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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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ships and we hear that this pirate of off Cape Cameroone hath taken two more of Moors ships and hove all the men overboard out of one of them." He probably refers to the Mocha or its consort (See para. 444 below). All that the English could do was to make over to the Governor of Surat any pirates who were in their hands; thus, before the 2nd July 1696, they had given up six Frenchmen who had been concerned in the plunder of Abdu'l Ghafür's ship in 1692 (Surat to Bombay, 4th April 1697 ; Bomb. Gaz., XXVI, i, 109-10; see para. 394 abopel. The surrender of English pirates might have been more convincing of good faith, but would have strengthened the popular belief that all the pirates were English.
440. On the 17th January 1696-7 Captain Richard Glover, who, in exchange for the Charming Mary, had received the Amity from the pirates (See paras. 408 above) arrived from Barbadoes at St. Mary's in the last mentioned ship with goods for sale to the pirates. In February purchasers arrived in Captain Hore and a prize of 300 tons which he had taken in the Persian Gulf. On the 9th June arrived Captain Chivers with 90 men in the Soldado, and a little later Captain Thomas Mostyn in the Fortune from New York, and Captain Cornelius Jacobs from the same place, the two last with goods for sale to the pirates. The Soldado however had lost all her maste in a storm, and, putting into a harbour about ten leagues north of St. Mary's. there took the Amity" for her Wateroasks, sails, rigging and masts, and turned the hull adrift upon a reef. Captain Glover promised to forgive them what was past if they would let him have his ship again, wnd [let him) go home to America, but they would not, except he would go into the East Indies with them." On the 25th September they sailed again for India. (Baldridge's Deposition).
441. On the 1st July 1697 arrived at St. Mary's the Swift from Boston (Andrew Knott Master and John Johnson merchant. See para. 396 above). On this vessel Baldridge went on a trading voyage round the coast, and towards the end of the year (or beginning of 1698 ) on his return mot Captain Mostyn, who told him that the negroes had risen on the whites and killed about 30 of them, owing, says Baldridge, to the ill-treatment which they had received from some of the men who had sailed with Captains Raynor, Coats, Tew, Hore and Chivers. The strength of the fort may be judged by the report of Captain Thomas Warren, dated the 28th November 1697(Col. Office Records, 2, 323) that it had from 40 to 50 guns mounted (Perkins says 22 guns), whilst the pirates who frequented it had 17 shipe (some of 40 guns) and numbered 1,500 men. Of course, only a few of them oould have been present at the time of the outbreak, and some of these escaped to an island, where they held out until relieved by Baldridge, who took them to St. Augustine's, charging a large sum for their passage, and putting ashore there all those who could not afford to pay what he demanded for a further passage home (Exam. of Samuel Perkins, 25th August 1698, Home, Miec., XXXVI, p. 346). Baldridge, having lost all his possessions ashore, went home with Mostyn and Knott, and apparently settled down respectably in New York, 48 on the 5th May 1699 he made his Deposition before Lord Bellamont. According to Perkins, the Europeans killed were seven Englishmen and four Frenchmen. Among the former was Captain Glover, presumably Richard Glover, who thus paid the penalty of his temerity in a second time putting his head into the lion's mouth. Perkins, however, speaking from heartay, apparently thought it was Captain Robert Glover, formerly of the Resolution.
442. A few incidents, which have been passed over for the sake of continuity, may now be noticed. On the 4th April 1897 the Council of Surat wrote to Bombay that the pirates in the Persian Gulf had had the insolence to write to the President (1 of Gombroon) that as they could not sell the sugar they had taken at Gombroon they would go to Basra and "they would do what they went about effectually before they left the Gulf." This must I think refer to Chivers, who did not get back to St. Mary's before June. On the 17th April 1897 the Surat Council received from Bombay the British Government's Proclamation for the capture of Every.
