Footnote 385: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 1129.
Footnote 386: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 1129 (vii., viii.); cf. also No. 657.
Footnote 387: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76, No. 1129 (xiv., xvii.).
Footnote 388: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1675-76, Nos. 656, 741.
Footnote 389: [(return)]
Ibid., 1677-80, No. 313; cf. also Nos. 478, 486.
Footnote 390: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 368. A similar proclamation was issued in May 1681; cf. Ibid., 1681-85, No. 102.
Footnote 391: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 375.
Footnote 392: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 243, 365, 383; Egerton MSS., 2395, f. 591.
Footnote 393: [(return)]
In a memoir to Mme. de Montespan, dated 8th July 1677, the population of French San Domingo is given as between four and five thousand, white and black. The colony embraced a strip of coast 80 leagues in length and 9 or 10 miles wide, and it produced 2,000,000 lbs. of tobacco annually. (Bibl. Nat., Nouv. Acq., 9325, f. 258).
Footnote 394: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1677-80, Nos. 347, 375, 383, 1497; S.P. Spain, vol. 65, f. 102.