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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40589	A Full and true relation of an English vessel newly taken by a company of French pyrats who, after they had cruelly robb'd her of all her goods, kill'd part of her men : but being afterwards taken by the English, their ships were ordered to be sent prisoners to Wapping Dock and their captains to be confin'd to the Marshalsees, there at next sessions to be try'd for their lives.		1690 (1690)	Wing F2318; ESTC R17637	2,575	10

A FULL AND TRUE RELATION OF AN English Vessel Newly taken by a Company of French Pyrats Who after they had cruelly Robb'd her of all her Goods kill'd part of her Men But being afterwards taken by the English their Ships were ordered to be sent Prisoners to Wapping Dock and their Captains to be confin'd to the Marshalsees there at next Sessions to be try'd for their Lives With Allowance London Printed for W. Harris next door to the Turn-Stile in the Postern A full and true Account of an English Vessel which was lately robbed by French Pyrates SO prone are the generality of Mankind to Impieties that rather than not commit them they will do it on an Element which seems as unnatural as incommodious for them to effect their horrid Villanies upon Who would imagine that men who live in those fleeting Houses called Ships who are daily subject to be destroy'd by every blast or Hurricane and every minute ride within three Inches of their liquid Grave should extract from the fear of mortality so much leisure as serves them for the plotting their wicked Designs Who would conceit they could have while to think on any thing but mortality and since they lye liable to so many Accidents which they have no security from but that they may even the very next minute tumble them into Eternity I say upon these Considerations who can imagine they should ponder any thing but their latter Ends or ought contemplate but their everlasting Happiness or Misery in the World to come and yet we hear there are every day as many Outrages committed at Sea as Land Pyrats on the Ocean like Pick-pockets near the Gallows forfeit their lives even in the sight of death when every Rock with its craggy Brow seems to scold them into Piety and every Storm with majestick Eloquence to drive them into the security of an honest life Nor are we in Reason to blame that Monarchy or Government to which these excursive Sea-Robbers owe their Nativities and consequently ought to do their obedience and subjection any more than we would sensure a wholsom Law or Constitution because some incorrigible Malefactors will forfeit their lives in breaking it Though Maritine Laws are in all Nations very severe yet the main Ocean affords so large a Scene that it is impossible for any Magistrate though never so inspective or circumspect to behold every Action that is done thereon There is no Kingdom so vertuous but there are some vicious in it nor no Constitutions so firm as to constrain every one to Obedience wherefore since we see by daily Experience That there is no Nation free from Malefactors at Land we may reasonably imagine none are clear from Pyrates at Sea the nice distinction betwixt a Pyrate and Thief being so little that we may not altogether improperly term the first a Sea-Thief and the latter a Land-Pyrate especially since the Laws of Nations run as strict against the one as the other It being therefore granted that every Country is incident too much to abound with these Caterpillers I hope I shall be thought free from all Reflections when I have related a Passage which lately happened In the Chanel betwixt Callis and Dover where a small Pink of ours then riding ken'd at a distance a Sail which made swiftly up towards her which caus'd our Sea-men to make all the Sail they could before her hoping to gain some Port or meet with some Assistance before they could be overtaken But these hopes were altogether fruitless for the Pyrate which pursued them was so swift of sail that in five or six Leagues she overtook them and after she had thrown off her Chain and lockt them fast together presently boarded our little Pink who though not man'd for such an Assault made some Resistance in which Contest her Surgeon was slain by an accidental blow from one of the contrary Party whom the English perceived by this time to be French-men by whom being over-power'd with number they were forced to see their Ship robbed without any hopes of redress After these cruel Pyrates had carried off all they thought valuable out of this little Pinck they left her to the merciless Ocean but she making all the sail she could towards the Downs made her Complaint to Sir Iohn Holms Admiral who was riding there at that time and he according to the usual Civility which he daily dispences to all his injured Country-men ordered forthwith the Castle Frigot and the Soldody to go a cruising for the aforesaid French Pyrates and not only so but hearing that there were others abroad which used the same cruel illegal and wicked employment gave the Commanders of those Ships Orders to bring in not only any that were to be suspected for Pyrates but any Privateer belonging to the French Whereupon it was their fortune to light upon two little French Vessels which they suspected to be concerned in the aforesaid Pyracy or robbing the English Pinck One of these which was the lesser of them had about 50 men in her and the other about seventy or eighty Both these Vessels were after some small Resistance taken by the English and having no good Commissions to shew for their sailing were on suspicion of being Pyrates brought to the Downs before the Right Honourable Sir Iohn Holms who upon mature Examination thought fit to send up both their Vessels into the River where they now lye over against Wapping Stairs and after he had heard the Captains of both Ships what they could say in their own defence thought fit likewise to order them to be sent to the Marshalsees there to have their Tryals according to Law in those Cases Which the Reader I suppose may hear at the Sessions held there about five weeks hence as I remember beginning the Twelfth day of August next Any one who will take so much pains as to go as far as the Marshalsees in Southwark may see these two Captains being both very brisk men to look on and the one of them very gallant but if I were capable of guessing a Mans mind by his Countenance I should be perswaded they are somewhat discontented whether by reason of their Confinement or Guilt I am not able to resolve I suppose it is in the hubbubs of War as at the lamentable exigent of a great Fire where many Rascally Fellows who have no Habitations of their own to gratifie the Ravenous Appetite of those devouring Flames forget all Humanity and under pretence of helping their distressed Brethren by carrying away and securing to themselves their Neighbours Goods become a greater Judgment than those Flames they would be thought to oppose How easie is it for a base spirited Seaman to be guilty of resembling such Knavery who having either by direct or indirect means made himself Master of a convenient Vessel calls to his Assistance a Company of Vagabonds Men of desperate resolutions and fortunes like himself and with these under pretences of opposing his Countrys Enemies falls promiscuously either upon them or her Friends not spairing upon occasion the Merchant-men of his own Nation if he light on them in a place convenient to secure their Cargo to his own secular use Thus are the Leagues and Contracts of Princes often in danger to be unrivited by a company of impious wretches whose Souls are as narrow as their Fortunes and their Births if it were possible more abject than either FINIS