Plantain, John, pirate.
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A compendious history of the Indian Wars with an account of the rise, progress, strength, and forces of Angria the Pyrate. Also the transactions of a squadron of men of war under Commodore Matthews, sent to the East-Indies to suppress the pyrates. To which is annex'd, a additional history of the wars between the Great Mogul, Angria, and his Allies. With an account of the life and Actions of John Plantain, a notorious pyrate at Madagascar; his Wars with the Natives on that Island, where having continued eight Years, he join'd Angria, and was made his chief Admiral. By Clement Downing, Midshipman on board the Salisbury; afterwards Lieutenant of the Victory Frigate, Fame Gally, and Revenge Grab, part of the Squndron employ'd by the East-India Company to attack Angria; and sometime Engineer in the Service of the Great Mogul.
Downing, ClementDate: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- E-books
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A compleat history of the whole proceedings of the Parliament of Great Britain , against Dr. Henry Sacheverell: with his tryal before the House of Peers, for High Crimes and Misdemeanours; The Reasons of those Lords that enter'd their Protests; and the Speeches of several Lords before Judgment was given.
Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]