Indian Antiquary Vol 48

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(DECEMBER, 1919
Mascarenas, [Bourbon) where set on shore all the French and Danes, having first made a division of their booty, which amounted in gold, silver and jewels to 970 lbs. a man.69
"Thence they sailed to Ascension, where they turned fifty turtle and found letters of two English ships having been there. This was in March last, and the latter end of April they arrived at Providence, having but two days provisions left.
"They made a present to the Governor there, whose name is (Nicholas) Trott, of twenty pieces of eight a man, besides two chequins 10 of gold, upon which he permitted them to come ashore, and gave them a treat at his house, at which one of the men breaking a drinking glass, he made him pay for it eight chequins.
"The men presented the Governor also with the ship and all on board her, being some quantity of elephants teeth left in her. Colonel Richard Talliaferro, Deputy Governor, was a sharer with Trott in the booty.
"Every had changed his name to Bridgman, went on shore at Providence and about eighty men, which dispersed themselves to several ports and bought sloops there.
"One called the Seaflower, Captain Ferro, bought of Crosskeys and Flavell, in which embarkt Every and nineteen other men, vizt. Jno. Down, John- Nat. Pike, Peter Soames, Hen. Adams, Francis Thos. Johnson, Joseph Dawson, Samuel Dawson, James Lewis, James Hammond and Roy, John Sparks, Joseph Goss, Charles Faulkner, Thomas Somerton, James Murrey,
"These landed about a month since at Dunfanahan, twenty miles northward of Lough Swilly, by Londonderry, and thence by land to Dublin. Every took shipping for England at Carrickfergus. Captain Ferro remained at Londonderry with his sloop, which the seamen gave him for a present.
"Another sloop, which one Hollingsworth commanded, was chased into Dublin by a French privateer, on board of which were sixteen more of the Charles's men, vizt. Robert Richy. John Miller, John King, Edward Savill, William Phillips, Thomas Joye. These were most Scotchmen and bound thither.
“William May went to Pensilvania. "Several went to New England. "Two of the men bad been at Jamaice and returned back to Providence. "Joseph Morris left mad at Providence, losing all his jewels upon a wager. "Edward Short killed by a sbirk (sbark).
« Thomas Bolitha met at Dublin, but be came over in some other sloop, for he was not on board either of the two before mentioned.
"Trott took several guns out of the ship, which had 48 mounted, to plant on a platform to secure the Island from the French."
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[India Office Records. Home Series, Miscellaneous, Vol. 36, p. 189.]
(To be continued.)
Probably the
Supposing all shared alike this, for 170 men, would make a total of £164,900. booty amounted to over £200,000.,
To Soquins, a coin worth about shillings and three penee.