Chapter IV
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TORTUGA—1655-1664
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Note 1 · Footnote 189: (return) Dutertre, t. iii. p. 126; Add. MSS., 13,992, f. 499. On 26th February 1656 there arrived at Jamaica a small vessel thNote 2 · Footnote 190: (return) In Dutertre's account the name is Eliazouard (Elias Ward).Note 3 · Footnote 191: (return) According to a Spanish account of the expedition the date was 1661. Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 13,992, f. 499.Note 4 · Footnote 192: (return) Dutertre, tom. iii. pp. 130-34.Note 5 · Footnote 193: (return) Rawl. MSS., A. 347, ff. 31 and 36; S.P. Spain, vol. 47:—Deposition of Sir Charles Lyttleton; Margry, op. cit., p. 281Note 6 · Footnote 194: (return) Charlevoix, op. cit., liv. vii. p. 36; Vaissière, op. cit., p. 10.Note 7 · Footnote 195: (return) According to Dutertre, Deschamps' commission extended only to the French inhabitants upon Tortuga, the French and EngNote 8 · Footnote 196: (return) Rawl. MSS., A. 347, f. 36. According to Dutertre's version, Watts had scarcely forsaken the island when Deschamps arrNote 9 · Footnote 197: (return) Rawl. MSS., A. 347, f. 36.Note 10 · Footnote 198: (return) C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 648.Note 11 · Footnote 199: (return) Dutertre, t. iii. p. 138; Vaissière, op. cit., p. 11, note 2.Note 12 · Footnote 200: (return) C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 233.Note 13 · Footnote 201: (return) Ibid., No. 364.Note 14 · Footnote 202: (return) Ibid., No. 390; cf. also No. 474 (1).Note 15 · Footnote 203: (return) Ibid., No. 475.Note 16 · Footnote 204: (return) Beeston's Journal, 1st March 1663. According to Dutertre, some inhabitants of Tortuga ran away to Jamaica and persuadNote 17 · Footnote 205: (return) C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 817-21.Note 18 · When the Chevalier de Fontenay was driven from Tortuga in January 1654, the Spaniards left a small garrison to occupy the fort and prevent fNote 19 · It was while Watts was governor of Tortuga, if we are to believe the Jesuit, Dutertre, that the buccaneers determined to avenge the treacherNote 20 · In the latter part of 1659 a French gentleman, Jérémie Deschamps, seigneur du Rausset, who had been one of the first inhabitants of Tortuga Note 21 · The fiasco of Arundell's attempt was not the only effort of the English to recover the island. In answer to a memorial presented by Lord Win