Warrant for Execution.
Pursuant to the Sentence given on Saturday, by the Court of Admiralty, at Cape-Corſo-Caſtle, againſt Dav. Simpſon, Wm. Magnes, R. Hardy, Tho. Sutton, Chriſtopher Moody, and Valentine Aſhplant.
You are hereby directed to carry the aforeſaid Malefactors to the Place of Execution, without the Gates of this Caſtle, to Morrow Morning at Nine of the Clock, and there within the Flood-Marks, cauſe them to be hanged by the Neck till they are dead, for which, this ſhall be your Warrant. Given under my Hand, this 2d Day of April 1722.
To Joſeph Gordyn,
Provoſt-Marſhal.
The Bodies remove in Chains, to the Gibbets already erected on the adjacent Hillocks.
William Phillips.
It appeared by the Evidence of Captain Jo. Trahern, and George Fenn, Mate of the King Solomon, that this Priſoner was Boatſwain of the ſame Ship, when ſhe was attacked and taken off Cape Appollonia, the 6th of January laſt, by the Pyrate’s Boat.
When the Boat drew nigh, (they ſay,) it was judged from the Number of Men in her, that they were Pyrates, and being hailed, anſwered, Defiance
; at which the Commander ſnatched a Muſquet from one of his Men, and fired, aſking them at the ſame Time, whether they would ſtand by him, to defend the Ship? But the Pyrates returning a Volley, and crying out, they would give no Quarters if any Reſiſtance was made; this Priſoner took upon him to call out for Quarters, without the Maſter’s Conſent, and miſlead the reſt to the laying down their Arms, and giving up the Ship, to half the Number of Men, and in an open Boat. It wasfurther
