more Gunns, whereupon
Capt. Passenger Comanded a boat and hands to board the Pirate, who
brought back with them about 124 Pirates Prisoners, and it was
supposed there was about 25 or 30 kill'd in the fight and that about
40 or 50 English Prisoners were redeemed, whome the Pirate had taken.
And this deponant Yet further saith that two of the Pirates men, being
left on board the shipp called the _Nicholson_, Robt. Lurten Master,
which was taken by the Pirates the 28th of April, were upon the coming
up of his Maj'tys ship the _Shorham_ seized and brought on board us as
prisoners, that this deponant was on board the _Shorham_ Galley all
the time of the Engagement upon the quarter deck near to his
Excellency, and saw all the Transactions, and further says not.

JOSEPH MAN.

Sworne to before the Court for tryall of Pirates
Test, PETER BEVERLEY C. Arr.
A true copy, C.C. THACKER C. Sec. Off.[4]

[Footnote 2: Heyman was collector of customs for the lower district of
James River. Gov. Nicholson caused a tombstone to be set in
commemoration of him, with a laudatory inscription which is printed in
the _Southern Literary Messenger_, IX. 695.]

[Footnote 3: Ensign. See doc. no. 33, note 15.]

[Footnote 4: Clerk in the secretary's office. The name of Chicheley
Corbin Thacker deserves a comment, for double Christian names were at
that period very rare. "In forty-nine church registers out of fifty,
throughout the length and breadth of England, there will not be found
a single instance of a double Christian name previous to the year
1700." Bardsley, _Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature_, p. 226.]

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_102. Report of Dr. George Bramston. November 27, 1702._[1]

[Footnote 1: Public Record Office, Admiralty 1:3666, p. 162. The
writer of this report, George Bramston, LL.D., was a notable
practitioner of the civil law, and from 1702 to 1710 was master of
Trinity Hall, Cambridge. His uncle writes of him in his autobiography,
a few years before this, "George is doctor of law, ... fellow of
Trinity Hall, and is admitted at the Commons, and lives there in some
practice, but very good repute." _Autobiography of Sir John Bramston_,
p. 29. To whom the report was nominally addressed is not clear, but it
was intended indirectly for the enlightenment of Prince George of
Denmark, consort of Queen Anne, whose wifely partiality had in May of
this year raised him to the office of Lord High Admiral. As