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VI. Whoever offends fliall be punlfh'd with Death,
or otherwife, as we ftiall find proper for our Inte-
refl.
N. B. This Draught of Articles feems to be imper-
feft, and as it were only begun to be made, for that
there were feveral ethers intended to be added, but it
was fuppofed, that their Affairs growing defperate, their
Long Boat gone, and the Boatfwain and Boat's Crew in
the Pinnace or fmaller Boat gone alfo, and made Pri-
foners, there was no more need of Articles, nor would
any Body be bound by them if they were made ; fo
the farther making of Orders and Articles were let
alone.
Thefe that were made were written with Go-iv'i own
Hand, and 'tis fuppofed, that the reil would have
been done fo too, and then he would have taken Care
to have them executed; but he foon found there was
no Occafion for them, and I make no Quellion but all
their other Papers and Articles of any kind were de^
ftroy'd.
Being now all fecur'd, and in Cuftody in the moft
proper Places in the Ifland, Mr. Fea took Care to give
Notice to the proper Officers in the Country, and by
them to the Government of Edinburgh, in order to get
Help for the carrying them to England. The Diflancj
being fo great, this took up fome Time, for the Go-
vernment at Edinburgh being not immediately concern'd
in it, but rather the Court of Admiralty of Great-Bri'
tain, ExprefTes were difp.itch'd from thence to London,
that his Majeity's Pleafure might be known; in return
to which. Orders were difpatch'd into Scotland to have
them immediately fent up to England, with as much
Expedition as tiie Cafe would admit ; and accordingly
they were brought up by L'lnd to Edinburgh firft, and
from thence being put on Board the Greyhound Frigate,
thsy were brougiu by Sea to England.
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