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sow with young embowled." The health of King James III., the Pretender, was drunk with full honours. GRIFFIN, JOHN. Of Blackwall, Middlesex. Taken out of the _Mercy_ galley and appointed carpenter on board the _Royal Fortune_ by Captain Roberts. Condemned to be hanged at Cape Coast Castle, but pardoned and sold to the Royal African Company as a slave for seven years. GRIFFIN, RICHARD. A gunsmith of Boston. Sailed with Captain Pound. Wounded in a fight at Tarpaulin Cove, a bullet entering his ear and coming out through his eye. GROGNIET, CAPTAIN. A French buccaneer who in 1683 was in company with Captain L'Escayer, with a crew of some 200 French and 80 English freebooters. He joined Davis and Swan during the blockade of Panama in 1685, and was in the unsuccessful attempt in May, 1685, on the Spanish treasure fleet from Lima. In July of the same year Grogniet, with 340 French buccaneers, parted company from Davis at Quibo, plundered several towns, and then, foolishly, revisited Quibo, where they were discovered by a Spanish squadron in January, 1686, and their ship was burnt while the crew was on shore. They were rescued by Townley, with whom they went north to Nicaragua, and sacked Granada. In May, 1686, Grogniet and half the Frenchmen crossed the isthmus. In the January following, Grogniet reappeared, and, joining with the English, again plundered Guayaquil, where he was severely wounded, and died soon afterwards. GULLIMILLIT, BRETI. Taken with other South American pirates by H.M. sloop _Tyne_, and hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1823. GUTTEREZ, JUAN. Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, on February 7th, 1823. GUY, CAPTAIN. Commanded the frigate _James_ (fourteen guns, ninety men). Belonged to Tortuga Island and Jamaica in 1663. HAINS, RICHARD. One of Captain Low's crew. When Low took a Portuguese ship at St. Michael's in the Azores in 1723, he, with unusual kindness, simply burnt the ship and let the crew go to shore in a boat. While the prisoners were getting out the boat, Richard Hains happened to be drinking punch out of a silver tankard at one of the open ports, and took the opportunity to drop into the boat among the Portuguese and lie down in the bottom, so as to escape with them. Suddenly remembering his silver tankard, he climbed back, seized the tankard, and hid again in the boat, somehow, by great good fortune, being unobserved by those on the ship, and so escaped
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