Chap. IX. Of Capt. Bar. Roberts, and his Crew

HIS Beginning, . Elected Captain in the Room of Davis, . The Speech of Lord Dennis at the Election, ib. Lord Sympson objects against a Papist, ib. The Death of Davis reveng’d, . Roberts sails Southward, in Quest of Adventures, . The Names of the Prizes taken by them, ib. Brasil describ’d, from to . Roberts falls into a Fleet of Portuguese, . Boards and takes the richest Ship amongst them, . Make the Devil’s Islands, . An unfortunate Adventure of Roberts, . Kennedy’s Treachery, . Irishmen excluded by Roberts and his Crew, . Articles sworn to by them, ib. A Copy of them from, to . Some Account of the Laws and Customs of the Pyrates, , . An Instance of Roberts his Cunning, . He proceeds again upon Business, and takes Prizes, . Narrowly escapes being taken, . Sails for the Island Dominico, ib. Another Escape, . Sails for Newfoundland, ib. Plunders, sinks and burns Sail in the Harbour of Trepassi, ib. Plunders ten Sail of French Men, . The mad Behaviour of the Crew, , . A Correspondence hinted at, . The Pyrates caress’d at the Island of St. Bartholomew, ib. In extream Distress, , . Sail for Martinico, . A Stratagem of Roberts, ib. The insolent Device in his Colours, . And odd Compliment paid to Roberts, ib. Three Men desert the Pyrates, and are taken by them, . Their Tryal, , . Two executed, and one saved, . The Brigantine deserts them, . Great Divisions in the Company, , . A Description of Sierraleone River, . The Names of English settled there, and Way of Life, , , . The Onslow, belonging to the African Company taken, . The Pyrates Contempt of Soldiers, ib. They are for entertaining a Chaplain, ib. Their Skirmish with the Calabar Negroes, . The King Solomon, belonging to the African Company, taken, . The Frolicks of the Pyrates, ib. Take eleven Sail in Whydah Road, . A comical Receipt given by the Pyrates, . A cruel Action of Roberts, . Sails for Anna Bona, . The Progress of the Swallow Man of War, in Pursuit of Roberts, from to . Roberts his Consort taken, . The Bravery of Skyrme, a Welch Pyrate, . The surly Humour of some of the Prisoners, , . The Swallow comes up with Roberts, . Roberts his Dress described, . Is kill’d, . His Character, ib. His Ship taken, . The Behaviour of the Pyrates, when Prisoners, . A Conspiracy of theirs discovered, , . Reflections on the Manner of trying them, , , . The Form of the Commission for trying the Pyrates, . The Oath taken by the Commissioners, . The Names of those arraign’d taken in the Ship Ranger, , , . The Form of the Indictment, , . The Sum of the Evidence against them, , . Their Defence, , . The Names of the Prisoners of the Royal Fortune, , , . Proceedings against them, to . Harry Glasby acquitted, . The particular Tryal of Captain James Skyrme, , . Of John Walden, to . Of Peter Scudamore, to . Of Robert Johnson, , . Of George Wilson, to . Of Benjamin Jeffries, , . Of John Mansfield, , . Of William Davis, to . The Names of those executed at Cape Corso, , . The Petition of some condemn’d, . The Courts Resolution, ibid. The Form of an Indenture of a pardon’d Pyrate, . The Names of those pardon’d upon Indenture to serve seven Years, . The Pyrates how disposed of, . The dying Behaviour of those executed, to .