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The liues, apprehensions, arraignments, and executions, of the 19. late pyrates Namely: Capt. Harris. Iennings. Longcastle. Downes. Haulsey. and their companies. As they were seuerally indited on St. Margrets Hill in Southwarke, on the 22. of December last, and executed the Fryday following.
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Tauerner whether he thought he could out face the cause or y◠he feared death more then the rest for my part I will not iudge but he grewe vehement and called for a booke to sweare in his innocence although I was credibly certified both his Captaine and himselfe did after in the prison with these words confesse that we are hartily sorry we shall be hanged now for a petty action that haue merited talke in matters of worth So hauing their sentence they were conueyed backe to the Marshalsies where I must credibly speake of them they behaued their liues so carefully for the future comfort of their soules as if they had neuer bene the men the whole course of whose actions had bene addicted to such an vngodly purposes making their way to the gate of saluation by confessing their sinnes and knocking thereat for entrance with sorrowfull sighes and repenting hearts which no doubt flewe open vnto them they were three men who were neuer seene to laugh from the sentence of death to the power of execution thereof they desired not the company of their friends but made prayers their acquaintance they lamented now that in hope to gaine a little breath which they must be sure to loose they had slandered and belyed their consciences in denying their crimes they freely cōmended their transgressions to the lawe that was ordaind to punish them they willingly resignd their bodies to the earth the mother of mankind and made for their graue and most religiously gaue vp their soules vnto Heauen from whence it was giuen them and so from creatures of wickednesse hauing created themselues Angels of goodnesse from practisers of folly proued counsellers to faith and so from the sea of mischiefe through which their whol◅ pilgrimage had trauailed making their bodies the fit sepulchre of repentance from the Marshalseys as the rest they were conueid in a barge to Wapping the siluer ore borne before them as an embleme before their eyes that riches they looked for and vniustly sought to finde it at Sea where the Captaine first and the other two after as they confest they had deserued according to Iudgement they suffred death The discourse of Minas THis William Minas was a Marriner married and had his abiding in Cornewall who not contented with that sufficient meanes that God and nature had prouided for him being as so was most of them all a man of comely personage and of an able body by vniust courses thought to strengthen his fortune so that vsing meanes to get to sea in a pretty ship called the Concord of Plimouth vpon the coast of Fraunce he met with a Frenchman and as the custome of Pyrates is being the stronger party without asking her leaue he ransacked her goods but as it is certaine he that once endeuours to begin to steale doth straight endeuour and learne to lye since lying and stealing are as inseperable companions as a theefe and receiuer so that Minas had a colourable tale at the time of his araignment bearing some likelihood of truth to excuse his theft Namely that making home from Spaine to his abiding in Cornewall his ship the Concord beaten with weather began to saile and put himselfe and men in distresse neere the ◅ast of Fraunce where he met with this Frenchman so that he hauing farre to saile and the Frenchman neere his arriuall he compounded and gaue him satisfaction to exchange ships with him so dismissed his lading from his to the Frenchmans and the Frenchmans to his promising withall with this condition that the Frenchman shold receiue his ship here in Englād but named no place they thus agreed the Frenchman departs for Fraunce Minas he priuatly in the night puts into his abiding in Cornewal presently absents himselfe for three quarters of a yeare giues order to his wife vnder that cu◅ur to labor his protection with the viceadmirall and leaues the ship without guide or owner as a derelict due to the Lord Admirall at A◅izor in the bay The Frenchman now hauing bene robd of his ship goods and knew by an Englishman comes and expresses his iniury to the high court of admiralty and there directly deposes that he was robd neuer inquiring for his ship nor feeding himselfe with hope that ere he should heare of her till at last welcome tidings is brought where his ship anchors and as a derelict she was ceazed to the Lord Admirals vse vnto whose honour by petition complayning of his wrong and proouing the godds to be his his Lordship giues order she is straight restord him and warrants are directedout for the apprehension of Minas which he hauing intelligence of lurking close or not daring yet to be seene abroad he vseth an inward meane by agreement to stop the Frenchmans complaint the Frenchman on the other side knowing he had lost his goods and considering belike that his life might make him some satisfaction but no restitution consents to the composition take ◅his mony Nay is content in regard he was bound to it to goe to the Uiceadmirall or Court of admiralty and there to vnsay what before he had iustified that is to say that his shippe was lent and not stolne which being done Minas appeares not like an owle that 's seene but in the night but like a bisd that flutters by day reuels it gallantly and securely and thinkes now in his heart that all is safe But he that hath commission vnder the Lord Admirall for the discouering and routingout of such infectious members and the law most carefully on the other side not suffering such offenders to ◅ubberouer their iniquities to the encouraging of others and hartning them to these co◅ses brings me this Pyrate to apprehention from apprehention to arraignement where his owne confession and the former circumstances duely examined it was made euident by the Court to the Iury how euident this packe and close far◅le of knauery was ripped vp wherevpon according to the Inditement he was brought in by verdit guilty and accordingly receiued sentence from the Marshalseis he was conueid to Wapping where repenting him of his sinnes he confest the fact onely labourd to acquit the reputation of a worshipfull Gentleman that stood tainted in suspition to haue contriued and dealt with him in concealing this pyracy and so yeelded himselfe to death Of Thomas NOt to lengthen out paper with this poore fellow of more then appeared either by his confession arraignment or execution it is onely thus he was apprehended vpon suspition making saile of some goods and being strictly examined he presently confessed what he had done whome he had robd and in whose company namely in the company of one Lawding Barry that is a pyrate new and was set on shore in Ireland vpon which confession being arraignd condemned he amongst the other suffred death Thus Reader haue I truely brought to thine eyes the discourse of Captaine Ieames Harris vnder his own hand the course of his life which men should be
was found to be faulty andrruth being waighed in the scailes of Iustice we were found too light so that hauing remained twenty daies in Bristoll I was from thence from Shiriffe to Shiriffe directed to Newgate my brother comming along and bearing me company who labouring like the carefull Bee in my businesse neuer idle solliciting here and labouring there and who had hopefull expectation and promises I should find mercy that had for my offences deserued none I built not yet my trust on so shaking a foundation but although to supply the company of mymultitude of friends whose loue came daily to visit me I bare an outside of mirth I h ad a hart peece of sorrow considering in my thoughts how I had wronged the stranger and those whose losses I could neuer right how I had vndone many had but a lifeto satisfie all I desired not now to build for that where I might not continue but labour for that where I should liue for euer I thought it not requisite now to forget Heauen for earth the soule for the bodie nor heauenly pleasures for temporall goods I acknowledge now that in a worldly building the stones must be broken hewen and squared ere they be fit to make vp the worke the corne must be thrashed winnowed and purified before it be ready for nourishing bread the whirlewind must first blow ere Elias be rapt into heauen so euery sinner must be cut hewen and squared with the blowes that beat vppon his guilty conscience be threashed wi nnowed and purified with prayers repentance and amendement of life and sighes must make way both for body and soule if we meane ere to come to our heauenly Ierusalem I remembred now that vncookt meat is vnwholesome for man and vnmortified men be no creatures for God which made me in my chamber in the houres of quiet alone neuer haue the Pensiue-mans practise out of my hand nor the penitent mans-practise outof my heart therefore I must say to him it was vrgently done who informed the Counsell that the Saterday be fore my tryal first imprisonment in the Marshalsies and in my imprisonnement my first meeting with Captaine Iennings who at sea together did call brothers and being with him but orderly mercie he reported to their Lordships we were mad drunke this was informed to be done and whosoeuer did it I must needes tell him it was but a homely message since it is no good nor charitable office to heape vniust iniuries vppon miserable men for I protest I had that testimony in my selfe that my sorrow had washed away my foulenesse and loathing my life I inuited my death knowing there is no death where there is no sinne for by sinne death entred into the world and the wages of sinne is death so that what I was to loose I was sure to loose as soone as I had life but the life that I looked for should neuer haue death which patience and resolution of mine the diligent Preacher that both labourd and found in me I doubt not for truth but he will speake and confirme which Christian end of mine I expect that insteed of me it shall encrease comfort in my friends and be a sufficient satisfaction to my aduersaries of whom on the bended knees of my heart I humbly craue pardon from whome being men I feare not deniall since I am sure it is sealed of our Maker in heauen so from a free and vnburthened heart a patient mind and willing steps I goe out of my chamber in the Marshalstes the Friday morning being the two and twenty day of December to make my death-bed at Wapping Of whom Reader if thou destrest more though he be the first of number placed in the booke he was the last of seauenteene that suffered first he made his deuotion and prayers with an affirmatiue tongue threw away his hat as he went bouldly vp the ladder and being demanded of a straunger stood by him If as yet he had heard no good newes from the King he answered him none sir but from the King of Kings and therefore with Peter I must resolue and say I looke for a new heauen and a new earth according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnesse he sung to a sillable the one and twenty Psalms dyed a repentant sinner and a Christian and by the diligence of his naturall brother was brought to the keeper of Newgates house in Newgate-market and from thence as a Christian was buried in Christe-Church The discourse of Captaine Iennings SInce you are thus farre gentle Readers led on with this discourse of Captaine Harris I doubt not but you will expect the like of the rest which cannot in Captaine Iennings be so well performd as in the former for the education of his youth was ◅o meane and low he could neither write nor read yet notwithstanding it is not brought to your eyes vnder his owne hand the report for certaine was taken from his tongue and thus it is From my childehood quoth he I was wholy addicted to martiall courses espetially in the manly resolution of seafaringmen I was not disaniamated at the reports of others dangers past nor afeard my self to encounter with tempests to come whereby in many voyages returning from Sea I grew to beare the name of a skilfull Marriner which so soone pu◅t vp a selfe conceit in my thoughts that I grew ambitious straight to haue a whole commaund and held it basenes to liue vnder checke It likt me well a shipboard to see the Captaine but bid and his will in all things was straight obeyd and such a one in my ambitiō I resolud to be which authority and place finding my present meanes friends vnpossible lawfully to raise me vnto I bluntly resolued as we vse to say to attaine to it then by hooke or by crooks To which purpose comforting my selfe with a retchles crue and such as loued ryot as well as my selfe for I must truely confesse it was one of my sinnes we were not long before we had made vp our company furnished vs of a ship and by the name of Captaine Iennings I was knowne at Sea so that in the Queenes maiesties raigne during the continuance of the dissention betwixt the King of Spaine the Hollanders I found such a safe refuge and retirement into Dunkerk after many haynous spoyles committed on their Dutch Fly-boates Pinkes and passengers in them that my name grew so odious my offences so multiplied that being knowne to the state I was proclaimd a Pyrate and seueral ships both from England and Holland made out to lie in waight for my apprehention which though long first was at last so effected that by the English I was taken brought prisoner to the Marshalseys expecting nothing but for my time of tryall and hoping for nothing but present death When my louing sister so labourd with petitions to the states that lay heere and to diuers Marchants I had formerly wrongd wherein was my