The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this dayPaine, Ralph Delahaye
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The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day
Paine, Ralph Delahaye
Treasure troves
"To Paul Dudley, Esq., the Queen's Advocate for the prosecution of the
said Pirates, preparing the said Tryal for the press, supervising of
the same, and for his service relating to Captain Larrimore, in the
whole, Thirty-six pounds.
"To Thomas Newton, Esq. of Council for the Queen in the said Tryal, ten
pounds.
"To Mr. John Valentine, Register, for his service on the Tryal and for
transcribing them to be transmitted to her Majesty's High Court of
Admiralty in England, Thirteen pounds.
"To Mr. Sheriffe Dyer, for his service relating to the said Prisoners,
Five pounds.
"To Wm. Clarke of Boston, for Casks, shifting and landing the Sugar and
other things piratically and feloniously obtained by Captain Quelch and
Company, and for storage of them, Thirteen pounds.
"To Daniel Willard, Keeper of the Prison in Boston, toward the charge
of feeding and keeping of the said Pirates, Thirty pounds.
"To Andrew Belcher, the Commissary-General, an additional sum of five
pounds nine shillings and six pence for necessary clothing supplied to
some of the Pirates in prison.
"To Major James Sewall for his pursuit and apprehension of seven of the
Pirates, and for the gratification of himself, Captain Turner, and
other officers, one hundred and thirty-two pounds, five shillings."
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[Illustration: The town and bay of Tobermory, Island of Mull. The
treasure galleon is supposed to have gone down in the place indicated
by the cross at the right hand side of the photograph.]
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The commissioners, Sewall, Byfield and Paul Dudley, received for their
expenses and services, twenty-five pounds, seven shillings, and ten
pence.
Finally, there were given to the captains of the several companies of
militia in the town for Boston, "for their charges and expenses on
Guards and Watches on the Pirates during their Imprisonment,
Twenty-seven pounds, sixteen shillings, and three pence: to Captain
Tuthill, for his assistance to secure and bring about the Vessel and
goods from Marblehead, five pounds; to Mr. Jeremiah Allen, the
Treasurer's bookkeeper, for his care and service about the said Gold
and goods, five pounds; to Constable Apthorp and Jesse, for their
services, a further allowance of three pounds."
The amount of the "royal bounty" given the Governor as his share of the
pirates' booty, is not recorded. If the belief of those of their
contemporaries who best know the Dudleys may be relied on, the fees and
emoluments officially awarded them were by no means the extent of the
profits from their dealings with the pirates and their treasure. When
Cotton Mather quarreled with Governor Dudley a few years later he did
not hesitate to intimate this charge pretty broadly in the following
passage in his memorial on Dudley's administration:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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