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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to supply his place, and notwithstanding that we have now pirates among these Islands which I had an account of one of … by which I shall be left without a man of war and if any pirates are or should continue among these Islands, it will …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Dec. 3rd last, giving an account of the increase of pirates and the mischief they have done in those parts, with … 518. i.v. Extracts and copies of depositions relating to pirates v. C.S.P. Dec. 3, 1716. [ C.O. 137, 46. Nos. 24, 24 … condition of our trade in America, and the great number of pirates that do at present infest those seas, seem to require …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 3. Westminster. 483. Copy of a Commission for trying pirates at Jamaica. Countersigned, Wrighte. Endorsed, Recd. … informed that some of the chief, as well as others, of the pirates, which were on the Island of Providence have … and that there was reason to expect the rest of the pirates in those parts would soon follow that good example. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… referred to in this last. Your accounts relating to the pirates were transmitted to Mr. Secretary Craggs, and your …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… They all live near at hand etc. Since my last severall pirates have been taken, tryed and executed, particularly the … to the same purpose, and I am further informed that the pirates used frequently to say in the hearing of their … with her yards and top-masts down at Sta. Lucea. The pirates at first endeavoured to board her but she running out …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Enquires for General Hamilton's Commission for trying pirates etc. (?. 21st Feb.) [ C.O. 153, 14. p. 127.] April 2. … patens I now send" (Commission for trying and pardoning pirates ?. 15th May), "which to be shour was sent home by a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Spain will be in danger, and in a peace insulted by the pirates, and also by the Spaniards from Cuba, as they always … suppress the violence of these abandon'd rovers (or rather pirates) and which I hope you'l be so good as to remind his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fired from the land, decided that the vessels might be pirates, and accordingly sent two armed boats to join the … when our coasts have been infested with privateers and pirates" etc. Signed by, John Pitt, 12 Councillors and 25 …