inthrop
_vs._ Lechmere. John Jekyll was collector of the port of Boston.]

Proclamation was made Commanding silence upon Pain of Imprisonm't
whilst the act of Parliament and His Majesties Commission for the
Tryal of Pyrates were in Reading.

Then the said Court was Publickly and solemnly opened and Proclaimed
and the Honorable William Dummer, Esqr., President, took the Oath
directed in said Act, and afterwards Administred the same to the other
Commissioners beforenamed.

The Court appointed Joseph Hiller, Gent., Notary Publick for the
County of Suffolk within His Majesties sd. Province, Register of the
said Court, And Edward Stanbridge, Marshall of the Court of Vice
Admiralty, Provost Marshall of the said Court.

Then a Warrant issued out to the Provost Marshall to bring the Bodies
of John Filmore[6] and Edward Cheesman[7] into Court, and accordingly
they were brought to the Bar.

[Footnote 6: John Fillmore, born in Ipswich, Mass., in 1702, d. 1777,
was great-grandfather of President Millard Fillmore. The _Narration_
mentioned above, in note 1, was drawn up from his oral statements, as
remembered by a friend. He was taken out of the sloop _Dolphin_,
Haskell, fishing on the Newfoundland banks.]

[Footnote 7: Edward Cheesman, carpenter, was taken out of a ship bound
from Virginia to London, Mar. 25, preceding.]

Then the Cryer made Proclamation for all Persons that could Give
Evidence for the King against the Prisoners at the Bar to Come into
Court and they should be heard.

Then the sd. Prisoners were arraigned upon Articles Exhibited against
them for Piracy, Robbery and Felony, The Register reading them in the
words following--

Articles of Piracy, Robbery and Felony Exhibited against John Filmore,
Marriner, and Edward Cheesman, Ship Carpenter.

You and each of you stand Accused by His Maj'ties Advocate General of
Felony, Pyracy and Robbery--

First, For that you the sd John Filmore, together with John Phillips,
John Nutt, Samuel Ferne, Joseph Sparkes, William White and divers
others, on or about the fifth day of September last past, by force and
arm's, in or near a harbour upon Newfoundland upon the high sea
(within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Great Britain)
Pyratically and Feloniously did surprize, seize and take three fishing
vessels belonging to His Majesties good subjects, and then and there
within the Jurisdiction aforesd., Feloniously and Pyratically with
force as aforesd. did take and Car