the Court, had their Sentence changed from Death, to ſeven Years Servitude, conformable to our Sentence of Tranſportation; the Petition is as follows.
To the Honourable the Preſident and Judges of the Court of Admiralty, for trying of Pyrates, ſitting at Cape Corſo-Caſtle. the 20 th Day of April, 1722.
The humble Petition of Thomas How, Samuel Fletcher, &c.
Humbly ſheweth,
That your Petitioners being unhappily, and unwarily drawn into that wretched and deteſtable Crime of Pyracy, for which they now ſtand juſtly condemned, they most humbly pray the Clemency of the Court, in the Mitigation of their Sentence, that they may be permitted to ſerve the Royal African Company of England, in this Country for ſeven Years, in ſuch a Manner as the Court ſhall think proper; that by their just Puniſhment, being made ſenſible of the Error of their former Ways, they will for the future become faithful Subjects, good Servants, and uſeful in their Stations, if it pleaſe the Almighty to prolong their Lives.
And your Petitioners, as in Duty, &c.
The Reſolution of the Court was,
That the Petitioners have Leave by this Court of Admiralty, to interchange Indentures with the Captain General of the Gold Coaſt, for the Royal African Company, for ſeven Years Servitude, at any of the Royal African Company’s Settlements in Africa, in ſuch Manner as he the ſaid Captain General ſhall think proper.
On Thurſday the 26th Day of April, the Indentures being all drawn out, according to the Grant made to the
