CHURCH, WILLIAM. Of the _Gertrwycht_ of Holland. At the trial at West Africa in 1722 of the crew of Bartholomew Roberts's, four of the prisoners--W. Church, Phil. Haak, James White, and Nicholas Brattle--were proved to have "served as Musick on board the _Royal Fortune_, being taken out of several merchant ships, having had an uneasy life of it, having sometimes their Fiddles, and often their Heads broke, only for excusing themselves, as saying they were tired, when any Fellow took it in his Head to demand a Tune." Acquitted. CHURCHILL, JOHN. One of Captain George Lowther's crew. Captured by the _Eagle_ sloop at the Island of Blanco, not far from Tortuga. Hanged on March 11th, 1722, at St. Kitts. CLARKE, JONATHAN. Of Charleston, South Carolina. One of Major Stede Bonnet's crew. Tried for piracy at Charleston in 1718, and found to be not guilty. CLARKE, RICHARD, _alias_ JAFAR. A renegade English sailor, who turned "Turk"--that is, became a Mohammedan--and was appointed chief gunner on one of the Barbary pirate ships. Captured in the _Exchange_, and brought into Plymouth in 1622. He was hanged. CLARKE, ROBERT. Governor of New Providence, Bahama Islands. Instead of trying to stamp out the pirates, he did all he could to encourage them, by granting letters of marque to such men as Coxon, to go privateering, these letters being quite illegal. The proprietors of the Bahama Islands turned Clarke out and appointed in his place Robert Lilburne in 1682. CLIFFORD, JOHN. One of Captain John Quelch's crew; tried at the Star Tavern at Boston in 1704 for piracy. All the accused pleaded "Not guilty" except Clifford and two others who turned Queen's evidence. CLINTON, CAPTAIN. One of the notorious sixteenth century pirates "who grew famous until Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory, hanged them at Wapping." COBHAM, CAPTAIN. Of Poole in Dorsetshire. At the age of 18 he took to smuggling. His biographer tells us that even at this comparatively early age Cobham "was cautious and prudent, and though he intrigued with the ladies, he managed to keep it secret." Cobham was very successful as a smuggler, on one occasion landing a cargo of ten thousand gallons of brandy at Poole. But a little later on his vessel was captured by a King's cutter. This annoyed the young captain, and he bought a cutter at Bridport, mounted fourteen guns in her, and turned pirate. Out of his very first prize, an Indiaman, which he boarded off the Mersey, he took a sum of L40,000, and then scuttled the ship and drowned the crew.