maſter, who was then on Board a robbing, whether or no ſhe could ſee him? And he told her, No
; they never ventured him from the Ship, for he had once endeavoured his Eſcape, and they had ever ſince continued jealous of him.
Edward Criſp, Captain Trengrove, and Captain Sharp, who had all been taken in their Turns, acknowledge for themſelves and others, who had unluckily fallen into thoſe Pyrates Hands, that the good Uſage they had met with, was chiefly thro’ the Priſoner’s Means, who often interpoſed, for leaving ſufficient Stores and Inſtruments on Board the Ships they had robbed, alledging, they were ſuperfluous and unneceſſary there.
James White, whoſe Buſineſs was Muſick, and was on the Poop of the Pyrate Ship in Time of Action with the Swallow, depoſed, that during the Engagement, and Defence ſhe made, he never ſaw the Priſoner buſied about the Guns, or giving Orders, either to the loading or firing of them; but that he wholly attended to the ſetting, or trimming, of the Sails, as Roberts commanded; and that in the Concluſion, he verily believed him to be the Man who prevented the Ship’s being blown up, by ſetting truſty Centinels below, and oppoſing himſelf againſt ſuch hot-headed Fellows as had procured lighted Matches, and were going down for that Purpoſe.
Iſaac Sun, Lieutenant of the Man of War, depoſed, that when he came to take Poſſeſſion of the Prize, in the King’s Boat, he found the Pyrates in a very diſtracted and divided Condition; ſome being for blowing up, and others (who perhaps ſuppoſed themſelves leaſt culpable) oppoſing it: That inthis
