Office impoſed. If after this he was elected chief Surgeon himſelf, both Comry and Wilſon were ſet up alſo, and it might have been their Chance to have carried it, and as much out of their Power to have refuſed.
As to the Attempt of riſing and running away with the Prize, he denies it altogether as untrue; a few fooliſh Words, but only by Way of Suppoſition, that if the Negroes ſhould take it in their Heads (conſidering the Weakneſs, and ill look-out that was kept;) it would have been an eaſy Matter, in his Opinion for them to have done it; but that he encouraged ſuch a Thing, was falſe, his talking to them in the Angolan Language, was only a Way of ſpending his Time, and trying his Skill to tell twenty, he being incapable of further Talk. As to his underſtanding Navigation, he had frequently acknowledg’d it to the Deponent Child, and wonders he ſhould now ſo circumſtantiate this Skill againſt him. Guilty.
Robert Johnſon
It appeared to the Court, that the Priſoner was one of the twenty Men, in that Boat of the Pyrates, which afterwards robb’d the King Solomon, at an Anchor near Cape Appollonia: That all Pyrates on this, and the like Service, were Voluntiers, and he, in particular, had conteſted his going on Board a ſecond Time, tho’ out of his Turn.
The Priſoner in his Defence, called for Harry Glaſby, who witneſſed to his being ſo very drunk, when he firſt came among their Crew, that they were forced to hoiſt him out of one Ship into the other, with a Tackle, and therefore without his Conſent; but had ſince been a truſty Man, and was placed to the Helm, in that running Battle they made with the Swallow.
