[14] Nathaniel Coddington of Newport, register of the court of admiralty in Rhode Island.
[15] Jeremiah Dummer the elder, father of the publicist.
[16] Thomas Gullock was the captain of the ship which Bradish had run away with. Sir John Stanley was an official of the lord chamberlain's office.
[17] On Shelley, see [doc. no. 73], [note 6]. Jeremiah Basse was deputy-governor of East and West New Jersey from 1697 to 1699. In a letter of June 9 to Secretary Popple, N.J. Archives, first ser., II. 286-287, he describes his activity in manning a sloop and in person capturing four of Shelley's men at Cape May, and committing them to Burlington jail. "In their Chestes are about seaven thousand eight hundred Rix dollars and Venetians, about thirty pound of melted silver, a parcell of Arabian and Christian Gold, some necklases of Amber and Corrall, sundry peaces of India silkes."
[18] If the word is Governor, it should be Secretary.
[19] Francis Brinley, one of the chief Newport merchants; he had been a member of Andros's council.
[20] Robert Gardiner of Newport.
[21] Jahleel Brenton, for many years, beginning in 1691, collector and surveyor of the customs for New England (and thus Gardiner's superior officer) had gone to England as agent of Rhode Island in her boundary dispute with Connecticut. Thomas Weaver, who had been appointed collector for New York, was in London as agent for that province.
[22] The rest of the letter has nothing to do with Kidd or other pirates.