That whereas, we were Enforced through Necessity on board the Privatier call'd the Revenge which was fitted out at Dunkirk and left that Port last Thursday the 17th July, and we now in the most solemn manner call Almighty God to witness that we abhor and detest in our Consciences that the Procedure of the above Privatier or rather Pirate and the Captures she shall make is an Unlawful Depredation on the Property of His Majestys good Subjects of Great Britain whose Leige Subjects we acknowledge ourselves to be, and we now having Possession of the Brigg called the Northampton, a Capture of the above Privateer, belonging to British Subjects of Lynn in Great Britain, and have orders to carry her to Bilboa, do resolve and declare that such procedure is in the name of God Unlawful and that we will this Evening put the said Brigg about under pretence of going down the Channel and carry her to the said Port of Lynn or to some other Port in England that she may be restored to the Lawful and rightful Owner or Owners unless we should before we arrive at some Port come in sight of some Ship of War frigate or Cutter belonging to Great Britain then to deliver her up to the said Ship or Vessel as that will be most safe for her Owners we being strangers to the Coast of England and this resolution we will put in force or fall in the Attempt as witness our hands before God and ourselves the day & Date above 8 oClock A.M.