Footnote 72: [(return)]
Duro, op. cit., ii. p. 462.
Footnote 73: [(return)]
Duro, op. cit., iii. pp. 236-37.
Footnote 74: [(return)]
C.S.P. Venet., 1603-07, p. 199.
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Winwood Papers, ii. p. 233.
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Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 36,319, No. 7; 36,320, No. 8; 36,321, No. 24; 36,322, No. 23.
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C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660:—1629, 5th and 30th Nov.; 1630, 29th July.
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Gage saw at Cartagena about a dozen English prisoners captured by the Spaniards at sea, and belonging to the settlement on Providence Island.
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C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660:—1635, 19th March; 1636, 26th March.
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Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 36,323, No. 10.
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Duro, Tomo., iv. p. 339; cf. also in Bodleian Library:—"A letter written upon occasion in the Low Countries, etc. Whereunto is added avisos from several places, of the taking of the Island of Providence, by the Spaniards from the English. London. Printed for Nath. Butter, Mar. 22, 1641.
"I have letter by an aviso from Cartagena, dated the 14th of September, wherein they advise that the galleons were ready laden with the silver, and would depart thence the 6th of October. The general of the galleons, named Francisco Dias Pimienta, had beene formerly in the moneth of July with above 3000 men, and the least of his ships, in the island of S. Catalina, where he had taken and carried away with all the English, and razed the forts, wherein they found 600 negroes, much gold and indigo, so that the prize is esteemed worth above halfe a million."