Persons who are well acquainted what sad Condition the Ship and Goods are now in; whereupon the said _King_, and one of the Mariners belonging to the Ship _Neptune_, did, and doth hereby protest against the said _Charles Vane_, and the rest of the Mariners, Pyrates and Robbers, belonging to the Brigantine aforesaid, and for the feloniously and pyratically taking, boarding, entering and plundering, and for sinking and disabling within the Harbour of _Green Turtle Key_, the said Ship _Neptune_, and for all Damages and Losses accruing thereby to the Owners, Freighters, or any other Persons concern'd therein. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seals this 5th Day of _February_, _Anno Dom._ 1718-9. _Jurat Coram me hoc die Decem. Februaris_, Woodes Rogers. John King, × _The Mark of_ John Morrison.' _Of Captain_ BOWEN. Could the Reader conceive the Pains we have been at, to collect Matters for the composing a genuine History of the Lives of the Pyrates, and the great Care we have taken to deliver nothing but the Truth, he would readily forgive, nay, would be apt to commend our placing those Particulars in the Appendix of the same Book, which we could not possibly obtain (notwithstanding our diligent Enquiries) before the Lives were printed, and the Book in a manner ready for Publication. What we have said in the foregoing Part of this Volume, of Captain _Bowen_, may be depended on as Truth; but as we had not that Certainty of his Original we now have, we rather chose to be silent than impose on our Readers with Fables of our own Invention: We have since learn'd (and it is with Reason we can depend on our Account, having it from one who personally knew, and often convers'd with him) that he was born of creditable Parents, in the Island of _Bermudas_, who took Care to give him a good Education answerable to the Vocation he was design'd for, which was the Sea.