By this Time the Boatswain was dead; for as soon as Philamore saw the Master laid hold on, he up with the axe, and cut off the Boatswain’s head, which Noise soon brought the Captain upon Deck, whom Cheesman saluted with the blow of a mallet, which broke his jaw-bone, but did not knock him down; upon which Harradine came to the Carpenter’s aid, when Sparks the Gunner interposing, Cheesman trips up his Heels, and flung him into the arms of Charles Ivemay, who at that moment threw him into the Sea; and at the same Time Harradine throws Captain Phillips after him, bidding the Devil take them both. This done, Cheesman jumps from the deck into the Hold, to knock Archer on the Head, when Harry Gyles came down after him, desired his Life might be spared; which being agreed to, he was made a Prisoner, and secured.
All being over, they altered their course from Newfoundland to Boston, where they arrived the 3rd of May, to the great joy of the Province, and on the 12th of May, a special Court of Admiralty was held for the Trial of these Pirates, when John Philamore, Edward Cheesman, John Cobs, Henry Gyles, Charles Joymay, John Bootman, and Henry Payne, were honourably acquitted; as also three French Men, John Baptis, Peter Taffery, and Isaac Lassen, as also three Negroes, Pedro, Francisco, and Pierro. John Rose Archer, the Quarter-Master, William White, William Taylor, and William Phillips were condemned; altho’ the two latter got a Reprieve, and the two former, Archer and White, were executed the 2nd of June following.
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