be in Want of, they took out of her ten or twelve Barrels of Pork, and about 400 Weight of Bread; but becauſe they would not have this ſet down to the Account of Pyracy, they gave them eight or ten Caſks of Rice, and an old Cable, in lieu thereof.
Two Days afterwards they chaſed a Sloop of ſixty Ton, and took her two Leagues off of Cape Henry; they were ſo happy here as to get a Supply of Liquor to their Victuals, for they brought from her two Hogſheads of Rum, and as many of Moloſſes, which, it ſeems, they had need of, tho’ they had not ready Money to purchaſe them: What Security they intended to give, I can’t tell, but Bonnet ſent eight Men to take Care of the Prize Sloop, who, perhaps, not caring to make Uſe of thoſe accuſtom’d Freedoms, took the firſt Opportunity to go off with her, and Bonnet (who was pleaſed to have himſelf called Captain Thomas,) ſaw them no more.
After this, the Major threw off all Reſtraint, and though he had juſt before received his Majeſty’s Mercy, in the Name of Stede Bonnet, he relaps’d in good Earneſt into his old Vocation, by the Name of Captain Thomas, and recommenced a down-right Pyrate, by taking and plundering all the Veſſels he met with: He took off Cape Henry, two Ships from Virginia, bound to Glaſcow, out of which they had very little beſides an hundred Weight of Tobacco. The next Day they took a ſmall Sloop bound from Virginia to Bermudas, which ſupply’d them with twenty Barrels of Pork, ſome Bacon, and they gave her in return, two Barrels of Rice, and a Hogſhead of Moloſſus; out of this Sloop two Men enter’d voluntarily. The next they took was another Virginia Man, bound to Glaſcow, out of which they had nothing of Value, ſave only a few Combs, Pins and Needles, and
