If condemned, he might dispose of it according to custom.

Six weeks later, a second commission under the Great Seal was granted him, in his capacity of a private man of war, to apprehend all pirates, freebooters, and sea rovers, the names of Thomas Too (?
Tew), John Ireland, Thomas Wake, and William Maze, or Mace, being specially mentioned.

Again, he was enjoined to keep an exact journal of his doings, and the pirate ships he captured were to be proceeded against according to law, in the same manner as French captures.

A subsequent warrant was granted to the syndicate, who figure in it as the Earl of Bellamont, Edmund Harrison, William Rowley, George Watson, Thomas Reynolds, and Samuel Newton.

Under these unpretentious names were hidden Lords Orford and Somers, and other Whig nobles.