Archer ended his days on the gallows at Boston on June 2nd, 1724, and we read that he "dy'd very penitent, with the assistance of two grave Divines to attend him." ARGALL. Licensed and titled buccaneer. Believed to have buried a rich treasure in the Isles of Shoals, off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the seventeenth century. ARMSTRONG. Born in London. A deserter from the Royal Navy. One of Captain Roberts's crew taken by H.M.S. _Swallow_, from which ship he had previously deserted. In an account of his execution on board H.M.S. _Weymouth_ we read: "Being on board a Man of War there was no Body to press him to an Acknowledgement of the Crime he died for, nor of sorrowing in particular for it, which would have been exemplary, and made suitable Impressions on seamen; so that his last Hour was spent in lamenting and bewailing his Sins in general, exhorting the Spectators to an honest and good life, in which alone they could find Satisfaction." This painful scene ended by the condemned singing with the spectators a few verses of the 140th Psalm: at the conclusion of which, at the firing of a gun, "he was tric'd up at the Fore Yard." Died at the age of 34. ARNOLD, SION. A Madagascar pirate, who was brought to New England by Captain Shelley in 1699. ASHPLANT, VALENTINE. Born in the Minories, London. He served with Captain Howell Davis, and later with Bartholomew Roberts. He was one of the leading lights of Roberts's crew, a member of the "House of Lords." He took part in the capture and plundering of the _King Solomon_ at Cape Apollonia, North-West Coast of Africa, in January, 1719, when the pirates, in an open boat, attacked the ship while at anchor. Ashplant was taken prisoner two years later by H.M.S. _Swallow_. Tried for piracy at Cape Coast Castle and found guilty in March, 1722, and hanged in chains there at the age of 32. ATWELL. A hand aboard the brig _Vineyard_ in 1830, he took part with Charles Gibbs and others in a mutiny in which both the captain and mate was murdered. AUGUR, CAPTAIN JOHN. A pirate of New Providence, Bahama Islands. He accepted the royal pardon in 1718, and impressed the Governor, Woodes Rogers, so favourably that he was placed in command of a sloop to go and trade amongst the islands. A few days out Augur met with two sloops, "the sight of which dispelled all memory of their late good intention," and turning pirates once more, they seized the two sloops and took out of them money and goods to the value of L500.