The trials of five persons for piracy, felony and robbery
Subtitle: who were found guilty and condemned, at a court of admiralty for the trial of piracies, felonies and robberies, committed on the high seas, held at the Court-house in Boston, within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on Tuesday the fourth day of October, anno Domini, 1726 : pursuant to His Majesty's royal commission, founded on an act of Parliament made in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third, entituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy, and made perpetual by an act of the sixth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord King George.
Contributors: Massachusetts. Court of Admiralty.
Publisher: Printed by T. Flet, for S. Gerrish, at the lower end of Cornhill
Published: 1726
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Jedre, John Baptist, d. 1726? -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Tryal (Sloop); Pirates -- Massachusetts.; Trials (Piracy) -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
Notes: Evans 2818
Cohen, M.L.  Bib. of early Amer. law, 13906
" ... Acts of piracy, felony and robbery committed on board the sloop Tryal, by John Baptist Jedre, alias Laverdure, John Baptist, junior, James Mews, Philip Mews and John Missel."--p. 4.
Signatures: [A]² B-H² I²(-I2).
LC copy has large tear at the foot of the t.p., with some loss of text in the title and the imprint.