arrived in
Jamaica on 1st June,[210] proclaimed an entire cessation of
hostilities,[211] and on the 16th sent the "Swallow" ketch to Cartagena
to acquaint the governor with what he had done. On almost the same day
letters were forwarded from England and from Ambassador Fanshaw in
Madrid, strictly forbidding all violences in the future against the
Spanish nation, and ordering Modyford to inflict condign punishment on
every offender, and make entire restitution and satisfaction to the
sufferers.[212]

The letters for San Domingo, which had been forwarded to Jamaica with
Colonel Morgan and thence dispatched to Hispaniola before Modyford's
arrival, received a favourable answer, but that was about as far as the
matter ever got. The buccaneers, moreover, the principal grievance of
the Spaniards, still remained at large. As Thomas Lynch wrote on 25th
May, "It is not in the power of the governor to have or suffer a
commerce, nor will any necessity or advantage bring private Spaniards to
Jamaica, for we and they have used too many mutual barbarisms to have a
sudden correspondence. When the king was restored, the Spaniards thought
the manners of the English nation changed too, and adventured twenty or
thirty vessels to Jamaica for blacks, but the surprises and irruptions
by C. Myngs, for whom the governor of San Domingo has upbraided the
commissioners, made the Spaniards redouble their malice, and nothing but
an order from Spain can give us admittance or trade."[213] For a short
time, however, a serious effort was made to recall the privateers.
Several prizes which were brought into Port Royal were seized and
returned to their owners, while the captors had their commissions taken
from them. Such was the experience of one Captain Searles, who in August
brought in two Spanish vessels, both of which were restored to the
Spaniards, and Searles deprived of his rudder and sails as security
against his making further depredations upon the Dons.[214] In November
Captain Morris Williams sent a note to Governor Modyford, offering to
come in with a rich prize of logwood, indigo and silver, if security
were given that it should be condemned to him for the payment of his
debts in Jamaica; and although the governor refused to give any promises
the prize was brought in eight days later. The goods were seized and
sold in the interest of the Spanish owner.[215] Nevertheless, the
effects of the proclamation were not at all encouraging. In the firs