William Lancey, Master of a Fishing scooner, Deposed That in the Month of April last, he and his Company were taken off of Cape Sables[5] by a Pyrate sloop Commanded by John Phillips, Captain, that they took several vessels while this Depont. was on board, and when Captain Phillips was about to dismiss this Depont. with his vessel he askt this Depont. whether he would carry home with him one Willm. Phillips, who was then on board the Pyrate Sloop, having one of his leggs Cut off,[6] and whom the Depont. saith is one of the Prisoners now at the Bar; and the Depont. answered, Provided the Captain and the Men were willing he would Carry him with him, but the sd. William Phillips refused to go with the Depont. saying if he should they would hang him. [Footnote 5: The southwest point of Nova Scotia.] [Footnote 6: The carpenter had sawed it off, somewhat amateurishly, after it had been wounded in the fight between the captain and Ferne, as related below. Johnson, p. 400.] John Filmore Deposed. Saith That he knows William Phillips. he was taken out of a Sloop sometime in October last. the first vessel that was taken after Phillips's being taken was a Brigantine. Cannot say that Phillips went on board the Brigantine. he never saw him Armed with other arms than a Cutlass. That in February they took a snow bound from New York to Barbados, one Laws Master. Samuel Ferne, James Wood, William Taylor and Wm. Phillips, one of Prisoners at the Bar, went on board the snow armed with Cutlasses, who kept on board and Navigated sd snow, as far to the southward as the Lattitude of 21, where Ferne and Wood, attempting to run away with the scooner, in order thereto Confined Taylor and Phillips: But Capt. Phillips the Pyrate firing upon the snow, she brought too, and the sd Ferne was Commanded on board, but he refused and fired upon Capt. Phillips and Compelled the Prisoner at the Bar, William Phillips, to come and abide upon Deck, where he had his left leg shot by Nutt, which was afterwards Cut off. That Isaac Lassen was taken at Newfoundland in Septr last. That he was generally set at the helm to steer the vessel. he was once set on board the snow armed, when Fern, Wood, etc., were running away with her. he never was forward nor did he ever see him Guilty of any Act of Pyracy when vessels were taken, nor Share any plunder, Except that they now and then obliged him to take a Shirt or a pair of stockings when almost naked. That he was knowing of the rising to subdue the Pyrates, and took hold of the Captains Arm, when Harradine struck him in the head with the Ads. That Henry Gyles was taken in February and forced to go with the Pyrates; Nutt obliged him to keep a Journal being an Artist.[7] he never saw him armed on board, that he was always Contriving to get away, and has often told this Depont. that he would Escape if possible. that he was knowing of the rising against the pyrates and forward and Active in it. That Charles