70 The Beginning of British Honduras
towns. His wife was a native of Brittany, had worn a brace
of pistols with her wedding dress, and had the pleasing name
of -Marie Dieu Le Veut.
 In November 1683 Coxon again rebelled against his gov-
ernment and went privateering, for the part of spy and gov-
ernment agent did not please him. But in January 1686 he
again became reformed and gave himself up for trial at
Jamaica, which trial was ordered held at Santiago de la Vega,
the old capital of Jamaica, where "there will be few sympa-
thizers among the jury." Somehow, Coxon got away, and
next year he was cutting logwood in Campeche. A man of
war was ordered to make a diligent search for him, but he
put to sea and eluded pursuit. In September of the same year
he surrendered to the governor of Jamaica, and was sent to
Lynch. Sir Thomas Modyford, half pirate governor of Jamai-
ca, gave Morgan a commission in 1668, and Coxon was not
worse than Morgan, but the most successful buccaneers be-
came potential candidates for high office, and the dice were
loaded in certain influential quarters against Coxon. The
buccaneers paid duty in Jamaica on the plunder they brought,
and Coxon now threatened a withdrawal of the French and
Dutch buccaneers to Saint Domingue which was just as good
for carousing. The presence of so many successful buccaneers
with commissions from Petit Gouave was disconcerting to
Lynch.
 Lynch let Coxon go again, and for ten years thereafter he
 lived mainly at Coxon-Hole in Ruatan, from where in his
 sloop he traded with the Moskito Indians who at times ac-
 companied him in his raids. Two pirates, Christopher Goffe
 and Banister, gave their names to two cayes opposite Belize
 and were contemporaries of Coxon and Laurent Graff. In
 1684, Banister, whose ship of 50 guns, the "Golden Fleece,"
 had a French commission, was put on trial at Jamaica, but
 he bribed the evidence, delayed the jury, and so got off, for
 they all knew that the grievance centered only around his
 French commission. Next year he escaped with his ship from