ABSTRACT
James Langton, the general commander, was a man well trusted by the Earl, who preferred him to William Monson for the leadership of his 1595 expedition. Again in 1598 he placed Langton in command of the flagship on the return voyage from Puerto Rico. Like Langton, Francis Slingsby was one of Cumberland's following, and is found again in his service on the Puerto Rico voyage, as captain of the Consent. After making a clockwise circuit of the island, Langton plundered the coast east of the city of Santo Domingo, marching inland five leagues to raid Gregorio de Ayala's sugar mill about the middle of December. From his strategic position at Point Caucedo, on the eastern side of Santo Domingo Bay, he kept that city virtually blockaded for two and a half months, lying many a day athwart the harbour itself and capturing no less than nine vessels.
