e
being full and particular against him, he was found Guilty as before
mentioned.

When _Kid_ was asked what he had to say why Sentence should not pass
against him, he answered, That _he had nothing to say, but that he had
been sworn against by perjured wicked People_. And when Sentence was
pronounced, he said, _My Lord it is a very hard Sentence. For my part
I am the innocentest Person of them all, only I have been sworn
against by perjured Persons_.

Wherefore about a week after, Capt. _Kid_, _Nicholas Churchill_,
_James How_, _Gabriel Loff_, _Hugh Parrot_, _Abel Owen_, and _Darby
Mullins_, were executed at _Execution Dock_, and afterwards hung up in
Chains, at some distance from each other, down the river, where their
Bodies hung exposed for many years.

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[Illustration: CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND]

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CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND, AND HIS CREW

_Edward England_ went Mate of a Sloop that sailed out of _Jamaica_,
and was taken by _Winter_, a Pirate, from whom he had the Command of a
Sloop just before their Settlement at _Providence_. The man was brave
and good natured, and far from being cruel, as most of them are; and
would not have committed such barbarous actions as he did, had not his
comrades compelled him to it.

He sailed to the Coast of _Africa_, after the Island of _Providence_
was inhabited by the _English_. In his Passage he took several Ships,
particularly the _Cadogan_ Snow belonging to _Bristol_, one _Skinner_
Master, who was murdered by those very men who had formerly served
under him, upon a quarrel that happened between _Skinner_ and them,
about their wages: He shipped them on board a Man-of-War, from whence
they deserted, and went on board a ship in the _West-Indies_, where
they were taken by a pirate, and brought to _Providence_, and then
they sailed with Captain _England_ a-Pirating.

As soon as _Skinner_ came on board, he saw his old Boatswain, who
said, _Ah! Captain Skinner is it you, I am much in your Debt, and now
I shall pay you in your own Coin_. These words put the Captain in a
panic Fear: And indeed he had Reason enough to be afraid, for they
immediately seized him, bound him to the Windlass, pelted him with
Glass Bottles, afterwards whipt him about the Deck, and then said,
because he had been a good Master, he should have an easy Death, and
so shot him through the Head; the vessel and her Cargoe being given to
_Howel Davis_.

After this _Englan