From near White Island, Mount Edgecombe was seen, named after the sergeant of marines.

The old fort on Point Venus was reoccupied, tents pitched, and the observatory set up, and the camp was placed under the command of Lieutenant Edgecombe of the Marines.

An estate called "Edgecombe," mentioned by Thome and Kimball, has been rented for 21 years at $7500 per annum.

An estate called "Edgecombe," mentioned by Thome and Kimball, has been rented for 21 years at $7500 per annum.

While on the way from Bombay to China the crew of the Mocha frigate mutinied, off the coast of Acheen, killed their captain, Edgecombe, and set afloat in the pinnace twenty-seven officers and men who refused to join them.

This was probably Guillam, to whom Kidd had given a passage to America from Madagascar, and was supposed to have been the man who stabbed Captain Edgecombe.

Edgecombe, Captain, commander of the Mocha frigate; his crew mutiny; stabbed.

"Forthwith a guard at every gun Was placed along the wall; The beacon blazed upon the roof Of Edgecombe's lofty hall; And many a fishing bark put out, To pry along the coast;

He despatched Sir Richard Edgecombe, a member of the royal household, shortly afterwards upon a mission of conciliation to Ireland.

Kildare, thereupon, was confirmed in his deputyship, and Sir Richard Edgecombe having first partaken of "much excellent good cheere" at the earl's castle at Maynooth, returned peaceably to England.