His six years of office were distinguished by his efforts to put an end to many abuses that had grown up in the Company's affairs.

He left India with a fortune of L100,000, made by private trade, and settled down near his birthplace, which he had not revisited since he left it as a boy.
He died in 1746.
NOTE .-- The account of England's cruise in the _Cassandra_, given in Johnson's "History of the Pirates," is evidently taken from Lazenby's narrative to the E.I.C.

Directors.

Macrae's account of the capture of the _Cassandra_, given by Johnson, appears also to have been part of a similar report to the Directors, but the report itself has disappeared.
Additional information is to be found in the logs of the _Greenwich_ and _London_.
[1] Proclamation issued at Goa, 19th July, 1720 (Danvers).
[2] This was Oliver Levasseur, otherwise La Buze of Calais, a noted French pirate.

By the English he was called La Bouche, and, in one ship's log, Lepouse.