Commanded a pirate sloop, the _Night Rambler_. On November 14th, 1725, he took the _Perry_ galley (Captain King, commander), three days out from Barbadoes, and the following day a French sloop, and carried both prizes to a small island called Aruba, near Curacao, where they plundered them and divided the spoil amongst the crew. The crews of the two prizes were kept on the island by Cooper for seventeen days, and would have starved if the pirate's doctor had not taken compassion on them and procured them food. Upton, boatswain in the _Perry_, joined the pirates, and was afterwards tried and hanged in England. COOPER, CAPTAIN. On October 19th, 1663, he brought into Port Royal, Jamaica, two Spanish prizes, one the _Maria of Seville_, a royal azogue carrying 1,000 quintals of quicksilver for the King of Spain's mines in Mexico, besides oil, wine, and olives. Also a number of prisoners were taken, including several friars on their way to Campeachy and Vera Cruz. The buccaneers always rejoiced at capturing a priest or a friar, and these holy men generally experienced very rough treatment at the hands of the pirates. Cooper's ship was a frigate of ten guns, and a crew of eighty men. CORBET, CAPTAIN. Sailed with Captain Heidon from Bantry Bay in the _John of Sandwich_ in 1564 to search for a good prize in which he might go a-pirating on his own account. The ship was wrecked on the Island of Alderney, and all the crew arrested. Corbett and several others escaped in a small boat. CORNELIUS, CAPTAIN. A contemporary of Howard Burgess North and other Madagascar pirates. DE COSSEY, STEPHEN JAMES. With three other pirates was tried and convicted in June, 1717, before the Vice-Admiralty Court at Charleston. The President of the Court was Judge Trot, a terror to all pirates, as he never failed to hang a guilty one. De Cossey and the other prisoners were found guilty of piratically taking the vessels _Turtle Dove_, _Penelope_, and the _Virgin Queen_. COWARD, WILLIAM. In November, 1689, with three men and a boy he rowed out to the ketch _Elinor_ (William Shortrigs, master), lying at anchor in Boston Harbour, and seized the vessel and took her to Cape Cod. The crew of the ketch could make no resistance as they were all down with the smallpox. The pirates were caught and locked up in the new stone gaol in Boston. Hanged on January 27th, 1690. COWLEY, CAPTAIN C. M.A. Cantab.