them but himself, or whom he pleased to permit; he had indeed no regard or refpect to any, either planters or traders, but thofe who had been of the army. About October this year, there came a report that the Lord Windfor was coming to be governor in his place; this (though he pretended always to be willing to quit the government and return for England) very much troubled him, infomuch that he spoke very difrefpectfully of that noble lord; difcouraged the traders, ufed all means to get money and inrich himself; and the lord Windfor's arrival being prolonged from the time he was expected in, made him almost confident he would not come at all; on which he began to threaten the abolishment of the patents, and to new model the government. DECEMBER 14. His majefty's fhip, the Great Charity, captain Poole commander, arrived from England, with about two hundred paffengers; and the fifth of June the Diamond, who had been fent to the Windward iflands to fetch paffengers, arrived with about two hundred more from those islands. APRIL 24, 1662.-The Diamond failed for England, but in the voyTM age the commander, captain Whiteing, died at the Caymanas. JULY 30.-The Griffin frigate, captain Smart commander, arrived, and brought news that they left the lord Wind for at Barbadoes, who might be expected to arrive every day. AUGUST 7.-Arrived another of their fleet, the Weftergate, captain Hodges commander, which brought paffengers, ftores, and goods. AUGUST 11.-The Lord Windfor arrived in the Centurion, captain Miners commander; with him came fir Charles Lyttleton, chancellor, and deputy governor, and with them a feal and mace for the ifland; alfo then came colonel Mitchel, who was made judge of the common law, admiralty, &c. and many gentlemen for preferment, and in hopes of offices and employments. And a donation the king fent to the army, which was a great refpect from his majesty, and in lieu of their pay, which the king had no obligation to give them; but this being put into the hands of fome in England, they laid it out in feveral forts of goods, and so maM m 2 naged naged it, that, by the time it came to be divided amongst the foldiers, it was inconfiderable. General Doyley received the lord Windfor and general with feeming kindnefs, told my lord he doubted not but he would be told complaints of him, but they were falfe; and by that time his lordship had been here one year, he must expect the fame to be raised on himfelf: However the lord Windfor ordered him to provide himfelf to be gone for England in a very few days, againft which he petitioned my lord, and afterwards the council, but to no purpose. SEPTEMBER 10.-In the Weftergate he went away for England; after which the lord Windfor calls his council, models the government, fettles the law again, which had flept about three months, conftitutes judges and juftices, eftablishes the militia, and takes the regiment of Port-Royal to himfelf; then begins to grant out the lands by patent under the great feal, in common foccage, and do all things that might encourage people to fettle and plant the country. Neverthelefs, rumours were raifed amongst the people, that he intended many great fees and taxes on the feal and land, and on fugars and other commodities, infomuch that the old foldiers were like to mutiny; to prevent which, fome of the most noted were fent to prison, and a guard of thirty horfe, commanded by captain Ivy, on the thirteenth September, appointed to watch at Paffage-Fort, and to have two fhillings a day for cach man's pay: Yet ftill the old foldiers murmur, and threaten to relinquith their plantations; on which my lord ifues out commiffions for fettling the feveral regiments of the train bands, and alfo, on the fifteenth September, publifhes a declaration throughout the ifland, wherein he manifefts his refpects to the people, and tells them, the reports raifed about the feal and taxes was only done by incendiaries and disturbers of the peace, and that they were falfe and no fuch things appointed; that he fhould confider the poverty of the country, and not burthen them more than was convenient. Soon after which, my lord and his council orders a war with the Spaniards, on this ground, that, having power in himself to make either war or peace, and being in Barbadoes, he had fent the Griffin frigate before to Porto-Rico and St. Domingo, to demand a trade, which they refused; therefore a defign was formed against St. Jago de Cuba, and a fleet fitted, of which captain Miners in the Centurion was admiral. The foldiery being poor, and wanting conveniencies to settle, they gladly embraced this opportunity; so that there were were foon gotten together about 1300 men, who with eleven fail of fhips, fmall and great, parted from Port-Royal the twenty-firft September, with great hopes of a large booty. Whilft thefe were abroad, the militia was fully fettled, the commiffions all given out, and the regiments formed, fo that the fixth of October the regiment of Port-Royal met completely officered and armed. About this time alfo, the dividend fent by his majefty to the foldiers was diftributed, as his royal gift for difbanding the old army, and the council fat and made many acts, viz. One about fervants that run away from their mafters, another rating the commodities of the country, how they fhould pafs in payment from man to man; for though my lord had power to call an affembly to make laws, yet he put it not in practice in his time. And now, whether through fickness, melancholy, or diflike to the place, or all together, my lord refolves to return for England as foon as the fleet arrived from St. Jago, and orders the Bear to be forthwith provided for his transportation with all expedition, and fettles his bufinefs in readinefs; and, on the twenty-first October, arrives a fhallop from the fleet, which brought news they had taken St. Jago. On the twenty fecond arrived the fleet, with all their and plunder, having taken the town and burnt it, blown up the caftle, brought away the guns, taken feven fhips in the harbour, and wafted the country round about it, and brought with them abundance of fugar, hides, plate, wine, and much other plunder; and all this only with the lofs of fix men by the Spaniards, though there were about twenty more loft by other accidents. And now the fleet being arrived, my lord was impatient of his ftay, fo makes all the hafte he could to be gone, and fo expedites his bufinefs, that, on or about the twenty-eighth October in the morning, he failed in the Bear for England, leaving fir Charles Lyttleton deputy-governor, and colonel Mitchel chief over the fea affairs, and over all the courts. This fuccefs made the people quiet, the Centurion ftayed in harbour, but the privateers all went to fea for plunder; yet fome Spaniards came, under pretence of trading, to the island, and were kindly received; but confultations were had, whether the Spaniards, being enraged by this lofs of St. Jago, might not meditate revenge, and make fome attempt on the ifland; therefore what money was due to the king was called in, and in November about forty men hired to work on the fort, which is now called Fort-Charles, with intent to finish it, which hitherto lay open, with only a round tour of tone, and banks of boards and fand towards the fea. On the first of December thefe men began to work at it; on which day it happened that all the planets in the heavens were in Mars afcendant of the the Spanish nation, and fuch a remarkable convention that does not happen in very many years. About the twelfth of this month, there was again a confultation for another defign against the Spaniards, and the Centurion was presently fitted for Campeche, and othe. fhips to go with her, and men raised, which were ready enough for all fuch enterprizes. In the mean time, the fort went on vigorously, infomuch that, by or about the thirtieth of December, the platform in the half-moon towards the fea was laid, and that day one whole cannon and three demi cannons of brafs were mounted on it, and, on Wednesday the thirty-firft, about one hundred and fifty volunteers wrought on it (befides the labourers), who dug the trenches for the foundation almoft all round, and carried feveral turns of ftones to the work, and had then further profecuted it, but the death and burial of captain Con. Lyttleton, fir Charles, his brother, that day caused them to defift for that time, and alfo the prefent expedition of the fleet, by taking off captain Miners his failors, caufed the work to go on the more flowly; and now on Friday and Saturday, the ninth and tenth of January, the foldiers being in all about fifteen or fixteen hundred, were embarked; and, on Sunday the eleventh in the morning, the Centurion with moft of the fleet weighed anchor, and failed out of the harbour to the Cays, and on Monday morning, the twelfth, they being in all twelve thips, fmall and great, failed away to fea, from whom there was no news for a long time. About the beginning of February, the deputy-governor and council made an order, that all the negroes which were yet abroad in the island in rebellion, being about thirty, or more, if they would come in fhould have twenty acres of land for each head that defired it; and Juan de Bola, who had been formerly their commander in the woods, and had been come in fome time paft, as before, was appointed colonel of the black regiment in the militia. The fleet having. now been out fome time, and no news of them, the expectation of the people began to grow big to hear of their fuccefs; when on Saturday, February twenty-eighth, arrives a privateer called the Bleffing, captain Mitchell commander, who, having been cruifing in the bay of Campeche, brings this relation: That, about 90 leagues this fide of Campeche, he met three fail of the feet, viz. Captain William James his thip, funk in the fea by foul weather, who was the beft fhip in the fleet next the admiral, and that many of their men in the fleet were dead. This Mitchell alfo brought news that the Spaniards in Campeche had timely notice of the English defigning on them from St. Jago; to prevent which they had fent their wives, children, and goods, to Merida, an inland town twenty twenty leagues from Campeche; that they had 1500 men in the town to oppof their landing, and had unrigged all the fhips in the harbour, that they might not carry them away, and had hauled them on thore, and landed their guns on batteries; had fent one hip to windward and another to leeward, to give advice that no fhips might come thither, and fet watches along the fea coafts, to give intelligence of their approach : which news feemed very ill, and put the country in doubt of the fafety of the fleet, the miscarriage of which would have been of ill confequence to the island, the moft confiderable ftrength both of thips and arms being there; and, to add to this ill news, the next morning, being Sunday, March the first, arrives colonel Barry in a floop from Tortudo, who had been fent in the Charles of London, captain Robert Maunders commander, about fourteen weeks before, to reduce Tortudo, which was under the French government, to the English, and of which colonel Barry was to be gɔvernor; but, when they arrived there, the French ftood on their guard, which colonel Barry feeing, defired captain Maunders to fire at them, but he refused, though he had received a commiffion and inftructions by his own defire to that effect; fo the defign being overthrown, captain Maunders fets colonel Barry and his men afhore at Corydon, on Hifpaniola, and goes away about his merchandize, and leaves the colonel and his men to get to Jamaica how they could; who at length arrived, with this ill news and worfe fuccefs, in a fmall boat, and charged captain Maunders with the miscarriage of the whole bufinefs. This twenty-four hours afforded variety of confiderable news; for, before the night of this day, came a report that a ketch, which parted here with the fleet, was arrived in Macary-Bay, in Jamaica, one Mumford master, who related, that, on the thirtieth of January, (the fame day colonel Barry was defeated at Tortudo), our fleet took the town of Campeche with twenty fail of fhips, which proved true; for, on Monday, March fecond, arrived lieutenant Hoy from on board the faid veflel, and gave the relation of all that had happened. The return of the fleet was much defired, as well for the booty, as that, for want of men and conve niencies, the fort went not forward; but about twenty-fifth of March the workmen that were there were put off, till more recruits of men and materials could be provided. On the thirty-firft of March his majefty's fhip, the Greatgueft, captain Bernard commander, arrived from London, and brought fix Jews (with a rich |