Note 2 — THE PIRATES OF THE WHIDAH.
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Benjamin Hornigold was a pirate captain of some fame; he soon after this surrendered to the governor of Bermuda, and "came in" under the king's proclamation of Sept. 5, 1717, which offered pardon to those pirates who should surrender within a given time. Charles Johnson, General History of the Pyrates (second ed., London, 1724), I. 35, 70, 71; II. 274-276.