Tryals of thirty-six persons for piracy, twenty-eight of them upon full evidence were found guilty, and the rest acquitted. At a Court of Admiralty for tryal of pirates, held at Newport within His Majesties Colony of Rhode-island and Providence-Plantations in America, on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth days of July, anno Dom. 1723. Pursuant to His Majesties commission, founded on an act of Parliament, made in the eleventh & twelfth years of King William the Third, entituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy. And made perpetual by an act of the sixth of King George.

People / Organizations

• Samuel Kneeland ("sold by")

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by Samuel Kneeland, in Queen-Street, below the prison, 1723.

Publication year

1723-1723

ESTC No.

W17559

Grub Street ID

327106

Description

[2],14p. ; 4⁰

Uncontrolled note

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