CHAP. IV.
Of Major STEDE BONNET, and his CREW.
BRED a Gentleman, [91]. Supposed to be disorder’d in his Senses, ib. His Beginning as a Pyrate, ib. Takes Prizes, [92]. Divisions in his Crew, ib. Meets Black-beard, ib. Is deposed from his Command, [93]. His melancholy Reflections, ib. Surrenders to the King’s Proclamation, ib. His new Project, ib. Saves some Pyrates marroon’d, [94]. Begins the old Trade again, [95]. An Account of Prizes taken by him, [95], [96]. Colonel Rhet goes in Quest of Pyrates, [97]. Yates the Pyrate surrenders, [98]. An Engagement betwixt Colonel Rhet and Major Bonnet, [100]. An Account of the kill’d and wounded, ib. The Prisoners carried to Charles-Town, ib. The Major and the Master Escape, ib. Taken again by Colonel Rhet, [101]. A Court of Vice-Admiralty held, ib. The Names of those arraign’d, [102], [103]. The Form of their Indictment, [104]. Their Defence, [105]. The Names of those who received Sentence, [106]. An excellent Speech made by the Lord Chief Justice on pronouncing Sentence on the Major, [107] to [112].
CHAP. V.
Of Capt. EDW. ENGLAND, and his CREW.
HIS Beginning and Character, [113], [114]. A most barbarous Action of his Crew, [114], [115]. The Names of Prizes taken by him, [115], [116]. The Misfortunes of his Confederates, [116], [117]. England’s Progress half round the Globe, [117], [118]. A short Description of the Coast of Malabar, ib. What they did at Madagascar, [118]. Takes an East-India Man, ib. The Particulars of the Action in Captain Mackra’s Letter, [119] to [122]. Captain Mackra ventures on Board the Pyrate, [122]. Is in Danger of being murder’d; [123]. Preserv’d by a pleasant Incident, ib. The Pyrates Generosity to him, ib. Captain England deposed, and why, [124]. Maroon’d on the Island Mauritius, ib. Some Account of that Island, ib. The Adventures of the Company continued, [124] to [126]. Angria, an Indian Pyrate, [127]. his Strength by Land and Sea, ib. The East-India Company’s Wars with him, [127], [128]. The Pyrates go to the Island of Melinda, [129]. Their barbarous Behaviour there, ib. Hear of Captain Mackra’s Designs against them, ib. Their Reflections thereupon, [130]. Sail for Cochin, a Dutch Settlement, ib. The Pyrates and the Dutch very good Friends, [131]. Mutual Presents made betwixt the Pyrates and the Governor, ib. The Pyrates in a Fright, [133]. Almost starv’d, ib. Take a Prize of an immense Value, [134]. Take an Ostend East-India Man, ib. A short Description of Madagascar, [135], [136]. A prodigious Dividend made by the Pyrates, [136]. A Fellow’s Way of increasing his Diamonds, ib. Some of the Pyrates quit, and join the Remains of Avery, ib. The Proceedings of the Men of War in those Parts, [137], [138]. Some Dutch Men petition to be among the Pyrates, [138]. The Pyrates divided in their Measures, [139]. Break up, ib. What became of them, [139], [140].
CHAP. VI.
Of Capt. CHARLES VANE, and his CREW.
VANE’s Behaviour at Providence, [141]. The Names of Prizes taken by him, [141], [142]. Is deserted by his Consort Yates, [143]. Yates surrenders at Charles-Town, ib. A Stratagem of Vane’s, [144]. Black-beard and Vane meet, [145]. They salute after the Pyrates Manner, ib. Vane deposed from his Command, and why, [146]. 15 Hands degraded, and turned out with him, ib. A Sloop given them, [147]. They sail in Quest of Adventures, and take Prizes, ib. Vane cast away upon an uninhabited Island, ib. Meets with an old Acquaintance, [148]. Vane seiz’d with a Qualm of Honour, ib. Ships himself on Board a Vessel, passing for another Man, ib. Is discover’d, with the Manner how, [149]. Carried to Jamaica, and hang’d, ib.
CHAP. VII.
Of Capt. RACKAM, and his CREW.
RACKAM’s beginning as a Pyrate, [150], [151]. An Account of Prizes taken by him, [151]. Is attack’d by a Spanish Guard Ship, ib. His Stratagem to escape, [152]. More Prizes taken by him, [153]. Is taken, and how, [154]. Tried, condemned, and executed at Jamaica, ib. The Names of his Crew condemn’d with him, [154]. An extraordinary Case of nine taken with him, ib. Some Account of the Proceedings against them, [154], [155].
The LIFE of MARY READ.
MARY Read’s Birth, [157]. Reasons for dressing her in Breeches, [158]. Waits upon a Lady; goes into the Army, [159]. Her Behaviour in several Engagements, ib. She falls in Love with her Comrade, ib. Her Sex discovered; the two Troopers married, [160]. Settles at Breda, ib. Her Husband dies, she reassumes the Breeches, ib. Goes to Holland. To the West-Indies, [161]. Turns Pyrate. Anne Bonny, another Pyrate, falls in Love with her, [162]. Her Adventures to [165].