ll go
aboard the ship and plunder her and we will have it under their hands
that we did not take her.' Says I, 'This is Judas-like. I dare not do
such a thing.' Says he, '_We_ may do it. We are beggars already.'
'Why,' says I, 'may we take the ship because we are poor?' Upon this a
mutiny arose, so I took up a bucket and just throwed it at him, and
said 'You are a rogue to make such a notion.' This I can prove, my
Lord."

Thereupon Kidd called Abel Owens, one of his sailors, and asked him:

"Can you tell which way this bucket was thrown?"

_Mr. Justice Powell_ (to Owens). "What was the provocation for
throwing the bucket?"

_Owens_. "I was in the cook-room, and hearing some difference on the
deck, I came out, and the gunner was grinding a chisel on the
grind-stone, and the captain and he had some words, and the gunner said
to the captain, 'You have brought us to ruin, and we are desolate.'
'And,' says he, (the captain) 'have I brought you to ruin? I have not
brought you to ruin. I have not done an ill thing to ruin you; you are
a saucy fellow to give me these words.' And then he took up the
bucket, and did give him the blow."

_Kidd_. "Was there a mutiny among the men?"

_Owens_. "Yes, and the bigger part was for taking the ship, and the
captain said, 'You that will take the Dutchman, you are the strongest,
you may do what you please. If you will take her, you may take her,
but if you go from aboard here, you shall never come aboard again.'"

_The Lord Chief Baron_. "When was this mutiny you speak of?"

_Owens_. "When we were at sea, about a month before this man's death."

_Kidd_. "Call Richard Barlicorn."

(Barlicorn was an apprentice who has been mentioned in the inventory of
the Sloop _San Antonio_.)

_Kidd_. "What was the reason the blow was given to the gunner?"

Barlicorn. "At first, when you met with the ship (_Loyal Captain_)
there was a mutiny, and two or three of the Dutchmen came aboard, and
some said she was a rich vessel, and they would take her. And the
captain (Kidd) said, 'No, I will not take her,' and there was a mutiny
in the ship, and the men said, 'If you will not, we will.' And he
said, 'If you have a mind, you may, but they that will not, come along
with me.'"

_Kidd_. "Do you think William Moore was one of those that was for
taking her?"

_Barlicorn_. "Yes. And William Moore lay sick a great while before
this blow was given, and the doctor said when he vis