m Hispaniola by the stern measures of the governor
against privateers, made it understood that he desired to enter the
service of the Governor of Jamaica. The Privy Council empowered Lynch to
treat with him, offering pardon and permission to settle on the island
on giving security for his future good behaviour. But de Cussy arrived
in the meantime, reversed the policy of de Franquesnay, received Laurens
with all the honour due to a military hero, and endeavoured to engage
him in the services of the government (Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv.
viii. pp. 141, 202; C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1210, 1249, 1424, 1461,
1649, 1718 and 1839).]

[Footnote 451: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. viii. pp. 139-145; C.S.P.
Colon., 1685-88, No. 378.]

[Footnote 452: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. ix. pp. 197-99; Duro., _op.
cit._, v. pp. 273-74; C.S.P. Colon., 1685-88, Nos. 193, 339, 378, 778.]

[Footnote 453: According to Charlevoix, de Grammont was a native of
Paris, entered the Royal Marine, and distinguished himself in several
naval engagements. Finally he appeared in the West Indies as the
commander of a frigate armed for privateering, and captured near
Martinique a Dutch vessel worth 400,000 livres. He carried his prize to
Hispaniola, where he lost at the gaming table and consumed in debauchery
the whole value of his capture; and not daring to return to France he
joined the buccaneers.]

[Footnote 454: "Laurens-Cornille Baldran, sieur de Graff, lieutenant du
roi en l'isle de Saint Domingue, capitaine de fregate legere, chevalier
de Saint Louis"--so he was styled after entering the service of the
French king (Vaissiere, _op cit._, p. 70, note). According to Charlevoix
he was a native of Holland, became a gunner in the Spanish navy, and for
his skill and bravery was advanced to the post of commander of a vessel.
He was sent to American waters, captured by the buccaneers, and joined
their ranks. Such was the terror inspired by his name throughout all the
Spanish coasts that in the public prayers in the churches Heaven was
invoked to shield the inhabitants from his fury. Divorced from his first
wife, whom he had married at Teneriffe in 1674, he was married again in
March 1693 to a Norman or Breton woman named Marie-Anne Dieu-le-veult,
the widow of one of the first inhabitants of Tortuga (_ibid._). The
story goes that Marie-Anne, thinking one day that she had been
grievously insulted by Laurens, went in search of the buccaneer, pistol
in