The vial poured out upon the sea. A remarkable relation of certain pirates brought…

The EXECUTION.

AND now, speedily, that is to say, On Tuesday, the Sentence against the Evil Works of these Men, must be executed. One of the Four, namely, Condick, was Reprieved. As for Fly, he had been all along, a most uncommon and amazing Instance of Impenitency and Stupidity, and what Spectacles of Obduration the Wicked will be, when they have by a course of Wickedness under and against Warnings, provoked the GOD of Heaven to withhold His Influences from them. The Sullen and Raging Mood, into which he fell, upon his being first Imprisoned, caused him to break forth into furious Execrations, and Blasphemies too hideous to be mentioned; and not eat one morsel of any thing, but subsist only upon a little Drinking, for almost all the remaining part of his Life. He declined appearing in the Public Assemblies, on the Lords-day, with the other Prisoners, to be under the appointed means of Grace, because, forsooth, he would not have the Mob to gaze upon him. He seemed all along ambitious to have it said, That he died a brave fellow ▪ He passed along to the place of Execution, with a Nosegay in his hand, and making his Complements, where he thought he saw occasion. Arriving there, he nimbly mounted the Stage, and would fain have put on a Smiling Aspect. He reproached the Hangman, for not understanding his Trade, and with his own Hands rectified matters, to render all things more Convenient and Effectual.

AND now, speedily, that is to say, On Tuesday, the Sentence against the Evil Works of these Men, must be executed. One of the Four, namely, Condick, was Reprieved. As for Fly, he had been all along, a most uncommon and amazing Instance of Impenitency and Stupidity, and what Spectacles of Obduration the Wicked will be, when they have by a course of Wickedness under and against Warnings, provoked the GOD of Heaven to withold His Influences from them. The Sullen and Raging Mood, into which he fell, upon his being first Imprison'd, caused him to break forth into furious Execrations, and Blasphemies too hideous to be mention'd; and not eat one morsel of any thing, but subsist only upon a little Drinking, for almost all the remaining part of his Life. He declined appearing in the Public Assemblies, on the Lords-day, with the other Prisoners, to be under the appointed means of Grace, because, forsooth, he would not have the Mob to gaze upon him. He seem'd all along ambitious to have it said, That he died a brave fellow He pass'd along to the place of Execution, with a Nosegay in his hand, and making his Complements, where he thought he saw occasion. Arriving there, he nimbly mounted the Stage, and would fain have put on a Smiling Aspect. He reproached the Hangman, for not understanding his Trade, and with his own Hands rectified matters, to render all things more Convenient and Effectual.