[11] A commission of a vice-admiralty judge (Richard Morris, New York, 1762) may be seen in English translation in E.C. Benedict, The American Admiralty, fourth ed. (Albany, 1910), pp. 76-80, and others in [doc. no. 180], post, and [doc. no. 181].
[12] See [doc. no. 105], [note 1].
CASES OF JOHN ROSE ARCHER AND OTHERS.
119. Trial of John Fillmore and Edward Cheesman. May 12, 1724.[1]
At a Court of Admiralty for the Tryal of Pirates held at Boston within His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England on the twelfth day of May in the Tenth year of His Majesty's Reign Annoq Domini 1724, Pursuant to His Maj'ties Commission Founded on an Act of Parliament made in the Eleventh and twelfth years of King William the Third Entituled An Act for the more Effectual suppression of Piracy,[2] and made perpetual by an Act of the Sixth of King [George].[3]
Present. The Honorable William Dummer, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Maj'ties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England,[4] President of the Court.
| William Tailer Penn Townsend John Cushing Thos. Hutchinson Thomas Fitch | Samuel Sewall Edward Bromfield Nathanl. Norden Samuel Browne Adam Winthrop |  | Esqrs., of the Honorable Council of the Massachusetts Bay. |
| Spencer Phipps | |||
| The Hono'ble John Menzeis[5] Thomas Durell Thomas Lechmere John Jekyll |  | Esqrs., Commissioners Appointed by His Maj'ties said Commission. |
Proclamation was made Commanding silence upon Pain of Imprisonm't whilst the act of Parliament and His Majesties Commission for the Tryal of Pyrates were in Reading.