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An account of the arraignments and tryals of Col. Richard Kirkby, Capt. John Constable, Capt. Cooper Wade, Capt. Samuel Vincent, and Capt. Christopher Fogg : for cowardice, neglect of duty, breach of orders, and other crimes committed by them in a fight at sea, commenced the 19th of August, 1702, off of St. Martha in the latitude of ten degrees north, near the main-land of America, between the Honourable John Benbow, Esq., and Admiral Du Casse with four French ships of war : for which Col. Kirkby and Capt. Wade were sentenc'd to be shot to death / on a complaint exhibited by the Judge-Advocate on behalf of Her Majesty at a court-martial held on board the ship Breda in Port-Royal Harbour in Jamaica, in America, the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 12th days of October, 1702 ; transmitted from two eminent merchants at Port-Royal in Jamaica to a person of quality in the City of London |
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