[64] Ibid., f 32, Thomas Modyford to his brother, September 13, 1662.
[65] Ibid., f. 20, petition of the Royal Adventurers to the king, January, 1663.
[66] C. O. 1: 17, f. 136, instructions to Lord Willoughby, June 16, 1663.
[67] Ibid., f. 227 (the king to the governors of Barbadoes and Jamaica). March 30, 1663. That there was some trouble in deciding just what provisions to make regarding the Spanish trade appears from several unsigned and undated letters to Willoughby with conflicting provisions, but they nearly all mention the exception made in favor of the Royal Company in the letter of March 13, 1663. C. O. 1: 17, f. 22; C. O. 1: 17, ff. 24, 25; C. O. 1: 17, ff. 26, 27; P. C. R., Charles II, 3: 336-338.
[68] C. O. 1: 17, ff. 225, 226, petition of the Royal Adventurers to the king, November, 1663.
[69] Willoughby made a restitution of the £320 in March, 1664. C. O. 1: 18, f. 86, Modyford and Colleton to (the Royal Adventurers), March 31, 1664.
[70] C. O. 1: 19, f. 124, Willoughby to the king, May 20, 1665.
[71] C. O. 1: 16, f. 112, additional instructions to Lord Windsor, governor of Jamaica, April 8, 1662.
[72] C. S. P., Col., 1661-1668, p. 106, minutes of the council of Jamaica, August 20, 1662.
[73] A full description of privateering by the English against the Spaniards from the year 1660 to 1670 may be found in an article by Miss Violet Barbour in the American Historical Review, XVI: 529-566.