562   Appendix to Council Proceedings, 1696—1729.

              B. M. Edmond Lacy Robert Chinton James Browne & Peter Clous

              Vol. 25. this James Browne married the Governts daughter since bee

                   came, wee have witness enough from their owne mouths soe

                   as to declare them or send them home but I fear their being

                   sett at Liberty by the quantity of money they have I pray that

                   yor Excellcy will take into yor wise consideration to doe what is

                   necessary in this case for the glory of God & the Honor of his

                   most sacred Majtie who I pray God grant a long life & happy

                   Reigne over us, praying yor Excellcy to excuse mee & give

                   me leave to subscribe myself the meanest of the Servts

                    Sr that Peter Clous was one   Robt Snead.

                   that was in a Dutch or draw

                   ship that they took before they

                   tooke the greate Prizes R. S.

                             A true Coppy.

                                  [signed:] Fr: Nicholson.

                   May it please yor EXnCY

                    Sr, I a second time have made bold to trouble you with a

                   few lines concerning some passages that have happened here

                   concerning some pirates that are here I apprehended three

                   of them & they tooke bayle for them but on Satterday last I

                   took them up again & procured sufficient witnesses that they

                   were those Pyrates that were on board the Ship Fancy Capt.

                   Henry Every alias Bridgman comandr as the Proclamation

                   makes mention of one of thm has Confessed most of their

                   Piracy he is a Dutchman he sayes he was taken by them in a

                   Dutch ship of sixteen Gunns & 31 men the golden lions arms

                   John Johnson Comandr in Company with one more of 20

                   Guns & 41 men named Christianus Burge one Mordrees

                   Comandr both from Copenhagan, but took their commission

                   from the King of Denmark to trade with the West India

                   Company in those parts; this ship Fancy came where they

                   were at anchor at the Island de Prince & commanded them

                   on board and told them that the English were att warr with

                   the Deans and therefore they were a prize; the Dutch told

                   them there was noe warr therefore noe prize and immediately

                   they fired upon them and after some dispute took them, but

                   in the dispute the mercht went ashore with a chest of gold,

                   which after they understood they sent on shore tht if they

                   would not bring the chest on board again they would hang

                   all the rest, which the other tht went on shore to tell them

                   forst them to doe, being Dutchmen of their own Comp. but

                   notwithstanding they kill'd many of the Dutch, sunck one of

                   the ships and burnt the other and from thence went to Persia

                   and took a Percian kilb'd numbers of them & much richer &

                   went to Providence and there run her on shore.