ited him, that this
blow was not the cause of his death."

_The Lord Chief Baron_. "Then they must be confronted. Do you hear,
Bradingham, what he says?"

_Bradingham_. "I deny this."

As for this surgeon, Kidd swore that he had been a drunken, useless
idler who would lay in the hold for weeks at a time. Seaman Hugh
Parrott was then called and asked by Kidd:

"Do you know the reason why I struck Moore?"

_Parrott_. "Yes, because you did not take the _Loyal Captain_, whereof
Captain How was commander."

_The Lord Chief Baron_. "Was that the reason that he struck Moore,
because this ship was not taken?"

_Parrott_. "I shall tell you how this happened, to the best of my
knowledge. My commander fortuned to come up with this Captain How's
ship and some were for taking her, and some not. And afterwards there
was a little sort of mutiny, and some rose in arms, the greater part;
and they said they would take the ship. And the commander was not for
it, and so they resolved to go away in the boat and take her. Captain
Kidd said, 'If you desert my ship, you shall never come aboard again,
and I will force you into Bombay, and I will carry you before some of
the Council there.' Inasmuch that my commander stilled them again and
they remained on board. And about a fortnight afterwards, there passed
some words between this William Moore and my commander, and then, says
he (Moore), 'Captain, I could have put you in a way to have taken this
ship and been never the worse for it.' He says, (Kidd), 'Would you
have had me take this ship? I cannot answer it. They are our
friends,' and with that I went off the deck, and I understood
afterwards the blow was given, but how I cannot tell."

_Kidd_. "I have no more to say, but I had all the provocation in the
world given me. I had no design to kill him. I had no malice or
spleen against him."

The Lord Chief Baron. "That must be left to the jury to consider the
evidence that has been given. You make out no such matter."

_Kidd_. "It was not designedly done, but in my passion, for which I am
heartily sorry."

Kidd was permitted to introduce no evidence as to his previous good
reputation, and the Court concluded that it had heard enough. Lord
Chief Baron Ward thereupon delivered himself of an exceedingly adverse
charge to the jury, virtually instructing them to find the prisoner
guilty of murder, which was promptly done. Having made sure of sending
him to Execu