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[Footnote 377: C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76; Nos. 860, 913.]

[Footnote 378: Statutes at Large, vol. ii. (Lond. 1786), pp. 210, 247.]

[Footnote 379: C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76; Nos. 993-995, 1001.]

[Footnote 380: Ibid., No. 1093.]

[Footnote 381: C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 500, 508.]

[Footnote 382: Ibid., 1675-76, No. 916.]

[Footnote 383: Ibid., No. 1126.]

[Footnote 384: Ibid., Nos. 998, 1006.]

[Footnote 385: Ibid., No. 1129.]

[Footnote 386: Ibid., No. 1129 (vii., viii.); _cf._ also No. 657.]

[Footnote 387: C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76, No. 1129 (xiv., xvii.).]

[Footnote 388: C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76, Nos. 656, 741.]

[Footnote 389: Ibid., 1677-80, No. 313; _cf._ also Nos. 478, 486.]

[Footnote 390: Ibid., No. 368. A similar proclamation was issued in May 1681; _cf._ Ibid., 1681-85, No. 102.]

[Footnote 391: Ibid., No. 375.]

[Footnote 392: C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 243, 365, 383; Egerton MSS., 2395, f. 591.]

[Footnote 393: In a memoir to Mme. de Montespan, dated 8th July 1677, the population of French San Domingo is given as between four and five thousand, white and black. The colony embraced a strip of coast 80 leagues in length and 9 or 10 miles wide, and it produced 2,000,000 lbs.

of tobacco annually. (Bibl. Nat., Nouv. Acq., 9325, f. 258).]

[Footnote 394: C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 347, 375, 383, 1497; S.P.

Spain, vol. 65, f. 102.]

[Footnote 395: A small island east of Curacao, in lat.i.tude 12 north, longitude 67 41' west.]

[Footnote 396: Saint Yves, G. Les campagnes de Jean d'Estrees dans la mer des Antilles, 1676-78; _cf._ also C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 604, 642, 665, 687-90, 718, 741 (xiv., xv.), 1646-47.

According to one story, the Dutch governor of Curacao sent out three privateers with orders to attend the French fleet, but to run no risk of capture. The French, discovering them, gave chase, but being unacquainted with those waters were decoyed among the reefs.]

[Footnote 397: C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 1646-47.]

[Footnote 398: Dampier says of this occasion: ”The privateers ... told me that if they had gone to Jamaica with 30 a man in their Pockets, they could not have enjoyed themselves more. For they kept in a Gang by themselves, and watched when the s.h.i.+ps broke, to get the Goods that came from them; and though much was staved against the Rocks, yet abundance of Wine and Brandy floated over the Riff, where the Privateers waited to take it up. They lived here about three Weeks, waiting an Opportunity to transport themselves back again to Hispaniola; in all which Time they were never without two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Brandy in their Tents, and Barrels of Beef and Pork.”--Dampier, _ed._ 1906, i. p. 81.]

[Footnote 399: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. viii. p. 120.]

[Footnote 400: Bibl. Nat., Nouv. Acq., 9325, f. 260; Charlevoix, _op.