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place : and in August after defeating the French Fleet off Martinique 

 and calling at Barbados, it was decided that Cayenne, then in the hands 

 of the French, should be attacked. Owing to a calm of eight days' 

 duration the fleet suffered much through lack of water, but in spite of 

 this Cayenne was successfully taken ; and on the 29th September the 

 fleet left for Surinam where it anchored on the 3rd of October. The 

 next day surrender was demanded ; troops landed on the morrow, and 

 two days later the Dutch capitulated. At Byam's request a court-martial 

 was held on him with reference to his surrender of the fort to the Dutch 

 in the previous March, and he was honourably acquitted. On the 16th 

 October it was ordered that the estates, which on the invasion were con- 

 fiscated to the States of Zealand, should be remitted wholly for the satis- 

 faction of the officers and soldiers, according to contract made with them 

 at their enlisting at Nevis ; and one of these estates, which formerly 

 belonged to Francis Lord Willoughby, the officers and soldiers presented, 

 with all the slaves belonging to it, to Lt. -General Henry Willoughby for 

 his share. 



Henry Wilioughby commissioned Colonel Samuel Barry as Governor ; 

 and, leaving one hundred armed men for the protection of the colony, 

 returned to Barbados. The account of the undertaking recorded in 

 the " Calendar of State Papers ,, ends thus : — " This country proved very 

 unhealthy to the whole party, many at this present pining away under 

 the infection they got there." 



Colonel Samuel Barry came in Venables's army in 1655 and took 

 part in the capture of Jamaica. Three years later he went home with 

 Doyley's account of the defeat of the Spaniards at Kio Novo, in which he 

 had played a principal part. He was the first member mentioned in the 

 list of the first Council in 1661, and he in that year filled the post of Chief 

 Justice ; he was also one of the largest landowners, " Cavaliers " being his 

 property. He commanded one of the five regiments of Militia raised by 

 Lord Windsor in 1662 — that of Lygonee " the fittest, strongest and most 

 numerous " of the settlements. In 1666 he was wounded severely 

 when the French took Nevis, 



On hearing of the Peace of Breda, and that by its terms places taken 

 after May 10th, 1667, should be surrendered, Willoughby immediately sent 

 his son back to Surinam to use his utmost to bring off the inhabitants and 

 their movables, (which, he considered, would utterly disable the Dutch to 

 settle it), intending to put them on Antigua ; but if they refused to leave he 

 would suspend the surrender until he heard from the Lords of Trade and 

 Plantations. 



In January 1667-8 the Ambassadors of the States General 

 at London petitioned that the status quo ante might be restored 

 in Surinam ; and it was so ordered by the King in Coun- 

 cil. In the meanwhile Henry Willoughby reported that Barry, the 

 Governor, had declined to give up the colony to a Zealand frigate without 

 direct orders from the King or Willoughby, although the Dutch had the 



