The Trials of eight persons indited for piracy

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Title
The Trials of eight persons indited for piracy
Document Type
  • Pamphlets
Date
1718
Description
The Trials of eight persons indited for piracy &c., of whom two were acquitted, and the rest found guilty. At a justiciary Court of Admiralty, assembled and held in Boston within His Majesty’s province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the 18th of October 1717, and by several adjournments continued to the 30th. Pursuant to His Majesty’s commission and instruction, founded on the act of Parliament made in the 11th & 12th of King William III. Intituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy: with an appendix, containing the substance of their confessions given before His Excellency the governour, when they were first brought to Boston, and committed to goal.
Theme
  • Piracy
  • Discipline and Punishment