, 1685-88, No. 548). He probably in the
meantime succeeded in escaping from the island, for in the following
November he was reported to be cutting logwood in the Gulf of Campeache,
and Molesworth was issuing a proclamation declaring him an outlaw
(_ibid._, No. 965). He remained abroad until September 1688 when he
again surrendered to the Governor of Jamaica (_ibid._, No. 1890), and
again by some hook or crook obtained his freedom.]

[Footnote 437: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 660, 673.]

[Footnote 438: Ibid., Nos. 627, 769.]

[Footnote 439: He is not to be confused with the Peter Paine who brought
"La Trompeuse" to Port Royal. Thomas Pain, a few months before he
arrived in the Bahamas, had come in and submitted to Sir Thomas Lynch,
and had been sent out again by the governor to cruise after pirates.
(C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 769, 1707.)]

[Footnote 440: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1509, 1540, 1590, 1924,
1926.]

[Footnote 441: Ibid., Nos. 1927, 1938.]

[Footnote 442: Ibid., Nos. 1540, 1833.]

[Footnote 443: 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: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. viii. pp. 128-30.]

[Footnote 445: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 963, 998, 1065.]

[Footnote 446: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 709, 712.]

[Footnote 447: 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.]

[Footnote 448: S.P. Spain, vol. 69, f. 339.]

[Footnote 449: Ibid., vol. 70, f. 57; C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, No. 1633.]

[Footnote 450: During de Franquesnay's short tenure of authority,
Laurens, driven fro