第九章 请求赦免（一七一七年十二月～一七一八年八月）（第17/22页）
[3] TEP：The Trials of Eight Persons Indited for Piracy，Boston：John Edwards，1718.
[4] 波士顿监狱在一六九九年也关过基德船长，现址是法庭街二十六号（26 Court Street），从市镇屋（一七一三年），也就是现今的老州议会大厦往上坡走，只有一小段路。纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne）的小说《红字》（The Scarlet Letter），对这栋监狱有一些幻想式的描述。
[5] 法庭占据新砖造的市镇屋的西侧或上坡端，窗子开向监狱。见Sinclair and Catherine F. Hitchings，Theatre of Liberty：Boston’s Old State House，Boston：Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company，1975，pp. 1-6；“Old Boston Prison，” Commemorative Plaque，26 Court Street，Boston，MA。
[6] Cotton Mather，“The Diary of Cotton Mather 1681-1724” in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society，Series 7，Vol. 7，Boston：Massachusetts Historical Society，1911，pp. 448，483，490；Cotton Mather，Instructions to the Living from the Condition of the Dead：A Brief Relation of Remarkables in the Shipwreck of above One Hundred Pirates，Boston：John Allen，1717，pp. 17-18，37-38.
[7] 处决过后一个星期，马瑟在日记里写道：“针对最近被处决的海盗，如果我能提供给书商一些对他们处境的描写，不知是否有益？”后来，他的《死者境遇，生者之诫》（Instructions to the Living，from the Condition of the Dead）在波士顿出版。
[8] Bennett to the Council of Trade，3 February 1718；“Bermuda Dispatch，February 16，” London Gazette，12 April 1718，p. 1.
[9] “Extract of a Letter from South Carolina，” 2 February 1718 in London Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer，3 May 1718，p. 1，033.
[10] George Cammocke to Queen Mary of Modina，St. Germaine，France：28 March 1718 in Stuart Papers 29/49.
[11] Michael Craton，A History of the Bahamas，London：Collins，1962，p. 100.
[12] Extract of a Letter from South Carolina，2 February 1718；“Jamaica Dispatch，March 28，” The [London] Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer，7 June 1718，p. 1；Lord Carteret to Governor Burnet，Whitehall，London：22 August 1722，CSPCS 1722-1723，item 267，p. 128；ADM 1/2282 f13：Vincent Pearse to the Admiralty，Phoenix at New York：3 June 1718；HCA 1/54：Deposition of Benjamin Sims，London：28 September 1721.
[13] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 41.
[14] Clinton V. Black，Pirates of the West Indies，Cambridge，UK：Cambridge University Press，1989，p. 120；Black incorrectly states that Winter，Brown，and Blackbeard accepted the pardon at Nassau；Peter Earle，The Pirate Wars，New York：St.Martin’s Press，p. 162.
[15] ADM 1/2282 f13：Vincent Pearse to the Admiralty，Phoenix at New Providence，Bahamas：4 March 1718；Pearse to the Admiralty，3 June 1718；GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 581-582.
[16] John Hardy，A Chronological List of the Captains of His Majesty’s Royal Navy，London：T. Cadell，1794，p. 34.
[17] News item，Boston News-Letter，6 January 1718，p. 2. 这场冬天的暴风雨，也延迟了邮差十二月九日那星期的每周投递。
[18] ADM 1/2282 f13：Pearse to the Admiralty，