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    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 instructions, founded on the act of Parliament made in the 11th. & 12th of King William IIId. 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.
    Published 1925
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