According to the Spanish relation there were fourteen vessels in the English fleet, one large ship of forty-four guns (the "Centurion"?) and thirteen smaller ones. The discrepancy in the numbers of the fleet may be explained by the probability that other Jamaican privateering vessels joined it after its departure from Port Royal. Beeston writes in his Journal that the privateer "Blessing," Captain Mitchell, commander, brought news on 28th February that the Spaniards in Campeache had notice from St. Jago of the English design and made elaborate preparations for the defence of the town. This is contradicted by the Spanish report, in which it appears that the authorities in Campeache had been culpably negligent in not maintaining the defences with men, powder or provisions.] [Footnote 177: S.P. Spain, vol. 46. Fanshaw to Sec. Bennet, 13th-23rd July 1664.] [Footnote 178: Ibid., vol. 45. Letter of Consul Rumbold, 31st March 1663.] [Footnote 179: Ibid., 4th May 1663.] [Footnote 180: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 443. Dated 28th April 1663.] [Footnote 181: Ibid., Nos. 441, 442.] [Footnote 182: Rawlinson MSS., A. 347, f. 62.] [Footnote 183: Beeston's Journal.] [Footnote 184: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 571; Beeston's Journal.] [Footnote 185: S.P. Spain, vol. 46, ff. 94, 96, 108, 121, 123, 127, 309 (April-August 1664).] [Footnote 186: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 697, 744, 812.] [Footnote 187: S.P. Spain, vol. 46, f. 280.] [Footnote 188: S.P. Spain, vol. 46, f. 311.] CHAPTER IV TORTUGA--1655-1664 When the Chevalier de Fontenay was driven from Tortuga in January 1654, the Spaniards left a small garrison to occupy the fort and prevent further settlements of French and English buccaneers. These troops possessed the island for about eighteen months, but on the approach of the expedition under Penn and Venables were ordered by the Conde de Penalva, President of S. Domingo, to demolish the fort, bury the artillery and other arms, and retire to his aid in Hispaniola.[189] Some six months later an Englishman, Elias Watts,[190] with his family and ten or twelve others, came from Jamaica in a shallop, re-settled the island, and raised a battery of four guns upon the ruins of the larger fort previously erected by the French. Watts received a commission for the island from General Brayne, who was then governor of Jamaica, and in a short time gathered about him a colony of about 150, both English and French. Among these new-comers was a "poor distressed gentleman" by the name of James Arundell, formerly a colonel in the Royalist army and now banished from England, who eventually married Watts' daughter and became the head of the colony.