ets_, President;
_Nathaniel Payne_, Esq; _John Lechmore_, Esq; Surveyor General; _John
Valentine_, Esq; Advocate General; _Samuel Cranston_, Governor of
_Rhode Island_; _John Menzies_, Esq; Judge of the Admiralty; _Richard
Ward_, Esq; Registrar; and Mr. _Jahleet Brinton_, Provost Marshal.
_Robert Auchmuta_, Esq, was appointed by the Court, Counsel for the
prisoners here under mentioned.

_Charles Harris_, Captain, _William Blads_, _Daniel Hyde_, _Thomas
Powel_, jun., _Stephen Munden_, _Thomas Hugget_, _William Read_,
_Peter Kneeves_, _James Brinkley_, _Joseph Sound_, _William
Shutfield_, _Edward Eaton_, _John Brown_, _Edward Lawson_, _Owen
Rice_, _John Tomkins_, _John Fitzgerald_, _Abraham Lacy_, _Thomas
Linester_, _Francis Leyton_, _John Walters_, Quarter-master, _William
Jones_, _Charles Church_, _Thomas Hazel_, and _John Bright_, who were
all executed the 19th of _July_, 1723, near _Newport_ in _Rhode
Island_; but _John Brown_ and _Patrick Cunningham_ were recommended to
Mercy.

The eight following were found Not Guilty; _John Wilson_, _Henry
Barnes_, _Thomas Jones_, _Joseph Switzer_, _Thomas Mumper_, Indian,
_John Hencher_, Doctor, _John Fletcher_, and _Thomas Child_.

Instead of working repentance in _Lowe_, this deliverance made him ten
times worse, vowing revenge upon all they should meet with for the
future, which they executed upon _Nathan Skiff_, Master of a
_Whale-fishing_ Sloop, whom they whipt naked about the deck, and then
cut off his ears, making his torture their sport. At length being
weary thereof, they shot him through the head, and sunk his vessel.
Some days after, he took a fishing boat off of _Black_ Island, and
only cut off the master's head; but next day taking two Whale Boats
near _Rhode_ Island, he brutally killed one of the masters and cut off
the ears of the other. From hence he went to _Newfoundland_, where he
took 23 _French_ Vessels, and mann'd one of them of 22 Guns with
pirates; after which, they took and plundered 18 ships, some of which
they destroyed.

The latter end of _July_, _Lowe_ took a large ship called the _Merry
Christmas_, and mounted her with 34 Guns, on which he goes aboard,
taking the title of Admiral, and sails to the Western Islands, where
he took a Brigantine manned with _English_ and _Portugueze_, the
Latter of whom he hanged.

Afterwards _Lowe_ went to the Coast of _Guinea_, but nothing happened
till he came to _Sierra Leon_, in _Africa_, when he met with the