rnor and clergy of the
Spanish part of the island. (Duro, _op. cit._, v. pp. 291, 296-97).]
[Footnote 528: Duro, _op. cit._, v. p. 310.]
[Footnote 529: C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, No. 697.]
[Footnote 530: Ibid.; _cf._ C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, No. 138: "The number
of tippling houses is now doubly increased, so that there is not now
resident upon the place ten men to every house that selleth strong
liquors. There are more than 100 licensed houses, besides sugar and rum
works that sell without licence."]
[Footnote 531: Crawford: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Handlist of
Proclamations.]
[Footnote 532: Firth: Naval Songs and Ballads, pp. l.-lii.; _cf._ also
Archives Coloniales, Corresp. Gen. de St Dom., vols. iii.-ix.; Ibid.,
Martinique, vols. viii.-xix.]
[Footnote 533: Archives Coloniales, Corresp. Gen. de Martinique, vol.
xvi.]
APPENDIX I
An account of the English buccaneers belonging to Jamaica and Tortuga in
1663, found among the Rawlinson MSS., makes the number of privateering
ships fifteen, and the men engaged in the business nearly a thousand.
The list is as follows:--
_Captain Ship Men Guns_
Sir Thomas Whetstone a Spanish prize 60 7
Captain Smart Griffon, frigate 100 14
Captain Guy James, frigate 90 14
Captain James American, frigate 70 6
Captain Cooper his frigate 80 10
Captain Morris a brigantine 60 7
Captain Brenningham his frigate 70 6
Captain Mansfield a brigantine 60 4
Captain Goodly a pink 60 6
Captain Blewfield, belonging
to Cape Gratia de Dios,
living among the Indians a barque 50 3
Captain Herdue a frigate 40 4
There were four more belonging to Jamaica, of which no account was
available. The crews were mixed of English, French and Dutch.
APPENDIX II
List of filibusters and their vessels on the coasts of French San
Domingo in 1684:--
_Captain Ship Men Guns_
Le sieur Grammont le Hardy 300 52
" capitaine Laurens de Graff " Neptune 210 54
" " Michel la Mutine 200 44
" " Janquais " Dauphine 180 30
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