e taken away from the Bar, and the Court was Cleared
and in private.

Then the Court, having duly weighed and maturely Considered the
Evidences against the Prisoners and their own Defence, Unanimously
Agreed and voted, That the sd. John Filmore and Edward Cheesman were
not Guilty of the Pyracies, Robberies and Felonies Exhibited agt.
them. Then the aforesd Prisoners were brought to the Bar and the
President pronounced the sd John Filmore and Edward Cheesman not
Guilty.[21]

[Footnote 21: Fillmore says, _Narration_, p. 18, that the court gave
him Captain Phillips's gun, silver-hilted sword, silver shoe- and
knee-buckles, and tobacco-box, and two gold rings that the pirate used
to wear. As late as 1857, the gun was still in the possession of a
cousin of President Fillmore's father. _N.E. Hist. Gen. Register_, XI.
144.]

Then the Court Adjourned to three a Clock in the afternoon.

_120. Trial of William Phillips and Others. May 12, 1724._

_P.M._ The Court met according to adjournment, and was opened by
Proclamation,

And a Warrant issued out for the bringing into Court the Bodies of
William Phillips,[1] Isaac Lassen, Henry Giles, John Baptis, Peter
Taffery, Charles Ivemay, John Bootman, John Combes and Henry Payne,
and they were accordingly brought to the Bar.

[Footnote 1: Not known to have been related to the pirate captain,
John Phillips. Lassen was an Indian, Giles a young lad, Baptis and
Taffery Frenchmen.]

Then the Cryer made Proclamation for all Persons that Could Give
Evidence for the King against the Prisoners at the Bar to Come into
Court and they should be heard.

Then John Baptis and Peter Taffery, being French men, were remanded
back to Prison in order to be tryed by themselves.

And the rest of the Prisoners were Arraigned upon Articles Exhibited
against them for Piracy, Robbery and Felony, The Register Reading them
in the words following, viz.

Articles of Piracy, Robbery and Felony Exhibited against William
Phillips, Isaac Lassen, Henry Giles, Charles Ivemay, John Coombes,
John Bootman and Henry Payne, Marriners.

You and Each of you stand Accused by His Majesties advocate General of
Felony, Pyracy and Robbery.

First, For that you, the said William Phillips and Isaac Lassen,
together with John Phillips, John Nutt, Samuel Ferne, James Sparkes,
William White, John Archer (otherwise Called John Rose Archer), and
divers others, on or about the 27th day of October last, in the
Lattitude o