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[Footnote 228: Ibid., No. 866.]

[Footnote 229: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 839, 843.]

[Footnote 230: Ibid., No. 786.]

[Footnote 231: Ibid., No. 943.]

[Footnote 232: Ibid., Nos. 910, 919, 926.]

[Footnote 233: Ibid., Nos. 942, 976.]

[Footnote 234: Ibid., No. 944.]

[Footnote 235: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 979. There were really nine s.h.i.+ps and 650 men. Cf. _ibid._, No. 1088.]

[Footnote 236: Ibid., Nos. 980, 983, 992.]

[Footnote 237: Ibid., No. 1088.]

[Footnote 238: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1073, 1088.]

[Footnote 239: Ibid., No. 1042, I. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Morgan (not to be confused with Colonel Edward Morgan), who was left in command of St. Eustatius and Saba, went in April 1666 with a company of buccaneers to the a.s.sistance of Governor Watts of St. Kitts against the French. In the rather shameful defence of the English part of the island Morgan's buccaneers were the only English who displayed any courage or discipline, and most of them were killed or wounded, Colonel Morgan himself being shot in both legs. (Ibid., Nos. 1204, 1205, 1212, 1220, 1257.) St. Eustatius was reconquered by a French force from St. Kitts in the early part of 1667. (Ibid., No. 1401.)]

[Footnote 240: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 1082.]

[Footnote 241: Ibid., No. 1125. Stedman was later in the year, after the outbreak of war with France, captured by a French frigate off Guadeloupe. With a small vessel and only 100 men he found himself becalmed and unable to escape, so he boldly boarded the Frenchman in buccaneer fas.h.i.+on and fought for two hours, but was finally overcome.

(Ibid., No. 1212.)]

[Footnote 242: Ibid., No. 1085; Beeston's Journal. Mansfield was the buccaneer whom Exquemelin disguises under the name of ”Mansvelt.”]

[Footnote 243: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1130, 1132-37.]

[Footnote 244: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1129, 1263.]

[Footnote 245: Ibid., Nos. 1144, 1264.]

[Footnote 246: Ibid., Nos. 1138, 1144.]

[Footnote 247: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 1264, slightly condensed from the original.]

[Footnote 248: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1142, 1147. The Governor of Havana wrote concerning this same exploit, that on Christmas Eve of 1665 the English entered and sacked the town of Cayo in the jurisdiction of Havana, and meeting with a vessel having on board twenty-two Spaniards who were inhabitants of the town, put them all to the sword, cutting them to pieces with hangers. Afterwards they sailed to the town of Bayamo with thirteen vessels and 700 men, but altering their plans, went to Sancti Spiritus, landed 300, plundered the town, cruelly treated both men and women, burnt the best houses, and wrecked and desecrated the church in which they had made their quarters. (S.P. Spain, vol. 49, f.

50.)

Col. Beeston says that Mansfield conducted the raid; but according to the Spanish account to which Duro had access, the leader was Pierre Legrand. (Duro, _op. cit._, v. p. 164).]

[Footnote 249: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 1147; Beeston's Journal.

Beeston reports that after a six weeks' search for Mansfield and his men he failed to find them and returned to Jamaica.]

[Footnote 250: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 1213.]