You the said _John Augur_, _Will. Cunningham_, _John Hipps_, _Dennis Mackarthy_, _George Rounsivel_, _William Dowling_, _William Lewis_, _Thomas Morris_, _George Bendall_, and _William Ling_, having all of you lately received the Benefit of his Majesty's most gracious Pardon, for your former Offences and Acts of Robbery and Pyracy, and having since taken the Oaths of Allegiance to his most sacred Majesty King _George_, and thereupon Trust has been reposed in you the said _John Augur_, and in the others of you, lawful Employments been bestow'd to divert you all from your former and unlawful Courses of Life, and to enable and support you all in just and lawful Ways of Living; and you not having the Fear of God before your Eyes, nor any Regard to your Oaths of Allegiance taken to your Sovereign, nor to the Performance of Loyalty, Truth, and Justice: But, being instigated and deluded by the Devil, to return to your former unlawful evil Courses, of Robbery and Pyracy, and that you _John Augur_, _Will. Cunningham_, _John Hipps_, _Dennis Mackarthy_, _George Rounsivel_, _Will. Dowling_, _Will. Lewis_, _Tho. Morris_, _Geo. Bendall_, and _Will. Ling_, late Master and Mariners aforesaid, did on the 6th Day of _October_ last, about Seven in that Evening, in the 5th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord _George_, by the Grace of God, King of _Great Britain_, &c. plot and combine together, at a desolate Island, called _Green Key_, within the Jurisdiction of this Vice-Admiralty, to mutiny and feloniously and pyratically steal, take, and carry away, from the Commanders and Owners of the afore-named Vessels, the said Sloops and Cargoes, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, to the Value of above 900 l. current Money of these Islands, and by Force cause to be put ashore on the said desolate Island, one Mr. _James Kerr_, Merchant, and sundry others with him; and the said _John Augur_, as then Commander of one of the said Sloops, did proceed as Commander of the said Pyrates from the said Island of _Green Key_ to _Exuma_, whereby, by Virtue of a Commission, directed to Captain _John Cockrem_ and Captain _Benjamin Hornigold_, you the said _John Augur_, and the rest of your pyratical Company, were there taken and apprehended as Pyrates, and thereupon brought into this Port, to be proceeded against according to Law. The Prisoners holding up their Hands, and the Accusation being read, all the said Prisoners were asked by the Register, Whether Guilty, or, Not Guilty; and they pleaded Not Guilty. Ordered, That the Evidence for the King be severally sworn and examined. James Kerr.