第九章 请求赦免（一七一七年十二月～一七一八年八月）（第17/18页）
[76] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，p. 163.
[77] Spotswood to Lord John Cartwright，Williamsburg，VA：14 February 1718 in R. A. Brock （ed），The Official Letters of Alexander Spottswood，Vol. I，Richmond，VA：Virginia Historical Society，1882，p. 273.
[78] “South Carolina Dispatch，June 6，” Boston News-Letter，7 July 1718，p. 2；“Philadelphia Dispatch，June 26，” Boston News-Letter，7 July 1718，p. 2；Letter to the Lords Proprietor of Carolina，13 June 1718.
[79] Letter to the Lords Proprietor of Carolina，13 June 1718；CO5/508：South Carolina Imports...，pp. 54-55；TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 44.
[80] TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 48.
[81] “South Carolina Dispatch，June 6，” Boston News- Letter，7 July 1718，p. 2.
[82] TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 44.
[83] 这份日志后来落入皇家海军手中，但可惜最后仍然遗失。这里似乎是唯一留存的摘录片段。
[84] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 86.
[85] TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 45.
[86] John T.Wells and Jesse E.McNinch，“Reconstructing Shoal and Channel Configuration in Beaufort Inlet，” Southeastern Geology，Vol. 40，No. 1 （February 2001），pp. 11-18；Charles L. Paul，“Colonial Beaufort，” North Carolina Historical Review，Vol. 42，1965，pp. 139-152；Author’s Visit，Beaufort，NC：17 April 2005.
[87] Richard W. Lawrence and Mark Wilde- Ramsing，“In Search of Blackbeard：Historical and Archeological Research at Shipwreck Site 0003BUI，” Southeastern Geology，Vol. 40，No. 1 （February 2001），pp. 7-9. TSB：The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet and Other Pirates. London：Benjamin Cowse，1719，p. 46；“Philadelphia Dispatch，June 26，” Boston News-Letter，7 July 1718，p. 2.
[88] Francis Hargrave，A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason，4th Ed.，Vol. VI，London：T.Wright，1777，pp. 163，167；“New York Dispatch，July 14，” Boston News-Letter，21 July 1718，p. 2.
[89] Herbert R. Paschal Jr.，A History of Colonial Bath，Raleigh，NC：Edwards & Broughton Co.，1955，pp. 32-38；“Historic Bath Walking Tour” （pamphlet），Bath，NC：Historic Bath Historic Sites；Author’s Visit，Bath，NC：16 April 2005.
[90] Wilson & Fiske，Vol. 7，p. 301；Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，pp. 55-65.
[91] Spotswood to Lord John Cartwright，14 February 1718；Spotswood to the Council of Trade and Plantations，Williamsburg，VA：22 December 1718 in CSPCS 1717-1718，No. 800，p. 430.
[92] Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，p. 62 （citing interviews with elderly Bath residents during a 1966 research trip）.
[93] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 76；Robert E. Lee，Blackbeard the Pirate：A Reappraisal of His Life and Times，Winston-Salem，NC：John F. Blair，1974，pp. 74-75；ADM 1/1826 f2：George Gordon to the Admiralty，London：12 September 1721.
[94] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 77.
[95] Hector McDonnell，The Wild Geese of the Antrim McDonnells，Dublin：Irish Academic Press，p. 81.
[96] “Piscatiqua （Portsmouth，NH） Dispatch，July 4，” Boston News-Letter，7 July 1718，p. 2.
[97] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，p. 141.
[98] TJR：The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates，Kingston，Jamaica：Robert Baldwin，1720pp. 38，40.
[99] GHP：Charles Johnson，A General History of the Pyrates，ed. Manuel Schonhorn，Columbia，SC：University of South Carolina Press，1972，pp. 141-142. 范恩拿下“理查德与约翰”号时，尚未拥有这艘船，但一直在七月四日的事件提到，因此，理论上是拿下“圣马丁”号时的旗舰。