[Footnote 5: This inventory is printed in _Commons Journal_, XIII. 29, and, from a copy preserved by the Gardiner family at Gardiner's Island, in C.C. Gardiner, _Lion Gardiner and his Descendants_ (St. Louis, 1890), pp. 84-85. Judge Samuel Sewall headed the commission, and supervised the shipping of part of the treasure to London; _Diary_, Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, XLVI. 7. The total of what was secured by the authorities--obtained from Kidd's box and chest, from the _Antonio_, from Campbell, and from Gardiner--was 1111 troy ounces of gold, 2353 ounces of silver, 17-3/8 ounces of jewels or precious stones, 57 bags of sugar, 41 bales of merchandise, and 17 pieces of canvas. How much leaked away in sloops from Long Island Sound to New York and elsewhere, or in the West Indies, or was destroyed in the burning of the _Quedah Merchant_ in Hispaniola, is matter for conjecture. The total capture, listed above, was thought to be worth L14,000.--Since writing the above, I have come upon Mr. Ralph D. Paine's _The Book of Buried Treasure_ (London, 1911), which presents, at p. 82, a photograph of the inventory mentioned above. Mr. Paine prints our docs. nos. 72, 76, 79, 82, 84, and part of 85.] If I had kept Mr. Secretary Vernon's Orders for seizing and securing Kid and his associates with all their Effects with less Secrecy, I had never got him to come in: for his Country men, Mr. Graham[6] and Livingston, would have been sure to caution him to shift for him selfe and would have been well paid for their pains. I received the Lords Justices[7] Orders about Kid, and likewise Mr. Secretary Vernon's, about three moneths before my leaveing New-York, but I never discovered them to any body, and when I heard people say, that the neighbouring Governors had Orders from Court to seize him, I laughed, as if I believed noe such thing. I wish they may not let him escape here, as they have Bradish, a notorious Pyrate. About a fortnight ago, Bradish and another Pyrate got out of the Gaol of this Town and escaped with the Consent of the Gaoler as there is great reason to beleive.[8] [Footnote 6: James Graham, another Scot, was attorney-general of New York and a member of the council.] [Footnote 7: Acting as chief executive, in the absence of King William.]