Phillip Roche was one of the most black and Savage pyrates who sailed the seas, he was mate of a ship before he and some fellows and one Francis Wise went onboard A small vessel under Master Peter tartoue. Tartoue and his mate along with 3 others were murdered in cold blood, before he died Tartoue " Used many words for mercy, and asked them if he had not used them with civility and kindness, that they were both of the same religion and owned the same blessed Jesus and the like" Though no matter these words and Tartoue begging for only a few minutes to repent of sins he had done in his life , he and the mate were mudered. Phillip and his fellows now washed themselves of the blood and tore open the lockers, chests and boxes for anything of value, then poured some rum and drank themselves silly. The next morning they thought fit to and did repaint the vessel blue, yellow and red, gave her a new statuette and new christened her the Mary Snow, and went off recruited more men and sold 86 barrels of beef. Here he went to london to claim money in the name of Eustace, Though he was caught and soon hanged- the fit punishment for such an Evil man.
