Boston Octobr THOMAS LARIMORE. 28th, 1695. Sworne in Court 30th Octobr. 1695 Attest JONA. ELATSON Cler. A true Copy of that on file Examd. AD'TON DAVENPORT, Cler.[2] [Footnote 2: Addington Davenport, clerk of the Superior Court from 1695 to 1698, and one of its judges from 1715 to 1736.] CASE OF HENRY EVERY. _58. Petition of the East India Company. July, 1696._[1] [Footnote 1: London, Privy Council, Unbound Papers, 1:46. This petition is addressed, not to the king in Council, but to the lords justices who were exercising his functions during the absence of William III. in Holland, whither he had gone on account of his war with Louis XIV. The paper is endorsed as read July 16, 1696. A proclamation was immediately issued, July 18, declaring Henry Every and his crew pirates, ordering colonial governors to seize them, and offering a reward of L500, which the East India Company agreed to pay, for their apprehension; _Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial_, II. 299-302. Several of the crew were apprehended, tried, and hanged in November; their trial is reported in Hargrave's _State Trials_, V. 1-18. Others found a refuge in the colonies, despite the proclamation, Governor Markham of Pennsylvania in particular being loudly accused of connivance; _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial_, 1696-1697, pp. 613-615. Every (or Avery) was one of the most famous of the pirates. His history is told in Captain Charles Johnson's _General History of the Pyrates_ (second ed., London, 1724), pp. 45-63. Two popular ballads respecting him are in Professor Firth's _Naval Songs and Ballads_, pp. 131-134. We print first the documents which first brought knowledge of his misdeeds, but the whole story in a consecutive order is better found in the examination of John Dann, document no. 63, _post_. The case is only partly American, but ramifies, as will be seen, over much of the globe.] To their Excellencyes The Lords Justices of England in Council, The humble Petition of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies Most humbly sheweth That the said Governour and Company have lately received certain Intelligence That Henry Every, Commander of a Ship called the _Fancy_, of 46 Guns, is turned Pirate and now in the Seas of India or Persia, who with divers other Englishmen and Forreigners to the number of about 130 (the names of some of which are hereunto annexed) run away with the sa[id Ship], then called the _Charles_, from the Port of Corona[2] in Spain and that the said Pirate ha[vin]g ... at the Island of Johanna[3] had left there the following Declaration: vizt.: [Footnote 2: Coruna.]