Petitioners, by the Court held on Friday the 20th of this Inſtant; each Priſoner was ſent for up, ſigned, ſealed and exchanged them in the Preſence of
Captain Mungo Herdman, Preſident,
James Phipps, Eſq;
Mr. Edward Hyde,
Mr. Charles Fanſhaw,
And Mr. John Atkins, Regiſter.
A Copy of the Indenture.
The Indenture of a Perſon condemned to ſerve abroad for Pyracy, which, upon the humble Petition of the Pyrates therein mentioned, was moſt mercifully granted by his Imperial Majeſty’s Commiſſioners and Judges appointed to hold a Court of Admiralty, for the Tryal of Pyrates at Cape Corſo-Caſtle, in Africa, upon Condition of ſerving ſeven Years, and other Conditions, are as follows, viz.
This Indenture made the twenty ſixth Day of April, Anno Regni Regis Georgii magnæ Britanniæ, &c. Septimo, Domini, Milleſſimo, Sepcenteſſimo viginti duo, between Roger Scot, late of the City of Briſtol Mariner, of the one Part, and the Royal African Company of England, their Captain General and Commander in Chief, for the Time being, on the other Part, Witneſſeth, that the ſaid Roger Scot, doth hereby covenant, and agree to, and with, the ſaid Royal African Company, their Captain General, and Commander in chief for the Time being, to ſerve him, or his lawful Succeſſors, in any of the Royal African Company’s Settlements on the Coaſt of Africa, from the Day of the Date of theſe Preſents, to the full Term of ſeven Years, from hence next enſuing, fully to be compleat and ended; there to ſerve in ſuch Employment, as the ſaid Captain General, or his Suc-ceſſors
