[Case of Treason against Wm. Murphy, et al, 21 Jun 1710] [Virginia Colonial Records Project, Survey Report No. 4392] [Library of Virginia, Public Record Office, May 1961] High Court of Admiralty: Oyer & Terminer Records The Case against Maurice FitzGerald and others for Treason 175. 21 June 1710. Information of Lewis Davies, age 32, of Bristol, corporal of H.M.S. Hastings states that he knows Maurice FitzGerald, Patrick Crowley, William Murphy, James Dobbin, Murtagh Moriarty and Richard Gray, now prisoners in the Marshalsea and that in December 1706 Gray who then belonged to H.M.S. Anglesea deserted that ship in the Downs and never returned to the ship. He then describes how H.M.S. Hastings, in May last, bound for Cork met a small French privateer of 4 guns and 66 men and captured her. Captain Paul of H.M.S. Hastings finding these British subjects aboard brought them as prisoners into Cork, where they were examined by the Mayor of Cork and then carried to Bristol and London