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in Cafe of a Fight they fhould take diem arid tie them
Back to Back, and throw them all over Board into the
Sea.
It fliould not be omitted here alfo in the Cafe of GJ-.'J
himfelf, tliat he had long meditated the kind of Villiiny
v/hich he now put in Praftice, and that it was his Re-
folution to turn Pyrate the firft Opportunity he {liould
get, whatever Voyage'he undertook, and that I had ob
ferv'd he had intended it on Board a Ship in which ].:•
came Home from Lisbon, but f.il'd only for VAint of
making a fafficient Party ; fo this Refolution of his is
conf.rni'd by the Te'limony and ConfefTion of 'J,im:s
Behin, one of his Fellow Criminals, who upon the
Trial declar'd, that he knew that Gonv (and he added
the Crew of the George Galley) had a Defign to turn.
Pyrates from the beginning, and added, that he difco-
vcr'd it to George Djbfon in Amjierdam, before the Ship
went out to Sea; for the Confirmation of this, Dahfi':
Avas call'd up again, after he had given liis Evidence up-
on the Trials, and being confronted with Belvin, h.e
did acknowledge that Belvin had fiiid fo, and that in
particular he had faid, the Boatfwain and feveral others
had fuch a Defign, and in cfpecial manner, that the
faid Boatfwain had a Defign to murder the Mailer, and
fome others, and run away with the Ship,-and being
afk'd v/hat was the Reafon why he did not immediate-
ly difcover it to t!ie Mafter Captain Ferneau P he an-
fwer'd, that he heard ^B^/fwi tell th.e Mate of it, and
that the Mate told tliB Captain of it, but that tiie
Captain made light of it, and that tho' he was per-
fuaded not to let the Boatfwain go along with them,
yet the Captain laid, he fear'd them not, and vi'OJlJ
ftill take him, but that the Boatfwain finding himfeif
difcover'd, refufed to go, upon which Gozv was named
for Boatfwain, but was made fecond Mate, and tliea
Behln was made Boatfwain, and had he been as ho-
nell afterward as before, he might have efcap'd whjt
afterwards became fo juftly his Due ; but as they acted
together, Juitice requir'd they Ihould fufFer, and ac-
H 3 cordingly