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very obſtinately, Hand to Hand, ſo that in a few Minutes, abundance of Men lay weltering in their Gore; the Pyrates proved as good as their Words, not a Man of them cry’d out for Quarter, nor would accept of ſuch, when offered, but were all killed except the Captain and another Man, and thoſe very much wounded, whom they reſerved for the Gallows. They were brought aſhore in Irons, and the next Day, which was the 17th of February 1718-19, they were both hanged up, for fear they ſhould dye, and evade the Puniſhment as was thought due to their Crimes.

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