The liues, apprehensions, arraignments, and executions, of the 19. late pyrates Namely: Capt. Harris. Iennings. Longcastle. Downes. Haulsey. and their companies. As they were seuerally indited on St. Margrets Hill in Southwarke, on the 22. of December last, and executed the Fryday following.

he loued, and reioyce in the sonne that hath sinned and laments.

But to my purpose, hauing in so many voyages gone forth and returned so successiuely and to approue, that the state of fortune, is like the spokes of a wheele, that is carri∣ed aswell downward as vpward, that this worldly feli∣city ioyes and pleasure, in which we so trust: which we study to know, labour to purchase, and are so carefull to keep, •…•…re but like the day that is giuen vs to vse, and vani∣sheth away euen in the growing▪ That while we think we stand sure on the pynackles of Fortune, we are on the sud∣daine ouerthrowne to lye gr•…•…ueling in shame, pleasure and sorrow, being indeed twins (as shall appeare by me) the one no sooner hatched, but the other is at hand to s•…•…plant her, and therefore I may fitly compare mans happines heere to a fruitles smile, the which is presently turned in∣to sorrowe and teares: •…•…e a dreame, the ioy whereof vani∣sheth euen as we wake: to a painted Sepulchre, faire without and putrified within, or to a Syren beautifull in shew and deceit•…•…ul to intice, glorious aboue to bewitch you with gasing, but l•…•…oke downe to the hinder part, to the bot•…•…ome of that which he•…•…re we ran mad for, we shal finde this tempting faire to haue the taile of a Scorpion, who in the handling giues such a blow▪ that it benummeth our bo∣dies, and the sence of vnderstanding, and stingeth our soules with an irrecou•…•…rable death.

For while I thus wallowed in my inclination, ma∣stred by my affections, and making my felicity out of others mens miseries, while I thought prosperity at sea, as sure in my gripe, as the power to speak was free to my tongu•…•…, my actions were •…•…o imboldened, and my heart so hardned, that I held if a cowardise to dispaire to attempt, and effe∣minacy to pitie whosoeuer did perish. So that my for∣tunes, like a byas-bowle, being all this while throwne vp a hill, and gayned not the top o•…•… safety, whereon it might rest, it must of force fall downe againe. So I feareles to

venture, and dreadles of daunger, in the straights mee∣ting with the Turkes Gallies▪ well appointed in a man of war, my surprised prise, waiting my becke, & making for B•…•…stow, the Turkes road vp to me I was soone ha•…•…ld, but my ordnance made answer, and disdayning so much as to giue them friendly words, in regard my desperate bolde∣nes thought me free from their rage, we enterd fight, where what either was their encounter, or our resistance, I will be partiall to report: but the end was, I was taken prisoner, conueid to Tunes, from a Christian transformd to a slaue, had my head and face shauen, and in their need∣full seruice, as an inforced wretch, could striking, blowes brusing, and hunger pinching, I was compeld to row in their Gallies: necesstiy hath no resistance, and to this mise∣ry I was enforced to obey three year•…•…s, when I continu∣ed it out, some of the time with winde, water and b•…•…owes, brusing me at the seas, and the other part with Iron & hun∣ger, torturde a shore.

In all whi•…•…h time, I had occasion inough offered me, to haue laid repentance at my heart, to haue sorrowed for my iniquities past, and to haue vowed to my conscience, that if euer God were the blessed worker, to redeeme me from this thraldome and captinitie, without whose helpe, I lay groueling & desperate, I would account that minut the houre of my birth, and so consecrate my after life to the obeying of his will, that I would conuert my violence to patience, my Tyranny to temperancee. all my vices to vertues, and re•…•…orme my •…•…ife to his blessed word, when on the contrary this affliction of my body, did not so chastise my minde, that I imputed this correction, to be laid vpon me by the hand of heauen, as a iust whip for my offences past, but the continuance thereof did so harden my heart, so fire my spleene, and inflate my spirit, that I vowed my liberty gained, should be to others losse, my freedome prooue fatall to other mens good haps, and that if euer I had againe the swindge of my wit, which was to cōmaund

must haue their wils, and they haue wils may reprooue whatsoeuer I say. Then since the lawe as from the fountaine of my offences, hath had power to drawe my life from me, and the world euen after my death, may haue a strength to condemne me, words vttered with teares but request of them this, that since my body shall haue power to blunt the edge of affliction, my fall may haue force to abate the keene sharpenesse of their rumoring tongues: and if any thirsty or vnsatisfied spleen either reioycing at my fall o•…•… bemoning my ruine, shall de∣sire to see vnraueled the whole web of my life, here shall he behold the peece of my trauailes wherein I desire him to wash from his memory the staines of my name, here shall he read my diurnall transgressions, which I re∣quest him to pardon and not to reprooue, since no curre is so cruell to bite the dead, here as in a mirror shall he•…•… looke into my miseries handyworke, my sinne, my sorrow, my life, my death, and the building of my owne labour, begunne from the time I was brought by the Sherefe of Middlesex to Newgate, wrought vpon in the Marshalseyes, and conclude most vntimely at Wapping.

For my place of birth then I must call it in Bristoll where my education was such, as did credit my louing and carefull father, and was obeyed by me as a dutyfull sonne: I grew vp like a streight plant, and was expected of the worthiest of that Citie, and hoped sor of the best of my countrye, to haue prooued the timber of a fruitfull trée: my company to our gentry was accounted so wel∣come, that they esteemed me for pleasure, more then ex∣penses, and the contempt I held to assosiate with the base, had brought my faire de•…•…aner to be beloued of the best. So that my fellowship intirely desired, and my condition held honest, my father was proud to call me his happy sonne.

In which flourishing expectation in my youth soiourned

in Bristoll, where I so farre preuailed in the loue of our Marchants, that I was soone encouraged to goe to sea, the first imployment I vndertooke was more to see the state and fashions of forraine countries, and to inrich my vnderstanding with experience, then any greedines of gaine, to strengthen riotte. So that in her late memorable maiesties reigne, when the diuision of league was be∣tweene this kingdome and Spaine, I went but Purser sent forth in a man of Warre of Bristoll▪ in which charge of mine how carefull I gouerned, let my owne hand ne∣glect to record, and the Marchants themselues when my body is in dust, impartially report, I neuer returning home but with sayles of successe profitable to the ventu∣rers, comfort to my father, and credit to his sonne: whereby from degree to degree deseruing aduancement I was at length set forth as Captaine my selfe, in which commaund ab oad howe manly I swayed let my ene∣mies pratie that haue felt me at sea: which credit lent me, how well I repaid, let Bristoll speake, that in this my extremitie hath labour•…•… my peace & pardon (euen with the price of eight hundred pound) felt of my purchase and feasted my paines.

I haue sate with the Aldermen when my fathar hath wept to heare them discourse, and the teares he hath shed (against the nature of childhood) hath encouraged my valour as if I would say, father of me thou shalt weepe a∣gaine. But death must haue no praises, and though successe being like a spring tide, that rolles so high, till it ouerflow the bounds, I was as auidous to goe to warre, as my stomacke hungry I had an appetite to eate: I complaind of nothing, for I held my wounds the ban∣ners of heraldry borne before me to my graue, and all my study was how to make my father in his death but be comforted by his son, and the sonne to reioyce as in such a father. Your pitie Reader then is but this, neither of father nor of sonne: pitty the father, that hath lost him

he loued, and reioyce in the sonne that hath sinned and laments.

But to my purpose, hauing in so many voyages gone forth and returned so successiuely and to approue, that the state of fortune, is like the spokes of a wheele, that is carri∣ed aswell downward as vpward, that this worldly feli∣city ioyes and pleasure, in which we so trust▪ which we study to know, labour to purchase, and are so carefull to keep, are but like the day that is giuen vs to vse, and vani∣sheth away euen in the growing: That while we think we stand sure on the pynackles of Fortune, we are on the sud∣daine ouerthrowne to lye groueling in shame, pleasure and sorrow, being indeed twins (as shall appeare by me) the one no sooner hatched, but the other is at hand to s•…•… plant her, and therefore I may fitly compare mans happines heere to a fruitles smile, the which is presently turned in∣to sorrowe and teares: te a dreame, the ioy whereof vani∣sheth euen as we wake: to a painted Sepulchre, faire without and putrified within, or to a Syren beautifull in shew and deceitful to intice, glorious aboue to be witch you with gasing, but looke downe to the hinder part, to the bottome of that which heere we ran mad for, we shal finde this tempting faire to haue the taile of a Scorpion, who in the handling giues such a blow▪ that it benummeth our bo∣dies, and the sence of vnderstanding, and stingeth our soules with an irrecouerable death.

For while I thus wallowed in my inclination, ma∣stred by my affections, and making my felicity out of others mens miseries, while I thought prosperity at sea, as sure in my gripe, as the power to speak was free to my tongue, my actions were fo imboldened, and my heart so hardned, that I held if a cowardise to dispaire to attempt, and effe∣minacy to pitie whosoeuer did perish. So that my for∣tunes, like a byas-bowle, being all this while throwne vp a hill, and gayned not the top of safety, whereon it might rest, it must of force fall downe againe. So I feareles to

venture, and dreadles of daunger, in the straights mee∣ting with the Turkes Gallies▪ well appointed in a man of war, my surprised prise, waiting my becke, & making for Bostow, the Turkes road vp to me I was soone ha•…•…, but my ordnance made answer, and disdayning so much as to giue them friendly words, in regard my desperate bolde∣nes thought me free from their rage, we enterd fight, where what either was their encounter, or our resistance, I will be partiall to report: but the end was, I was taken prisoner, conueid to Tunes, from a Christian transformd to a fl•…•…ue, had my head and face shauen, and in their need∣full seruice, as an inforced wretch, could striking, blowes brusing, and hunger pinching, I was compeld to row in their Gallies: necesstiy hath no resistance, and to this mise∣ry I was enforced to obey three yeares, when I continu∣ed it out, some of the time with winde, water and blowes, brusing me at the seas, and the other part with Iron & hun∣ger, torturde a shore.

In all which time, I had occasion inough offered me, to haue laid repentance at my heart, to haue sorrowed for my iniquities past, and to haue vowed to my conscience, that if euer God were the blessed worker, to redeeme me from this thraldome and captinitie, without whose helpe, I lay groueling & desperate, I would account that minut the houre of my birth, and so consecrate my after life to the obeying of his will, that I would conuert my violence to patience, my Tyranny to temperancee▪ all my vices to vertues, and reforme my •…•…ife to his blessed word, when on the contrary this affliction of my body, did not so chast•…•…e my minde, that I imputed this correction, to be laid vpon me by the hand of heauen, as a iust whip for my offences past, but the continuance thereof did so harden my heart, so fire my spleene, and inflate my spirit, that I vowed my liberty gained, should be to others losse, my freedome prooue fatall to other mens good haps, and that if euer I had againe the swindge of my wit, which was to cōmaund

at sea, my fortunes should aspire to their •…•…ormer eminence and my pleasure grow to their an•…•…ient scope, or my body should fall for it.

But see •…•…he iust will of the heauens (and be forewarnd by my fall you succeeding ages) that I should be the Pro∣phesierto my self of my owne mishap, and the fatal rauen to c•…•…oke out mine owne ruine.

For while I lay plunged in this sea of affliction, cloide with misery and without hope of releefe, It fortuned one Captaine Bishop, with a wealthy prise he had then tane, to put in for Tunes, and in a small time hauing made sale of his goods, he hauing (by what rumour I neuer v•…•…∣derstood) ha•…•… intelligence of my thraldom there, of my ex∣treame vsage, and in•…•…ortunat mishap, of his own frée nature he enquired me out, and demanded of me if I were that Captaine Harris so talked of in Bristow, who had bene so fortunate to inrich others, and was now deiected in this misfortune my selfe? when hauing little pleasure to heare my prayses spoken, or vnmindful to renew their memory by talke, but rather desirous of some comfort to supply my present want, although I euer held it a contemptible base∣nes to begge: he demaunded twice ere I made him an answere, till at length, the report of the place, my mother, country, nurse, and raiser, and the present me∣morie of my ancient father, being by his question put in my minde, I resolued him thus:

What I was he witnessed, what I had bene by his owne tongue belike had heard, what I might be (vn∣les a dead man) in my present case he could hardly guesse, yet not-withstandnig all this, I was borne at Bristoll: who bring struck presently with an in-ward pity, to se•…•… me lye chayned inso miserable a case, so deformed with∣out hatre on my head or face, so ghastly in shewe, so hollow-eyd, and so pined away in flesh, I might perceiue the teares to startle in his eies, while his hand priuately into mine put fiue duckets, and departing the

prison, he spake to me thus, be of good cheere Sir, God hath in store, in our greatest neede, and friends no doubt but will be your helpe, when I, not without cause, than∣king him for his present curtesie, without demaunding his name, or little expecting his kindenes succeeded, for that instant we were both deuided.

When Capta•…•…ne Bishop, as he hath often related vn∣to me since, being •…•…eturned backe to his chamber, he was struck with a forcible impression to the heart in pity of my state, and the oftner remembring what Bristoll had spoke of me, he vowed to his soule he would proue my •…•…nlarger, if al the riches he had but lately broght in, might purchase my ransome, with which curtesie of his (oh let no man forbid me to commend him, although for his offences like mine he deserues to be condemned) he neither telling me of his purpose, feeding my hope▪ or flattering my expecta∣tion, he so labourd with the Crosimon and Gouernours of Tunis, that for three hundred d•…•…ukets, which he franckly paid ere I knew by what meanes or by whome I was set at liberty, when in a generous disposition, inuiting me to his lodging I had my entertainementin such forme, as my present fortunes had equald his, where in regard of my long captiuity, he was as my Phisition, to minister to my health, allowing me all meanes possible, and commaun∣ding withall that nothing were wanting might repaire my body to a strengthned estate: which when I found to be in my selfe, as he had perfectly enabled me within, (according to my degree, and the dignitie of his bounty) with varie∣ty of sutes he repaird me without, so that one day after be∣ing alone together, being iocund and frolick, for in al socie∣ties he accounted me his friend and companion, he on a suddainebrake with me thus.

Captaine Harris what saist thou my heart, how art thou resolued man, whether as occasion shall offer thee, to make for England, and there to be held bold and behol∣ding to thy old, but wauering acquaintance, or to abide

with me, & venture thy fortunes with thy certain friend. It is not strange vnto thee, that since the late death of her memorable maiestie, our most royall Soueraigne, and his prudent and graue counsell, on approoued considerations best knowne to his grace and the state, and not requisite for vs that are subiects to enquire, hath lessend by this ge∣nerall peace the flourishing imployment, that we sea•…•…aring men do bleede for at sea: In those •…•…aies of bickering (quoth he) we haue spent our houres in a high floud, and it will be vnsauory for vs now, to pick vp our crums in a lowe •…•…bbe: to liue in basenes, and want meanes euen to sustain nature, to walke vnder the checke of some such as haue pearkt vp their heads to authoritie in this time of quiet, whome we durst haue buffeted I and their heyres too in daies of warre. Then say, if for England thou resoluest thy course, such is my loue to thy welfare, I will not leaue thy company, till I see thee ashore, and then leaue me to shift for my selfe, But it with me and my loue to thee, thouwilt fasten thy fortunes, I will call thee my brother, and in the riches I haue gayned I will make thee a sha∣rer.

With which speech of his, hauing had intelligence that his purchase was great, seeing his riot and expenses huge, and hauing found his curtesie towards my misery manifest, I f•…•…und my inclination yeelding, and was al∣most caught at the first angling, yet for that instant, I de∣sired some small respite, to consider of his will, and to my request he as soone consented.

In which respite, nothing diminishing his bounty, nor neglecting his former fauour, for his purse was as open to me as to himselfe, it happened that one Captaine Gilbert Roup while Captaine Bishops ships anchord in the road, and he with his men did reuell▪ shoare, with a rich prise he had lately tane, was come also to Tunis: betwéene whome their acquaintance being former, there was no neglect of gratulatiōs in the highest imbracement,

and my company at the present was welcometo both: when againe, Captaine Bishops, in the presence of Captaine Roup, began to solicite me in his former purpose whose words were by Captaine Roupe as readily secūded & theeir persuasions so inlarged▪ being as I thought bound euen to my life, by the curtesie of the one, and fyred now also with the riches the other had brought in, neither of them were so ready to aske of my consent as I of free will was foreward to graunt: whose company both of them seeming with gladnesse to be welcomed, Captaine Roupe hauing made sale of his commodities, Captaine Bi∣shop and my selfe reuelling out the time with him, a ship well mand and prouided for me, and we three combind together in one faction: let the reader thinke we a•…•…e now at sea, whe•…•…e we thriued so succesfully that I blu•…•…h to report the rapine that the hands of so fewe did execute on the bodies and substa•…•…ce of many: onely this that part of the purchase in this voyage we had gain•…•… wee made sale off at Sophi, and Sancta-cruci in Barba∣ry, and the remainder with out sailes we conueid to Tunis, when Captaine Bishop, finding himselfe not per•…•…ectly in health, after his ease and superfluous reuel∣ling here a shoare, nine shares of our pillage being de∣uided betwéene him, Captaine Roup and my selfe, he was contented for a while to continew at Tunis, and Captaine Roupe prepard his ship to put off againe for So∣phy in Barbarie, where I heard imediatly after, he met & consorted with Captaine Iennings: and I on the o∣ther side rigging my vessell, and redying my men: Captaine Bishop then, neither deducting any part out of my share for the ship at his owne charge he had furnish∣ed forth for me, I now put forth for a voyage my selfe. When encountring with rough winds, and vnsea∣sonable tempests, and my men many of them falling sicke, and in their sicknesse perished, with the best ex∣pedition that experience could teach, with the rest which

remained, we made way for the coast of Ireland, and ere long we anchored in Baltimore, where finding y^t coast cleare, our ariuall out of daunger, and our entertain∣ment free, we there repaired and fresh victuald our ship, and there receaued in the most part of my present company namely Iohn Spencer, and Thomas Spencer brothers, Samuell Read, and Richard Baker: the rest which I then tooke in, being not now taken, and in hope they may liue to doe their King and countrey better seruice, I hope no indifferent man, will condemne me for concea∣ling their names. With whose assistance being againe strengthned and my ship in fresh plight, I put on for the coast of Spaine, where nere the Ilands of Meuera, I met with a french ship called the Margaret of Maruill, sayling from Lisborne whose chiefest lading was suger, twixt whom and vs, there was no great en∣counter, before my frenchman (although he seemed some∣what hot at the) first began to submit, whome wee pre∣sently boorded and ransacking her lading (which as be∣fore we discoured was but sugers) we found her be∣neath to be better stuft then aboue, for at the bottome of her hould we tooke out eight thousand french crownes, and so much of her chiefest lading, as we thought fit for our present sale and burthen, giuing the ship backe to the Maister to make for Fraunce, or without offering to him or his men any other hurt. After which keeping still at sea, I met with a Duch ship, of a farre greater bur∣then then my owne I was Captaine of, whome I ges∣sing more auailable for me in the enterprise I had in hnad, I compelled him to change with me, more for feare then for loue, & so gaue them leaue to depart without further outrage: the tenth of May following and in this present yeare of his maiesties reigne, I met also with another french ship, called the Mary, of a Marchant of Saint Malos laden with wine, twixt whom and vs there was a small fight, but their resistance being in vaine, she was

made our owne: when Ierome Lockey a fellow though poore in shew yet he was cruell at sea & foreward in fight, who getting downe into the hould (before I had notice) and the ship had yeelded, when meeting the Marchant, and perceiuing his lading to be nothing but wines (not of my knowledge I protest before God) he tooke three or foure cable ends and most cruelly I confesse abused the Frenchman, to make him expresse what other lading then was extant in sight, his vessell contained? who streight brought him to eight hundred Dollers so conning∣ly hid, without which course I faithfully beleeue wee should neuer haue found them. And which summe I must graunt he presented to me, the coine I deny not but I willingly receiued, yet I neglected not to checke him for abusing the man. Which ship, and the riches of the Margarite I had taken before, for as yet I had made no sale of her goods, I had aduised my maister Peter Brush and though I say a skilfull mariner, to bend his course againe for Ireland, and expressely for Baltimor: the course was by him and in generall disliked, since wee had bene their so lately and my name so fresh in memory about the coast, although not as yet proclaimed for a Pi∣rat: but see the will of Heauen, that against all persua∣sion I should bea maine furtherer of mine own ruine & the ouerthrowe of my men, for no persuasion nor resistance would alter me, but our course must be readily for Balti∣more.

But see how it happened, the Frenchman whom I first tooke in the Margarit and the Duch also whom I com∣pelled to change ships with me, hauing made for England, had deliuered my name and iniurie done vnto them, to the right honourable of the Councell, as also that not long before their surprisal I had made my reside & victual∣ed my ship at Baltimor, the which belike amongst di∣uers talke some or other of my men had made knowne to them, which their Lordships vnderstanding, and

to preuent such outrages committed to their neighbour nations and friends with whom they had league, they presently caused one of the Kings maiesties ships, ouer whome Sir William Saint Iohn was Captaiue, not so much alone to scoure the coast, and surprise me, as to preuent that place, to be a nourisher and ayde to any such offenders in that case as my selfe. Which Gentle∣man, in the Kings ship lying at road, had intelligencers lay vppon the mountaines in the mouth of the harbor, who were alwayes ready to giue him instructions of the neare arriuall of any man of warre, or other ship whom∣soeuer: when to my fate it so vntimely happened, that I was the first, and the spies by the bearing our topsaile and conducting our prise, had giuen him to vnderstand for certaine, there was a man of warre comming in, who presently caused his ship should be haled vp close vnder a place called Iustice Crookes Castell, where she was impo∣ssible to be descried, & least our espial should make vs keepe off: So that we were on the sudden fallen withinhis com∣maund, and vnpossible to retire ere that we had any no∣tice to be forewarnd, or power to resist our dāger, in which distresse not without much terror perceiuing our case, vppon his first sommons we yeelded our selues, when Sir William Saint Iohn caused his long boat to be sent out to vs, and himselfe in person came vs aboard vnto whom I did (as (at my arraignment) we all resolued to plead this excuse,) that being as true it is, I was prisoner in Tunis, and from that thraldome released by Captaine Bishop, I was bound to obey him, and all that I did was vnder his commaund, that at our last watering at Ballimor, Captaine Bishop was in our company, which now I must confesse to be an vntruth, and that there by his constraint and sleights, most of my men being brought aboard and by him compelled to vndertake this busines we hauing now got this ad∣uantage, in a suddaine storme and growne sea to loose

his company, our purpose of comming in was to yeeld our selues: not doubting but his maiestie in commissera∣tion of my estate being neuer detected before, bought from a slaue, Bishop being Lord of me, and compeld to his will, I should sooner obtaine his mercy, in which Kings beare the tipes to be Gods on earth, then the ri∣gor of Iustice, which hath power to condemne my wretched yet innocent life, and that himselfe whose worthinesse I had heard of, would be so gratious a friend to the integrity of our cause, that my men also, whom I then protested to be compeld to the action, since we all yeelded without any violence offered, himselfe would be the testimony in our behalfe: Who very wisely contested vnto vs, that so farre as our dealings had bene honest, & our iustification true, he would be our friend to the vt∣most, and our foe in no part: so seazing vppon our ship and goods and imprisoning my selfe and company, wee were by his commission directed from Baltimor to Du∣blin, from Dublin to Bristoll, where my friends mor∣sorrowed to see me now, then euer they reioyced to bee hold me before, yet neuer neglected to visit my company, allowing me meanes to beare me like a Gentleman, nor ceasing since both with purse and paines to haue reco∣uered my peace.

But what be fore I had so cunningly excused, by the prouident and searching eye of the Councell, was found to be faulty, andrruth being waighed in the scailes of Iustice we were found too light, so that hauing re∣mained twenty daies in Bristoll, I was from thence from Shiriffe to Shiriffe directed to Newgate, my brother comming along and bearing me company, who labouring like the carefull Bee in my businesse neuer idle, solliciting here and labouring there, and who had hopefull expectation and promises I should find mercy that had for my offences deserued none, I built not yet my trust on so shaking a foundation, but although to supply the

company of mymultitude of friends whose loue came daily to visit me, I bare an outside of mirth, I h ad a hart peece of sorrow, & considering in my thoughts how I had wronged the stranger, and those whose losses I could ne∣uer right, how I had vndone many & had but a lifeto sa∣tisfie all, I desired not now to build, for that where I might not continue, but labour for that where I should liue for euer. I thought it not requisite now, to forget Heauen for earth, the soule for the bodie, nor heauenly pleasures for temporall goods: I acknowledge now that in a worldly building the stones must be bro∣ken, hewen and squared, ere they be fit to make vp the worke: the corne must be thrashed, winnowed and puri∣fied before it be ready for nourishing bread: the whirle∣wind must first blow ere Elias be rapt into heauen, so euery sinner must be cut, hewen and squared, with the blowes that beat vppon his guilty conscience, be threa∣shed wi nnowed and purified with prayers, repentance and amendement of life: and sighes must make way both for body and soule, if we meane ere to come to our hea∣uenly Ierusalem. I remembred now that vncookt meat is vnwholesome for man, and vnmortified men be no creatures for God: which made me in my chamber in the houres of quiet alone, neuer haue the Pensiue-mans practise out of my hand, nor the penitent mans-practise outof my heart: therefore I must say to him, it was vrgen∣tly done who informed the Counsell, that the Saterday, be fore my tryal & first imprisonment in the Marshalsies and in my imprisonnement, my first meeting with Cap∣taine Iennings, who at sea together did call brothers, and being with him but orderly mercie, he reported to their Lordships we were mad drunke: this was informed to be done, and whosoeuer did it, I must needes tell him it was but a homely message, since it is no good nor chari∣table office to heape vniust iniuries vppon miserable men: for I protest, I had that testimony in my selfe, that my

sorrow had washed away my foulenesse, and loathing my life I inuited my death, knowing there is no death where there is no sinne, for by sinne death entred into the world, and the wages of sinne is death, so that what I was to loose, I was sure to loose as soone as I had life, but the life that I looked for should neuer haue death, which patience and resolution of mine, the dili∣gent Preacher that both labourd and found in me I doubt not (for truth) but he will speake and confirme, which Christian end of mine I expect, that insteed of me it shall encrease comfort in my friends, and be a sufficient satis∣faction to my aduersaries, of whom on the bended knees of my heart I humbly craue pardon, from whome being men I feare not deniall, since I am sure it is sea∣led of our Maker in heauen, & so from a free and vnbur∣thened heart, a patient mind and willing steps, I goe out of my chamber in the Marshalstes, the Friday morning being the two and twenty day of December to make my death-bed at Wapping.

Of whom Reader if thou destrest more, though he be the first of number placed in the booke, he was the last of seauenteene that suffered: first he made his deuotion and prayers with an affirmatiue tongue, threw away his hat as he went bouldly vp the ladder, and being demanded of a straunger stood by him, If as yet he had heard no good newes from the King? he answered him, none sir but from the King of Kings: and therefore with Peter I must resolue and say I looke for a new heauen and a new earth, according to his promise wherein dwel∣leth righteousnesse: he sung (to a sillable) the one and twenty Psalms, dyed a repentant sinner and a Chri∣stian, and by the diligence of his naturall brother, was brought to the keeper of Newgates house in Newgate∣market, and from thence as a Christian was buried in Christe-Church.