Spain, colonial laws, 5, 10, 12, 13, 24 " colonial system, 1 _ff._ " commercial system, 6-13 " cruelties to English mariners, 29, 53-54, 88, 89 _n._, 207 " cruelties to Indians, 4, 9, 10, 32, 33, 89 _n._ " decline of, 1 _ff._, 46 " discovery and exploration in South America, 2-3 " exclusion of foreigners from Spanish Indies, 24 " privateers of, 207, 211 and _n._ " trade relations with England, 101-104 " treaty of 1667 with England, 141 " " 1670 with England, 196-7, 200, 209 " truce of 1609 with the Netherlands, _see_ Netherlands " venality of Spanish colonial governors, 26 _n._ " weakness of Spanish ships, 23 Spragge, Captain, R.N., 254 Stanley, Captain (buccaneer), 140 Stapleton, Sir William (Governor of Leeward Islands), 234, 236, 237 Stedman, Captain (buccaneer), 131 and _n._ Style, John, 153 _n._ Tabasco River, 138, 139 _n._ Tavoga Island, 179, 188 Tavogilla Island, 179, 188 Taylor, John, 102 Terrier, Jean, 42 Thibault, 81-82, 83 _n._ Thomas, Dalby, 33 Thornbury, Walter, 284 Thurloe, John (Secretary of State), 104 Thurston, Captain (buccaneer), 201 Tobago, 15, 48, 67, 131, 268 Toledo, Don Federico de, 54, 58 Tolu (New Granada), 97, 267 Tortola, 130 Tortuga, 2, 55, 58-66, 69, 70, 73, 77, 80, 81, 113, etc. Trade, clandestine, _see_ Clandestine trade Treasure fleets, 13-24, 31, 85; _cf. also_ Flota _and_ Galleons Treval, Mons. de, 82 Trinidad, 2, 15, 32 _n._, 46, 131, 222 "Trompense, La," 233-36, 238 _n._, 248, 249, 251 _n._ " La Nouvelle," 236 _n_. Truxillo (Honduras), 21, 22, 50, 77, 138, 222 Turrialva (Costa Rica), 136 Utrecht, Treaty of, 272 Vache, Isle la, _see_ Isle la Vache _Vaisseaux de registre_, 11, 22 and _n._ Vaissiere, Pierre de, 284 Valladolid (Yucatan), 210 Valle-Figueroa, Don Gabriel Roxas de, _see_ Roxas de Valle-Figueroa Van Horn, Captain Nicholas (buccaneer), 241-43, 248 Vaughan, John, Lord (Governor of Jamaica), 205, 211, 212-22, 232 Venables, General Robert, 85 and _n._, 86, 87, 88, 89, 96, 113 Venezuela, 16, 23, 156 Venta Cruz (Darien), 17 _n._, 164, 170 _n._, 174 and _n._, 177 _n._, 192 _n._, 193 Vera Cruz (New Spain), 11, 12 _n._, 14, 21, 22, 38, 49, 103, 109, 111, etc., 241 Veragua, 136 and _n._ Vernon, Admiral Edward, 195 Verpre, Captain (buccaneer), 274 Vervins, Treaty of, 48 _Viande boucannee_, 66 Vigneron, Captain (buccaneer), 274 Villa de Mosa (Tabasco), 138 and _n._ Villalba y Toledo, Don Francisco de, 77 Villars, Marquis de, 9 _n._ Virgin Islands, 40, 235, 236 Virginia, 47, 51, 54, 112, 129, 201, 207, 272 War between England and France, 1666-67, 131, 141 War between England and Netherlands, 1665-67, 127-41 War between France and Netherlands, 1674-78, 219 _ff._ War of the Spanish Succession, 271-72 " Succession of the Palatinate, 258 _ff._ Watson, Sir Francis, 257 Watts, Elias (Governor of Tortuga), 114, 116 and _n._, 117