to treat with Kidd,
offers to swear this is the man he saw on board Kidd's sloop under the
name of Gillam. He is the most impudent, hardened Villain I ever
saw....

"In searching Captain Knott's house a small trunk was found with some
remnants of East India Goods and a letter from Kidd's Wife to Capt.
Thomas Paine, an old pyrate living on Canonicut Island in Rhode Island
Government. He made an affidavit to me when I was in Rhode Island that
he had received nothing from Kidd's sloop, when she lay at anchor
there, yet by Knott's deposition, he was sent with Mrs. Kidd's letter
to Paine for 24 ounces of Gold, which Kidd accordingly brought, and
Mrs. Kidd's injunction to Paine to keep all the rest that was left with
him till further notice was a plain indication that there was a good
deal of treasure still left behind in Paine's Custody.

"Therefore I posted away a messenger to Gov. Cranston and Col. Sanford
to make a strict search of Paine's house before he could have notice.
It seems nothing was then found, but Paine has since produced 18 ounces
and odd weight of Gold, as appears by Gov. Cranston's letter, Nov. 25,
and pretends 'twas bestowed on him by Kidd, hoping that may pass as a
salve for the oath he has made. I think it is plain he foreswore
himself. I am of opinion he has a great deal more of Kidd's goods
still in his hands, but he is out of my Power and being in that
Government I cannot compel him to deliver up the rest...."

That "Edward Davis, Mariner," who came home with Kidd and who made the
statement already quoted concerning Gillam's chest, found himself in
trouble with the others of that crew, and the tireless Bellomont refers
to him in this fashion:

"When Capt Kidd was committed to Gaol, there was also a Pyrate
committed who goes by the name of Captain Davis, that came passenger
with Kidd from Madagascar. I suppose him to be that Captain Davis that
Dampier and Wafer speak of, in their printed relations of Voyages, for
an extraordinary stout man; but let him be as stout as he will, here he
is a prisoner, and shall be forthcoming upon the order I receive from
England concerning Kidd and his men.

"When I was at Rhode Island there was one Palmer, a Pyrate, that was
out upon Bail, for they cannot be persuaded there to keep a Pyrate in
Gaol, they love 'em too well. He went out with Kidd from London and
forsook him at Madagascar to go on board the _Mocha Frigate_, where he
was a considerable time