ven of the
Pirates, and for the gratification of himself, Captain Turner, and
other officers, one hundred and thirty-two pounds, five shillings."

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[Illustration: The town and bay of Tobermory, Island of Mull. The
treasure galleon is supposed to have gone down in the place indicated
by the cross at the right hand side of the photograph.]

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The commissioners, Sewall, Byfield and Paul Dudley, received for their
expenses and services, twenty-five pounds, seven shillings, and ten
pence.

Finally, there were given to the captains of the several companies of
militia in the town for Boston, "for their charges and expenses on
Guards and Watches on the Pirates during their Imprisonment,
Twenty-seven pounds, sixteen shillings, and three pence: to Captain
Tuthill, for his assistance to secure and bring about the Vessel and
goods from Marblehead, five pounds; to Mr. Jeremiah Allen, the
Treasurer's bookkeeper, for his care and service about the said Gold
and goods, five pounds; to Constable Apthorp and Jesse, for their
services, a further allowance of three pounds."

The amount of the "royal bounty" given the Governor as his share of the
pirates' booty, is not recorded. If the belief of those of their
contemporaries who best know the Dudleys may be relied on, the fees and
emoluments officially awarded them were by no means the extent of the
profits from their dealings with the pirates and their treasure. When
Cotton Mather quarreled with Governor Dudley a few years later he did
not hesitate to intimate this charge pretty broadly in the following
passage in his memorial on Dudley's administration:

"There have been odd _Collusions_ with the Pyrates of Quelch's Company,
of which one instance is, That there was extorted the sum of about
Thirty Pounds from some of the crew for liberty to walk at certain
times in the prison yard. And this liberty having been allowed for two
or three days unto them, they were again confined to their former
wretched circumstances."

CHAPTER VII

THE ARMADA GALLEON OF TOBERMORY BAY

Between the western Highlands of Scotland and the remote, cloudy
Hebrides lies the large island of Mull on a sound of that name. Its
bold headlands are crowned with the ruins of gray castles that were
once the strongholds of the clans of the MacLeans and the MacDonal