TRIALS (PIRACY)
Rhode Island (Colony) Court of vice-admiralty.
Try,ajls of thirty-six persons for piracy, ,&c?, 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, en- tituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy.
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