ſaying, Captain, what ſignifies this Trouble of Yo Hope and ſtraining in hot Weather; there are more Anchors at London, and beſides, your Ship is to be burnt.
William Smith, (a Priſoner acquitted,) ſays Walden was known among the Pyrates moſtly, by the Nick-Name of Miſs Nanney (ironically its preſumed from the Hardneſs of his Temper) that he was one of the twenty who voluntarily came on Board the Ranger, in the Chace ſhe made out after the Swallow, and by a Shot from that Ship, loſt his Leg; his Behaviour in the Fight, till then, being bold and daring.
The Preſident, called for Harry Glaſby, and bid him relate a Character of the Priſoner, and what Cuſtom was among them, in Relation to theſe voluntary Expeditions, out of their proper Ship; and this of going on Board the Ranger, in particular.
And he gave in for Evidence, that the Priſoner was looked on as a brisk Hand, (i. e. as he farther explained it, a ſtanch Pyrate, a great Rogue) that when the Swallow firſt appeared in Sight, every one was willing to believe her a Portugueſe, becauſe Sugar was very much in Demand, and had made ſome Jarring and Diſſention between the two Companies, (the Fortune’s People drinking Punch, when the Ranger’s could not) that Roberts, on Sight of the Swallow, hailed the new Ranger, and bid them right Ship, and get under Sail; there is, ſays he, Sugar in the Offing, bring it in, that we may have no more Mumbling; ordering at the ſame Time the Word to be paſs’d among the Crew, who would go to their Aſſiſtance, and immediately the Boat was full of Men, to tranſport themſelves.
Preſident. Then every one that goes on Board of any Prize, does it voluntarily? Or were there here any other Reaſons for it?
H.
