The captains were obliged to give bond for the
safe transportation of the criminals, and the latter were also to find
security that they would not return to the British Isles without
license, on pain of receiving the punishment from which they had been
originally reprieved. (Hist. MSS. Comm. Rept. X., pt. 5, pp. 34, 42, 85,
94). _Cf._ also C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 1268.]

[Footnote 227: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 331, 769-772, 790, 791, 798,
847, 1720.]

[Footnote 228: Ibid., No. 866.]

[Footnote 229: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 839, 843.]

[Footnote 230: Ibid., No. 786.]

[Footnote 231: Ibid., No. 943.]

[Footnote 232: Ibid., Nos. 910, 919, 926.]

[Footnote 233: Ibid., Nos. 942, 976.]

[Footnote 234: Ibid., No. 944.]

[Footnote 235: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 979. There were really nine
ships and 650 men. Cf. _ibid._, No. 1088.]

[Footnote 236: Ibid., Nos. 980, 983, 992.]

[Footnote 237: Ibid., No. 1088.]

[Footnote 238: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1073, 1088.]

[Footnote 239: Ibid., No. 1042, I. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Morgan (not
to be confused with Colonel Edward Morgan), who was left in command of
St. Eustatius and Saba, went in April 1666 with a company of buccaneers
to the assistance of Governor Watts of St. Kitts against the French. In
the rather shameful defence of the English part of the island Morgan's
buccaneers were the only English who displayed any courage or
discipline, and most of them were killed or wounded, Colonel Morgan
himself being shot in both legs. (Ibid., Nos. 1204, 1205, 1212, 1220,
1257.) St. Eustatius was reconquered by a French force from St. Kitts in
the early part of 1667. (Ibid., No. 1401.)]

[Footnote 240: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 1082.]

[Footnote 241: Ibid., No. 1125. Stedman was later in the year, after the
outbreak of war with France, captured by a French frigate off
Guadeloupe. With a small vessel and only 100 men he found himself
becalmed and unable to escape, so he boldly boarded the Frenchman in
buccaneer fashion and fought for two hours, but was finally overcome.
(Ibid., No. 1212.)]

[Footnote 242: Ibid., No. 1085; Beeston's Journal. Mansfield was the
buccaneer whom Exquemelin disguises under the name of "Mansvelt."]

[Footnote 243: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1130, 1132-37.]

[Footnote 244: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 1129, 1263.]

[Footnote 245: Ibid., Nos. 1144, 1264.]

[Footnote 246: Ibid., Nos. 1138, 1144.]

[Footnote 247: C.S.P.