第十章 危险边缘（一七一八年七～九月）（第7/8页）
[29] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 135.
[30] “News from a ship newly-arrived from South Carolina，” London Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer，27 December 1718，p. 1，238.
[31] “Rhode Island Dispatch，October 10，” Boston News-Letter，20 October 1718，p. 2；Governor and Council of South Carolina to the Council of Trade and Plantations，Charlestown，SC：21 October 1718 in CSPCS 1717-1718，No. 730，p. 366；CO 5/508：Colonial Office Records：South Carolina Shipping Returns，1717-1719，National Archives，Kew，UK.：South Carolina Imports for the 24th June to the 29th September 1718，p. 64.
[32] “Rhode Island Dispatch，October 10，” Boston News-Letter，20 October 1718，p. 2.
[33] “Protest of Captain King，Commander of the Neptune，” Nassau：5 February 1719 in GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 144；Deposition of Joseph Aspinwall，London：28 July 1719 in Peter Wilson Coldham （ed.），English Adventurers and Emigrants 1661-1733，Baltimore：Genealogical Publishing Inc.，1985，p. 150；CO 5/508：Colonial Office Records：South Carolina Shipping Returns，1717-1719，National Archives，Kew，UK.：South Carolina Exports for the 24th June to the 29th September 1718，p. 68.The Neptune was a 300- ton ship under Captain John King，the Emperor a fifty-ton vessel under Arnold Powers.
[34] Bonnet even went so far as to obtain clearance papers from Governor Eden，officially endorsing his departure for St.Thomas.Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，pp. 164，185.
[35] Bonnet even went so far as to obtain clearance papers from Governor Eden，officially endorsing his departure for St.Thomas.Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，pp. 162，164，184-185.
[36] Bonnet even went so far as to obtain clearance papers from Governor Eden，officially endorsing his departure for St.Thomas.Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 167.
[37] Bonnet even went so far as to obtain clearance papers from Governor Eden，officially endorsing his departure for St.Thomas.Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 161；TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 46.
[38] TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 46；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 98.
[39] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 173.
[40] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 166.
[41] “Rhode Island Dispatch，August 8，” Boston News-Letter，11 August 1718，p. 2；TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 46；“Rhode Island Dispatch，August 15，” Boston News-Letter，18 August 1718，p. 2.
[42] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 178.
[43] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 178.；TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 48. The mulatto captive，Thomas Gerrat，was later tried and found not guilty of piracy.
[44] TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 47.
[45] Governor and Council of South Carolina to the Council of Trade，21 October 1718，pp. 366-367；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 100-102.
[46] ADM 1/1472 f11：Brand to the Admiralty，Lyme at Virginia：6 February 1719.
[47] Deposition of Governor Charles Eden to North Carolina Council，Chowan，NC：30 December 1718 in William L Saunders，Colonial Records of North Carolina，Vol. II，Raleigh，NC：P.M.Hale，1886，p. 322.
[48] John F.Watson，Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania，Vol. II，Philadelphia：John Pennington & Uriah Hunt，1844，pp. 216-218；Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，p. 78.
[49] Alexander Spotswood to Secretary Craggs，Williamsburg，VA：26 May 1719 in R. A. Brock （ed），The Official Letters of Alexander Spottswood，Vol. I，Richmond，VA：Virginia Historical Society，1882，pp. 316-319；North Carolina Council Minutes，Chowan，NC：27 May 1719 in Saunders （1886），p. 341；Spotswood to the Lords of Trade，Williamsburg，VA：26 May 1719 in R. A. Brock （ed），The Official Letters of Alexander Spottswood，Vol. I，Richmond，VA：Virginia Historical Society，1882，p. 323.
[50] “Rhode Island Dispatch，November 14，” Boston News-Letter，17 November 1718，p. 2；Brand to the Admiralty，6 February 1719.
[51] “Rhode Island Dispatch，November 14，” Boston News-Letter，17 November 1718，p. 342；Testimony of William Bell，Chowan，NC：27 May 1719 in Saunders （1886），pp. 342-343.
[52] North Carolina Council Minutes，27 May 1719，p. 341.
[53] North Carolina Council Minutes，27 May 1719，pp. 341-342.
[54] Spotswood to the Lords of Trade，Williamsburg，VA：26 May 1719 in R. A. Brock （ed），The Official Letters of Alexander Spottswood，Vol. I，Richmond，VA：Virginia Historical Society，1882，p. 323；Testimony of Tobias Knight，Chowan，NC：27 May 1719 in Saunders （1886），p. 347.
[55] Abstract of testimony of Ellis Brand given in Virginia，12 March 1718，North Carolina Council Minutes，Chowan，NC：27 Mary 1719 in Saunders （1886），p. 346；ADM 1/1472 f11：Brand to the Admiralty，Galleon’s Reach，England：14 July 1719.
[56] Spotswood to the Council of Trade and Plantations，Williamsburg，VA：11 August 1719 in