[Footnote 84: C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660, p. 130. This company had been organised under the name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers for the Plantations of the Islands of Providence, Henrietta and the adjacent islands, between 10 and 20 degrees of north latitude and 290 and 310 degrees of longitude." The patent of incorporation is dated 4th December 1630 (_ibid._, p. 123).] [Footnote 85: Ibid., p. 131.] [Footnote 86: Ibid.] [Footnote 87: This identity was first pointed out by Pierre de Vaissiere in his recent book: "Saint Domingue (1629-1789). La societe et la vie creoles sous l'ancien regime," Paris, 1909, p. 7.] [Footnote 88: C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660, pp. 131-33.] [Footnote 89: Ibid., pp. 174, 175.] [Footnote 90: This was probably the same man as the "Don Juan de Morfa Geraldino" who was admiral of the fleet which attacked Tortuga in 1654. _Cf._ Duro, _op. cit._, v. p. 35.] [Footnote 91: In 1642 Rui Fernandez de Fuemayor was governor and captain-general of the province of Venezuela. _Cf._ Doro, _op. cit._, iv. p. 341; note 2.] [Footnote 92: Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 13,977, f. 505. According to the minutes of the Providence Company, a certain Mr. Perry, newly arrived from Association, gave information on 19th March 1635 that the island had been surprised by the Spaniards (C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660, p. 200). This news was confirmed by a Mrs. Filby at another meeting of the company on 10th April, when Capt. Wormeley, "by reason of his cowardice and negligence in losing the island," was formally deprived of his office as governor and banished from the colony (_ibid._, p. 201).] [Footnote 93: Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 13,977, pp. 222-23.] [Footnote 94: Ibid., pp. 226-27, 235.] [Footnote 95: Ibid., pp. 226, 233, 235-37, 244.] [Footnote 96: Charlevoix: Histoire de. ... Saint Domingue, liv. vii. pp. 9-10. The story is repeated by Duro (_op. cit._, v. p. 34), who says that the Spaniards were led by "el general D. Carlos Ibarra."] [Footnote 97: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. vii. p. 10; Bibl. Nat. Nouv. Acq., 9334, p. 48 _ff._] [Footnote 98: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. vii. pp. 10-12; Vaissiere., _op. cit._, Appendix I ("Memoire envoye aux seigneurs de la Compagnie des Isles de l'Amerique par M. de Poincy, le 15 Novembre 1640"). According to the records of the Providence Company, Tortuga in 1640 had 300 inhabitants. A Captain Fload, who had been governor, was then in London to clear himself of charges preferred against him by the planters, while a Captain James was exercising authority as "President" in the island. (C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660. pp. 313, 314.) Fload was probably the "English captain" referred to in de Poincy's memoir. His oppressive rule seems to have been felt as well by the English as by the French.] [Footnote 99: Dutertre: Histoire generale des Antilles, tom. i. p. 171.] [Footnote 100: Charlevoix: _op. cit._, liv. vii. pp. 12-13.]