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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63217	The Tryals of Joseph Dawson, Edward Forseith, William May, [brace] William Bishop, James Lewis, and John Sparkes for several piracies and robberies by them committed in the company of Every the grand pirate, near the coasts of the East-Indies, and several other places on the seas : giving an account of their villainous robberies and barbarities : at the Admiralty sessions, begun at the Old-Baily on the 29th of October, 1696, and ended on the 6th of November.	England and Wales. High Court of Admiralty.	1696 (1696)	Wing T2252; ESTC R38357	34,055	29

And then calling a Council they agreed to follow them and accordingly went after them and came up with one of them which was about 250 Tun and with small resistance took her and put some Men on board her and took out Gold and Silver out of her to the Value of 30 or 40000 l. with other Merchandise And afterwards met with the Ship called the Gunsway and robbed her likewise of all her Furniture to a very great Value And about a Week after they shared all the Prizes they had taken and some had a thousand Pound some had eight hundred some seven hundred some five hundred every Man in the Ship his Share as they thought they deserved And it was particularly proved by the Evidence against the Prisoners that they had their Shares The more particular 〈◊〉 of which is already Printed at large in the foregoing Tryal When the King's Evidence had done the Prisoners were permitted to say what they could in their Defence out the same appearing to be very weak the L. C. J. Holt summed up the Evidence and the Jury going out to consider their Verdict after a short stay brought them in all Guilty Then the Court Adjourned to the 10th of November following After the Tryal of John Murphey was over the Pirates were brought to the Bar. Cl. of Ar. Ioseph Dawson you by your own Confession are Convicted of Piracy and Robbery What have you to say why Sentence of Death shall not be passed upon you according to Law Io. Dawson I submit my self to the King and the honourable Bench. Cl. of Ar. Edward Foreseth What have you to say c. Foreseth I am an innocent Man and went on to jushifie himself c. Iudge of the Admiralty You and the rest of the Prisoners at the Bar have had a very fair Tryal and been fully heard upon your Defence but the Jury your Countrey-men upon whom you put your selves to be tried have found you Guilty So that the insisting upon your Justification cannot now avail you any thing the Verdict being given but if you have any thing to offer in arrest of Judgment or can shew any Cause why the Court should not proceed to give Judgment according as the Law directs against Persons Convicted of Piracy you shall have liberty to speak and will be heard Foreseth I desire to be sent into India to suffer there Cl. of Ar. William May What have you to say c. William May. My Lord I being a very sickly Man never acted in all the Voyage I have served my King and Countrey this thirty Years and am very willing to serve the East-India Company where they please to command me and desire the honourable Bench to consider my Case and if I must suffer I desire to be sent into India to suffer there Cl. of Ar. William Bishop What have you to say c. Will. Bishop I was forced away and when I went was but 18 Years old and am now but 21 and desires Mercy of the King and the Court. Iames Lewis I am an ignorant Person and leave my self to the King's Mercy Iohn Sparks I leave my self to the King's Mercy and to the honourable Court Iu. of the Ad. Ioseph Dawson You stand Convicted upon four Indictments by your own Confession for Piracy and Robbery And you Ed. Foreseth Will. May Will. Bishop Ia. Lewis and Io. Sparks having put your selves upon your Tryals according to the Customs and Laws of your own Countrey have been found Gailty upon three several Indictments for the same detestable Crimes committed upon the Ships and Goods of Indians of Danes and your own Fellow-Subjects The Law for the heinousness of your Crime hath appointed a severe Punishment by an ignominious Death and Iudgment which the Law awards is this That you and every one of you be taken from hence to the Place from whence you came and from thence to the Place of Execution and that there you and every one of you be Hanged by the Necks until you and every one of you be Dead And the Lord have Mercy upon you According to this Sentence Edward Foreseth and the rest were Executed on Wednesday November the 25th 1696 at Execution-Dock that being the usual Place for the Execution of Pirates FINIS