P. 134. =Captain Kid’s Farewell.= This ballad is reprinted, for the first time, from the unique example in the collection of Lord Crawford. The trial of William Kid (or Kidd), which took place in 1701, is contained in volume xiv. of the _State Trials_, p. 123. The ballad follows the trial pretty closely. One indictment against Kid was for the murder of his gunner, William Moore. The dialogue which caused the assault is thus related. Captain Kid called Moore ‘a lousy dog.’ ‘Says William Moore, “If I am a lousy dog, you have made me so; you have brought me to ruin, and many more.” Upon his saying this, says Captain Kid, “Have I ruined you, ye dog?” and took a bucket bound with iron hoops and struck him on the right side of the head, of which he died next day.’ Another indictment was for the capture of a merchant ship called The Quedagh Merchant, bound from Bengal to Surat, the property of certain Armenian merchants and Moors, but commanded by an Englishman (see verse 7). This was in January 1698. About June 1696 Kid had taken on his voyage to New York ‘a French banker,’ as a witness calls it, _i.e._ a French fishing-ship bound for Newfoundland (see verse 8). At Babs Key or Bobs Key, ‘a small island at the entrance of the Red Sea,’ Kid projected an attack upon ‘the Mocca fleet,’ fourteen or fifteen merchantmen of various nationalities, but found them too strong for him (verse 9). Captain Culliford (mentioned in verse 15) was a notorious pirate, commander of the Resolution, formerly the Mocca frigate, whom Kid met at Madagascar. When they met, Culliford thought Kid had come to arrest him. But they became friends at once. ‘And on the quarter-deck they made some bomboo and drank together; and Captain Kid said, “Before I would do you any harm I would have my soul fry in hell fire,” and wished damnation to himself several times if he did’ (_State Trials_, xiv. 153, 167). In the report of the trial Culliford is described as now in custody, and he probably followed Kid to the gallows. Kid was executed May 23, 1701. On his case see also _A full Account of the Proceedings in relation to Capt. Kidd_, in _A Collection of State Trials, published during the Reign of King William III._, vol. iii. p. 230. A fragment of a traditional version of this ballad is given in Masefield’s _A Sailor’s Garland_, p. 17. P. 137. =A Satyr on the Sea Officers.= Printed in the _Miscellaneous Works_ of George Duke of Buckingham, i. p. 90, 1704. Probably written about 1691. The players were at Oxford in July 1691 (_Cal. S. P. Dom._, 1690-1, p. 430). P. 140. =The Sea Martyrs.= From the Pepys collection (v. 375). The broadside has no printer’s name or date. Probably written about January 1691. Luttrell notes, about the middle of December 1690, that ‘some seamen belonging to the Suffolk man-of-war, having mutinied for want of their pay, are secured and sent to the Marshalsea in order to their trial’ (_Diary_, ii. 144.)