[Footnote 16: St. Helena was then already an English island, with about a thousand inhabitants.] This informant farther saith That he had heard upon Madagascar, That a little before his arrivall there That 14 of the Pyrates (belonging to Captain Tew, Captain Rayner, and Captain Mason and Captain Coats or some of them)[17] had by consent divided themselves into two sevens, to fight for what they had (thinking they had not made a voyage sufficient for so many) and that one of the said Sevens were all killed, and five of the other, so that the two which survived enjoyed the whole Booty. And this Informant further saith, that he hath heard and believeth, that not only the ship _Resolution_ to which he formerly belonged, but also the _Mocha_ Friggat,[18] which run away out of the service of the East India Company, the _Charles and Mary_, and severall other ships manned by English and other European Nations, were about nine months since, when he came from Madagascar, and still are playing the Pyrates in the Streights of Mallaca, in the Red Sea and other Parts in the East Indies. SAMUELL PERKINS. Juratus coram me[19] RA. MARSHALL. [Footnote 17: All these figure in the accusations against Fletcher in _N.Y. Col. Doc._, IV.] [Footnote 18: The _Mocha_ appears also in the Kidd narratives, and continued her career of piracy till 1699, at least.] [Footnote 19: _I.e._, sworn before me.] _66. Certificate for John Devin (Bahamas). September (?) 20, 1698._[1] [Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, Boston, no. 3765, paper 2. We find John Devine settled as a chirurgeon in Boston in 1704. _N.E. Hist. Gen. Reg._, XXXVI. 309.] New Providence SS. Whereas in the month of Aprill in the year of our Lord God one Thousand Six hundred and ninety six Capt. Henry Every als Bridgeman came into the Harbor of new Providence with the Shipp _Charles_ als _Fancy_, which said Capt. Every and his Shipps Crew were few days after their arrivall thought and supposed to be by the Major Part of the Island of Providence to be guilty of piracy upon the open Seas, And that the with in mentioned John Devin was one of the Ships Company, and was lately apprehended and taken as one of the said Pirates in order to be brought to his Tryall, which was accordingly done the 22d of this Instant August, and the Bill being presented against the within mentioned John Devin to the Gran Jury, which sd Grand Jury found the Bill, and afterwards the sd John Devin was brought to the Court, and holding up his hand was arraigned; The Petty Jury being sworne, the Attorney Gen'll opening the matter to the Court and Jury against the sd John Devin, The Petty Jury returning to the Court found the within mentioned John Devin not Guilty, upon which the sd John Devin was cleared by proclomation, as by the publick Entrys doth and may more at large appear: