And secondly, That he had signed the Pyrate's Articles with a great deal of Alacrity, and gloried in having been the first Surgeon that had done so, (for before this, it was their Custom to change their Surgeons, when they desired it, after having served a Time, and never obliged them to sign, but he was resolved to break thro' this, for the good of those who were to follow,) swearing immediately upon it, he was now, he hoped, as great a Rogue as any of them. Captain _Jo. Trahern_, and _George Fenn_, his Mate, deposed, the Prisoner to have taken out of the _King Solomon_, their Surgeon's capital Instruments, some Medicines, and a Back-Gammon Table; which latter became the Means of a Quarrel between one _Wincon_, and he, whose Property they should be, and were yielded to the Prisoner. _Jo. Sharp_, Master of the _Elizabeth_, heard the Prisoner ask _Roberts_ leave to force _Comry_, his Surgeon, from him, which was accordingly done, and with him, carried also some of the Ship's Medicines: But what gave a fuller Proof of the dishonesty of his Principles, was, the treacherous Design he had formed of running away with the Prize, in her Passage to Cape _Corso_, though he had been treated with all Humanity, and very unlike a Prisoner, on Account of his Employ and better Education, which had rendred him less to be suspected. _Mr. Child_, (acquitted) depos'd, that in their Passage from the Island of St. _Thomas_, in the _Fortune_ Prize, this Prisoner was several Times tempting him, into Measures of rising with the Negroes, and killing the _Swallow_'s People, shewing him, how easily the white Men might be demolished, and a new Company raised at _Angola_, and that Part of the Coast, _for_, says he, _I understand how to navigate a Ship, and can soon teach you to steer; and is it not better to do this, than to go back to_ Cape-Corso, _and be hanged and Sun-dryed?_ To which the Deponent replying, he was not afraid of being hanged, _Scudamore_ bid him be still, and no Harm should come to him; but before the next Day-Evening, which was the designed Time of executing this Project, the Deponent discovered it to the Officer, and assured him, _Scudamore_ had been talking all the preceeding Night to the Negroes, in _Angolan_ Language. _Isaac Burnet_ heard the Prisoner ask _James Harris_, a Pyrate, (left with the wounded in the Prize,) whether he was willing to come into the Project of running away with the Ship, and endeavour the raising of a new Company, but turned the Discourse to Horse-Racing, as the Deponent crept nigher; he acquainted the Officer with what he had heard, who kept the People under Arms all Night, their Apprehensions of the Negroes not being groundless; for many of them having lived a long Time in this pyratical Way, were, by the thin Commons they were now reduced to, as ripe for Mischief as any.