1913.] SIR EDMUND, HIS SOX. 47 



French and the Dutch, and on February 11th, 1667, Edmund 

 Andros received two commissions, severally appointing him 

 Captain and Major of the ' ; Regiment of Foot wherof Sir 

 Tobias Bridge Kt. is Colonell, for our service at Sea, and 

 known as the Barlnidoes Regiment." (1) 



The month following Colonel Jonathan Atkins, acting 

 Governor of Guernsey, wrote a letter to Amias Andros, say- 

 ing he had " received a letter from your son from Portsmouth" 

 telling him " his soe sudden departure for the Barbadoes 

 Expedition .... But since he must go I am glad he goes in 

 so honourable a place a Major." < 2) 



This expedition was commanded by Admiral Sir John 

 Harman and consisted of seven men-of-war and two fire- 

 ships. They arrived in Barbadoes early in June where four 

 more men of war joined them. When off St. Pierre they 

 came in sight of the French, and after a battle lasting for 

 two whole days finally destroyed the whole French fleet, 

 leaving upon the beach of St. Pierre the wrecks of 33 sail of 

 different descriptions. (3) After this victory peace was easily 

 established and on July 21st the Treaty of Breda was signed 

 proclaiming peace between the English, French and Dutch. 



Edmund Andros passed unscathed through all this 

 fighting, as we learn from a further letter to his father from 

 Colonel Atkins dated Nov. 18th, 1667, in which he says — " I 

 am glad you have assurance of Mun's being well." (4) During 

 the following years he remained in the West Indies as 

 Commander of the forces at Barbadoes, and while there he 

 evidently became acquainted with Henry Morgan, the famous 

 buccaneer, who was then waging war, more or less authorized, 

 against Spain ; capturing Spanish cities and Spanish galleons, 

 burning, plundering, and murdering indiscriminately, but 

 incidentally fighting his. country's battles and guarding 

 British Possessions. He feared neither man nor devil, and 

 his cruelties have passed into a byword, but in a Tract 

 written by a contemporary, (5) he is described as being " as 

 great an Honour to our Nation and Terror to the Spaniards 

 as ever was born in it." Morgan was subsequently knighted 

 and made Governor of Jamaica, where he married the 

 daughter of one of the principal inhabitants, and apparently 

 he was a comrade if not a friend of Major Andros's, for his 

 portrait, as well as those of his wife and daughter, were said 



(1) GuilleMSS. 



(2) Tupper's His 



(3) Chronological History of the West Indies by Capt. T. Sonthey. 



(2) Tupper's History of Guernsey, 2nd Ed., p. 367. 



logical Hist 

 (4) Tupper History, p. 363. 



(5) An Historical Account of the West Indies by Dalby Thomas, published 

 London 1690— Harleian Miscellanies, Vol. II., p. 363. 



