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C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1509, 1540, 1590, 1924, 1926.
Footnote 441: [(return)]
Ibid., Nos. 1927, 1938.
Footnote 442: [(return)]
Ibid., Nos. 1540, 1833.
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Charlevoix, op. cit., liv. viii. p. 130. In 1684 there were between 2000 and 3000 filibusters who made their headquarters in French Hispaniola. They had seventeen vessels at sea with batteries ranging from four to fifty guns. (C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, No. 668; Bibl. Nat., Nouv. Acq., 9325, f. 336.)
Footnote 444: [(return)]
Charlevoix, op. cit., liv. viii. pp. 128-30.
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C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 963, 998, 1065.
Footnote 446: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 709, 712.
Footnote 447: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, No. 1163; Charlevoix, liv. viii. p. 133; Narrative contained in "The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Barth, Sharpe and others in the South Sea." Lon. 1684.
Governor Lynch wrote in July 1683: "All the governors in America have known of this very design for four or five months." Duro, quoting from a Spanish MS. in the Coleccion Navarrete, t. x. No. 33, says that the booty at Vera Cruz amounted to more than three million reales de plata in jewels and merchandise, for which the invaders demanded a ransom of 150,000 pieces of eight. They also carried away, according to the account, 1300 slaves. (Op. cit., v. p. 271.) A real de plata was one-eighth of a peso or piece of eight.
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S.P. Spain, vol. 69, f. 339.
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Ibid., vol. 70, f. 57; C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, No. 1633.