The consequence of this decision was that all four of the men who had surrendered under the proclamation were condemned to death along with Kidd, and their comrades, some of whom when it became clear that they would be condemned were desirous that their loyal obedience to their captain should be placed on record, _e. g._: GABRIEL LOFFE (_a foremast man from New York_). “I have nothing to say, but to ask him” (Bradenham) “whether I did ever disobey my captain’s commands, or was in any way mutinous on board the ship.” BRADENHAM. “No. I cannot say you did.” PARROT (_the Plymouth boy_). “My lord, I desire you would ask the witnesses, whether I ever disobeyed my captain’s commands. Mr. Palmer, did you ever see me guilty of an ill thing? Did I ever disobey my captain?” PALMER. “You were always obedient to your captain.” MULLINS (_the Irishman_). “Mr. Bradenham, did I do anything against my captain’s commands?” (It is to be feared he did, in leaving him.) BRADENHAM. “I cannot say, but that he did always obey the Captain’s commands.” MULLINS (_again, this time to Palmer_). “Did not Captain Kidd often say that his commission would bear him out in what he did?” PALMER. “Yes. I have often heard him say that.” Judge TURTON. “But how came you to go aboard Culliford?” MULLINS. “For want, my lord.” LOFFE (_again_). “My lord, I was a servant under Captain Kidd and always obeyed his commands, and had no share. I came home with Captain Kidd to Boston, and went to my Lord Bellamont.” HOWE. “Have I not obeyed my captain in all his commands?” LORD CHIEF BARON WARD. “There is no doubt made about that.” Kidd himself on being asked whether he had anything more to say replied, “My lord, I had many papers for my defence if I could have had them.” LORD CHIEF BARON WARD. “What papers were they?” KIDD. “My French passes.” LORD CHIEF BARON WARD. “Where are they?” KIDD. “My Lord Bellamont had them.” LORD CHIEF BARON WARD. “If you had anything of disability upon you to make your defence, you should have objected it at the beginning of your trial. What you mean by it now, I cannot tell.” In mercy to the memory of this wicked old judge, let us hope that this obtuseness was not feigned, and that he had really forgotten, though it is difficult to see how he could have done so, Kidd’s impassioned entreaties at the beginning of his trial on the preceding day for the production of these papers, the protracted discussion which took place thereon in which he had himself taken part and the undertaking that the papers should be produced.