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their Hands on Board; and alſo might prevail with ſome Ship to ſpare them ſome, on Conſideration of their pretended Diſaſter.
In going to Cales they were in Diſtreſs by the Weather, and being near Liſbon, they made Complaint to a Ship, but obtained no Aſſiſtance. They were then obliged to ſail back for England, and put into the Port of Dartmouth; but then they were in fear leaſt they might be diſcovered, therefore to prevent that, they reſolve to alter the Ship, and getting Workmen, they take down the Mizzen-Maſt, and build a Spar Deck, and made Rails, (on pretence that the Sailors had been waſh’d overboard) to ſecure the Men. Then they took down the Image of St. Peter at the Head of the Ship, and put up a Lion in its Place, and painted over the Stern of the Ship with Red, and new nam’d her the Mary Snow. The Ship being thus alter’d that they thought it could not be known, they fancy’d themſelves pretty ſecure; but wanting Money to defray the Charge of theſe Alterations, Roche, as Maſter of the Veſſel, and Andrew Cullen, as Merchant, apply themſelves to the Officers of the Cuſtoms for Liberty to diſpoſe of ſome of the Cargo, in order to pay the Workmen; which they having obtained, they ſold fifty eight Barrels of Beef, and having hired three more Hands, they ſet Sail for Oſtend, and there having ſold more Barrels of Beef, they ſteer their Courſe to Rotterdam, diſpoſe of the reſt of the Cargo, and took in one Mr. Anneſly, who freighted the Ship for England; but in their Paſſage, in a ſtormy Night, it being very dark, they took up Mr. Anneſly their Paſſenger, and threw him into the Sea, who ſwam about the Ship a pretty while, calling out for Life, and telling them they ſhould have all his Goods, if they would receive him again into the Veſſel: But in vain were his Cries!
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