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And Strange, Unparallel'd and Unheard-of
VOYAGES and ADVENTURES
OF
AMBROSE GWINETT,
Formerly well known to the Public,
AS THE
LAME BEGGAR MAN,
Who in the Year 1734, and for a long Time after, ſwept
the Way between the Mews Gate and Spring Gardens,
Charing-Croſs.
CONTAINING,
An Account of his being Tried and Convicted, and
Hanged in Chains at Deal in Kent, for the ſuppoſed
Murder of Mr. COLLINS.
His Surprizing Recovery after Hanging in Chains; his
Voyages to the Weſt Indies, and being taken by the
Spaniards, amongſt whom he met with the ſuppoſed
Murdered Mr. COLLINS; their Admiration in meet-
ing each other, and propoſed to return to England to-
gether. The Accident that threw Mr. Gwinett in
the Hands of Pirates; his extraordinary Adventures
with them; his being taken again by the Spaniards,
and ſent to Old Spain, and there Condemned to the
Gallies.
His being taken by the Algerines, and carried into
Slavery, and after many hardſhips returned to Eng-
land, &c.
Written by HIMSELF.
THE SECOND EDITION.
L O N D ON:
Printed by John Lever, at Little Moorgate, next to London
Wall, near Moorfields. 1770.
(Price Six Pence.)
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1533
THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
AMBROSE GWINETT.
I
WAS born of reputable parents in the city
of Canterbury, where my father, living at the
ſign of the Blue Anchor, dealt in flops. He had
but two children, a daughter and myſelf, and have
ing given me a good ſchool education, at the age
of fixteen he bound me apprentice to Mr. George
Roberts, an attorney in our town, with whom I
ſtaid four years and three quarters, to his great
content, and my own ſatisfaction.
My lifter being come to woman's eſtate, had
now been married ſomething more than a twelve-
month to one Sawyer, a ſea-faring man, who hav-
ing got conſiderable prizes, my father alſo giving
hiin 200 l. with my siſter, quitted his profeſſion,
and ſet up a public-houſe within three miles of the
place of his nativity, which was Deal, in the coun-
ty of Kent.
I had frequent invitations to paſs a ſhort time
with them; and in the autumn of the year 1709,
having obtained my maſter's conſent for that
pur-
pore, I left the city of Canterbury on foot on a
Wedneſday morning, being the 17th day of Sep-
tember ; but through ſome unavoidable delays on
the road, the evening was conſiderably advanced
before I reached Deal, and ſo tired was I, being
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unuſed to that way of travelling, that had my life
depended on it, I could not have got as far as my
fiſter's that night, ſhe living, as I have already
ſaid, three miles beyond the place. Ar this time
there were many of her majeſty queen Anne's ſhips
lying in the harbour, the Engliſh being then at
War with the French and Spaniards; beſides which,
I found this was the day for holding the yearly
fair; ſo that the town was filled to that degree, that
a bed was not to be gotten for love or money.
I
went ſeeking a lodging from houſe to houſe to no
purpoſe, till, being quite ſpent, I returned to the
public houſe where I had firſt made enquiry, de-
firing leave to fit by their kitchen fire to reit myſelf
till morning.
The publican and his wife where I put up hap-
pened unfortunately for me to be acquainted with
my brother and ſiſter, and finding by my diſcourſe,
that I was a relation of theirs and going to viſit
thein, the landlady preſently ſaid ſhe would endea-
vour to get me a bed; and going out of the kitchen
ſhe quickly after called me into a parlour, that led
from it. Here I ſaw ſitting by the fire ſide a mid-
dle aged man in a night gown and cap, who was
seckoning money at a table. “ Uncle," ſaid the
wom:11 as ſoon as I entered, this is a brother of
our friend Mrs. Sawyer ; he cannot get a bed any
where, and is tired after his journey. You are the
only one that lies in this houſe alone, will you give
him part of yours?” To this the man anſwered,
that ſhe knew he had been out of order, that he
was blooded that day, and confequently a bedfel.
low could not be very agreeable ; " however,
faid he, “ rather than the young man ſhall fit up
he is welcome to ſleep with me." After this we fac
a while together, when having put his money in a
canvas bag, into the pocket of his night gown,
he took the candle, and I followed him up to bed.
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How long I flept I cannot exactly determine,
but I conjectured it was about three o'clock in the
morning when I awakened with a cholic, attended
with the most violent gripes: I atcributed this to
fome bacon and cabbage i had eaten that day for
dinner, after which I drank a large draught of
milk. I found my chum awake as well as myſelf;
he aſked me whai was the matter? I informed him,
and at the ſame cime begged he would direct me
to the neceſſary. He told me, when I was down
fairs I muſt curn on my right hand and go ſtrait
into the garden, at the end of which it was, juſt
over the ſea, “but," adds he,
“but," adds he, “ you may poſſibly
find ſome difficulty in opening the door, the ſtring
being broke which pulls up the latch. I will give
you a pen-knife, whichyou may open it with through
a chink in the boards. So ſaying he put his hand
inso his waiſtcoat pocket, which lay over him on
the bed, and gave me a middling lized pen-knife.
I hurried on a few of my cloaths and went down
ftairs; but I muſt obſerve to you, that unclaſping
the pen-knife, to open the door of the neceſſary,
according to his direction, a piece of money, which
ſtuck between the blade and the grove in the han-
dle, fell into my hand: I did not examine what it
was, nor indeed could I well fee, there being then
but a very faint moon light, ſo I put them together
careleſsly into my pocket.
I apprehend I ſtaid in the garden pretty near
half an hour, for I was extremely ill, and, by o-
ver-heating myſelf with walking the preceding day,
had brought on the piles ; a diſorder I was ſubject
to from my youth. Theſe ſeem trilling circum-
ſtances, but afterwards turned out of infinite con-
ſequence to me. When I returned to the chamber
I was ſurpriſed to find my bedfellow gone ; I called
ſeveral times, but receiving no anſwer, took it for
granted he had withdrawn into ſome adjoining clo-
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ſet for his private occaſions. I therefore went to
bed and again fell aſleep.
About lix o'clock I aroſe, nobody yet being up
in the houſe. The gentleman was not yet return-
ed to bed, or, if he was, had again left it. I
dreſt myſelf with what haſte I could, being impa-
tient to fee my ſiſter ; and the reckoning being paid
over-night, I let myſelf out at the ſtreet door.
I will
not trouble you with a relation of the kind .
neſs with which my lifter and her huſband received
me. We breakfaſted together, and I believe it
might be about eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
when ſtanding at the door, my brother-in-law be-
ing by my ſide, we ſaw three horſemen galloping
towards us. As ſoon as they came up they ſtopt,
and one of them lighting, ſuddenly ſeized me by
the collar, crying, “ You are the king's priſoner."
I deſired to know my crime. He ſaid I ſhould
know that as ſoon as I came to Deal, where I muſt
immediately go with them. One of them told my
brother, that the night before I had committed a
murder and robbery.
Reſiſtance would have proved as vain as my
tears and proteſtations of my innocence, In a word,
a warrant was produced, and I was carried back to
Deal attended by the three men ; my brother, with
another friend, accompanying us, who knew not
what to ſay, or how to comfort me.
Being arrived in town, I was immediately hur-
ried to the houſe where I had ſlept the preceding
night, the niaſter of which was one of the three
men that came to apprehend me, tho' in my firſt
hurry I did not recollect him. We were met at
the door by a crowd of people, every one crying,
" Which is he? Which is he?" As foon as I en.
tered, I was accoſted by the publican's wife, in
tears, "O! curſed wretch, what haft thou done?
thou haſt murdered and robbed my poor dear un-
cle,
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cle, and all thro'me who put thee to lie with him!
But where haft thou hid his money ? and what haſt
thou done with his body ? Thou ſhalt be hang'd
upon a gallows as high as the May.pole.” My bro-
ther begg'd her to be pacified, and I was taken
into a private room. They then began to queſtion
me as the woman had done, about where I had
put the money, and how I had diſpoſed of the bo-
dy. I aſk'd them what money, and whoſe body
they meant? They then ſaid I had kill'd the perſon
I had lain with the preceding night for the ſake of
a large ſum I had ſeen with him. I fell down upon
my knees, calling God to witneſs, I knew nothing
of what they accuſed me. Then ſomebody cried,
“ Carry him up ſtairs,” and I was brought into the
chamber where I had ſept. Here the man of the
houſe went to the bed, and turning down the cloaths
ſhew'd the ſheets, pillows, and bolſter dyed in
blood. He aſk'd me, did I know any thing of
that? I declared to God I did not. Says a perſon
that was in the room,“ Young man, ſomething
very odd muſt have paſt here laſt night ; for lying
in the next chamber I heard groanings, and going
up
and down ſtairs more than once or twice.” I told
them the circumſtance of my illneſs, and that I
had been up and down myſelf, with all that paſsid
between my bedfellow and me. Somebody pro-
poſed to ſearch me, ſeveral began to turn my poc-
kets inſide out, and from my waiſtcoat tumbled
the pen-knife and the piece of money I have alrea-
dy mentioned. Upon ſeeing theſe, the woman
immediately ſcreamed out, “O God! there is my
uncle's pen-knife!” Then taking up the money
and calling the people about her, “ here”, ſaid ſhe,
s is what puts the villain's guilt beyond a doubt ;
I can ſwear to this William and Mary's guinea;
my uncle has long had it by way of pocket piece,
and engraved the firſt letters of his name upon it."
She
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She then began to cry afreſh, while I could do
nothing but continue to call to Heaven witneſs
that I was as innocent as the child unborn. After
this they carried me down to the neceſſary, and-
here freih proofs appeared againſt me. The con-
ſtable, who had never left me, perceiv'd blood
upon the edges of the feat, (which might probably
proceed from my being troubled with the hemor
rhage the night before) “Here," ſaid he," after have
ing cut the throat, he has let the body down into
the ſea." This every body immediately affenced to.
“ Then,” ſaid the maſter of the houſe, “it is in
vain to look for the body any further, for there
was a ſpring tide laſt night which has carried it
off.”
The conſequence of theſe proceedings was an
immediate examination before a juſtice of peace';
after which I ſuffered a long and rigorous impriſon-
ment in the county town of Maidſtone. For
ſome time, my father, my maſter, and my relati-
ons, were inclind to think me innocent, and, in
compliance with my earneſt requeſt, an advertiſe-
ment was publiſh'd in the London Gazette, repre-
ſenting my deplorable circumſtances, and offering
a reward to any perſon who could give tidings of
Mr. Richard Collins, (the name of the man I was
ſuppoſed to have murdered) either alive or dead.
No information, however, of any kind came to
hand; at the aſſizes therefore, I was brought to
tryal, and circumſtances appearing ſtrong againſt
me, I received ſentence to be carried in a cart
the Wedneſday fortnight following, to the town
of Deal, and there to be hang'd before the inn-
keeper's door where I had committed the murder ;
after which I was to be hung in chains withinza
little way of
my brother's houſe.
Nothing could have ſupported me under this
dreadful condemnation, but a conſciouſneſs of my
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not being guilty of the crime for which I was to
fuffer. My friends now began to conſider my de-
Clarations of innocence as perſiſting in falſehood
to the perdition of my ſoul; many of them dif-
continued their enquiries after me; and thoſe few
who ſtill came to viſit me, only came to urge me
to confeffion; but I was reſolv'd I would never die
with a lie of that kind in my mouth.
The Monday was now arriv'd before the fatal
day when an end was to be put to my miſerics. I
was call'd down into the court of the priſon, but I
own I was not a little ſhock'd, when I found it was
to be taken meaſure of for the irons in which I was
to be hung after execution. A fellow priſoner ap-
peared before me in the ſame woeful plighe (he
had robb’d the mail) and the ſmith was meaſuring
him when I came down; while the goaler, with as
much calmneſs as if he had been ordering a pair of
'ſtays for his daughter, was giving directions in
what manner the irons ſhould be made, ſo as to
ſupport the man who was remarkably heavy and
corpulent.
Between this and the day of my execution, I
Spenmy time alone in prayer and medication. At
length Wedneſday morning came, and about ſix
o'clock I was put into the cart; buc fure, ſuch a
day of wind, rain, and thunder, never blew out
of the Heavens; it purſued us all the way, and
when we arrived at Deal, it became ſo violent,
that the ſheriff and his officers, who had not a dry
ftitch upon them, could ſcarce ſit their horſes : for
my own part, my mind (God help me) was with
long agitation become ſo unfeeling, chat I was in a
manner inſenſible to every object about me: I
therefore heard the ſheriff whiſper the executioner,
to make what diſpatch he could without the leaſt
emotion, and ſuffered him to tuck me up like a
log of wood, unconſcious of what he was doing.
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VOYAGES and ADVENTURES
I can give no account of what I felt while I was
hanging, only that I remernber, after being turn'd
off, fomething for a little time appeared about me
like a blaze of fire; nor do I know how long I
hung: no doubt the violence of the weather fa-
vour'd me greatly in that circumſtance. What I
am now going to tell you, I learn'd from my bro-
ther, which was, that after having hung aboat
half an hour, the ſheriff's officers all went off, and
I was cut down by the executioner ; but when he
came to put the irons upon me, it was found a
miſtake had been made, and that the irons of the
other man, which were much, too large for me,
had been ſent inſtead of mine. This they remedi-
ed as well as they cou’d, by ſtuffing rags between my
body and the hoops that ſurrounded it; after
which I was taken, according to my ſentence, to
the place appointed, and hung upon a gibbet which
was ready prepared.
The cloth over my face being but Nightly tied,
and ſuffering no preſſure from the iron which ſtood
a great way from it, was, I ſuppoſe, foon dé-
tach'd by the wind, which was ſtill rather violent,
and probably its blowing on my bare face expedi-
ted my recovery ; certain it is, that in this tremen-
It was no doubt, a very great bleſſing, that I
did not immediately return ſo perfectly to my fen-
fes as to have a feeling of things about me ; yet I
had a fort of recollection of what had happened,
and, in ſome meaſure, was ren Gible where I was.
The gibbet was placed at one corner of a ſmall
common-field, where my, Gitter's cows uſually ran ;
and it pleaſed God, that about this time a lad, who
took care of them, came to drive them home for
evening milking. The creatures, which were feed-
ing almoft under me, brought him near the gib-
bet; when, ſtopping to look at the melancholy
spectacle,
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pectacle, he perceived that the cloth was from off
my face; and, in the very moment he looked up,
Saw me open my eyes, and move my under jaw.
He immediately ran home to inform the people at
his maſter's. Aç firſt they made ſome difficulty
to believe his ſtory; at length, however, my bro-
ther came out, and, by the time he got to the field,
I was ſo much alive, that my groans were very
audible.
It was now duſk. The firſt thing they ran for
was a ladder. One of my brother's men mounted,
and, putting his hand to my ſtomach, felt my heart
beating very ſtrongly. But it was found impofii-
ble to detach me from the gibbet, without cutting
it down. A ſaw, therefore, was got for that pur-
pofe ; and, without giving you a detail of trilling
circumſtances, in leſs than half an hour, having
freed me from my irons, they got me blooded,
and put me into a warm bed in my brother's houſe,
It is an amazing thing, that, though upwards
of eight perſons were entruſted with this tranſacti-
on, and I remained three days in the place after ic
happened, not a creature betrayed the ſecret. Early
next morning it was known that the gibbet was
cut down, and it immediately occurred to every
body, that it was done by my relacions, in order
to put a flight veil over their own ſhame, by bury-
ing the body:. but when my brother was ſummon-
ed to the mayor's houſe, in order to be queſtion-
ed, and he denied knowing any thing of the mac-
ter, little more ſtir was made about it ; partly be-
cauſe he was greatly reſpected by all the neigh-
bouring gentlemen, and in ſome meaſure, perhaps,
becauſe it was known that I continued to perfift
ftrongly in my being innocent of the faa for which
I ſuffered.
Thus, then, was I molt miraculouſly delivered
from an ignominious death, if I may call my com-
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ing to life a delivery, after all I had endured ;
but, now was I to dispoſe of my life now I had re-
gained it. To ſtay in England was impoſſible,
without expoſing myſelf again to the terrors of the
law. In this dilemma, a fortunate circumſtance
occurred. There had lain, for fome time, ac my
brother's houſe, one or two of the principal officers
of a privateer that was preparing for a cruize, and
jutt, then ready to fail. The captain kindly offered
to take me aboard with him. You may gueſs,
little difficulty was made on our ſide to accept of
ſuch a propoſal; and proper neceffaries being
quickly provided for me, my fifter recommended
me to the protection of God and the worthy com-
mander, who moſt humanely received me as a fort
of under-alfitant to his ſteward.
We had been fix months out upon our cruize,
having had but very indifferent fucceſs, when, be-
ing upon the coaſt of Florida, then in the hands
of the Spaniards, we unfortunately fell in with a
ſquadron of their men of war; and being confe-
quently taken without ſtriking a ſtroke, we were
all brought priſoners into the harbour of Havannah
I was really now almoſt weary of my life, and
ſhould have been very glad to have ended it in the
loathſome dungeon, where, with forty others. of
iny unfortunate countrymen, the enemy had ſtow-
ed me; but, after three years cloſe confinement,
we were let out, in order to be put on board tranſ-
ports, to be conveyed to Penſylvania, and from
thence to England. This, as you may believe,
was a diſagreeable ſentence to me, taking it for
granted, that a return home would be a return to
the gallows : being now, therefore, a tolerable
matter of the Spaniſh language, I ſolicited very
ſtrongly to be left behind; which favour I obtain-
ed, by means of the maſter of the priſon, with
whom, during my confinement, I had contracted
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a ſort of intimacy; and he not only took me into
his houſe, as ſoon as my countrymen were gone,
but, in a ſhort time, procured me a ſalary from
the governor, for being his deputy.
Indeed, at this particular time, the office was
by no means agreeable. The coaſt had been long
infeſted with pirates, the moſt deſperate gang of
villians that can be imagined ; and there was ſcarce
a month paſſed, that one or other of their veſſels
did not fall into the governor's hands, and the
crew as conſtantly was put under my care. Once
I very narrowly eſcaped being knocked o'th' head
by one of the ruffians, and having the keys wreſt-
ed from me: another time I was ſhot at. 'Tis
true, in both caſes the perſons ſuffered for their ac-
tempt, and, in the laſt, I thought a little too cru-
elly; for the fellow, who let off the carabine, was
not only put to the torture, to confeſs his accom.
plices, but afterwards broke upon the wheel, where
he was left to expire, the moſt ſhocking ſpectacle
I ever beheld with my eyes.
I had been in my office about three months,
when a ſhip arrived from Port Royal, another Spa-
niſh ſettlement on the coaſt, with nine Engliſh pri-
foners on board. I was ttanding in the ſtreet as
they were coming up from the port with a guard
of ſoldiers, to the governor's houſe. I thought
ſomething ſtruck me, in the face of one of the pri-
foners, that I had before been acquainted with.
I could not ſtop them for us to ſpeak together ;
however, in about an hour after, they were all
brought down to priſon, there to be lodged till
the governor ſignified his further pleaſure.
As foon as the poor creatures found I was an
Engliſhman, they were extremely happy, even in
their diſtreſſed ſituation, though, indeed they were
treated with lenity enough, and only ſent to the
priſon till a lodging could be provided for them,
they
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they having been, in the courſe of the war, made
priloners as well as myſelf, and then on their return
home. I now had an opportunity of taking notice
of the man whole face I thought I knew, and I
was more and more confirmed that I was not mil-
taken. In a word, I verily thought, that this man
was the perſon for whole ſuppoſed murder I had
ſuffered fo niuch in England; and the thought
was ſo ſtrong in my head, that I could not ſleep a
wink all night.
In the morning after their arrival, I told them,
that if any of them had a mind to walk about the
town, I would procure them permiſſion, and go
along with them. This man ſaid he would go,
and it was what I wiſhed. Three other priſoners,
that went out along with us, walked a little in ad-
vance. I now took the opportunity, and looking
in his face, “Sir,” ſaid I, “ was you ever at
Deal?" I believe, he, at that inſtant, had ſome
recollection of me; for putting his hand upon my
ſhoulder, tears burit into his eyes. " Sir,” ſays
1, “ if you were, and are the man I take you for,
you here fee before you one of the most unfortunate
of human kind; Sir, is your name Collins ?" He
anſwered, it was. « Richard Collins ? " ſaid I.
He replied, “ Yes.” “ Then,” ſaid I, “ I was
hanged and gibbeted upon your account in Eng-
land."
After our mutual ſurprize was over, he made me
give him a circumſtantial detail of every thing that
happened to me in England, from the moment we
parted. I never ſaw any man expreſs ſuch concern
as he did, while I was purſuing my melancholy
adventures; but, when I came to the circumſtance
of my being hanged, and afterwards hung in chains,
I could hardly prevail upon him to believe my rela-
tion, till backed by the moſt ſerious aſſeverations,
pronounced in the moſt ſerious manner. When I
had
OT AMBROSE GWINETT. 15
had done, “ Well,” ſaid he, “ young man,
”
(for I was then but in my five and twentieth year;
Mr. Collins might be about three and forty) “ if
you have fuſtained misfortunes upon my account,
do not imagine (tho' I cannot lay them at your
door) that I have been without my ſufferings.
God knows my heart, I am moft exceedingly for-
ry for the injuſtice that has been done you ; but
the ways of providence are unſearchable." He
then proceeded to inform me by what accident all
my troubles had been brought about.
“ When you left me in bed," faid he, « hav.
ing at firſt wakened with an oppreſſion I could not
account for, I found myſelf grow exceedingly fick
and weak; I did not know what was the matter ;
I groand and fighed, and thought myſelf going
to die ; when, accidentally, putting my hand to my
left arm, in which I had been blooded the morn-
ing before, I found my ſhirt wet, and, in ſhort,
that the bandage having flipped, the orifice was
again opened, and a great fux of blood enſued.
This 'immediately accounted for the condition I
found myſelf in. I thought, however, I would
not diſturb the family, which I knew had gone to
bed very late. I therefore, muſtered all my
ſtrength, and got up, with my night-gown loole
about me, to go to a neighbouring barber, who
had bled me, in order to have the blood ſtopt and
the bandage placed. He lived dire&tly oppoſite to
our houſe: but when I was croſſing the way, in
order to knock at his door, a band of men, arm-
ed with cutlaſſes and hangers, came down the cown,
and ſeizing me, hurried me towards the beach. I
begged and prayed ; but they ſoon filenced my
cries. At firſt, I took them for a preſs-gang,
though I afterwards found they were a gang of
ruffians, belonging to a privateer, aboard of which
they immediately brought me. However, before
I got
$
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VOYAGES and ADVENTURES
I
got
thither, the loſs of blood occaſioned me to
fainc away. The ſurgeon of the ſhip, I ſuppoſe,
tyed up my arm ; for, when my ſenſes returned,
I found myſelf in a hammock, with ſomebody
feeling my pulſe. The veſſel was then under way.
I aſked where I was? They ſaid I was ſafe enough.
I immediately called for my night-gown ; it was
brought me; but of a conſiderable ſum of
money
that was in the pocket of it, I could get no account.
I complained to the captain of the violence that
had been done me, and of the robbery his, men
had committed; but, being a brutiſh fellow, he
laughed at my grief, and told me, if I had loft a-
ny thing, I ſhould ſoon have prize-money enough
to make me amends. In a word, not being able
to help myſelf, I was obliged to ſubmit; and, for
three months, they forced me to work before the
maſt. In the end, however, we met the ſame fate
that you did. We were taken by the Spaniards
and, by adventurers parallel to your own, you
now ſee me here, on my return to our native coun-
try, whither, if you will accompany me, I ſhall
think myſelf extremely happy.
There was now nothing to prevent my going to
England ; and a ſhip being to fail for Europe in
eight or ten days, in it Mr. Collins, and I deter-
mined to embark. As ſoon as we returned home,
I went to my maſter, and told him my reſolution : :
he did not diſſuade me from it, chiefly, I ſuppoſe,
becauſe it gave him an opportunity of getting the
little office I held for a nephew of his, who was
lately come to live with him, to whom, the very
ſame day, I delivered up my truſt. And here the
providence of God was no leſs remarkable to me
than in other particulars of my life: for, the very ſame
night, eight or ten pirates, who were in the priſon,
watched the occaſion, while the young man was
locking up the wards, to ſeize him, taking the keys
from
'
OF AMBROSE GWINETT. 17
from him, after having left him for dead; and,
before the alarm was ſufficiently given, five of them
made their eſcape, having, as it was ſuppoſed, got
off the coaſt by means of piratical boats, which
kept continually hovering about.
It was the 18th day of November, 1912, that,
having made all my little preparations, I ſent my
trunk aboard the Noſtra Senora, a merchant-ship,
bound for Cadiz, Michael Deronza, maſter. The
veſſel was to ſail that evening, and lay in the road,
about three miles from the town. About ſeven
o'clock in the evening, I being then fitting with
Signor Gaſper, my old friend and maſter, in the
portico to his houſe, a lad came up, and ſaid, the
boat had been waiting half an hour for me at the
port, and that my companion, Mr. Collins, was
already on board. I ran into the houſe for a ſmall
bundle, and only ſtaying to take leave of one or two
of the family, made what haſte I could to the
quay : but, when I arrived, I found the boat had
already put off, leaving word, that I ſhould over-
take them at a little bay, about a mile beyond the
town. The duſk was coming on. I ran along the
Ihore; and, as I imagined, ſoon had a ſight of the
boat, to which I hallooed as loud as I was able;
they anſwered, and immediately put about to take
me in: but we had ſcarce got fifty yards from land,
when, on looking about for my friend Mr. Collins,
I miſſed him; and then it was I found I had made
a miſtake, and, inſtead of getting aboard my own
boat, which I now ſaw a conſiderable way a-head,
I had got into a boat belonging to ſome of the pi-
rates. I attempted to leap over-board, and ſhould
eaſily have ſwam alhore, but I was prevented by
one of the crew, who gave me a ſtroke on the head,
which immediately laid me ſenſelels; and I found
afterwards, they miſtook me for one of their own
с
men,
**
my life, had not the captain
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men; whom they had ſent to purchaſe ſomething
in the town.
A more infernal crew than theſe pirates breath-
ed not upon the face of the earth. Their whole
lives were a ſcene of rapine and murder, which,
when they had not an opportunity of committing
upon wretches that fell into their clutches, during
their piratical purſuits, they committed upon one
another. During the time that I remaired with
them, which was upwards of three years and three
quarters, there was no leſs than eleven affaflinati-
ons among themſelves. There was an uninhabit-
ed inand, about twelve leagues weſt of the gulph
of Mexico, which thoſe villains called Swallow
iſland, from the great numbers of thoſe birds which
harboured upon it. Here they had a fortification
and the place being rendered almoſt inacceſſible by
rocks, except at one little inlet, juſt large enough
to admit a ſingle veffel, they defied the Spaniſh
power.
Their captain was one Bryan Walſh, an Iriſhman,
whom I cannot help calling a moft execrable and
bloody villain, tho' God Almighty put it into his
heart to be a very good friend to me. When I was
brought into the ſhip, and, immediately after, in-
to the captain's cabin, the first perſon that accort-
ed me was one of the fellows that had broke out
of priſon, and had formerly been under my care.
I te knew me directly; and, without any more ado,
drawing out his hånger, aimed a-ftroke at me,
which falling upon my neck, entered deep into
the ficth, and nuft infallibly have put an end to
Ing his cane between him and me, which broke
the force of the blow. From this moment, he
feemed to take me under his protection. At his
own requeſt, I gave him a hiſtory of my life, which
aftoniſhed him greatly : bat, noswithſtanding I
pleaded
lit
....
:
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19
pleaded hard to be ſet on flore again, he abſolute-
ly refuſed; and, in ſpite of all my entreaties to the
contrary, brought me to the iſland and fortificati-
on I have already mentioned, where, finding I
could read and write, two qualifications he wanted
himſelf, he thought I'mighe be of uſe to him.
I have already ſaid, that with theſe people I re-
mained upwards of three years : on land I acted as
ftare-keeper ; and, ar fea, as a fort of purſer to the
Thip. It is to be obferved, that there was always
a fufficient number of hands left on the iſland, to
man the fort, which was ſo ſituated as effe&tually
to prevent the approach of an enemy. Indeed,
the office of ſtore keeper was a place of great truſt.
You would hardly credit me, was I to attempt to
tell you the immenſe riches thote robbers had amaf-
fed rogether. One arcicle alone will be ſufficient
to give you an idea of it. Under onc ſhed, I'iy-
felf reckoned three thouſand eight hundred bales
of Engliſh goods, and I may lately declare, that,
in other merchandize of almoſt every kind, they
fell nothing behind : and, upon an average, there
could not be leſs in their coffers than two hundred
thouſand pounds fterling in fpecie, beſides a great
quantity of gold in bars.
The continual terror that was on my mind while
I remained with theſe people is not to be imagin-
ed; but, to give you a detail of my manner of life
while I endured this worſt of bondage, would be
tedious, becauſe it had no variety, and ſhocking
to boof, as I was forced to enter into all their hor-
rid ſchemes. I ſhall only tell you, that, in one of
our cruizes, having met with a Jamaica fhip, we
haited out our black colours, and, having board-
el her, becauſe ſhe made ſome reſiſtance, and kill-
ed one of our men, the captain ordered that the
whole crew Thould be maſſacred; which wicked
command was executed upon the maſter, five ſea-
men,
..
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VOYAGES and ADVENTURES
men, and a boy, in a manner, before the cruel
monſter's eyes; then taking the cargo out, which
proved to be rum and ſugar, we ſcuttled the ſhip,
and returned to our fortification.
But, to ſee how the avenger of wicked deeds
makes the fruits of our crimes our puniſhment,
this cargo of rum, which was of a kind not many
degrees ſhort of aqua fortis, was drank by the men
with ſuch a furor, that, in little more than three
days, not a drop of it was left; and, out of our
complement of eighteen men, feven abſolutely loſt
their lives by it, anong which was the captain.
I cannot but confeſs I had ſome attachment to
this man, becauſe he always appeared particularly
attached to me: when, therefore, I ſaw him lie
fenſeleſs on the floor, overgorged with this infernal
liquor, I did every thing I could to recover him,
and ſo far ſucceeded, as to bring him to his ſenſes ;
but the quantity he had drank had inflamed his
bowels to a degree to be afſwaged by no lenitives
that was in my power to procure him. He was
ſeized with intermitting convulſions, which, the
next day, carried him off : but, about four hours
before he died, he called to me, in preſence of all
the men, who ſtood about him in the cabin, and
deſiring me to ſit down, with pen and ink, to draw
his will, he left me fole heir to his ſhare of the
booty, ſigning the paper with his mark, which
paper, through a ſeries of unheard-of misfortunes,
I have preſerved in my cuſtody ever ſince.
We buried the captain the next day, and, on
inſpection and partition of the treaſure, I found
myſelf worth conſiderably more than forty thou-
fand pounds ſterling. The perſons now remaining
of our company were, Joſeph Wright, Andrew
Van Hooten, a Dutchman, James Winter, and
myſelf, the four principals, beſides four common
men, to whoin 'we aſſigned five thouſand pouods
a-piece,
OF AMBROSE GWINETT.
a-piece, which we gave to each of them in dollars ;
nor did I obſerve any diſcontent among them on
account of the bequeſt the captain had made to
me.
ments.
All my thoughts were immediately bent on get-
ting off the iſland to ſome of the Engliſh ſettle-
I plainly perceived, that my companions
wanted to be again at their old practices : but, one
day, talking upon the ſubject of another cruize, I
repreſented to them the danger and uncomfortable
ſituation we all were in ; that we had each of us a
very ample fortune to ſupport us in any part of the
world; it was therefore my advice, that we ſhould
immediately put our treaſure on board, with às
much of the merchandize as we could convenient-
ly carry off, and make the beſt of our way to Ja.
maica, where there was no doubt but we ſhould be
well received.
They agreed to the propoſal with more alacrity
than I thought they would. We fell immediately
to work, and, in two days, were prepared to fail.
But, though we put a conſiderable quantity of bale-
goods on board, the quantity ſtill in the warehou-
fes was aſtoniſhing. I warned the fellows of their
rapacity, and the danger of too deeply loading the
ſhip, but they would not give over till ſhe could
hold no more ; and then the treaſure, packed in
chefts, each man's ſhare ſeparate to himſelf, we put
in the cabin.
We weighed anchor the 3d of Auguſt, and, for
three days, we had excellent weather ; but the
fourth, a ſtorm began to threaten, and the ſymp-
toms ſtill increafing, by midnight ſuch a war was
raiſed between heaven and earth, as, to that hour,
I never was witneſs of. About three o'clock in the
morning, we were obliged to heave the ſhip to un-
der her bare poles; and the ſea ran ſo exceeding
high, that we could venture to keep no lights aboard,
though
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though the night was ſo dark, that we could fcarce
fee one another at a quarter of a yard diſtance: the
wind ftill encreaſing, we ſprung the main-maſt a-
bout ſix feet from the deck, chat nothing could
ſave it. We now began to feel the conſequence
of too deeply lading the veſful. The firſt things
we threw overboard were our guns ; and, as our
caſe became more and more deſperate, every thing
followed them, not excepting our cheſts of treaſure.
Thus, I was once more reduced to my original
ftate of poverty. As day-light appeard, the ſtorni
abated. We then, as well as we were able, erected
jury-maſts; and, in about four hours managed,
with the greateſt difficulty, to get the veſſel again
under fail.
I was now ſtanding behind the man at the wheel,
leaning againſt the mizen maſt, returning God
thanks in my own mind for our amazing efcape,
when the boatſwain came up to me, and ſaid,
“ Damme, maſter Gwinett, you have brought us
"all into a pretty hole here ; if it had not been
" for you we ſhould not have taken this trip, and
“ loſt the ſubſtance we have been working for fo
“" many years, but you lop too, I aſſure you."
I aſked him what he meant; he ſaid he would let
me fee ; upon which he and two or three others of
them that came behind him, ſeizing me by the
nape of the neck, and the waiſtband of the breech-
es, forced me over the rails of the quarter deck,
and dropt me into the ſea.
The shock of the fall, and the amaze I was in
from ſo unexpected an accident, almoſt bereaved
me of my fenfes; I endeavoured, however, to
keep myſelf above water as well as I could, though
I had no manner of hopes of ſaving my life.' My
firſt attempt was to ſwim after the ſhip; but find
ing that impracticable, I turned about, and I be-
lieve might have ſwam about three quarters of an
hour,
|
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OF AMBROSE GWINETT. 23
hour, when being very faint and weak, I began
to put up my laſt prayer to God, and determined
to commit myſelf to the bottom of the deep; but,
at that inſtant, turning my head a little aſide, i
law, at a ſmall diſtance from me, a body, which
at firſt I took for a barrel, but, Good Lord! what
was my joy and aſtoniſhment, when coming near
it, I perceived it to be one of our own boats, which
had been waſhed overboard the night before ; and,
to complete my joy, the oars were lached to the
feat. Almoft fpent as I was, I made a ſhift to get
into it, and here I ſaw myſelf freed in a miracu-
lous manner, from the fury of the waves; but at
the ſame time, I found myſelf in an open boat, at
leaſt fixty leagues from any land, without a com-
paſs, or any kind of nouriſhment whatſoever, un-
leſs I might count ſuch fome tobacco I had in a
box in one of my waiſtcoat pockets; and I believe
in my confcience, it afforded a nouriſhment that,
in a great meaſure, helped to preſerve me.
It was a very great bleſſing for me, that mode-
-rate weather followed the tempeſt, by which means
I was enabled to keep the boat tolerably ſteady.
I could not be leſs than thirty hours in this ſituati-
on, when I was taken up by a Spaniſh carrack;
but I can hardly reckon that among fortunate ac-
cidents; for, the ſame day that I entered the ſhip,
one of the men, while I was aſleep, hanging up
my cloaths among the ſhrouds to dry, in doing it,
emptied my pockets, and finding ſeveral papers
relative to the pirates affairs, as ſoon as they arri-
ved in Port Royal, whither they were bound, they
ſeized me as one of that deſperate gang. I mult
obſerve to you, that when I firſt was taken into the
ſhip, I gave a falſe account of myſelf; which cau-
tion was my ruin: for novi, confeſſing the truth,
and telling them I had been forced into the pirate's
ſervice, with all that had happened to me among
them,
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them, my prevarication made them ſuſpect my vea
racity, and I was kept two years in priſons when,
by what means I know not, ſome of the wretches;
with whom I left our inand, having been taken as
pirates, upon the Spaniſh coaſts in Europe, an or-
der came to bring me over to Cadiz in Old Spain,
in order to be an evidence. When I came there,
I was again confined for many months; but, at
length, when the pirates were brought to their try.
al, inſtead of being made uſe of as an evidence, I
found myſelf treated as a delinquent, and with two
others, condemned to the galleys for life.
I worked on board them for ſome years; when
the galley I belonged to was ordered to ſea, againſt
an Algerine rover that infeſted the coaſt, but, in.
Atead of one, we met with three of them. The if
ſue of the engagement was fatal to us. The great-
eſt
part
of the crew were killed, and the reſt taken
priſoners, among which laſt I was one, having
loſt the leg which you ſee me want, in the action.
After this, I paſſed a long and
painful Navery in
Algiers, till, with many other Engliſh captives,
I was releaſed, by agreement between the Dey of
Algiers and his Britannick majeſty's agent. In
the year 1730, I returned to England. The firſt
thing I did was to enquire after my relations; but
all thoſe neareſt to me were dead; and I found Mr.
Collins had never returned home, fo I ſuppoſe he
died in his paſſage. Though not an old man, I
was ſo enfeebled by hardſhips, that I was unable
to work, and, being without any manner of ſup-
port, I could think of no way of getting my living
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