in the year MDCLVIII.

They were Thirteen in number, whose names were as follow, Viz.

Mr.William Vassal, John Merginson, Thomas March, Thomas Kirby, Richard Jelf, Gamaliel Gardiner, William Day, Thomas Stapleton, Henry Man, Hugh Smart, Daniel Holstein, an Hamburger, James Gony, and Henry Bingham.

The occasion of their Seizure was thus.

The Ship these Men belonged unto was the Persia Merchant, Capt.