As to Capt. _Kid_'s Defence, he insisted much upon his own Innocence, and the Villany of his Men; he said, he went out in a laudable Employment, and had no Occasion, being then in good Circumstances, to go a Pyrating; that the Men often mutinied against him, and did as they pleas'd; that he was threatened to be shot in his Cabin, and that Ninety five left him at one Time, and set Fire to his Boat, so that he was disabled from bringing his Ship home, or the Prizes he took, to have them regularly condemn'd, which he said were taken by Virtue of a Commission under the Broad Seal, they having _French_ Passes.--The Captain called one Col. _Hewson_ to his Reputation, who gave him an extraordinary Character, and declared to the Court, that he had served under his Command, and been in two Engagements with him against the _French_, in which he fought as well as any Man he ever saw; that there were only _Kid_'s Ship and his own against Monsieur _du Cass_, who commanded a Squadron of six Sail, and they got the better of him.--But this being several Years before the Facts mentioned in the Indictment were committed, prov'd of no manner of Service to the Prisoner on his Tryal. As to the Friendship shewn to _Culliford_, a notorious Pyrate, _Kid_ deny'd, and said, he intended to have taken him, but his Men being a Parcel of Rogues and Villains refused to stand by him, and several of them ran away from his Ship to the said Pyrate.--But the Evidence being full and particular against him, he was found guilty as before mentioned. When _Kid_ was asked what he had to say why Sentence should not pass against him, he answered, That _he had nothing to say, but that he had been sworn against by perjured wicked People_. And when Sentence was pronounced, he said, _My Lord, it is a very hard Sentence. For my Part, I am the innocentest Person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured Persons._ Wherefore about a Week after, Capt. _Kid_, _Nicholas Churchill_, _James How_, _Gabriel Loff_, _Hugh Parrot_, _Abel Owen_, and _Darby Mullins_, were executed at _Execution Dock_, and afterwards hung up in Chains, at some Distance from each other, down the River, where their Bodies hung exposed for many Years. OF Captain _TEW_, And his CREW. Before I enter on the Adventures of this Pyrate, I must take Notice to the Reader of the Reasons which made me not continue the Life of _Misson_. In reading the Notes, which I have by me, relating to Captain _Tew_, I found him join'd with _Misson_; and that I must either be guilty of Repetition, or give an Account of _Tew_ in _Misson_'s Life, which is contrary to the Method I propos'd, that of giving a distinct Relation of every Pyrate who has made any Figure: And surely _Tew_, in Point of Gallantry, was inferior to none, and may justly claim a particular Account of his Actions.