[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 shipped 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."] [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.]