of the buccaneers, but received no
support from the inhabitants, is proved by Spanish documents in Add.
MSS., 11,268, ff. 33, 37, etc.]

[Footnote 313: The President of Panama in his account contained in Add.
MSS. 11,268, gives the date as 25th February. Morgan, however, says that
they began the march for Venta Cruz on 14th February; but this
discrepancy may be due to a confusion of the old and new style of
dating.]

[Footnote 314: The buccaneers arrived at Chagre on 26th
February.--Morgan's account.]

[Footnote 315: Exquemelin, _ed._ 1684, Part III. pp. 31-76.]

[Footnote 316: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, No. 608. Wm. Frogge, too, says
that the share of each man was only L10.]

[Footnote 317: Add. MSS., 11,268.]

[Footnote 318: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, No. 542, I.]

[Footnote 319: Ibid., No. 542, II.]

[Footnote 320: S.P. Spain, vol. 57, f. 76; vol. 58, f. 27.]

[Footnote 321: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, Nos. 513, 531, 532, 544;
Beeston's journal.]

[Footnote 322: S.P. Spain, vol. 58, f. 30.]

[Footnote 323: _Cf._ Memorial of the Conde de Molina complaining that a
new governor had not been sent to Jamaica, as promised, nor the old
governor recalled, 26th Feb. 1671 (S.P. Spain, vol. 58, f. 62).]

[Footnote 324: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, No. 272.]

[Footnote 325: Ibid., No. 331.]

[Footnote 326: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, Nos. 377, 424.]

[Footnote 327: Ibid., Nos. 405, 441, 452, 453, 552, 587.]

[Footnote 328: Ibid., Nos. 600, 604, 608, 655.]

[Footnote 329: Ibid., Nos. 653, 654.]

[Footnote 330: S.P. Spain, vol. 58, f. 156.]

[Footnote 331: S.P. Spain, vol. 58, f. 156.]

CHAPTER VI

THE GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSES THE BUCCANEERS

The new Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, Sir Thomas Lynch, brought with
him instructions to publish and carefully observe the articles of 1670
with Spain, and at the same time to revoke all commissions issued by his
predecessor "to the prejudice of the King of Spain or any of his
subjects." When he proclaimed the peace he was likewise to publish a
general pardon to privateers who came in and submitted within a
reasonable time, of all offences committed since June 1660, assuring to
them the possession of their prize-goods (except the tenths and the
fifteenths which were always reserved to the crown as a condition of
granting commissions), and offering them inducements to take up
planting, trade, or service in the royal navy. But he was not to insist
positively on the payment of t