n had presented his official assurance to the queen, however,
nothing more was heard of this armament. "God grant," wrote the English
ambassador, "that Sir Thomas Modyford's way of defending Jamaica (as he
used to call it) by sending out the forces thereof to pillage, prove an
infallible one; for my own part, I do not think it hath been our
interest to awaken the Spaniards so much as this last action hath
done."[331]

Footnotes:

[Footnote 206: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 635.]

[Footnote 207: Ibid., Nos. 656 and 664. Dated 15th and 18th February
respectively.]

[Footnote 208: Ibid., No. 739.]

[Footnote 209: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 739 and 744.]

[Footnote 210: Ibid., Nos. 762 and 767.]

[Footnote 211: Ibid., No. 746; Beeston's Journal.]

[Footnote 212: S.P. Spain, vol. 46, f. 192; C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No.
753.]

[Footnote 212: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 744; _cf._ also No. 811, and
Lyttleton's Report, No. 812.]

[Footnote 214: Ibid., No. 789.]

[Footnote 215: Ibid., Nos. 859, 964; Beeston's Journal. For disputes
over the cargo of the Spanish prize captured by Williams, _cf._ C.S.P.
Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1140, 1150, 1177, 1264, 1266.]

[Footnote 216: Ibid., No. 767.]

[Footnote 217: Add. MSS., 11,410, pp. 16-25.]

[Footnote 218: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 786; _cf._ also Add. MSS.,
11,410, f. 303:--"Mr. Worseley's discourse of the Privateers of
Jamaica."]

[Footnote 219: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. vii. pp. 57-65.]

[Footnote 220: For the biography of Jean-David Nau, surnamed l'Olonnais,
_cf._ Nouvelle Biographie Generale, t. xxxviii. p. 654.]

[Footnote 221: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 744, 812.]

[Footnote 222: Ibid., Nos. 744, 765, 786, 812.]

[Footnote 223: C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660, pp. 363, 421, 433.]

[Footnote 224: Ibid., pp. 419, 427, 428.]

[Footnote 225: Ibid., p. 447; Egerton MSS., 2395, f. 167.]

[Footnote 226: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 101; _cf._ also Nos. 24, 32,
122. From orders contained in the MSS. of the Marquis of Ormonde issued
on petitions of convicted prisoners, we find that reprieves were often
granted on condition of their making arrangements for their own
transportation for life to the West Indies, without expense to the
government. The condemned were permitted to leave the gaols in which
they were confined and embark immediately, on showing that they had
agreed with a sea-captain to act as his servant, both during the voyage
and after their arrival.