AN ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Dying Speeches, and Execution of Mr. John Murphey, for High-Treason; and William May, John Sparcks, William Bishop, James Lewis, and Adam Foresith, for Robbery, Piracy and Felony; at the Execution-Dock: On Wednesday the 25th of November, 1696.  
Licenced according to Order.  
TO give my Reader first a short Account of the particular Crimes that brought these Unhappy Criminals to their untimely End; These five last Pirates are some of the Crew of the Famous, or rather Infamous Captain Every, that committed those crying and bloody Cruelties, in the East-Indies, upon the Coast of Persia, and the Kingdom of the Great ; these most Barbarous and Inhuman Wretches, having first run away with one of his Majesty's Men of War, called the Charles, and dismissed all that innocent part of the Ships Crew that refused to engage in their desperate Designs, immediately set out as Pyrares, make their common Prey upon Friends and Foes, and rob all Mankind. Accordingly they perpetrated those unheard of Barbarities, as such plundering and rifling all the Vessels they met with, Ravishing and Deflowering the Virgins and Women, and then turning them out naked, to starve upon shore, amongst Rocks and Deserts. But above all, nothing was so horrid, as their Surprising a Ship of the King of the Indies, where they first took away an infinite Treasure, most inhumanely Ravished a Young Princess, and the test of her Female Train, and afterwards left the Ship disarmed and disabled, floating as a wreck upon the Sea, with near a 1000 Souls on Board, thereby exposed to inevitable Starving.  
This unparallelled Outrage greatly prejudiced the Honourable East India Company, the Grand Mogul demanding Satisfaction of them for this Depreduction and Villainy.  
After public Proclamation made for their Apprehension, several of them were accordingly taken, and William May, Joseph Dawson, John Sparcks, William Bishop, and James Lewis were brought upon their Trials on the 19th of October, before the Honourable Sir Charles Hedges, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, together with the Lord Chef Justice Holt, etc. At which time, notwithstanding Joseph Dawson frankly and candidly acknowledge his Crimes and pleaded Guilty; however the sway (much to Admitation) whither out of Tenderness, in relation to not full enough Evidence, or what other unknown Reason, acquitted them. Nevertheless they were afterwards brought upon a new Trial, and such full and ample Testimony came against them; as that they received the just Sentence of Death, and this suffered accordingly.  
Capt. Vaughan and John Murphey, though their Crimes were much of the same Nature, viz. For their Rapiness upon the Seas, yet their Arraignment lay higher, viz. For no less a Crime then Treason; as that being Native Subjects to the King, contrary to their Allegiance, they had joined w●●● our French Enemies, and committed Hostilities upon the Subjects of England. Upon their Trials it appeared, that Captain Vaughan had received a Come … from the French King, as Captain of a Privateer; and that he with oth●●●●val Forces had attacked and taken his Majesty's Ship the Diamand. 〈…〉 and carried her Price into France, for which Fact, both he and Murp●●● received Sentence of Death, as Guilty of High Treason.  
After their Trials and Conviction, though they appeared very resolute before, yet upon the certainty of their approaching Death, they behaved themselves with a little more modesty, and some signs of a good preparation for another World. They received the Favour of a considerable Time to prepare for Death, and being this 25th of November all conveyed, (Murphey being drawn on a Sledge) to the Execution Dock, between the Hours of three and four, they were all Executed, Captain Vaughan only being Respited from the present Execution to Suffer at Tyburn.  
Murphey appeared the most undaunted, though to give them their due they seemed to be all Masters of as much Courage as was possible, at the sight of so infamous a Death before their Eyes. Murphey being an Irishman, and a strong Zealot for the late King and the French Interest, seemed to have little Regret against his Cause, which he seemed to adhere to, to the last, but rather maimed the Misfortunes of his Life, and other private Sins, which he thought might in a high measure bring him to this fatal End, as judging those Errors of his wicked Life more capital than the Crime for which he died.  
William May, was much inclined to Penitence, and expressed some sense of his shameful End, and of the more shameful Crimes that brought him to that ignominious Death.  
John Sparcks, likewise expressed a due sense of his wicked Life, in particular to the most horrid Barbarities that he had committed, which though upon the Persons of Heathens and Insidels, such as the forementioned poor Indians, so inhumanly rifled and treated so unmercifully; declaring, that his Eyes were now open to his Crimes, and that he justly suffered Death for such Inhumanity, much more than his Injustice and Robbery, in Stealing and Running away with one of his Majesty's Ships, which was of the two his lesser concern.  
William Bishop, said but little, but owned himself as deep a sinner as the others; and that his three years Roving upon the Seas, was now a very Melancholy Thought to his Soul, and so much the more to consider the Brutality of his Crimes, as being one of a more Barbarous Crew than the Generality of Offenders of that kind.  
Adam Foresah, was very Penitent, and truly owned that besides the Gild of his Offences, and the present capital Punishment, his Wicked Life, attended with the many Hardships and Hazards he had undergone in his Robberies, was little less than a Punishment; for wickedness (let it prosper never somuch) brings great many troubles and afflictions along with it.  
James Lewis acknowledged his many Transgressions, and particularly the Offence for which they all died. In fine, they had all the Favour at the place of Execution, of giving them time to offer up their necessary Prayers to Almighty God: and then all suffered according to their Sentence.   

London: Printed for T. Crownfield, in Cheapside, 1696.