notorious Villains to be equipp’d and fitted out from your Port: otherwiſe you may depend upon it, thoſe that I can meet with, ſhall be eſteemed Pyrates, and treated as ſuch; of which I thought proper to give you Notice, and am, &c.
A Letter from Mr. Joſeph Laws, Lieutenant of his Majeſty’s Ship, Happy Snow, to the Alcaldes of Trinidado.
Genlemen,
‘I Am ſent by Commadore Vernon, Commander in Chief of all his Majeſty’s Ships in the Weſt-Indies to demand in the King our Maſter’s Name, all the Veſſels, with theirs Effects, &c. and alſo the Negroes taken from Jamaica ſince the Ceſſation of Arms; likewiſe all Engliſhmen now detained, or otherwiſe remaining in your Port of Trinidado, particularly Nicholas Brown and Chriſtopher Winter, both of them being Traytors, Pyrates and common Enemies to all Nations: And the ſaid Commadore hath ordered me to acquaint you, that he is ſurprized that the Subjects of a Prince in Amity and Friendſhip with another, ſhould give Countenance to ſuch notorious Villains. In Expectation of your immediate Compliance, I am, Gentlemen,
Off the River Trinidado,
Feb. 8. 1720.Your humble Servant,
Joſeph Laws.
The Anſwer of the Alcaldes of Trinidado, to Mr. Laws’s Letter.
Capt. Laws,
‘In Anſwer to yours, this ſerves to acquaint you, that neither in this City, nor Port, are there any Negroes or Veſſels which have been ta-ken
