_Massey_ was well received, and, at his own report, he was sent on board the _Happy Sloop_, to cruise off _Hispaniola_ for _Lowther_; but not meeting with him, he returned to _Jamaica_, and getting a Certificate, he came home to _England_, where, when he arrived, he writes to the _African_ Company, relating the whole transaction of his voyage, but excuses it as an inadvertency, by his being ill-used; for which, if they would not forgive him, he begged to die like a soldier, and not be hanged like a dog. This not producing so favourable an answer as he expected, he went the next day to the Lord Chief Justice Chambers, and enquired, If there had been ever a Warrant granted and against one Captain _Massey_ for Piracy. But being told, There was not, he said, He was the Man, and that the _African_ Company would soon apply to my Lord for one, which if they did, he lodged in _Aldersgate street_, where the Officer might at any time find him. This the Clerk took down in writing, and a Warrant being soon granted, the Tipstaff went accordingly, and took him without any trouble. But still there was no person to charge him, neither could they prove the letter to be his own hand-writing, till the Justice interrogated him, _Whether he did write the letter or not_; which he readily confessed, as also gave an ample account of the whole voyage, thereupon he was committed to _Newgate_, though soon after he was admitted out upon bail. _July_ the 5th, 1723, he was tried at the _Old-Baily_ by a Court of Admiralty, when Captain _Russell_ and others appeared against him: But he would have saved them all that trouble, for he confessed more than they knew, fixing the facts so firm upon himself, that he was found Guilty, received Sentence of Death, and was executed three weeks after at _Execution Dock_. [Illustration] But to return to _Lowther_, whom _Massey_ left cruising off of _Hispaniola_, who plying to the Windward near _Porto Rico_, took two sail, one was a small _Bristol_ Ship, the other a _Spanish_ Pirate, who had taken the _Bristol_ Ship; which so provoked _Lowther_, that he threatened to put all the _Spaniards_ to Death, for daring to intermeddle in his Affairs: But at last he contented himself with burning both their ships; and the _Spaniards_ getting away in their launch, they thought they were well off.