CHAP. VI.
of
Captain Charles Vane,
And his Crew.
Charles Vane was one of thoſe who ſtole away the Silver which the Spaniards had fiſhed up from the Wrecks of the Galleons, in the Gulph of Florida, and was at Providence (as has been before hinted) when Governor Rogers arrived there with two Men of War.
All the Pyrates who were found at this Colony of Rogues, ſubmitted, and received Certificates of their Pardon, except Captain Vane and his Crew; who, as ſoon as they ſaw the Men of War enter, ſlipp’d their Cable, ſet Fire to a Prize they had in the Harbour, and ſailed out with their pyratical Colours flying, firing at one of the Men of War as they went off.
Two Days after they went out, they met with a Sloop belonging to Barbadoes, which they made Prize of, and kept the Veſſel for their own Uſe, putting aboard five and twenty Hands, with one Yeats to command them. A Day or two afterwards they fell in with a ſmall interloping Trader, with a Quantity of Spaniſh Pieces of Eight aboard, bound into Providence, called the John and Elizabeth,
