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[Footnote 354: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, Nos. 1178, 1180, 1226; _ibid._, 1675-76, No. 579.]

[Footnote 355: Ibid., 1669-74, No. 1423; _ibid._, 1675-76, No. 707.]

[Footnote 356: Ibid., 1675-76, No. 520.]

[Footnote 357: Ibid.]

[Footnote 358: Ibid., 1669-74, Nos. 1335, 1351, 1424; S.P. Spain, vols.

60, 62, 63.]

[Footnote 359: C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76, No. 643.]

[Footnote 360: Ibid., Nos. 639-643.]

[Footnote 361: Ibid., Nos. 633-635, 729.]

[Footnote 362: Ibid., Nos. 693, 719, 720.]

[Footnote 363: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, Nos. 310, 704, iv. It was a very profitable business for the wood then sold at 25 or 30 a ton. For a description of the life of the logwood-cutters _cf._ Dampier, Voyages, _ed._ 1906, ii. pp. 155-56. 178-79, 181 _ff._]

[Footnote 364: Ibid., No. 580.]

[Footnote 365: Ibid., Nos. 587, 638.]

[Footnote 366: Ibid., Nos. 777, 786.]

[Footnote 367: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74. No. 825.]

[Footnote 368: Ibid., Nos. 819, 943.]

[Footnote 369: Ibid., Nos. 954, 1389. Fernandez Duro (t.v., p. 181) mentions a Spanish ordinance of 22nd February 1674, which authorized Spanish corsairs to go out in the pursuit and punishment of pirates.

Periaguas, or large flat-bottomed canoes, were to be constructed for use in shoal waters. They were to be 90 feet long and from 16 to 18 feet wide, with a draught of only 4 or 5 feet, and were to be provided with a long gun in the bow and four smaller pieces in the stern. They were to be propelled by both oars and sails, and were to carry 120 men.]

[Footnote 370: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, Nos. 950, 1094; Beeston's Journal, Aug. 1679.]

[Footnote 371: Ibid., 1675-76, No. 566.]

[Footnote 372: C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76, No. 673.]

[Footnote 373: Ibid., No. 526. In significant contrast to Lord Vaughan's praise of Lynch, Sir Henry Morgan, who could have little love for the man who had s.h.i.+pped him and Modyford as prisoners to England, filled the ears of Secretary Williamson with veiled accusations against Lynch of having tampered with the revenues and neglected the defences of the island. (Ibid., No. 521.)]

[Footnote 374: Ibid., No. 912. In testimony of Lord Vaughan's straightforward policy toward buccaneering, _cf._ Beeston's Journal, June 1676.]

[Footnote 375: C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76, No. 988.]

[Footnote 376: Leeds MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm., XI. pt. 7, p.

13)--Depositions in which Sir Henry Morgan is represented as endeavouring to hush up the matter, saying ”the privateers were poore, honest fellows,” to which the plundered captain replied ”that he had not found them soe.”]

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