and apprehending these
Pirates are abused and affronted and called Enemies of the Country for
disturbing and hindering honest men (as they are pleased to call the
Pirates) from bringing their money and settling amongst them....

"Since my writing this, Capt. Kidd is come in this (Delaware) Bay. He
hath been here about ten days. He sends his boat ashore to the Hore
Kills where he is supplied with what he wants and the people frequently
go on board him. He is in a Sloop with about forty men with a Vast
Treasure, I hope the express which I sent to his Excellency Governor
Nicholson will be in time enough to send the man-of-war to come up with
Kidd....

"The Pirates that I brought to this Government have the liberty to
confine themselves to a tavern, which is what I expected. The six
other Pirates that are in Burlington are at liberty, for the Quakers
there will not suffer the Government to send them to Gaol. Thus his
Majesty may expect to be obeyed in all places where the Government is
in Quakers' hands...."

[1] Mr. F. L. Gay of Boston very kindly gave the author the use of his
valuable collection of documentary material concerning Captain Kidd,
some of which is contained in this chapter. In addition, the author
consulted many of the original documents among the state papers in the
Public Record Office, London.

[2] Damaged.

[3] Clarke managed to clear himself and this threat was not carried out.

[4] Ms. torn.

[5] Genuine.

[6] Ms. torn.

[7] Ms. torn.

[8] Prize, or plunder.

[9] Titus Gates, the notorious informer, who revealed an alleged
"Papist plot" to massacre the English Protestants in the reign of
Charles II. He was later denounced, pilloried, and publicly flogged
within an inch of his life.

[10] Ms. torn.

[11] Lieutenant-governor at New York.

[12] Ms. torn.

[13] Ms. torn.

[14] Ms. torn.

[15] Colonel Robert Quarry cut a rather odd figure as a prosecutor of
pirates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He had been secretary to the
Governor of Carolina and assumed that office without authority from the
proprietors, at the death of Sir Richard Kyle who was appointed in 1684.

"A few months before it had been recommended that 'as the Governor will
not in all probability always reside in Charles Town, which is so near
the sea as to be in danger from a sudden invasion of Pirates,' Governor
Kyle should commissionate a particular Governor for Charles Town who
may act in his absence