Domingue, vol. i.; Martinique, vol. iv.]

[Footnote 416: C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 1420, 1425; Sloane MSS.,
2724, f. 3.]

[Footnote 417: Sloane MSS., 2724, f. 198.

Coxon probably did not submit, for Dampier tells us that at the end of
May 1681, Coxon was lying with seven or eight other privateers at the
Samballas, islands on the coast of Darien, with a ship of ten guns and
100 men.--_Ed._ 1906, i. p. 57.]

[Footnote 418: Ibid., f. 200; C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 16, 51, 144,
431. Everson was not shot and killed in the water, as Morgan's account
implies, for he flourished for many years afterwards as one of the most
notorious of the buccaneer captains.]

[Footnote 419: Ringrose's Journal. _Cf._ also S.P. Spain, vol. 67, f.
169; C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, No. 872.]

[Footnote 420: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 431, 632, 713; Hist. MSS.
Commiss., VII., 405 b.]

[Footnote 421: C.S.P Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 1425, 1462.]

[Footnote 422: Ibid., No. 1361.]

[Footnote 423: C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 601, 606, 607, 611; _ibid._,
1681-85, No. 160; Add. MSS., 22, 676; Acts of Privy Council, Colonial
Series I. No. 1203.]

CHAPTER VII

THE BUCCANEERS TURN PIRATE

On 25th May 1682, Sir Thomas Lynch returned to Jamaica as governor of
the colony.[424] Of the four acting governors since 1671, Lynch stood
apart as the one who had endeavoured with singleness and tenacity of
purpose to clear away the evils of buccaneering. Lord Vaughan had
displayed little sympathy for the corsairs, but he was hampered by an
irascible temper, and according to some reports by an avarice which
dimmed the lustre of his name. The Earl of Carlisle, if he did not
directly encourage the freebooters, had been grossly negligent in the
performance of his duty of suppressing them; while Morgan, although in
the years 1680 and 1681 he showed himself very zealous in punishing his
old associates, cannot escape the suspicion of having secretly aided
them under the governorship of Lord Vaughan. The task of Sir Thomas
Lynch in 1671 had been a very difficult one. Buccaneering was then at
flood-tide; three wealthy Spanish cities on the mainland had in turn
been plundered, and the stolen riches carried to Jamaica; the air was
alive with the exploits of these irregular warriors, and the pockets of
the merchants and tavern-keepers of Port Royal were filled with Spanish
doubloons, with emeralds and pearls from New Granada and the coasts of
Rio de la Hac