10 Verjuice, chamomile flowers, wormwood, gentian root, liquorice root, burdock root, rhubarb root, lignum vitae. 11 Prepared crabs'-eyes (= Gascoin's powder), prepared red coral, Oriental saffron, sulphide of antimony, prepared shells, powdered jalap root, powdered ipecacuanha, pills of aloes and myrrh, catholicon (i.e., good for what ails you) pills. 12 Venice turpentine, quicksilver, crude antimony, liquorice juice, sarsaparilla root, hyssop, lesser centaury, extract of cassia fistula. 13 Vitriolated tartar, sal ammoniac, red rose petals, powdered cream of tartar, resin of jalap, dulcified gamboge-resin, sponge, cantharides, blue vitriol, flowers of sulphur, crude alum. 14 Juniper-berries, common resin, calcined carbonate of zinc, sugar of lead (sugar of Saturn), cinnamon, cubebs, ginger, plaster of powdered frogs and mercury ("Emplastrum de Ranis cum Mercurio", see Eggleston, op. cit., PP. 57, 58, 85), Virginian snakeroot. 15 Powdered myrrh, oil of rosemary, oil of lavender, mustard-seed, sulphide of mercury, prepared goldstone (yellow topaz?), vinegar, powdered scarnmony. Tutty (zinc oxide), senna, china-root, confection of alkermes (see Eggleston, pp. 86-87), confection of hyacinth, tincture of myrrh, syrup of rhubarb. Newport June 14, 1744. Recd. the full Contents per John Tweedy. 159. Account for the Revenge. June, 1744.1 The Sloop Revenge, Dr. 1744, June 7th. To the Judges fees for Condemnation, etc. £70. os. od. June 16th. To James Honyman,' Attorneys fees [Illegible] 20th. To Thos. Ward,' Attorney fees To the Register, fees and bonds for To John Freebody, Acct. for Sundrys Paid June 15th. To Wm. Kings Acct, for Masters Dyet To Capt. Allin, Acct. for Pilotage, Providence To Jno. Harriss, acct. for Sur. Qt. Master June 15th. Jno. Renick. To 2 Men 19 Days at 8s. a Day amt. to To Mr. Fox [?] Acct. for the Masters Claim To Mr. Danll. Saveti [?] Linguester' Attorney-general of Rhode Island 1732-1740. IO. O. Son of Governor Richard Ward, and secretary of the colony 1747-1760. Tweedy 15th. To the Docters Chest To Storidge, Warfidge, etc. to J. F. £165. 0. 0 20. 0. 0 Doctors Chest to Deduct out of their Div'd' Per Contra Cr. 1744, June 7th. By Sundrys Sould at Vandeu At Provdc. By the Hides and Tobacco 551. 6. 7 165.0. 0 £386. 6. 7 £2123.12s. 6d. 569. 0. 0 £2692.12. 6 I.e., it is concluded that the surgeon's supplies (similar no doubt to those which Tweedy took for an earlier voyage, doc. no. 158) should rather be deducted from the men's share, as a proper charge on them, than charged to the whole account of the privateer. "I do not know the source of this increment. The calculations below show that, at this time, Freebody owned and Norton f of the Revenge. 160. Agreement: The Revenge and the Success. November 10, 1744.1 Memorandum of Agreement indented made and concluded upon the Tenth Day of November in the Eighteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King of Great Britain etc., Annoq. Dm. One thousand Seven hundred and Forty Four, Between John Freebody and Benjamin Norton, both of Newport in the County of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island, etc., Merchants, Owners of the private Man of War Sloop Revenge, whereof James Allen is Commander, of the one part, and William Read, Jonathan Nicholls and William Corey, all of Newport aforesd., Merchants, and Robert Hazzard of Point Judith in South Kingstown in the County of Kings County in the Colony aforesaid, Yeoman, Owners of the private Man of War Sloop Success, whereof Peter Marshall is Commander, the other part, Witnesseth, That the Owners of the said Sloop Revenge and the Owners of the said Sloop Success do hereby Mutually Covenant, promise and Agree that the said Two Sloops or Vessels, Captains, officers, and Companies belonging to them, shall Unite, Assist each other and Concert together for and during their whole Voyage and until their return to Newport aforesaid, During all which time One third part of all Vessels, prizes, prize 1Massachusetts Historical Society. This, it will be seen, was Freebody ind Norton's copy of the agreement. With the aid of documents found elsewhere, the history of the Success can be pieced out. Among the records of he vice-admiralty court at Boston there is a thin book of "Accounts of Sales", which begins with accounts of sales of the Success and her cargo, uly 22-Oct. 7, 1743, from which it appears that she was a British vessel, ecaptured from the enemy by the privateer bilander Young Eagle, John Rous commander, the same privateer that brought in the Amsterdam Post, with its former lieutenant now commander (doc. no. 128, note 9). Then, n the Rhode Island archives, "Admiralty Papers, 1726-1745", pp. 63-82, we ave the libel and other papers in the case of James Allen of the Revenge nd Peter Marshall of the Success against the Willem galley (see doc. no. 61), which shows one of the successes of this joint cruise to have been that, n Mar. 16, 1745, in the Old Bahama Straits, the two associates took the hip Willem, sailing under Spanish colors and under the command of Cosme eggrayne (Zegarain), but which originally was a Dutch ship, commanded y Pieter Couwenhoven, |