Chap. IV. Of Major Stede Bonnet, and his Crew

BRED a Gentleman, . Supposed to be disorder’d in his Senses, ib. His Beginning as a Pyrate, ib. Takes Prizes, . Divisions in his Crew, ib. Meets Black-beard, ib. Is deposed from his Command, . His melancholy Reflections, ib. Surrenders to the King’s Proclamation, ib. His new Project, ib. Saves some Pyrates marroon’d, . Begins the old Trade again, . An Account of Prizes taken by him, , . Colonel Rhet goes in Quest of Pyrates, . Yates the Pyrate surrenders, . An Engagement betwixt Colonel Rhet and Major Bonnet, . An Account of the kill’d and wounded, ib. The Prisoners carried to Charles-Town, ib. The Major and the Master Escape, ib. Taken again by Colonel Rhet, . A Court of Vice-Admiralty held, ib. The Names of those arraign’d, , . The Form of their Indictment, . Their Defence, . The Names of those who received Sentence, . An excellent Speech made by the Lord Chief Justice on pronouncing Sentence on the Major, to .