with a Boat, he would reward them
handsomely, which Mr. _Fea_ hearing, he ordered his great Boat to be
staved, and sunk, and the sails to be carried out of sight. In the
mean time, perceiving _Gow's_ boat come on shore, with five men in it,
well armed, he met them, and said if they would go to a Publick House
in the neighbourhood, and take a cup of ale with him, he would see
what he could do to serve them, which they agreed to, seeing Mr. _Fea_
was all alone, not suspecting any danger. Mr. _Fea_ had before given
orders for half a dozen men, well armed, to lie in ambush to surprize
them, which being done, Mr. _Fea_ sent to Mr. _Gow_ to let him know,
that the country was alarmed, and that it would be his best way
peaceable to surrender, which _Gow_ did in a day or two, thinking
thereby to make himself an evidence; but it would not do, although he
complied so far as to delude all his men ashore one after another, who
would certainly have cut his throat, had they known of any ways
afterwards to have escaped.

They were put on board the _Greyhound_, which delivered them into the
_Marshalsea_, _March_ 30, 1714, where they continued till _June_
following, when eight of them were hanged at _Execution Dock_, viz.
_John Gow_, _James Williams_, _James Belvin_, _John Winter_, _Peter
Rawlisson_, _Daniel Mc.Cawley_, _William Ingram_, for another Piracy
under _Anstis_, and a month afterwards _Alexander Rob_ was hanged for
Piracy under _Gow_.

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Transcriber's Note

Fraser notes in his foreword to this book that the original author's
spelling was "indefinite even for his own day", and adds that it has
"has been more or less modernized" in this edition; however, there are
still many inconsistencies in spelling, use of hyphenation and
italics, and capitalisation of words. These inconsistencies, along
with archaic spelling, have been retained throughout.

Minor typographic errors in punctuation have been corrected without
note. The word 'with' was printed as 'htiw' (page 138), and has been
corrected. The word 'were' has been amended to 'where' (page 139, "...
where they sent several Hands ..."), for the sentence to make sense.
Two instances of transposed letters have also been corrected--sieze
changed to seize, and Goaler changed to Gaoler. The original title
page illustration also contained an error, Jnae, which referred to a
month. This was cross-checked with the rest of the text, and has been