[182] The men were drawn from three Dunbar regiments: Cromwell's own, Goff's and Ingoldsby's, not, alas! from Monk's.

[183] I am indebted for the elucidation of this campaign to Mr. Julian Corbett's Monk (Men of Action Series), an admirable sketch of a remarkable man. Monk's letters may be read in Thurloe.

[184] The best contemporary account of Henry Cromwell's administration will be found in his own letters in Thurloe's State Papers.

[185] St. Domingo.

[186] Fortescue's own expression. See his letters in Thurloe.

[187] The story of the West Indian expedition is very fully told in Thurloe's State Papers. There are a few supplementary papers in Cal. S. P., Col., and two accounts in Ogilvy's History of America and in the Harleian Miscellany.

[188] See the pamphlet, The Bloudie Field, in King's Pamphlets, British Museum.

[189] Thurloe, vol. vi. p. 18.

[190] Collins, State Papers (July 1603), p. 277.

[191] "Les Anglais y firent fort bien." See his letter in Thurloe.