FOOTNOTES
[1] A copy of this grant will be found in Appendix A.
[2] See Appendix A.
[3] The narrative of this voyage written by Kidd and the depositions of such of his crew as remained faithful to him, will be found in Appendix B. Other details are to be found in the verbatim reports of his trials.
[4] The port of Madagascar to which she was afterwards taken.
[5] In the petition of Cogi Babba to the House of Commons she is said to have cost forty thousand rupees and her cargo four hundred thousand.
[6] These sailing orders will be found in Appendix A.
[7] See Appendix B.
[8] See Appendix B.
[9] A copy of this memorial will be found in Appendix D.
[10] At St. Marie’s.
[11] See Appendix E.
[12] According to one of these, he was said to have been captured by a French Man-of-War, the commander of which had sent him in irons to the Great Mogul. According to another, he had gone to Darien, where the Scots had received him, and all his riches. At one time he was reported to have offered the Dutch Governor of St. Thomas, forty-five thousand pieces of eight in gold and a great present in goods, if he would protect him for a month. At another he was said to have proffered twenty thousand pounds for his pardon. In the popular imagination he had in fact figured as the Prince of Pirates for some three years before his trial. See Appendix E.
[13] Bellamont’s hypocritical letter to Kidd of the nineteenth of June, 1699 (see Chapter III).
[14] See Lyson’s “Environs of London,” Vol. IV, page 448.
[15] The Quedagh Merchant was spoken of by some of the witnesses at the trial and in Cogi Babba’s relation as the Karry Merchant.
[16] Probably a misprint for New Hampshire.