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Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital…
Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital crimes. : With some of their dying speeches; collected and published, for the warning of such as live in destructive courses of ungodliness. : Whereto is added, for the better improvement of this history, a brief discourse about the dreadful justice of God, in punishing of sin, with sin. : [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
AN English Ship, (in the year 1673.) Sailing from somewhere about the Month of the Straits, was Manned, with some Crue• ⟨p. 67⟩Miscreants, who quarrelling with the Master and some of the Officers, turned 'em all into the Long Boat, with a Small Quantity of Provisions, about an Hundred Leagues, to the Westward of the Spanish Coast.
AN English Ship, (in the year 1673.) Sailing from somewhere about the Month of the Streights, was Manned, with some Crue• ⟨p. 67⟩Miscreants, who quarrelling with the Master and some of the Officers, turn'd 'em all into the Long Boat, with a Small Quantity of Provisions, about an Hundred Leagues, to the Westward of the Spanish Coast.
These Fellows, in the mean while, set Sail for New England: where, by a Surprising providence of God, the Master, with his Afflicted Company, in the Long-boat, also arrived; all, Except one who dyed of the Barbarous Usage.
These Fellows, in the mean while, set Sail for New England: where, by a Surprizing providence of God, the Master, with his Afflicted Company, in the Long-boat, also arrived; all, Except one who dyed of the Barbarous Usage.
The Countenance of the Master, was now become Terrible to the Rebellious Men, who, though they had Escaped the Sea, yet Vengeance would not suffer to Live a Shore. At his Instance and Complaint, they were Apprehended; and the Ringleaders of this Murderous Piracy, had a Sentence of Death Executed on them, in Boston.