Richard Wood } } Richard Scot } } Wm. Davison } Porcupine Capt. Fletcher } Feb. 1721. Sam. Morwell } Whydah Road } Edward Evans } } * John Jessup 2 surrender'd up at Princes You, _Harry Glasby, William Davison, William Champnies, Samuel Morwell_, &c. Y_E, and every one of you, are, in the Name, and by the Authority of our most dread Sovereign Lord_ George, _King of_ Great Britain, _indicted as follows._ _Forasmuch as in open Contempt and Violation of the Laws of your Country, to which ye ought to have been subject_, _ye have all of you been wickedly united and articled together, for the Annoyance and Destruction of his Majesty's trading Subjects by Sea; and in Conformity to so wicked an Agreement and Association, ye have been twice lately down this Coast of_ Africa, _once in_ August, _and a second Time in_ January _last, spoiling and destroying many Goods and Vessels of his Majesty's Subjects, and other trading Nations._ _Particularly ye stand indicted at the Information and Instance of Captain_ Chaloner Ogle, _as Traytors, Robbers, Pyrates, and common Enemies to Mankind._ _For that on the_ 10_th of_ February _last, in a Ship ye were possess'd of called the_ Royal Fortune, _of_ 40 _Guns, ye did maintain a hostile Defence and Resistance for some Hours, against his Majesty's Ship the_ Swallow, _nigh Cape_ Lopez _Bay, on the Southern Coast of_ Africa. _That this Fight and insolent Resistance against the King's Ship, was made, not only without any Pretence of Authority, more than that of your own private depraved Wills, but was done also under a black Flag, flagrantly by that, denoting your selves common Robbers and Traitors, Opposers and Violators of the Laws._ _And lastly, that in this Resistance, ye were all of you Voluntiers, and did, as such, contribute your utmost Efforts, for disabling and distressing the aforesaid King's Ship, and deterring his Majesty's Servants therein, from their Duty._ To which they severally pleaded, _Not Guilty._ * * * Whereupon the Officers of his Majesty's Ship, the _Swallow_, were called again, and testified as follows. That they had seen all the Prisoners now before the Court, and knew them to be the same which were taken out of one or other of the Pyrate Ships, _Royal Fortune_ or _Ranger_, and verily believe them to be those taken out of the _Royal Fortune._