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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
NOVEMBET:. 1926
they would immediately put fire with one of their pistols to their powder and go all merrily to Hell together” (Weekly Journal or Saturday Post, 15th October 1720).
461. Bradish, of whom mention has been made, was boatswain of the pink Adventure (Thomas Gullooh09 Master), an Interloper of 300 tone (Madras to Court, 2nd May 1699). She Arrived in Sumatra in August 1698. Thence she went to Padang and later to the island of Naias. Here because, it is said, of Gulloch's cruelty, Bradish and some others ran off with the ship, marooning the captain, three merchants and 16 others on the island. Some of these died of their hardships, but the captain and a few others managed to get safely to London in time to give evidence against the mutineers. On the other hand, Bradish and his party, not knowing what to do with the remaining officers (against whom apparently they had no grudge), set them and some of the men adrift in the long boat on the 21st September with the following curious certificate :-.
"Not willing to adventure ourselves near any Factory and unwilling to keep any to breed faction among us, have turned to sea in the longboat all such as were not willing to stay, exoept John Westby to act as Chirurgeon and Robert Amsden Carpenter, which perforce we keep: the others. ciz., Abraham Parrott [Chief Mate], William Whitesides (Boatswain) and Richard Heath (Armourer) are forced away, detaining also William Saunders.
Joseph Bradish. John Peirce. John Lloyd.
Andrew Marten." Bradish carried the ship to Mauritius, thence to Ascension, and finally to Long Island, where he arrived the 21st March 1698-9. Soon after, having shared the booty, 1500 pieces of eight to each man, Bradish taking 21 shares (Depositions of Capt. Gulloch, 26th April 1700, and Tilliam Saunders, H.C. A., 1-14), he sank the ship at Block Island. Apparently the mutineers thought that their very lenient treatment of Captain Gulloch, his officers, and the faithful portion of the crew, and the fact of their having made no piratical attacks on other ships, combined with the Act of Grace, entitled them to full immunity, but they were arrested and sent to England, and Bradish and 17 of his friends were hanged as pirates. The indignation excited by their fate is a good example of that scrupulous respect for good faith and the law which criminals demand from the rest of society and on which they always depend to escape the proper punishment of their crimes (A true relation of a most horrid conspiracy and running away with the ship Adventure, Brit. Mus. 515, 1, 2/177.)
462. Soon after his meeting with Kidd (See para. 453 above), Captain Perrin of the Thankful had another meeting with pirates. On the 6th December 1697, in sight of Batticola (Bhatkal), he met 12 sail of " Seevajees" (i.e., Maratha) grabs and boats. He fought them from 7 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon when it fell calm. They then demanded Rs. 2,000. He refused. They consulted, and reduced their demand to Rs. 100 and some rice. When this was refused, they sailed away (Letter from Perrin, Surat, 24th December 1697, India Office, O. C. 6473).
468. On the 30th November 1697 the Mughal Government issued an order to all the European Factories, English, French and Dutch, to take measures for the complete suppression of the pirates. On the 6th March 1698 the Surat Council ordered Captain Thomas South to proceed to the Red Sea to escort native vessels and to protect them from pirates. He was to aot in concert with the Dutch, the Dutch and English Commodores commanding the convoy in turn (Surat Letters Recd. CXIII). The English had requested the French to lend their assistance, but the French refused (See para. 324 above) and so the whole route could not be properly patrolled. Culliford, as we have seen, had left St. Mary's on the 15th
09 According to a letter from the Madras Council to the Netherlanda Company, 31st August 1696, Culloch - hart been a privateer commander in the West Indies. Coming to India, he was imprisoned at Madras for debt, but escaped and went to Malacca.
