[9] The Sir Edward Russell of [doc. no. 71], [note 1]. He had been created earl of Orford in 1697.
[10] See [doc. no. 76], [note 9].
[11] I.e., shoved down from the quarter-deck onto the main deck.
[12] Not a hundred miles away.
[13] Bastiaen (Sebastian) Bernage.
[14] But John Ruggles, master's mate of the Primrose of Boston, testified that, drinking in a public house at Charles Town, Nevis, with William Cheesers and William Daniel, he heard the former say that Bolton had got £16,000 by Captain Kidd. Cal. St. P. Col., 1699, p. 416.
87. William Kidd to the Speaker of the House of Commons (Robert Harley). April (?), 1701.[1]
May it please Y'r Hon'r
The long Imprisonment I have undergone, or the tryall I am to undergoe, are not soe great an affliction to me, as my not being able to give your Hon'ble House of Commons such satisfaction as was Expected from me. I hope I have not offended against the Law, but if I have, It was the fault of others who knew better, and made me the Tool of their Ambition and Avarice, and who now perhaps think it their Interest that I should be removed out of the world.