Then the Court, having duly weighed and maturely Considered the Evidences against the Prisoners and their own Defence, Unanimously Agreed and voted, That the sd. John Filmore and Edward Cheesman were not Guilty of the Pyracies, Robberies and Felonies Exhibited agt. them. Then the aforesd Prisoners were brought to the Bar and the President pronounced the sd John Filmore and Edward Cheesman not Guilty.[21] [Footnote 21: Fillmore says, _Narration_, p. 18, that the court gave him Captain Phillips's gun, silver-hilted sword, silver shoe- and knee-buckles, and tobacco-box, and two gold rings that the pirate used to wear. As late as 1857, the gun was still in the possession of a cousin of President Fillmore's father. _N.E. Hist. Gen. Register_, XI. 144.] Then the Court Adjourned to three a Clock in the afternoon. _120. Trial of William Phillips and Others. May 12, 1724._ _P.M._ The Court met according to adjournment, and was opened by Proclamation, And a Warrant issued out for the bringing into Court the Bodies of William Phillips,[1] Isaac Lassen, Henry Giles, John Baptis, Peter Taffery, Charles Ivemay, John Bootman, John Combes and Henry Payne, and they were accordingly brought to the Bar. [Footnote 1: Not known to have been related to the pirate captain, John Phillips. Lassen was an Indian, Giles a young lad, Baptis and Taffery Frenchmen.] Then the Cryer made Proclamation for all Persons that Could Give Evidence for the King against the Prisoners at the Bar to Come into Court and they should be heard. Then John Baptis and Peter Taffery, being French men, were remanded back to Prison in order to be tryed by themselves. And the rest of the Prisoners were Arraigned upon Articles Exhibited against them for Piracy, Robbery and Felony, The Register Reading them in the words following, viz. Articles of Piracy, Robbery and Felony Exhibited against William Phillips, Isaac Lassen, Henry Giles, Charles Ivemay, John Coombes, John Bootman and Henry Payne, Marriners. You and Each of you stand Accused by His Majesties advocate General of Felony, Pyracy and Robbery. First, For that you, the said William Phillips and Isaac Lassen, together with John Phillips, John Nutt, Samuel Ferne, James Sparkes, William White, John Archer (otherwise Called John Rose Archer), and divers others, on or about the 27th day of October last, in the Lattitude of Barbados, on the high sea, and within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Great Britain, with force and arms did Pyratically And Feloniously surprise, seise and take the Sloop named the _Content_, George Barrow Master, belonging to His Majesties good subjects, and out of them then and there in manner as aforesd. did take and Carry away one John Masters, the mate of sd. sloop, and plate and Provisions to the value of One hundred pounds.