[15] Edward Welch was a New Englander, who had come out to Madagascar as a boy, and had a house fortified with six guns near St. Mary's, where he ruled over a company of negroes. Cal. S.P. Col., 1699, p. 289.
[16] Kidd's wife's brother; see [doc. no. 78], [note 1], and N.Y. Col. Docs., IV. 128, 144, 179. General McCrady, History of South Carolina, I. 262-263, mentions two affidavits in an old manuscript book in Charleston, by two sailors of the Adventure's company, who declare that Bradley took no part with the piratical crew, but constantly protested against their course, and therefore was put ashore sick on a rock near Antigua.
[17] The manuscript (a copy) says Montego, which is in Jamaica, but the name should be Antigua. The Antonio belonged partly to Abraham Redwood of Antigua, afterward of Newport.
[18] Henry Bolton; see [doc. no. 86]. Samuel Wood's examination is in Commons Journal, XIII. 26.
[19] Savona, or Saona, a small island off the southeasternmost part of Santo Domingo. Santa Catalina is a still smaller island, a little farther to the west.
[20] Burt or Burke, an Irish trader, was of Dutch Curaçao to Kidd, of French St. Kitts to Governor Codrington, but a British subject to the Danish governor of St. Thomas. See [doc. no. 83].
[21] Walter Gribble (see [doc. no. 86], [note 7]) and William Lamont.
[22] See [doc. no. 79].
[23] Handkerchiefs.
[24] Die praedicta, on the day aforesaid.