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the uninhabited Bahama’s, and loſt their Sloop; the Men got all aſhore, and lived up and down in the Wood, for a little Time, till Governor Rogers happening to hear of their Expedition, and where they had got to, ſent out an armed Sloop to the aforeſaid Iſland; the Maſter of which, with good Words and fair Promiſes, got them on Board, and brought them all to Providence, being a eleven Perſons, ten of which were try’d at a Court of Admiralty, convicted, and hanged by the other’s Evidence, in the Sight of all their former Companions and fellow Thieves. The Criminals would fain have ſpirited up the pardoned Pyrates, to reſcue them out of the Hands of the Officers of Juſtice, telling them from the Gallows, that, They never thought to have ſeen the Time, when ten ſuch Men as they ſhould be ty’d up and hanged like Dogs, and four hundered of their ſworn Friends and Companions quietly ſtanding by to behold the Spectacle. One Hamphrey Morrice urged the Matter further than the reſt, taxing them with Puſilanimity and Cowardice, as if it were a Breach of Honour in them not to riſe and ſave them from the ignominious Death they were going to ſuffer. But ’twas all in vain, they were now told, it was their Buſineſs to turn their Minds to another World, and ſincerely to repent of what Wickedneſs they had done in this. Yes, anſwered one of them, I do heartily repent; I repent I had not done more Miſchief, and that we did not cut the Throats of them that took us, and I am extremely ſorry that you an’t all hang’d as well as we. So do I, ſays another: And I, ſays a third; and then they were all turned off, without making any other dying Speeches, except one Dennis Macarty, who told the People, That ſome Friends of his had often ſaid he ſhould die in his Shoes, but that he would make them Lyars, and ſo kicked them off. And thus ended the Lives, with their Adventures, of thoſe miſerable Wretches,