In 1657 a letter from Bayona, the governor of Cuba, to a certain Spanish serjeant-major in Jamaica, making arrangements for an attack on Jamaica to be aided by the whilom Spanish slaves in the island, was intercepted. Immediate steps were taken by the resourceful Doyley; and Arnoldo Sasi, the Spanish governor, who having yielded up Jamaica to Penn and Venables had re-landed on the north side from Cuba, was signally defeated by Doyley in person at Ocho Rios, whither he had sailed round from Passage Fort. The following is the account which Doyley himself gave to Cromwell in “A Narrative of the Great Success God hath been pleased to give his Highness Forces in Jamaica, against the King of Spain’s Forces. Published by His Highness Special Command. London, 1658.” Right Honourable, Since my last to Your Honour, the First of _October last_, I have had intelligence, that the Galleons with Plate, I then mentioned to be at _Carthagena_ bound for_ Spain_, were cast away by a _Hirecane_; and an evident token thereof, the _Burmudans_, our Informants, being in a small Shallop, brought in hither about Twenty thousand pieces of _Eight_, which they had taken in the Rack. And according to my former to the Committee for _Jamaica_, having by a Prisoner notice, that about Five hundred of the Enemy were landed here, and that the Governour _Don Christopher Arnaldo Sasser_ [_sic_] was fortifying himself at St. _Anne_ about Thirty-five miles from us, I was resolved to give him time to fortifie so much, that he might think himself secure enough to stand us (that we might not perpetually be put to the toyl of hunting them in the Woods), and yet so that he might not be able to give us any strong resistance: which accordingly being done, I sent a Party of Stout, Well and Willing men, under the command of Major _Richard Steevens_ to whom about Sixty of our Officers joyned, Volunteers, exceedingly desirous of action (after so long a cessation) who advanced to the place, very strongly situated on a Rock; as soon as the Enemies Centinels discovered them, they threw down their Arms, gave the Allarm to the Governour, who with the rest fled to the Woods, leaving behinde them all their Arms and Ammunition; so, finding the vanity of following them in the Woods and Mountains, we left them.