_Will. Fairfax_, Esq; Judge of the _Admiralty_. _Robert Beauchamp_, Esq; _Thomas Walker_, Esq; Captain _Wingate Gale_. _Nathaniel Taylor_, Esq; Captain _Josias Burgiss_. Captain _Peter Courant_. Proclamation being made as usual, the Register opened and read the Governor's especial Commission, for erecting this Court according to the Intent and Meaning of a late Act of Parliament, Entitled, _An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Pyracy_, by Virtue of which said Commission, the seven afore-named Commissioners are appointed Assistant Judges, for the hearing, trying, judging, and condemning the several Persons now in Custody, who stand committed for Mutiny, Felony, and Pyracy. Proclamation being again made, that all Persons concern'd or summon'd, and required to appear at this Court, do give their due Attendance. Ordered, That the Prisoners be brought to the Bar, which being done, they were called by their respective Names, viz. _John Augur_, _Will. Cunningham_, _John Hipps_, _Dennis Mackarthy_, _George Rounsivel_, _Will. Dowling_, _Will. Lewis_, _Thomas Morris_, _George Bendall_, and _Will. Ling_. Ordered, That the afore-named Prisoners, now at the Bar, do all hold up their Hands. Ordered, That the Accusation against the Prisoners be read, which was as follows. _New Providence_, ss. The Articles and Accusations against _John Augur_, late Master of the Sloop _Mary_, of _Providence_; _William Cunningham_, Gunner and Mariner, on board the Schooner, called the _Batchelors Adventure_; _Henry White_, Master, _John Hipps_, Boatswain and Mariner, on board the Sloop _Lancaster_; _William Greenaway_, Master, _Dennis Mackarthy_, Mariner, on board the _Scooner_, _William Dowling_, Mariner, on board the said _Scooner_; _William Lewis_, Mariner, on board the Sloop _Mary_; _Tho. Morris_, Mariner, on board the said _Scooner_; _George Bendall_, Mariner, on board the said Sloop _Lancaster_, and _William Ling_, Mariner, on board the said _Scooner_.