Chap. III. Of Captain Teach, alias Black-Beard

HIS Beginning, . His Confederacy with Hornygold, ib. The Confederacy broke, . Takes a large Guiney Man, ib. Engages the Scarborough Man of War, ib. His Alliance with Major Stede Bonnet, ib. Deposes his new Ally, ib. His Advice to the Major, ib. His Progress and Success, . Takes Prizes in Sight of Charles-Town, . Sends Ambassadors to the Governor of Carolina, upon an impudent Demand, ib. Runs his Ship aground designedly, . His Cruelty to some of his own Companions. Surrenders to the King’s Proclamation, . The Governor of North-Carolina’s exceeding Generosity to him, ib. He marries, ib. The Number of his Wives then living, ib. His conjugal Virtues, , . Makes a second Excursion in the Way of pyrating, . Some State Legerdemain betwixt him and the Governor, ib. His modest Behaviour in the River, . His Frolicks on Shore, ib. The Merchants apply for a Force against him, and where, . A Proclamation with a Reward for taking or killing of Pyrates, , . Lieutenant Maynard sent in pursuit of him, . Black-beard’s good Intelligence, . The Lieutenant engages Black-beard, ib. A most execrable Health drank by Black-beard . The Fight bloody; the Particulars of it, , , . Black-beard kill’d, . His Sloop taken, ib. The Lieutenant’s Conduct, , . A Reflection on the Humours of Seamen, . Black-beard’s Correspondents discover’d by his Papers, ib. Black-beard’s desperate Resolution before the Fight, ib. The Lieutenant and Governor no very good Friends, . The Prisoners hang’d, ib. Samuel Odel saved, and why, ib. The good Luck of Israel Hands, . Black-beard’s mischievous Frolicks, ib. His Beard described, ib. Several Instances if his Wickedness, , . Some Memorandums taken from his Journal, . The Names of the Pyrates kill’d in the Engagement, . Of those executed, ib. The Value of the Prize, ib.