The Resolution of the Court was,
T_HAT the Petitioners have Leave by this Court of Admiralty, to
interchange Indentures with the Captain General of the_ Gold Coast, _for
the Royal_ African _Company, for seven Years Servitude, at any of the
Royal_ African _Company's Settlements in_ Africa, _in such Manner as he the
said Captain General shall think proper._
_On_ Thursday _the_ 26_th Day of_ April, _the Indentures being all drawn
out, according to the Grant made to the Petitioners, by the Court held on_
Friday _the_ 20_th 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._
T_HIS 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 Successors shall employ him; according to the Custom of the Country in
like Kind._
_In Consideration whereof, the said Captain General, and Commander in chief
doth covenant and agree, to, and with, the said_ Roger Scot, _to find and
allow him Meat, Drink, Apparel and Lodging, according to the Custom of the
Country._
_In witness whereof, the Parties aforesaid, to these Presents, have
interchangably put their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first above
written._
_Signed, sealed and delivered, in the Presence of us, at Cape_
Corso-Castle, _in_ Africa, _where no stamp'd Paper was to be had._
Mungo Heardman, _President_, Witness. John Atkins, _Register_,
Witness.