... four other captains, who were thenfishing for silver at the wreck, to seize St. Augustine in Florida. They landed before the city under Frenchcolours, but finding the Spaniards prepared for them, ... settlements in continual danger of ruin byreprisal, in time of war they were the mainstay of the colony. As the governor, therefore, was dependent uponthem for protection against the English, ... with certain slightamendments. They were again passed by the assembly as one Act in 1681, and were finally incorporated into the Jamaica Act of 1683 " ;for the restraining and punishing of privateers...