Whereupon and upon the humble Requestt to me made by the sd John Devin, I, Ellis Lightwood Esq., Chief Judge, have thought fitt to certifie this under my hand, and ordered the publick Seale of this Goverment to be hereunto affixed as a Testimony of his the sd John Devins Innocency relating to the supposed piracy of Capt. Every als Bridgeman in the ship _Charles_ als _Fancy_. ELLIS LIGHTWOOD [September (?)] the 20th Anno Dom 1698 [ _blank_ ] LEIGHTON per Dom. Regem. Coppy examined by ELISHA COOKE, Clerk.[2] [Footnote 2: Elisha Cooke the younger, clerk of the superior court of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1718.] _67. Certificate for John Devin (Massachusetts). October 25, 1698._[1] [Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, Boston, no. 3765, paper 1.] New England. Anno Rs. Gulielmi 3d Decim.[2] [Footnote 2: _I.e._, _anno decimo Regis Gulielmi Tertii_, "in the tenth year of King William III."] At a Court of assize and General Goal Delivery holden at Boston for the County of Suffolk, within his Maj'ties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, upon the 25th Day of Octo'r 1698. John Devin, Chyrurgion, bound over by Recogniscance unto this Court, to answer what should be objected ag'st him on his Maj'ties behalf as being one of the Company belonging to the Ship _Charles_ al's _Fancey_, Henry Every al's Bridgeman Command'r, at the time when several acts of Piracy were committed by the sd Every al's Bridgeman and Company in the aforesd Ship, upon the high Seas of India and Persia, and for aiding and assisting in the sd Piracys and shareing in the Plunder so piratically taken. The sd Jno. Devin, being called, appeared and produced a Certificate und'r the hand of Ellis Lightwood Esq., chief Judge of the Island of Providence, and the Public Seal of the Government there, Importing that the sd Devin had lately been indicted, arraigned and tryed for the same matters and Facts (whereof he is now inquired) In the Kings Court within the sd Island of Providence and found not guilty by the Jury, and clear'd by Proclamation, which afore cited Certificate being read and other the proceedings in the case in the sd Court at Providence, Proclamation was made, and nothing of further charge or Evidence appearing against the sd Jno. Devin, he was openly acquitted. Which at Request of sd Devin and by ord'r of his Maj'ties Justices of Assize etc. is hereby Certified under the Seal of the sd Court. Dated at Boston the Second day of November, Anno predict.[3] [Footnote 3: _I.e._, _anno predicto_, "in the year aforesaid".] _68. Deposition of Adam Baldridge. May 5, 1699._[1]