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.