The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation, of Capt John Quelch, and others of his company, &c. for sundry piracies, robberies, and murder, committed upon the subjects of the King of Portugal ...

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Title
The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation, of Capt John Quelch, and others of his company, &c. for sundry piracies, robberies, and murder, committed upon the subjects of the King of Portugal ...
Document Type
  • Pamphlets
Date
1705
Description
The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation, of Capt. John Quelch, and others of his company, &c. for sundry piracies, robberies, and murder, committed upon the subjects of the King of Portugal, Her Majesty’s allie, on the coast of Brazil, &c.; who upon full evidence, were found guilty, at the Court-House in Boston, on the thirteenth of June, 1704, by virtue of a commission, grounded upon the act of the eleventh and twelfth years of King William, for the more effectual suppression of piracy. With the arguments of the Queen’s council, and council for the prisoners upon the said act perused by His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq., captain-general and commander in chief in and over Her Majesty’s province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, in America, &c., to which are also added, some papers that were produc’d at the tryal abovesaid with an account of the ages of the several prisoners, and the places where they were born.
Theme
  • Piracy
  • Discipline and Punishment