P. 131. =A Copy of Verses by Captain Henry Every.= From the Pepys collection (v. 384). There is an eighteenth-century version in the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_ ii. 72, No. 1, 166) entitled _Bold Captain Avery_. The numerous variants in the later version are merely corruptions and not worth noting. The ballad follows very closely the facts set forth at the trial of six of Every’s crew in 1696. Henry Every, _alias_ Bridgman, on May 30, 1694, seized a merchant ship called The Charles the Second, Charles Gibson master, as she lay at anchor about three leagues from the Groyne (_i.e._ Corunna). Having set Gibson and sixteen honest men ashore and renamed the ship, Every sailed for the coast of Guinea. A proclamation against Captain Henry Every, of the ship Phancy, was issued July 18, 1696 (Luttrell’s _Diary_, iv. 86). The reference to the different flags used by pirates in verses 9-12 is explained by the following extract from the narrative of a captive: ‘About eleven of the clock one night, after the whole crew had been some time assembled in the great cabbin, I heard three huzzas, and then they all came up on deck and hoisted _Jolly Roger_ (for so they call their black ensign, in the middle of which is a large white skeleton with a dart in one hand striking a bleeding heart, and in the other an hour-glass).... When they fight under _Jolly Roger_ they give quarter, which they do not when they fight under the red or bloody flag.’ (From Captain Richard Hawkins’s account of his capture by Captain Spriggs and his sufferings amongst the pirates of the Spanish Main in the year 1724, reprinted in Boyer’s _Political State of Great Britain_, vol. xxviii. pp. 147-156). P. 133. =Villany Rewarded.= From the Pepys collection (ii. 99). A broadside printed for Charles Barnes, 1696. See _The Trial of Joseph Dawson &c. for several Piracies and Robberies by them committed in company of Every the Grand Pirate_: London, 1696, folio. The six accused were all condemned and hanged at Execution Dock, November 25, 1696.