To his Friend,

JAMES HOLBERT WILSON,

WHOSE TASTES ARE SO CONGENIAL WITH HIS OWN,

THE AUTHOR,

WITH MUCH PLEASANT REMEMBRANCE,

INSCRIBES THIS VOLUME.

3, SERJEANT'S INN,

Christmas, 1865.

CONTENTS.

Admiral Benbow and his Treacherous Captains .

Captain Kidd, a Pirate with a Royal Commission

Soldiers and Civilians in the time of William III.

The Trial of Admiral Byng

307

Trial of General Sir Robert Wilson and others for the Escape of

Lavallette

376