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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
GENERAL LIBRARY
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Original LETTERS
Of his Excellency
Sir Richard Fanshaw,
During his
EMBASSIES
IN
SPAIN and PORTUGAL:
Which, together with divers
Letters and Anfwers
FROM
The Chief Minifters of State of
England, Spain and Portugal, con-
tain the whole Negotiations of
the Treaty of Peace between thoſe
Three CROWNS.
LONDON,
Printed for A. Roper at the Black Boy, and R. Baffet at
the Mitre, in Fleetftreet; and Turner, at the
Angel at Lincolns-Inn Back Gate, 1702.
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THE
PREFACE.
T
AIS no wonder that under this critical
Conjuncture of Affairs in Europe, where
Revolutions and Alterations in Govern-
ment tread one upon the heels of another, that
Learned Men of all Degrees, Qualities and Em-
ployments, are fo inquifitive after the Letters and
Correfpondencies of fuch Perfons, as have had
the Honour of being employ'd at Forreign Courts
in the Quality of Amballadors, Envoys, or Refi-
dents, or at Home as Publick Miniſters; for
their Curiofity is foon accounted for, when we con-
fider the Advantage that is gain'd by feeing things
as they are, in their Native Drefs; before the
fucceeding embellishments of Artifice or Intereft has
difguis'd, and render'd them more Plaufible than
in truth the Originals were defign'd for.
Some Hiftorians are too often guilty of Par-
tiality, by Supporting a Faction, or Serving an
Interest: Others for want of knowing Secret Af-
fairs as they were transacted, (which Publick
Minifters are very shy in communicating while
they live, for fear of difobliging their Masters, or
rendring themselves obnoxious to Cenfure) must
confequently give us but a lame and imperfect Ac-
count of Men and Things; but Men of Learn-
ing are confcious, That this Partiality or Defect
is abundantly and fatisfactorily Remedied and
Supplied, by the Publication of thofe great Mens
Letters and Memoirs after their Deaths, that
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transacted
The PREFACE.
tranfa&ted thofe Affairs in Perfon, wherein the Cu-
rious want Satisfaction; for by this means Secrets
are diſcovered, Intreagues laid open, Myfteries Re-
vealed, and Matters of Fact Set in their proper
lights as they were acted, with all the adhering
Circumstances of Time, Place, Perfons, Concurrence,
Oppofition, Dispatch and Delays, without a Poffi-
bility, at least a Probability, of impofing upon the
Enquirer; unless we could conclude that Truth
and Justice were banish'd the World, which would
difcover a greater want of Charity, than any Inge-
nuous Man would be thought guilty of.
But with respect to that pretence, the Purcha-
fer is fecur'd from Danger in the Publication of
the following Letters, Anfwers, Obfervations.
and Memoirs, by a Tripple concurrence of indif
putable Teftimonies of their Veracity and Genuine
Defcent. First, from the known Honour and In-
tegrity of Sir Richard Fanfhaw, who was the
Author of them, and left them in the Poffeffion of
his Daughter, from whofe Hands I received them.
Secondly being Printed from the Originals ready
to be produced, if occafion fhould require: And
Thirdly, because the Contents were transacted in
our Memories, which are (uch Authentick Records
of their indubitable Legitimacy, that I shall no
longer detain the Reader from the Pleaſure and Sa-
tisfaction of perusing them, when I have told
him that I am
His very humble Servant
:
The EDITOR.
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A fhort Account
Of his EXCELLENCY
Sir Richard Fanshaw,
S
And his Writings.
IR Richard Fanshaw, created a Baronet by
King Charles the Firſt, at the Siege of Ox-
ford, was Youngest Son to Sir Henry Fan-
Shaw, of Ware Park in Hertfordſhire, the King's
Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer (which
is an Office of great Honour and Truft, where-
of that Family have had for many Generations,
and ſtill have the Inheritance) and was Brother
to the Right Honourable Thomas Viſcount Fan-
fhaw of Dromore, and to Sir Simon Fanshaw, Bar.
He was a Gentleman admirably accomplish-
ed, having received the firft Rudiments of his
Education from our famous Mr. Farnaby, and af-
terwards compleated his Studies in the Univerfi-
ty of Cambridge; from whence he went to Tra-
vel beyond the Seas. After this, attending the
Court, and growing Eminent for his excellent
Parts and Learning, in the time of the late Civil
Wars in England, he was made Secretary to the
Prince of Wales.
At the Reſtoration of King Charles II. in the
Year 1660, it was expected that Sir Richard Fan-
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Shaw
An Account of Sir Richard Fanfhaw.
than would have been made one of the Secreta
ries of State, not only from the Kindneſs his
Maſter had long had for him, and the Hopes
formerly given him of it, but likewife as a Re-
compence in fome meafure, for the great Suffer-
angs which both his Family and himſelf had fu-
ftain'd in that King's Service. However milling
that Preferment, he had the Place of Master of
Requests conferred on him, a Station, in thoſe
times, of confiderable Profit. Afterwards for
his known Abilities, and accurate Stile in Wri-
ting Latin, he was alfo made Secretary of
the Latin Tongue: but having, in his Youth,
and during his Mafter's Exile, refided in For-
reign Courts, whereby he had qualified him-
felf for publick Employments abroad, he was
fent by the King Envoy Extraordinaay to Por
tugal: From whence after a while, being cal
led home, he quickly returned to that Court
with the Character of Ambaſſador. There
he Negotiated the Match of his Maſter King
Charles with the Infanta Donna Catherina,
Daughter of the late King Don Juan VI. and
only Sifter to the then King Don Alfonfo the
IV. and to the prefent Don Pedro, now Reign-
ing.
When he had finifh'd his Commiflion in
Portugal, with great Satisfaction, as well to
that King; as to his Own, he was called back
in the Year 1663. made one of his Majefty's
Privy Council, and fent Amballador to Philip
the 4th King of Spain, where he had been Re-
fident from King Charles the Firft, above twen-
ry Years before. In this Court he remained
after the Death of King Philip about two Years,
Charles the Second of Spain being then an In-
fang
An Account of Sir Richard Fanfhaw.
Fant, and his Kingdoms under the Regency of
the Queen, his Mother. Here in the Year 1666
this excellent Perfon falling fick of a Fever,
dyed at his Houſe in Madrid in the Fifty
Ninth Year of his Age; the very Day, on
which he had defigned to fet out in order to his
return home.
His Body was embalmed, and brought from
thence, by his Lady, thro Spain and France, by
Land to Calais, whence he was convey'd by Sea
to London, thence carried to Ware in Hertford-
fhire, and there honourably Interred in the
Parish Church, among his Ancestors with a fair
Monument of Marble over him.
He was a compleat Mafter of feveral Mo-
dern Languages, particularly the Spanish, which
he Spake and Writ with as much exactnefs,
as if he had been Native of that Country.
He likewife underſtood perfectly well the
Portagneze, the Italian and French; Out of
which he Tranflated feveral choice Pieces in-
to English, fuch as Il Paftor Fido, the faithful
Shepherd, out of the Italian of Gio. Battista
Guarini: Alſo a Drammatic Poem out of
Spanish, called Querer por folo Querer, or To Love
only to Love; together with divers other Pieces
of Poetry and Profe: Whereof fome he did
into Latin, and others into English. But for
his Loyalty and Zeal to his Mafter's Service,
being toffed from Place to Place; and from
Country to Country, during the unfettled
Times of our Anarchy, fome of his Manu-
fcripts falling by Misfortune into unskilful
Hands, were Printed and Publifh'd without
his Confent or Knowledg, and before he could
give
An Account of Sir Richard Fanſhaw.
give them his laſt finiſhing ftroaks. Such
was his Tranſlation of The Lafiads, a celebrated
Poem of Luis de Camoëns from the Portugueze:
And La Paftora Fida, from Mr. Fletcher's Eng-
lifh Play of The Faithful Shepherdess into Latin
Verfe, with many other Poems of his own,
both in English and Latin, which he had
written for his diverfion in his Younger Years,
but had not the Leifure to compleat.
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INSTRUCTIONS
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FOR
Sir Richard Fanshaw,
GOING
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​AMBASSADOR
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Catholick King.
January the 14th. 166
Charles Rex,
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PON the Receipt of thefe our Inftru-
ctions, you fhall repair with all con-
venient Speed and Expedition to the
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Court of Spain, and there demanding
Audience according to the Accumftomed forms,
deliver to the King and Queen our Letters of
Gredence and Complement, rendering them
thanks in our Name, for their continued Profel-
fions of kindneſs and efteem of us, and defres
that the Alliances, Good Friendship, and Amity
might be preferved between them and us, accor-
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ding to what hath pafs'd between that Crown
and this in all times. To the King you fhall
more particularly explain your felf, that ſome
unhappy Accidents intervening have occafioned
our not performing this Part towards him ſoon-
er, in return of thofe Congratulatory Embaffies
which he fent to us, immediately upon our late
happy Reſtoration to our Kingdoms. You fhall
farther add, that neither thoſe Accidents, nor
any other of what nature foever have been, or
can be able to leffen our efteem of His Royal
Perfon, and Friendship, or the obligations we
had to him in the time of our Adverfity; of
which he may aflure himfelf, that we fhall be
ready in all times to make Proportionable re-
turns. And upon this firft, or any other occa-
fion, as it fhall be better fuggefted to you, en-
large your felf by letting the King know that,
tho' we are unwilling, and that it becomes not
us, to diminish the good Opinion he may other-
wife have of his Servants and Minifters: Yet, we
cannot but in Vindication of our felf, let him
know that the little fatisfaction we have had in
their behaviour towards us, hath abated much of
that fervour, with which we ſhould have other-
wife Profecuted the continuance of his Friend-
fhip;
without Particularizing any thing herein,
with Relation to the Perfons of the Marquis de
Caracena, Don Alonzo de Cardenas, or the Baron
de Batteville, unleſs you find your felf provoked
to it for our Vindication, in which cafe you
have leave to explain the particular diffatisfacti-
on, We have in feveral occafions had of them
all, according to the Information you have
thereof.
After you have thus made your begining,
and performed in our Name all fitting Compli-
ments
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ments to the Prince, the Infanta, Don Juan de
Auftria, the Duke de Medina las Torres, and the
other Principal Minifters in that Court, in terms
Proportionable to their different conditions and
our eſteem of them; you fhall offer to the King's
confideration, that difadvantage in which both
the Crowns fuffer by the various interruptions,
and almoſt deſtruction, of the Commerce and
Trade fo uſeful and beneficial to both, but hap-
pens more particularly Clamorous on our fide,
fince our Factories have been for a long time
eſtabliſhed in moft of the Ports of his Domini-
ons; from all which they have fent Complaints
unto us, of an unequal Adminiſtration of Juſtice
towards them, and an univerfal moleftation and
rapine made upon Ships and Goods, paffing be-
tween them and their Correfpondents here, by
the Hoftile and Vexatious, ufage of Frigats and
Men of War, Navigating (or pretending to do
fo) under his Commiffions. For the remedy of
which in the future, and for the taking away all
caufes and occafions which may difturb the good
Amity, Trade and Commerce, which we defire
may be inviolably entertained and preferved be-
tween both the Crowns; You shall immediately
demand reparation from, and exemplary Pu-
niſhment upon fome of the Free booters, who
have taken Ships from our Subjects, contrary to
the Articles of Peace now fublifting, with fome
Publick Declaration of the Kings diffatisfaction
with their proceeding; So that the Trade and
Commerce may be immediately restored with an
entire confidence on both fides, and the Jealou-
fies removed of a War likely to enfue from thefe
Hoftile Actions, and more particularly, you fhall
complain of the reftraint put on our Subjects
Trading with Portugal, more rigorously than
those
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thofe of France or Holland: And tho' the Letter
of the aforefaid. Articles feemeth to counte-
nance the taking of Ships, Navigating with Per-
fons or Countries, declared by either fide, Re-
bels or Enemies, yet what they have done in that
kind to our Rebels, hath been offenfive to fuch a
degree, that we cannot believe they will care by
fo undue a proceeding towards the Ships of our
Subjects, to give us occafion of remembring it.
And that you may be the better enabled and
inftructed, to debate and difcourfe of all matters.
relating to the aforefaid Trade, and Commerce
between both the Crowns. You fhall carefully
and ftudiouſly look over all the Treaties that
have in late years been made betwixt them, efpe-
Vid. cially thofe of the Years 1604, and 163c, and
Cone ions fuch farther Conceffions, as have been ſince that
Andalou- folemn ratification, granted and publifhed for the
fia, and if benefit of particular Factories, in feveral of his
there be any Catholick Majefties* Ports and Countries.
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made in
others, in
any of the
Ports of
Sicily,
the Trans-
actions be-
4. And tho' in this Point it will be according
to prudence, and the better management of the
whole Negotiation, to make fome pauſe here,
Italy, &c. expecting the Kings Anſwer to, and fatisfaction
Vid. alfo in thefe generals, yet, if for the better entertain-
ment of the Amity and Friendſhip, there fhall be
twixt D. offered to you, the renewing the Alliance in bet-
Alonfo de ter terms between us, you fhall frankly avow
Cardenas,
you have Power to do it, and (the Propofition
rifing from them) oblige them to offer you the
Project of the Treaty they defire; but becauſe it
may be prefumed you will not find any Mini-
fters, or Commiffioners appointed for you at all,
Ready or Practical in Points concerning the
Trade, which must be the Effential Foundation
of fuch a Treaty. We have thought fit to fur-
nifh you from hence, with all the Points and Ar-
and the U-
furpers
here.
ticles
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ticles that are to Compofe one, which, upon
Amendment or Rejection of theirs, you may in
due time offer to them, obferving always the
Rule of fhewing your felf only Paffive in the
entrance to this matter. Towards which you
muſt always lay for a Foundation, and upon fit-
ting occafions reprefent to them, that the Mo-
narchy of Spain, is fallen to a great declination,
more eſpecially in all Maritime ftrength, not on-
ly by having the whole Kingdom of Portugal dif
membred and ſeparated from it, with all its de-
pendancies, but into fuch a decay of Shipping,
Mariners, and indeed all means of entertaining
their Navigation and Commerce with the Weft-
Indies, and that the Monarchy of England, is Pro-
portionably elevated and raiſed to a Strength
and Power infinitely fuperior to what it ever
was, and confequently in a State of demanding,
not only the Advantages to the fulleft extent
which are granted to the French, Hollanders, or
any other Nation whatſoever: But alfo a nearer
Admiffion and Entrance into fuch Tyes, and re-
ciprocal Bonds of Convenience and Benefit on
our fide, as may endear us to a more uſeful fup-
port of that Crown, now threatned by fo many
dangerous Accidents, as are visible to the whole
World, and which will without an extraordina-
ry Providence, endanger the total fubverfion
of it.
According to theſe Rules and Directions, you
are to open the firſt and important Point of your
Negotiation, which probably the King will not
give you leiſure or opportunity for to do, with
that extent that the matter requires, wherefore
you must not neglect the firft occafion of ex-
plaining your felf more at large, therein to the
Duke of Medina Las Torres, the Principal Mini-
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fter there, to whom you fhall endeavour to en-
dear your felf, and your whole Negotiation, by
repreſenting to him the Efteem and Value we
have of his Perfon, with an exprefs Knowledge
of the Affection he had for this Crown, ever
fince our Royal Father's being in Spain, and up-
on this Foundation ask of him, that you may
uſe all Freedom and Opennefs towards him in ail
your concernments, reforting to his Councils as
our particular Friend, and if you find him, ex-
pect or defire that you ſhould propofe the No-
mination of Commiffioners, or the Project of a
Treaty; You fhall frankly declare to him, you
are fent to entertain any Propofed by them, and
will be ready to confer with any Commiffioners,
who fhall be appointed upon any particulars,
which may contribute to the Eſtabliſhment of a
firm and laſting Peace betwixt the two Crowns,
but that you know not in what manner your
felf to offer the fame; Upon which occaſion,
you fhall put him in mind, that we had prefently
after the Murder of our Royal Father, fent our
Extraordinary Ambaſſadors thither to renew the
Alliance according to the laft Treaty, which
overture of ours was rejected, and we confe-
quently difabled thereby to propoſe it again, buț
that you are moſt ready to enter upon any Trea-
ty they fhall offer, and will add fuch other Pro-
pofitions on our Part, as may contribute to that
good Intelligence you wish to fee eſtabliſhed be-
tween us.
And if the Duke fhall, upon this or any other
occafion, fuggeft any thing to you of a defire
that we would quit Portugal, fince the adhering
to that Crown feems a direct breach of the latt
Treaty, being exprefly againſt the Court Article
thereof; You fhall feem exceedingly furprized
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with it, as a matter you did not expect You
ſhall tell him, that you were made choice of by
us, for our Ambaſſador to that Court, out of
the knowledge we had of your affection to that
Crown, having ſpent many years in that Court,
and that it would be an unſpeakable misfortune,
if you fhould be put to return to us without ef-
fecting that good underſtanding between us you
defired, but that rather than you would feem to
admit any debate upon a particular fo contrary
to our Honour, you would take your leave to
Morrow of that Court, and return to us. That
you muſt again put him in mind that we fent
our Ambaffadors to Madrid, to renew that Alli-
ance in the ftricteft terms they could propofe,
and to excuſe what had been formerly done with
reference to Portugal, as done (as in truth it
was) after the beginning of that Parliament
which raiſed the Rebellion againſt our Father;
That all our Overtures were then rejected, and
our Ambaſſadors required to depart from that
Court, and at the fame time, and after our Cou
fin Prince Rupert, Admiral of our Fleet, was in-
hibited to come into the Ports of Spain, and
fuch of our faid Fleet were by Storm driven in-
to Cartagena, and there Stranded, the Ships Pil-
laged, and the Tackle and Ordnance of our
Ships moſt injuriouſly detained from us, and de-
nied to be reſtored to us tho' often demanded.
That at this time, and after all this, our Fleet was
Received and Protected in Lisbon, againſt all the
Threats of Cromwell, and tho' it was evident at
the fame time, that Portugal it ſelf would by that
Act of Generofity, become engaged in a War
against England, as it quickly fell out to be,
which brought infinite lofs and damage upon.
them; And now after all theſe Offices performed.
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to us in our loweft diftrefs; And after we have
taken to Wife the Daughter of that Crown, to
Renounce that Alliance, and to look on whilft
that Kingdom is deftroyed, would be a thing fo
Dishonourable, that if we fhould be guilty of it,
it would fo leffen us in the Reputation of the
World,that our Friendship would not be thought
valuable to any of our Neighbours; therefore
you hope you fhall hear no more Overtures to
thar purport, defire his excufe if you have been
warmer than ufual upon this Argument, which
toucheth us in the moft fenfible Part, but fince
he hath entred upon this Argument with you,
he fhall give you have to renew this Difcourfe
again with him, when you have a little better
Compoſed your felf.
From hence you may take the opportunity to
continue or renew this Conference, and defire
him calmly to confider, whether in truth this
bufinefs of Portugal, inftead of being a Rock of
Offence, and matter of Jealoufie between the
two Crowns, may not yeild ſome expedient to
unite the Intereft and Affections of both, and
create fome Councels and Conclufions of great
benefit, and importance to the greatnefs and lu-
fter of that Crown; You fhall tell him (if he
will give you leave as a Private Perfon) you will
prefent fome confiderations to him, upon which
you have often made Reflection with the best
Faculties you have. That you have ſpent ſome
time in the Court of Portugal, with fuch an Ad-
million into their moft Private Councils, that you
believe few ſtrangers have known them better,
that you were upon the place when the late re-
volutions fell out, and made the beft obfervations
you could, of the Temper and Distemper of that
Court and Nation in thoſe Critical Seafons; that
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in the higheſt Article of Confternation, you ob-
ferved the general refolution not to be in any
degree abated, of defending themſelves by all
the Acts of defpair imaginable; So that if that
accidental defeat had not happened, it would
have been long before that People would have
been fubdued; that as you have reaſon to think,
that the Portugueſe flatter'd himſelf too eafily up-
on the Overtures, or imaginations of a Treaty
with his Catholick Majefty; So you are not
fure, that the Spaniard did not admit fome delu-
fion in the Opinion of a Party, or Defection
among the Portuguefe, of which in the midft of
the Factions and Animofities among themfelves,
you could not obferve any Evidence.
That there was for the moft Part of your re-
fiding there, a Perfon of Quality employed
from France, ftill converfant in their moft fecret
Councils, and that Monfieur Schomberg was of
greater Credit in the Conduct of their Martial
Affairs, and that you could not obferve a great
trouble, diſorder, and diſcontent in them, when
the Court feemed to expect fome good iffue of
the Treaty then on foot with Spain, in which
Treaty the Portugueſe was perfwaded to believe
that the Catholick King was willing and defirous
that we fhould be Mediator in that Treaty, and
fent us word of it, and defired us to undertake
that Office, and upon this occafion you may
feem willing to hear from him what encourage-
ment in truth Spain gave to that Treaty.
That there is nothing the French ſo much dread
and deteft,as the apprehenfion that Portugal by fome
fecret Treaty, may get free from that deftructive
War, the advantage being too notorious to them
that they fhall reap by that War, when it ſhall
be ſeaſonable for them to renew the War againſt
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II.
Spain, for which they long for a good oppor-
tunity; and on the other hand, when that War
between the two Crowns fhall come to paſs, Spain
will find much more eaſe in the profecution
of it, if it were fure to have no difturbance
from Portugal, without being put to the charge
of maintaining Forces to prevent it.
That he cannot imagine that we will ever per-
fuade the Catholick King to deprive himſelf of
his reputed Right to the Kingdom of Portugal;
but whether the determination of that diffe-
rence may not be advantageouſly fufpended till
a more favourable conjuncture, and until the
Crown of Spain be lefs liable to accidents, will
be his part to judge, as it will be yours to per-
form all Offices in our Name which may con-
tribute to that end, and that to that purpoſe you
will fend an Exprefs to Lisbon, or make a Jour-
ney thither your felf, if he fhall adviſe it, and
that whatever fhall be done, fhall be concluded
as between us and the Catholick King, and if
Portugal fhall refufe to confent to what is rea-
fonable, we will declare that we fhall hold our
felt no farther obliged to give any aifiſtance for
the time to come; and if during a Truce for
fome years, Spain may, inftead of maintaining
Armies againſt Portugal, draw fome confidera-
ble aſſiſtance both by Land and Sea thence, they
who fhall be their Enemies, will find the en-
terprize they have in hand will be rendred much
more difficult and unfuccefsful, than if the pre-
ſent War between the two Nations be profe-
cuted in the manner it now is.
The feafon when thefe Infinuations and Ar-
gumentations are to be made, you will beſt
judge upon the Place, but at fome time or o
ther they will be of weight; and if not whilft
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this King Lives, they will prevail upon his
Death, when wife Men will be as fearful, du-
ring the Minority of an Infant King, to carry on
a War in their own Bowels, as to conclude a
Peace to the difinherifon of the Crown; and
there is no middle betwixt thoſe two Extremes,
but fuch a Truce as is mentioned before, to be
continued till the King comes of Age.
If they are perfuaded by your Reaſons, or
their own Neceflities, to hearken to or admit
our Interpofition and Mediation for Portugal
(without which no ftreighter Alliance can be
made between Us, than hath been formerly,
for Trade and Commerce, which they will ne-
ver decline) you fhall hearken to any Propofi-
tions they fhall make, for an Improvement of
the Friendſhip between the two Crowns, and
for our immediate undertaking the Protection
of the young King, the expectation of which
must be the only Motive for their condefcenfion
in the cafe of Portugal; and, upon that occafion,
you will not omit to enlarge upon the Difficul-
ties we fhall thereby engage our felves in; the
Greatneſs and Power of France, and the great
Offers they make to us, and would grant, to
engage us in a firm Alliance againſt that Crown;
our own impoverish'd Condition by the late
diſtractions, which have left us without any
ftock of Money, to undertake a defign of Ex-
pence, fo that we muſt be enabled by them to
defray that charge which we ſhall be oblig'd to
for their fakes: That it will be likewife neceflary,
that our Subjects may difcern that our Engage-
ment for that Crown will be attended with fome
general Benefit and Advantage to Trade, in lieu
of what they shall be deprived of by fuch our
Engagement; and therefore you fhall require
that
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13.
that we may have a free Trade into the West-
Indies, at leaſt for ſuch a number of Ships as fhall
be agreed on; in confideration of which Liberty,
we will be obliged, at feafons of the year to be
agreed on, to deliver fuch a Number of Ne-
groes at fet prizes; and will likewife be obliged,
in our own Ships, to deliver in any Port of Spain,
their Plate, or other Cargoes, in fuch manner as
fhall be adjuſted: And, without fuch liberty
aforefaid, of a free Trade and Commerce into
thoſe Dóminions of his Catholick Majefty, you
do conclude, there can never be a ftricter Al-
liance between us and Spain, than hath been
accuſtomed, to preferve the mutual Traffick and
Commerce between the two Nations.
You will not be at all furprized, if you find
them at first, valuing themfelves upon their
right and ſtrength, totally reject this our of
fer'd Mediation, but, that grimace being over,
confidering the uncertain Health of the King
and Prince, the vaſt Power and ambitious Pre-
renfions of France; and, after the unfuccefsful
attempts they have made thefe four years paft,
with the united Force of all the Spanish Domi-
nions, it may fairly be fuppofed, they are, or
ought to be, in a defpair of conquering Portu-
gal, and confequently in a difpofition to hearken
to Terms of Accommodation; and, finding
them fo difpofed, you fhall offer them our Me-
diation and Profeffion to profecute it with all
the fair Terms of convenience and honour to
them that can be expected; and according to
our Power given you to that effect, take upon
you to be inftrumental in fetting a Treaty on foot,
either for a firm Peace, or a fufficient Truce for
fome time, betwixt thofe two Crowns; in which
cafe you are to make ufe, on the Portugueſe fide,
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of
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of thofe Encouragements given you from them
to that effect, as alfo the Spanish admiffion of a
Treaty the last year, in which they allow'd
we ſhould be Umpire: For the profecution and
improvement of which Overtures, if any thing
fhall be wanting on our fide, (which is yet un-
foreſeen by us) upon fignification of it, it fhall
be immediately difpatched to you from hence
in the management whereof, it will be fit for
you, not only to expofe to them the known In-
tentions of France to fupport the Crown of Por-
tugal, but to heighten alfo, as dexterously as you
can, the obligations under which we lie to the
fame effect, by fhewing them what Fleets and
Bodies of Men they may expect to meet with
the next Spring upon their Coaſt, for the de-
fence thereof, and with thefe, the advantages
the Crown of Spain may receive by a Union
with that of Portugal, not only for the prefent
but in all future occafions; upon which fubject
you may enlarge your felf as you fee caufe.
One point you must earnestly infift upon be-
fore you enter into theſe Debates, even at your
first arrival, viz. the fending an Ambaſſadour
hither, and you are eaſily to take occaſion, up-
on any delay therein, to talk of your own return
hither; neither fhall you make any ftep in the
Formalities towards a Treaty, till fuch a one
be diſpatched: In the choice of whom, you will
do what you can that he be a Perfon of credit.
in the Court, and one not like to be unaccepta-
ble to us; and if you ſhould hear any mention
of Don Eftevan de Gamarrah, you may take oc-
cafion, in conference with the Duke of Medina.
de las Torres, to let him know that he will not
be pleafing to us, for many things that paffed
heretofore in Flanders.
As
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15.
As you have opportunity for it, you ſhall in.
form your felf what kind of licence Don Domingo
Grillio hath, and of what extent, for the Tranf
portation of Blacks into the West-Indies, and
accordingly offer to him the profecution of the
Contract began by his Agent here the last year,
even for greater numbers than were propos'd,
to be landed upon any other part of the Terra
Firma, or to be taken from fome of our Planta-
tions in thoſe parts, declaring to him, that you
have Authority to this effect from the Royal
Company eſtabliſhed by us here; of which you
are to magnifie (as you fee cauſe) the Compo-
fition, the eminent Perfons engaged in it, the
Stock upon which the Trade is driven, together
with the advantages of the Scituation of thoſe
Places where the Blacks are gotten; and this you
are to negotiate with the faid Don Domingo, dif-
avowing your having Authority to handle it
with the Minifters there, as a point of State;
but if in the profecution of your Negotiation
there fhall be a good occafion given of opening
it to them, and treating it as a matter of re-
ciprocal Advantage on both fides, it will be fit
for you to expofe to them (what they muſt
needs know themfelves) how unprovided the
Spanish Government is in the West-Indies, for
want of the faid Blacks to work in their Mines,
and eſpecially how disabled from fetching them
themſelves with Shipping from any part in
which they cannot be helpped but by our Sub-
jects, or thofe of the United Provinces, and
accordingly offer to them the appropriating that
Trade to us alone, in return of any other equal
advantage they can propoſe. With this and all
other occafions refuming the Diſcourſe of the
diſadvantages under which they lie in their
Com
Commerce with the Weft-Indies by the weak-
nefs of their Maritime Power, and the neceffity
incumbent on them to provide betimes for fome
Securities towards that Navigation, leaſt the
want of them in fome of thofe accidents which
now threaten the Monarchy of Spain, ſhould
oblige thofe of the Weft-Indies to open their Ports
themſelves to all Nations, whereas that liberty
being treated by confent with us, and indulged
to us alone (tho it were but for a certain num-
ber of Ships) their own Rules in that Govern-
ment might remain entire, and we fupport it
with advantage enough to our felf, in a ſtate to
preferve the whole Monarchy upon its own foun-
dation, whereas without it any of thoſe afore-
faid accidents happening, it muſt in all probabi-
lity diffolve.
You fhall likewife employ your utmoft Skill
and Induſtry, in penetrating into and difcover-
ing under what Model and Form his Catholick
Majeſty deſigns to leave the Government there,
when it fhall pleaſe God that he die? which,
confidering his great infirmity and weakneſs, may
be prefumed is already projected, with all things
elfe of the moft fecret nature that may poffibly
come to your knowledge; of which you fhall
give weekly Accounts to us here, by the hand
of that Secretary in whofe Divifion thofe Coun-
tries are; from whom you fhall alfo from time
to time be advertifed of our Intentions and Plea-
fure, which you are to obferve, and likewife
you ſhall let us particularly underſtand what Pre-
parations they make for the next Campaign in
Portugal, and the deportment of the French Am-
baſſador there, and be very careful to put all this
into Cypher, that by any foul play on the way
the contents of your Letters be not diſcovered,
16.
which
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17:
18:
which, when any preffing occafion requires it
you may fend by Expreffes, or Engliſh Ships ly
ing upon the ſeveral Coafts, as you cannot bu
be well advertis'd.
You ſhall entertain good Correfpondence and
Friendſhip with all the Ambaffadors, Refidents
and Agents of Princes and States, our Allies.
who fhall happen to be in that Court, and efpe-
cially with the French Ambaſſador, by whoſe
Reputation there, and his carriage towards you,
you will beſt know how to treat with him. One
thing in great confidence you may inform him
of, that you are come thither to ſet fome Treaty
on foot for a Truce, at leaſt with Portugal, of
which you have had means to know better than
others, the great neceffity for the weakneſs in
which that Crown is, and imprudence into
which the Nation falls every day, notwith-
ſtanding all Succeffes, whereof they never make
a right ufe; without entring into more particu-
lar conference with him herein, till the matter
be well advanced, it being certain he will do
all he can to diſturb it. And notwithſtanding
the good Correfpondence we recommended to
you to entertain with the faid Ambaſſadour, yet
you muſt be wary that his forwardneſs or pre-
fumption do not lead him to any points of ad-
vantage above you, remembring eſpecially, that
the Crown of England doth not yield the hand
to any King.
If the King ſhould happen to die during your
ftay there, as his uncertain and infirm Health
makes it very probable he may, you must re-
member you remain ftill under the fame Cha-
racter, and accordingly perform the Ceremo-
nies incumbent on you therein to the Prince
his Son, and the Queen, advertifing us with all
poffible
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poffible diligence thereof, as of the State wher-
in the Government is left.
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Over and above what is faid to you already,
of endearing us and our affairs to the Duke of
Medina las Torres, you fhall let him know that
we have uſed Endeavours with the King of
Portugal, to get his Son Don Annelo de Guzman
his liberty; the execution of which you your
felf fhall likewife prefs upon the occafion you
have to write to the Court; and likewife for
the liberty of the Marquifs de Eliche, upon the
fame foundation of our Entreaty, for whoſe li-
berty we will alſo write. And in all occafions
that fhall offer themfelvs, you fhall let the Fa-
mily of Don Lewis de Haro know the kind re-
membrances we have of all his good will to us,
and by this you must introduce your felf to the
Conde de Caftrillo, and affure him of qur efteem
and affection for his Perfon: Alfo you ſhall
Vifit in our name the Duke of Aveiro and his
Sifter, affuring them of our Friendſhip and par-
ticular Concernments for their Perfons, for the
Name and Royal Blood of which they are de-
fcended, and promiting them all effects of it
our power, eſpecially if the Treaty and Agree-
ment between the two Crowns give us oppor-
tunity to have any part in their Reftitution of
their Eftates, with all other good Offices which
fhall happen to be in our power.
We have recommended to you feveral Peti-
tions in behalf of Perfons and Corporations, of
all which you fhall endeavour to gain the Ef-
fects desired therein, more efpecially you fhall
take care to procure effectual Letters recom-
mending to the in the Ifland of Minorca,
the accommodating all Ships belonging to our
Navy Royal in the Port of Maon, and receiving
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them there with all good Ufage, for the benefit
it may be to our faid Ships now in the Medi-
terranean Seas, for the fecurity not only of our
Navigation, but that alfo in effect of all Chri-
ftendom; and tho you ask it particularly for
this Port, you fhall make one general Requeft;
that all the Governours have likewife orders
fent to them for the good Reception and Uſage
of our Ships into which they fhall happen to
come, and accordingly procure that the faid
Orders be immediately upon your arrival, as
well for Italy, the Iflands of Scilly, Majorca,
and Minorca, as the Kingdom of Spain.
You cannot be ignorant of the advantage this
our Kingdom received, when a quantity of
Spanish Bullion was brought hither and
coined in our Mint; and tho the conjuncture
doth not feem now to countenance the making
any fuch Propofition, yet it will not be amifs
that we mind you thereof, if the occafion
Thould happen of defiring the fame again;
likewife you know how much it hath been
defired by thofe of the Trade here, to have the
pre-emption of the SpanishWools appropriated to
them. If any fuch thing could be admitted, it
is good you know of how much benefit it would
be to our Kingdoms to obtain it; and that
they on their part fhould understand what a
tye it would be upon us in the maintenance.
of our Alliance and Friendship with them.
In cafe the King happen to die during your
Refidence in that Court, of which there is
more than ordinary probability, after having
made all the Complements of Condoleance, ac-
cording to the accustomed manner, in our
Name, to the Queen, and thofe other Mini-
fters
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fters principally entruſted with the care of the
young King and the Government. You fhall
let the Queen and them know that we (fore-
feeing this misfortune, and apprehending that
in this tender Age of the King, the Monarchy
of Spain might be expofed to many ill accidents
from abroad as well as at home) (as a Duty in-
cumbent on us) had commanded you in our
name to offer them our Protection, of which
they ſhall find the effects in our doing and per-
forming all good Offices they fhall ſtand in need
of, as well with relation to what they may ap-
prehend from Enemies abroad as from diforders
and diftractions at home; and accordingly at-
tending their anſwer thereupon, fhall give us
immediate advertiſement thereof, that we may
further explain our felf herein as the cafe fhall
require, and our own Honour, with the care we
owe to them obligerh us, remembring always
that no confiderable progrefs can be made here.
in, unless the Peace or Truce with Portugal go
forward, and there be advantages given to the
Trade and Commerce of our Subjects by extend-
ing it to the Weft-Indies, in the manner expref-
fed in your other Inſtructions.
In cafe they fhall confent to enter into a
Treaty of Peace or Truce with the Kingdom of
Portugal by our Mediation, you ſhall, by giving
advertiſement thereof to that King by fuch a
Meſſenger as you fhall fend thither, and accord-
ing to the powers you have from us, qualifie
him as the occafion fhall require, by vertue of
that Letter of Credence which you have to the
ſaid King for the faid effect. And the Treaty
of Peace or Truce having further progrefs, you
fhall offer either to tranfport your felf to the
Frontier, or to Lisbon, there in Perfon to per-
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form
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20 form fuch farther Offices therein as fhall be re
quifite, giving us conftant and punctual Adver
tifement of all your Proceedings, that you may
be furnished from hence with any new Powers
and Inftructions you have need of.
According to the Lights and Informations
given you therein, you fhall acquaint the Duke
of Medina las Torres with a Report brought hi-
ther to our Coufin Prince Rupert, of his Brother
Prince Maurice's being detained a Prifoner in
the Indies, with fuch circumstances as makes it
probable to him, and therefore we ask of him.
the Duke, that a Perfon be purpofely fent into
the Indies to make enquiry into the matter, it
being a fatisfaction we could not deny to our
faid Coufin, for the quiet of his mind in fo im-
portant a concernment, and for your directions
therein you must make refort to the Papers gi
ven into your hands concerning this matter.
If any occaſion fhall be offer'd you to ſpeak
of the Emperor and his concernments, it will
not be amifs that you let the Duke of Medina
las Torres know how little compliment or friend-
fhip we received from him when we were a-
broad, and how he hath abstained fince our
return home to fend us any Congratulatory Em-
baffy or Meffage, in which point no other
Prince or State of Chriftendom hath been de-
fective to us.
We have given order that you be acquainted
with all the defign the Spaniards have held in
conjunction with the Moors, for the furprifal
of all Tangier, according to Boeckman's Relation,
without caring that you fhould take any pro-
felled notice of that Court, and yet fuch occa-
tions may be offer'd to you, as it may be fit you
hould let the Duke of Medina las Torres know
we
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we are not ignorant of it, and that we could
eafily be perfuaded fuch a defign would be fet
on foot at the fame time that we receive fuch
profeſſions of Friendship and good Correfpon-
dence, as Don Patricio Omeledei brought us from
his Catholick Majefty, and him the Duke of
Medina las Torres.
During your Negotiation and Refidence in
that Court, you ſhall make it your particular
care to obferve all matters and affairs relating
to that Government, and the Perfons now prin-
cipally employ'd in it, ſo as to be able at your
return to give us a perfect account in writing
of that Monarchy, as well with relation to the
affairs abroad as at home, and the Characters
of Perſons moſt eminently employ'd in it.
C. R.
By his Majefties Command,
Henry Bennet.
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R
то
His Catholick Majeſty.
Royal Brother,
To
10 correfpond to the Amity I have ever
profeſs'd towards your Majefty, I have
fent Sir Richard Fanshaw, one of my Privy-
Council, to refide with you as my Ambaſſador;
having charg'd him with ſeveral Inftructions,
concerning the Commerce and Trade of our
Subjects, and all the other Points which may
contribute to the maintaining of the good Cor-
refpondence, Amity, and Alliance, which I
defire to perpetuate with your Majefty: There-
fore I defire you to afford him full Credit, in
every thing he ſhall ſay to you from me, but
more particularly when he fhall affure your
Majefty of the Efteem I have for your Perfon,
and the perfect Amity wherewith I fhall ever
be,
Royal Brother,
Your, &c.
T.
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To his Catholick Majesty, in behalf of Sir
Benjamin Wright.
Charles R.
I
•
T troubles us to confider how importunate
We have been with your Majefty in the be-
half of our very good and belov'd Subject,
Sir Benjamin Wright; but being touch'd with
pity for his unfortunate Condition, and cal-
ling to remembrance his repeated Services, We
have readily embrac'd this occaſion, ſeriouſly
to recommend his juft Cauſe to your Majefty;
not doubting in the leaft, but that having
weigh'd the Equity of the matter, out of your
wonted Regard both to us and to Justice itſelf,
you will caufe your Miniſters to receive and
ffate the Accompts, which he is ready to pro-
duce;and appoint a Day for the full and prompt
Payment of the Sums due to him,both Principal
and Intereſt. We have given further Inftructions
to our Truſty and Well-beloved Counſellor,
Sir Richard Fanshaw, our Ambaffadour to your
Majefty. Not to admit any thing that may be
neceflary to obtain for our aggriev'd Subject,
what is his juft Due. The accomplishment of
which we ſhall be glad to hear from your Ma-
jefty, whofe Perſon and Dominions we fincere-
ly Recommend to the facred Protection of
Heaven.
D
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Madam
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Madam and Sifter,
Havin
Aving fent Sir Richard Fanshaw, one of
my Privy-Council, to refide with the Ca-
tholick King, my Brother, in quality of my Am-
baffador, I have charg'd him to affure your
Majefty of the Efteem and Refpect i ever had
or your Perfon, defiring nothing more ear-
neftly than to find opportunities to give you
more convincing Proofs of the Amity, where-
with I fhall ever be,
Madam and Sifter,
Your, &c.
!
Brother and Coufin,
HAYL
Aving fent Sir Richard Fanshaw, one of
my Privy Council, to the Court of my
Brother, the Catholick King, there to refide as
ny Ambaſſador. I have charg'd him to wait
on your Highness from me, to aflure you I ftill
etain the fame Efteem and Affection for your
Perfon, as I have formerly done. Therefore
you will be pleas'd to give Credit to all he fhall
fay from me, not only in refpect to every thing
that may contribute to the good Correfpon-
dence of the two Kingdoms; but likewife more
exprefly, when he allures your Highneſs of the
fincere
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fincere Amity I fhall ever have for you, and
which I fhall Teftifie on all occafions wherein
you are concern'd; as being
Your, &c.
I
7
Coufin,
To the Duke of Medina Celi.
Have diſpatch'd Sir Richard Fanshaw, one
of my Privy Counfel, and a Man of Honor
and Prudence, to refide at Madrid, as my Am-
baſſador; and have given Orders to my Fleet
to ſet him Afhore in your Ports, to the end he
may have an opportunity to ſee you from me,
and affure you of the Continuation of the Af-
fection and Efteem I have for your Perfon.
Moreover, I recommend the Perſon of my faid
Ambaſſador, and my Fleet, to your Prote-
tion; defiring you to afford 'em a good Paf-
fage, as, on my fide, I will do to all that comes
from you, and embrace all Occafions to teftifie
how fincerely I am,
Coufin,
Your, &c.
To the Duke de Medina las Torres.
Coufin,
Nowing how much you wish for a good
Correfpondence and Union, between the
Catholick
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A
Catholick King, my Brother, and my ſelf, I ad-
drefs you my Ambaſſador, Sir Richard Fanshaw,
one of my Privy-Council, whom I have charg-
ed freely to communicate with you, and make
ufe of your Counfels in every thing I defire
towards the accompliſhing fo good a Work;
affuring you more exprefly, of the Affection
and Eſteem I ever had for your Perſon and Fa-
mily; in behalf of which, my faid Ambaſſador
will tell you, how paffionately I have defired
to procure your Son's Liberty, now Prifoner at
Lisbon, not without hopes of obtaining it.
Therefore I defire you to afford Credit and in-
tire Confidence, in every reſpect, to my Am-
baſſador; both on the account of the readineſs
wherewith he has undertaken this Employment,
and the Zeal, Prudence, and Sincerity, he has
fhewn in diſcharging all others which I have
entruſted him with. To conclude, I have more
particularly directed him to affure, how Affe-
ctionately I will ever be,
&c. &i,
Coufin,
HAV
To the Conde de Caftrillio.
Aving fent Sir Richard Fanshaw to Madrid,
there to refide with the Catholick King,
in quality of my Ambaſſador, I have exprelly
charg'd him to affure you of the Efteem I ever
had for your Perfon; and as the Defign of his
Voyage is no other, than to reftore a good
Under-
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Underſtanding betwixt the two Crowns, fo
he may expect from you all imaginable Affi-
ſtance, to compaſs fo good an End. As for
the reft, you will find him a Man of Honour
and Diſcretion, and very much enclin'd to
ſerve all that belong to the Family of my late
Coufin Don Lewis de Haro, as I have directed
him to do; ftill remembring my Obligations
to him, and wiſhing I may, in this conjuncture,
procure the Liberty of the Marquis D'Elicke,
your Nephew, and find other opportunities to
exprefs how truly I am,
Coufin, &c.
To the Governour of Guinea.
Charles R.
Ince it appears neceffary as well for the
Common Good of the Chriftian World, as
for the juft Intereft and Defence of our own
Subjects, forthwith to ſend out a well furniſh'd
Fleet into the Mediterranean Sea, under the
Command of that Noble and Valiant Leader,
our well-beloved, Sir John Lawson, Kt. our
Vice-Admiral, for the reftraining the unbridled
Infults of Pirats, eſpecially thofe of Algiers.
Hereupon, from the wonted Friendſhip be-
tween your felves and us, we think fit to defire
of you, that free and ſafe Acceſs may be grant-
ed to our faid Fleet and Ships, into any of your
Ports; there to be alliſted in every thing, either
for the Refitting or the faid Ships, or avoiding
the Dangers of the Sea, or for any other ur-
gent
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!
gent Cauſe, as alfo, when occafion fhall re-
quire, a free Liberty of buying all Neceffaries
from you, at reaſonable prices. And alfo that
our Mariners fhall be treated and received with
all that Humanity and Good-will, as the com-
mon Reaſon of this Undertaking, and as Cor-
reſpondence and Amity may feem to claim from
you. Being fully affured of your Compliance
herein, the reft we fubmit to the good and
great God, &c.
Dated Jan. 13. 1663.
White-hall, Wedneſday, Ten a-Clock at
Night.
I
My Lord,
Am forry it is my fortune to take my leave
of your Excellency in Paper, not being able
to do it in Perfon, to morrow Morning, be-
cauſe I am to wait on his Majefty to Hampton-
Court. In the mean time I am glad to hear.
from his Majefty, that he hath had a large Dif-
courfe with you concerning the Scope of
Embaffy; he faith, he only forgot to bid you
commend him very kindly to the Conte de Mar-
fin, of whofe Acquaintance you will have much
ufe, if you find him in Madrid; for whichrea-
fon I have written to him.
your
When we difcourfed laft, I think I forgot
to tell you, that his Majeity is content you
fhould ask the English Regiment in Flanders, for
my Lord Castlehaven. It will be a good means
of having it Recruited, which he that Com-
Ld. Amb. Fanfhaw.
mands
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mands it now is not able to do. In fine, it
will be their Profit, as well as the King's Sa-
tisfaction, that it be fo difpofed of.
As to the Question your Excellency asks,whe-
ther in rigour you are to infiſt upon having an
Ambaſſador from Spain, actually on his way,
before you enter upon your Negotiation? It
is not meant of the former part of it, which
relates to the Complaints you are to make, but
of the latter, when you come to Treat of Por-
tugal, and opening the Trade into the Indies.
In fine, the meaning of that Article is, That
you ſhould not make any confiderable Pro-
grefs with them, till you are morally affur'd,
that they proceed in good earneſt with us; of
which one principalEvidence muft be their fend-
ing an Ambalador hither. Which, in all Con-
fiderations, it will behove you to haften as
much as poffibly you can; as a point much im-
porting them, and very fatisfactory to us. I
have nothing to add, but the wishing my Lady
and your ſelf a good Journey, and many occa-
fions to my ſelf, of making good my Profeſſion
of being,
My Lord,
· Your Excellencies
Moſt bumble Servant,
Henry Bennet.
On
( 30 )
On Board bis Majefties Admiral, entring into
the Bay of Cadiz, Wedneſday about Noon,
24th of Febr. 1663;
English Stiles
SIR,
BM
Y former Advertiſements, I prefume hist
Majefty from you hath understood, how,
after ſharp Storms and croſs Winds, with the
firft favourable Breath we adventured to put to
Sea a third time, and out of Torbay the fecond,
upon Monday the 15th Inftant, at Nine of the
Clock at Night; from whence, in fo few days,
as appears by computation, to the time of the
Date hereof, and with the most aufpicious
Weather that could be imagin'd, we are all ar-
rived thus far, in perfect Health and Safety :
where perceiving fome Saylors fteering towards
us, which we took to be English, and home-
wards bound, I thought it my Duty, en duda,
to prepare haftily thus much only, againſt we
fpeak with them in Paffage, which may fuffice
at prefent, from him who knows no more as
yet, but that he is,
SIK,
Your most Faithful, and
woft Obedient Humble Servant,
Mr. Secr. Bennet.
Richard Fanshaw.
Cadiz
( 31 )
Cadiz. § Feb. 29. 1663.
SIR,
March 10. 1664.
M' (which yet
Laft of the 29th. of Feb. English Style
(which yet cannot go fooner than this,
having not met with the prefent opportunity
of conveyance I then exfpected ) advertifed
your Honour, we were just then entring this
Bay, after a brief and very fair Paffage from
Torbay
The fame evening we came to Anchor at
ſome diſtance from this City, intending (God
willing) the next day (6th. inſtant) to come on
fhore, but, aftrong Levant rifing, not only that
was impoffible, but even for any to come to me
from the Land.
The next morning (7th.) our Ships weigh-
ing made a hard fhift to get into the Port, and
I from thence a harder to Land in Boats: The
Duke of Medina Celi in the interim, having
Complemented me Aboard by a Cavallero de
Habito, with a Letter from Portfmary, and in
Perfon from this City, the deputed Governour
of this Town (Don Diego de Pharra) both of
them as by a General order from his Catholick
Majefty, which they had had fome Weeks by
them in cafe of my arrival here, in Vertue
whereof ſomewhat more than ordinary falutes,
were given by this City to his Majefties Am-
baffador and Fleet; alfo a Houſe ready furniſh'd
for
(32)
for me, whereunto I was very Honourably
Conducted with appearance of univerfal joy,
and there viſited the fame Day by the Duke of
Alburquerque, the Cabildo, and all the Nobles
and Principal Gentlemen here refiding. My Ta-
ble, the Governour fignified was to be at my
own finding, yet that I must not refufe to ac-
cept of the firft Meal from him, of the former
I was very glad, as enjoying thereby a liberty
which I prefer'd to any delicates whatſoever
upon free coft: The latter, I was not at all nice
to receive for once. But I had not been three
hours on fhore when an Extraordinary arrived
from Madrid, with more particular orders than
formerly from his Catholick Majefty, Impor-
ting that our Mafters Fleet (when arrived) and
this Amballador, fhould be pre faluted from
the City in a manner unexampled to others,
and which ſhould not be drawn into example
hereafter. Moreover (and this fo likewife)
that I and all my Company must be totally de-
fray'd, both here and all the way up to Midrid
upon his Catholick Majefties Accompt, with fe-
veral other circumftances of particular eiteem
for our Royal Maſter above all the World be-
fides. The fubſtance of all hath been related
to me, and the effects declare it, but a Copy
of the order it felf, I have not as yet been able
to obtain though defired, it being the Style not
to Communicate it without leave from above,
and out of the Secretary of State: Elfe I fhould
have thought it my Duty to remit it unto his
Majefty from hence, and fhall from thence if I
get it.
The firft Night the Keys of the City were
brought to me in a great Silver Bafin, (the Go-
vernour by) which after feveral refufals, I took
and
( 33 )
and put into the right hands, then the Gover-
nour forced me to give him the Word, which
after like refufals I did, and was Viva el Rey
Cat.
At Supper he and his Lady would bear me
and my Wife Company, which I accepting as a
great favour, told him my Wife fhould eat with
her Ladyship,retired from the Men after the Spa-
nish faſhion, it being more than fufficient, they
would not think ftrange, we ufed the Innocent
freedom of our own when we were among
our felves. But by no means That he would
not fuffer; and to keep us the more in Counte-
rance, alledged this manner of eating to be
now the cuſtom of many of the greateſt Fami-
lies of Spain, and had been from all antiquity
to this day of the Majeftical Houfe of Alva, the
generofity whereof, particularly in the Perfon
of the prefent Duke, he took this occafion to
Celebrate very highly. So, in fine, he had his
will of me in this particular.
As the Duke of Alburquerque (newly Created
Generaliffimo of the Ocean, and very fhortly go-
ing to injoy that high Puesto at his eaſe in the
Court, where he is likewife Gentilhombre de la
Camera, had done to me before, fo yesterday his
Durchefs and their Daughter (married to his
own Brother, to keep up the Name, for want
of iffue Male) both vaftly Rich in Jewels, as
lately returned from the Vice-Royſhip of Mexi-
co, fo full as to refufe that of Peru in confe-
quence of the other, began an obliging vifit of
many hours to my Wife, both the above Nam-
ed Dukes and Dutchefs, whether by Letter and
Meffage (as the D. of Medina) or in Perfon, as
the other treating us both to a full equality in
all respects.
D
I had
( 34 )
I had forgot to ſpecify (as I may have done
feveral other remarkable points of refpect to
his Majefties Ambaffador) how one part of
this King's laft orders was, that for more ho-
nour and fecurity a Guard of Soldiers, with a
Captain of it ſhould be Night and Day in my
Houfe; which is practifed where I now am,
and (as I undertood it) is to be in like manner,
in all Towns of Note, a Perfon of Quality by
the fame Royal command, Conducting me
from one to another.
All this Ceremony I hope is not inſtead of
fubftance (for then it would prove very tedi-
ous, and irkſome to me indeed) but an ear-
neſt and Prognoſtick of it, which time will try
when I come to treat: Whereunto, in both
thofe regards, our Gratious Mafter (to whom,
I do beseech your Honour, together with this
Account for the prefent, my most humble du-
ty and allegiance) may affure himſelf, I will
make all the convenient hafte I may.
Your
moft Faithful and ever
most obedient bumble Servant,
Rich. Fanfhaw.
Mr. Secreta. Bennet.
Sevil.
( 35 )
S23 March,
1663.
Sevil.
51664.
2 2 April,
My very fingular Good Lord,
BY
Y two large diſpatches of the Date hereof to
Mr. Secretary Bennet, the one relating the
Greatnefs and Ceremonies of my Reception
and Treatment in this and all other Places, by
order, and upon Account of his Catholick
Majefty; the other unto fomething of Bufinefs;
I have left my felf nothing wherewith to give
your Lordship a particular trouble at this time,
but the herewith inclofed Italian Print: Not
knowing as yet, till farther inquiry at Madrid,
whether I may impute it to the pretended Au-
thor, or fome Incognito under that Cover, mak-
ing a great difference as to the cause of refent-
ment on behalf of our Royal Maſter, in refe-
rence to a ſcandalous and very untrue allegati-
on towards the end thereof. For my own part,
my Stomack ſo much roſe at it, that, taking to
ine a Spanish Cloak; I could not forbear to glofs
upon it in fuch hafty manner as will there ap-
pear, though without purpoſe of Communi-
cating it (otherwife than, under Correction,
to your Lordship) not only hiding the Hand,
but not throwing the ftone.
By any thing I can learn, or obferve, in the
Country as I pafs along; I do not find there is
like to be this Campaign, a Royal Army (a fly-
ing one there will certainly) againſt Portugal:
So that, if Portugal can get one together in due
La. Chan.
D 2
time,
( 36 )
time, I do humbly conceive it would tend ve-
ry much to a Peace, or Truce.
SIR,
23 March,71663.
Sevil.
2 April, 1664.
I 3
Urfuing my Journal from the Date of
Fab. 29. 1663.
my laſt to yours from Cadiz, March 10. 1664.
you may be pleaſed to underftand that March
2. the Old Governour D. Ant. Pimentel re-
turned thither, furprizing me with a Vifit in
my Houſe, before he would enter into his own,
or I had any Notice of his Landing,the cauſe of
his fufpenfion having been only that which I
then fignified, and as Powerfully removed at
Court by a Letter from the Duke de Medina Ce-
li, to his Catholick Majefty in his defence, as it
feemed to have been laid on with a very good
will by the Duke of Alburquerque, the Letter I
have ſeen wanting neither Rhetorick, Logick,
nor Affurance.
I
,. Of the fame, the faid Don Antonio trea-
ted me and all my Company with Splendor and
Magnificence, borrowing us for that Dinner
from the King's Entertainment.
The. Himſelf in Perfon accompanyed
me to St. Mary Port, my firft ftep towards Madrid,
and had been my firft Landing place, as neareſt
and of moft Convenience, if it had not been
fignified to me by meffage that I must not wave
Cadiz, where all things were orderly prepared
Mr. Secr, Bennet.
for
( 37 )
for my Reception, from whence alfo I preft to
have removed fooner, but that the Duke of
Medina intimated his defire of the contrary, as
not till then fo well prepared for my Enter-
tainment, as his Excellency intended to be, and
in particular, becauſe a Rich Gundela built pur-
pofely (faid they) for the Wafting over of Prin-
ces, had fome days work to do about it, before
it could be fitted for my Tranſportation.
Arrived therein at Port, the Duke with all
his Family and Vaflals (that City being his Pa-
trimony) met me at the Landing Place, whence,
with Coaches and Vollues of fhot, by many
Troops, not upon the King's Pay but his own,
(for fo his Excellency then told me) he Con-
ducted me to a very fair Houſe prepared by his
Care, and Furniſhed with the Richeft of what
he had for his own Palace: Moreover under his
Excellencies proper infpection againſt my com-
ing from Cadiz, whence having been there re-
vifited at parting by the Duke of Alburquerque,
and all other who had Vifited me at my Arrival,
I was difmiffed with great and fmall fhot from
the Town, and in like manner faluted in my
Pallage by the Spanish Armada, and all other
Ships in the Bay, as well Spanish as ftrangers,
(Van Trump Riding there at the fame time with
his Squadron). The reft of my Entertainment
at Port, was proportionable to the beginning,
and there alfo the Duke of Medina, gave me
one Treat at his own Pallace. The Civilities to
me of the Marques of Bayona, Gent. of the Gal-
leys of Spain (the conftant Station thereof is
there) and of his Lady to my Wife (Inheri-
trix of the Marquefet of St. Cruz, and fo of a
Grandeeſhip, Noted likewife for Eminent Ver-
tue and Education at Court) came nothing be-
hind,
D 3
(
38 )
hind, but theſe two great Men cannot fet their
Horfes together.
On Munday, March 14. Accompanyed out of
the City of Port, by the Duke of Medina, Don
Antonio de Pimentel (who had never left me till
then) being one, and the Marques of Bayona,
with his Lady, Planting his Coach upon the
Wayſide, beyond the Place where the Duke
took leave I came that Night to Xerez de la
Frontera, met and wellcomed before our ap-
proaching to the City, by the Magiftrates
thereof and Principal Gentlemen (that is all)
with many Troops of Soldiers, and fhoals of
common People. The next day, treated in the
Interim, and then difmift, as before at the
other two places, I Arrived and Lodged at Le-
briia.
The next at Utrera, met about a League ſhort,
by order of the Conde de Molina (Affiftente de
Sevilla) with a Troop of Horſe, and by Don Lope
de Mendoco Alguazil, Mayor of the City, as T-
niente del Duque de Alcala, Proprietor by Inhe-
ritance of that Office) the faid Den Lope, being
by the fame order to Conduct me as far as Cr
doba.
The next Day 18. of March, Accompanyed
with the fame Troop, and Conductor, we fet
forth for Sevilla; but this fmall ftream foon
Joit it felf, when, about the diftance before
Named, it fell into a Torrent of People of all
forts and degrees, both Military, and Civil,
which, together with the Conde Affiftente, rufht
out to receive and conduct me to the King's
Palace, or Alcacera, which accordingly was
done: Churches, Streets, Inhabitants, River
Paftos, (much Noted at all times) fetting now
upon this occaſion the beft fide outward, to ex-
1
prefs
¿
(39)
preſs a Pride in their joy, of a hoped perfect
Correſpondence with England.
Here at my Arrival, I found Lying for me in
the hand of a Servant of the Duke of Medina
de las Torres, a Letter from his Excellency, of
high wellcome to Spain, and no lefs refpect.
Here, fince my Arrival (befides a perpetual
Court of Company and Entertainments of the
beſt above ſtairs, and Ranks of Soldiers, with
Multitudes of others below upon my Account,
in this Famous Palace of the King, where I am
Lodging in his Majefties own Bed-Chamber, as
Royally furnish'd, as when himſelf was in it.
Vifits I have received in form from their Excel-
lency the City, by their Reprefentatives, from
their Senoria the Audiencia, by their Regente,
from their Senoria, the Contratation Houfe, by
their Prefidente, and from his Illuftriffima, the
Arch-Biſhop, (being at prefent fick) by meſſage;
All which, I have repay'd refpectively, and to
morrow (God willing) fet forth towards Cor-
doua, perceiving before hand that my Salida
will be Proportionable to my Entrada. The
Conclufion I make of the whole, is, thus fhall
it be done to the Man whom the King our Maſter is
pleaſed to Honour, and the King of Spain for his
Majesties fake; as far as outward Ceremony can
teſtify it: Well, hoping that neither his Majefty,
nor any other at home, will apprehend I take
ought of this as done to my Perfon, or for any
thing of intrinfick Value ſuppoſed to be in me;
but meerly as I bear my Maſter's image and Su-
perfcription; His Majeftie's Prerogative fhining
the more therein, by how much the Mettal on
which he is ſtampt håth leſs of Value in it ſelf.
Not a Compliment, (which will be always a fawcy
thing, as well as impertinent, with a Man's Prince)
1
D 4
but
( 40 )
but a fober and natural inference; at leaſt ſo un-
derſtood by fuch as could wish it were otherwife.
23 March, 1663.
Sevil
2 April,
1664.
}
SIR,
HAV
Aving in a former, of the fame Date with
this, given you a Relation of the Cere-
nionial part of my Journey from Cadiz, hither-
to there being little account of Bufinefs to be
expected from me, till my arrival at Madrid, I
fhall add here apart fomething of this latter na-
ture, and is, that whilft I was at St. Marie Port,
in fome conference I had with the Duke de
Medina Celi, moving his Excellency for the Li-
berty of fome English imprifon'd there, for ha-
ving bought and endeavour'd to carry off a
quantity of Chalk, from the Coaſt of Spain, for
the ufe of Tangier, by order of the Earl of Te-
viot, before his Lordship went thence for Eng-
land; the Duke told me plainly,this was a thing
out of his power; for that his Catholick Ma-
jefty doth not in his Politick Capacity, whatever
he knows as a Man, look upon that Place other-
wife than in the hands of the Pingues to this
day,in as much as there was never any Confent
had from his Catholick Majefty for the Aliena-
tion thereof; in which regard the first fevere
Orders, upon the Revolt of that Kingdom, are
yet in force, and in Vertue thereof thefe Men
to be hang'd; but that he would, which was
all he could do, defer Execution, until he ſhould
Mr. Secr. Bennet.
have
( 41 )
7
have acquainted me farther. I thank'd his Ex-
cellency for his clearness; replying, That the
King, my Maſter, as a Man, understood fome
Paffages in reference to Tangier likewiſe, where-
of he had not hitherto taken notice, as a King;
becauſe he had as yet received no damage by
them: it was at my Tongue's end to have ad-
ded, That in caſe thoſe poor Men ſhould indeed
be Hanged for Portuguezes, the reputed Portu-
guezes in Tangier, might happen to fit cloſer up-
on the skirts of Andaluzia, than the true ones
in Portugal, but I thought it fitter to forbear,
unleſs I ſhall receive particular Directions from
our Royal Maſter to that effect. When his
Majefty fhail have taken a full Refolution up-
on the whole matter, the which in one kind or
other to be not only done, but fhortly declared,
appears almoſt neceflary; for altho the Practi-
ces between this Crown and Guylan might have
been formerly diffembled, whilft it was not
known that his Majefty there knew of them,
and whilſt the late attempt of Guylan did not far-
ther expound them; and even fince likewiſe,
in reſpect that attempt hath proved ineffectual,
might have been farther wink'd at; yet, now
that the Duke, who is Captain General of theſe
Coafts, doth in plain terms avow unto his Ma-
jefties Ambaſſador, a right of uſing the English
of Tangier, not only as Enemies, but Rebels,
It feems utterly impoble in the future, for
that it may be alledg'd, his Majefty of Great
Britain was told in the Perfon of his Ambaſſa-
dor, what in this particular he might expect.
As to thoſe Correſpondencies with Guylan,
the Copies thereof have been communicated to
me by the party unto whom you Addreſſed me,
for information in that particular, at my Land-
ing,
( 42 )
ing, the which he telling me your felf had the
like of long fince, I have referv'd for my own
ufe, as occafion may be offered hereafter, only
repeating out of them at this time the enfuing
Clauſe, viz. A Fustandofe & darle fatisfacion
para que me entregue esta placa, ( his Catholick
Majefty fpeaks of Gaylan and Tangier) y Reci-
mendofe de fumanno y fiendo de me Corona, no abria
ocafion de deceri que fe contrabiene a las Pares
con Ingalatierra, vintegrandofe por effe Camino;
wherein that circumftance of Tangiers being
receivable in the King of Spain's own Judg
ment, from the hand of another, without in-
jury to the Peace with him, who is in prefent
Poffeffion thereof, feems aplicable to our Cafe,
a majori, inasmuch as the Crown of England
never inftigated or affifted the Portugueses, from
whofe hands his Majefty received the fame,
upon a valuable Confideration to fever it from
it from that of Spain, as they had done for the
fpace of fo many Years, and a defcent caft be-
fore it came into his Majefties.
Upon this occafion,with another arifing from
fome gauling Damages lately done to the Spa-
niards in the West-Indies, and intimated in the
herewith inclofed Paper (mark'd A.) it may
not be unworthy his Majefties particular Con-
fideration, whether any Friendship between the
two Crowns can be frm and lafting, unleſs
both Tangier and the Indies fhall be fpecially
comprehended therein, at leaſt for fome com-
peront number of Years, in which term they,
on the one fide, may hope to fettle, and im-
prove the Affairs of their Monarchy; and we,
on the other, ofour refpective Plantations and
Navigations; where, by the way, I muſt beg
leave hereby to prepare his Majefty, not over
much
( 43 )
much to expect a free Trade with the Weft-
Indies, whether General or Limitted, to be the
Iflue of fuch Treaty, or recompence of fuch
Offices of Favour and Friendſhip, as his Majefty
may think fit to do the Spaniard, collecting
here, as I go along theſe Parts, the fence of
many of the moſt experienced and beſt Affect-
ed, even of our own Country; all tending to
this that the throwing open of thofe Fences
were indeed as little to be wifh'd by us, as ho-
ped from the Spaniard. Upon the other fide,
I do apprehend we are much more able (be-
ing provok'd thereunto) to do them Mifchiefs,
both in the Indies and from Afric, than they
us, eſpecially if we ſhould give our felves the
unchriftian Liberty, of opening a Gate to the
Moors, which God forbid ſhould be given way
unto, by whatſoever Example; and therefore I
do humbly conceive, in one kind or other,
boot ſhould be given by the Spaniard in thefe
cafes, in order to which end, and finally if
fuch his Majefties Pleaſure ſhould be, I will prefs
the free Trade, as my Inſtructions direct. What
in particular the Equivalence fhould be, (in
cafe of quitting that demand at laft) I go ham-
mering out by all the lights and means I can
attain unto; which I fhall remit into England as
faſt and as often as they fhall be digeſted into
any ſhape, that may feem worthy of his Maje-
ties Confideration.
The other three herewith inclofed Papers
(mark'd B. C. D.) contain the laft News I have
receiv'd from Tangier, and may have arrived in
England with more particulars, before theſe
come to hand; whereby to demonftrate the
ill Effects in intentions of that Subornation and
Aſſiſtance,
(44)
Aſſiſtance, I have mention'd of Gaylan; with-
al, how little we need fear (I hope) that Com-
bination hereafter, tho always to watch it care-
fully.
If I had not been already too tedious, yet
would I not mingle with thefe points (which
I take to be of a piece, at leaſt relative, and
proper to give the hand to each other) any
other matter; but reft
SIR, Your, &c.
R. F.
MY
Cordoua {29. March, 1664-
7. April,
Y laft Journal (fuch I call all Letters of
mine, as relate only to my motions to-
wards Madrid, with fomething of the fplendid
and ceremonious Entertainment of his Maje-
fties Ambaffador, from place to place, more or
lefs, as the places themfelves are more or lefs
Eminent and Plentiful) was dated at Sevil,
23 Martii, 1663.
and Figured I
2 Aprilis, 1664.
The next day, according to the Account I
then made, I departed from Sevil, accompa-
nied out of the City about a Mile, by the Conde
Affiftente, and divers others of the Nobility and
Gentry of that place, and was guarded by Foot
Soldiers quite through the City, with Colours
diſplayed, and abafed, as I paffed by, and Muf-
quets difcharged, a Company of Foot ha-
Mr. Secr. Bennet.
ving
( )
45)
45 ving been upon my Guard all the while I ftay'd
there, as in all other places of Note.
That Night I came to Carmona, a City for-
merly confiderable for the lofty Scituation,
ſtrong and pleaſant Palace there, of the Kings
of Caftile, and were the laft which held out for
Don Pedro the Cruel; both the one and the o-
ther now Ruinous enough; about half a League
fhort thereof, I was met by the Magiſtrates and
Gentry of the place, and by them conducted to
my Lodging, having placed a Company of Foot
at the entrance into the Town, who diſcharg-
ed their Mufquets, &c.
From Carmona, the next day to Fuentes, a ve-
ry pleaſant and healthful fmall Town, from
whence the Marquefs (Uncle to the now Duke
Medina Sidonia) had his Title.
From Fuentes, the next day to Ecica, which,
in refpect of the great Hears thereof at fome
times,is called the Frying-pan of Andaluzia,yet we,
upon the 5th of April, their Stile, found it cold
enough. I was there very civilly and fplendid-
ly Lodged and Entertained for two days; be-
ing indeed an extraordinary place. Our Com-
pany and Cattle harraft, and foreſeeing we
muft make a hault at Cordoua till the Holy
Week, now begun, were paſt, and therefore
to no purpoſe to hurry thither.
From Ecica,
28. March, I arrived at Cordoua,
7. April,
where now I am; where alfo my Reception
without this moft antient and famous City,
by the Correjidor and Gentry thereof (the Flower
of all Spain, for Extraction and Civility) was,
and our Lodging and Treatment of all forts
within, is, and is like to be, do what we can,
and the Lent Seaſon too, to avoid and qualifie
it,
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it, fuch as will require a Letter apart, and more
Lines therein to Abbreviate it only, than the
Feafting and Paftimes themfelves will probably
allow me leifure for, whilft I am here; and
therefore I muft refer that to another occa-
fion, concluding.
A
POSTSCRIPT.
S far as I can inform my felf,upon the place,
Don Antonio Pimentel, was never abfolutely
turn'd out of the Government, upon any rea-
fon of State, but only fufpended thereof, at the
profecution of the Duke of Alberquerque, who
being his Enemy, over-power'd him with his
Greatnefs, &c. that now the faid Don Antonio
fhall return to it; which I do the rather be-
lieve, becauſe the Duke of Medina Celi ſent me
a Complement yeſterday, that he had already
order'd his ſpeedy return hither from Sevilla,
where he is at prefent, on purpoſe to manage
my Treatment here, as a Perfon more capable
thereof than Don Diego Dezbarra; but as on the
one fide there is no want of any thing on the
part of Don Diego,fo on the other I fhould be very
forry the tempeftuous Weather ſhould ſtay me
fo long in the City, till Don Antonio fhould ar-
rive. That his Wife went Shipp'd for Flanders
(being that Country Woman) was very true:
but the ground Oeconomical, not Political, and
againſt her will, alfo without any fault of hers,
as is generally believed.
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47 Whitehall, March 13. 166
My Lord,
THE
HE laft News I heard of your Excellency,
from your own hand, was in your Letter
from Torbay, from whence I hope you had a
profperous Voyage; which the fairneſs of the
Weather in that Seafon, doth in a good meaſure
affure us of, tho yet we hear nothing certainly
of the Fleet or your Landing.
Notwithſtanding, the Bearer, Mr. Lidcott, be-
ing employ'd into Spain upon the Sale of fome
Negroesto Don Domingo Grillio, and defiring my
Letters to your Excellency, for countenance and
protection there, I have willingly embrac'd the
occafion not only for his fake, but believing it
now time for me to begin my Regular Corre-
ſpondence with you, which I promiſe you fhall
be continu'd moft punctually, as I affure myſelf
it will be correfponded with on your part.
Since your departure, Don Patricio Omoledei
appears but feldom amongst us, which he excu-
feth upon his frequent Indifpofition, but I think
is rather occafion'd from his want of Commif-
fion to fay any thing to us. All he hath produ
ced is, Letters from the Duke of St. Lucar, and
Don Domingo his Servant, diſowning any inten-
tion in Spain to moleft us in Tangier, as you were
acquainted before your departure: But in that point,
as they have liberty to fay what they pleaſe, fɑ
we have to believe. The laft News we have
from thence, is a new Difpute, notwithſtand-
ing the Continuation of the Peace betwixt my
Ld. Amb. Fanshaw.
Lord
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Lord of Teviot and Gaylan, upon his Lordship's
attempt to raiſe fome newWorks for the ftrength
of his Place; which the great Prefents fent to
Gaylan from Spain, confirms our fufpicion of
their fomenting the Quarrel from that fide.
Since the Pope's Agreement with France, we
hear of no Deſign of theirs, but fome Maritime
one, given out to be intended upon the Coats
of Africa, befides this part of their new rais'd
Troops they Disband, and with the other part
of them they Reinforce their intended Succour
for Germany, which, fome fay, the Prince of
Conde fhall Command, others Monfieur de Turenne;
others Monseigneur de Coligny, and from the Em-
perour there is alfo come an Envoy into Hol-
land, demanding Succours againſt the Turk; the
like we are told will be quickly here with us,
to the fame purpoſe.
Since your Excellency's departure from hence,
all things have kept the fame Face you left them
under, which now we muft look will receive
fome variation; for Yefterday was the appoint-
ed day for the Re-Affembling the Parliament,
but their numbers being thin, it only ferved
to Adjourn them till Monday next,againſt which
time we are prepared from all hands to expect
my Lord of Briftcl will give us what trouble he
can, by fheltring himfelf from the King's Ar-
reft (which hath been feeking for him, and his
preparations to purfue his Charge againſt my
Lord Chancellor.) This you may fuppofe fills
the Town with Talk, and it is likely will do no
lefs in the Houſes; but we hope that will be the
worſt of it, tho the likeness it hath with the be-
ginning of the long unhappy Parliament, occa-
fions many melancholly Conjectures, in all that
are ſo compofed.
This
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This day we have Letters from my Lord Hol
les, wherein he gives account of his good Fe-
ception and Treatment at St. Germans, and af-
terwards Public Audience; no Princes of the Blood
were there preſent, to ftrive for the precedence.
with him. His first Speech deliver'd in English,
and pretended to be taken from his Mouth by a
writer of his own, who after read it into French
to the King; which Formality being over, he
Continued his Difcourfe in French. This is the
fubitance of his Letter, and was much to the
King our Maſter's fatisfaction. The next thing
he goes upon, will be the taking up that treaty
of Alliance which was begun by Menfeig-
neur de Cominge, and hitherto not profe-
cuted.
The next thing I have to tell your Excellency is,that
we hear yet no News of the Portugal Ambaffadors
Return, otherwife than we did at first, that he will
be here in a few days: In the mean time 'tis
certain, the purpoſes that carried him from
hence have met with great Difficulties and Con-
tradictions. Don Francifco Ferreira Rebelle is
newly arrived here from Portugal, and just be-
fore his coming, the Bishop and Don Francifco
de Mello were with me, to get his Majefty's
leave to beat the Drums for a Levy of ood
Men, which his Majefty hath granted them,
tho I fuppofe it will afford them little fruit, fo
decry'd is that Service, and yet I look to hear
you are reproach'd with it at Madrid, which
will be very hard meaſure towards us contider-
ing what they have done, and under how little
fecurity we are, that they will do better here-
after.
One thing was omitted in your Inftructions,
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viz. the recommending to you the owning in
his Majefties Name all the Prince of Orange's
Concernments in that Court, and avowing the
fame not only to his Agent there, but alſo to
the King and the Minifters, if there be need of
it. But if the Agent fhal! infift much upon your
good Offices, perhaps it may be requifite, that
you have an exprefs Credential for it; which
upon your fending for, fhall be preſently fur-
nished you from hence.
Since your departure, I am credibly inform-
ed from Madrid, that Don Chriftoval de Angelati.
is gotten into better Credit with the Duke, and
it is inferr'd from it, that much of your buſi-
nefs will pass through his hands, and if this
be true, perhaps it augments Don Patricio's Me-
lancholly here, with whom the competency is
yet as warm as ever. But this you will know
better than I can tell you
I hope I have done well for the firſt time, if
I can furnish you every week with a Letter of
this length, you will have cauſe to ſay, I am a
good Correfpondent; which Title I will en-
deavour to deferve of you, but much more
that of being, with much Truth and Affe-
Єtion',
My Lord,
Your Excellencies moft Faithful,
and most humble Servant,
Henry Bennet.
My moſt humble Service to my Lady.
Paris
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Paris.
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5 April, 24.
226
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26 March, 3.
I
SIR,
Have only time by this Gentleman, Mr. Lid-
cott's hafty Paffage to falute you with one
line, which fhall prefent you with my humble
ſervice, and affure you of my readineſs to lay
hold on every occaſion, to teſtify my refpect to
you, and the defire I have to keep a Correfpon-
dence with you for our Mafter's Service, and my
particular fatisfaction.. I have at last had a very
fair Audience, and loft nothing of the Antient
Priviledges of the King of England's Ambaffa-
dor; this King being at St. Germains, did the
twentieth of March, ſend a Marefchal of France
with his own Coach, the two Queens, Monfieurs
and Madames,to fetch me from myHoufe in this
Town, treated me that Night, and the next day
Dinner, that morning I was fetch'd to my Au-
dience of the Kings and two Queens by a Prince,
the Count of Armagnac, Conte Harcourt's Son, and
in the afternoon Freturn'd to Paris; I have fince,
had an other Audience in this Town, and am
now going on in the ordinary track of buſineſs;
of the Princes of the blood I heard nothing, fo
was not at all troubled with the difpute of their
pretended right of Precedency: This Sir, is all F
have now time to fay to you, but to beseech you
Ld. Amb. Fanshaw.
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to believe that I am with all true affectionate re-
fpect.
Feb. 26. 1664. S. N.
My Lord Ambaſſador
Fanshaw, Landed at Cadiz.
March 21. My Lord
SIR,
Your most humble Servant,
Holles,had his firſt Audi-
ence in the Court of
France.
Holles.
Whitehall, March 23. 1664.
My Lord,
HIS acknowledgeth your Excellen
THI
cies of
Feb. 22.
which hath nothing
March 4.
for me to reply to, neither can I add any thing
to my laft of this day fennight, fave that Sir
Charles Cotterell's return from Flanders, infinite-
ly fatisfied with the good ufage he found there;
alſo that this day his Royal Highneſs left us to
go to Sea, God fend him a good Voyage and
Happy return.
We are expecting next Week the arrivals of
the Conde of Molina, as alſo the French Extraor-
dinary Ambaſſadors, who they fay come to
make us friends with the Dutch; which I af-
fure you, are all the Advances or Preparatories
to a Treaty, and I wonder Sir George Downing
ſhould write to you, that there is any other
ground for it. I have no more to add, but my
conftant profeffion of being with all truth,
My Lord,
Ld. Fanshaw?
Your Excellencies, &C.
Arlington.
My
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I
My Lord,
Had Congratulated your Excellencies ſafe
Arrival to Spain long ago, if opportunity
had prefented, which is fo rare here that this
place looketh like an oftreaciſm for me, we
have only one ſmall Frigat and fhe conftantly
abroad.
I have reafon to hope for better fuccefs to
your Excellencies Ambaffy, than what my Lord
Hollies had in his (as is reported). Tho I confeſs
our Neighbours of Gybraltar and Tariffa hath
dealt hardly with us, of which I addrefs my
Complaints to your Excellency, both refuſing
us Traffick and commerce; and a Malaga fisher
Boat feizing on a Boat of this Garrifon, in
which were fome Jews belonging to this Town
whom they robb'd of Cloaths, Moneys, and
what other Commodities they had. Tho in
form, I fhould advertiſe the Governour of Gy-
braltar hereof firft: yet becauſe I hear he is
very fevere to all ftrangers, I have forborn to
follicit him therein.
We have had fo croſs weather, that our Mole
hath been a little retarded, tho our Men are con-
ſtantly working on all feafons. I am making a
good horn work, fome fix hundred yards, ad-
vanced before the Caftle in a moft advantage-
ous ground, which will fecure us a great deal
of Land. I hope to compleat it within a
Month. Becauſe your Excellency may not have
yet received the occurrences in this place lince
my return, fuffer me to give your Excellency
Ld. Amb. Fanshaw.
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the trouble in this Paper apart. I am informed,
that Gayland fent an exprefs to the Duke of
Medina Celi, to procure Canon and Fire-works
againſt this Town. I beg your Excellencies In-
ftructions and Advice how we fhall Act here,
and I render moſt humble thanks for your Ex-
cellencies moſt generous obliging profers to my
Wife, who will pass by Marseilles, and Embark
there. She kifles moft humbly your Excellencies
hand,
My Lord, &c.
Tangier 21.
Marsh 1664..
Teviot.
A
T my Arrival here the 14th. of January,
I found Colonel Fitz, Gerard Deputy Go-
yernour, had prolonged the fix Months Truce,
which I had made with Gayland, for two
Months longer; Notwithſtanding that I Ar-
rived here ten days before the Expiration of
the faid fix Months...
My Inftructions now at my return beareth,
that I fhall by any means fatisfy the Town, and
rather break whth Gayland than be impeded,
wherefore I adviſed his-Excellency, that I had
theſe commands from the King my Maſter,
that if he would permit meio to do, I was rea-
dy to continue the two Months Prolongation,
ife I behoved to break the Truce, made with
Colonel Fitz Gerard, which of himſelf he could
not make,having no order from his Majefty on
the contrary, I having exprefs order, either to
fortine or break.
He
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He Anſwered me, that it was againſt their
Laws to fufer anyChristian to fortifie in Barba-
ry, yet would confult his Savios and Grandes,for
which he took a fortnight, at the end whereof
War was declared; and I would have it to be
without giving Quarter. Immediately after,
I undertook this Horn-work and in fix Days
time, made it a little in defence againſt the
Moors Attacks. Then came Gayland with his
Army, and lay fome fix Days before us, during
which time he dreſſed ſeveral imbuscades, killed
us, two or three Troopers, and then after two
Days, one after another affaulted our Lines (but
at a diſtance) diſtant from the Caftie 600 yards,
both the faid Days, his Standard bearer came up
and Planted his Colours cloſe by our Lines. We
took ſo well our Meaſures, that my Troop of
Horſe Sallied out of our Lines and took the faid
Colours, and he and his whole Army looking
on amazed at this fudden Gallantry, did fee his
own Standard Planted on the head of our new
redoubts, we killed his Standard Bearer with
five others, feveral others were killed that day.
The General of his Algarbes Horfe was killed
alfo. Next day after he left his Camp, and we
have had no Encounter fince, fave of one Am-
bufcade, where one of our Horſe-men was kil-
led and two hurt, and about (as they report
themſelves) twenty of theirs killed and hurt.
Our Fortification now is in a pretty condition,
and I hope by its means to make a better Peace
than heretofore.
I fent home Gayland's own Colours with Cap-
tain Price, the firft hath been taken from the
Moors of a long time. Gayland is faid to be fick
of diſpleaſure, for the lofs of the General of
his Algarbes Horfe and his Standard, and that
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the home is gathering to give us a fecond
allault.
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Whitehall, April 7. 1664.
My Lord,
T was not a little trouble to us to hear from
all hands, but your Excellencies own, of
your happy Arrival at Cadix, and magnificent
reception there. Now we have it confirmed
by your felf, in your Letters of Feb. 24th. from
aboard the Fleet, and of the 29th, from Cadix,
which containing nothing but a Narrative of
your good ufage, it requires no Anfwer; It is
fufficient that we Pay them by efteeming it as
we ought to do, and railing a happy Augury
from it to your Negotiation, towards which it
will be fit your Excellency know that his Ma-
jelty hath receiv'd an Anſwer to his Letter,
wherein he gave the King of Portugal an Ac-
count of his fending you into Spain, and the
Latisfaction he expreffes in it, to your Perfon
exprelly, and to your bufinefs as well, tho more
Covertly; which is all could be expected in an
Occafion, whereof the event is uncertain.
This I hope, will find your Excellencies fafe
Arrival at Madrid, whither we have nothing to
fend you yet, more than what you carried with
you, except it be our home News; Yeſterday
the Parliament was adjourned till Munday after
the Holydays, at which time it will meet again,
tho' not for a long Seffion,
When you left us, the World was in fome
apprehenfion, of much unquietnefs at the meet-
Ed. Amb. Fanihan.
ing
14
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1
ing again of this Parliament, from the Threat-
nings of My Lord of Briftel againſt My Lord
Chancellour, and the diflatisfaction of our own
Party, as well as the private Machinations of the
contrary ones, but God be thanked all is
quiet.
The Houſe of Lords would not ſo much as
open My Lord of Briffol's Papers, or any of
them preſent his Petition; and the Houfe of
Commons as a mark of their duty and refpect
to the King, betook themſelves prefently to the
repeal of the Triennial Bill, made in the begin-
ning of the long and happy Parliament, and
have offered instead of it, another fhort one,
for the fecurity of thofe ends, but by more du-
tiful means to the Crown,and Quiet of the Peo-
ple, which I'll tell you is a good mark of the
Commons temper (and the truth is)I never faw
it fo good in any degree fince their first meet-
ing.
When I have told your Excellencv this News,
you will not look I ſhould have any better for
you at home; abroad. My Lord Holles bath had
bis Audience to his fatisfaction, and is entring upon
the Treaty of Alyance with that Crown, which is
not like to take much time; In other Parts, all
up
things are as you left them, excepting that My
Lord of Carlfe hath alfo had his Audience.
From the Emperour, His Maj. fty hath received
an Envoy of the Houfe of Nallau, I do not
write his Name for fear of being miſtaken in
it. His Errand is demanding of fucccur against
the Turk, and making excufe for the Omiffions in
that Court of Ceremonies towards His Majefty fince
his happy Reftauration, I have not yet feen him,
fo I cannot yet give you a further Account of
him.
One
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I
One thing I muft add to this, the recom-
mending to you in His Majefties Name with
more than an ordinary Character, the concern-
ing your felf in a very exprefs manner for all
things that belong to Don Loroniati, a Gentle-
man of Bruges, who was more civil and ufeful
to the King during his abode in Flanders, then
all the Spaniards befide, and for it hath received
fince (as I am told), many mortifications from
the Marquis de Caracena, even to the diſordering
extreamly his Fortune, I do not particularize
his Perſon, or merit any otherways to you, be-
caufe I fuppofe you are acquainted with
both.
27
My laft of March 14. went by an exprefs
with one Mr. Lidcott, and fince My Lord Chen-
cellour tells me he hath written to you, tho
by an uncertain way, which he difpofed of
fo,becauſe there was in it a Letter to the Duke
de Medina de las Torres, which was not fit fhould
be feen in France; I hope it will come time.
enough to you and fafely, the want of it may
elfe raiſe a jealouſy upon your whole Negotia-
tion.
I have nothing more to add, but my being
with much Affection,
My Lord,
Your Excellencies
most humble Servant,
Henry Bennet.
April
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I
My Lord,
April 9th. 64.
Am commanded by his Royal Highness
to recommend to your favour this Gentle-
man Mr. Alexander Bence, who is employed by
his Royal Highneſs direction in behalf of the
Company of R. Adventurers Trading into Afri-
the occafions on which he is employed are
chiefly two; the one to follow the Companies
concerns, about a Licence to Import Negroes
into Spain, concerning which your Excellency
was made acquainted when you were in Eng-
land; The other is to negotiate with the Seigni-
ors Grilloe & Lomelin, concerning the delivering
Blacks in the Weft-Indies, and concerning which
they have a treaty depending in Holland, but be-
cauſe it may probably happen that the Perſon
treating in Holland, will referve much to Seign.
Grilloe, and Lomeline for their own determi-
nation, and that perhaps he (dwelling in Hol-
land) may not be fo equal to our Company, as
we hope Seign.Grilloe and Lomeline are.His Royal
Highnefs hath judged it beft to have a Perfon
at Madrid, who being fully inftructed in all the
concerns of the Company, may be ready on all
occafions to promote their Intereft; in all which
as it is more then probable, that your counte-
nance and favour may be very uſeful, fo the
faid Mr. Bence hath orders to addreſs himſelf to
you on all occafions, from whom we all affure
our felves of fupport; becauſe it is of moment
to the Trade of England, and beſides, becauſe
Ld. Amb. Fanshaw,
it
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it is a Trade which his Royal Highnefs hath
been pleaſed in a moft peculiar manner to fup-
port, both with his countenance and care, of
the latter whereof, his commands to me here-
in are an inſtance; If it were proper for me to
infert any thing of my own, in a Letter whol-
ly defigned to obey his Royal Highneffes
commands, it ſhould be to congratulate your
1afe arrival in Spain, and I hope, ev'n this at
Madrid, and to defire you to be perfuaded that
1 am,
My Lord,
Your Lordships most humble
and obedient Servant,
W. Coventry.
Ballecas, 1 League from Madrid, 7 May,
1664. Stylo loci.
My very fingular good Lord,
You
Our Lordship's time is not yet come, of
being troubled with any Letter from me,
either of length, or fecrecy; as being at pre-
fent only a Villager of Spain, or at belt, a Su-
burbian of Madrid. Whence the King being
abſent at Aranjuer, and no Houſe as yet pro-
vided there for me; I have not found it fit hi-
therto to make that ſmall ſtep, whereby to fix
upon the moſt certain way of Correfpondence
on my Part, or to Collect matter for the fame
there, a meeting which I have had with the
Ed. Chan. E. of Clarenden.
Duke
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Duke of Medina de las Torres at Valdemore (Mid-
way between this and Aranjuer) having fur-
nifh'd me with none of moment, for that he
held himſelf upon high Civilities and Gene-
ral expreffions, only on his Catholick Majefties
Part, and his, of clear intentions and proceed-
ings with the English Crown and Minifters,
contenting himſelf for that time with my affur-
ance, that the King his Mafer, and his Excel-
lency fhould find it reciprocal to the full, on
the Part of the King my Mafter and his Mini-
fters at home and here. So that I have nothing
to add at prefent, but the herewith inclofed Co-
py of his Catholick Majefties Letter to the Duke
of Medina Celi, in vertue whereof the King of
England's Ambaffador hath effectually been trea
ted from Cadiz to the Court, with fuch out-
ward magnificence, and appearance of inward
joy, as never Ambaffador of any Monarch was
before, or fhall be after, as the Letter it felf fays,
and altho' it ſhould fo fall out, that the impor-
tunity of others fhould extort the like for the
future (for I am told fuch words are already
Caft out by fome) that they may not feem to
come behind the King of England in this point;
yer, even in fuch cafe, behind his Majefty in
time they will be, and in this main circum-
ſtance likewiſe, that this was voluntary and un-
look'd for, whereas that will be but extorted
and expected, with which I humbly take leave
and remain,
I think it not needful to
duplicate unto your Lord-
ſhip any thing I have
written to Mr. Secretary
Bennet, but only this Copy
of his Catholick Majesties
Letter to the D. of M. Celi,
becauſe (for haft) I appre
hend this went mif-writ-
ten to Mr. Secre tary.
My Lord,
Your Lordship's
7
most faithful Servant,&c,
R. Fanfhaw.
SIR
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SIR,
H'S
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IS Majefty hath been pleaſed to fendt vo
Letters to the Duke of Medina Celi, on
behalf of this Bearer, Mr. Humphrey Holcombe
a Spanish Merchant, in compliance wherewith,
and with the reafon and equity of Mr. Hol-
comb's Cafe, that the Duke hath caufed his Ad-
verfary, Mr. John Wilmot, an English Merchant
in thoſe Parts, to be put in Prifon in order to
his fatisfying of Mr. Holcomb's just pretenfions.
The favour I am to defire of you is, that you
will be pleaſed to give all reaſonable counte-
nance and affiftance to Mr. Holcombe, or his
Agents in the Proſecution of his buſineſs, and
not to uſe your Power and Intereft in the
Court of Spain, or hearken to any application,
for procuring the liberty of Mr. Wilmot, but
upon terms of fatisfaction to Mr. Holcombe. I
dare promiſe my felf and my friend all juftice
from you, as you may all reſpect, &c. Friend-
fhip from,
:
White-Hall,
Jan. 15. 1663.
SIR,
Your most humble Servant,
Will. Morice.
Ld. Amb. Fanshaw.
Ballecas,
+
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Ballecas, 1 League from Madrid, 7. May,
1664. Stylo loci.
SIR,
M™
Y laft from Cordoua, 29 March, N. S. 7
April, carryed on the Journal of my
great Reception and Entertainment in my way
up to Madrid, to the day of the date thereof.
What was afterwards in the fame City, whilft
I remained there (which was until Tueſday in
Easter Week; becauſe thoſe Gentlemen would
needs make the King of England's Ambaffador
a Fiesta of Cannas upon the Monday, at the rate
of taking up their Horfes from Verde, on pur-
pofe for it, and fince in all other places propor-
tionably (particularly in Toledo, where there
was another Fiesta of Bulls given) was every
way rather exceeding than inferiour to any
thing that was elſewhere before, until my fafe
arrival in this very place; which I reckon my
Journeys end; and by earneft fuit to this Court
from Sevil, did obtain it, might be ſo eſteemed
by them; leaving me here to my own expence
and diſpoſal, altho I have as yet no Houſe pro-
vided for me in Madrid, notwithſtanding all di-
ligences towards it by the Apofent adores there,
upon the King's fpecial Command, and alfo
by fuch private Perfons as I my felf have em-
ploy'd, not to ſtick at any juſt rate for a good
one, upon my particular accompt, with ad-
vance of a years Rent in Plata Doble, and ſo to
be continu'd, as long as the Foufe fhould be
ufed by me, upon Merchant Security:
Mr. Secr. Bennet.
Such a
Dearth
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Dearth there is really of Accommodations of
this Nature, for the prefent, and for a long
time hath been; yet there want not defcants,
That there is fome great Miftery of State in the
mattter, which doubtless will fly as far as Paris, if
not reach London.
Yours of of March, I received immediately
at my Arrival in Toledo, to my very great com-
fort, That bis Majefty both in his Perfon and Af
fairs, was then fo well, and in fo good a condition,
by the beginning of the Parliament, which I un-
derſtand is fince improved.
The early and feaſonable Lights wherewith
you have been pleaſed to favour me therein, I
render you many humble Thanks; for having
little from hence at prefent to return you, in
requital thereof, altho by mutual confent, I have
had an Interview with the Duke de Medina de
las Torres at Valdemoro, dividing the way between
us, and deliver'd there unto his Excellency, his
Majeſties Letters, and alſo yours, neither of
which would he open upon the place, nor gave
occaſion for any thing to paſs there, but Čere-
monies, and general Profeilions of clear Inten-
tions and Proceedings on both fides, until he
ſhould have made his Report of that meeting to
the King his Maſter. [My meeting with this
Dake was upon Friday 22 April, Engl. ftile, I
going from Ballecas, and the Duke coming from A-
ranjuez; where their Majesties have been now a-
bout three Weeks, and expected to continue near a.
Fortnight longer. ]
At Toledo I received likewife Letters from my
Lord Teviot, particularly relating to the late Re-
pulfe he had given to Gayland, whereof I adver-
tifed you formerly, from the Account I then had
from
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from other hands, but withal his Lordship tells
me in his, That he expected a fresh Affault, more
fierce than before. And now fince my arrival
here, I underftand, Guylan hath been a Fort-
night before the Town, with whom my Lord
Teviot had daily Fights, and ftill the better of
him, without the lofs of any ground, or doubt
of keeping his own to the end.
I prefume it is no News to you, that we and
the Turks are broak,and that Sir John Lawfon lies
with his Ships before Algier. What fince hath
happen'd there I do not know, only he hath
fpar'd Capt. Utbert and another of his Maje-
ties Frigats, to Convoy unto or towards Eng-
land, 18 English Ships, with their Men; which
thoſe Pyrats deliver'd to Sir John before the War
was proclaimed.
Theſe were all at Malaga at a time when, if
they ſhould happen to take Tangier in their way
homeward, they might come very opportunely
to help to fright the Moors from thence, if not
difperfed before by the Garrifon alone.
Between the writing and closing hereof, I
have received a Letter from Sir John Lawſon.
from the Bay of Algiers, 9th of the laft, a Copy
whereof goes herewith inclofed; whereby it appears
that that Buſineſs proceeds well.
I have likewife received from Puerto de Santa
Maria, a fecond Advertiſement, of the 27th of
the fame, That the Moors had fought feveral times
with my Lord Teviot, but still were defeated; alfo,
That there is now a Prohibition in the Coafts (viz.
of Andaluzia and Afric) to Trade to Tangier.
•
Theſe things put together, feem fufficiently
to expound feveral former Advertiſements and
particularly that in mine to you from Sevil, 23
March, Engl. Stile, and figured 2. Which, to-
gether with another of the fame date, and figu-
F
red
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red 1, was fent by Thomas Walker, Servant to
Mr. Robert Swale, Merchant, in Tower-ſtreet,
London.
Our freſh Village-News here, is, That the
Portugueze are already acting in the Field, and
like to put the Spaniards for this Campaign upon
the Defenfive part, as gaining of them by the
hand, (the contrary whereof was wont con-
ftantly to be) and much fuperiour in number
of Foot, tho as much inferior in that of Horſe.
Certain it is, (if a difcreet Man from the Place
may
be believed) that in Lisbon did lately Land
1500 French,with large quantities out of France,
both of Corn and Money, with which Comte
Schonberg doth make due Payment to his Men.
I humbly take leave, and reſt
Your most, &c.
R. Fanfhaw.
Since
POSTS C R IP T.
Ince my arrival in this Village, and that my
preſent want of a Houſe in Madrid, is more
murmur'd at there than needs, confidering the
King is abfent, and moreover (tho I am much
ſtraitned in matter of Lodgings,yet) that I have
a very large and pleaſant Garden thereunto be-
longing, to expatiate and refreſh my ſelf, and
wearied Family in. I receiv'd a Meflage from
Baron Battevil to this effect, (befides general
Tenders of all manner of Service which is in
his power) That he is at prefent (as in truth
he is) Sick, or elfe would have waited upon
me himſelf in Perfon; but that he will with all
his heart quit his Houfe to me, (which I am
told
(67)
told is a very fine one, as he hath made it, with
chargeable Additions of his own, in the midſt
of the Calle de Alcala, with a fair Garden to it)
and that it is no Complement at all. This I
have thought reaſonable to Advertiſe into Eng-
land, tho not to accept.
The Copy of a Paper presented to the King's Placed
moft Excellent Majefty, by the Spanish here, be
Ambaffador the third of May, 1661.
Printed and Difperfed in London.
cauſe re-
ported to
be the
cauſe of
the Spaniards delaying the Entry of the Engliſh Ambaſſador at Ma-
drid, in return of the fame Delays to their Ambaſſador at Lon-
don; occafioned by the Contents of the Paper, tho there was no
appearance all along, but of the utmost Endeavours to fecure a Houſe
for him in Madrid.
SIR,
THE
HE 28th of March, the Spanish Ambaſſador
delivered unto your Majefty a Writing,
repreſenting the dangerous Confequence of the
Portugueze Marriage propofed to your Majefty;
as alfo the folid Advantages which your Majefty
might obtain from Spain, in this prefent Con-
juncture, with Peace, Tranquility, and Com-
merce, abandoning the Chimerical Propofitions
made by the Portuguese, who offers nothing but
doubtful Things, not having any lawful Pollef-
fion of them, and ſerve but to occafion a War
between England and Spain; he not being able
to affift your Majefty to maintain it, neither
can he ever of himſelf make any War againſt
England, tho your Majefty fhould abandon him
F 2
and
(68)
and embrace the Intereft of Spain, whereby you
ſhall receive an infallible Benefit, inftead of
thofe vain Offers made by the other, not ha-
ving reality in them. And in regard the Am-
baffador hath not yet received any Anſwer, not-
withſtanding your Majefty hath often affured
him he ſhould receive it, he finds himſelf obli-
ged to put your Majefty in Remembrance there-
of, and to Demonftrate to your Majefty, ac-
cording to the laft Order he hath received from
the King his Maſter, That over and above the
Offers which he hath already made, for the Prin-
ceſs of Denmark, and for the Princeſs of Saxcný,
or any other Princeſs that may feem pleafing to
your Majefty. He doth now propofe the Prin-
cefs of Orange, whom his Catholick Majefty
will adopt and endowre with the fame Advan-
tages which have been propofed with the Prin-
cefs of Denmark and Saxony, in cafe that ſhe may
be more pleafing to your Majefty, and with
thofe very fame Advantages and Conditions
which your Majefty defired with the Princeſs
of Parma, when your Majefty thought that Mar-
riage would be convenient for you; being he
believes that that with the Princefs of Orange
will be of great fatisfaction to your Majefty's
Kingdoms, for feveral Reafons of great Confi-
deration; and in particular for the nearness and
neighbourhood of that Princefs; efpecially all
your good Subjects defiring nothing more,than
to fee your Majefty fpeedily Married; and which
cannot be elſewhere but with many Delays,and
thofe expofing the Conclufion to many Chances
and Accidents, which may render it ineffectual.
Moreover, it is reprefented, that your Majeſty's
Marriage with the Portugueze, doth not ftand
with the Continuance of Peace and Commerce
between
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between Spain and England; the which is even
ſuppoſed in that Pamphlet written in favour of
Portugal; where the Author concluding a breach
with Spain, endeavours to perfuade, that the
Commerce with that Nation is no way profita-
ble to England; but his Reafons are as weak
and as falſe, as thoſe which are alledged in ano-
ther Pamphlet, fet out to authoriſe and make
good the Duke of Braganza's Ufurpation of the
Crown of Portugal; and as the Reaſons in the
later Pamphlet be evidently Falſe; fo if it pleaſe
your Majefty to command the Committee of
Commerce, or any other Perfon underſtanding
that Commerce, to confider the Reaſons alledg-
ed in the former; 'where he infifts to make it
appear, That the Commerce with Spain is not
abfolutely Neceffary to England, his Difcourfe
will be found weak, groundlefs, falfe, and pro-
ceeding from ill Intentions unto both King-
doms.
And for what belongs to the Dowry, which
fome of your Majefties Minifters have look'd
on, whether it be fufficient or proportionable
to your Majefty: The Amballador faith, That
it is the fame which hath been demanded, and
that with which other great Kings have been
contented. But if your Majefty inſtead of the
ordinary Dowry, doth defire at Prefent other
things more proportionable to your Conveni-
ency, your Majelly may pleafe to declare them;
being it is certain, that your Majefty ought not
to doubt of obtaining from the good Will and
Power of the Catholick King, much greater
Advantages (and thofe real ones, and to be en-
joy'd in Peace and Quietnefs) than thoſe that
Portugal doth offer, and from which no benefit
will enfte, but rather engaging your Majefly
F 3
in
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in a War, which ought to be avoided for the
good of your Kingdoms, being that which the
Catholick King propofeth is without hazard,
and with all the Advantages that your Majefty
can defire, for the good of the Subjects of both
Crowns.
Ballecas one League from Madrid, 7. May,
1664. Stylo loci.
SIR,
JUST
UST as you furmifed, immediately upon my
arrival at Cadiz, I was affaulted with im-
portunities of feveral of our English Merchants
and others, to intercede with the Duke of Me-
dina Celi, for the Liberty of Mr. Wilmot, which
I abfolutely refuſed to do, unleſs he would put
in fufficient Security for the payment of the
Debt, or otherwife return to Prifon, within a
reaſonable time to be limited; and all this not
without the expreſs conſent under the hand of
of him that hath Mr.Ol's Powers, which is a Clerigo
who feem'd to me, difcourfing with him there,
to be a very honeft, difcreet Perfon, being re-
puted no lefs by thofe that knew him: Their
offer was made, his confent was had according-
ly, before I left thofe parts, but what hath
fince been done in purſuance thereof, I cannot
tell.
Having given you this Account, in reference
to your commands, as to that particular, I have
at prefent nothing to add, as to buſineſs, which
I have not yet entred upon, or fo much as feen
the face of the Court, this King being now,and
ever
(71)
ever fince my approach, having been at Aran-.
juez (a place referved for Recreation).
What hath hitherto paſt fince my arrival at
Cadiz, hath been high and ceremonious Recep-
tion and Entertainment, in all parts,to the King
of England's Ambaffador, fuch as never was gi-
vensto any Ambaſſador of that, or whatſoever
Crown (fay thefe) or ever fhall be again. To
relate to you all, in the briefeſt and in the ful-
left manner too that poffibly I can. Be pleaſed
to peruſe the herewith incloſed English Copy of
the King of Spain's Letter to the Duke of Me-
dina Celi, and then to take my word, that the
Performances, not only by the dutiful Execu-
tion of his Majeſty's Minifters in all Places, but
alfo by the chearful Concurrence of the univer-
fality of his Subjects, both high and low, have
anſwered the Royal Orders with rather over
than under meaſure. With which for the pre-
fent I crave leave to reft,
Your most Faithful, &c.
Richard Fanfhaw.
A Copy of the King of Spain's Letter to the
Duke de Medina Celi, concerning my Lord
Ambalador's Treatment at his Landing at
Cadiz, and from thence to Madrid.
Made Engliſh.
Duk
The K IN G.
Uke of Medina Celi, Cozen, of my Counſel of
State, and Capt. General of the Ocean Sea,
and Coasts of Andaluzia. Having seen your Let-
ter of the 25th past, and a Copy of another formerly
F 4
wrote
(72)
wrote by Don Diego de Ibara, of the 23 of the fame
month; and what to this you did Answer, concern-
ing the arrival of a Ship which brought Don Lyo-
nel Fanshaw, Secretary to the Ambaſſador that is
coming from England; who fays, that he will fud-
dainly be here. Upon which occafion you do Dif
courfe on the Salutes that should be made him, and
relate the Orders which you gave as to the Recep-
tion, Welcome, and Lodging of him. And I have
thought fit to tell you, in the first place, in as much
as concerns the Salutation, that the Orders which I
have given in this caſe, for a general and conſtant
Rule to Fleets and Ships, of other Kings coming into
my Dominions, and of mine coming into theirs, are,
That the Sea do first falute the Land. But, because
I am defireus that to this Ambaffador (who reprefents
the Perfon of his King) fhould be given all poffible
Welcome, without making any Innovation in the
Rule eftablished and agreed upon betwixt the Crowns.
I am refolved (without interrupting the course there-
of) That the City of Cadiz (the faid Ambaſſador
coming into the Bay) fhall first falute his Perfon with
the Artillery, and that falute being answered with
the fame by the Ship in which he comes; That then
the Jaid Ship turn out to Sea again, and, returning
into the Port, she do falute the Land firft, as if ſhe
Fid
it in Correspondency to that which the Land
gave the Ambasador, and let the Land answer in
the accustomed manner. And, to the end the faid
Ambaffador may be aware hereof, fo difpofe the mat-
ter beforehand with him, that he may fall into the
account: Giving him to understand, that only for
him, and the eſteem I have of his Perfon, this new
thing is done in this particular, and in all other
which follow of Entertainment, and Demonftration
Aad, because I am content with what you have ap
pointed
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73 )
pointed to be done; namely, That at the coming a-
Shore of this Publick Minifter, the great Guns fhall
be diſcharged for him, from the Wall where he shall
enter; and alfo, That, upon his very Landing place,
a formed Squadron of Infantry of that Garrison do
receive him, and strike their Colours to him, and
that a Company of Guard do enter into the Hufe
where he shall be Lodged, and all other Courtefies
which are done to Captains Generals, who are fo in
their own right; I do well approve thereof, and com-
mand you to execute and cause the fame to be Execut-
ed accordingly.
And, for as much as concerns his Entertain-
ment, you shall order Don Antonio de Pimentel
(if he shall be come to Cadiz,) and if not, then Don
Diego de Ibara; that the one or the other domake
it, at my proper Expence; and to depute an Officer,
of fuch fuppofition and rank as is meet, to get Lodg-
ing, and conducting him upon the fame account from
Cadiz to Sivilla: and you are to understand, that
the Affiftente I bave commanded to do the like in that
City; and that when the Ambaſſador ſhould depart
thence towards this Court, he likewiſe ſend a Mini-
ſter with him as far as Cordoba; the Corejidor
of which City, and the rest that are from Sevilla
thither, and from thence to this Court. I have com
manded that in all places through which he shall pass,
until he arrive here, they Lodge and Entertain him
in the like conformity, and for my proper Account.
This Letter was brought by an Exprefs from
Madrid, and the Duke of Medina Celi's Order
thereupon, to Cadiz, two or three hours after
his Lordship's Landing there, which was upon
Friday Febr. 26. 1663. Engl. ftile.
My
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I
My good Lord,
Have Yeſterday, not before, received yours
of the 10th of March, from Cadiz, of which
we had before heard from Madrid, and of the
civil Treatment was intended towards you; of which
I underſtand more at large by yours to the Se-
cretary: I hope all things will proceed accordingly,
and that after you have had full Conference with the
Duke of Medina de las Torres, he will be fatisfied
that it is in the Power of that King, to provide well
for himself if he pleafe,and indeed if he choofeth what
is beſt for himself,you will please him. I do together
with this, fend you two Letters for the Duke of
Medina de las Torres, the one I promiſed to your
felf, the other to poor Sir Benjamin, and both
ſhould have met you at Madrid, and it was not
my fault they did not, they were writ 2 months
fince, and left behind by a Perſon who took
care of them; fo that they are now new writ,
but by what Meffenger they will be fent I know
not; for I dare not fend them through France,
where all Letters are opened and read. I mean
therefore to commit themto Sir fo.Harrifon,and
fo reft fatisfied with my felf. There is one par-
ticular in which the King meant to have given
gou Inftructions himſelf, and I prefume you
will now receive it from the Secretary; howe-
ver, I have Authority to recommend it to you
with fome earnestnefs, concerning Mon. Oginate,
a Spaniard by the Father, upon an English Mo-
ther: He is a Perfon of very great Parts, and as
much a Gentleruan as 1 know any. When the
King came firll to Bruges, this Gentleman was the
prin
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principal Perfon in Authority there, and in-
deed the fittest to be ſo of any Man in thoſe
parts. The truth is, his Civility to the King,
and the Refpect to him (which upon my Con-
ſcience proceeded only from his Duty to his
Mafter, for he is as good a Spaniard as lives)
made that Place ſupportable and pleaſant to him
and to us all. In a word, the King our Maſter
had great obligations to him, which he acknow-
ledged to his Catholick Majefty, with an ear-
neft defire to him, that as a Teftimony of his ap-
proving it, he would confer fome Place of grea-
ter Truſt upon him; which he deferves to any
degree; for I tell you again, he is the wiſeſt
and moſt dextrous Man I know in thoſe parts.
Don Lewes de Haro procured a Letter from his
Catholick Majefty to that purpoſe, to the Mar-
quis de Cararena; but he, who never was civil
to the King whilft he was in Flanders, conti-
nued the fame indifpofition ftill towards his
Majefty, and towards all who deferves well
there, and hath profecuted this Gentleman ever
fince, not only by hindering him from recei-
ving our Obligations, but divefting him of all
thofe Trufts he enjoy'd many years before we
knew Flanders, and grofly reproaching him
with being to make a Treaty to the King our
Mafter, which Truft his Majefty feels very
fharply. God be thanked,we ſhall be ſhortly rid
of fo ill a Neighbour as the Marquis Cararena,
and I hope, after you have truly lamented the
King our Maſter's misfortune, in reference to
this Gentleman, M. D'Ogniate, to the Duke of
Medina de los Torres, he will procure from his
Catholick Majefty, and. likewife tranfmit from
himſelf to the Marquis Castle Rodrigo, ſuch a
powerful Recommendation, that this Gentleman
may
(76)
may find himſelf much better, as he hath been
much the worſe, for the Civilities and Refpect
he paid the King, in a ſeaſon when he was the
better for them. It is neceffary I tell you, that
what I now write to you, or what you receive
from the Secretary, is fo far from being done
upon the importunity of this Gentleman, that
I nor none in our Court have received one Let-
ter or Meffage from him thefe two laft years;
fo much is he cowed by theTyranny of thatGo-
vernour: fo that this Recommendation pro-
ceeded purely from the King's own Generofity,
and the memory of his Deportment in Flanders.
When any notable new Book is Publiſhed there,
I pray fend it to me, Even bound up, and In-
dorſed according to the cuſtom there. I have
no more to add, but that I am,
Worcester-House
April 5.
My good Lord,
Your most affectionate Servant,
CLARENDON, C.
Mr. Fanshaw,
STR₂
IR, fince your departure out of this Town
nothing has prefented worth his Excellen-
cies notice. I have been with Don Domingo,
who lies very Sick; he ſays, the King and the
Duke are exceedingly Troubled that his Excellency is
without a Houfe, and that Order was gone to the
Appoftentadores to provide one. From them, nei-
ther from Don P. Rojo, I have heard not one
word. This Night I fuppofe Don P. Rojo will
have
(77)
have an Anſwer of his Letter to Aranues. I
was in good hopes the Meffage I heard my
Lord had Yeſterday from the Prefident, had
given fome advice as to a Houſe. Thofe in-
cloſed I received from Don Domingo, for his Ex-
cellency; to whom, as to my Honored Ladies
good felf, moft humble Service, with tender
of the like to your good Self, I remain
Madrid, May 11.
An. 1664.
Your most humble Servant,
ANDR. KING.
Ballecas, Wednesday. May, 1664
My very fingular Good Lord,
Y Laft to your Lordſhip was of the
Mr.
Inftant from this very Place, contain-
ing nothing but what might mifcarry, as welt
it may, without any farther detriment worth
ſpeaking of, then an appearing neglect in me
of that duty among other, I do owe your Lord-
fhip. Since (namely yesterday) I received the
Honour of one from your Lordship of the 5th.
of the laſt, inclofing two Latin ones to the
Duke de Medina de las Torres, all three having
arrived very ſeaſonably to Countenance me in
a Conference, which by his Catholick Maje-
fties particular appointment, I am now very
ſpeedily to have with the faid Duke, in order
to the opening the full ſcope of myErrand: For
which Conference, I have certified his Excel-
Tency by Letter, I fhall be ready as foon as (pla-
Ld. Chancellor.
ced
(78-)
ced in a Houſe at Madrid) I fhall have received
my first Audience from his Majefty, who arriv-
ed there upon Monday laft, fomewhat indiſpo-
fed with a fit of the ftone, which took him at
Aranjeur, but now (God be thanked) is over.
The unavoidable accidents which have de-
layed my Audience hitherto have (I conceive)
been no diſadvantage to my Negotiation, in as
much, as beſides your Lordſhips Letters above-
mention'd, diverfe things in the interim have
fallen out, and been effected, which have ren-
dered our Royal Mafter more confiderable in
the Eyes of Christendom, and of the whole
World, then many bufie Spirits did hitherto re-
preſent him, who, fhutting their own eyes firft,
have made it their work to caft mifts before
thoſe of others; by which clear undeception,
I may now hope and expect, to make my firft
entrance and impreffions in the Court of Spain,
with the beft leg forward. And ſome particu-
lar reafon I have to believe, that at my inter-
view with the Duke at Valdemoro, he did miſs
that favour from your Lordship, after whom
he earneſtly inquired.
The Gentleman of Flanders, upon whom his
Majefties generofities and your Lordships Ju-
ftice, have bestowed fo large a Character and
Recommendation to this Court, I fhall ferve as
in duty bound, with the utmoſt improvement
I can make thereof in all occafions.
Till I get fix'd in Madrid, your Lordſhip can
expect from me no material Account of any
publick buſineſs; but, that I fhall be ſo now ve-
ry fuddainly, I am faithfully promiſed, both
from the Preſident of Caftill, and Duke of Me-
dina, then which, better fecurity in the Spaniſh
Court,
( 79 )
Court, your Lordship well knows cannot be
had, and the King himſelf hath given unto
them feverally, particular ftrict orders to that
effect, in the interim (with your Lordships
good leave) I will begin to Practice my Cy-
pher with your Lordship in fomething of my
private concerns, as followeth.
It is here ftrongly rumour'd that England will
break with Holland; a Perfon related to me, men-
tioning yeſterday this Report to the Duke de Medina
de las Torres, the faid Duke (as likewiſe a very
near confident of bis) feem'd much difturb'd thereat,
if these matters of fact are true, there seems the
more reason to keep three eyes upon Tangier, there
being two hands lay'd upon it already; one indeed
covered, but not hid. The Earl of Clarendon,
may make farther Gueſſes from that ſudden diſcom-
pofedness (if it were fo, and upon that ground) as
for one, that Spain may have already Contracted fe-
cretly for thofe Offices from Holland, which we
think (and certainly with much reaſon) none is ſo
able (if at all) to perform, as England.
By the way when the fame report was mention'd
to Baron Battavil, he feem'd Transported with
joy at it.
Ballecas, 1 League from Madrid, Wedneſ
day. May, 1664.
SIR,
Y Laft to you were from this very Place
two feveral Letters, both of the 7th. In-
M™.
ftant,
(80
( 80 )
ftant, and a third, which was a Duplicate of a
former from Sevil.
Since, I have received yours of the 7th. of
the laſt from White- Hall, it came by the way of
Bayon, and handed thence by Mr. John Wef-
combe, of great comfort it was to me, to re-
ceive a fecond diſpatch from you being yet
upon my way, i. e. before I have been able to
reach Madrid, the firſt having been that of the
1 March, received at Toledo, which firft my
former acknowledged, and now for both toge-
ther, I render you moft humble thanks.
27
Of fome light alfo, as well as comfort, this
fecond of yours hath been to me, and might
have been of much more, if through my grofs
dulnefs here, I have not ſtood in my own light,
or that through hafte there, fome other Cypher,
refembling at firft fight that of yours with me,
which (I obferve, differs much in the manner
of the Characters from any I have feen elfe-
where) were not miſtaken for it.
The truth is, with all the skill I have, turn-
ing it every way to me imaginable, I have not
been able to Difcypher by mine, what is there
put in Cypher; no, nor fo much as to make
out five intire words of the whole, or any two,
of thoſe I do make out, to Cohere with each
other. I have yet by me your other Cypher,
with which you favoured me into Portugal: I
have likewife a Cypher with Mr. Coventrey, be-
ing a Triplicate of one he gave to Sir John Law-
fon, and Sir John to me, by his direction.
Of the former of theſe (if the Counter-part
be yet extant with yours) and, if not, of the
latter with Mr.Coventrey's leave, you may pleaſe
to make uſe in cafe of prefent urgency.
I do
( 81 )
I do fomething comfort my felf with the
hope, that no prejudice is yet come, or coming
to his Majellies fervice by my Ignorance, of what
was under that Vail conveyed to me; becauſe I
have,fince that from you,there in received the o-
ther mentioned from my L. Chancellor,the which,
(being Dated only two days before yours) doth
not import any matter of new Inftructions for
me at that time (more than what yours hath
likewiſe enjoyned me from his Majefty, con-
cerning the honeft Gentleman of Flanders, which
I fhall in no wife neglect, as I have herewith af-
fured his Lordship) but rather implies the con-
trary. However, I am fure, I fhall not live with-
out pain, as to this particular, till this hope of
mine, by your favour,be turned into a certainty.
Upon the Inftant, the Duke of Medina de
las Torres, came from Aranjeur to Madrid, on
purpoſe chiefly (as his excellency was pleafed
to Complement me by Letter and Meflage) to fee
a Houfe had for me, and to have, the opportu-
nity of conferring with me upon the main Af
fair, as by the King his Mafter he was direct-
ed; and therefore not to return, but to expect
his Majefty's coming to Madrid, which was
appointed for Monday laft.
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I 7
Contrary to this intention, the Duke being
alarm'd with a fit of the Stone, which in the
mean time took his Majefty at Aranjuer, made
haft thither upon the ; and, together with
his Majefty (who continued not fo ill as to fail
his day returned on Monday to the Palace;
where his Majeſty hath received farther amend-
ment of his Health, and now whilft I am writ-
ing this (if the yeſterday reported Appointment
have held) is giving a parting Audience to the
Venetian Ambaffador, whofe Succeffor is forth-
with expected.
G
For
L
(82)
For Conclufion, I am fure I fhall not dif
pleaſe you, in telling you, that, by a final Sen-
tence in Madrid, upon the 17th Inftant, your
Friend the Duke of Avero recovered the two
Dukedoms of Najara and Maqueda; no light
Breakfaſt for whofoever had not loft before
one Dukedome worth many of thoſe.
I am with all Sincerity
Yours, &c.
Whitehall, April 6. 1664
My Lord,
A
T your Excellencies departure from hence,
I recommended to your Favour Mr. John
Riede, as a Perfon who had been faithful, and
affectionate to his Majefties Service in the worſt
Times, and if he have the good fortune to
attend your arrival at Madrid, I affure my
felf he will find the Effects of my Recommen-
dations; but becauſe I fuppofe he is now upon
his way homewards, and that he leaves his Bro-
ther behind to folicit his Bown ufinefs,and thoſe
which are commited to his Care from the Roy-
al Company, I write this to your Excellency,
beſpeaking the fame Favour and Protection for
the Younger Brother, which I formerly asked
for the Elder, and am.
My Lord,
Your Excellencies moſt bumble Servant,
1
Lord Amb. Fanshaw.
Henry Bennet.
Whitehall,
(83)
Whitehall, April 21. 1664.
My Lord,
You
Our Excellency muft pardon me, if the
multiplicity of Bufinefs I am fubject to,
efpecially whilft the Parliament and the Irish
Biſhops are depending, hath made me yet un-
ready in the Method and Refolution I have
taken of writing weekly to you, which I un-
willingly omitted the laſt week. In the mean
time I am a little excufable in that I have re-
ceived none from you; I except only what I
acknowledg'd in my last of the 8th Inftant, re-
lating your Reception at your firft Landing,
whereas other Letters have told us of your en-
try ino Sevill, and by our Diurnal I hope you
will fee we are careful to let our Countrymen
know how kindly you are uſed. In which as
good as It is, I am confident your Excellency
will find fome Improvement, when you fhall
have communicated to that Court the incloſed
Note, which this day paffed in the Houſe of
Commons, againſt which there were not three
'Noes. The truth is, it will look like a great
flattery to our Mafter and his good Fortune,
to tell you with what alacrity this Refolution
was taken, which being well reprefented there
(as I am fure it will be by your Excellency)
cannot but make our Mafter's Friendship much
more valuable to them.
Since my laſt the Emperor's Envoy theCount
de Comingfecke hath had his Audience, and pre-
fented his Memorial, demanding a Succour of
Ld. Amb, Fanshaw
G 2
Men
C
(84)
!
Men and Money for his Mafter; to which he
hath yet no Anfwer. In the mean time the
King and the Court ufe him very kindly, and
he feems well pleaſed with it, I was mifta-
ken when I told you he was of the Houſe of
Naffau, otherwife than by his Mother.
Collonel Luke Taafle (Brother to my Lord
Carlingford) hath ferved his Catholick Majeſty
many Years in the Sate of Milan, with a ftand-
ing Regiment there. Which Regiment he de-
fires now to deliver over to Captain Nicholas
Taaffe a younger Son of my Lord Carlingford,
and the Collonel's Nephew, who is now a Cap-
tain of the Regiment. And his Majefty Com-
mands me to recommend to your Excellency
the bringing this to pafs, for the affection he
hath to the Family, and the Merit of this young
Gentleman.
We hear of fome Succefs my Lord of Teviot
. hath had againft Gaylan, but yet fo uncertainly,
as we know not what credit to give it. Your
Excellency is not ignorant of his Majesty's Va-
lue and Concernment for that Place, fo your
Letters cannot contain things more acceptable
to him,than any News of it. For which purpoſe
you muſt make it your bufinefs to establish in
Cadiz fome conftant. Correfpondence there-
with.
Mr. Bellef is returning to Morrow to Por-
tugal with fome fmall Recruits of Foot, which
Don Patrecio Omelides, would, to fhow himſelf
a good Minifter, willingly complain of; but
we perfwade him to fave his pains therein. I
am with all refpect and affection.
My Lord,
Your Excellencies most humble Servant,
Henry Bennet.
A
( 85 )
A Vote paft at the Houfe of Commons
the 21st of April 1664. Touching the
Injuries receiv'd from the Dutch.
Refolved,
TH
Hat the Wrongs, Dishonours, and Indignities,
done to his Majesty by the Subjects of the
United Provinces by invading of his Majeſty'sRights
in India, Africa, and elsewhere; And the Dama-
ges, Injuries and Affronts done by them to our Mer-
chants, are the greatest obftruction of our Foreign
Trade, and that the fame be humbly and speedily pre-
fented to his Majesty, and that He be most humbly
moved to take fome speedy and effectual courfe for
redress thereof, and all other of the like nature, and
for the prevention of the like in future; And in pro-
fecution thereof, this House doth Reſolve they will
with their Lives and Fortunes affift his Majefty a-
gainst all oppofition whatsoever.
Refolved, That the Concurrence of the Lords
be deftred to this Vote, and that a Conference
be defired with their Lordships in order thereunto.
And that Mr. Clifford do go up to the Lords, &c.
Whitehall, April 21. 1664.
My Lord.
His comes with my humble Humble Ser-
T
vice, to give your Excellency the wel-
come (as I hope) to Madrid. Things going
G 3
on
( 86 )
on here fo fharply against the Dutch, the in-
clofed Account of Publick Occurrences, may
I hope, juftifie this liberty I take to make a
fingle Packet. I wait your Excellencies more
allured Addrefs and Directions e'er I fend the
Portugal Treaty which lies ready copyed. I
may add in confidence (though it is not
thought fit to own it here yet) that we are pret-
ty well even with the Dutch on the Coasts of A-
frica, as a late Express from thence brings us no-
tice; the Particulars your Excellency shall have
hereafter. Great Zeal is in the Parliament to
get themſelves Juftice by the only Argument
that moves Holland, Arms. The Confequence
with all other Service, your Excellency may.
expect from,
I humbly leave
tny Service for my Your Excellencies most hum-
Lady.
My Lord,
ble and obedient Servant,
Jofeph Williamfon.
The Duke of Medina de las Torres to Sir
Richard Fanfhaw.
I
Receiv'd your Excellencies Letter inclos'd
in one from the Grand Chancellor, to both
of which I have paid thofe Acknowledgments
that the Honourand Favour they have done me
justly claims I am moreover fingularly well
fatisfy'd of your Excellencies fincerity and good
will in particular towards me, eſpecially at
this juncture, when I am under fo great an
Affliction.
(87)
Affliction. And I hope all your Excellency's de-
monſtrations of Friendship and Kindnefs will end
in a reciprocal Affection and Correfpondence,
both which I am greatly ambitious of.
The Bull-Feaft will be on Thursday next, and
by reaſon that your Excellency feems defirous to
be a Spectator Incognito, I have taken care to
procure you a fhady Balcony in the firft Story. I
have likewife order'd a Window to be fecur'd
for your Excellency's Retinue. If there be any
thing more wherein I can ferve your Excellency,
I hope you will freely command it, as I fhall
be always forward to ferve you. God keep
your Excellency, and grant you the long Life I
defire.
Madrid 27th of May, 1669.
T S
28
Ballecas one League from Madrid of
May, 1664.
SIR,
PR
Reparing for the Poſt at Night, I have
receiv'd this very Day Yours of the 21st.
of April, therein, above all other parts thereof,
indearing his Majefty's Value and Concern-
ment for Tangier, with the conftant Correfpon-
dence I ought to eſtabliſh therewith, and the
care I fhould uſe in tranfmitting any News of
the fame in my Letters from time to time for
England.
This Advertiſment gave me no care which I
had not very ſpecially in my Thoughts and Eye,
in what place foever I have been from the time
G4
Lis
( 88 )
his Majesty hath either been poffefs'd of, or inti-
tuled to that; nor doth now give me the leaſt
occafion of varying from, or adding to my pre-
fent dispatch in that behalf, which yet fhould be
far different from what it is, if (without fatif-
fying) I could make News, as well as write
ir.
The incloſed is an abſtract of the paſt and
prefent State of that Garrifon; the accompt of
all at large being ready written for you, toge-
ther with this; but too bulky for the Poft: Al-
fo, not proper to be fo ventured over land; and
therefore referv'd for the conveyance of Mr.
Bence (who will begin his Journey for England
within three or four days) as the furer though
flower way. Whereunto referring your Ho-
nour for the future, as for the prefent to the
ſaid incloſed Abſtract, I crave leave to paſs from
this melancholy Subject to the other parts of
your Letter.
And, first, I must acknowledge the depend-
ing of the Parliament, and the Irish Bill at
one and the fame time, fo great and neceffa-
ry takers up of yours, as might have ferv'd you
for a very juft excufe for difpencing with your
pains with me, if I had not had from you the
feveral Letters I have receiv'd for my Comfort
and Information, fince I drew near the Spanish
Court. On the other fide, I not having been
yet able to find my way into it, I do perceive
by the fequel of yours, that feveral which I
have written unto you have either miſcarried,
or arrived very flowly; for which caufe I write
with little fecurity, until being perfonally in
Madrid, I fhall have better diſcovered and fixt
the fafest way for Correfponding.
When
( 89 )
When Coll. Luke Taaff's, and his Brother's
buſineſs comes to me, I fhall with all Chearful-
nefs, and the beſt Skill I have perform his Ma-
jefties Commands on their behalf.
As to that of Mr. Bellafis's you need never
doubt, and I do partly perceive it; but that the
Tale hath been told even by the ſilent Miniſter
you mention'd to this Court, where it is fo well
improv'd, that for one Soldier Mr. Bellafis's
Drums have rais'd, the Walks of St. Phillipe have
lifted him 200. Nay, all the French Succours
which (fooner than his could) arrived in Por-
tugal, are by the Spaniards tranflated into Eng-
liſh.
What Affections the rumour'd War with
Holland doth ftir in thefe Miniſters of State, and
(in cafe it ſhould come to pafs) what effects it
will produce from this Crown, is to ine (by
any thing I can yet learn or obferve at this ſmall
diſtance from the Court) a matter very queftio-
nable, and may prove the Subject of future Let-
ters when I come there, whether the faid ru-
mour'd War fhall ever be or not.
Thus much is already informed me here by
fuch as pretend to, and may well know it, that
from this Hour, the Hollanders (providing
againſt what may happen) do begin apace to
remit their Ships and Goods, homewards bound
from hence, in the name of Flemings, and con-
figned to Flemings, for Ofend according to
which Artifice in cafe of a War) it is in-
ferr'd, that all Hollanders whom we fhall take
will make themſelves Flemings; and all Flemings
that fhall take us, themfelves Hollanders.
Having thus far followed the fteps of your
faid Letter, what I have to add of other mat-
ters is little; And fomething I must retract of
what
(90)
what I wrote in my laft, namely, that the Duke
of Avero had recover'd by final Sentence, the
17th of May the two Dukedoms of Maqueda
and Naiara.
Maqueda he hath, for Najara hath not yet
fued, but keeps it in the Decks; then Maqueda
is a great deal better worth than I thought, va-
lued by fome at 60 Thouſand Ducats per Annum
at 40, ooc. generally, and moreover his Sifter
(as a Domeſtick, who you know of that Family,
tells me) as a confequent of the late Sentence,
will recover for or towards her Dowery, a de-
pofited Arrear of between 3 or 4c0000 Du-
cats.
She was lately, in all appearance, very near
Marriage with the Heir of the Conde deOropesa,
but quite broke off before this Sentence upon
point of Alimony, and liberty of rewarding.
her own Attendants out of her own Eftate, in
cafe of future diffention.
}
I am particular in the Domeſtick Concern-
ments of this Family, when they come in my
way, though the Paffages relate nothing to In-
tereft of State in regard of that eſteem of their
Perfons, which his Majefties Inftruction to me
on that behalf doth exprefs, and knowing your
ſelf to be particularly an honourer of them.
Upon the 22d.Current Afcention Day at night,
after a Play in the Pallace, upon a flight ocafion
of fnappifh Words(unless there were fomething
of old Grudge or Rivalſhip in the cafe) the Mar-
ques of Alberfan challenging DonDomingo Guſman,
and he fought under the Pallace, near the Mar-
ques de Caftel Roderigo's Houſe in the Florida,
where Don Domingo gave the Marques That
whereof he died, the next morning they that
knew the Marques to be fo near and dear to the
Conde
( 91 )
Conde de Caftrillo as he was, and knew Don Do-
mingo to be the Duke of St. Lucar's Son, know-
ing withal how well that Conde and Duke do
love one another, and how they do both divide
the Spanish World between them in Power,will
conclude this private accident hath an influence
upon the publick; indeed fo great a one as
hath feem'd for fome days paſt to make a Vaca-
tion in Court, that I may not call it an Inter-
reign, or the dividing of a Kingdom againſt it
felf.
For fince (and upon) this accident, all feems
of a light flame between thefe Duumviri to ſo
high a degree, that each croffing whatſoever
the other promotes, the moſt of others of Qua-
lity take fides, and fuch as appear Neuters with
the Monarchy, a Monopoly in either of their
Hands; weeping over the Graves of the Conde
Duque, and Don Luis de Haro, becauſe they were
abfolute and fole Favourites in their Generations;
attributing to this very caufe the feeming dif
proportion, if not contradiction, between my
reception in, and conduction from Cadiz hi-
therto, and now my long demeurage fo near
the Court, for want of a Houſe in it, and pro-
phecying already that this Animoſity and Emu-
lation will gangrene into the Subſtance, as well
as Accidents, of my Embaffie.
I do not here pretend to paint unto his Ma-
jefty the State of Spain, but the Populace of it;
asking more time, by a great number of Years,
to underſtand the former (though but in a com-
petent meaſure) than I hope his Majefty will
give me; and if his Majefty would, God will
not. I have learnt by the yet invincible igno-
rance of fome Foreign Embaffadors to England
(an open-breafted Country!) how apt they
are
( 92 )
are to miſtake, who (begging the queſtion, in
the first place, of their own Perfonal Abilities)
can never be convinced, that, Mas Vee el loco
en fu cafa, que el Cuerdo en la agena. Whilft I
am writing, I am call'd to entertain the Count
de Marcin, who is upon the way from Madrid,
to find me out in this Obfcurity,contrary to the
Stile of Spain; but fuitable to the freedom of
a Soldier, and of a Subject of his Majefty, as
to his moſt noble Soveraignty of the Garter.
&c.
S
Ballecas one League from Madrid, May 13
1664.
SIR,
You
Ours, dated at Tangier the 8th Inſtant, I re-
ceiv'd by an Exprefs from Malaga, inclo-
fed in a Letter dated there from Mr. Robert
Willson, of the 19th of the fame, acquainting
me that he had then newly received yours.
The fadneſs of the Accident therein men-
tion'd in few general Words (whether as in re-
ference to the Publick of our King and Coun-
try, or as to the particular of that Noble Earl,
and Party, who at this time made choice of that
way to facrifice their Lives for both) it were
too long now to tell you to what degree it af
fects me. In the interim I cannot but obſerve
from yours as to better hopes in the future)
how, inſtead of apprehending on your part in
the leaſt meaſure a furprifal of that most impor-
tant Place by the Moors, in purfuance of fuch
a fuccefs; you arm me by fo early an Adver-
tifement
(93)
tiſement againſt being furpriſed by the very Ec-
cho and report thereof in the King of Spain's
Court, propofing no further end at all in your
fending to me. However I will thus far (by
the firft for England) duplicate the Advices you
have given thereof to his Majefty by your ex-
preſs difpacth by Sea the day before the date of
yours to me; and alfo fignifying the fame by an
Exprefs of my own forthwith to Alicante, with
Letters to the fame effect to find out Sir John
Lawfon (if poffible) very ſpeedily wherever he
is, though I doubt not but you have done that
alfo, without difparagement to that unfhaken-
neſs of mind, as to the main, which I perceive
in you; and which is agreeable to that perfect
Character of your Perſonal Courage, Conduct,
Loyal Affections, to the knowledge whereof I
am lefs a Stranger then you are aware of.
I am told upon this occafion (enquiring what
ftrong Pillars elfe we have left at this time in
Tangier, after fo great a difafter) that old Col-
lonel Alfop is there amongst you; if fo, I won-
der (being now his Neighbour) he would
never hint fo much to me, who am not the
lefs, but the more his Friend, and defirous to
ferve him upon the Account which brought
us firſt together. This being all for the prefent
which occurs to me, I requeft you to continue
a punctual Correfpondence with me, (efpe-
cially till all things there are again perfectly
well joynted) by which I will not be found
behind hand, who am,
SIR, &c.
By
(94)
By the laft from England we underſtand that
all Royal Perfons and Affairs there are in good
State, both as to health and otherways.
It is much rumour'd both there and in this
Court, that we fhall break with Holland: This
from Fame; but nothing thereof from any Per-
fon in Authority there.
POSTSCRIPT
F God Almighty in his Divine Goodnefs
has defigned Honour and Advantage to our
King and Country by that Place of Tangier (as
I truft he hath) for the accomplishing thereof
he is not tied to this or that Inftrument, how
incomparable foever, according to weak Hu-
mane Judgment.
23 March,
4.
Sevil.
6-
3.
2 April,
Duplicate from Ballecas the 28th of May, Sty.
loci. Of a Letter figured 2. which I deliver d
(together with another of the fame date, figured,
1. and formerly duplicated to you) upon the day
of the date into the hands of Thomas Walker,
Servant to Mr. Robert Swale Merchant in
Tower-ftreet,then fuddenly bound from thence to
London.
SIR,
HAV
Aving in a former of the fame date with
this, given you a Relation of the Ceri-
Mr. Sec. Bennet.
monial
(95)
monial part of my Journey from Cadiz hither-
to, there being little account of bufinefs to be
expected from me till myArrival at Madrid.I fhall
add here apart fome thing of this later nature;
and is, that whilft I was at St. Mary's Port, in
fome Conference I had with the Duke de Medina
Celi, moving his Excellency for the Liberty of
fome English Imprifoned there,for having bought
and endeavoured to carry off a quantity of
Chalk from the Coaſt of Spain for the ufe of
Tangier, by order of the Earl of Teviot, before
his Lordſhip went thence for England, the Duke
told me plainly this was a thing out of his
Power, for that his Catholick Majefty doth not
in his Politick Capacity (whatever he knows
as a Man) look upon that Place otherwife
then as in the Hands of the Portugueses to this
day; in as much as there was never any con-
fent had from his Catholick Majefty for the
Alienation thereof; in which regard, the firſt
fevere Orders upon the Revolt of that King-
dom are yet in force, and, in vertue thereof,
thefe Men to be hanged; but, that he would
(which was all he could do) defer Execution
until he thould have acquainted me further. I
thanked his Excellency for his clearness, reply-
ing, that the King my Mafter (as a Man) un-
derſtood fome Paffages in reference to Tangier
likewife, whereof he had not hitherto taken no-
tcie as a King, becauſe he had yet received no
dammage by them. It was at my Tongue's end
to have added,that in caſe thoſe poor Men ſhould
indeed be hanged for Portuguefes,the reputed Por-
tuguefes inTangier might happen to fit cloſer upon
the Skirts of Andaluzia than the true ones inPor-
tugal: But I thought it fitter to forbear, unleſs I
fhall receive particular directions from our Roy-
al
( 96 )
tricio
St. Lucar
al Maſter to that effect, when hisMajefty fhall have
taken a full refolution upon the whole matter;
Don Pa-the which, in one kind or other, to be not only
Meledei done, but fhortly declared, appears almoft ne-
hath pro- ceffary; for although the Practices between
duced Let-this Crown and Gaylan might have been for-
zers from merly diffembled, whilft it was not known that
the Duke of His Majesty there knew of them, whilft the
and Don late attempt of Gaylan did not further expound
Domingo them, and even fince likewife, in refpect that
his Ser- attempt hath prov'd ineffectual, might have
vant, dif-been farther winkt at ; yet, now that the Duke
intention (who is Captain General of thefe Courts) doth
in Spain in plain terms avow unto His Majefties Ambaf-
to moleft fador a right of using the English of Tangier, not
gier as you only as Enemies, but Rebels, it feems utterly
were ac impoffible in the future; for that it may be al-
quainted ledged His Majefty of Great Brittain was told,
before our in the Perfon of His Ambaffador, what in this
departure.
But in that He might expect.
owning any
us in Tan-
Particular
point, &c. The above being an extract of a Letter from your Honour to me,of
the 17 of March 1664. ferves well in this place for a Marginal Note.R.F.
As to thofe paft Correfpondences with Gaylan,
the Copies thereof have been communicated
to me by the Party unto whom you addreffed
me for information in that particular at my
Landing; the which he telling me, your ſelf
had the like of long fince, I have referved for
my own uſe as occalion may be offered here-
after, only repeating out of them at this time.
the enfuing Claufe, viz. a Justandofe A darle
Satisfacion para que me entregue efta Placa, (his
Catholick Majefty fpeaks of Gaylan and Tan-
gier) y reciniendofe de fu maono, y fiendo de mi
Corona, no abria occafion de decir que fe Contrabi-
ene
(97)
ene alas Pares con Ingalatierra, reintegrandoſe por
efte Camino, wherein that Circumftance of
Tangiers being receivable (in the King of Spain's
own Judgment) from the hand of another,
without injury to the Peace with him who is
in prefent Poffefiion thereof; feems applicable
to our Cafe, a majori, in as much as the Crown
of England never inftigated or affifted the Por-
ruguefes (from whofe Hards his Majefty re-
ceived the fame upon a valuable Confideration)
to fever it from that of Spain, as they had
done for the space of fo many Years, and a De-
fcent Caft before it came into his Majefty's
Poffeffion.
thoſe ru-
Upon this occafion,with another arifing from
fome gauling dammages lately done to the Spa-
niard in the Weft-Indies, and intimated in the
herewith inclofed Paper, (marked A.) it
This 1
may not be unworthy his Majefty's particular neceffary to
thought not
Confideration, whether any Friendship between re-inclofe
the two Crowns can be, and lafting, unlefs berewith,
both Tangier and the West-Indies fhall be efpeci. because, if
ally comprehended therein, at leaft for fome mours were
comperent number of Years, within which term true they
they, on the one fide, may hope to fettle and must have
improve the Affairs of their Monarchy; and been certain
we, on the other, of our refpective Plantati- land long
ties in Eng-
ons and Navigations. Where, by the way, I before the
muft beg leave hereby to prepare his Majefty Dupla-
not overmuch to expect a free Trade with the ting here-
Weft-Indies (whether general or limited) to of. R. F.
be the illue of fuch Treaty, or recompence of
fuch Offices of Favour and Friendship as his
Majefty may think fit to do the Spaniard
collecting here (as I go along theſe Parts )
the fence of many of the most experienced and
beſt affected even of our own Country; all
H
tending
( 98 )
tending to this, that the throwing open of thoſe
. Fences were, indeed, as little to be Wifhed for
by us, as Hoped from the Spaniard. Upon the
otherfide, I do apprehend we are much more
able (being provok'd thereunto) to do them
mifchiefs both in the Indies, and from Affrica,
than they us; efpecially, if we ſhould give our
felves the Unchriſtian liberty of opening a Gate
to the Moors, which God forbid fhould be gi
ven way unto, by whatſoever Example. And,
therefore, I do humbly conceive in one kind
or other, Boot ſhould be given by the Spaniard in
thofe Cafes.In order to which end,and finally (if
fuch his Majefty's pleafure fhould be) I will
prefs the Free Trade, as my Inftructions direct.
What in particular the Equivalence fhould be
(in cafe of quitting that demand at laft) I go
hammering out by all the Lights and Means-
I can attain unto; which I fhall remit into
England as faft, and as often, as they fhall be
digefted into any fhape that may feem wor-
thy his Majefty's Confideration.
Neither The other three herewith incloſed Papers
have I re- (marked BCD) contain the laft News I havé
inclofed
herewith received from Tangier, and may have arrived
thefe Pa- in England, with more particulars, before theſe
pers, becauf come to Hand; whereby to demonftrate the ill
the mat- effects, in intention, of that Subornation, and
ter thereof
with addi- Affiftance I have mentioned of Guylan; withal -
tion is more how little we need fear (I hope) that Com-
Authenti bination hereafter, though always to watch it
cally certi
fied from carefully. If I had not been already too tedious
the Earl of yet would I not mingle with thefe Points
Teviot (which I take to be of a Piece, at leaſt, rela-
himſelf in tive and proper to give the hand to each other)
thafe which any other matter; but reft.
follow.
R. F.
Yours, &c.
Tangier
( 99 )
I
Tangier, May 8. 1664.
May it please your Excellency,
Take the boldnefs to write this to acquint
your Excellency with the fad Misfortune
that befel this Garriſon the 3d Inftant, which is
the lofs of our Noble General, the Earl of Tivect,
and many of his chief Officers, with a confide-
rable number of Soldiers. My Lord of Tiveot
marching with his Party of Foot in a Wood
about two or three Miles from Tangier, it fo
happened that at that time the whole Army of
the Moors were laid in Ambufh fo near, that
they fuddenly rofe up, and with Horfe and
Foot furrounded them, that the whole Party
was cut off, and not thirty eſcaped. I am
heartily forry there fhould be occafion to fend
you fo fad News, yet I thought it my duty is
order to the King's Service to fignife thus much
in the general to your Excellency, that are his
Miniſter, that you may not be furprized with
the report of it from the King of Spain's Court.
The remaining Officers have been pleafed to
command me to manage the Affairs of the
Garrifon till his Majefty's farther Pleaſure be
known. I have yefterday fent an Exprefs by
Sea to his Majefty, with a full Relation of the
the whole bufinefs, I fhall not be farther trou-
bleſome at prefent, but take leave.
Your Excellencies, &c.
Tobias Bridge.
Ld. Amb. Fashaw.
H 2
London
( 100 )
London, April 2. 1664.
May it please your Excellency,
Mr.
Y Lord, the Merchants concerned in the
Spanish Embargo, whofe Petition and
Reaſons to his Sacred Majefty, and Order of his
Privy Council to your Excellency, upon the
the fame we delivered, before your Excellency
departed out of England, fince which we have
had endeavours to prove our Lofles, and ftill
are at work, which takes up more time than
ordinary, when the bufinefs is, in good meafure ·
finished, which will be fuddenly, I fhall for o-
thers as well as my ſelf wait on your Excellency
in that Court; in the interim it's our humble
Supplication to your Excellency, that if any
Treaty fhould be, wherein this Affair may ne-
ceffarily be promoted, that your Excellency
would pleafe to do therein as may moft con-
duce to the fecuring our Rights, and your Ex-
cellency, will have the thankful acknowledge-
ment from all Parties. Glad we are to under-
fland of your Excellencie's fafe arrival in Spain,
and fhall defire God for a Blelling upon your
Excellencie's Negotiations. Thus craving your
Excellencic's Pardon for this trouble, which is
given in behalf of the Generality, I remain,
Your Excellencies
Ld. Amb. Fanshaw.
most humble Servant,
Ferdinando Bodye.
Sevill,
( 101 )
My Lord,
EEE
Sevilla, May 28. 1664.
Er this, by way of Malaga, your Excel-
lency will have the bad News from Tan-
gier. Here I had it five days ago by a Letter
from Sir Tobias Bridges, who commanded the
Horfe under his late Excellency; He and Colo-
nel Allop, Town Major of Tangier, are the two
chief that are left in the Garifon. He writes to
me as if they were in fome want of Alderman
Backwell's Provifion. Which from hence (ex-
cept your Excellency pleafes to command it)
will hardly be done until Orders comes from
England; for we who act for other Men are
limited by Orders beyond which we cannot
paſs, but at our Peril. If Sir John Lawſon
comes down, as questionless he will, as ſoon as be
bears the bad News, which may be by this time, the
Phenix and Advice Frigats from Cadiz having
been at Tangier fince the lofs; he being related to
the Money appointed for the Mould may ſupply them.
However, if he ſhould not, I humbly offer it to
your Excellencie's Contideration, to order the
Neceffaries, of which in duty I could not omit
to give your Excellency notice. By Letters from
Tangier of the 10th Inftant, they had Guards
in all the out Forts that his Excellency the late
Earl of Teviot built, without any other Novelty
but the confirmation of the bad News.
My Lord, At this inftant is come to my Hands
a Credit for Eight thouland pound upon the
Earl of Teviot's Bills, given by Alderman Back-
Ed. Amb. Faufhaw."
1 3
wel,
( 102 )
wel, under his Hand and Seal, a Copy where-
of goes here incloſed, the Original I keep until
yourExcellency pleaſes to acquaint us with your
Pleaſure. I fhall acquaint them of Tangier of the
Receipt of it; but being directed to the Earl,
without the Supplyment of your Excellencies Autho-
rity can be no fafe ground for any to act upon;
which is all the Prefent offers.. So humbly
taking leave make bold to fubfcribe my felf,
what in duty and affection I am,
My Lord,
Your Excellencie's most
bumble Servant,
1
And. Duncan.
I
My Lord,
Xeres, June 1. 1664.
Had the honour of your Excellencie's of the
20th of May, and with it the wifht for
News of your own, my Ladies, and Childrens
good Health, to which I with a ſucceſsful con-
tinuance, as alfo to all your other Concern-
ments. I was fo much importun'd by a Gen-
tleman of this Town, called Don John de Epis
dela, that I could not excufe the giving him
a Letter for your Excellency; I beg your pardon
for the liberty, as alfo that you will do in the
Requeft what you think fit, as being a forc'd
Compliance.
Ld. Amb. Fanshaw.
The
( 103 )
The Governor of Tangier's Death with 33
3 of
his beſt Officers, and 500 of his Soldiers is
confirm'd. It was a very great mifcariage in fo
great à Soldier to go a League fromTown with
out Horſe or Pike; and is alfo reported that he
publish'd his Defign four days before, and is
believed that the Jews in Town gave notice to
the Enemy.
All your Servants in this Houſe preſent their
humble Refpects to your Excellency, my Lady
and all the young Ladies, and defire to have
your Commands, and in the number,
My Lord,
Your Excellencie's moſt humble
and obedient Servant,
Dongan.
Sir,
Sling
4.
255+ June,
Ball
Ballecas
C25. May,
18
18
} 1664
.
ince my laft of May, (the chief matter
and ſcope whereof was to ftate the paſt
and prefent Condition of Tangier, fince the un-
happy cutting off the Earl of Teviot, and a
confiderable Party with him, by the Moors,
not without an Eye of Caution to what
might poffibly happen upon that Occafion from
the Hollander, and even concurrently or con-
nivingly, from my Friend the Spaniard) the
Mr. Sec. Bennet, H 4
herewith
7
(104)
herewith incloſed Papers (together with a du-
plicated Abſtract which I then fent as to the Main
of Tangier) contain'd fuch farther lights as I
have fince had concerning that Gariſon, with-
in it felf, and in reference to Guylan; alfo the
motions and prefent pofture and imployment of
Sir John Lawfon, and de Ruiter, whereby to
know in what distance they are refpectively to
help or hurt Tangier, in cafe the former fhould
be needed, of the latter doubted.
What is concurrently come to my Know-
ledge from other Hands,& fomewhat more than
is contain❜d in thoſe Papers, take as followeth.
That even the out Works of Tangier were
all fafe and unfeared by our Men, fome days
longer then my laſt ſpoke of, after that great
lofs of the 3d of May.
Alfo, that fince that time two Moorish Golyas
vapouring before the fame, on Horſe back, in de-
fiance, two of our Men fallying out, encoun-
tered with them, and brought them both Pri-
foners into the Garifon.
•
Alfo,that two of his Majeftie's Frigats (name-
ly the Phenix, and the Advice) have been at
Tangier fince the Difafter: From whence it is
trongly Conjectur'd,
That Sir John Lawfon hath had particular
notice thereof by Sea many days fince, in which
regard, the fending of my Exprefs to Alicante,
without the Circumstances of the Fact, was (I
hope) as fuperfluous as fhort.
I ought not in Juftice to an honourable Per-
fon, to conclude before I acquaint your Honour,
that I have this day feen a Letter, whereby it
is certify'd from my Lord Dongan (now at
Xeres) that, if there were any Ship in Cadiz,
bound for Tangier, he would go over in her to
do
( 105 )
do his Majefty what service he could in that
Garifon, which he faith, he fears wants good
Officers very much.
I would not conclude without being able to
tell you, that about twelve days fince the Mar-
quefs of Manfera, Vice-Roy of Nueva Hifpa-
nia, bound from Cadiz for his Government,
(than which nothing promifeth more Earth-
ly Felicity to a Subject) fell into the hands of
Turkish Pirates, as may be fuppofed with all the
dear Pledges which Fortune and Nature had
beſtowed upon him, with whatſoever befides
of Vallue he was worth, or he and his Friends.
could take up upon Credit; Becauſe qui en Vena
Indias trabe Indias.
Together with him were taken two Ships of
Quick-Silver, the which, how neceſſary a Drug
it is for working the Spanish Mines (no leſs the
Negros of Guinny) you well know.
This hitherto feems a propitious Year to the
Turks and Moors, fave that Sir John Lawfon met
with fome of them in the Spring; but fince they
reft themſelves cloſe in their inaccefible Den of
Algier (exercising there more barbarous Cruelties
than ever, as by one of thefe incloſed Papers
appears likewife) or prey far from home, as in
the lamentable cafe I have recited of the Spanish
Marquefs. God help Christendom! or (which
in effect would be one and the fame thing)
give Christendom the Grace, uniting, to help it
felf! Towards which Pious end, for the com-
nion good of Chriftian Nations, particularly
Spain, the fo much envied Poffeffion of Tangier
by the Crown of England appears to me fo con-
dùceable, that, in cafe the fame had been for
fome time paft fully fettled, with the Confe-
quences of a Mould and application to it of
Royal
( 106 )
Royal Ships going and coming, I do believe
this taking of an Indian Vice-Roy by Pyrats
had never hapned; whatever Service of like
nature farther this English Garifon and Colo-
ny might (and may yet) as a commodious
State be inftrumentally extenfive to.
Madrid, June 10. 1664.
For his Majefties ſpecial Service.
To his Excellency Denzell Lord Holles, one of the
Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy
Council, Lord High Steward to the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, Ambassador Extraordinary in
the Court of France.
My Lord,
A
Fter a long Progrefs from Cadiz, to Balle-
cas (a Village one League diftant from
this Court) and almoft as long a Parentheſis
there (which the French Court will fay was no
elegant piece of Oratorie; nor the Middle, at
all porpo.tionable to the beginning with me,
whatever the End may prove) upon the 8th
Instant I arrived happily at my Journie's end
howfoever: Where, as fpeedily then as my felf
could poffibly in any meaſure be ready for it,
namely upon the 18th, (both Stylo loci) I re-
ceiv'd my Publick Audience of Entrada, at the
King's Palace, in the fame Form (neither more
or less) as my Predecellors have ever done; and
only two days having fince interven'd (as by
the Account doth appear) within two or
three more from the date of this (the King re-
My Ld. Holles.
moving
( 107 )
moving to day unto the Buen Retiro) I do ex-
pect my first Private Audience.
Being thus fixt, after long running,in theCen-
ter of my Negotiation; I do prefume to beg
from your Excellency, and hereby to begin on
my Part, a mutal Correfpondence; firft in or-
der to the Service of our Royal Mafter, where-
unto we are both obliged in Common; Se-
condly, to that of your Excellency, whereunto
my ſelf in Particular.
To begin with what concerns my Embaſſie
(being fo much a fresh Man as your Excellency
fees I am in this Court) viſible it is, by what
proceeds,I can as yet have nothing to deſcant or
touch upon,but matter of Ceremony only from
and towards me; divifible into two Confiderati-
ons, the Firſt in reference to the Palace (of
which I have already faid) the fame hath been,
as from, and to, other Ambaffadors, in all this
and all other Ages. The Second, in reference to
the prefent concurring Emballadors, and other
Publick Minifters of this Court; and now up-
on this Branch I fhall (with your Excellen-
cie's Patience, if I may prefume ſo much) di-
late my ſelf ſo far as to the Heads only of what
hath paft in Fact, as followeth.
I need not tell yourExcellency,becauſe it dif
fers not from the Cuſtom of all or moft Courts
(until abuſes thereof inforced an alteration
in fome) that, in this, always heretofore, Am-
baffadors, and other Foreign Minifters upon the
Place, did fend their Families to accompany
new Comers to their firft Publick Audience,
and this went round.
Therefore accordingly I was now in my turn,
to expect this Function towards me, as I did.
The
1
( ro8)
The Mafter of the Ceremonies thereupon
(who is a Man New in his Place) advertiſed
me in Writing, that this, fince Henry VIII.
time, was never practifed to, nor by, Am-
baffadors of England. Finding this matter of
Fact utterly miſtaken, I Replyed. Soon after
he brought me a Meffage from the King, that
I fhould not expect this Ceremony; but ftill,
upon the fame mifgrounded Suppofition:
therefore unto this likewife I reply'd. Finally-
his Majefty (having weigh'd my laft reply) by
the Secretary of State for the North (Don Blaf-
co de Loyola, coming to my Houſe the Even-
ing before my Audience) fignify'd to me,
that for certain Reaſons, whatfoever was here-
tofore in practice of that kind, it muſt thence-
forward be no more, from or towards Eng-
lish, or any Ambaſſador whatſoever in this
Court, the which being his Majefty's own or-
der, in his own Kingdom, and equally indif-
ferent to all, my answer to the Secretary was,
that, for the prefent, I faw no farther cauſe
of reply, but would and did fubmit thereun
to.
The like fignification was at the fame time
fent to all other Ambaffadors, and Foreign Mi-
nifters here, that they would not fend, the
which, in compliance therewith, they for-
bear all but the French, who upon the very
Morning (the Hour of my Audience approach-
ing) fent four of his Gentlemen, with one
of his Coaches, to accompany me.
The Marquefs de Malpica, Major Domo of the
Week, and Captain of the German Guard, in
behalf of the Marquefs of Salinas (Proprietor
thereof) happening to be my Conductor (with
his Guard) did a little expoftulate with thofe
Gentlemen;
( 109 )
Gentlemen, why they came contrary to his
Majefty's Order: who replyed, their Lord did
receive no orders but from his own Mafter,
who had fent him very ftrict ones to perform
(I think he faid this Office in particular, at
leaft in general) all Offices of Amity to the
Ambaffador of the King of England, his Chri-
ftian Majeſty's moſt dear Brother and Ally.
In fine, accompany me they did (and very
civilly comported themſelves) both unto the
Palace, which was cuftomary, but now for-
bid, and home again, which was never done
before, by the Family of any Ambaffador, to
any other whatfoever in this Court.
They did infift that their Ambaſſador's Coach
ſhould preceed my fecond Coach, which was
not denyed them, being a civil Expedient
practifed in all or moft other Courts; the or-
dinary ftyle of this, and practifed, by theſe
individual French themfelves, towards Publick
Miniſters of the loweſt Rank, as they avowed
to me the fame Morning, in the Prefence both
of the Marquefs, and the Mafter of Ceremo-
nies, and exprefsly a Majori, that whenever I
ſhould fend in the like cafe to accompany a
new Commer from France, the fame meaſure
would never be fcrupled towards me.
For this obliging peice of Gallantry to the
King of England's Ambaflador, endeared by the
fingularity, by the oppofition of the Spanish
Court, and by the fupererogation of his Fol-
lowers extending it in part beyond the Exam-
ple of others, when the fame was in Cuſtom ;
I wrote my thanks Yefterday unto his Excel-
lency, who answered, that if he had not had.
the Orders of the King his Mafter to pay me
the refpects he did, it would have fufficed,
for
( iio)
for obliging him thereunto, to know, that
the King of England's Mother is his Maſter's
Aunt.
My Lord, there are in this Court who ſeem
of Opinion, that this excefs of Courtefie from
the French Ambaſſador, is not found within,
looking one way and rowing another; which
(fay they) will fhortly appear. For my own
part, I am quite of another mind; and hither-
to I am fure, in farther demonftrations of Kind-
nefs and Civility, he followeth Suit with the
forwardeft, if in that he was the fingle un-
followed Precedent. I am,
My Lord,
Your Excellencies moft Faithful,
and ever moft Obedient Servant,
Richard Fanfhaw.
I
Whitehall May 12. 1664.
My Lord,
Have now at laft, and not above two days
ago,received two of your Excellency's from
Sevil, of one date, of the 23 of March, Engl.
Account, with all the Papers mentioned in
them. For what related to your good Cheer,
was told us long ago, by thofe that were more
skilful in diſpatching their Letters than you
were then, but would be now equal to them,
fince I ſuppoſe you are ſettled at Madrid; 'tis
many
(III)
!
many Days fince, other Letters alfo told
us of your being at Caramanzel ; but
his Majefty was not a little furprized with the
Water the Duke of Medina Celi put into your
Wine, in his Difcourfe of thofe Men of Tan-
gier, which he keeps Priſoners; for having
brought and endeavoured to carry a quantity
of Chalk from the Coast of Spain thither: upon
which his Majeſty commands, that you immedi-
ately demand their Liberty, and declare, that you
cannot proceed farther in the Treaty, unless they fuf-
fer themſelves to know that Tangier belongs to the
King, and will pretend to the fame freedom of Com-
merce with them, which his other Dominions enjoy.
This I fuppofe you will firft difcourfe freely
with the Duke of Medina de las Torres, to whom,
if you fee caufe for it, and that you think it
will ferve your turn, you may freely ſay what
you know of their Tamperings with Gayland;
however his Majefty in his prudence hath hi-
therto thought fit to diffemble it; and tho, 'tis
likely, they will endeavour to throw you off
for a clear Anfwer herein, till it comes to be
handled in its place in the Treaty, yet you
muſt inſiſt of having the effect thereof imme-
diately granted you, at least by Connivance.
As for either our Nation, or the Spaniards, dif-
courfing you from hopes of obtaining a free Com-
merce into the Indies, you must make no account
of it, our Country-men are greedy for a prefent A-
greement, and ſo are theirs too, and will confequent-
ly be content to pay for it; but of all theſe, and
fuch following Subjects, you must be content to write
it in Cypher.
We had before the receipt of yours, an ac-
count of what Mr. Blundon wrote to you from
Alicant,and his R.Highness hath already fent Capt.
Beach
i
( 112 )
Beach a fevere Reprimand upon it; they them-
felves in Spain cannot condemn the Action,
more than we do, and you may be affured Sir
John Lawson will fee ample reparation made.
The Quickfilver taken by thofe, who contra-
ry to his Majefties exprefs Commands conti-
nued the Sea Robberies at Jamaica, hath been
lately brought in here, by a Merchant who
bought it there. Don Patricio Omoledei, pre-
tends his Majefty fhould feize it and reſtore it
to the King of Spain, as taken contrary to the
Articles of Peace; but we have told him qui-
etly he is deceived in that point, and in the
other; to make him comprehend, that if we
had Peace with Spain beyond the Line, we
fhould alſo have liberty of Trade and uſe of
their Ports. All we can do for his fatisfaction is,
that the King will punish his Governour there,
for continuing thofe Depredations, after he
was forbid them, and my felf have leave to fend
for the Merchant to fee whether I can fright
him into a Reftitution of the faid Quickfilver,
but oblige him to it by Law it is ceratin we can-
not; and yet Don Patricio will not agree to this,
fo that I fhall not be furprized if I hear you
tell me in your next, that you meet with his
Complaints at Madrid.
After to Morrow we hope to have recefs of
our Parliament for fome Months, and thank
God that it hath paffed over fo quietly, after
fuch an apprehenfion we had to the contrary.
I am, with much Affection and Refpect,
My Lord,
Your Excellencies moft Faithful Servant,
Henry Bennet.
Ld. Amb. Fanfhaw.
Madrid
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Engl. Style.
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Write this, being juft now returned from
my first private Audience of his Catholick
Majefty, which was given me in the Bucn Re-
tiro,and therein did deliver my ſelf in the Sence
of my Inftructions and Directions, not in ma-
ny words, becauſe the King's weak ftate of
Body will not allow it, but with much plain-
nefs and humble Freedom, concerning the lant
guifhing and defperate Condition in which
the Peace and Commerce between the Crowns
and Nations have long lain gafping, and ex-.
pecting an utter Diffolution, by frequent Vio-i
lation of Articles in feveral manners: As firſt,
the general Embargo of our Merchants in 1655.
Partial Adminiftration of Justice in the Ports, to
the undoing of many of our People, and Depreda-
tions by Free-booters upon the Coafts to this day,
whereby in high Peace England bath loft more Ship-
ping and Goods, than in fome War. I propofed
for Remedies, 1. Reftitution; 2. Reforming
all to the Rule of the Treaty 3. to Reform
the Rule and all, where found by experience
either fhort or obfcure.
That theſe things were the fubject of my
coming, as neceflary Prefaces to a firm and
uſeful Friendſhip, for the common Benefit of
both Crowns and Nations. The which the
King my Maſter on his part, &c.
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His
(114)
1
His Majelty commanded me to reduce my
Difcourfe into Writing, for his better Memo-
ry and Confideration, which fhall be done ac-
cordingly; and expecting the opportunity of
an Expreſs of theirs not long after, you ſhall
then have from me, by him, a full account of
that and whatſoever elfe in the interim fhall
grow ripening thereupon, at least to fomething
of probable gueſs of what may be the iſſue in
the end.
Yeſterday I received yours of the 12th of May,
and fhall prefs that of the Tangier Priſoners, as
is thereby directed, but for what may be there
further commanded in Cypher, I am at the
fame lofs; for which I lamented my felf in a
former to you, and do hope that the remedy
of both is by this time near at hand.
Sir John Lawſon is now at Tangier, worthily
concern'd for a place of that Conſequence, af-
ter fo great a Lofs as it lately fuftained, and
efpecially when the Rumours are fo hot of a
War with Holland. Gayland hath been at them
again, but bravely repulfed.
The truth is, I believe there is no Nation
that knows Tangier (fcarcely excepting that
from whom we had it) which doth not wiſh it
in any hand, rather than that in which it is,
and, (poffibly alfo) either over or under hand,
practife fomething towards putting it fo;
fhewing us by that how confiderable it is to us
ftill, in order to a Mould.
I conclude my prefent with the Portugals ta-
king Valencia de Alcantara, the confeque nce of
which is an Inlet into Caftile for themſelves,
and the excluding the Segovian Flock from their
winter Quarters in Extremadura, unleſs they be
fpeedily beaten out; which I do not well fore-
fee
(115)
fee how it can be, for want of prefent Foot and
Money. On the contrary, I fhould hold it no
ill bargain to be well enfured, that the matter
would ranckle no farther at this ftart. I humb-
ly take leave, and reft
Yours, &c.
The Introductor of Ambaſſadors to Sir Ri-
chard Fanfhaw.
Nthe Paper I fent to your Excellency, I faid
the fame thing that we formerly difcours' d en
by word of mouth; which was, that for certain
Reaſons, no English Ambaſſador was to be allowed
to Correspond with any other Ambaſſador of the first
Rank, in any Publick Affair, and for the fame rea-
fon the Domesticks of thofe Ambaſſadors were to be
excuſed attending the publick Entry of any fuch Am-
baſſador; forafmuch as be could not return the like
Favour. But provided that jour Excellency finds
any difficulty to confent to this, I defire you would
let me know by a Line or two, that I may acquaint
bis Majefty and know his Pleafure therein, before a-
ny fuch thing (hould offer.
Sir Richard Fanshaw, to the Duke de Mes
dina de las Torres.
First entreat your Excellency to peruse the Paper
berein encloſed, and afterwards to inform your
Self how the matter ftands, and what has paffed
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as to the Contents. In cafe it be the custom of this
Court of a long standing, that no Ambaffador fhall
fend any of their Domefticks to our Entrys, nor we
any to theirs. Ifhall make no difficulty to be fatisfi-
ed with what has been practifed towards my Prede-
effors; and therefore gave no answer to Don Pe-
dro Roxo, when he wrote to me about it, tho' he
defired me fo to do, that he might give an account
of it to his Majesty. But a night or two afterwards
the Jaid Don Pedro coming to Vifit me, he ask'd
me, as it were by the by, if I had taken any Refo-
lution concerning what be writ to me about. My
anfier was, that the day before I had fent my Secre-
tary to the Ambassadors of Germany and France,
to let them know, that in a very few days, I should
bave the bonour to kiss his Majefties Hand, and af-
terwards would be fure to wait on their Excellen-
cies, conformable to the Civilities received from
them. I withal added, that the fixed Day of my
Audience I could not acquaint them with, by reafon
his Majesty bad let me know that his pleasure was
to the contrary. To this Don Pedro reply'd, that I
bad not well understood what he wrote me, for that
the Order concerning Ambasadors was not of Ye-
ferday, but of much longer standing. I answer' d
all I then could in defence of my ſelf and my Proceed-
ings. But fince this Conference with Don Pedro,
I have been informed, that all English Ambaffadors
have ever had thefe Privileges which 1 inlift upon,
and therefore I beseech your Excellency that I may
not be excluded them. If it were an Innovation I
required, Ifhould have been much to blame to have
expected it, but fince it is a Custom, I humbly kifs
your Excellency's Hand, and hope you'l take care I
have it allow'd, being
*
Your Excellencies, &c.
S
R. Fanshaw.
To
1
( 117 )
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
"In the first place having procured his Catholick Ma-
jesty to be prepared to expect it,I delivered my felf
in Engliſh, and in the express Words of my Inftru-
&tions, only changing the Perfon, as followeth, viz.
Them
He moft Serene King of Great Britain, my
Mafter, hath charged me (after kiffing
your Majefties Feet with due Reverence) to re-
prefent unto your Catholick Majefty, that fome
unhappy Accidents intervening, have occafi-
oned his not performing this part towards your
Majefty fooner, in return of thofe Congratu
latory Embaffys, which your moft Serene Ma-
jeſty ſent unto him, immediately upon his late
happy Reftoration to his Kingdoms. His moſt
Serene Majefty commanded me to add farther,
that neither thofe Accidents, nor any other,
of what nature foever, have been, or can be
able, to leſſen his Efteem of your Royal Perſon
and Friendship, or the Obligations he had to
your moſt ferene Majefty, in the time of his
Adverfity; and that therefore your Majefty may
affure your felf, that his Majefty will be ready
in all times to make proportionable Returns,
With this, and the delivering to his Catho
lick Majefty, firſt my Latin Credential, then the
Refpects of the whole Royal Family of England,
in general words, and particularly a Letter
from his Royal Highnefs; alfo (his Majefties
leave firft ask'd) prefenting my Comrades one
I 3
after
( 118 )`
after another, to do their obeifance, I made my
retreat in the accustomed manner.
The like reſpectively, immediately after, in
the Queens fide, to her Majefty, unto whom I
preſented his Majefties Letter, and afterwards
two others from their Royal Highneffes, then
a Complement to the Emprefs, fo treated(as to
Title) but rank'd (as to Place) becaufe not
yet Efpouſed, beneath the Queen her Mother,
and would have been alfo, had his Highneſs
been there prefent (as was intended, but that
it proved either his fleeping or eating Hour)
beneath her Brother the Prince. All which
feemed very graciously accepted; and here no
English at all was spoken. Laftly, a Dumb fhew
of Salute (as you know the Cuftom to be) after
the Queen and Emprefs, to every particular
Dame; and in this cloſe of this Ceremony, as
well towards their Majefties as the Ladies, my
Comrades had all of them leave to follow me.
The Evening (and near that time it was be-
fore we had gotten home and eaten our Break-
faft) was wholly fpent by me in expected Vi
fits to the Duke of Medina de las Torres, and the
reft of the Council, the Prefident of Caftile
(quatenus) fuch only excepted by me, as like-
wife by all other Ambafladors of the firft: Claffe
ufes to be.
This is the reafon why (for haft, having
only a piece of the Night for my own, before
the Poft departs) I write to you bare matter of
Fact, in this miſhapen way hitherto; and in
another point (perhaps of more import in the
Confequence, than all the reft) I must be forced,
for the fame Reafon, to go yet lefs; only touch-
ing thereupon very briefly for the prefent.
You
(119)
You well know a Cuftom of this Court (and
I believe of moft others likewife, till abufes
thereof enforced an Alteration in fome,) that
Ambaladors, and other Foreign Minifters upon the
place, fend their Families to accompany any new
Comers to their first Publick Audience; and this
went round.
Accordingly, I was now to expect this Fun-
tion towards me, as I did.
The Master of the Ceremonies thereupon (who
is a man new in his Place) advertized me in
writing, That this, fince Henry VIII's time, was
never practifed to, nor by Ambaſſaders of Eng-
land.
Finding this matter of Fact utterly miſtaken,
I replyed,
Soon after he brought me a Meſſage from the
King, That I should not expect this Ceremony: But
ftill upon the fame mifgrounded Suppofition;
therefore to this likewife I reply'd.
Finally, (his Majefty having weigh'd my laſt
Reply) by the Secretary of State for the North
(Don Blafco de Loyola coming to my Houſe Ye-
fterday) fignify'd to me, That for certain Rea-
fons, whatsoever was heretofore in Practice of that
kind,it must thence forward be no more from or towards
any Amballador whatfoever in his Court. The which
being his Majefties own Order,in his own King-
dom, and equally Indifferent to all, my Anfwer
to the Secretary was, That for the present I sw
no farther Cauſe of Reply, but would and did ſub-
mit thereunto.
The like fignification was at the fame time
fent to all other Ambaffadors and Foreign Mini-
fters here that they would not fend. The which,
in compliance,therewith, they forbore; all but
the French, who this morning fent Four of his
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Gentlemen, with one of his Coaches, to ac-
company me.
The Marquefs de Malpica, Mayor Domo of the
Week, and Captain of the German Guard, in
behalf of the Marq, of Salinas (Proprietor there!
of) happening to be my Conductor (with his
Guard) did a little Expoftulate with thofe Gen
tlemen, why they came contrary to his Majefties
Order? who reply'd, Their Lord did receive no
Orders, but from his own Maſter, who had fent him
very strict ones to perform (I think he faid this Office
in particular, at least in general) all Offices of Amity
to the Ambaſſador of the King of England, bis Chri-
ftian Majefty's most dear Brother and Ally.
"
In fine, accompany me they did (and very
civilly comported themfelves) both unto the På-
lace, which was cuftomary, but now forbid;
but home again, which was never done before
by the Family of any Ambaſſador, to any other
whatſoever, in this Court. So that hitherto,
as to this Action, they can have nothing to.
boaſt of, but an excefs of Civility towards the
Crown of England, or the Perfon of our Royal
Mafter. In return whereunto, his Majefly (in
my humble Opinion) will think fit, to com-
mand me, or whofoever, fhall fucceed me, to
perform the fame Office towards the Succeffor of
this French Ambaffador. As to both points which
make it worthy of peculiar Eftimation, that is
to fay, with an Exception in this one particu
lar only, tho' his Catholick Majefty fhould con-
tinue his prefent general Rule to the contrary;
and altho? alfo, even whilft this Complement
was generally practifed, it was not by any ex-
tend d fo far, as to accompany any Ambafla-
dur back to his Houfe: and this the rather, if
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it fhall be found, that the French Ambaffador
(conforming hereafter to the general Rule, as
to all others) fhall have made the English Am-
bafador his fingle exception in the caſe.
This experiment will now foon be made, a
new Venetian Ambaffador being daily expected
here; tho' poffibly he may not have his Audi-
ence ſo very ſoon after, but that, in the inte-
rim, I may upon this clear, tho' brief, ftating
of all Actions and Circumftances to me, as yet
appearing above ground in this matter, receive
his Majefty's particular Directions and Cauti-
ons, how to carry myſelf in all Events; the
which I am exceedingly defirous of; and, in
default thereof, will with all Fidelity proceed
and work according to the beft of my under-
ftanding.
If it be not already clear enough from the
premifes, you may be pleafed to take notice,
that no one Stranger went with me, but thoſe
French,in the Ambafadors Co ach, which with-
out any leaft difpute whatfoever, did give
place to my principal Coach, as mine did to
that which brought the Marquefs, being the
King's proper Coach, a thing not formerly u-
fual upon thefe occafions.
They did infilt,that their Ambalador's Coach
fhould precede my fecond Coach, which was
not denyed them, being a civil Expedient pra-
&tifed in all or moft other Courts the ordina~
;
rily Style of this, and practifed by thefe indi-
vidual French themfelves, towards Publick Mi-
nifters of the loweſt Fank, as they avowed to
me this morning, in the prefence both of the
Klarquefs and the Mafter of Ceremonies, and
exprefly a Majori, that whenever I ſhould fend
in the like cafe to accompany a new comer
from
( 122 )
from France, the fame meaſure ſhould never be
fcrupled towards me.
-
My next difpatch fhall contain all theſe things
at large mean time, in great fear that I have
loft the Poft, I reft
Madrid, Wednesday
Your moft Faithful, and ever
moft Obedient Servant,
25 June, 1664.
Richard Fanfhaw.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wednesday 4 Junii, 1664.
SIR,
Mi
Y laft difpatch to you was Wednesday 13
Inftant, the day of my firft Publick Au-
dience, or Entrance, and contained the full
account of what had paft therein, as well in
reference to the Spanish Court, as to the Am-
baffadors, and other publick foreign Miniſters
concurring in the faine only, as to the latter
point, having fummarily flated it, I referr'd
you for farther enlargement to my next, which
is this, by which (perufing the following Pa-
pers) you will now particularly underftand,
firft, what it was which in exprefs Terms the
Maſter of Ceremonies certified to me; fecond-
ly, what I in terms no lefs exprefs reply'd there-
upon, to the Duke of Medina de las Torres;
without both which, it will not fo eaſily and
clearly be feen through, what grounds moved
the Spanish Court to interdict an old Cuſtom,
por vet to probably conjectured, what might
móve
( 123 )
move the French Ambaffador not to confent
thereunto, as to this particular; if at least he
had any farther fcope therein, than to deceive
the expectations of fome, who thought of no-
thing lefs, than that he would ftudy and force
ways to put Refpects upon the Ambalador of
England, none elfe did, or were fuffered to do,
but himſelf. I reft
SIR, Your most, &c.
Sir Richard Fanshaw to the French Ambaf-
Jador.
Humbly thank Your Excellency for the Civi-
lity you fhew'd to the King my Master, and the
Honour you
did me, in fending your Coach and Do-
mefticks, to accompany my Entry, and whereof I re-
tain fo lively a Sence, that I am just going to ac-
quaint my Master with it, not doubting in the least
but i will meet with that Esteem from him which
your Excellency fo highly deferves. My Inftructions
indeed were to observe a more than ordinary Intima-
cy and Amity with your Excellency at this Court,
which I fhall always continue to do, and whereby I
imagine we may not a little contribute towards the
good and welfare of both Kingdoms. I kiss your Ex-
cellency's Hands, and wish you a long and profperous
Life; being
My Lord,
Your Excellencies moft Obliged,
and moſt Humble Servant,
R. F.
To
( 124 )
"
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Friday July, 1664. Engl. Stile.
SIR,
Purluant
از
Urfuant to the Premifes, returning from
my Conference above fpecified, with the
Duke de Medina de las Torres, I give you a clear
account thereof, as followeth.
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The Duke began, That, as upon the day of
my firſt Private Audience with the King his
Mafter, his Catholick Majefty was then pleafed
to liften with attention, to what I reprefented
by word of mouth; fo the fame having been
confequently delivered to his Majefty from me
(complying with his Royal Command on that
behalf) in writing, his Majefty hath fince pe-
rufed and farther confidered the Contents there-
of in the faid Writing.
That, as to my Perfon, his Catholick Majefty
doth accept of it, as of one not amiſs choſen
by my Royal Mafter for the prefent Fun-
ction.
That my Errand (fo far forth as I had yet
declared it) is confeft much more acceptable
than my Perfon; and on the part of his Catho-
lick Majefty, encounter'd with equal Affection
and Sincerity, to thofe expreffed by, and in the
name of his Majefty of Great Britain.
That in particular, as to my two points,
Peace and Commerce, as formerly, and with A-
mendments, by way of Addition, Subtraction,
Explanation, or otherwife, as fhould be agreed
on both fides; his Catholick Majefty is as for-
ward as can be defired.
That
( 125 )
That, to that end, the King his Mafter ha-
ving appointed him the faid Duke to Treat
with me, he propoſed to me (as a Frame to
work upon, with the variation before expreft)
the laſt Treaty of 1630.
This overture (confidering a little within
my felf, withal reflecting upon my fifth In-
ftruction, and that the motion tended no far-
ther than to matter of Peace and Commerce
only) I took to be within the genuine Sence
of the faid Inftruction, which fays, That ang
Treaty offered by this Court I ought to enter upon,
adding fuch other Propofitions, on his Majefties part,
as may contribute, ec. and fo agreed to his Excel-
lency therein only requeſting, that towards a
clearer underſtanding thereof, as many of the
former Treaties might, by his Excellencies com-
mand, be gotten together, as are yet extant
in their Archieves (which are better preſerved
than ours have, been, by accident of Fire, and
Civil War) and the rather, becauſe as many as
I have met with are all relative to fome of a
higher time.
His Excellency anfwered, be thought he was
already furnish'd of thofe kinds with what would
ferve our turn; inftancing upon that occafion,
that the time of the ftricteft League and Friend-
ſhip between the Crowns of Spain and England,
was (he conceived) in the Reigns of Charles V.
and Henry VIII. I faid, rather (I thought) in
thofe of Henry VII. and the Catholick King
and Queen; becauſe then began a Marriage
between their Children: but, indeed, that I
prefumed ſtill the ftrickeft Friendſhip, and Fruit-
fuleft of all, was in the time of the King Don
Pedro the Cruel, and the Black Prince.
Glancing
( 126 )
Glancing in Difcourfe upon the matter of
this Treaty, he faid, he thought there would be
nothing knotty in it, but the Point of the Weft-
Indias; and why fhould his Majefty of Great
Britain (to the unfpeakable Prejudice of the
Spanish Crown and Nation) offer at conceffions
there, without the which his Predeceffors, and
all the World befides, have contented them-
felves, even fince the diſcovery thereof? And
why might not the Articles with the Dutch, in
that particular, be a fitter ground to go up-
on?
All I reply'd was, that I am a Servant obli-
ged to my Maſter's Orders; who otherwiſe,
for my own part, would be contented his Ma-
jefty were as willing (provided the incum-
brances upon his own Crown would bear it)
to receive little from Spain, as I am fure he is
to do much for Spain.
Theſe were only half words by the by; the
Duke intending nothing of Treaty to begin at
that time, farther than to chalk out the future
method for one.
He then told me that his Catholick Majefty,
in condeſcenſion to that part of my Difcourfe
which concern'd an Ambaſſador, to be fent
from this Court to that of England, hath refol-
ved it in the general, and will ſpeedily confult
the particular Perſon; whom, in due time, fhall
be diſpatched thither. In the interim, that
Difpatches fhall forthwith go to Don Patricio O-
muledi, to Negotiate the Affairs there, in the
Quality of Refident,
The third general Point in my Audience-
paper, with reference to a very ſtrict League
(otherwiſe than in general Complements) the
Duke did not feem to me to touch upon at
all;
( 127 127)
)
all; unleſs that fame fignifying his Catholick
Majefties Refolution of fending an Aml affador
to England, may be conftrued, by inference
and implication, to join iffue thereupon
likewife; becaufe, in fuch cafe only (purfu-
ant to my Inftructions) I had preft the fending
of an Ambaſſador; and then by their haft more
or lefs, to the execution of the one, will be
feen their reality for the perfecting the other,
according to the Suppofition of my Inftruction
on that behalf.
This being all in that Conference which con-
cerned the matter of my paft Audience with
his Catholick Majefty, I humbly crave leave to
remain
A²
Your most, &C:
POSTSCRIPT.
Tthis Conference (in obedience to your fignifi-
cation on that behalf) I demanded the li-
berty of our Tangier Men, detained in Priſon a-
bout the carrying away Lime or Chalk out of Spain,
for that Garrison; the Duke faid he would move
the Council in it; but, by the way, I mentioning
what the Duke de Medina Celi faid to me upon
the fame occafion, namely, that here they look upon
Tangier as in the poffeffion of Portuguezes ftill. He
reply'd, that no, his Catholick Majeft; doth know
it now to be in the bands of a Friend, and as from
fuch intended fhortly to ask it. Against it comes to
that, I shall be ready with convincing Arguments,
hope,as well as with refolute denials,to stop the Duke's
mouth, both as to that and as to Jamaica; tho I do
expect it will foure my Entertainment in this Court ;
whereunto I do fufpect that our Friend Don Patricio
Omuledi bath infinuated hopes thereof, which were
I
never
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never given him by ours, and that That indeed it
was which made my arrival fo impatiently longed
for, and fo magnificently celebrated.
bis
Moreover in this Conference, I, upon Letters new-
ly received out of the Canaries, making my com-
plaint, that the old Commiſſion of Embargo (which
ought never to have been put on foot at all) is at
this day profecuted against the Engliſh in thoſe I-
flands, with as much rigour and violence as if we
were in high War. The Duke reply'd, that cannot
poffibly be, and in cafe it were, that it should be fpee-
dily and effectually remedied; for that from the time
of the Accord with D. Henrique Benete, upon
Majeſty of Great Britain's Reſtoration, the Treaty
of the two Crowns was to be in full force on both
fides. This Ejaculation I know was levell'd more
at the English affifting of Portugal,and infefting of
the Spaniſh Indies, than at what we were then
fpeaking of; and the rather I know it, because in
fome part of the fame Conference the Duke took oc-
cafion to tell me, that things done in those Indies.
by the English, were exprefly against the Articles of
the Peace, as he would make appear to me when
we came to that point.
In the mean time, that this of the Canaries is
fo (admitting the matter of fact) himself bath con-
feft; befides a long Lift of lawless Prizes (as we
fay) and other just Complaints of our Merchants.
All which I mention upon this occafion not to widen,
but in order to the closing of our Breaches, by the
prefent right Understanding of things past, and
wholfom Remedies for the future, whereby each.
party may clearly know what to trust to at the
hands of the other, be it more or lefs.
So long as the Spaniard is contented to fhew him-
Self backward or indifferent, in this third Point, you
may
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may be fure I remember the Scope of my Instructions
well enough, not to be over forward therein on my
part.
R. F.
SIR,
THE
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid 2 July, 1664.ftylo loci.
HE herewith incloſed Papers, do contain
my Complaint of a ſtudied Neglect put
by a Venetian Ambaffador, whom I found in
this Court ready to depart the fame within a
ſhort time, upon the Ambaſſador of the King
of England, in not giving me a Vifit either of
Welcome or Farewel, as the cuftom of this
and all other Courts do require in the like cafe
the which I have thought it my precife Duty
to repreſent to the King our Mafter, as know-
ing how highly the like neglect in the Court
of England, by a Venetian Amballador alfo, with
others, towards an Ambaſſador, but of a Duke
of Savoy was refented, his then Majefty him-
felf in his Princely Judgment condemning the
omiſſion, as will here appear in the firſt
place.
;
And leaſt this Venetian Ambaffador fhould ju-
ftifie himſelf in this towards me, as pretending.
to be aggrieved by me, becauſe I am intituled
by his Catholick Majefty to the Houſe of the
7 Chimeneas, which he was poffefs'd of, and
endeavoured to entail the fame upon his Suc-
ceffor, both againſt the Decree of his Majeſty
and the confent of the owner (I having both)
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I do
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I do likewiſe herewith in the following Papers,
make it clearly appear, that I did neither think
of that individual Houfe, till it was already
embarged for me, nor purfue it afterwards, as
moſt Men but my felf would have done, being
fo deftitute of conveniencies of Dwelling as I
then was, and yet am, merely out of a refpect
I bear to the Character of an Ambaffador. So
that even in this particular, which is all the co-
lour he can have for excufe of not Vifiting, I
have juſt cauſe of a ſecond Complaint, but this
fecond I totally let pafs.
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The other being much taken notice of by
this Court, as a matter of a more publick Na-
ture, I humbly fubmit it to his Majefties Con-
fideration, whether, in his Royal Wiſdom, he
may not think fit to expoftulate it with the Se-
nate of Venice: In the mean time his Succeffor
being arrived,I intend to fend juft fuch a Meffage
to him, as his Predeceffor did to me; but have
already declared (with the feeming approbation
ofall) that I will never give to,nor receive a Viſit
from this,or any Venetian Ambaffador whatſoever,
that ſhall be in this Court while I remain here,
unleſs the King my Mafter, being applied to by
the Republick, fhall command it.
R. Fanfhaw.
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To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord.
Whitehall, Febr. 14. 1663.
Had forgot at your departure to recommend
unto your Excellency, the Cafe of Mrs.
Owens,
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Owens, Widow of one Mr. Francis Owens, who
had deferved well of his Majelly our Mafter,
but better of the King of Spain, by furniſhing
Money to many of his publick Occafions, part
of it in my time whilft I was at Madrid; one Fa-
ther Will. Sankey of the Company, will inform
your Excellency of the whole matter; after
which, I am confident you will think the Equi-
ty of it worthy of your Protection and Favour;
of which I befeech your Excellency to add fome-
thing at my Intreaty, who am with all Affection,
My Lord;
Your Excellencies most humble Servant,
Henry Bennet
To my Lord Chancellor.
Madrid Wednesday 6 July, 1664. Engl. Stile´
I
My very fingular Good Lord,
Have herewith addreſſed to the hands of Mr.
Secretary Bennet, very large Diſpatches,
containing the prefent State of this Kingdoms
War with Portugal;" alfo of my Negotiation in
matters which concern the two Crowns of Eng-
land and Spain. All which latter I do moſt
humbly beg your Lordſhips ferious Peruſal and
Confideration of, in order to my fuller Inftru-
Єtion in my future progrefs therein, particular-
ly wifhing, that the Article in reference to the
Weft-Indies (which, according to the Duke of
Medina de las Torres, is like to be the knot of
the Treaty) may be fent me penn'd, out of
Eng-
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England, in fpecifical Manner and Form, as
fhall be to his Majefties liking; and that with
as much ſpeed as poffible: I intending, for the
gaining time in that particular, without lofing
it upon the whole, to make it my bufinefs with
the Duke to poftpone that Article. Iam,
My Lord,
Your Lordships most Faithful and ever
most Obedient Humble Servant,
Richard Fanfhaw.
To my Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord.
Mr
Whitehall, June 2. 1664.
Y laft to your Excellency was of the 12th
paft (excepting one I wrote in favour
of Mr. Clerk of the 27th) and in that laſt I ac-
knowledged yours from Sevil, fince when (to
our great amazement) we have received none
from you; from others we hear you are in
the Villages about Madrid, entertaining your
felf till your Houſe be ready, but even in thoſe
Villages we fuppofe you might have time to
write, and opportunity to fend your Letters,
and at leaſt give us account in them of the Pri-
vate Audience you have had of his Catholick
Majeſty, and Conferences with the Duke of
Medina de las Torres;of which we hear from other
hands, and not a little afhamed that we have it
not from yours. All which I ſay to you for
that reaſon, not being able to perſuade but that
you
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you have written, but that your Lettets are
miſcarried. And notwithſtanding I have ta-
ken care, even when I wrote not my felf, that
you ſhould have conftant Advertiſement of the
common Occurrence here out of my Office,
which I have ordered to be fent weekly to you,
and ſhould be glad to hear you complain it
were not punctually performed.
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My laſt News to you from my ſelf, was the
quiet recefs of the Parliament, and the Incou-
ragements it had bequeathed his Majefty to en-
ter into Expoftulations with the Dutch, for the
wrongs they daily do us in our Trade; fince
which time all his Majefty hath yet done there-
upon is, to make ready fuch a Fleet as may fe-
cure us from any. And to call hither for a few
days Sir George Downing, who is newly arrived;
'from whom his Majefty looks for a clear re-
port of the temper of that Country towards
us, who are working night and day to fet out
· a Fleet of 30 Ships; at leaft in the mean time
we would be glad to hear from you, what
' countenance that Court puts on this matter,
and what part they are like to take, in cafe
'this Expoftulation fhould end in aQuarrel, which
"(for Curiofity fake) I am willing to ask you,
'tho I know them well enough, to fuppofe it
very probable they will not preſently ſpeak
'their minds upon it.
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'The Emperor's Envoy has taken his leave, and
is going away, as well pleafed as it is pollible
for a Man to be, who hath not obtained the
end he came for, viz. a Succour for his Ma-
fter againſt the Turks, or a diverfion by moleft-
ing them in the Mediterranean Sea with our
'Ships. For the reft he hath a very civil An-
fwer, That tho his Majefties Affairs, or (ra-
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ther Neceflities) will not permit him at pre-
'fent to contribute to fo good a Work, yet that
' when the Princes of Christendom will profef-
fedly and unitedly put their hands to it, his
Majefty will fhew himſelf as forward as any of
'them: And befides this, one other confidera-
'ble Point this Envoy may value himſelf to have
gotten, which is, the reftoring his Mafter to
fuch a ftate of Friendſhip and Correſpondence
with ours, as will make his future Negotia-
tion to this Court much eafier, if he chance to
'have need of it. Whereas before your In-
Atructions told you upon what ill Terms of
'Courtefie we mutually were; and this I tell you
'with this length, becauſe I know it will be ac-
ceptable in the Court where you are.
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My next buſineſs is to lament with you the
unhappy lofs of my Lord of Teviot at Tangier,
upon a Project which hath much leffen'd his
Reputation of Soldiery and good Conduct,
which he will hear himſelf, if he have out-lived
it,and be a Priſoner in Gayland's hands, as it is
yet pollible he may be: It is needlefs to relate
to you particulars, becauſe you cannot be with-
out the knowledge of them from the Coaſt that
way. And it will be worth your care, to ob-
'ſerve very well the Spaniards Countenance in
this accident, and whether they are tranfact-
ing any thing with Gayland upon this occafion.
In the fuppofition (only) of which, you
'muft not be ſhy of telling them, that they can-
'no more fentibly offend his Majefty, than in
doing any thing more of that nature; or, in-
deed, denying us any of thofe ufeful things
'we have need of (from the Coaft of Majorca)
'for the Defence of that Place; in which they
will thew themfelves not only bad Allies, but
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​bad Chriftians alfo, if they countenance any
'farther Attempts of the Moors upon us there:
But that we may be out of all danger of it,
his Majefty is immediately diſpatching a Re-
'cruit of Men, and all other things requifite to
'the defence of the place.
Since I wrote thus far, I have received two
more of your Excellencies, the former of the 3d
of March, a Duplicate of what I acknowledged
in my former from Sevil; the latter March 29.
from Cordona, both our ftile; but by nether of
them fatisfied in my curiofity and defire to hear
from you; which I am the more fcandalized
at, becauſe ſome of my Houfhold have recei-
ved Letters from fome of yours,of May 7, dated
at Ballecas. This of mine fhall be no longer,
but to affure you of my being, with much
Truth and Affection,
My Lord,
Your Excellencies most humble Servant,
HENRY BENNET.
I
My Lord,
Have the honour of your Excellencies Let-
ters of the 7th of May, N. S. and pay you
my humble thanks for the kindneſs of your re-
membring me. I am farther obliged to you
for reminding my requeſt to you concerning
Wilmot, wherein your Juftice was as well veri-
fied as your Friendſhip, and I ſhall befeech you
to continue both the one and the other, ar d if
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any
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any Addrefs or Application be made to you for
the future in this concern, that you would
pleaſe to perfift in your former goodRefolution,
and to interpofe for the releaſe of Wilmot,with-
out giving fatisfaction to the Perfon intereſſed.I
prefume you have an account of Emergencies
here from other Hands, which may fuperfede
mine. I ſhall therefore more fuccinctly make an
Index to larger Hiftories. The Parliament was
very compliable with his Majefty; fome few Bills
were paffed, As to repeal that Antimonarchical
Act for a triennial Parliament; another to pre-
vent Conventicles, which had many Traverſes,
and wherein the Refolutions of his Majefty
were various, and about which were many
Conferences and Debates betwixt the Lords and
Us; another for the better Collecting of the
Hearth-mony; another againſt the giving up
of Ships to the Turks that were in any capaci-
ty to fight it out; fome other Bills had the
Royal Affent of leffer moment. The King de-
manded no Aids from them this Seffion, that
they might once go down and be the better
welcome to their Countries, becauſe they had
laid no Tax upon them. The Houſes are
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Prorogued to the 20th of August, but if his
Majefty have no urgent occafion to warrant
them then,they will not convene until November.
But becauſe there may be an exigence requi-
ring them to meet'fuddenly, therefore the Pro-
rogation was to a fhort day. That which was
reflected on as what might be an occafion of
their fudden Affembly, was a War with Hol-
land, wherein the Houfes labour'd to engage
his Majesty, if no fatisfaction fhould be made
after demand thereof, for the Injuries and In-
dignities they had done us. The Houfes voted
that
( 137 )
that the Wrongs and Infolences offered us by
the Dutch,were the great obftruction of Trade,
which they defired his Majefty to redreſs in
Ways proper for him. He, according to his
wont,gave them a gracious Anfwer, promiſing
to make demand of juſt fatisfaction, which if
denied he would endeavour to compel them to
give it, and in purfuit thereof he depended up-
on the Aid and Aſſiſtance promiſed by the Houfe,
who offered to engage theirLives and Fortunes
with him.His Majefty bath commanded SirGeorge
Downing to make a step hither to give his Ad-
vice, who believes the Dutch will be forward and
fail to make due Satisfaction, and will leave us no
juft Foundation for a War. Nevertheless his Majesty
in just caution not to be furprised, is inftantly fetting
forth to Sea 12 Royal Ships, and Rigging 30 more.
The Dutch are Equiping 30, and the Eaft-Indian
Company there 15 more for Convoy of their Fleets.
The Animofity of the Nations, and the fenfe the
Captains andCommanders may have howWar is much
of their Intereft, is fuch, as no Man can be fure they
fhall not make a Quarrel,when they face each other,if
they find none,and engage the Nations inevitably.The
Death of the Earl of Teviot, and many brave
Men at Tangier, which was as great an error
as loſs, hath overfpread the Court with a fad
Cloud, but we are haftning confiderable Re-
cruits and Supplies thither. I am in all truth
and intireneſs of Affection,
June 6. 63.
Your Excellencie's most
bumble and faithful Servant,
William Morice.
To
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To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
Your
Whitehall, May 26. 1664.
Our Excellency will find none from Mr:
Secretary, he having receiv'd nothing
from your Excellency fince you were at Seville.
We are uncertain what will be the iffue of our
difference with Holland. In the interim his Ma-
jefty and the Duke are feriouſly bufied in
viewing our Stores, and ripening fome pro-
portionable preparatives beyond the ufual
Summer Guards. The King intends a Journey
to Portſmouth fhortly for the fame end. All
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things continue very quiet here, bleffed be
God. The Dutch are much allarm'd at what
is ſaid to be done by us on the Coafts of Afri-
ca, whereof the particulars are not yet cer-
tainly told; but all is well we hope. Sir George
Downing will poffibly be here a Fortnight or
three Weeks hence, for fome time. I am with
all respect,
My Lord,
Your Excellencie's most
obedient humble Servant,
J. Williamſon.
Whitehall,
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Whitehall, May 26. 1664.
A Letter to my Lord Hollis, fent by miſtake to my
Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
W
Aiting on his Majeſty on Munday laſt to
Chatham, I had not time to acknow-
ledge your Excellencies received that day of
May 18. N. S. Encloſed in it another of yours to
Monfuer de Lienne, expoftulating upon many
Points. By my next I will be able to fend you
an exact account of what Wine is allowed the
French Amballador here Cuftom-free, as like-
wife what Sir Richard Brown knows of fuch Al-
lowances there. In the mean time I cannot
but applaud your refolution to ftir no farther
in your Pretence, the ground wherof being an
effect of their Aufterity,if that do not continue
it, it will be too dear bought to ask it the ſe-
cond time.
This Evening I receiv'd alfo your Excellen-
cies of May 22. N. S. in which, as alſo in
your former, you difcourfe to me all that can
be faid concerning the Confuls; as for the
Objection of that Court to his Majeſties Nomi-
nation of Confuls of his own Nation, and
endeavouring to impofe upon our Merchants.
the uſe of their Brokers for the diſpatch of
their Ships; it is certainly a very offenfive and
injurious Impofition, and fuch a one as they
themſelves will not fubmit unto in other Coun-
tries; for which reafon the conftant practice
of
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of former times, and the infinite prejudice
our Merchants would receive by having them-
felves and their Goods at the mercy of thoſe
Brokers, your Excellency muft refift this Vio-
lence to the utmoft. As for what our own
Merchants object againft Sir David English as
little ought they to be countenanced in the
contradiction of his Majefties Authority, or
affectation of nominating a Confult themfelves,
if that be their aim (as very poſſibly it is) But
on the other fide, their exception to the ex-
travagant demands of two per Cent. and ten
Crowns per effel is fö juftifiable, as it will be-
come your Excellency frankly to deny Sir Da-
vid English your Protection in fuch his demand,
his Majefty not having, to my remembrance,
ever recommended the allowance of more than
per Cent. to any Conful. And upon the
whole matter your Excellency may pleaſe to
obferve to the Merchants the difadvantage they
expoſe themſelves to in having the Brokers
thus impofed upon them, whilft they give oc-
cafion for it by thus difputing with his Ma-
jefties Authority; without which neither the
Nation can be well ferved, nor his Majeſty
have any fecurity of the Affection and Duty of
fuch Factories in his Service.
I ſee your Excellency hath receiv'd his Ma-
jefties pleafure concerning your viſiting the
Princes, and though your obfervation upon
them doth not differ much with my opinion,
yet I dare not recommend to you any variati-
on therein, till I have repreſented the matter a-
new. As for the Capitulation, it is left to you
to make it or not, as you fee the need requires
.it.
To
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To this I have no News to add but the fatis-
faction his Majefty had in his Voiage to Cha-
tham, and the condition he found his Fleet and
Stores to be in there.
Looking back upon your Excellencies for-
mer Letter, I find you are pleaſed therein to
ask my opinion of a Letter you had prepar'd
for Monfieur de Lienne, which I cannot but
like in all the parts of it, upon which if you
think it fit to expoftulate, nothing can be more
fufficiently faid. The Queftion with me only
is whether you do not expofe your ſelf two
much in writing fo diftinctly, when perhaps
you may not be too fecure of having as di-
ftinct Anſwers. But of this you your ſelf are
beſt Judge. What I fay is only uſing the free-
dom you give me herein, which I will enlarge
yet one ſtep farther, to wiſh you not to be
repulfed by theſe Diſcouragements in the be-
ginning, God having giving you a Talent to
mafter far greater difficulties than thefe; par-
don this Freedom, and believe it proceeds not
only from my Zeal to my Maſter's Service,
but a perfect Reſpect and Concernment for
your Perfonal fatisfaction; as
My Lord,
Yours, &c.
Henry Bennet
It is truly obſerved by you that Monſieur
de Lienne doth you wrong in not treating you
with Excellency, but then it is truly obferved
that that Stile is quite out of ufe in that Court,
and fo much, that Frenchmen of any tolerable
Quality do not uſe it to their own Ambaffa-
dor here, or in any other Court.
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To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, May 30. 1664.
Am afhamed to own the laft Poft's Frror to
your Excellency, by which you will have
e'er this diſcovered our Negligence in mifpla-
cing my Lord Hollis's Letter in my Packet to
your Excellency. I have taken care to fupply
the want of that Letter to my Lord Hollis, and
muſt now beg of your Excellency, that no no-
tice may be taken of it to Mr. Secretary's di-
fturbance, it being indeed of Confequence.
Mr. Secretary it feems that night omitted to
write to your Excellency, which was prefu-
med by my Servant he would not have done,
and fo that was blindly by him concluded to
be for your Excellency. We cannot yet
fee far
enough into our Affair with Holland, fo as to
make a Judgment of it. The Emperor's Envoy
is returned with a civil Anfwer, and that's all,
befides avery fair Jewel. My Lord Carlile is on
his way by this time. am with all refpect,
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Your Excellencie's, &c.
Jofeph Williamfon.
Madrid, Wedneſday,‚§. of July, 1664.
SIR,
Pon Sunday 3.N.S. of July 64. (being the
day of Celebrating the Empreffes Birth)
I at-
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I attended his Majefty with the Para bien; alfo,
in the Queens Apartment, her Majefty, the
Prince, and Empreſs; it was the firft time I had
feen the Prince. The intended Jollity of this
Day was much difcompos'd by ill News from
the Frontiers, whence it was certainly adver-
tifed, that the Duke of Offuna (to revenge
Valencia de Alcantara) Befieging with 5 or 6000
Foot, (moft of them Country Fellows) and
700 Horſe, a ſmall Fort in Portugal, called Ca-
ftel Rodrigo, was there utterly defeated by the
Conde de fam Joana, with the lofs of all his
Cannon, Bag and Baggage. His Cannon were
nine Braſs Peices made by Charles V. and plac'd
in Burges; from whence they were very late-
ly remov❜d to this fad Catastrophe at a vaſt
Charge, as I am told. The Duke eſcaped with
only five in his Company. They might have
kill'd him had they not endeavoured to take
him alive; and he expofed his Life to the ut→
moſt hazard rather than to render himſelf.
The Advertiſement of the fame Day from
the Imperial Army, rumeur'd to be melan-
choly enough too; but the truth thereof I
prefume was fooner known in England.
Upon 4.N.S. Inftant arriv'd a Tragical Story
from Sevil, as of a particular Perfon, but one
of no fmall Eminency in this Kingdom, and
Affiftente of that City (the Conde de Molina)
beaten to Death with Sand-bags, for round-
ing by Night in Vedado, where an Oyder of
the Place, kept a tame Doe of his own. For
Lands, Flocks, Money, and Ornaments of a
Houſe (altogether he was reputed hardly to
have his Fellow in all Spain. Widower and
Childless he dy'd. His Brother and Heir is
Don de Meffia in Flanders, who is Childless like-
wife, though Married.
Amid
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Amidft my large Conference with the Duke
de Medina de las Torres, he acquainted me with
a Cholerick Expoftulation the French Ambaffa-
dor had then freſhly with him, namely that his
Catholick Majefty, by his now Order, forbid-
ing Ambaffadors to concur with their Families
in Publick Entrances of each other, went about
(he faid) to the difpleaſure of the King his
Mafter, to bereave him of the opportunity he
waited for to affert his Mafter's Precedence
of the King of England. The Duke replyed (as
his Excellency related to me) that he had never
heard of any actual controverfie of that kind
between our two Nations in this, or any other
Court; but between ſeveral others, his Catholick
Majefty had heard and obferv'd it had come to
blows often times both abroad and here;
which was cauſe enough for the Caution. That
which I faid thereupon to the Duke was only
this, that I did expect and inſiſt in the King my
Mafter's Name, that the Court of Spain fhould
do no act of theirs to countenance any fuch
pretence as the French intimated; and, for the
reft, what I might fuffer therein, let it be up-
on my own account.
Since
POSTS CRIPT.
Ince the writing hereof I am told for a cer-
tain, that 5000 Germans or Danes are arri-
ved at Alicant, in part of 12 or 14000 expected
for the affiftance of this Crown.
Nothing is more commonly difcourfed in this
Court, Than that his Catholick Majesty will give
over his Government in the Name of the Prince in-
to the hands of the Queen (by the Title of Cura-
dera General) and a Junta by the Title of Con-
fejo
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fejo Real, fupremo de Estado; yet I have no-
thing certain enough as yet, to advertiſe any thing
of my own thereupon, either as to Fact or Fudg-
ment.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday the 9th July, 1664. Stylo
Loci.
SIR,
You
Ours from Whitebal, June 2d. I received
Yeſterday, wherein if you (as juftly you
might) do, exprefs amazement at your not
having received any of mine at that time from
Ballecas, and the rather in that fome of your.
Houthold had then received Letters from fome
of mine, of the 7th of May, dated there; be-
cauſe you affured your felf I would write how,
:
much more ought I to be amazed thereat, who
am fure I had written to your felf thence, of
the fame date; and moreover to Mr. William-
fon, of which I have had an Answer; and to
Mr. Secretary Morice, of which I have an An-
fwer likewife; alfo to my Lord Chancellor, but
cannot find that came to hand, no more than
to your felf?
Therein I gave an account of one interview
indeed (but no Conference) which had been
at Valdemoro, between the Duke de Medina de
las Torres, and my felf; neither had I ever any
private Audience with the King, until after
my Publick one, in this Court; my Publick
having been Wednesday the 8th of June, English
Account, and my Private Wednesday the 15th
of the fame. Of both which refpectively. I
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gave
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gave you fome immediate account, by the Pofts
of the days thereof, and more fince, as by e-
very Wednesdays Poft fince that of Ballecas, of the
7th of May, I have conftantly writ unto you;
acknowledging withal, that from you, or by
your directions, I likewife have received con-
ftant Advertiſements out of England, to my ve-
ry great fatisfaction, only what hath been in
Cypher (as in the laſt was much) I am ſtill at a
great lofs in, for the reafon long fince adverti-
fed; but hope now very fuddainly(if all my Let-
ters have not mifcarry'd) to be put out of that
pain by your favour; forbearing till then, for
the fame reaſon, to make ufe of mine, which
at this inftant I would take an occafion to do,
in a matter of fufficient Importance, which
however I have not as yet fo clearly made out,
as to force a Way to the conveyance of it to his
Majefty's Knowledge; the rather becauſe (ac
cording to our computation here) our Letters
of the next week will be in England as foon as
thefe, that being the fhort Poft, as every other
weeks Poſt is here called and reckoned.
The fuccefs of this Campaign hath obliged
Don fobn, in great difpleafure (as fail'd of ne-
ceffary fupplies for his Army) to demand his
Licenſe to come up to Court, and farther Li-
cenfe alfo, both which, 'tis faid, he will have
And this change will be part of my next Intel-
ligence.
The inclofed from Tangier, I take to be both
a very true, and a very judicious Relation of the
ftate of that place; the which, according there-
unto, being already very good, beyond my ex-
pectation (tho' I was never of thofe that had
the melancholieft Apprehenfions of it,after their
late great difafter) will be much better upon
1
the
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the arrival of thofe Recruits which I perceive
are ſpeeding out of England; wherein I doubt
not but confideration is had of the poffibility of
a new Enemy, who (in refpect of his Naval
Power and Vigilancy) may prove more dan-
gerous to it, than all the old ones put together,
both open and fecret. With which I crave leave
to remain
}
Your moſt Faithful and ever
moft Obedient Humble Servant,
Richard Fanshaw.
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
Sinc
Whitehall, June 13. 1664.
Ince my laft I have received two of your Ex-
cellencies together, of May 7. and 21. your
ftile; relating to me your arrival at Ballecas,and
abode there, whilft your Houfe is making ready
at Madrid; explaining farther to us, that the
want of it proceeds from no unkindnefs to us,
and particularly that the Baron de Batteville
fent you an offer of his, together with all the
Duke de Medina las Torres's Complements,which
are no ill Symptoms of their good Diſpoſition
towards you, and your bufinefs. In the mean
time I am not a little troubled, that you have
not been able to underſtand our Cypher; my
Servants fay confidently, they have written ac-
cording to that which was exchanged betwixt
L 2
us;
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!
us; but that you may be furer of underſtanding
all I have hitherto written, I have betaken my
ſelf to my feveral Letters,and caufed Tranſcripts
to be made of the Cyphered part of them, and
fend it you here incloſed in Mr. Coventry's,
which we will continue to make ufe of, till
you tell me the doubts of mine are cleared to
you, or that I have opportunity of fending you
another. And becauſe we have daily more evi-
dences of foul play by the way, I muft beg of
your Excellency not to be niggardly in your
Cypher, and eſpecially in things which may
give ourNeighbours any light into your Tranf-
actions, which they are very curious to know.
When you fee the Duke of Avero, do me the
favour to congratulate to his Excellency in my
name, his fuccefs in his Pleito. To Morrow
Colonel Fits-Gerald Embarks himſelf with part
of our Recruits for Tangier; God fend him a
good Voyage, and that he may find the place in
the ſtate we hope it is.
•
This day fome of my Lords of the Council
have been at the Common-Council, by his Maje-
fties command, to borrow of the City one hun-
dred Thouſand Pounds, towards the fitting our
Navy, which is making ready with all Expedi-
tion, and the Vote was very chearful, and
without one diffenting Voice, to lend the Mo-
ney; which hath a good fign in it, as valuable
as the Sum.
Sir George Downing is yet with us, but to re-
turn again very fhortly. The Dutch Ambafla-
dor is alfo arrived.
Your Excellency must make it also your care to
keep up all publick Appearance of your good Corre-
(pondence in that Court, the very noiſe of it will de
!
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us good at Amfterdam, and elſewhere. When you
have any thing of very particular Confequence to
write, let it not come by your ordinary Packet, but
thruſt it into fome Merchants, and well Cypher'd.
Mr. ONeale is endeavouring to find a way of fend-
ing our Packets by Flanders, fo they will not come
into Frenchmen's Hands; but if your Excellency
could prevail with them to set up a Pacquet Boat at
Bilboa, or fomewhere upon that Coast, to correfpond
with another of ours from Plimouth, the Merchants
as well as the State, would have infinite Advantage
by it. Don Patricio O Molede faith he hath re-
commended this point to that Court.
I am, with all Truth and Affection,
My Lord,
}
Your Excellencies moft Humble Servant,
HENRY BENNET.
I
Madrid, Wedneſday the 13th of July, 1664
SIR,
Mmediately after my difpatching away my
laft to you of the 6th Inftant, (of which I
long to hear that it came fafe to hand, for the
Importance thereof) I receiv'd yours of the
13th of June, together with the Cypherings,
and Difcypherings which accompany'd the
fame, all which I have found to be very right,
and do render you my humble thanks for them
all.
Likewife Yeſterday I receiv'd from Mr. Wil-
liamfon Copies of his Majefty's and your Let-
L;
ters
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ters, of the 15th of June laft, to Sir Thomas
Muddiford (Commander in cheif of Jamaica)
for the fuppreffing in the future,depredations up-
on the Spaniard, reprohibition of Goods already
taken and enlargement of Priſoners, the which
(in cafe I am to make an excufe for thofe Vio-
lences, as acted againſt the Articles of Peace)
came very feaſonably to me for that purpofe;
the fame Perfon who brought it bringing at the
fame time a Meffage of Expoftulation thereup-
on, from the Duke of Medina de las Torres, af-
firming with much Confidence, that by fuch
proceedings of the English the faid Articles
are expressly infring'd.
1
And now it is but reafon, fince you have
been fo merciful to me as to make up my er-
ror in not knowing how to apply your Cy-
pher, that I fhould be fo juft to your Secretary
as to confefs the Error mine, which I do by
ufing as followeth, the very fame which paſs'd
me before.
This far is only the beginning of a Letter, the
remainder whereof being already prepared, I think
not fo proper to be adventur'd by the Poft over Land,
whether in or out of Cypher, referving it, with what
elfe of most Secrefy fhall in the interim occur, for
Some opportunity of an Express of more then ordinary
Trust, which speedily I fhall either find or make.
The fetting up of a Sea Poft is here affented to,
and I conceive, upon my motion, full Orders are
already gone to Don Patritio O Muledei, for
the perfecting the bufinefs there.
+
And now I beg your leave to defcant breifly
upon that Point of the Indies,
1st. In a former Letter to me, you mention
your difowning Don Patricio O Muledei himſelf,
your having any Peace as yet by Compact with
the
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the Spaniard beyond the Line; and the Spaniard
hath frequently heretofore, both in Words and
Articles, avow'd the fame; witnefs Cromwell's
Manifefto,which I wish I had here with me up-
on this occafion.
2dly, A very great Councellour in England
hath lately been of Opinion (neither do I
know that he hath yet alter'd it, or clearly, that
any there is of another) for the not making
any Peace with the Spaniard in the Weft-Indies,
upon whatſoever Terms, fince the Spaniard in
all their Treaties have fo Induftrioufly held off
from Age to Age on their Parts; but to let
things pafs quietly on by a Cuftomary Conni-
vance, or Ceffation of Arms, until (through
future Contingences) wide Gates may fly
open for greater Advantages there to England
by a War, than Peace could bring us, though
endear'd with afrce Commerce. The which Ŏ-
pinion]I do not mention as prefuming to cen-
fure it fo much as in my Thoughts either for
Unjuft or Vain, but only in order to my own
clear Inftruction upon this occafion, and that
the fame may come in Ballance with other
Confiderations, which may be taken into pre-
fent Confult.
3dly. You tell me in the above Cited, and
other Letters, that without fuch a free Com-
merce his Majeſty will not admit of a Peace in
the Weft-Indies, yet without pofitively affirming
to me, (in cafe the Crown of Spain fhould yeild
thereunto) that the King our Mafter would
have me to conclude, even upon thofe Terms,
in clear and formal Words, as firm and abfolute
a Peace between the two Crowns in thoſe Parts
of the World, as in theſe. But I hope to be
out of thefe doubts by the Anfwer to my
L 4
laft
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laft Deſpatch, wherein moft humbly I begg'd
to have that Article which fhall concern the
Indies fent me ready Pen'd out of England, in
fpecifical Matter and Form, as fhall be to his
Majesties particular Satisfaction in that weighty
Point.
That which puts me in most difficulty at
prefent, upon perufal of thoſe Deſpatches for
Sir Thomas Muddiford, is (in reference to the
obtaining that fame free Comerce of the In-
dies, which feems to be fo abfolutely infifted
upon by his Majefty) when I confider upon
the one Hand, that nothing probably will draw
it from them but invincible Neceffity, as the
only Jewel that can purchaſe their Peace there;
upon the other, that claiming Peace there alfo
of right (as they do) in fole vertue of the
prefent Articles (fo defective towards us in that
particular regard, above all other regards what-
foever)and now obferving Reparation adjudged
to them of the Violences and Depredations by
them fuftained from the English, as being (in
their Interpretation) an exprefs breach of the
faid Articles. Whence I do apprehend they
may be now leſs forward than before to mend
that great defect therein. As to this (having
all the Precedents on their fide to have it run
as it does) fo far from confenting to mend it
at ſo much coft to themſelves, as the parting
with that which is as dear to them as their
own Eyes.
1
In the Matter of Tangier, I have already de-
livered my felf in reafonable plain Terms to the
Duke de Medina de las Torres, particularly as to
the Point of demanding (in obedience to your
Signification) the Liberty of thofe belonging
10
( 153 )
to that Garifon which remain in Priſons by
order of the Duke de Medina Celi.
The Liberty of other English Prifoners in
Sevil and Cadiz (having been taken in the
Weft-Indies) I have interceded likewife very
Cordially for; but forbare to demand in their
behalf, as of clear right, more than their keep-
ing, at his Catholick Majefties Charge, from
Starving, whilft they are in durance, other-
wife then in cafe were taken by the Spaniard
on this fide the Line for fomewhat they had
done on the other. They were of Captain
Minns's Men, and (as I here) produce Com-
miffions, derived from his Majefty, for what
they acted.
Herewith incloſed goes a Copy of what I
writ to the Duke in theſe Particulars, where-
unto, as yet, I have had no Anſwer, but hope
for one in Writing: His Excellency having ta-
ken occafion to fend me word Yeſterday, that
my Paper will be very fpeedily confidered by
the Council of State, therein I expect they will
fpeak plain Spanish; and do likewife humbly
conceive their doing fo will be for the best, be
fore we enter upon the matter of the Treaty.
Then we ſhall fee whether Captain Mynns's
Men are(in the acception of theSpaniards) good
Prifoners of War by Vertue of the Articles;
but Spaniards not fo, whom the English have or
may happen to take in the Indies; and in cafe
that both are ſo in Rigour, we ſhall fee likewiſe
whether (for a better Underftanding between
the two Crowns, in thoſe other parts of the
World, and, in order to the eſtabliſhing, by far-
ther Negotiation,a full and laſting Peace in thoſe
Parts allo) his Catholick Majefty will, of Grace,
be as condescending at laft to free thefe few
ftarv'd
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ftarv'd People in his Prifons here, upon that
account, as the King our Mafter hath been (of
Grace likewife) ready, upon the first Ad-
dreffes, to fet free fuch Spanish Goods, Ships, and
Perfons, as have lately fallen into the Hands of
Englishmen in the Indies, upon the fame account,
as to Spain, with reference to that fuppofed
mutual Right in rigour of Quarrelling with
others beyond the Line, as things yet ftand,
though as to the King our Mater, in refpect
of his Majefty's reiterated Orders for restraint
of fuch Violences on our part, they were Acts
of fo high Contempt and Infolency, as his Ma-
jefty, in his Royal Juftice and Wiſdom, hath
thought fit to puniſh ſeverely.
It may thence laftly be gueft peradventure
(but, if I miſtook not, the Duke intimated
as much to me in the Affirmative at our laſt
Conference, and Spaniards have often avow'd
it) whether they do not pretend we break our
Articles, as they have been always hitherto
drawn, in reference to the Indies, not only
when we
Vade, or Trade to any part thereof
which they Poffefs, but whenfoever we Sayl
thoſe Seas to any other part thereof without
their Licence.
Yours, &c.
R. Fanfhaw.
Som
POSTSCRIPT.
Ome good News for the Spaniard (in part of
discount of former harm) is this day arri-
ved from Badajos, namely, That Don Juan de
Auſtria
:
155)
Auftria having Intelligence that the Portuguefes
lay carelefly in Caveca de Vita (a League diftant
from Aronches) fent out Don Geronimo de
puerto Carero with 1000 Horfe, who beat up
their Quarters, and put them to the Rout, kill'd
200
2do on the Place; took 300 Foot Prifoners, and
200 Horfe, 30 Officers, among the which the Duke
de Ebert, they Sack'd the Town, and brought away
much Riches.
This, whom the Letter from Badajos calls the
Duke de Ebert, and an Engliſhman, Iunderstand
is a French Nobleman or Gentleman of Note, Son
or otherways nearly related to the Duke of Elbeuf;
certain it is they were all French among whom this
Misfortune fell.
SIR
I
Hope
Whitehall, June 15. 1664.
maicas will find you lafely arrived at Fa-
maica, having heard from Barbadoes of your
good Preparations for your intended Journey
thither; wherein we build great hopes in fee-
ing a new and much better Face given to that
Ifland, by your prudent Conduct. The inclo-
fed is his Majefties Order for reftraining the
Robberies and Depredations continued upon
the Spaniards, the noife of which hath infinitely
difpleafed his Majefty, and he recommending
the prevention of it for the future to you, it
will not be neceffary that I enlarge this farther,
than to fay, howfoever the Restoration of the
Ships, and Enlargement of the Perfons may be
practical,
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}
practical, yet it is feared the Reftitution of the
Goods, efpecially of what is paffed, will not be
fo; but in that, when you have done what you
can,you are juſtified; and I have no more to add,
but that I am with much Truth,
&
Sir, your very bumble Servant,
Henry Bennet.
T
CHARLES R.
Rufty and Well-beloved, we greet you well.
We cannot fufficiently exprefs the Diffa-
tisfaction we have, to hear daily Complaints of
the Violences and Depredations done by Ships
ſaid to belong to that ourlfland of Jamaica,upon
the Subjects of the King of Spain, by taking
their Ships, and Invading their Countrys, to the
prejudice of that good Intelligence and Corre-
ſpondence with them, which we have ſo often
recommended to thoſe that have had the ma-
nagement of the Government there for us. And
altho we cannot doubt but you have already
done what in you lies,to reſtrain all under your
obedience herein for the future, yet the Com-
plaints thereof being daily renewed to us, we
cannot but again repeat our Pleafure to you
herein, Commanding and Enjoining you very
ftrictly, not only to forbid the profecution of
all fuch Violences for the future, but to caufe
fevere Puniſhments to be inflicted on thofe that
do them,and entire Reftitution to be made of all
Ships and Goods,together with the Enlargement
and
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and Satisfaction of the Perfons, which already
are, or hereafter fhall be fo taken, contrary to
this our Command; declaring farther, that our
Pleaſure is, you inflict condign Punishment
upon all fuch as have offended herein. Where-
of you may not fail; and for fo doing theſe our
Letters fhall be your fufficient Warrant.
Given at our Court at Whitehall, June the
15th. 1664.
By his Majefties Command,
HENRY BENNET.
*
To Sir Thomas Muddiford, or the Commander in
Chief there.
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
T
June the 29th. 1664.
HE laft Week brought me two of your
Excellencies, of May, and May 25,
13
Engl. ftile, with different Duplicates, of your
News of Tangier, and Sir John Lawfon; from
both which pray continue upon all occafions to
fend us all you hear from the Coafts. I am
forry neither they, nor any Letters elſe, can yet
tell us of your Entry at Madrid, or ſo much as
being aſcertained of a Houſe there; till when,
all we can fend you is our Gazette News; for
tho the Town be full of the Talk of a Holland
War, God be thanked we are yet in Peace at
Home and Abroad: And this Day a Holland
Amballador
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1
Ambaſſador hath made his Entry; who in two
Private Audiences he hath had with his Maje-
fty, recommends much to him the Affurances
of the States to give him all reaſonable Satisfa-
&tion; and his Majefty is immediately diſpatch-
ing back again Sir George Downing, to receive
the Fruits of it.
My Lord Duke of Ormond is alfo here from
Ireland, defiring to carry back with him fuch a
Bill for that Parliament, as may give it a final
Settlement. I hope you have by this time found
our Cypher is a Practical One; for fear it fhould
not be fo, I am preparing another to fend you
by the first conveyance, and will not lengthen
this more, than to affure you of my being with
all Truth and Affection,
My Lord,
Your Excellencies moft Humble Servant,
!
HENRY BENNET.
To my Lord Chancellor.
Madrid, Tueſday 1. 1664
Right Honorable and my very fingular good Lord,
Mof
Y former Diſpatches, together with thoſe
of the Date hereof to Mr. Secretary
Bennet, do comprehend whatfoever Materials I
have hitherto been able to Collect, by way of
Information, or Obfervation, in this Court and
Kingdom, to prefent unto his Majefties Confi-
deration, in order to a new Model of Articles
of Peace and Comerce; particularly, and moft
efpe-
( )
159)
159 efpecially, in reference to the West-Indies, which
is likely to be the knottieft, if not the only knot-
ty part of all, when we come to treat upon the
whole; the which your Lordſhip in the faid
Deſpatches will find to be, upon the Spanish
Peace. Some little more of Materials, in order
to the fame, I have in profpect, hoping to fend
them after with the very next opportunity;
and do with all Humility, and Indifferency like-
wife, fubmit the whole to his Majefty's Wif-
dom and Direction; relying very particularly
upon your Lordship's Goodneſs and Favour,
for a clear underſtanding thereof; and farther
(if to your Lordſhip it fhall feem meet and ne-
ceffary) for a Signification of his Majeſty's Will
and Pleaſure therein, under his Royal Hand.
Giving your Lordship no farther Trouble at
preſent, I humbly crave leave to remain
My Lord,'
Your Lordship's moft Faithful, and ever
moft Obedient Humble Servant,
RICH. FANSHAW
To my Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
HIS
Tangier, July 13. 1664
IS Majefty having been pleas'd at preſent to
commit the charge of this Place into my
Hands, I do not know how to begin my Ser-
vice better, than with giving your Excellency
an
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W
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an account of its prefent Condition. At my
Landing on the 11th Inftant, with 200 of thoſe
Recruits, which were ordered immediately up-
on notice of his Excellency the Earl of Teviot's
Death, I found the Garifon in a very good Con-
dition, the Men very chearful, and all the
Works formerly made by the Earl of Teviot not
only continued in a very good condition, but
much advantaged, by the building of feveral
moſt uſeful ſmall Forts; which I hope will fo
fecure us, that we may now proceed in his Ma-
jefties Defign of fome very confiderable Fortifi-
cations nearer the Town, without any danger
of being ſurpriſed or prevented in the Under-
taking. One of our greatest wants, which is Lime,
abounds in Spain at feveral Ports very near us, but
not at all to our advantage; for his Majesty of
Spain (in which your Excellency cannot be ignorant)
bath made fo ſtrict Prohibitions against Shipping off
any Lime, that now no Perfon whatever dare under-
take the Defign. This forces us to procure it at dearer,
Rates, and with feveral Inconveniences, from
Portugal. The which if your Excellency pleaſe
to remedy, by obtaining his moſt Catbolick Ma-
jesty's License to all his Subjects, for a free Comerce
with Tangier, it will very much promote his
Majeſty's Service in this Place, and, according
to my poor guefs, in no ways prejudice his
Majefty of Spain, or his Subjects (but rather ad-
vantage them both) for we fhall certainly pro-
Cure it without them, and by that means con-
tract a profitable Correfpondency to another.
place, which they may, if they will, enjoy.
But your Excellency will not want Arguments
on this occafion, nor Inclination for his Maje-
fty's Concerns in this place; and therefore I
ufe
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i
ufe no farther importunitv in this, but am a moſt
earneſt Suitor in an other Requeft; That your
Lordſhip will pleafe to favour me with one Line
which may affure, that I am owned in the ca-
pacity of
Your Excellencies most Humble Servant,
T. Fitz-Gerald.
As I am clofing this, Sir Arthur Baffet, is arrived
with 120 more Soldiers, and Advice that 200
others are following immediately.
I
To my Lord Amballador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Worcester-Houfe, June 13. 1664.
Have received Yours of the 7th of the laft
Month, from Ballecas, mentioning the high
Civilities you received in your Journey, which
have made a great noife in all the Gazetts of
our Neighbours; and therefore the fatisfaction
I received by your other of the 11th, was not
proportionable to what I had before, when I
found it dated from the fame place; and it is
altogether unwonderful, that they ſhould treat
you with fo much Ceremony in the Way, and
not have a Houfe ready for your Reception;
but Don Patricio tells me, they have affigned you
the five Chimeneas, and then you will be pretty
much at eafe; and till then I do not look you can
be ready to fay much to us. Indeed I know
not what to fay for the tranfmitting our Let-
ters, except you can find an expedient, than
M
they
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they may not pafs through the Poft-houſe at
Paris, where they will indubitably be opened,
I did hope to have heard, even from your arri-
val upon Spanish Ground, that they had already
defign'd an Ambaffador for this Kingdom, ac-
cording to promife, and you may prefs it upon
that account, and complain, if they do not give
you inftant fatisfaction; fince the King our
Mafter
muft upon it as difrefpect. I
can make no doubt but they will pitch upon a
Man fit for the Truft, and who will live better
towards us, than fome of their Friends have
lately done.
I prefume you have heard of our lofs at Tan-
gier, which indeed is great, and very unexpe-
cted from the Reputation of good Conduct the
Earl of Teviot had; he hath paid dearly for the
inadventure. There are already 500 good Men
and good Officers fent thither; and tho Gay-
land drew up his whole Army the next Day af
ter my Lord Teviot's lofs, he found the Garifon in
fo good order,and without quitting the leaft out-
work, that he drew prefently off again, and
the work at the Mole proceeded with the fame
Vigour. The Dutch Ambaffador arrived here
the laft Night, but is yet Incognito, his Train be-
ing not yet come. That People do not ſeem
defirous of a Breach with us, and I hope
do all reputable and juft Things to it:
However, the Fleets will be ftrong on both fides.
And I ſuppoſe the King will not remove far
from London this Summer, where there appears
no great danger of unquietnefs.
prey will
I know I need not recommend poor Sir Ben-
jamin to your care; methinks that Court fhould
think it high time to repay him, after fo long
an oppreffion: The King will not be well plea-
fed
( 163 )
fed to hear, that my favour is conferred on
Mo. D' Oginate for his fake. God keep you,
· and
My Lord,
Your Lordships moft Affectionate Servant,
CLARENDON C.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
Whitehall, June 30. 1664.
My Lord,
Ince my laft of this day Sev'nnight, I have
received one from your Excellency, but by
what hand I carmot tell, neither can I call to
mind the Date, having left it with my Lord
Chancellor: The Contents of it were, what
and how you had delivered your felf at your
firft Audience, with the Ceremonies belonging
to it, and that remarkable one on the French
Ambaffador's part, who would fend his Coach
and Gentlemen from and to your Houfeagain,
notwithſtanding his being forbidden it by a new
Rule of that Court.OurRemarks upon the whole
matter are to our fatisfaction, fince your Re-
ception there continues to be as kind as it
was at your firft Arrival, and will, I hope, be
followed accordingly in the progress of your
Negotiation.
All the News from your Parts, tell us of the
ftrength of the Portugal Army, and the weak-
nefs of the Spaniards, efpecially in Foot; which
makes us look for the Portugueze Befieging fome
M2
im-
( 164 )
important Place; and on the Spaniards fide we
fhould look for fome Difpofition to a Treaty of
Peace, or Truce at leaft, fince they hold out
the War fo weakly.
Your Excellency hath heard of the railing of
the Siege of Canifia, and the worsting of the
Chriſtians at their going off from it; the Rela-
tion of which is not yet come perfect enough
to us to fend it to you; befides that, fome Let-
ters are faid to be in Town which undertake to
tell us, the Turks have had a blow fince that en-
counter.
In our own News I have nothing more to
fend you, than what was in my laſt. I am glad
to hear you are Houfed in Madrid, tho I fear,
by the place where they tell me it is,you are not
fo well as I could with. We are in fuch Wea-
ther now, as you have ufually there; fo that
the freſhneſs of Santa Barbaria will well accom-
modate your felf and your Family, in this Sea-
fon. I am with all Refpect,
My Lord, Your Excellencies moft humble Servant,
HENRY BENNET.
SIR,
Since
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
I
Madrid, Tueſday July, 1664.
2.
Ince I advertised you of Don John of Au-
ſtria's Revocation from the Army, it hath
been in this Court (according to vulgar Opi-
nion, if not according to fuperiour Confult,
and
( 165 )
and fupreme Dictate, off and on, at leaſt
5 or
6 times a Yea, and a No; but, in fine,his High-
nefs doth come; and Comte Marcim is to Go-
vern the Armies in the interim,till the Marquefs
of Mortara, or Carracena, or fome other, fhall
be declared General.
Since that from Aronches, which my laſt
mentioned, we have Rumours here of other A-
ctions that have been in the Frontiers; whether
fo or not (fince they have not been in our Fa-
vour, for then we ſhould have heard of themin
particular) you are like to know in England
fooner, or not much later, than we here; for
I do obſerve, that we have already in Madrid,
out of the London Mercury,the Rout of the Duke
of Offuna, whilft it is yet but fresh from the
Frontiers.
Truth is, the War doth heat apace of late,
more than ever; whether it is becaufe fuch is
Comte Marcim's method, or for what other Rea-
fon I cannot tell; and the Foreign_Recruits,
my laſt mentioned (only miſtaken fomething
in the number, for that they prove to be only
3500) being already upon their March from
Cadiz, towards Badajos; alfo others expected,
by the way of Italy, and fresh Levies making
here daily in Spain. The Spaniard is refolved
at all hands upon a Battle, about a Month or
6 Weeks hence, if they can enforce it upon the
Enemy.
To the Query you propose to me, to whether fide I
think the Spaniard will incline, in cafe of a War
with Holland? I can only fay, that for the prefent
I apprehend they understand one anothers Minds, and
they are kinder to them,than to us; of which the inclo-
fed Papers (which never thought to meet) seem to be
Some Symptom. Truth is the Hollander brags high,and
M 3
the
1
(166)
the Spaniard believe 6).
him Invincible at
with Jamaica,
tugal (the holding out of which is imputed to his
Majesty, as I believe) do stick more in the Spani
ard's ftomach now, than the loss of Holland, with
the Confequences thereof. But I do confidently hope,
by a victorious, either War, or Peace, his Majesty
will foon put it out of the Hollander's Power, (not
trusting to their love) ever to fide with any
bereafter, but England, at least never against Eng-
land, or the Interest of it.
and efpecially Tangier, and a
And now (after alluring you, from Sir John Law-
fon, who was there, and is now at Cadiz) that
all is exceedingly well at Tangier, even before the
Recruits arrival) give me leave to fay my Thoughts:
That, whether the King our Mafter would have
Peace with all the World, or must have War with
all the World, nothing like Tangier, with the Mole
Speedily finish'd to perfection, in order to the quiet
Enjoyment of the one, or vigorous Profecution of the
other.
Here is doubtless at this time fome change of Go-*
vernment of this Crown in brewing apace; if not
in reference to the prefent (which I believe in the
negative) yet to take place immediately upon the
King's deceafe, and the Queen to have the greatest
Share therein, and Don Juan totally excluded. But
more than guess, as yet, I cannot.
D. Chriftoval de Angelate was, before my ar-
rival near this Court, and continues still in high
Difgrace and Fealoufie with his Master, to that
degree, as never to dare to fee me, tho invited to it
bothby Letter and Meffages; whereupon he had once.
appointed an Hour for it, but when it came to it,
bis Heart failed, so far as to request me by meſſage,
not to look after him till his own time, which be
hoped would be ſhortly: He defiring it more than 1,
*
( 167 )
and things beginning to grow fair between his Ma-
fter and him; and that his Mafter would fend
him to me, without which he might not adventure
to come, nor yet to give way that I ſhould take no-
tice of him to the Duke.
Why the Duke ſhould be jealous of his fpeaking
with me, divides my Thoughts; conceiving it muſt
be a fign either of hollow Intentions in the Treaty,
which he is doubtful D. Chriftoval de Angelate
may diſcover to me, or of the quite contrary; and
fo that his Excellency referves the thankful Office
of being inftrumental therein, to his Favourites, D.
P. O-muledy in England, and D. Domingo O-
Mouraghn here, exclufive to D. C. Angelate;
between whom and them I hear there is no Recon-
cileableness on either hand.
:
I do beseech you, to affure both his Majefty, and
the Duke of York, from me, that (however I can-
not well defcribe my steps therein, until I fall be
near ready to fasten them) yet my daily ftudy and
labour is, to involve and fortifie in and by the Trea-
ty (if ever it come to perfection) the advantages
of the Crown, and of the Royal Company, in refe-
rence principally to the Blacks; whether upon the
Foundation Mr. Bence bath already begun with
Grillo, or upon fome other Foot, of a more durable
and fwaying Intereft; but, the Truth is (as I do
humbly conceive) that the high and certain Im-
provement of the Guinea Trade,by the Weft-Indies,
dot b upon the matter folely depend upon the powerful
Vindicating and Appropriating to England, all, or
the greatest part of the faid Commerce, ( towards
which I underſtand a pretty step is already made:)
For then, in cafe the Spaniards fhould not feek
our Negroes at any haad, for their Works (which
undoubtedly they would) we our felves might find
work for them in the Indies, to a-aery confiderable
MA
degree,
( 168 )
|
degree; however (as I have firſt ſaid) I am and
fhall continue watchful of all opportunities that ſhall
be offered in this Court, for the improvement of that
Affair, with the confequences thereof. This way
being indeed the moſt deſirable, as well for Profit,
as in any other respects.
Your moft Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
This Week the Marquefs de Caftel Roderigo bath
begun his Journey to Flanders, by the way of Italy.
De Ruyter, with his Fleet, is gone towards the
Streights mouth, and fo home, as is fuppofed.
I have yet no House, but now daily do expect in
carneft that of the 7 Chimeneas.
To the Lord Treaſurer.
Madrid, Tuesday 29 July, 1664.
Right Honorable and my very fingular Good Lord,
I
Have not thought it Manners hitherto to
trouble your Lordship with any Letter of
mine, to your particular Perfon, as holding for
more than fufficient, that which falls to your
Lordſhips fhare among others, when any of my
Dispatches, directed to Mr. Secretary Bennet,
are prefented to his Majefty's Confideration, in
private Juncta; but now, a point of extraor-
dinary Moment, and fome difficulty too (as I
humbly conceive) alfo; upon which your
Lordip once did me the Honour to vouch-
fafe me fome Difcourfe at Hampton Court, being
likely to be brought before his Majefty, and
their Lordfhips, and may fall out at a time when
otherwife your Lordfhip may happen to be ab-
fent.
( 169 )
fent. Or, however, in order to your Lordship's
more timely recollection of thofe Thoughts
you had at Hampton-Court. I efteem it my
Duty, and find it moreover my Convenience,
for a clearer Light into my prefent Negotia
tion, (giving your Lordship this humble No-
tice) to beg your fpecial Attention and Affi-
ftance to the Debate. The matter concerns the
Weft-Indies; and many are the Papers (all in
Mr. Secretary's Hand, whereunto I humbly re-
fer your Lordship) which will be neceffary for
the clear ftating the Queſtion, or Queſtions ari-
fing thereupon.
Your Lordſhips moft Noble and fingular Care,
in ordering effectual Supplies to this Embaffy,
from time to time as the fame grow due,ought
(in Reaſon too, as well as Manners) to exempt
your Lordſhip from that frequent Trouble of
Letters from me; which the Neceffities of for-
mer Ambaſſadors did conftrain them to give
to former Lord Treaſurers; in which regard,
whenever I am filent, it is a piece of my Thanks;
which can never be wanting from a heart
fo deeply touch'd with the Sence of your Lord-
fhip's Favours, and fo truly devoted to your
Lordship's Perfon and Service, as was and ever
fhall be mine; moreover affuring your Lord-
ſhip, in reference to the King, that I will once
more take upon me the Title of his Majeftiess
Remembrancer of his Revenues,fo far as faithfully to
advertiſe your Lordfhip, whenever I fhall plainly
find, that all the fervice that can be farther done
his Majefty in this Court, will not be worth the
coft of an Ambaffador here, there being no-
thing in the mean time more certain, than that
lefs coft than what is now (with like punctua-
lity of Payments) an Ambaſſador from his Ma-
jefty
(170)
:
jefty to this Court, cannot be maintained in
the prefent Age; to the end the Expence may
ceafe with the fooneft, when the occafion fhall
have ceaſed. I humbly kifs your Lordship's
Hands, and take leave.
Your Lordships, &c. .
Richard Fanfhaw..
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
Tangier, July 12. 1664.
My Noble Lord,
BY
Y the moft melancholly Accident that ever
befel the King fince his Reftoration, am I
gotten into a fitter way of Correfpondence
with your Excellency, than I could find in A-
merica,which is fome allay to my lofs of fo good
a Friend in this Place.
I underſtand by Sir Toby Bridge, that your
Excellency hath had fome intercourfe with this
Garifon, fince the defeat of my Lord Teviot; fo
that I need only tell you, that on Sunday laft,
(our Stile) Colonel Fitz-Gerald and I Landed
here, with two whole Companies, from Portf-
mouth, viz. Capt. Victor, and Capt. Legge, who
has the Company that Capt. Spragge Command-
ed there. At London his Majelty caufed 300
Men to be drawn out of his Guards, the Gene-
rals Regiment, and the three Companies of the
Tower, and Embarked; which will not only
fill up the room of thofe that were loft upon
the unhappy occafion, but alſo will make a
Compleat Recruit to the Garifen, which is efta-
blished
( 171 )
blifhed at 17 Companies of Foot, and 3
Horfe.
of
Col. Fitz Gerald has no other Character than
formerly, albeit he has 500l. per Annum added
to his Penfion of as much; which looks as if the
King would try his Skill, and continue him in
the Command, or add a General as he likes ;
I am induced to think fo, for another Reafon,
viz. the difpofing the other Regiment to me;
which will hardly be taken from me, upon a-
ny account, if I am not too charitable to gueſs
fo.
By my next, I fhall give your Excellency a
full Relation of what we do at prefent; we
are very bufie in fettling this untur'd Garifon.
I have ſcarce room to prefent my humble Re-
ſpects to my Lady; not a word to the young
Fry. To fave Charges, I have grudg'd you
Paper enough to tell your Exceliency how rea-
ly I will ever be, and with all Refpect,
Your Excellency's own.
H. NORWOOD.
Sir Richard Fanshaw to the Duke of Afedina
de las Torres.
Ince I had the Honour to wait on your Ex-
cellency, I have not been able to learn
what was become of thofe Perfons of Tangier
which had been made Prifoners by order of the
Duke of Medina Celi, and upon my applying
my felf to the faid Duke to have them Relea
ted; he told me plainly he had fufficient Reafon
to
!
( 172 )
to feize upon them for daring to come to Trade
in Spain, and would not diſcharge them with-
out farther Order. Hereof having informed the
King my Mafter, he has commanded me not to
reft fatisfied till I had accompliſh'd the delive-
rance of the ſaid Priſoners, and in cafe thereof
his Majefty hath promis'd to continue the good
Correfpondence which hath hitherto been ob-
ferved between his faid Majefties Port of Tan-
gier, and the other Ports belonging to his moft
Catholick Majefty. Moreover I am command-
ed to require likewife the Releaſement of twen-
ty five Englishmen more, who have been detain'd
above a Year in the Prifons of Sevil and Cadiz,
and who I am inform'd are ready to perifh with
Hunger,as feveral others of the fameNation have
been fuffered to do before. The last thing I
am order'd to defire of your Excellency is, that
you would pleaſe to prevail on his moft Catho-
lick Majefty, that the King my Mafter's Frigats
to the number of eight or nine, which now ride
off of the Coafts of Andaluzia, under the com-
mand of their Admiral Sir John Lawson, may
be provided with all Neceflaries at reaſonable.
rates, either in the Ports of Cadiz, Gibraltar,
Oran, Majorca, Minorca, Alicant, Malaga, or
elſewhere in the Mediterranea Sea, with free
Liberty to Anchor, Equip, Careen, or whatfo-
ever elſe their faid Admiral fhall have occaſion
to do. This I have been folicited, by the faid
Sir John Lawson, to request. I have been alfo
commanded to obtain it by the King myMafter.
God preferve your Excellency in Health and
long Life.
From my Houſe
July 19. 1654
I am yours, &c.
R. Fanfhaw.
Tq
( 173 )
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Munday July, 25. N. S. 1664.
SIR,
TH
His I write by Mr. Reid for whom I do
affure you I have uſed my utmoſt endea-
vours in his Sute with the Corfiftos, and once
thought I had effected his Bufinefs, fo did he
too, and this is it which hath proved his greateſt
damage, that he hath been fo long trained on
with fruitless Hopes.
.
July.
I had him in my Eye when in my laft Def-
patches of the
I intimated my
Intention then was to reſerve them for a trufty
Exprefs. But upon fecond Thoughts, appre-
hending he would not get himfelf looſe hence
fo foon as he does, I did adventure them in Cy-
pher, by the Flanders Poft, well hoping they
will get fafe to Hand that way.
Yours of the 23d of June, coming fafe to
mine, gives me the then peaceable State of Af-
fairs of England, both at home and abroad, as
far as concern'd any Action or Declaration yet
paft, expecting as may feem, the iſſue of Sir
George Downing's intended return for Helland, to
fee what effectual Satisfaction will be given
there according to intimation to prevent a
War, thefe are Lights which do very much ob-
lige me, and will farther continued as the fame
may alter or improve with the Event.
The States Reſident here hath fet this Court
of a flame, with Advertiſement of Holland,
whether true or falfe I cannot be fure, that our
English
( 174 )
1
English Free-booters from Jamaica, have taken
St. Marta, and committed many Depredations
and Hoftilities upon his Catholick Majefty's Do-
minions in the Weft-Indies, more than I think
were known unto his Majesty when he dif
patched his Gracious Order to Sir Thomas Mud-
diford for Reftraint and Punishment of thoſe In-
folencies in breach of Orders, for that it, was in
breach of Articles I fhall not easily grant them,
until by confent of both Kings the Articles in
that regard fhall be otherwife than now they are,
neither do I find them fo implacable upon this
Alarum as thereupon to fufpend the Trat;but
contrarywife his Catholick Majefty hath fiace
the arrival thereof not only nominated an Am-
baffador for England, which my Inftructions do
make the fureft Note of his Reality therein;
but that very Perfon for the Employment,
whom the King our Mafter hath formerly in-
timated, would be moft acceptable to him,
when as yet he was not fo qualified with Emi-
nent Title and Wealth, as now he is by the
Death of his Brother, namely Don Ant. Mexia,
now Conde de Molina, whofe Nomination and
the motives thereunto appear Authentically
by the herewith inclofed, being a Copy of a
Letter to me from the Duke de Medina de las
Torres.
Inclofed herewith likewife is the State of
Tangier at the Arrival of Colonel Fitz Gerald,
and after him Sir Arthur Baffet, the latter with
an affurance of the reft of the Recruits fpeedily
to follow. This, as within our felves, here be-
ing other Extracts which certifie according to
their Intelligence what Gayland hath in Hand,
and how the Spaniard is fupporting and inci-
ting him under Hand; the Truth hereof I can-
not
(175)
not affirm, much leſs dare take upon me, former
Evidence confidered, to warrant the contrary.
The Answer I ſhall give thofe Gentlemen by to
Morrow's Poft for Andaluzia fhall be to the
fame effect I have always written both to them,
and into England; namely to make account
as if thoſe things were certainly fo, and to pro-
vide for their defence accordingly; my hum-
ble but conftant Opinion being, that that
growing Garifon, in defpite of Difafters, is the
prefent envy of all the World, that when per-
fected with the Mole, it fhall be grown above
their Envy, it will be their Fear, (as already
it is in Prophecy) but never their Love, other-
wife than we may gain it, by managing with
Juftice and Moderation, that accefs of Power
we may by means of that Poft attain unto in
the Prefent, but much more in Future Ages.
As to that Finger which Spain is faid to have
in diſturbing thereof, before thefe laft Allarums,
I was in fearch of the Truth and Bottom thereof,
particularly at the Fountain Head; by my laſt
Paper to the Duke of Medina de las Torres, the
Subſtance whereof I fent Cyphered in my laft
to your Honour, but herewith finally do inclofe
it in Terms, being promiſed from the Duke his
Majefty's Refolution to every Particular thereof
in Writing, the which I do think it very long
until I get,and ſhall then reply here, and certify
home, as that fhall give occafion.
According to my laft from Sir John Lawfon,
receiv'd this day, he will now within eight or
ten days, expecting he fhould by that time have
cleared all his Ships at Cadiz, where he then
was Sailing towards Targier again, unleſs in
the interim he fhall have receiv'd other Orders
out of England.
To
(176)
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Munday, 25. July, N. S. 1664.
SIR,
Since
Ince the inclofing my Packet of the date
hereof, by this fame Bearer, I am told an
incredible Thing which yet I muft write, that
the Spaniard, at this time of the day, is giving
up Befonzon to the French, and that the Mar-
quefs de Caftel Roderigo taking that compaſs for
Flanders is to fee it executed.
Yours, &c.
;
To my Lord Chancellor.
wadrid, July 27. N. S. 1664.
My very fingular good Lord,
Your
Our Lordships of the 13th of June I re-
ceived not until Yeſterday, had it come
fooner, I muſt either have defer'd my Anfwer
till now, or given your Lordship a very unfa-
tisfactory one, to two Refentments your Lord-
ſhip expreffes therein; the one that I am fo long
without a Houſe, after I have been treated with
fo much Ceremony in the way; the other, that
no Ambaſſador was yet defigned here for Eng-
land.
To the firſt I have yet little to ſay (being to
this hour in Lodgings) more than I did to the
French
( 177 )
French Ambaffador (compaffionating me in his
firſt Viſit long fince upon the fame Account)
namely, that no Ambaſſador was ever ufed by
this Court like me; which he taking to be a
little too fevere,however upon the Spaniard, put
me gently in mind of my Entertainment upon
the way; and that (I added) was part of the
reaſon why I faid fo; but now they tell me I
fhall have the Keys of the Chimneyes before I
ſleep.
To the Second, I could before have fatisfied
your Lordſhip, and your Lordſhip hath been
fatisfied fome Weeks fince if my Packets have
had clear Paffage, that I have diſcharged my
part therein (according to my Inftruction on
that behalf) but not much farther till now.
Now the incloſed Copy of a Letter from the
Duke of Medina de las Torres to me, will ( I
prefume) be to full content in every Circum-
ftance requirable as to that Particular.
As to thofe Commands which your Lord-
ſhip renews to me in favour of Sir Benjamin
Wright, I have been much more careful to ferve
him, than (I confefs) to give your Lordship an
account thereof, the rather becauſe it hath a-
mounted to little in effect as yet, I wifh it may
to much. But I affure your Lordſhip at my
firft interview with the Duke (his Excellency
giving me no occafion to enter upon matter of
State) the only thing I touch'd, that could be
called Buſineſis, was a motion for a Royal Pro-
tection for Sir Benjamin, which the Duke then
promiſed me, and hath fince been as good as
his Word.
For Senior Onnate I am cordialy ready, when
ever by any Friend, Agent, or Letter of his, he
fhall be pleaſed to prompt me wherein I may
N
ferve
( 178 )
1
ferve him, or if I can prompt my felf. One
good turn towards him is,his Adverfary iscom-
ing out of his way, but is coming into mine;
with which I humbly crave leave to reft,
My Lord, Your Lordships, &c.
Before the closing hereof this Morning, July 28.
I have had Poffeffion delivered to me of the Siete
Chineneas,whereunto I ſhall remove as fast as Hands
can make it ready for tolerable Habitation, being
in it felf (for ſo much as there is of it) Commodi-
dious and Agreeable, but very ill handled.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Thurſday 28 July, 1664. Engl. Stile.
SIR,
Since
?
Ince my laft to you by Mr. 7. Reid, dated the
25th of July, I have receiv'd yours of the
30th of June, Importing the fafe coming to
Hand of that which gave an account of my
firſt Publick Audience, hoping that all other,
which have and fhall conftantly follow, will
have the like good fuccefs in their Paffage.
That of the Portugues for this Campaign, hath
not been inferiour to the Expectation of yours
mention'd in the fame, nor poffibly is it either
the one or the other yet at an end, but there
will be another Campaign, and more Years, in
which we are fo confident of better, that there
is nothing we feem to think of lefs, than an
Accommodation or Suspention.
Yours gives me farther therein the then News
of the Turks, I am forry it was no better for
Christendom
( 179 )
i
Christendom, and forrier I cannot hear it is ver
bettered, notwithstanding the Lightening after
Death, which you cited out of a Report of
fome frefher Letters faid to be in Town when
you wrote that.
You proceed expreffing your gladness to hear
I was houfed in Madrid, upon which (after
my humble thanks for the Favour) I muft
needs obferve the Expreffion was very happy if
you rightly underſtood my Cafe, and happier
if you underſtood it not. Houfed I have been
here, that is under a Roofe, thefe two Months,
making a fhift with an upper Quarter, ſuch a
one indeed as the Duke of St German contain'd
himſelf and Family in; but a Houſe I never had
till this Morning, then I had delivered into my
Poffeffion the Cafa de las fiete Chimeneas.
This Houfe was defended, for the pace of
time I have mentioned, against the King of
Spain, and all his Apofentadores, by two Veneti-
an Ambaffadors fucceffively; the firft was really
leaving it without any thought, as I am affured,
of asking it for his Succeffor, then the Duke
of Medina de las Torres, when I never dreamt of
it, and was in purfuit of another, procured it
to be Embarged for me in Reverfion, this the
Venetian apprehends an Afront to him and his
Republick, and Whiles off the time of his ftay
here to his great Inconvenience, in refpect of
the advancing Heats and otherwife, till he had
got hisSucceffor up to him,marching furiously;
who contrary to the King and Councils Ex-
pectation and exprefs Decree doth amanecer in
the 7 Chimeneas, fortifying himſelf there with
his Privilege of Ambaffador, and makes it
point of Reputation ſo to do, patriæq; fuæq; in
this Security his Predeceffor leaves him about
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fix
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fix Weeks fince, not to be remov'd with all
the King and the Duke have been able to
do, without impofition of Hands, till the laft
Night.
•
I dare confidently fay nothing hath troubled
both the Ambafladors fo much in this whole
buſineſs, as that they could never draw me in
to make my felf a Party in the Difpute, for as
at the first I never ask'd that individual Houle,
fo when promiſed and decreed to me, I never
infifted upon it, provided fome other conve-
nient one were found out for me, or that I my
felf could find out fuch an one for my Money,
and effectually about a Fortnight fince did con-
tract under Hand and Seal, with the owner for
the entire Houſe where I am, upon Condition
the Court did approve thereof; but the Duke
told me, that must not be now, how well foever
it might ferve my turn, for the King would be
obeyed in his own Kingdom, and the Venetian
fhould out.
Upon the whole, all Circumſtances, which
I have feen, confidered, it is to me apparent
enough that thefe Ambafladors of Venice in this
Conteft did nouriſh double Ambition either to
carry the Houſe againſt an Engliſh Ambaſſador,
or that an English Amballador fhould carry it
against them; but my befinefs throughout hath
been never to come in any Competition or
Compariſon with them.
This Story I have been the longer in, becaufe
the matter thereof hath fill'd this Court,and may
do fome others, with as much Noife, Expecta-
tion and (I do believe) fecret Sydings too;
as if it had been fome very weighty Intereft of
Princes or States.
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The Heats of this Summer have rifen here
proportionabble to what you exprefs of thoſe
in England, I humbly take leave and reft,
Yours, &c.
R. Fanshaw
Tangier, the 17th of July, 1664.
My Lord,
Since
Ince my laft to your Excellency I have been
informed, That Gayland is building a new
Town and Fortification, on the fide of a Hill, fome
four Miles diftance of us, and that it is not only
by Advice from the King of Spain, but at bis pro-
per Charge, or at least wife, that he contributes very
liberally thereunto; for that the Workmen are paid
with Spanish Money, and that a Spaniard in Mo-
rifh habit is Enginere, having five or fix other
Spaniards in Morifh babit to affift him, daily ex-
pecting Great Guns likewife out of Spain. How
true this is I cannot tell, but I am fure they are
building a Wall, with feme high Turrets and Ba-
stions, which we can fee very plain from the Tower,
and from feveral of our Werks. And although we
are now in fo good a Condition (God be praif-
ed) as we fear them not, yet thefe Under-
creepings of theirs in thefe Parts, and their pub-
lick refufing of us for our Mony what we want
out of Spain, is that which I complain of, and
hope your Excellency in fome convenient time
will procure us a more friendly Correfponden-
cy. I hear alfo the King of Spain bath procured
a Truce between the Castle of Sally and the Town,
to be certain whereof I have fent a Ship the last
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Night
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Night to Sally, and hope within fome few Days to
give your Excellency an Account thereof, as I fhall
from time to time of what comes to my know-
ledge. In the mean while I fhall remain,
Yours, &c.
T. Fitz-Gerald.
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To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
Tangier, July the 17th. 1664.
My Lord.
BE
Ecaufe I fee the Governor is giving you an
Account of the New Town the Mocrs
have erected to the South-west of ours, fome
four or five miles diftant from Fort Charles,I fhall
not trouble your Excellency with vain Repeti-
tions, confequently, I have little to fay if it
may be granted he has told you all he has heard
from Spain. I dare fwear it is the Wiſdom of
the Spanish Council to fhew you this underhand
trick with our Enemies, whilft they perfuade
themfelves we fhall not gain notice of their
Tranfactions to convey unto your Excellency
but certainly they are very zealous to raife us
here, whilft they pretend great kindneſs to the
King at Madrid. I hope your Excellency will
hear them accordingly,and honour us with your
Letters that will tell us what your thoughts are
concerning them and us.
We are going to build two Re-doubts more to
Morrow, by the Sea fide, to fecure the working
at the Rock for the Mold,
ing Places proper for the and to top their bid-
and then
when the Weather will allow we fhall Forti-
he the Town. The Garifon now is in a
fair
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fair way to recover its Settlement, tho' it can
never hope to have fuch a General, if you will
abate a fingle Error of his whole Life, caufed
by reftiness, for want of Lime to work, and
be bufied elſewhere.
I am moſt humbly to your Excellency, my
nobleft Lady, and all yours, a moft Devoted
Slave, not worthy the Title of
My Lord, Your, &c.
H. NORWOOD.
To my Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
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Whitehall, July 7. 1664.
Aving nothing from your Excellency fince
my laft, I fhould not write now, if it
were not to give you the ill News of his Ma-
jeftics Indifpofition, which tho not very great
for the prefent, you may eaſily believe is in
any degree terrible to us. Monday laft he car-
ried both the Queens, the Duke and the Dut-
chefs Aboard the Fleet, now ready to fet Sai!
in a few days, and at his return in the Even-
ing found himſelf fomewhat indifpofed; in
which manner he continued all the next day,
tho' not ill enough, in his own opinion, to
keep his Chamber or the Houſe, or to refuſe
an Audience of the Dutch Amballador; which
being over, he confented to be let Blood.
Since which time he hath remained with fome
degrees of a Feaver, tho' he hath refted reafo-
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nably well, and by fits had fome gentle Sweats;
for which reafon he hath likewife conſented
this Evening to be let Blood again, and is now
laid to reft, fomewhat refreſht by it. Upon
the whole matter, tho' there be nothing in his
Majeſties Sickneſs fo fharp or violent as to give
us any preſent apprehenfions of him, yet there
is enough to make us fear he will not be pre-
fently well again. God fend my gueſs may
deceive me, and that his perfect Recovery
may by the next give me occafion to tell
you
they have done fo.
We hope to diſpatch Sir George Downing in a
few days to Holland, and Sir H. Coventry into
Swedeland; for Denmark we are alfo making
ready a Diſpatch, but his Majefty is not fully
determined of the Perfon he will fend. Be-
fides this,my Lord Duke of Ormond preffes hard
the deſpatch of the Irish Bill, and will certainly
bring it quickly to paſs, if his Majefties Indif-
pofition will permit it. I have nothing more
to add, but my being with much Refpect and
Affection,
Yours, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
You
To Colonel Fitz-Gerald.
Madrid 12 Auguſt, 1664. N. S.
Our former, 23 July, N. S. and now ano-
ther of the 27th of the fame, by the
laft Poft, being both upon my hands, I do in
the
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the first place,very heartily to his Majefties Af-
fairs, to your felf, and to me, congratulate
your fafe Return to Tangier, with fo confide-
rable and ſeaſonable Recruits as you brought
along with you, befides your Perfonal Vigi-
lance and Conduct.
The former, tho' I did not prefently Anſwer
to your felf, for the Reaſons then expreft to
Col. Norwood, yet by him I did intimate to you
my Sence upon the main Subject thereof, as
alfo what I reprefented into England, and was
endeavouring here concerning the fame; con-
tinuing ſtill in the fame Sence and Proceeding
as much as in me lies, in the fame fteps your
fecond, containing further matter of Fact, but
to the fame tune, admits of little more reply.
By to morrow's Poft I fhall advertiſe that like-
wife to his Catholick Majefty, not doubting
but that you do the like by Sea, opportunity
being offered for it.
That which you juftly fufpect, in reference
to the new Town and Fortifications, rifing in
your Eyes, I prefume you are as Induftrious
to make out in clear Proof, as you are in that
of Salley, and then to let his Majefty farther
underſtand, that it is not now Jealoufie but
Demonſtration.
I wiſh you would likewiſe take occafion to
reprefent unto His Majefty with the fooneft,
your judgment what Importance that new
Town and Fortifications may be of to anEnemy,
and of what Damage or Danger to us, when
perfected; as, on the other fide, of what Im-
portance to us, if we could furprize it; and
then this whether feafible, in refpect of Rivers,
or otherwiſe; and, if ſo, with what farther
Force out of England, tho' not for continuance;
that
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that fo his Majefty may confider whether it
will be worth it. But, above all, endeavour
to make the fuppofed Spanish Affiftances (if
there be firm ground for that Information)
clear, and undeniable; for elfe, affure your
felf, the thing will be deny'd in this Court,
&c.
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Yours, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
This day the French Ambalador fent one of
his Gentlemen to tell me, that the Dutchefs
of Orleans is well Delivered of a fine Prince,
whom the French King immediately welcomed
into the World with the Title of Duke of Va-
lois, and fomething of Revenue to begin it
with.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 13 August, 1664. N.S.
SIR,
While
Hilft I expected (according to promiſe)
an Anſwer in writing to the particu-
lars of my Letter to the Duke of Medina de las
Torres, of the 19th of July; whereof I re-
mitted to you a Copy at large, with my laſt
of the 4th of August, N. S. and had formerly
given you the fubftance thereof in Cypher; I
was furprized, inftead thereof, with the
herewith incloſed from the Duke, containing
quite other matter, and that nor new nei-
ther.
My
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My Sence of this Truck you will difcern
in part by my Reply thereunto, herewith in-
cloſed likewife; to which I fhall add by word
of Mouth, or Letter, as occafion may be of
fered hereafter
The Copies which are mention'd to be here-
with incloſed, were remitted to you with my
laft of the fame date herewith, in company
whereof this alſo was intended to have gone,
but that I thought fitter to keep it to be put
in Cypher, for this next opportunity.
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thereupon at preſent: As firſt, that I do not
find by this (or indeed by any thing elſe hi-
'therto) this Court any whit defirous or care-
ful to make fure of Affiftance from the Crown
of England, againſt a time of need: tho' the
more I fee of Spain in thefe times, the more
'frongly I am of Opinion it will be very hard
for their Monarchy to fubfift long, without
England; and, againſt it, impoffible.
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'may be tacitly inferr'd from this Paper like-
wife) to any accommodation with Portugal;
without which England may hurt it felf; but
'I do ſuppoſe it difficult, even for his Majeſty
'to help them out of the Bryers, preferving
only a Neutrality as to that.
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The Diſeaſe (how flightly foever they make
of it here) being more mortal than a greater
"farther of, as infectious, near the Heart,
'which is not in the best temper at this time,
or like to be better in haft, without a brea-
thing from that War.
'Even the Privileges of Trade it felf, the
'Duke feems by this Paper to Circumfcribe,
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'mer Articles; whereas the Hollanders have
'much larger; to come fhort of whom would
be as much againit the Profit, as the Honour
of England, remaining in as much a worfe
• Condition than we were before, as they, and
other Nations, are in a better. But, as to
Spain, I obferve, the Duke propoſeth to have
the Articles mended with Refguardos, the
'which, whether his Excellency would have
to be Claufes, or Place, is not yet clear to
my underſtanding
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'Peace in the Indies, Spain, and Flanders, with-
out having any to pretend upon (for ought
yet appears) either in the Indies, or in Tan-
gier.
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if the farther inclofed Papers (fortify'd with
former Evidence and Prefumptions) carry
any weight. Confefling, that I would have
'them very clearly made out in Proof, before
'I would lay very much upon them, as to
Accufation here; tho', as to caution there,
(and fo I have written to the Governour, as
you may perceive) I would make accompt,
that every tittle of the Informations is
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In cafe it fhall be found fo in Proof like
wife, I humbly offer it to his Majefties Con
fideration; what fhall be then done, efpeci
ally if any confiderable harm fhall come of it
being (with all fubmiflion) of opinion, if
all the Spaniards fhould fuffer for fo unchri-
'ftian an Action, and in time of Treaty too
were only to be abraided therewith, by hi
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Majefties Ambaffador, or by a bare Letter
from his Majefty himſelf, that they would
not much alter their Countenances thereup-
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ter of the 12th of May, that, demanding here
'the Liberty of the Prifoners of Tangier, Ifhould
in his Majefties Name declare, that I cannot
proceed farther in the Treaty, unleſs theſe
fuffer themſelves to know, that Tangier be-
longs to the King of England, and will pre-
tend to the fame freedom of Commerce with
'them, which his Majeſties other Dominions
enjoy. But then, this order for my thus de-
claring, is in the Words immediately follow-
ing, fo qualified, as I (according to the beſt
of my Underſtanding) have done my de-
mand. Waiting a clear Anſwer in the main
(provided the Prifoners were immediately
Releaſed) till it fhould come to be handled in
its place in the Treaty.
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Now here ſeems to enter their fubtlety,
That, before that ſhower come, Gayland ſhould
have catcht Tangier, and delivered it into the
poſſeſſion of his Catholick Majesty, as they hope,
relying upon publick Faith: For (as if to
fpin out the time, to that very end) contrary
to ours and all the Worlds expectation, they
'have found, or made occafions, not to Treat
'with, or open themſelves to me, in the leaft
degree, to this inftant, after fo prodigious
Complements at firft, whilft (as I have for-
merly intimated my Conjecture) they were
in hopes from Don Patricio Omuledey, of Im-
poflibilities from England, and not fenfible of
the better Advantages which really they
might have.
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'Mafter were fo explained, as to fend me Pow-
ers and Inftructions effectively, to return (fig-
nifying fo much by other Letters to his Ca-
'tholick Majefty) in cafe fuch things were con-
tinued, as the fupporting Gayland, Imprisonment
of our Men of Tangier, Embargo of English in
'the Canaryes, and fome Actions of the Corfiftas.
In cafe on the other fide, fome things were
not yielded to, as free Commerce with Tan-
gier, as large Privileges at leaft, in matter of
Trade, throughout the Spanish Dominions, as
the Hollanders, or any other Nation have,
with what elfe (as to the Indies, or otherwiſe)
his Majesty hall think fit to infift finally up-
on. This Alarm would probably rouſe them
to fome more ſpeedy Refolutions: and I do
think my felf their Friend, in urging it to
this heighth. If it be faid, this may be done
when the Conde de Molina comes into England:
I do with it fo with all my Heart; but if tri-
fling out time with us be the Spanish defign
(their true Intereft I am fure it is not, in the
prefent Conjuncture and Profpect of their Af-
fairs) they may find out ways enough to delay
his going, and he has many there to delay his
Refolutions, to what fhall be preft upon him,
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' mention not as a neceffary Condition; it ſeem-
ing ſomething harth to impofe upon them a
thing fo much againſt their Stomachs (tho'
there are fober Men of opinion, not a few,
that they would be fecretly contented to fuf-
fer a Rape in that particular, whereby to fave
their Honour, and yet comply with their
'Neceffities) unleſs the King our Maſter ſhould
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'Monarchy from breaking to pieces, than
themſelves confider it to be theirs; and with-
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'Some of that number alfo, prefume to whi-
ſper (ſeeing how affairs go with the Emperor)
'that even a Match between them were necef-
'fary.
Yeſterday the French Ambaffador fent one of
his Gentlemen to tell me, that the Dutchefs of
Orleans is well delivered of a fine Prince, whom
the French King immediately wellcomed into
the World with the Title of Duke of Valois, and
fomething of Revenue to begin it with.
This I tell you not for News (knowing you
muſt have had it there within a few hours af
ter) but that you may fee how very civil and
obliging the French Ambaffador fhews himſelf
to me at every turn.
Yet, I must tell you, I am affured the faid
Ambaſſador is at this time very active in im-
portuning this Court, to afford the new Vene-
tian Ambaffador his Publick Audience, with
all poſſible Splendor; the which is (as I under-
ftand it) by permitting the Ambaffador and o-
ther Foreign Minifters, to fend their Coaches
and Families to accompany him thereunto. To
Morrow I will found the bottom of it, and,
if I find the Court inclinable thereunto, fince
it was deny'd to me at mine, with exprefs Sig-
nification to me from his Catholick Majefty,
That the Rule from thenceforward ſhould equally ex-
tend to all Ambaffadors, I am refolved formally
to Proteſt againſt the Partiality, and to declare
imputable to Spain whatfoever Refentments
and
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and evil Confequences may enfue thereupon
With which I humbly crave leave to remain,
Your, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
Madrid 18 August, 1664 N. S.
By Letters this day from Andaluzia, 500 Men
of the Recruits from Italy, convey'd in a Genoueze
Ship, have been caft away in the Streights mouth,.
in calm Weather, only 2 of all the Ship faved.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid Wednesday the 3 of Auguft, 1664. Engl
Stile.
SIR,
Son
Ome matters of Fact I have to add to my
other Letters of the date hereof to you;
as firft, by way of ingenious Recantation, of
a finiftre Conſtruction I made in my laft fore-
going Diſpatch, to the prejudice of the Spani-
ards, namely, that they fhew'd themſelves par-
tial to the Hollander, in giving de Ruyter not
only free Pratick in the Ports of the Kingdom
of Valencia, tho' he came from before Algiers
(not to ſpeak of Amsterdam) whilft, in the
mean time, Sir John Laufen was, upon the
fame pretence, deny'd there bare Pratick, to
his difaccommodation, in point of Water and
other Neceffaries for his Fleet. I muſt now
acquaint you (the Table's turn'd) that fince,
at Malaga, Sir John was adimitted to Pratick,
and
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and de Ruyter (coming after him) deny'd it,
tho' Holland hath a Magazine here of their
own. Who would think already there were
any Government in Spain, but that time and
chance happens to all?
Sir John, by this time (by his own compu-
tation) is under Sail towards Algiers again,
fufficiently diffatis fied (I dare day, and partly
know it) with me, tho' he is a very good
Man, for not having procur'd him in all this
time the Orders he hath defired from this
Court, yet you are my witneſs how follicitous
I have been therein, and ftill am.
Don John is now upon his way from Ba-
dajos to his Retirement at Confuegra; whereun-
to the major Voice of the Court is,that he hath
brought for his own ufe every Penny that was
in the Frontiers, for the ufe of the Army.
Bad News for Spain, if it be true (which
doubtless it is not) and not much better if it be
falfe; fhewing, a Light-headed either Peo-
ple, or Age. You would not think how a
Belief hath ſpread here, even amongst great
Minifters, That I brought with me into this King-
dom I know not what Millions of falſe Bullion. An
Imputation the King our Mafter will laugh ve-
ry heartily at, when his Majefty confiders what
a Hoarder and Handycrafts-man I am, if he be
in a condition of Health for it; which God
grant.
It is faid, with fome confidence, that the
Portugueze is preparing apace, numerously, for
a fecond Campaign; fo are we here.
That Count Marfin will receive Orders from
none but Don Juan
O
That
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That the Marquefs de Cracena will not med-
dle at all in Martial Commands; referving him-
felf (I prefume) to fit at the Stern at Court,
with fome few others: The Conde de Pennuran-
da being likewiſe expected very ſpeedily from
Naples, for one, and particularly to be Ayo del
Principe.
;
The buſineſs of Befanzon, I am told, is thus
that the faid City ſtanding upon Terms of Di-
ftance and Contumacy with Doli, in vindica-
tion of Exemptions, formerly granted to them
by Mediation of their Popular, the great Car-
dinal Granvile: First, they faid, the Marquefs
de Caftel Rodrigo was in his Going, and now
they fay the Marquefs de Caracena is in his
Coming, it is to quiet and compofe that
matter.
The laft Night certain Frenchmen were ta-
ken going out of the Gates of this Town, and
about them a quantity of very notable Letters,
fome, they fay, from confiderable Perfons; the
Miftery is not yet difcovered, but there is juft
now a freſh Alarm, that the Portugueze Army
hath already taken the Field.
Your melancholly Lines of the 7th of the laſt,
I have received, and peruſed in the ſame mood,
taking it for a very particular Favour, that you
would ſpare me a part of that Sorrow, with
which I perceive how pallionately you were
affected at that time, in apprehenſion of his
Majefties Sicknefs; tho' other Letters of the
fame date, difcourſe it as of a thing in effect
paft. The Truth is, that is a cafe which doth
not only excufe but juftifie and command Fear,
even where no fear is. Yours, I truft in God,
is long fince over, with the occafion, and can-
not doubt, but that you'l be fo good to me, as
to
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to rid me of mine, with the fooneft, none be-
ing fo effectually able to root it out, as the
fame hand that planted it; that fo my Joy may
rife proportionably thereby doubly obli-
ging,
Your, &c.
R. Fanfhaw.
The within mentioned of the fame Date, as in-
tended to accompany this, is ready, but not fit or
needful to venture along with it, It is a defcant up-
on the inclofed Papers; you have here the fubftance of
it already; and, with the next, will have that
too.
I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, July 14. 1664.
Have juſt now receiv'd together your Ex-
cellencies of 25 June, N. S. and 2d of Ju-
ly; two of the former Date, with the Papers
accompanying them, all relating to your Diſ-
pute with the Venetian Ambaſſador, and the
French. Ambaſſador's Accompanying you by his
Coach and Servants, to your firft Audience;
which Papers I have not had time to look over
fo carefully as I intend to do,giving an account
of them to his Majefty, whereof you ſhall be
advertiſed in my next; in the mean time your
Excellency will give me leave to complain of
you to your ſelf, that you do not yet find out
Q 2
the
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the way of writing Regularly to us, once a
week at leaſt, and ſo prevent by your care, the
coming of two of your Difpatches toge-
ther.
As for the miſtake in our Cyphers, I have
given the beft temporary Remedy for it I can;
affoon as I received notice from you of the Er-
rors of that Cypher betwixt us, I immediate-
ly betook my felf to the Ufe of Mr. Coventry's,
which I fhall continue till I have an opportu-
nity of fending you a new one by a ſafe hand;
having alfo tranfmitted to you in Mr. Coventry's
Duplicates of all that I had written in the mi-
ſtaken Cypher. I hope I need not warn you
again, to take eſpecial care that you tranſmit
nothing to us of any kind of moment, but in
Cypher; for how trivial foever it may feem
to be, it will be ſeen by the way, and ill ufe
will be made of it. I fpeak this with relation
to that Letter brought me this day, giving an
account of your firftPrivate Audience; which
affording me no matter to reply unto, all I
fhall entertain your Excellency with, is, His
Majefties perfect Recovery; for which God be
Thanked. A good proof of which is, that he
hath fuffered himſelf this day to be invited to
Dinner into the Town, and comply'd with
the Invitation. I am with much Affection,
My Lord, Your, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To
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To my Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
July the 14th, 1664.
Ince the fealing of Mr. Secretaries to your
Excellency by this Poft, he hath command-
ed me to fay to you, in addition to what he
hath written, that contrary to the King's ex-
pectation, and notwithſtanding the War with
the Turks, which bath hindred communication
with Argiers for fome Months; his Majefty is
inform'd, that his Ships under the Command
of Sir John Lawſon, are not admitted to have
Prattick either at Malaga, Alicant, or Maon
which feems the more ftrange, becauſe the
Merchants Letters here fay, that de Ruyter
bath been admitted to Prattick at Malaga and A-
licant, notwithſtanding that it is credibly Re-
ported, that the Plague was on Board his own
Ship. This Intelligence from the Merchants
furprizeth us much; and Mr. Secretary bid me
defire your Excellency to reprefent it to the
Minifters there, in fuch manner as your Excel-
lency fhall think fit. I am
Your Excellencies, &c.
C
03
w. Godolphin
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, August, the 12th N. S. 1664.
SIR,
M
Y laft to you was by the Conveyance of
Mr. Symon Bodkin, an Irish Merchant,
the Day before Yefterday, he being then imme-
diately fetting Foot in the Stirrop for England,
but the Letter was of the 3. N. S. Inftant, and
fhoud have accompanied another of the fame
date, and relative thereunto in matter, which
went by the laft Poft through France; but that
I thought fit to detain it a while for a fafer way
both of writing and fending.
In the Evening after Mr. Bodkin was depart-
ed this Town, I was with the Duke de Medina
de las Torres, who excufing upon others the delay
of Anſwering that Paper which I ſpecified to
you with ſo much refentment in that Defpatch,
affured me, that now I ſhould forthwith have an
effectual Refolution thereupon to my content,
particularly in what concerns Sir John Lawson,
and the English Priſoners, as well thofe of the
Weft-Indies as thofe of Tangier.
Yefterday I receiv'd yours of the 14. of July
and therein the moſt wellcome and ſeaſonable
News that could poffibly come to me, of his
Majefty's perfect recovery, whom God pre-
ferve, after the great fear your laft preceeding
had put me into. I receiv'd likewife at the
fame time, and of the fame date, in addition
thereunto, another from Mr. Godolphin by your
Order,touching the Spaniards denying Sir John
Lawfin Traffick in their Ports, and admitting
the
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the Hollanders to it. Of the first they have been
too guilty, and of the latter too; That is to fay
of grofs Partiality to the Hollander, I thought
till lately, and accordingly complain'd both here
and into England; but in this Point being fully
undeceiv'd my ſelf, I did partly undeceive
you likewiſe in a former, with what paſt to-
wards the Dutch at Malaga, after their Jubile
in Valencia, but that which hath happened to
them fince at Cadiz (where Sir John Lawson
had full Liberty to clean his Ships, as he did,
&c.)is to admiration;for there de Ruyter had not
fo much as his Guns Anfwered, and was utter-
ly denyed Prattick. Who would not fufpect
hereupon (that knows nothing to the contra-
ry) putting this and that of Malaga together
where the Dath Magazine is, that the English
and Spaniard, are cloſe combined to ruin that
Fleet ?
I am, &c.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Friday the 12th of August, N.S. 1664
SIR,
TH
He defign of the French Courtefie in my
Publick Audience, even then perceivable
and perceived is now full blown, that the
King hath in Perfon Expoftulated with the Spa-
nish Ambaſſador at Paris, why the King his
Mafter would offer by an innovation in the Spa-
nish Court at that time to bereave him the faid
French King of an opportunity of vindicating his
juft Precedence of the King of England, and
04
in
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in purfuance thereof hath fince fent Letters to
this Court to the fame effect, and to demand
Reftitution of the former Cuftom in firft Enter-
ances of Ambaſſadors from ſuch others as they
found here, which demand this French Ambaf-
fador hath and doth manage to that degree of
heat, with and in this Court, as (amongſt other
Expreffions) to have plainly threatened, that
if he were not fatisfied in this Point, he would
himſelf diſpute the Precedency with the Am-
baſſador of the Emperor ( I cannot fay with the
Popes Nuncio too) becauſe that hath not been
told me) but the fequence is as if it had been
fo; for of certain both the Emperor's Ambaf-
fador and Pope's Nuncio and more, if not all,
addrefs'd themselves to his Catholick Majefty,
have either by Word of Mouth or Memorial,or
'both; the which I do rather bleve, that fince
the French Ambaffador did affume that Liberty
and Privilege to himfelf, as to fend his Coach
and Family to the English Amballador contrary
to the new Order, it might be free for them to
do the like to all other hereafter. All theſe Par-
riculars I have had from the Duke de Medina de
las Torres, with this farther, that the French
King enforced his faid demand with many Pre-
fents; the Duke told me the matter is fub Ju-
dice, and not determined, therefore Yesterday
having obtained Audience, I prefented to his
Catholick Majefty, according to my late Intima-
tion to your Honour. The herewith inclofed
Proteft, or not Proteft, as this or any other
Court fhall underftand it, or rather as the King
our Maſter in his Princely Wifdom fhall Inter-
pret or Command me to Interpret the fame,
whofe Royal Directions in the Cafe, long fince
to be forefcen. I fhall now by every Poft ex-
pe&
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pect for my better light, in cafe of revival
of the former Cuſtom, which by the packing
of the Cards, I conceive to be moſt probable;
keeping my ſelf in the interim, that they come
not upon my Guard, the beft I may.
The Venetian Ambaffador's Entry (which
is next expected) can put me to no difficulty
at all, in refpect his Predeceffor never thought
fit to give me a Vifit, either of Wellcome when
I arrived, or Farewel when he departed, where-
of I formerly advertiſed you at large, and how
fuch neglect hath been refented in another
Age.
The Holland Ambaſſador, now Refident, muta-
to nomine, will have his Entrada foon after,there
will be fome fcruple, yet no very great one;
on the contrary, I think there is a rational
Query whether I, or any other of the Ambaf-
fadors de Capilla, fhould visit him at all.
The Cafe is in his qualiy of Refident, he hath
totally de lin'd the vifiting either the Empe-
ror's or Me, or the French Ambaffador; becauſe
the other two firſt, and then I by their Exam-
ple, did not affent to treat him with Senoria Il-
luftriffima,and in our own Houſes with the Hand
and upper Chair (this latter of giving him
Precedence in our own Houſes, being, I con-
ceive, the only Point he abfolutely infifts up-
on) now if we do him wrong in this, why
fhould we not right him whilſt he is yet under
the Notion of Refident? And if we do him none,
why ſhould we visit the Holland Ambaſſador in
our turn, when the Holland Refident (efpeci-
ally being the fame Perfon) will not vifit us in
his?
Here is a Daniſh Reſident, and an Enviado of
Genoua, who ſtand off upon the very fame
terms
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1
terms, both with thofe Ambaffadors and with
me. The latter having obliged me by Meflage
to folicite for the King our Maſter's Orders
to guide me on behalf of his Pretence, be-
cauſe I had fent him word, that without fuch
I could not in Difcretion and Civility (being
a new comer) vary from the Judgment and
Practice of my Seniors in this Court.
Your Honour, by your long and lateExpe-
rience here, will underſtand the pinch of this
buſineſs better than yet I do, who by what I
can learn am of opinion, that according to the
Stile of this Court, perhaps of all others like-
wife, a Kings Ambaſſador, in his own Houſe,
doth not give the Hand to another King's Re-
fident,much leſs IlluftriffimazoYears ago;but then
again, I am informed, that now thefe very Am-
baffadors of Germany and France,who may with
Juftice enough make fcruple of that, may at
the fame time give Illuftriffima, and within their
own Dores the Hand to a Ducal Ambaffador,
thereby prefering them to their own Refidents,
an old Controverfie not eafily decided, and
yet in a fair way to be fo, when by ſtrong in-
ference we ſhall be found Judges againft our
felves.
I have farther to avow in Fuftification of my
not fending to accompany the Hollander in his En-
trada, or any other but a new French Ambaſſador,
that having been my felf accompanied from none of
them who fhew themselves now so zealous to per-
form that Function to others, I have no reason to
perform it towards them, until I ſhall have received
the King my Master's particular direction therin,
after knowledge of what hath past.
This by way of Diſcuſſion not by Decifion of the
Question; for although from my 17th Instruction it
is
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is very clear I muft give not the Hand to any King's
Ambaſſador (on which behalf his Majesty hall
not need to doubt my Zeal, neither, I hope, the Suc-
cefs, how roughly foever the Precedence may be just-
led for, whether by them or theirs ) yet, whether
the receiving by fuch Arts as are now on foot, and
for fuch Ends as are now declared, the forementi-
oned Cuftom of Ambaſſadors fending their Coaches
and Families to each others Entradas, be fuch a
point of advantage above me, as in the fame In-
ftruction I am commanded to be wary of, and whe-
ther in that Cafe I am not to thrust in for a fhare,
in as good a Room as I can get by Scratching for
( fince others by their Unquietness, or by their In-
conftancy, impofe the Neceffity) there will be the
Question, whereof I do now hope for Reſolution from
his Majefty by every Poft, of what I formerly writ
concerning this matter, then in profpect, and find
by your Honours last, that thofe Despatches were at
the writing thereof come newly to hand.
I am yours, &c.
I
Paris, July the 28th. N. S. 1664.
My Lord,
Have received the favour which your Ex-
cellency hath been pleaſed to do me by
your Letter of June 10. N. S. from Madrid,
therein imparting to me what had paffed with
you in that Court until that time. I had be-
fore that embraced an occafion to falute your
Excellency by a Gentleman that had defired of
me a Recommendation to you for your Afli-
tance in a Sute he had for fome promotion in
Flanders
+
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Flanders, which I did with the Caution I then
expreſt in my Letter (if your Excellency could
give it him without any Inconvenience unto
your felf) and much the willinger, glad of
the opportunity of a ſafe Conveyance to give
you ſome account of my being here, and to
defire and begin what you have now been
pleaſed to motion, a mutual Correfponden-
cy, upon the fame grounds, our common Du-
ty for the Service of our Mafter, and my par-
ticular refpect unto your Excellency, of both
which I fhall be a religious Obferver.
I hope we ſhall with Security continue this
Coreſpondence by Mr.Weftcomb's means of Ba-
yonne, to whom I fhall ftill direct my Letter,
and defire him to conovy it under his own co-
ver, and if your Excellency doth the fame,I think
it will be beft to avoid opening, which is much
fufpected to be practifed upon us, my Lord
Chancellor, and Mr. Secretary Bennet will ſware
it, but truly I think as I Seal with Wafer and
Wax upon it, it is impoffible without tearing
all, which if they do, they must then change
the Cover and counterfeit the Superfcription,
(therefore if the Letter be Sealedlikewife, it is
fo much the better) and this asks trouble and
time.
I am glad your Excellency hath fo well paffed
over your Ceremonious part, which is I think
the moſt troubleſom, the leſs Iconfefs it was be-
caufe all went in the old Channel, no attempt
of Innovation,which I found here fufficiently,as
this is a growing Court,that in the Wane, there-
fore here they gather and add every day: It is
now infifted upon to have all the Princes of
the Blood precede Amballadors, and their
Coaches to go before at all Entries and Publick
Meetings,
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Meetings, which though others have fubmit-
ted unto, the King of England never did, and
coft now fix or ſeven Months Diſpute,till at laft
this King went to St. Germains, where I made
a kind of Entry, had an Audience, and no
Prince appeared, which before was given out
they would (though not invited) whenever
I made my Entry; nor have I yet feen any of
them, but now I muft, for the King our Ma-
fter hath been prevailed with (inclining alfo
to it by his particular refpect for the Prince
of Conde, with whom he hath an ancient ac-
quaintance) to command me to viſit them,
but a Proteftation that it fhall draw no Confe-
quence to his Prejudice for his Ambaffadors Pre-
cedency, which I have accordingly fignified by
a Letter to the Mafter of the Ceremonies, and
now it refts upon thePrince of Conde's recovery,
who hath been down of the Gout, to have
this Vifit perform'd; and fomething it depends
upon the Legat's defpatch, who takes up all
their thoughts and attendances whilft he is
here; but he will not keep it off long neither,
that Comedy being now near an end, which
hath had various Scenes and many Changes,
his fubmiffive part is acted and paft, which was
performed at Fontainebleau the laft Week with
great Solemnity, where he was afterwards.
Regaled and Feafted with great Magnificency,
and is now returned again to Vinciennes near
Paris, thence to make a Glorious Entry into
this Town, which in ten days time that he was
there before could not be agreed upon, the
Pretence being a conteft between the Parlia-
ment and him, if they fhould Harangue him
fitting in a Chair or ftanding; but the true
caufe was the Indultos for the King's difpofing
of
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of the Biſhopricks in the Pais Conquis were not
come from Rome; which fince come have al-
tered the face of Affairs, and though he went
thence in a high difcontent, and the Refoluti-
ons on all Hands was, that there fhould be no
Entry, the King hath now fettled all things to
his Satisfaction, and he makes his Entry Satur-
day or Munday, and then after three or four
days more,doth trufs up his Baggage to be gone.
I am glad the French Amballador was fo ci-
vil at your Entry, I will alſo hope, that it was
Cordial; and if the Spaniards be not fo in all
their Negotiations, I will conclude them mad
and out of their Wits, and the Decree gone
out for their Ruin, which is certain if they
keep not thoſe few Friends they have, and if
they difoblige any: The News is come hi-
ther of a great blow they have received at
Caftel Rodrigo, and reported in fuch a manner
as ſcarce to be believed, that Men fhould fo
play the Beaſts, to befiege a Town, and an Ar-
my fomething lefs than theirs coming to re-
lieve it, to run away without ftriking a ſtroke,
leave Artillery and Baggage behind, and be
killed like Sheep running away;this is to forget
they are Spaniards or Men; I could not believe
it at first, but it ſeems it is feconded by this
days Poft, and for ought I hear all the Empe-
ror's Soldiers do as ill in Germany, that one
would think fome ill Conftellation doth reign.
We are here under a better Planet, and all in
Jollity, and in my particular.
My Lord, Yours, &c.
Holles.
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wednesday, August 17. N. S. 1664.
SIR,
my last Conference with the Duke de Me-
Adina de las Torres, be defired fince, I and
be reflecting upon former Articles, were to propofe
in behalf of our feveral Masters fuch Additions
or Variations as we should find neceſſary and reaſo-
nable, that I would prepare fome Propofitions on my
part in order to the Treaty, requesting him to do the
Like on bis; I confented, pursuing therein my provifio-
nal Instruction in cafe of delays, whether intended
or customary in this Court, or want of Exercife in
the Intereft of Commerce. So I shall now with all
poffible Speed, with help of fuch Lights as I have
from my Instructions, and fuch further Collections,
as together with them I received from your Honour,
compofe and tender a body of Articles to the Duke,
with Declaration not to be bound thereby,or by any of
them, or from any other, until we ſhall be both fully
agreed upon the whole; the which you may affure
your ſelf ſhall never be till I have tranfmitted the
Draughts unto the King our Mafter, and received
his Royal Pleaſure thereupon, as to Corrections, Sub-
tractions, or Additions.
Since my former, having then inſtanced fe-
veral Conjunctures wherein naturally the Spa-
niard made great difference between us and the
Hollanders, all in our favour, as in Malaga and
Cadiz, by Letters laft Night out of Andaluzia,
it is further certified, that Sir John Lawfon and
de Ruyter returning from Cadiz, and concur-
ring
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ring at the fame time in Malaga Road, the
former had been very kindly received and dif-
miffed there for Argiers Coaft, but the latter
again utterly refufed Parttick.
By Letter from France, I am certified that
the New Fort is now finiſhed at Handay on
the French fide of Fontaravia, by this time
ftrongly Gariſoned and plentifully Ammuniti-
oned, and Artillered; whence it is written
withal that his moft Chriftian Majefty intends
to Winter in Bourdeaux, which makes many
there believe, that he propofeth to be near the
Frontiers for what may happen in Spain; but
here none feems to have any fuch apprehenfi-
on in the leaſt.
This Court is at prefent full of Joy, upon
the account of feveral great Victories against
the Turk, by feveral Armies of the German Em-
peror, whereof as I do not doubt the truth,
becauſe it comes by Exprefs, fo queftionleſs it
is great reaſon of rejoycing to all Christendom.
The Turk hath Potent Armies yet entire, God
fend them the like Succefs.
The incloſed for you from Count Marchin
came to my Hands with another for me, in
which the Count profeffeth moft profound re-
ſpects to the King our Mafter; other News I
have none yet concerning him or the Troops
under his Command, fave that Recruits arrive
daily beyond-Sea, but of Levies within the
Kingdom I perceive little.
Yours, &c.
Το
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To my Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
Tangier, August the laſt, 1664.
My Lord,
Sinc
a
:
Ince I have had the honour to be as it were
Member of his Excellencie's Cid Hamet
Elxador Benali Gayland's Court, I am grown fo
compleat at paffing Complements, that I could
not read of an Indifpofition in you or yours,
but I thought my ſelf obliged to Sympathize
with you I hope I do imitate you alſo in
my Recovery, better than the Hugenets do fay
St. Francis did Chrift in all his Sufferings, but
ftop'd at the deſcent into Hell. I thank God my
Feaver is gone after twice letting of Blood,
but my Flux remains. In a fhort time we ſhall
be able to make a better Judgment of Gayland's
Reſolution, than at Prefent either he or we
can gueſs at: If the Penfion to his Secretary
from Spain meeteth no obſtruction,we have no
reaſon to expect Friendship there, he being the
Oracle that Governs his Mafter even in the leaft
thing; but ſhould the Iffues for Spain be ſtop'd
in all parts, they would not fail to accept our
Mony. The Caftle of Sally ſtanding Neutral,
and giving him a fhare of all Prizes, is ano-
ther Argument to make him alienate to our
Friendſhip, add to this the late fubmiflion of
the vaſt Countries of Sufe and Fesh to his Go-
vernment, and you will think he has reafon
to value himſelf as he does. In the mean time
Bamboger is in the Mountains with a good Ar-
my, but looſeth himſelf to all his Neighbours
P
by
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by his Tyranny and fooliſh Conduct. Though
we have no Peace we fhall in a very few days
be as fecure to difpofe of 6 or 700 Acres of
Land, by vertue of our Redoubts and Out-
works, as ever the Portugueses judged themſelves
fafe within the Walls of the City, and fhall
fortifie as fafe as draw a Plan in a Chamber.
The Mould goes on flowly,our Soldiery very
Sickly, ill Victual'd, and not very helpful to
that work, which must be profecuted at ano-
ther rate than I have feen it, or the expectati-
on of them at Whitehall will fail towards the
end of September, New Stile. I intend to take
the Air of Spain for my perfect Recovery, if
God permit, and then my Mouth will Water
to fee Madrid, or fome body in it. God keep
you in perfect Health, and bleſs me as I am,
My Lord, Yours, &c.
H. Norwood,
My Lord,
You
To my Lord Holles.
·Madrid, Auguft the 18th N. S. 1564
Our Excellencie's of the 28th of July N.S.
I received yeſterday with due Efteem;
but the Letter therein mention'd, on behalf of
a Gentleman that hath a Suit in this Court for
fome Promotion in Flanders, hath not yet come
to my Hands, whenever it doth, I fhall im-
ploy my beſt endeavours to ferve him.
I have
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I have not hitherto been able to difcover
(no more than your Excellency) any opening
of Letters in France, but the conveyance over
long both going and coming.
I agree with your Excellency, that the Ce-
remonious part is the moſt troubleſome in our
Imployments, with this difference only, that
it is never paft over, either in an Age or Nati-
on that fet their Hearts upon Punctillioes; the
former ſpringing from Succefs, the other bred
in the Bones. For although of contraries the
reafon is the fame, the Effects are not always
proportionable; it being more ordinary
(through the pravity of Humane Nature) for
Proſperity to puff up, than for Adverfity to
humble. I affure your Excellency we feem not
here to think our felves at all in the Wane; or,
if fo, in the laft change for a new Moon.
This hath been our temper ever fince the de-
feat your Excellency mentions of the Duke of
Offuna, (which I believe was not painted at
Paris bigger than Life) and before the News
arrived of the turn in Germany, which fills this
Court with Joy and Triumph.
The Evening before Yeſterday came an Ex-
prefs from Holland, which fays the War is de-
clared between England and the States, and
with order to fpread this Intelligence, with
directions thereupon, to their People along the
Spanish Coaft; whether that it is indeed fo, or
that (finding it now their time) they pre-
pare to declare it fhortly. The latter I rather
believe.
P₂
Yours, &c.
R. F.
To
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I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My very good Lord,
Have received yours of the 18th of this
month, and have feen all you have ſent to
Mr, Secretary, to which you will receive par-
ticular Directions e'er long, tho', it may be,
not fo foon as this Letter, which I do recom-
mend by an Exprefs to us from my Lord Ambaf-
fador Hollis,hoping that when it is in hisHands,
the greateſt danger of opening Letters is over,
eſpecially if his care tranfmit it by fome trufty
hand to any place beyond Paris. It was very
long, till this laft Packet, fince we heard from
you, which the King wondred at; tho' I will
not encourage you to write any thing of mo-
ment out of Cypher, yet, I pray, let no week
paſs without letting us know how things pro-
ceed with you; and the Diſcourſe of this
Town, even from many Letters out of Madrid,
of that King's prefent Difpofition and Refolu-
tion, infufe impatient Defires into us, to hear
inftantly from you; for if that be purfu'd,great
contentment will follow.
If I were obliged to make any judgment, or
to diſcover what I think will be the fuccefs of
your Negotiations, by what hath paſſed fince
your arrival at Madrid, and fince your being
within a ſmall diftance of it; your whole
Treatment fince you have been upon the mat-
ter, at the end of your Journey, hath been fo
monstrously different from the Careffes you re-
ceived in the Way; I fhould think the latter
proceeded only from fome poor Stratagem to
amufe
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amuſe the World, without the leaſt good Will,
and that they yet lie to take full vengeance upon
you in their future Carriage, and now they have
got an Ambaſſador from us, to uſe him and our
Mafter with difrefpects enough. If you diſcover
that, you know how to be fullen enough, and
to let them fee you are fo, to let them know,
that the promiſe they made the King, was, that
an Ambaſſador fhould come hither as ſoon as
you arrived, and that they made him believe
that they had then nominated him; and you
muſt take frequent occafions to tell them, that
you have order to leave them, as ſoon as you find
that they are weary of you. Since they have re-
warded your Overtures fo coldly, I wish that
you bad left it to them, to have made the advance
towards a Treaty, and a defire of our Friendship,
of which they will have need enough. Nor must
they imagine, that we will ever proceed upon the
Foot of the last Treaty, I mean that of 1630; which
was never obferved by them, but at laft vio-
lated to that infamous degree, by their Alli-
ance with Cromwel, by their refufing to renew
it, after the Murther of our laft Mafter, and
by the driving us out of Madrid, and buying
fo many of the Goods of the Crown from the
Murtherers, which they fhould think in Honor
of returning, before they fhould imagine it
poffible that we can ever hearken to an Over-
ture of reftoring what we never took from
them, but found the Island poffelled of upon a very
dear purchafe; and therefore when they fhall,
how courteously foever, make any approach
towards fuch extravagant Demands, you will
eaſily give them caufe to believe, that it will
be to no purpoſe.
P 3
Their
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Their prefent condition feems to need good
Friends, and nor to reject them when they are
offered; and they cannot but know that our
Mafter cannot be without great Temptations.
You tell us nothing of Don Juan, what he de-
figns, or to what he is defigned. The Portu-
gueze are fo exalted, that they think they can
Conquer Caftile, and the French watch all they
can to keep up their Spirits: They have made
a fair excuſe for refuſing to gratifie the King,
in the Delivery of the Marquefs de Learbe, and
Don Diego de Guzman, faying, That it would
make a great Difcontent amongst the Nobility, if
fuch Prifoners, who would redeem their equals, were
Set at liberty; fo that we have no hope of that
Civility from them.
You fay nothing of the Marquefs of Castle
Rodrigo's Journey for Flanders, where I think
he is wanted; and if you do not procure good
Impreſſions to be made in him, towards poor
Ogniate (of whom in your laſt you have not
faid one word) we fhall be much out of Coun-
tenance: I am to thank you for Sir Benjamin,
who acknowledges great Favours from you,
I pray continue them to him, and excufe me
for not writing in anſwer of his. God fend
us all Happineſs. I am,
Worcester-
Houſe, 31
of July.
Your Lordships, &c.
CLARENDON C.
To
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To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
TH
Paris 15 August, 1664.
His is but to accompany the together in-
clofed, which came to me under my
Lord Chancellor's Cover, and is, I believe,
from him, tho' his to me fay nothing of it; it
was brought by Mr. James Hamilton, fent by
the King to Congratulate the Birth of the
young Duke of Valois, who finds his Journey
fomething fhortned; for this Week a ſuddain
Change hath been made of the Motions of this
Court, which inftead of going from Fontain-
bleau, farther off, a Hunting Journey to Cham-
ber, as was refolved, and not to come to Paris
till the latter end of September, hath furprized
us here, and is now at Vincennes; and this King
intended a Journey to the Frontiers to Flanders-
ward, which was hotly reported two days fince,
to begin the 25th Inftant, but is now cooled
a little, and ſpoken of more doubtfully, upon
the laſt News from your part, that the King of
Spain is better; for before he was thought to
be dying, if not dead. Your bufinefs there we
judge to be very Sick, whatever the King be,
nor do we find you go about to mend them.
I perceive by what is written out of England,
they make not in Spain any great progrefs in
their Negotiation with your Excellency, there
being a kind of Fatality, that they defpatch not
any thing which is for their advantage. I
fhall not trouble your Excellency with any Eng-
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liſh
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lish News, the other Letter I am fure will better
inform you what is, which is not much, all is
in expectation what will be, whether Peace or War
with the Dutch; they have, no queſtion, (that
is the East-India Company) uſed us ill, and
newly a diſcovery is made of a moſt treache-
rous part of that Company, underhand per-
fuading one of thofe Petty Kings in Guinea, to
fall upon our Men, and miſchief that Compa-
ny doth us all they can, yet to be revenged we
must not do our felves more; if any ways, with the
Honour of our King and Nation, we can for the
prefent avoid a War, it is certainly as yet best for us.
But Sir George Downing writes to me this week
very doubtfully of it; he fays, they are high and
ftiff. As I hear more, your Excellency fhall
know it.
I did Yeſterday Viſit the Princes, for which
I had his Majefties exprefs Order; having firſt
in a Letter to the Mafter of the Ceremonies
made my referve, that it was not to fignifie a-
ny thing as to the point of Precedency. Ifhall
now go on with the Treaty as faſt as I can, and
ever be
My Lord, &c.
HOLLES.
SIR,
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid 9 Sept. 1664. N. S.
HE receipt of Yours, of the 28th of July,
I acknowledged immediately thereupon,
namely,
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namely, the 3d of September, this Stile. Thereby
I am appointed, in my farther progress, to direct my
Self by my Instructions, there being nothing fallen out,
as then, in the Affairs of England,or in the Pofture
of Christendom, towards Spain, that ſhould oblige
us to a Change, tho' fomething to incline Spain more
than before, to a Peace or Trace with Portugal.
The day following, namely, the 4th Inftant,
I received a Letter from the Duke of Medina
de las Torres, infummary Anſwer to all the Bu-
fineſs and Motions I had then depending in this
Court, for his Majefties Refolution.
The General Treaty was none of them, for
that, according to his Majefties Pleafure for-
merly fignified, depended between the Duke
and me only; yet the Duke took an occafion
to mention that likewife, in thefe words follow-
ing, viz.
His Majefty hath been pleafed to Refolve, that
the Treaty be admitted and proceeded upon by
the Articles of the faid Peace, and that your
Excellency particularife what you have to re-
prefent upon every of them, in order to the
Obfervation, Explanation, or Extenſion there-
of, as your Excellency hath underſtood.
To this Claufe (apprehending it tended not
only to fuch a delay, but fuch a reſtriction
likewiſe, and drynefs, as my Letter to you
of the 13. of August, N. S. by Mr. Bodkin, did
fufpect, and raife doubts upon) I have replyed
to the Duke, of the 7th Inftant, in fuch inan-
ner as near as I could word it, that neither on
the one fide this Court may think the King our
Mafter cooling towards Spain, from any extrin-
fick Accident fince the fending of me (for
which I have your Warrant) nor, on the other
fide, unſenſible of fuch unexpected Coldneſs as
feems
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!
!
1
feems to have crept upon them fince that time,
no Man knows yet why or wherefore all Vifi-
ble Reaſons making to the contrary (for which
I have good warrant likewife). In fine, I do
fo endeavour to carry my felf here through-
out this Negotiation, that the fruitlefnefs there-
of (which I much fear) may neither in Spain
be imputed to my Raſhneſs, nor in England
to my over-much Tameness.
When I fhall have received any anſwer from
the Duke, to this laft Letter, or when by no
anfwer, or otherwiſe, I fhall have made my
Obfervation more perfect, his Majefty fhall
have a full and impartial Account of the re-
maining matter of Fact, whereby, according to
his Princely Wiſdom to make a judgment how
far forth thefe People are affected or difaffected
to a faſt Friendship with England. A loofe
Peace and lean Trade (fuch as now we have)
there is no doubt but they will like of well
enough, and great reafon they have fo to do;
tho' not fo much as for the other.
To the Lord Chancellor.
My very fingular good Lord,
TH
His is not yet my answer to your Lord-
fhips, of the 31st of July; but, in part
of payment, as my lait was, to advertiſe your
Lordflip, that my Deſpatch of the Date here-
of, to Mr. Secretary Bennet, doth contain mat-
ter tending thereunto; which therefore I do
bef.ech your Lordship to confider and compare
with the foregoing of the 13th Inftant, N. S.
formerly
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formerly cited, being of a piece therewith,
and then with both what I intend (God wil-
ling) fhall follow within a few days; nothing
but all put together, with or without my Ap-
plication (who will make no inference but what
Thall naturally ariſe from the Fact) your Lord-
ſhip will clearly fee through the Intentions of
this Court, as to the iffue of my Negotiation;
I concluding on my part, no pofitive Opinion
one way or other, till that time, whatever the
prefent Symptoms are; with which, for the pre-
fent, I humbly crave leave to remain,
My Lord, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 10. Sept. 1664. N.S
SIR,
Since
Ince mine to you of Yefterday, the receipt
of yours of the 4th of the laft, hath occa-
fioned this fecond Defpatch by the fame Poft,
to acknowledge the Favour thereof, having o-
therwiſe little left to fay thereupon, as having
in a former of mine, given you thofe Adver-
tiſements from this Court, which that found
miffing, fo far forth as they were in any degree
true, and where they were not, yet where they
were fo rumour'd here, as that I could think
the noiſe reach'd to England, there I gave the
undeception, as when the particular the fame
doth mention (long fince vanish'd) was ftrong-
ly
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ly Suggeſted and Reported, but without any
ground, that I could ever make out, fave an
uneafie Peoples being greedy of any Novelty,
namely, that this King in his Life-time would lay
the Government upon the Queen, and a felect Coun-
fel.
As for that other Report,of his Catholick Ma-
jeſties Death, or defperate Sickneſs, never was
any ground for it.
The Prince was fomewhat more than Feavo-
riſh, two days fince (this may poſſibly make
as great, and no lefs a confiderable noife in
thofe parts of the World) but it proved only
breeding of Teeth, and is well over now.
All at Tangier is very well, only the Gover-
nour laments the ill Correfpondence from this
Nation, remitting to me the herewith inclo-
fed Copy of a fpightful Proclamation of the
Duke de Medina Celi. I thought it Fallacious
at firſt fight, holding for impoffible, that ever
there could be a Law in the indefinite Terms
there cited, whilft Spain its felf had Garifon in
Africk. Thereupon I imployed to ſearch, and
whilst I am writing this, hath been brought
to me a tianflate of the fame Law, out of the
Book, which is herewith incloſed likewife.
Farther inclofed, is a True Relation of a fad
Ryot committed at Xeres de la Fontera, upon a
Regiment of the late Landed German Auxiliaries:
the confequence may be fader.
Laſtly, here goeth what we have in theſe
Parts of de Ruyter, and Sir John Lawſon's re-
fpective Motions'; and Rumours of the Dutch
War already declared, otherwife I gueſs it pro-
bable enough, that de Ruyter, having left their
Smyrna Merchants at Cadiz, is gone to gather
the
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the reft together within the Streights, and ſo to
Convoy all home at once; but what if a ftron-
ger Man than he meets them? I humbly remain,
Your most, &c.
R. FANSHAW
I
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, June 28. 1664.
Have juſt now received and read over two
of
your Excellencies together, of the 9th
and 16th, your Stile, with ſeveral Papers con-
tained in them, which I fhall preſent to his Ma-
jefty, and then fend you his opinion of them;
in all which, in your farther progrefs, you will
do well to direct your felf by your Inftructions;
there being nothing fallen out in our Affairs, or in
the posture of Christendom, towards them, as yet,
which should oblige us to the reparation of them on
their part: 'Tis true, that the continued ill fuccefs
upon the Frontier of Portugal; and the more de-
laying help of the King, may perhaps give you oppor-
tunity of baft'ning your Overtures of a Peace,or Truce
with Portugal; which you upon the place are
beft judge; and becauſe the prefent Conſtitu-
tion of that Court, as well as ftanding For-
mality of it, retards much your Negotiation,
it muſt be your part to quicken it all you can,
eſpecially in that point of fending us an Ambaſſa-
dor;to which their anfwer,at your demanding it,
is not fo ready and warm as I expected it would
be,
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be, fince they were prepared to this Propofi
tion at the fame time that your Employment
was defigned you.
And tho' I find in one of your Papers, that
you had propofed the fetting at Liberty our
Tangier Prifoners, yet I do not obſerve you ob-
tained it, or fuch a Permiffion to tranſport
Lime and Materials thither, as we ftand in
need of, which you muſt prefs with all poffi-
ble earneſtnefs, as a point wherein his Majefty
will receive a more particular fatisfaction,
and the contrary, if it be deny'd him.
We are not a little fcandalifed, that your
Excellency hath not yet found the way of wri-
ting at leaſt once every week to us, if it be
but to tell us you are alive and in good Health,
but that you may know with confidence what
Letters are come to our hands, I have given
order that with this there be tranfmitted to you,
a Lift of what Letters we have received from
you, as likewiſe another of what I have writ-
ten to you, not counting thofe of my Officers,
whom I have enjoyned to let no week go with-
out tranfmitting to you our current News;
beſides which, I have little to trouble you with
at prefent; which makes me end this with
my conftant profeffion of being with much
Truth and Affection,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To
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To the Lord Chancellor.
Madrid, Wedneſday Sept. 3. 1664. N. S.
My very fingular Good Lord,
You
Our Lordships of the 31st of July, I re-
ceived juft now, being the day of the
Pofts going, and never fail'd, on my part, of
writing by every one fince my arrival in this
Court, being the thing your Lordship therein
requires at my hands; more than weekly i have
written (as will appear by a particular of my
Letters herewith remitted to Mr. Secretary
Bennet) and (I hope) more demonftrably,, by
the fave arrival of the Letters themfelves, tho'
not ſo ſpeedily, as I could wish there were fome
good contrivance; for your Lordship will then
farther find, that I have not omitted any of thoſe
neceffary Advertiſements from hence, which
are fpecified in your Lordships, as wanting in
mine; and, upon the whole, will fee no occa-
fion from my Obfervations (efpecially in one
to Mr. Secretary, of the 13th of August, N. S.
by Mr. Symon Bodkin. Merchant) to change your
then opinion of the fuccefs of my Negotiation;
but this is intended (in respect of the brief-
nefs of the time) for an acknowledgment on-
ly of your Lordships Letter, not for an Anſwer
to it; both the matter, and the obligingneſs
thereof, in ſo perfpicuous a Delivery of your
Lordship's Judgment therein, requiring it
fhould be fomewhat large and particular, as (God
willing) it fhall be.
Tuesday
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Tueſday (26 Auguft, N. S.) paft through this
Town an Exprefs, who had come in all dili-
gence from Holland: He was heard to ſay, that
the English had taken 6 Holland Ships in the
Channel, whereupon the War was declared.
That, I conceive, could not be, but do hold it
poſſible that he may have been deſpatch'd to
de Ruyter, with Orders to begin Hoftilities from
fuch a day to come, on the which the States.
might be refolved to declare. I did therefore
at all adventures advertiſe the effect thereof to
Sir John Lawfon, by the way of Alicant, alſo to
all the Southern Ports of Spain, and to Tangier;
leaving ours there to make their own Judg-
ment and uſe thereof, according to farther
Knowledge and Obfervation; with which I
humbly crave leave to reft
My Lord, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
The King, as to prefent Difpofition of Body,
no otherwife than uſual.
No Evidence at all, of any fuch Refolutions.
in his Majefty, as from hence have filled London
with fo much Difcourfe.
Don Juan at his Houſe in Confuegra, acts no
part at prefent; when I fhall underftand he is
to act any, I will advertiſe it.
To
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To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
This
Whitebail Auguft 4. 1664.
His is my day of writing to your Excel-
lency, and tho' I have none from you fince
my laft of this day Sennight; however I fhall
obferve it, if but to make good what I promi-
fed you in my laft, that I would acquaint his
Majefty with yours; who hath feen your Pa-
pers, and ordered me to confult with my Lord
Chancellor upon them, I mean thoſe expoſing the
Articles in the Holland Peace with Spain, with
relation to the Indies and your Queries upon them,
to which you ſhall have an Anſwer by the Neptor,
rather by an Express going now by Slaves, from
whofe hands they will go more fafely to your Ex-
cellency through Spain only, &c.
As for the Reaſons you offer for the main-
taining his Majeſties Right to Jamaica and Tan-
gier, my opinion is, that you will only lofe
time to your other Affairs, in entring into any
Arguments thereupon; and, as I remember,
you are fo Inſtructed; and whatever may be
faid to you there, of Encouragement given
them by Don Patricio Omuledei, I dare anfwer
he hath had none here; for my own part I ne-
ver exchanged one word with him therein.
Sir George Downing hath began his Expoftula-
tions at the Hague, and finds the States hitherto
ſomething uncertain, as to the giving us the fa-
tisfaction we defire. In the mean time we
both augment every day our Maritime Prepa
rations;
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rations; what the event of them will be, God
only knows.
The Alarm is very hot in thefe parts, of the
Death, or, at the beft, dying Condition of the
King of Spain, as likewife of the Queens taking
Poffeffion of the Government, with the affiftance
of fome of the Councel; of all which we defire
to have a clear Information from you; and
tho your Excellencies own Wiſdom and Pru-
dence will not let you fend us the talk of Ma-
drid upon this fubject, yet it will be much to
our fatisfaction, that fome of your Train did it
every week. In the mean time I cannot but
again recommend to you the Advifing with
Mr. Pauley, or fome other English Merchant
there, concerning the better Tranfmillion of
your Letters, whereof I obferve moft com-
monly two come together. Yet you have faid
nothing to me concerning Don Chriftophel, how
he took the Prefent, and what Poft he poſſeſſeth of
Trust in the Affairs there, or how the Baron de Bat-
teville feconds his first Complements to you. I fup.
pofe my Lord Chancellor recommends to you the doing
my Lord Aubigne all the good Offices with thofe
Minifters, in relation to his Pretensions to Rome;
concerning which the ſaid Lord tells me he hath
written to the Baron de Batteville, and fo made
him fit for your Conference upon that fubject.
I have no more to add, but my conftant Pro-
feſſion of being with all Affection,
My Lord, &c
HENRY BENNET.
I have not feen nor heard of Don Patricio Omi-
ledei, I think this 2 months; I hear he is at Tun-
bridge, taking the Waters.
To
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I
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, August 18. 1664
Have received this Week by Mr. Reid your
Excellencies of July 25 N. S. with all the
inclofed, that Extract of Colonel Fitz Gerald's
being particularly wellcome to us, for the affa-
rance it gave of his fafe Arrival at Tangier,
which we knew not otherwife than by hearfay;
your Excellency thall do well to encourage him
by the tranfmiting his Packets through your
Hands when he hath no Ship to fend them by,
warning him to uſe his Cypher in all things of
Moment, when his Letters fo pafs by Land. We
would fain perfwade our felves, that the jea-
louſies given you from the Court, of the Spe-
niards new Incitements to Gayland to moleft us
at Tangier, are but vain ones, however they are
fufficient ground for you to expoftulate upon,
and to let them know once for all, that his
Majesty will not hereafter diffemble any fuck
Provocation, and that the Profecution of them
will be understood no otherwife than the rel-
ling us in plain English, that they mean to have
no Friendship with us.
Your Excellencies former Letter, faid to be
fent by the Flanders Poft, is not yet come to
our Hands, in the mean time I am glad to find
by this I have received from Mr. Reid, that my
first Cypher to you is juftified, though I have
much ado, I confefs to give credit to that Point
Q 2
when
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when the Marquis Caftel Ridrigo arrives we
fhall fee the proof of it.
Don Patricio Omuledy prefented Yeſterday a
Memorial to his Majesty, defiring the Punish-
ment of the Governour of Jamaica (meaning
Sir Charles Littleton, who is lately return'd from
thence) for difobeying his Majefty's Orders in
fuffering fuch Hoftilities to be done upon his
Catholick Majefty's Subjects. The King our
Maſter's Anſwer upon it is, that Sir Charles Lit-
tleton fee the Memorial and Anſwer to it as he
thinks fit, upon which his Majefty will declare
his further Pleaſure.
His Majeſty is very well pleafed at the Nomi-
nation of Don Pedro Mexio, now Conde de Mɔli-
na, for Embaſſador to this his Court, and hath
faid many good things to the Advantage of his
Perfon thereupon; however it will not be un-
fit that on this occafion, I let your Excellency
know that Don Patricio's Letter for Refident is
allo arrived, though not yet (for what reafon
I cannot tell) prefented to his Majefty nor he
owning the Character, as he faith, till his Ser-
vant bring alfo his Inftructions, whom he ex-
pects every day; however his Majefty by An.
ticipation declares himfelf perfectly fatisfied
with his Commiſſion, and thinks no Man can
acquit himself better of it or would do it with
more Sincerity and Affection to the good Cor-
refpondence of both the Crowns, which his
Majeſty commands me to fignifie to you, that
you may do the like in his Name, to the Duke
of Medina de las Torres. Don Patricio hath
lately brought his Majefty a Letter from his
Catholick Majefty, promifing a good reception
of our Ships in all his Ports, according as the
King
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King our Maſter hath defired it, which Mr. Co-
ventry tells me was made good at Cadix, but
not at Mahon in Minorcka.
The Hollanders feeing themfelves free from
the Fears they had for their East-India Fleet,
and Herring-Fishing Fleet, begin to talk big-
ger and fay before they proceed they will have
Preallablament a promife of Satisfaction, for
their loffes upon the Coaſt of Guinea before they
goto the fatisfaction of other things,and for their
future Security upon that Coaft, refolve imme-
diately of fending a Fleet thither, if they do fo
we fhall do the like, and then God knows how
long we are like to be Friends.
Theſe days paſt we have received continued
confirmation of the Victory upon the Turks,
which is (I am fare) particular good News
in Spain, and will not therefore be concealed
from you, fo I am juſtified for not troubling
you for the repetition of it.
The two great Bufineffes before his Majefty
now are the Irish Bill, and fetting up again
the Tables in his Houſehold, both which eve-
ry body is impatient to fee concluded, and his
Majefty himself not lefs fo, for the liberty he
defires to take of going to hunt in the new For-
reft for fome time, where my Lord Treaſurer is
already expecting him.
By this your Excellency will alfo receive a
Copy of his Majefty's Anfwer to a Memorial
given him by the Dutch Ambaffador, by which
you will judge in what temper we are towards
thofe Countries, though the truth is we are
much fharpned fince we faw in Print their An-
fwer unto Sir George Downing's Memorial, All
other News I will leave to your other Correfpon-
dents,
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dents, and once more beg of you to be more
punctual with us in that, and am ever,
My Lord, Yours, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday Sept. the 7th 1664. N.S.
Right Honourable,
THE
HE Duke of Medina de las Torres having
kept his Houfe for fome days paft for
bodily Indifpofition (though there are that
have whispered, without any true ground,it pro-
ceeded from a Cloud of Court) did the day
before yeſterday fend one of his Gentlemen to
let me know he defired to fpeak with me at
what hour I thought fit, who answered, that in
the Evening I would wait upon his Excellency
which accordingly I did, finding him in Bed,
but freth coloured, in very good humour,
fprucely Linnen'd, and richly Jewell'd upon
both Hands.
The bufinefs was to tell me from the King, as
in Anſwer to my Memorial prefented to his
Majefly the of the laft, concerning the ac-
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companying Ambaffadors new arrived in this
Court, to their firft Publick Audiences, that his
Majefty was diverted from his purpoſe therein by
to importunity and Refolution of the Pope's
Nuncio, Emperor's Ambaffador, and others, to
obtain or aflume to themfelves the fame liberty
in future Entrades, which the French Ambafla-
dor
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dor would not be denied in mine; and that his
Majefty was farther fway'd by Certificates un-
der the Hands of ſeveral of the oldeft Courti-
ers and Officers here, importing that this Ce-
rimony, for certain Reaſons, was never ufed by
or towards Ambaffadors of England. My an-
fwer upon the Place was to the effect of the in-
cloſed Copy of a Letter I fent to his Excellency
Yeſterday. This, with what hath been certifi-
edin ſuch ſeveral Defpatches as I have formerly
ſent your Honour upon the fame Subject, is the
ftate of that matter hitherto.
· Then the Duke asked me what farther progrefs I
bad lately made in Propofitions towards a Treaty,
in the which the more speed ought to be made for that
there are a People in the World (not naming any )
who menace the Peace and Quiet of us all, or to that
effect. I faid, I had proceeded no farther fince his
Excellencie's laft, as fufpecting from thence that I
was in a wrong path, and then the more haft I made
the farther I should go out of the way. He faid, he
thought the old Articles, punctually obferved, might
well fuffice. To which I reply'd, that if I were
confined to them (the Hollanders having so much
larger Privileges than ours,and I prepared, upon good
Reafons, to demand beyond thoſe of the Hollanders)
I must fend for new Inftructions out of England,before
I could proceed. Whereupon the Duke immedately ex-
plain'd himself, that the punctual obfervance of the
laft Treaty was as much as he should defire on behalf
of Spain, but that I, on the behalf of England,
might enlarge my felf by way of Propofition, as I
fhould fee cause. I ask'd the Duke that Word a-
gain, whether he would defire no more for Spain,
but the obfervance of thofe Articles; to which he
faid again, No. My final Reply then was, that
that was very well; for fo my Work here would be
furt -
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Shortened; but that then, if there be indeed fuch a
troublefome People in the World, as his Excellency
bad intimated, to menace the Peace and Quiet of
of us all, or of Spain alone, I did not fee how
thofe Articles fingly could reach the Remedy, ad
quod non fuit refponfum, and what followed was
enly Civilities till I took my leave.
Whilſt I am writing this,a Gentleman came in
to me from the Venetian Ambaſſador, with how
do ye from his Lord, and that his Excelleney
being to have his Publick Audience the next
Friday, defired the ufual Concurrence on my
part. To which I anſwered, that his Excellen-
cy well knew how we ſtood in reſpect of the
neglect his Predeceffor fhew'd to the English Am-
baſſador, which rendred me uncapable of that
and many other Offices, which otherwife I de-
fired to perform, both to his Perſon, and Re-
publick. I remain,
Your Honcurs, &c.
Richard Fanfhaw
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Aladrid, Wednesday 14. September, 1664.
SIR,
TH
HE end of my laft. fhall be the
beginning of this, namely that whilft f
Was Writing, a Gentleman came in to me from
the Venetan Amballador with how do ye from
his
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his Lord, and that his Excellency being to have
his Publick Audience the next Friday, defired
the uſual Concurrence on my Part, to which
I answered, that his Excellency well knew how
we ſtood in reſpect of the neglect his Predeceſſor
fhew'd to the Engliſh Ambaſſador, which ren-
dred me uncapable of that and many other Of
fices, which otherwife I defire to perform, both
to his Perfon and Republick. And now by this
you are informed that upon the day appointed,
namely Friday the 19th. the Ambaſſador of Ve-
nice made his Entrance, accompanied in the or-
der here named, with the Coaches of the Nun-
cio, the Ambaſſadors of Germany and France,
and no more; even this being a great number,
confidering the Prohibition his Catholick Ma-
jefty had formerly made for any to accompany
any more in theſe occafions, but fmall confider-
ing that Fence was now broke down again by
the fame Authority, unleſs the Guards of the
French Ambaffador's Coach, that day of dan-
ger, are to be reckoned into the Acompannami-
ento. What, and how many, and how Armed
they were, and how Alarmed with their own
Shadows; alfo what Victories they got againſt
the English, I leave to the inclofed Paper to re-
late, as to Fact; and to the French Gazet, as
to Fame.
In the mean time I hold my felf bound to
clear the French Ambaffador from having gi-
ven any directions therein, upon this infallible
ground, that he did and might very well know
long fince, and very lately, that I neither would
nor ought to fend my Coach to the Venetian,
whatever I might for feveral Reaſons, none of
which have any referencee at all to France, one
of them being above expreffed, and another
eafily
L
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eafily collegible from above, with which I hum-
bly beg leave to remain,
?
Your Honours, &c.
Richard Fanſhaw
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wednesday 4th of September, 1664.
SIR,
Since
I I.
Ince the clofing of my other (marked I
upon the Cover) I have receiv'd yours of
the 18th of August, mentioning your receipt
of mine by Mr. Reid; but withal, that you
had not receiv'd a former I had fent by the
Flanders Poft, when that Deſpatch (which was
under cover to Mr. Phroud) and all other I
have fent ſhall be come to hand, as I do yet
hope they will fafely, you will looſe the opini-
on, under which I fuffer, of my unfrequency in
Writing. I hope likewiſe you will find no
Point untoucht therein, that might caft thoſe
competent Lights from hence (as far as my
Tallent hath been able to attain unto) which
our Royal Mafter hath expected from me, or
which hath feem'd to me not improper to make
Queries upon, in order to farther Lights from
thence, according to the change of Profpect in
this Court.
Your Directions in the fame for the tranf
mitting by me any Packets or Advices from
Collonel Fitz Gerald and Tangier, have already
been
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been in part obey'd, in part are by the inclofed,
and ſhall be futurely as often as occafion fhall
be offered.
By his laft to me he delivers himſelf not to be
clearly convinced of this Peoples fuppofed Affi-
ftance of late to Gayland.
As to Don Patricio O Muledey's delay in pre-
fenting his Credentials, I am told it hath pro-
ceeded from fome defect in the form of them.
I very much long to underſtand the Iſſue of
his Complaint upon Sir Charles Littleton, and
not only fo, but the form of proceeding by
both Parties. For the prefent I obferve hisMemo-
rial defires Sir Charles his Puniſhment, for difo-
beying his Majeſty's Orders in ſuffering fuch
Hoftilities to be done upon his Catholick Ma
jeſty's Subjects,but not calling it a breach of the
Articles.
I did more then guefs, before the receipt of
This Letter from you, that the Nomination of
the Conde de Molina would be very pleafing to
his Majefty, provided he make ſpeed into Eng-
land, and in England alfo.
Notwithſtanding that Letter delivered by
Don Patricio to his Majefty from this King, pro-
mifing a good reception of our Ships in all his
Ports, Sir John Lawfon was denied it at Alicant
the 5th Inftant, as by a Letter from him to me
of the fame date, and that which he had before.
at Cadiz, was the effect of the difcretion of the
Governour (Don Ant. Pimentel ) not of any
Orders from the Court. Yet it hath been con-
fidently affirmed to me by the Minifters there-
of, more than once or twice, that very full Or-
ders to that purpoſe have been effectively de-
fpatcht away, but Copies of them I could ne-
ver obtain for Love, or Money,
That
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&
That, and what more Sir John advertiſeth,
you have in the inclofed Extract of this Letter.
For the Proſpect of the Dutch Affair, at the
time you writ, I render you very many thanks,
and particularly for the Copy of his Majefty's
Anſwer to them, fo ill correfponded with on
their part.
The probableft account I have of de Ruyter's
prefent Motions is, that he is gone to Toulon,
there to clean his Ships, and then I prefume to
gather his Merchants together that are home-
wards bound.
The Spaniards talk very eagerly of a fuddain
Campaign; but I do humbly conceive it to be
impoffible for this Seafon, unleſs Winter fhould
ftay for them beyond all reaſonable expectati-
on. With this at prefent (hazarding the Poft
by writing but thus much after the receipt of
yours, though without the impediment of a
Cypher) leave to remain,
I
POSTSCRIPT.
Tours, &c.
Have an earnest fuit brought to me to prefer
unto the King cur Master, from the Conde de
Caftrillo, firft prefenting his own and his Families
moft bumble thanks for his Royal Mediation on be-
half of the abfolute Liberty of his Nephew the Mar-
ques of Liche, and then requesting, in Caſe ſo much
cannot be obtained, that his Majesty would be
graciously pleafed to mediate the Marques's Liberty
upon Parole, for fome competent time, in which he
may fettle certain Affairs in his Family, which re-
quire his prefence. This is the Conde's fuite, the
which thus lodging in your band (who are ſo true a
well-
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well wisher to that Family) I am Jure I have put
into the best way to be effectually promoted.
R. FANSHAW.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
You
Paris 29 July, 1664. N. S.
Our Excellency fees I am ready to take all
occaſions to trouble you, I did it Yefter-
day by the Poft, and do it now again at the re-
queft of fome French Merchants, Inhabitants of
this Town, who bought, it feems, Pepper in Lon-
don, and fent it in an English Ship to Bilbo,
where it was feized, as Contreband Goods, of
which the incloſed Paper will give a better Ac-
count; how juftly the feizure is made,and what
remedy for it I cannot fay, but they have defi-
red me to recommend them to your Excellency
to give them what affiftance you can, for the
recovery of their Goods, which I affure my felf
you will, if there be way for it, as in their be-
halfs I make it a fute unto you, which done,
I have but to add the very affectionate Reſpects
of
My Lord, Your Excellencies, &c.
HOLLES.
To
(238)
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, Auguſt 25. 1664,
HO' I have none, fince my laſt, from
TH
your Excellency, yet I continue my Poſt-
day. Even that mentioned in your laft by Mr.
Reid, to have been committed to the Flanders
Poft, is not yet arrived; neither fhould I have
much to fay to you more, than I have done al-
ready, if my Lord Holles had not in his laſt gi-
ven me occafion for it, by telling me, the Ve
netian Amballador at Paris had been with him,
juſtifying from Letters he had received from
Venice, the good Terms upon which you and
the late Ambaffador in Spain from that Repub-
lick parted, but defiring by my Lord Holles to
know how it was underſtood here, which I
have explained to him this Night, from your
Letter upon that Subject.
This day I have received a Letter from Col.
John Fitz-Gerald, telling me the good ftate the
City and Garifon of Tangier are in; but from
the Coaſt of Spain I hear, the Duke of Medina
Celi hath not only hang'd a Man for carrying
Lime to Tangier, fent Brafs Guns, in number 6,
to Gayland, and furniſhed him from their Gari-
fons with all things he had need of, but by a
new Proclamation forbid all upon that Coaſt to
correfpond with, or fend Provifions to any part
of Africa; which is underſtood here to be no
otherwife-than fuch a War as he can juſtifie
with Tangier. And his Majesty Refents accord-
ingly,
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ingly; commanding me to fignifie his Pleasure, that
you make a plain and home Expoftulation upon this
matter, and that you make an offer of coming away,
if you have not a speedy and notorious Satisfaction
herein; by declaring, to give the fame help and fuc-
cour to that place, or permit it to be taken from
their Ports by us for our Money, as they would do
to Plymouth, if it needed it. And this you must
in fo very good earnest, as to awake them in this
point, and the truth is, by what we yet fee of the
fruits of your being there, we cannot conclude that
they have any real Intentions towards us, if we did
not help our ſelves herein, by knowing how they need
our Friendships.
I fuppofe, my Lord Chancellor hath told
your Excellency what the Minifters in Portugal
anſwer to his Majefties defires, for the liberty
of the Marquefs d' Eliche, and Don Annelo de
Guzman, excuſing the Grant thereof by fome
politick Reaſons, which I confefs take a greater
place in my Lord Chancellor than they do with
me; they are theſe principally, viz. that fince
their Impriſonment, Caftilians give quarter to
Portugueze, and in the next place, that they
hope fuch Hoftages would incline the Govern
ing many in Madrid, the more to make Peace
with them. The Marquefs & Eliche wrote Let-
ters lately in his own behalf to his Majefty, my
Lord Chancellor, and my felf; which we have
anſwered with as much good manners as we
could, promifing to continue to labour for his
liberty, but giving him fmall hopes of obtain-
ing it. I have nothing to add, but my being
with much Affection,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To
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To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitebal, Auguſt 25. 1664.
Have by a former Letter, recommended un-
to your Excellencies Protection, the preten-
fions of Mrs. Owings Widow of Mr.
Francis Owings, who ferved the King of Spain
for many years, and furniſh'd him with large
Sums of Money; for which the ſaid Mrs. Ow-
ings now follicites his Majefty, having, it ſeems,
hitherto received no part thereof (as this Bea-
rer will more particularly inform you) and
having defired my Recommendation once more
unto your Excellency on her behalf, I muft in-
treat you a new, to afford her your Favour in
her faid Pretenfions, in which you will not on-
ly do a great Act of Charity towards the poor
Family of one who continued the King our Ma-
fter's honeft Subject, in the worst of times, but
oblige therein,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday Octob. 1. 1664. N.S.
SIR,
Ours of the 25th of the laſt, I have this
day receiv'd, and fhall by a fafe hand (tho
You
none
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none of the ſpeedieft) fend within a day or two,
a Duplicate of the Defpatch which went im-
mediately before that with Mr. Reid, by the
Flanders Poft, bearing Date
and under
cover to Mr. Frewd, becauſe I find by that fore-
mentioned from you, it was not then arriv'd,
yet I deſpair not abfolutely, but that it might
afterward.
His Majeſties command fignified in the Cy-
pher'd Part, in reference to Tangier (in cafe
Spain declare not speedily free Comerce there-
with, for Merchants, and all other Neceffaries,
as if it were Plimouth) being now poſitive, I
will as pofitively Obey, with the firft opportu.
nity I can take for it, expecting a dilatory An-
fwer thereunto from his Catholick Majefty;
but prepar❜d for a rough one, which I rather
expect, namely, That I may be gone when I will;
in either of which Cafes, eſpecially the latter,
I fhall judge my felf oblig'd, in point of our
Mafter's Honour, effectively to leave this Court,
if not this Kingdom. In the former Cafe (if not
too grofs) there may be refpite in my Houfe
here, till freſh Orders out of England, with
formal Letters of Revocation; in the later, I
fee no remedy, but that this fignification from
his Majefty must be my Warrant instead there-
of, fo far forth as to withdraw out of the Court,
as in order to a total Retreat, when my faid
Letters fhall come, in purfuance of my prefent
Directions from my Mafter; a ftraight I ſhould
think my felf very unhappy to be put upon, to
be my own Interpreter, tho' with a Confcience
which affures me, no particular Biafs whatſoe-
ver would stay me therein.
R
If
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If the above-mention'd Defpatch have not come
to hand, you will not (until the Duplicate do) ful-
by understand the reason why Don Chriftophel de
Angelat's Token is not to this hour delivered; (the
Cafe (as to him) to this bour continuing the fame)
tho' at a moments warning ready to be ſo, either to
his, or any other band, upon freſh ſignification of his
Majefties Pleasure, by your felf.
Your, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
To the Lord Amballador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Sin
Whitehall, Sept. 1. 1664.
Ince my laft, I received your Excellencies
mentioned in your former, to have been
fent by the Flanders Poft, which by their Dates
fhew how long they have been upon the Way;
two of them were of the 23 July, N. S. and
the third was of the 29th ditto; which toge-
ther contain many things worth our Know-
ledge, and his Majefty hath heard them all read
to him: The only Point in them requiring a for-
mal Answer, is that of the West-Indies, and the
Traffick, or manifeft Comerce which we may expect
there; and tho' it be a Point which they will not
eafily agree to, yet the Conjuncture favouring us
as it doth, we fhould be very much wanting
to our felves, if we did not put for it; and I
promiſe your Excellency, that affoon as I can.
get a free hour or two with my Lord Chancel-
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lor, we will fee together upon what you write
in thoſe Letters, and have done upon the fame
Subject in your former, to prepare fomething
fit for his Majefties final Determination herein.
His Lordship is to morrow going out of Town
a few days only.
Since the receipt of the former, I have alfo
your Excellencies of the 13 Auguſt. N. S. con-
taining little more than the ordinary current
News there, but in the beginning of it refer-
ring to another of the fame date, which in
your Poſtſcript you fay, upon new Thoughts,
you would not then fend forward by the fame
conveyance, which I hope will in a few days
come to our hands fome other way.
In a former, I fent you in writing an Anfwer
to the Dutch Ambaſſador's Memorial, which we
have ſince Printed, becauſe we obferve they
do by the fame practice, and all others they
can invent, endeavour to poſſeſs the World of
the juftneſs of their Caufe against us, and it is
no fmall part of their Ambaffador at Paris his
employment, to perfuade that Court we are
the Aggrefors, and they confequently in a ſtate
of being fuccoured by them, if need be, accord-
ing to their Treaty, and it is but reaſonable to
fuppofe their Minifter at Madrid is doing the
like there; which will oblige you to hearken
after it, and countermine him herein.
God be thanked we have no News to tell
you, but his Majeſties purpoſe of making a walk
into the Country, and the Queens going to
Hampton Court, at leaſt at the King's return,
whofe Journey will not laſt above 15 days.
From the Coaſt of Andaluzia,and Tangier itſelf,
we have the jealoufies confirmed of the Spaniards,
of ftirring up Gayland to give us trouble
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there,
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there; upon which, and the Duke of Medina
Celi's practces, his Majefty bad me write to
you the laſt Poſt,that if you had not preſent and
notorious Satisfaction, you fhould come away,
at least make fuch fhew of it, as should awake them
to give the King full and clear fatisfaction herein.
With which I will end this, and am with
much Truth and Affection,
My Lord, Your Excellencies, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
His Majefty perceiving the Dutch continue
their preparations for Guinea, commands that
his own be made ready with all poſſible expedi-
tion, and Prince Rupert asking the Command
of the Fleet to be fent thither, his Majefty hath
granted it to him.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
Whitehall, Sept. 8. 1664.
My Lord,
Ince my laft this day Sennight, I received
your Excellencies of 20 August, N.S. hear-
ing yet no News of that you mention therein,
of the 13th, N. S. intruſted to Mr. Bodkin,
and expecting alſo theDuke of Medina de lasTor-
res's Paper, in anſwer to yours.
The Complaints which filled our Court, of
the unkind proceeding of the Spaniard to us,
in their Succour and Provifions fent to Gayland,
together with the Rumours ſpread upon it,
that your Excellency was called home,brought
Don Patricio Omuledei much fooner from the
Bath than he intended, and arriving here, he
went ftrait to his Majefty, beginning his Dif
courſe with the News of the Conde de Molina's
being named Ambaſſador hither; to which his
Majeſty
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Majefty quickly reply'd, that if there were to
be an Ambassador from that Crown, none could b.
more welcome to him than the Conde, but that he
ſuppoſed the Court of Spain would change their
mind of fending any body hither, when they should
know he had called home his Ambafador. This
introduced many Expoftulations concerning
their Uſage of yourExcellency,fo differing from
your good chear upon the Way; their keep-
ing you fo long out of Madrid; their giving
you no Houſe when you were admitted to it;
their flow proceeding with you in your Nego-
tiation; their detaining his Majefties Subjects
Prifoners, and, in fine, their unwarrantable
Ufage of us with relation to Tangier. All
which hath, I fuppofe, been the matter of a full
Defpatch from Don Patricio to Madrid.
Our Letters this Week from Holland, conti-
nue the affurance of their making ready their
Fleet from Guinea, and we do the like here for
ours. By the next Poft, I hope I fhall be able
to tell your Excellency, that Prince Robert is at
Sea, Sir George Downing hath fent us the Lift
of Damages pretended from the Hollander, of
which there fhall likewife, by the next, an Ex-
tract be fent to you, whereby it will appear,
how frivilous and groundlefs their Complaints
are, many of them, I may truly fay, imperti-
nent and ridiculous.
The News-book will tell your Excellency a
ſtrange ſtory of Lifle,the Ufurpers Keeper, which
is in every word true, and the obfervation of it
very well made, that God Almighty's Juftice-
wou'd not let thofe Villaines go quietly to their
Graves.
His Majefty finding the bufinefs of the Dutch
prefs clofe upon him, hath put off his Hunt-
R?
ing
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ing Progrefs which he had intended, and will
only remove for a little time to Hampton-Court,
before the good weather be quite ſpent. I had
almoſt forgot to tell you, that we are glad to
find by this laft Letter from you, we are bet-
ter uſed than the Dutch, in the Ports of Spain,
tho' we fay we owe it more to the Dutch
Plague, than the Spaniards good will or partia-
lity to us. I am always with much Affection,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanfhaw:
My Lord,
Paris, September the 19th 1664
Ome three Weeks fince I fent your Excellen-
Som three weeks fine fapt your of c
cy a Letter that came in a Packet of my Ld.
Chancellor's, I fuppofe from his Lordſhip, the
Week before that, I had given you an account
of what was in my knowledge concerning the
Affairs here; this is only to accompany a Let-
ter of Sir John Harrifons, which came by the laft
Poſt, for not any thing of News doth this Place
afford; what paffes in England I affure my felf
your Excellency hath directly from thence, fo
as you cannot but know, how things fharpen
every day between us and the Dutch: Both of
us are now fending Ships to the Coaft of Guine,
a matter of twenty Sail; Prince Rupert hath de-
red the Command of ours, and his Majefty
hath granted it, fo as it is very probable it may
there
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there come to an Engagement, which once be-
gun when and what the end will be God only
knows: They are under one great Judgment al-
ready, the Plague, which rages there exceeding-
ly, fo as all Traffick with them is forbidden
both by France and us, and no Ship hencefor-
ward to come from them into any of our Ports,
yet they are high and infolent as is reported, in-
fomuch as many Sail of theirs come into the
Sleeue give out, that they are come to ſee what
the English have to fay to them. My Lord of
Carlile is come out of Muscovy to Stockholme, re
infecta, and by their Artifice, it is faid. I have
no more now, but that I am,
My Lord, Yours, &c.
HOLLES.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Thurſday, Sept, 22. N. S. 1664.
SIR,
'T
His Evening, invited by the Duke of
'Medina de las Torres to a private Con-
ference in the Buen Retiro, there we met.
'As ſoon as he met, he opened a ſmall Book
' he had in his Hands, which was the laft Arti-
'cles of Peace between England and Spain, 1630.
as the Ground-work of our prefent Treaty;
' yet not barring enlargements thereupon, how
'ver it might feem abating nothing.
'Beginning to read I ftumbled at the Thre-
fhold, or very near it; namely, where it is
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provided, that Rebels to neither King muſt
'be aflifted by the other; the which I expound-
ed, in the Words of the Articles, Rebels in
futuro.
'The Duke granted the diftinction, but ex-
plained the fame, that de futuro was to be un-
'derstood from the date of that Peace, which
was ftill on foot by ftipulation with Sir Henry
Bennet, fince the King my Mafter's Reftaurati-
'on, and fhew'd me the renewing thereof at
' that time.
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'I faid I faw there his Catholick Majefty's De-
'claration to that effect, and prefumed my Ma-
'fter's Concurrence therein;both the one.and the
'other, to make a ſpeedy ftop of Blood and Ra-
pine between the two Nations, in order to a
clear and lafting fettlement of a good under-
ſtanding between the two Crowns: the which
hitherto(through ſome unexpected Accidents)
'had not hapned, and therefore I was fent, not
'without particular Information and Inftructi-
on, that his Catholick Majefty had refuſed the
renewing of the felf fame Treaty when it was
defired, and preft thereunto, by my Maſter's
'laft Ambaffadors Lord Cottington, and the now
'Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor
of England; on the contrary commanding
'them both from the Spanish Court; and that
now to date the faid Stipulation fo far back as
'the Year 1630. would expofe the King of
Spain to no lefs troubleſome Expoftulations
'than the King my Maſter: Upon which Sub-
jet I enlarged, and he too, till we were both
glad to give over.
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whereof, by his Majefty he aimed by that An-
tedate. And how faid he then can the King
of England imagine to make a good Peace with
Spain, and yet foment a War in Spain? I told
'him, I thought my Mafter was the only Prince
in Chriftendom (I might have added the Turk)
who defires there were none, and how (pro-
ceeded the Duke fomewhat knitting his Brow)
can it be otherwife whilft the Rebellion, &c.
I reply'd, by Protugalls fubmitting to the
'Crown of Spain. He askt me, with a better Coun-
tenance what I faw for that? I faid, none at
all, nor no Man elfe; but that I had menti-
oned it, becauſe I would not offend his Excel-
lency and Spain, with the Word Accommo-
dation, and to fhew there is a way in Nature
'for War to ceafe in Spain, leaving it between
'the Parties intereſted to invent, and agree up-
'on, fome more practicable Expedient to unite
'themſelves, whereby my Mafter might be put
into a capacity of being as ufeful to both as
'he defired. The Duke reply'd, but, fince no
fuch Expedient is polfibe to be invented, will
the King of England find his account in lo-
fing the Friendſhip of Spain, rather than to re-
nounce that of Portugal? My Reply was,
whether he ſhall do the former or not, your
Excellency knows; that his Majefty will not do
the latter, I know, and am commanded to tell
your Excellency; which alfo I would have.
done with all clearness the first hour I had the
honour to ſpeak to you, and many times
fince, had you thought fit to take that firft,or
any other of fundry occafions I have given, to
Quere me upon that, or any other Particular
of my Commiffions and Inftructions, adding
by way of Qualification, That all I was by them
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warranted to fay in this, was, if Portugal be-
ing treated with (which must be as his Ca-
tholick Majefty pleafes, and not otherwife)
'fhould not come to terms of Reaſon, that, in
fuch cafe, the King my Mafter would hold
'himſelf free to leave them, with this Explana-
'tion never the lefs, that his Majefty muft
'not be called upon to over-rule the main point
in Controverfy, between thefe Nations.
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'From this we paſt abruptly to other Dif-
'courſe, of ſeveral things I had askt in this
Court by my Maſter's Command, whereunto
as yet I had either no Anſwer, or no Grant,
or no Execution thereupon, of all which the
'Duke with'd to have a Memorandum from
'me; a Copy whereof, as alſo of a Letter,
which I intend to fend him therewith, to
Morrow, is here incloſed, wherein ( amongſt
'the reft)the King our Mafter will fee how large
a ftep I have already made in Obedience to his
'Royal Commands as to a free Comerce be-
tween Spain and Tangier, and why no larger
as yet; but as foon as I can get my Materials
together, fhall not be Meal-mouthed in the
matter; and the lefs, becaufe, they here feem-
'ingly refolved to part Friendſhip upon the ac-
count of Portugal, I (having fo good war-
rant for it) would ftrike the firit blow.
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"The Duke (by way of Recrimination)
'when I talk'd of the Faults Spain had done to
us, told me of Complaints Spain had too in
the Indies. Whereunto I answered, the bu-
'finefs of the Inaies had always lain loofe, that
'Nation of the two which was ftrongeſt, too
' often doing Violence to the other without
breach (as each alledged) of Articles; for
'which one reafon, if there were no more,
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'the old Treaties would be no juft Patterns
' for new.
'I had almoſt forgot one Paffage, which was,
' that when I had declared to the Duke his
Majefty's abfolute Negative to defert Por-
tugal in point of Honour, which I was obli-
ged to do, as commanded; I told him (to
'fhew my frank dealing) I would thereupon
declare one thing more which I needed not,
and was that having the honour to be a Coun-
cellor unto, as well as an Ambaſſador from,the
King my Maſter, I ſhould think it my duty in
this double Capacity, according to the nearer
profpect of things which offers it felf to me
upon the place (with all the paſſion I have for
Spain) to tender my humble though fuperflu-
ous advice unto his Majefty; that even in
point of Prudence likewife, he would not
cloſe with them in a League Offenfive and
Defenfive (bare Peace and Comerce being
another matter) whilft they have a War upon
their Skirts,very improbable,without difparage-
ment, to be quenched by way of Force (tho'
England ſhould ſtand Newter) before they are
like to have another much greater upon their
'Backs from abroad, if not fomething of pof-
fible diftemper at home too, by Foreign Fo-
mentations and Pretences, fuch miſ-timed En-
gagement favouring, indeed, of kindneſs to
Spain (which is not wanting in his Majefty)
' but in effect tending only to the fcratching
' his Majefty's own Fingers, and yet not to pull
Spain out of the Bryers.
This is the fubftance of our laft Conference,
the firſt I can boaſt of upon Bufinefs; or, if
you pleaſe, of our firft upon Bufinefs, which
looks as if it would be the laft; the Duke
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and I differring in a Fundamental already;
' who ſeem to have pitch'd upon this way, to
'undeceive me by Words,fince Signs and Silence
'would not do it; and by Words at large, be-
'caufe I would not read the mind of this Court
› in Cypher.
To induce a belief hereof, what I fhall now
relate is very certain (for though I heard it as
foon as I reached Toledo, I believed it not till
very lately from the Teftimony of an Ear-wit-
'nefs worthy of all Credit) upon knowledge
in this Court of my arrival in Spain, and the
grand Reception and Entertainment which was
ordered for me by this Crown, the French
Ambaffador entering in great Choler to ex-
poftulate thereupon with his Catholick Ma-
jefty, faid openly, in the hearing of many
Perfons of Quality, in the King's Ante Came-
rà, That why all this to an English Ambaffa-
dor? And what need had Spain of any Friend
?but France? with other Expreffions of like
Refentment, not without fomething of Me-
nace to this Court.
'Another thing I noted long ago, namely,
that whereas the Duke of Medina de las Torres,
and the Marques of Caftel Rodrigo, are all one
in State-Counfels, and Interefts at Court; and
a youngerSon of the former Contracted to the
' eldeſt Daughter and Heirefs of the latter; and
the Bride-groom(Don Annelo de Guzman)a Pri-
'foner in Portugal; where likewife the Marquefs
hath a great Eftate, with Princely Appurte-
nances of Palaces, &c. worth the looking
after, if there had been the leaft Eye towards
an Accomodation with that Crown; alfo, the
'faid Marquefs going to govern Flanders, where
a firit Union between England and Spain (if
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intended) in probability was to work more
Principally and Affiduouſly than elſewhere
yet the Duke neither entred upon the ſcope
and matter of my Embaffie, nor thought fit
to bring the Marquefs and me together, in fo
many Weeks as the Marquefs's Journey was
fufpended after my arrival in Madrid.
A third Obfervation is (I only inſtance in
ſuch I have not formerly ſpecify'd to you) that
'I have lately ſpoken with a Credible Perfon
' familiarly acquainted with one who is prefum-
ed to know all the Dukes Mind in reference
to England, who tells me, that, queſtioning
the faid Confident about fix Weeks ago, why
there had been fuch notable diligence ufed by
this Court to get an Ambaſſador out of Eng-
land; why fuch high and coftly Careffes to-
wards the fame Ambaffador till his approach
' within the Air of the Court, and after all that
fuch a notoriousColdnefs and Deficiency ever
fince in many Points, particularly in the main
of proceeding upon a Treaty? He the faid
Confident with a fhrug reply'd, there are ma-
ny combined to crofs what the Duke endea-
vours moft to promote, and thoſe too difa-
greeing among themſelves, as to the promo-
ting any Publick Intereft on their Partrs.
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Yours, &c.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 28. Sept. 1664. N.S.
SIR,
Ince the Writing of mine of Thurſday laſt,
herewith incloſed, as by the firſt opportu-
Sinc
nity,
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nity, I have receiv'd two from you, the one of
the ift. the other of the 8th. of September, ren-
dring very many humble thanks for your par-
ticularity therein, and fuppofing to have al-
ready anſwered the main Contents thereof,
by Anticipation, in this other of mine; with-
al waiting, not without fomething of longing
expectation, fuch farther Orders from his Ma-
jefty as have refulted from your intended Con-
ference with my Lord Chancellor.
That ftupendious Adventure in Switzerland
ought to make all Traytors tremble through-
out the World; and the Miraculous efcape of
the Adventurers no lefs to confirm Loyalty; as
likewiſe, both the one and the other, to con-
vince too many fooliſh Unbelievers at this day
(to no bodys harm but their own) in Foreign
Parts, through the crafty Sugeftions of fome,
who ſee the contrary themfelves of what they
perfwade others; that never King was more
faft in the English Throne, nor any abroad in
theirs, than our Gracious Mafter.
The preſent State of things in the Frontiers.
of Portugal (according to the beſt informati-
on I have been able to get) is as followeth ;
That the Spanish Army is drawn together to
fetch off the Artillery and Garifon from Aron-
ches, which is to be Demoliſhed, and that the
faid Army is upon a high Hill or Mountain at
a Leagues diſtance, little more or leſs, from the
faid Place; and that it confifts of 4000 Foot,
and 5000 Horſe.
That the Army of Portugues confifts of 12000
Foot, and 4000 Horfe, and that it marched a-
bout the Mountain where the Spanish Army is,
having placed it felf there, as being advanta-
geous to the Portugues, who are Superiour and
Maſter
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Maſter of the Field, and capable to neceffitate
the Spaniards to give Battle, as hindering them
from Victuals and Communication with Ba-
dajos.
This day, September the 8th. it is talk'd, that
there hath been a fhock between them, and the
Portugues have had the better, others affirm, that
they have been worſted.
A third Report is, that Count Marchin hath
already brought off the Artillery and Garifon
from Aronches without any fighting at all. Ei-
ther of the latter too would be of great Ho-
nour to the Count, and the laft of the three
(in my opinion) a foul difgrace to the Portu-
gues, fuppofing the pofture true which both
Armies were faid to be in, the which moft Men
do unanimouſly agree upon.
Yours, &c.
Madrid, the 4th. of October, 1664. N. S.
Aking it for granted (as there is great
caufe, Sir John Lawson, and a Counfel
of Captains in the Bay of Cadiz, having been
convinced thereof by feveral Signs and Teftimo-
nies) that de Ruyter, with his Squadron of 12
Frigats, fetting Sail from the faid Bay upon
the 5th of October, St. Novo, is now Sayling for
the Coaſt of Guinne, there to do all the mif-
chief he can to the English: It is never the
lefs confidently hoped, and beleived, that this
fuddain Reſolution in appearance will be no Sur-
prize, as to his Majefty's either fore-knowledge
or fore-caution, for the Reaſons following.
1. An
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1. An Expreſs from Holland, to de Ruyter, in
all diligence, paffing through Madrid upon
Tuesday the 26th of Auguft laft, and there report
ing that War was already declared between
Holland and England, from whence it was con-
jectured (there being in truth no ſuch matter
at that time) that he carried private Orders to
the faid de Ruyter (which may be theſe where-
by he is now carried to Guinne)to begin the War
at fuch time, and in fuch manner and place as
he lay moft proper for; his Majefty had fpeedy
notice thereof from Madrid, and from thence
alfo was forthwith defpatched an Exprefs of
the fame to Sir John Lawfon by the way of Ali-
cant.
2. A Letter from his Majefties Principal Se-
cretary of State, of the 8th of September, ad-
vertiſeth his Majefty's Ambaffador in Madrid,
that he hoped by the next Poft he ſhould be able
to tell him, that Prince Rupert was at Sea, his
Highneſs being bound for Guinne, with a Fleet
of 20 of his Majefty's greater Ships; fo that,
after Mr. Secretaries account, by way of guess
(if it fell out accordingly) Prince Rupert was
at Sea from Portsmouth towards Guinne ten days.
before de Ruyter was at Sea towards the fame,
place from Cadiz.
3.The more to haften and prepare the Prince,
whom to expect upon that Coaft, Sir John Law-
fon (who fet Sail for England, out of the Bay
of Cadiz, but two days after de Ruiter was de-
parted from the faid Port) would probably
meet his Highneſs at Sea; and in cafe of finding
him yet in England (a thing unreaſonable to
be fuppofed ) or, however, for what his Ma-
jefty might think fit thereupon farther to order,
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give a full account to his Majeſty and his High-
nefs of the Premises.
4. After that de Ruyter was departed (and
Sir John too) arrived at Cadiz fome Ships from
Zeland, thofe on bord them reporting, that de
Ruyter was gone for Guinee, the which if it
Were known by them before they left the Low
Countries, it could not be a Secret to his Ma-
jefty, and the rather, becauſe de Ruyter having
met with certain vifible, and moreover it may
de invifible Impediments; it was probably ex-
pected in Holland, that he ſhould have been
clear of the Spanish Coaft fome Weeks before
he was.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Yours, &c
Madrid, Wedneſday 15 October, 1664. NS
SIR,.
Since
Ince, my laft to you of 8th October, N. S..
(having receiv'd none fince from you) I
have nothing to add, but fomething to recant,
or rather he whoſe conjecture from Cadiz,where
de Ruyter then was, reprefented him thence
homeward bound, who accordingly hath fince
rectified his miſtake by an Exprefs to me, cer-
tifying, that by the best judgment and intelligenc-.
of Sir John Lawfon, and Council of Captains, the
faid de Ruyter, who had fet Sail there the 5 Octo-
ber, N. S. gees deſigned for the Coast of Guinea;
there to do us all the mifchief he can.
Sir John himſelf, in Letters to me of the 7th
October, N. S. from before Cadiz, likewife a-
vows the fame, being then under fail for Eng-
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land, with Captain Barkley in his Company
and Admiral Allen, with the reft of the Ships
for the Streights; fo that I hope, according to
your laft computation,did foon meet withPrince
Rupert, and give his Highneſs this Advertiſe-
ment, and alfo that many days before this can'
come to hand, tho' it went by an Expreſs, he
will have given the fame at large to his Majefty
in England, to whofe Royal either Fore-know-
ledg, or Fore-caft, from feveral Circumſtances
and Preparations, in former view there. I am
farther of Opinion, this new taken-up Refolu-
tion in common appearance, will have proved
no furprizat at all.
My laft News holds of Aronches, that it is
Demolish'd, with all that was therein brought
fafely off, but not that the Portugal Army was
then in fight or near the Place.
What may pafs for the prefent News at Ma-
drid, is, That upon Monday laft all the People
were in an Uproar, for want of Bread, Oyl, Can-
dles, and all other necessary Provisions, to be had
for Money; not ſo much becauſe of the Dearth,
tho' that hath been great enough this year, as
for a general Opinion, that the Brass Coyn would
immediately be cry'd down: So that neither the
Villages would fend in, nor the Shops and Srals
fell what they had in Town; till, for remedy
thereof, a Proclamation came forth, making it
Death to refufe it at the rate it had gone, or to
report it would be cry'd down; yet the very next
day Tuesday, another Proclamation came out,cry-
ing it indeed down to the half value,which fet the
People again on a flame; he or the that had
Before 40 Rials,having thenceforth in effect but
to: And now this day, Wednesday, whereas it
was expected that to thould go in Provifions
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as far as 40. before thofe falling with the Mo-
ney, people were forced to pay the fame rates
in Specie, as they did on Monday; the which
makes a third Outcry,like to amount to a Sum,
unleſs a third Proclamation fhall be forthwith
iffued, to conſtrain an Abatement of the Prices;
the fame being, in truth, intolerable, as the
prefent cafe is, for more than weak Purſes.
I ſhould have taken this matter a little higher,
namely, from the Cortes going up to the King,
on Saturday 11. N. S. with an Account of fuch
Impofitions as they had laid, for the fupply of his Ma-
jesty for the next Year (a Copy whereof youfhall
have by the next) upon which the People ta-
king an Alarm, That the Brafs Money would fall,
the Diſorder then began, and the Comerce
ceafed, from Sunday morning, till the firft a-
bove-mentioned Proclamation, on Monday at
Noon.
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With all thankful Affection I remain
Your moft Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
SIR,
IN
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, 21 October. 166. N. S..
N obedience to his Majefties Command, fig.
nified more than once by you,but in a more
preffing and politive manner, in yours of the
firft of the laft, namely, That if I had not prefent
and notorious Satisfaction in the matter of 7an-
gier (former Letters ſpecifying what that muft
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be) I ſhould come away, or at least make fuch
fhew of it, as should awake them to give the King
Full and clear fatisfaction herein; having before
made fuch a ſtep towards the fame as is ſet forth
in my Defpatch to you of the 2 and 8 October,
N. S. both under one Cover. I have now
made that farther progrefs which appears by
the herewith incloſed Copy of a Letter to the
Duke of Medina de las Torres, tending to a full
if not a final Point of my Embaſſy thereafter, as
the Refolution of this Court, upon the Con-
tents thereof, fhall fall out to be, having as yet
received no Anſwer thereunto, or to my for-
mer above-mentioned Addrefs to his Excellency,
but expecting it daily both to the one and to the
other.
The ſtarving condition of this Town, occa-
fioned partly by the Barrennefs of the Year, but
chiefly by the fall of the Brafs Money; together
with the open Diſorders and Execrations there-
upon (of all which I gave you an account in
my laft of the 15th Inftant, N. S.) have conti-
nued ever fince in fuch manner, as that I am
not able to make a judgment as yet from all I
can learn or collect, when or how the fame will
be at an end, or how far the Contagion there-
of may ſpread to other Places, remote from the
Eye of Majefty.
An intermiſſion here I prefume there will be,
by fome Expedient for the prefent; for,
without that, high and low muft directly
ftarve.
Upon the very Palace Walls upon Thurſday laft,
was faftned in open day, and in Letters which he
that run might read, Si el Rey, no muere: el Rey-
no muere:
This
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This piece of witty Treaſon would found worſe in
any other Country; but in Spain, you know, no-
thing is more customary, than for many to speak
very Ill of their King, who at the fame time wish
him very well; and moreover not to fuffer a Stran-
ger to be fo bold with him, as they think they may
be with their own.
For conclufion of this, you might do me a
very fingular Favour (whilſt the ſucceſs of my
Letter to the Duke is yet uncertain in this
Court) foto difpofe, as that not only my Lord
Chancellor,but his Majefty himſelf would vouch-
fafe to read and confider the fame through-
out; whereby I may come to underſtand from
his Majefty, in fo critical a point as this hath
been, by his exprefs Direction, fo that the
form is no way diſpatching to him, &c. I re-
main
Your, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
To my Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
This
His is delivered to your Excellency by Mr.
Henry Croone, my old Acquaintance and
School-Fellow, returning into Spain to reſide in
Malaga, where he lived many years, much to
the fatisfaction of his Friends and Countrymen.
In his Houſe, or at leaſt under his Protection,
there liveth a Lady called De Terefa de Palma y
Colins, Widow to Thomas Colins, late of Mala-
it is his Majefties Pleaſure that your Excel-
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lency
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lency Favour the faid Lady, in her Pretenfions
at Madrid, according as they will be reprefent-
ed to you by the Bearer Mr. Croone, whom I re-
commend very particularly to your Favour and
Kindness in all things, and am with much Re-
ſpect and Affection,
My Lord, Your, &c.
HENRY BEN ET
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
MR.
Whiteball, Sept. 15. 1664.
Secretary following his Majefy this
morning to Begfhot, without purpoſe
of returning time enough to write by this Poft,
commanded me to make his Excufe to your Ex-
cellency, and to lend the enclofed to Sir Benja-
swin Wright. I ſhould have been glad to have
received the honour of any of your Excellency's
Commands, which fhould have been punctu-
ally obferved by me, and I fhall efteem my ſelf
happy, when you think me worthy to ferve you
in any thing here.
All our News is now of the Dutch, who feem
at preſent not to be fo high as they have been,
and to flacken their Preparations for Guinea, but
whether politickly or not I cannot fay, to lull
us into a greater fecurity. But I think they will
not find us unprovided, our Fleet being almoft
ready, and all forts of Perſons, of all conditions,
defiring to Embark themſelves in the Expedition,
under
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under Prince Rupert's Conduct. They brag that
they will pass through the Channel, but I doubt
whether our Fleet, at prefent in the Downs, un-
der my Lord of Sandwich, will fuffer them.
Your Lordship will be pleafed to inform your
felf as much as you can, of de Ruyter's Motions,
who, it is reported by fome, bath order to Sail di-
rectly to Guinea. Sir John Lawfon bath order
from the Duke to do his part. I am
My Lord, Your, &c.
W. GODOLPHIN
To my Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
Whiteball, Sept. 22. 1664
My Lord,
Ollowing his Majefty the morning of the
laft Poſt-day to Bagshot, when he went to
Hunt in Windfor Foreft, I enjoin'd Mr. Godol-
phin to write to your Excellency, and fend you
my Excufe for that day; fince which time I have
received ſeveral of yours, of Auguſt 3d, 12th,
17th, and 24, N. S. to the matter of which
I will not fay any thing now, becauſe I defire
firſt to confer with my Lord Chancellor upon
it, who hath been out of Town this Week,
and is returned only late this Evening.
Three Days ago Don Patricio Muledei had his
Audience of Entry in the Quality of Reſident
of his Majefty, and having finished that, asked
to receive the fame Honour from the Queen,
who being difcompofed a little more there-
with than could have been with'd, and for-
S 4
bidding
(264)
bidding him in the beginning of his Harangue,
to fpeak to her in Spanish, he fubmitted to her
Pleaſure therein, and continued it in French,
acquitting himſelf therein with all fitting Re-
ſpect on his part, but came not away with all
the fatisfaction he hoped for on the Queens
part; which I fay to your Excellency, that
the ſtory which will certainly be made there
of it, may not altogether furprize you.
Col. Reimes arrived here laft Week from Tan-
gier, and brought his Majefty a perfect Satisfa-
ction in his Account of that Place, but con-
firming our jealoufie of the Spaniards foul play
towards it, of which we hope a Speedy Satisfaction
and Efclairciffement from you.
Our Letters this week from Holland told us,
the Dutch Fleet defigned for Guinea was almoft
ready,and yet there are fome who are ready to
lay Wagers they will not go,others guess the Ex-
prefs mentioned in your Excellencies last, went to
give de Ruyter orders to go away for Guinea.
Whatever thofe Orders were, I hope your Letters to
Sir John Lawſon will make him watchful of what
the Hollanders doth there in thofe Seas. In the
mean time Prince Rupert's Fleet is ready, and
fearing nothing more than that the Hollander
will not fall out with them.
•
The approaching of the ill Seafon makes the
King and Queen ſpeak more doubtfully of their
Journey to Hampton-Court. With which you
will have all my News, and am with all Re-
fpect,
1
Your, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To
(265)
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 12 Octob. 1664. Engl. Stile.
SIR,
Since
ST
;
Ince my laſt to you of Yefterday, the Prefi
dent of Caftile having by the King's fpe-
cial and angry Command, gone forth to the
Neighbouring Villages,attended with the Hang-
man, and whatfoever elfe of Terror incident
to his place, and derogatory to his Perfon,
the Markets in this Town begin to be fur-
niſhed again plentifully enough, yet ſo as that
the Bullion remaining fallen to the half value
Bread, Wine, and other Proviſions, are held up
much higher than they were before in
the numerical Money; the reaſon is, whether
upon intelligence or jealoufie, the People that
fell do expect a fecond ſpeedy Fall, in which
regard they rather chufe to part with their
Wares upon Truft (as many do and will) to
receive for the fame at the rate Money fhall
go a while hence, than for prefent Money;
tho' to Perfons whom before they would have
been very fcrupulous to have truſted.
Since the fame alfo, I have received Mr. Go-
dolphin's of the 15. of Sept. by your directions,
and at the fame time another from your felf,
of the 2nd Sept.
I am very glad to find both by the one and
the other, there wanted not there thofe, who
guefs'd from my Letter of the 3d of September,
that the Holland Exprefs, whom I therein men-
tioned to have pafs'd through this Town in all
diligence
(266)
diligence, upon the 26 Aug. N. S. went to
give de Ruyter orders to go away for Guinea,
as in truth he did, from Cadiz, upon the 5th,
October, N. S. as I certified you in my laft of
the 15th Inftant, N. S. from more than proba-
ble Conjectures, and the inclofed Paper doth
how confirm, by infallible Demonftrations.
With all Dutiful and Thankful Refpects, I
remain
TH
Your, &c.
RICHARD FANSHAW.
POSTSCRIPT
HE premifes fuppofed, I was yet more exceed-
ingly rejoyced to read in your faid Letter of
the 22d of Sept. how that Prince Rupert's Fleet
was ready at the writing thereof; whereby, if his
Highness alarm'd by that of the Dutch Express,
fet Sail for Guinea, in fuch time as well he might
by that Computation,he may, with probability enough,
be there as foon as de Ruyter, or at least so very
quickly after him, as in either cafe to turn all the
Hollanders intended Mifchiefs and Cunning upon
their own Heads; the which God grant.
Incloſed herewith:
Noticias de la Berberia, Dated Oran, 5 Oct. 1664.
Extract of a Letter from Sevil, Dated the 14th
of Oct. 1664.
Extract of a Letter from Capt. Thomas Allen,
Dated in Malaga Road, 4th Od. 1664.
Both the laff in one Paper,
•
To
(267)
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wednesday the 19th of October, 1664.
Engl. Stile.
SIR,
Since my laſt of the 22d Inftant, N. S. Con-
ceffions have been of Free Trade with Tan-
gier, alfo Liberty of the English Prisoners at
Sevil and Cadiz, and finally, Licenfe for our
English Men of War, formerly under Sir John
Lawfon, now under Capt. Allen, to enter into
and be accommodated with all Neceffaries in
the Spanish Ports.
Upon the 10th Inftant, Stylo Novo, (invited
by the delicacy of the weather, and not know-
ing whether I ſhould have another opportu-
nity for it, during my Refidence in this Court,
together with my Family, Man, VVoman and
Child) I took a fmall Journey, by ftealth, of 3
days going and coming, to Aranjuez.
Affoon as it was known that I was gone, the
Duke of Medina de las Torres fent a Poft after
me, with a Letter to my felf, of Courtly Chi-
ding, that I had given the Spanish Civility the
Ilip in that manner, with another to the Off-
cers of the Place, to perform their part towards
me, which was not wanting in any needful
degree, altho' the Propio tracing me all the
way, could not reach me till I got home a-
gain.
For the fame Reaſons we began another
Journey upon Monday laft, to the Efcurial:
This was not, nor could be kept fecret; there-
fore
( 268)
fore (the Duke prompting) his Catholick Ma-
jefty fent his Orders before, by virtue whereof
I was lodged in the Quarter there of the Duke
of Montalto, Major Domo, Major to the Queen,
and of like ſpecial Order, by the Prior of that
moſt famous Monaftery, fhew'd, with all De-
monftrations of Courtefie, the much that is
there to be ſeen, befides an extraordinary Pre-
fent of Provifions, of all which Don Juan
Combeo, whofe Company I was favoured with
in this Excurſion, is able, if he pleaſe, to give
you a better account than I.
Before I was returned half way to this Court,
we Met fome French, who told us, the French
Ambaffador was following them to the Efcurial.
Advanced as far as a very ſmall Village abour
a League from Madrid, the Highway lying by a
fingle Houſe,at the out-skirt thereof at the Door
of the fame, were two that wear his Livery, of
whom one of my People asking whether the
French Ambaſſador was coming towards the Efcu-
rial? they reply'd No, but that bis Excellency was
in that Village, and thence immediately to return to
Madrid.
This is all I yet know, pertinent to that mat-
ter, unleſs this be, that it hath Rained plenti-
fully from Morning to Night, being,as the year
hath fallen out very extraordinarily, the firft
Day here of VVinter. Thus much may be built
upon as a certainty, that neither the Palace
here upon Monday Morning when I went, nor
the Efcurial this Morning when I left it, had the
leaſt notice or inkling, of any Intention of the
French Ambaſſador to go thither at this time.
A Report there hath been for fome days whi-
fpered, That the faid Ambaſſador is Revok'd: To
notifie which the more, it is poffible he might
defign
(269)
defign this Vifit to the Efcurial, which is com-
monly left to the laft by all Publick Perfons
from Abroad.
By what I have formerly certified, and others
too, I prefume his Majefty hath for fome days
paft been fully confirmed, That de Ruyter is
upon his way for Guinea; as fully am I of opi-
nion, that whether he furprize us there or not,
his Maſters will dearly repent that piece of Sub-
tilty. VVith which I humbly crave leave to
remain,
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAVV.
SIR,
M
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid Tueſday 4 Nov. 1664. N. S
Y laft to you of the 29th October, N. S.
certified Conceffions from his Catholick
Majefty, of Free Trade with Tangier, alfo liberty
of the English Prifoners at Sevil and Cadiz, and
finally Licenſe for our English men of VVar, for-
merly under Sir John Lawson, now under Cap-
tain Allen, to enter into and be accommodated
with all Neceffaries in the Spanish Ports.
Now together with this, you will receive
the particular Forms wherein the fame were
paft by his catholick Majesty, and imparted to me
from the Duke de Medina de las Torres, all bur
what concerns the English Prifoners in Sevil and
Cadiz, which is affured me in general Terms,
as you will remember it was long ago, with
this
(270)
this difference, that the Counſel of the Indies.
having, it ſhould feem, at that time reply'd
with Reaſons alledged, to his Majefties Com-
mand, the Reply hath been fince over-ruled by
his Majefty, in point of Grace, whereby the
Grant of Liberty to our faid English, tho then
it did not, may now come to take effect.
Of this point I fay fomething more in the
Margent of that Letter from his Excellency, for
more clearness in the ftating thereof. And for
the like reafon have chofen to put in the Pa-
pers accompanying the fame, rather than here,
what I conceive farther obfervable, as to the
remaining two points of free Comerce with
Tangier, and free ufe to be made by his Maje-
ties Ships of the Ports of this Crown. So,
charging this Letter with no more, I crave
leave to reft
Your, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
1
U
POST SCIP T.
Pon fecond Thoughts, I find the Copies
above-mentioned to accompany this
Letter, too bulky to be hazarded by the Poft;
forbearing it the rather becauſe I have within
my view a better opportunity, whereby e'er
long to remit unto you both thofe, and other
Papers of bulk likewife; fupplying the want of
thoſe for the prefent in general, with what I
told the Duke of Medina de las Torres yefter-,
day (thanking his Excellency for that Defpatch)
namely, that having perufed the former there-
of, I for my part could find no defect therein,
nor had found any in thofe which had been
formerly
(271)
formerly fent, in reference to free Pratick, for
my Mafter's Ships in the Ports of his Catholick
Majefty; but that feveral Governours of this
Crown (who underſtand Spanish better than I)
had found fome, otherwife we fhould not have
been denied the fruit thereof hitherto in Ali-
cant and elſewhere; but I hoped thefe laſt
would be better underſtood. What I think
neceffary to add in particular at prefent, in re-
ference to our Men taken in the West-Indies,
is a thing which the Duke took occafion to
tell me at the fame time (difcourfing of thofe
parts) namely, himſelf inftancing in a time
When the Spaniards fell upon our Plantation in
St. Christophers, that the King of England made
no refentment thereof, as of any breach of
Articles: Onthe other fide, when the attempts
of our Men in the Indies upon the Spaniards,
or peradventure only their Navigation in thofe
Seas was under confideration, be pleaſed to
obferve out of the fame Dukes Letter a few
days before, the words following, viz.
Y por lo que
toca alos Ingleffes que fe hallan en las
Carceles, &c to the end of the Duke's Letter
of 26 Octab. 1664
So that if our hands are bound by the old
Articles from harming the Spaniards in the In-
dies, and yet they by the fame let looſe upon
us, it imports us certainly very much to have
them altered in that point, but if the looſenefs
of the fame Articles, with a traditional Opi-
nion and Practice thereupon, from time to
time, and in places where and when either
have found themſelves the ftronger, do expofe
as an equal Prey to each other, in thofe parts,
without breach of Peace here. In this cafe
humbly
(272).
humbly Conceive it will very much more im-
port the Spaniard, to follicite or hearken to
a fpeedy Alteration thereof; with which I re-
turn to ſubſcribe myſelf,
Yours, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To Sir Rich. Fanshaw.
Hague the 29th of Sept. 1664. O. S.
Right Honorable,
H
Erein incloſed I fend you a Copy of the
Eftates General their Anfwer to his Ma-
jefty, concerning the Reaſons of fending their
Fleet to Guinea, a Copy whereof they have
alſo given to the French, Swedish, and Danish
Miniſters here; thereby to imbue thoſe Courts,
fuppofing that thereby they do beyond all di-
fpute juftifie the fending thereof, and take a-
way all occafion from his Majefty for being
offended thereat, whereas you will find the
very words thereof to be, that they will fall
upon fuch as have or fhall do them any injury;
whereas by the 14th Article of his Majefties
Treaty with this State (if any thing be done
in Africa, either by Sea or Land, againſt the
Tenure thereof. Twelve Months must be ex-
pected after complaint, before either party en-
deavour to right themſelves by force, and his
Majefty in the Complaint he had made to them,
hath waited twice twelve Months, and it is
not yet above three months fince they made
their
(273)
their complaints, befides the words being ge-
neral, and ſpecifying no particular, and refer-
ving the conftruction in their own Breafts,
what Place or Ship belonging to the English is
fecure; for that they may pretend fomething
or other to fall upon them; their Soldiers are
now on Board, and all in readineſs, expecting
only the firft fair wind, intending to pafs the
Channel, under the Convoy of Opdam, with
the whole Fleet. Thofe of Holland have pro-
poſed in the Eſtates General, the building of
24 Capital Ships to be made, and ready to
put to Sea by May next; they have alfo pro-
pofed the making ready of a fecond Fleet of 2
Sail of Men of War more, for Guinea, to be
ready againſt December, and in order to the fur-
niſhing themſelves with Money, to pay off none
of their Debts this year; alfo to raise the
200th Penny of every Man's Eftate, which is a
pinching Tax, being over and above all their
other Taxes and Excifes, that are yet as great
upon the People as in the height of their War
with Spain,but there are fome Towns that have
not as yet given their confents to this, but the
reft will not let them alone till they have
brought them to it. My Lord of Carlisle hath
been received with all imaginable Honours
at Stockholme,and that Crown, and hath pro-
hibited all Shipping of this Country from
coming into any of their Ports, till farther or-
der; Sir Gilbert Talbot is alfo, arrived at Copen-
bagen,and Mr. Coventry gone onwards for Stock-
holme. They are very angry here with Ze-
land, for having under-hand treated with the
French King, and got from him liberty for their
Shipping to come into France, notwithstanding
the Prohibition, till the firft of December, and
T
ft
they
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they fay it is contrary to their Union. I have
received yours of the 24th of Aug. O. S. and
with you all good fuccefs in your Negotia-
tion, and am
Your Excellencies, &c.
G. DOWNING.
You may pleaſe to direct yours to your Ser-
vant, Knight and Baronet.
#
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
You
Paris 16 Octob. 1664.
Ours of Sept. 14. N. S. is received, and
thoſe you ſent before for England and the
Hague prefently conveyed; to one of which I
believe you have now an Anſwer, and which
will inform you of the ftate of Affairs with Hol-
land, fo as I fhail not need to repeat any thing
of it. A War is unavoidable, which is all can
be faid, and the true Quarrel not what is paſt,
but what to come, the apprehenfion of our
Copartnerſhip, in their Guinea and Eaft-Indian
Trade. This laft from your Excellency, tells
of a Paſſage of the French, methinks, not very
handfom towards you, at that Audience of
the Venetian, and I am glad you have been
pleaſed to give me fo particular an account
of it, for the Report of this Town went a great
deal farther, that your Coaches met, and your
Men fcuffled, and yours were worſted; all
which I knew was falfe, that neither did you
meet,
t
(275)
meet, the fame reftraint being upon you for
fending your Coach at fuch occafions, as is
upon me, and thar fhould you do it, the Eng-
lih would not be worfted; and another report
was (as I hear, raifed by the Spanish Ambaf-
fador here, who fhould tell the Queen-Mother)
that the King of Spain had fent to your Excel-
lency, to let you know, you must give place
to the French Ambaffador, the Order and Cu-
ftom of that Court being fo, which I believed
as true as the other, and am confirmed, feeing
you fay nothing of it, for fuch a circumftance
would not have been omitted.
The Venetian Ambaſſador here (who is much
an Englishman) is much troubled his Colleagues
at Madrid, either the laft or the prefent fhould
be at a miſunderſtanding with the Ambaffador
of England, and hath fhewed me a Letter from
Cornari, expreiling great wonderment that it
fhould be fo thought by any body; he faith
you parted very fair; that it's true, you faw
not one another, becauſe he had his Audience
de Conge, had put off his Equipage, and was no
longer in a capacity to obferve thofe Formalities;
after your Excellency had had yours of Admiffi-
on,he came into a capacity to receive them, fo
that he could not then come in Perfon to vi-
fit you, but had fent his Secretary to you, and
you yours to him, and was come away very
good Friends. This is his ftory. This Am-
ballador here is, I am fure, a very good Man,
and moft defirous to keep all things well be-
tween us, and fhall be no fault in him if it be
otherwife. Mr. Secretary Bennet hath acquain-
red me with your Complaints, and fent me a
Copy of your Letter to him, which refers to
another Paper, and that Paper is millaid; fo as-
I have
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ཉི་
I have not a full information of the buſineſs;
but what I have I fhall inform this Ambaſſador,
who will reprefent it to the Senate, and we
fhall fee what they will fay to it.
This great News of the Truce concluded in
Germany with the Türk, hath furpriſed this
Court, which expected nothing leſs; Portugal
may perhaps be the harder fet at; who had
need look about them. The bufinefs of Er-
fort ſtartled the Princefs of Germany, to fee the
King of France ſend in fuch numbers to the
affiftance of the Bishop, which they did not
like, and I believe was no back-byafs to the
Agreement.
I am
My Lord, Your Excellencies, &c.
HOLLES.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Sime
Whitehall, Sept. 29. 1664.
Ince my laft, I have received two of your
Excellencies by one Poſt, 20 Aug. N. S. and
Sept. N. S. upon which, and all your former,
I had this day come to a conclufive Anfwer with
my Lord Chancellor, if his Lordship's having
been let Blood had not difappointed me; fo
that of neceffity I muft beg your excufe for the
delay of one Poft longer; in the mean time,it is
fit I let you know,how the quarrel heats betwixt
the Dutch and us, and that I ftate fomething of
the manner of their entring into it with us, that
your
¡
(277)
your Excellency may poffefs thatCourt with the
Wrong on their fide, and the Right on ours.
The Letters Yeſterday from thence tell us af-
furedly, that their Fleet for Guinea will be ready
to fet Sail with the firft fair Eafterly Wind, That
Opdam with his is to Convey it through the
Channel, and that their Inftructions are to pay
all Reſpect to his Majefties Ships, if they meet
them, by the accuſtomed Salutes, and ſtriking
their Top-fail, but to fight and deftroy any
that moleft or interrupt them in their Voiage;
and that this Convoy is to accompany them as
far as the Spanish Seas, and they arriving upon
the Coaft of Guinea, are inftructed, without a-
ny other form of proceeding, to revenge them-
felves upon any that have done them wrong,
and to retake from them what hath been taken;
which is truly no other than Club-Law, and
exprefly againſt the Letter of the 14th Article of
our Treaty,wherein your Excellency may pleafe
to read, That whatever Injuries or Offences hap-
pen between Us or Them, time fhall be given to
be rightly informed of the Cafe, and not so much as
Letters of Mart granted, till a whole year hath been
Spent in examining and expoftulating upon them.
Now in this cafe of Guinea they complain to
his Majefty at the arrival of their Ambaffador
here; his Majefty anfwered,That be expected eve-
ry day the arrival of the Perfon from whom they
pretended to have received the wrong (Capt.Holmes
by name) that having a full and fufficient infor-
mation thereof, Justice should be done them, accord.
ing as the cafe should appear to require it. Upon
this they Arm'd in an unufual manner for that
Coaſt, ſo as to give his Majefty cauſe to believe
they would not ſtay for his Right, but take it
themſelves
T 3
(278)
themſelves by force: Whereupon his Majefty
did not only himſelf to their Ambaffador here,
but by Sir George Downing, to the States Gene-
ral, declare, That if they fent fuch a force to Gui-
nea, as to give a just Cauſe of Jealouſie to him, in
the behalf of his Pofeffions there, then he fhould find
bimfelf obliged to fend alfo; the Confequence where-
of would inevitably be a Breach between him and
them. And the cafe being thus, as I ftate it to
your Excellency, let the World judge who are
the Peace-breakers, and whether any of their
Neighbours can fairly be called upon to affift
them as Men. Affaulted, and your Excellency
may remember their Arming the firft time was
fufficiently offenfive, tho not fo directed as this.
The Parliament complains to the King, upon
the Difquifition made by them into the Impe-
diments to the Common Trade of the King-
dom, that the Violences and Depredations of
the Hellanders had much prejudic'd it. His Ma-
jefty anſwers them, That he would enquire in-
to it, and fee Juſtice done, The Parliament
Thanks his Majefty for it, and faith, that in
the profecution thereof, they will ftand by him
with their Lives and Fortunes. This Compli-
ment was accepted by his Majefty with that
kindneſs it deferved, but nothing farther pro
ceeded upon it, fave the calling hither Sir Geo.
Downing, to be informed rightly of our Grie-
vances. This, I fay, was the only thing done
on our fide; now fee what they did on theirs;
they preſently Vote the futting out 30 Sail of
Ships, and work Sundays and Holidays to make
them ready with all poilible Expedition. Upon
all this, may it not fairly be faid, If I difpoſe my
felf to ask a man fatisfaction, in the form agreed
of, for wrong done to me, and the Man betake
himfelf
(279)
himſelf to his Arms, draw his Sword, and
cock his Piſtol; may it not, I fay, fairly be
aid, that the man behaving himſelf ſo, is the
Peace-breaker, if War follow upon it, and not
I? Is not the Peace broken till I have the
Sword or the Piftol fhot in my Body? The
truth is, they are not only to blame in the con-
tinuance of many Wrongs and Injuries done us
heretofore, but in endeavouring thus violently
to fupport them, in which they are encoura-
ged by the great Power and Vogue the Eaft
and Weft-India Companies have over that Go-
vernment, being the principal Members of ir,
and who care not how dear it coft the Publick,
to maintain the Wealth of their Trade; which
the Common People begin to fee, and when
they feel it a little more, will certainly Mutiny
againſt it: But that your Excellency may know
that we do not only complain, but alſo prepare
to refift Force with Force, it is fit I fhould tell
you, Prince Robert will be to morrow Night
ready to fet to Sea with our Guinea Fleet, not
inferior in ftrength to that they have defigned
thither. Tis true, their other Force upon the
Coaſt exceeds ours, at leaſt that which is yet
ready, but if they will allow us a little more
time, and that the Parliament fecond us as well,
as we make no doubt but they will, we fhall
not be afraid to meafure Swords with them, for
the Dominion of the Seas and the Trade that be-
longs to it.
Sir George Downing tells me of a new inven-
tion of a Plough in Spain, of infinite benefit; I
beſeech your Excellency to enquire after it ;
he faith, an Italian hath made it, and that it is
not only received in Spain, but fent into the Ix-
dies alfo, for the good of their Land.
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Toge-
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I
Together with our ordinary News, I add
herewith a ſtate of our Right to Cape Coast,
which is the bone of Offence now betwixt us
and Holland,upon the Coaſt of Africa, and have
nothing more to add, but my being unalter-
ably,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday Octob. 26, 1664. O.S.
SIR
Out of Bwith mine of Yefterday, you may be plea-
Y the which you will receive together
Cypher.
fed to underftand, that upon Monday laft I
had a large Conference with the Duke of Me-
dina de las Torres, in the Buen Retiro, upon mu-
*tual appointment beforehand, in order to the
ſpeedy carrying on our Treaty.
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As before on the 2 Octob. laft, N. S. fo then
likewife we ftumbled at the Threshold, and the
fame ftone thereof, Portugal, becauſe indeed I
would not skip over it, and fo fuffer my felf
to be concluded, as to that fundamental Point,
by General indefinite Expreffions.
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As to the fubject of this Conference, fo the
Iffue was the fame as before reprefented in
mine to you, of the 2 Octob. N. Ş. neither par-
ty yielding to the other.
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'Yet the Duke prefs'd me, as he had done
'before, that laying that hard knot afide for
afterwards, I would at prefent proceed to give
'him a Paper of other Propofals, which he had
long fince defired me to prepare.
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'I then alledging, that thofe in fuch cafe
'muft only concern Peace and Commerce, and
he allowing thereof, I promiſed his Excel-
lency he ſhould very ſpeedily have ſuch from
me; not thinking fit to delay it any lon-
ger, having received full fatisfaction as to Tan-
gier, unleſs I fhall fee the contrary acted, with-
out I would have imputed to me the hitherto
Delays of our Court, as to the Treaty, tho
otherwiſe I would have been very glad to have
received for my farther Light, thofe Re-
folutions of his Majefty, upon confult between
my Lord Chancellor and your felf, whereof I
have been for fome Poſts paſt in confident ex-
pectation; and yet am, from yours of 29th
of Sept. this day come to my hands.
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In fine, according to promiſe, I have fent
them, as Probationers, with all due caution
both as to thofe Refolutions when they come,
and to whatfoever other Reflections requifite,
as I hope; and fhall remit likewife a Copy of
the fame to you, with the firſt ſafe convey-
ance, by which time I may moreover happen
to have fomething of Anſwer thereupon.
Your forementioned Letter of the 29th of Memo-
Sept. as it gives me very welcom News of Prince randum,
Rupert's being the next day after to go to Sea That from
Thith the Fleet bound for Guinea, fo the Con- hence to the
end was fent
tents thereof gives fatisfactory Reaſons to any, in Long-
whofe Impartiality render them capable thereof, band.
That
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*
That the Hollander had begun this War (for
now I take it to be one) whether the fame is
to be dated from the Injury offered, or from
the Breach refolved upon.
As to the later, over and above the Argu-
ments you alledge, I hope and prefume you had
foon after the writing thereof, an infallible one
in matter of Fact, when the strong probability
firſt, and then the certainty of de Ruyters being
gone with his Fleet for Guinea arrived with you,
by which, compared with what the Hollanders
Exprefs caft out, when he paft through this
Court upon the 26 August laft, N. S. it is ma-
nifeft, that the Eſtates did by him, at that early
time of day, fend Orders to the faid de Ruyter
to begin the War which they would afterwards
declare, not all at once, but by degrees, enter-
taining us with Complements, when and where-
foever they find themſelves too weak to do us
Miſchiefs; for I am confidently of belief, what-
ever their pretences be, their Commiffions and
Inftructions are, in all places where they meet
us, to ftrike when they are weaker than we,
and to ftrike firft, when they are ftronger.
I take all the courfe I can here, that Admi-
ral Allen fhould not be altogether in the dark
as to thefe proceedings, but want Orders he
doth very much, and may Affiftance, if Opdam,
unfollowed, fhould make a fhort turn into the
Streights.
A Copy of my laſt from him, is herewith in-
cloſed. I reft
Your Honours, &c.
Richard Fanfhaw.
The
( 283 )
The Emperors Peace with the Turks is very joy-
ful News to this Court in it felf, and withal threa-
tens a great storm to Portugal next Spring.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
A
Whitebal, Auguft 25. 1664.
Fter many Alarms three days paft of your
Excellencies Contefts at Madrid with the
French Ambaffador, for Precedency at the Vene-
tian Ambalador's Entry, we have received both
yours of the 14. Sept. 9. S. to quiet our Minds
therein, tho' I muft ingenuously tell you, the
Reports troubled me very little, having been
preaffured in the point, by what you have writ-
ten to me thereupon; and his Majefty allow-
ing that you had taken a fair and fitting courfe
in making your Proteſt againſt any Variation,
from what was declared in that Court, as a
Rule in your Audience, the breach of which,
now in this particular, it will become you to
Expoftulate upon very fharply, and to let them
know, that if Noiſe and Importunity prevails
with them more than Modefty and good Man-
ners, you ſhall find your felf obliged to leave
the English Stile, and betake your ſelf to the
French one, which we fee only takes place with
them. But returning to this prefent Argu-
ment, It is his Majefties Pleasure, not only because
it is conformable to the Rule he hath Established in
bis own Court, and meaneth to perſiſt in it, but
because they have at your arrival given it you for
theirs also there, That no Ambaſſador refiding shall
Send
( 284 )
:
fend their Coaches to welcom New-Comers. You
muft (Ifay) declare very pofitively, that you will
in no cafe depart from that Rule; let the Court, or
thoſe refiding in it, say what they will against it;
and I am confident when the World bath had time
to reflect wifely on it, Kings and Princes will eafily
agree, that it is the better courfe to have their bu
finefs done by their Ambassadors, than Punctilioes
difputed, upon which, when the cafe requires, it
will be fit they rather fight them out with their Ar-
mies than their Ambaſſadors. And this is what I
had order to write to your Excellency, upon the fug-
geftions of your former Letters, even before this ac-
cident hapned.
In the next place, I was bid by his Majefty
to repeat to you what I have faid in my former
concerning Tangier, that his Majefty will not
fuffer they ſhould live otherwife with it, than
they do with Plymouth. Tangier was an antient
Acquifition of the Crown of Portugal, no other
Chriftians ever had poffeffion of it, in thefe late
years at leaft; the King our Mafter hath re-
ceived it as a part of the Queens Dowry, Sifter
to the prefent King of Portugal; if they will
not allow this to be good Law and Right to the
Place, they had better plainly tell ust not only
in this, but indeed in all other points elfe, how
comes it to pass, that the occafion of Sir John
Lawfon's going into thoſe Seas being declared,
his Catholick Majefty written to to receive him
kindly in his Ports, his faid Majefty promifing
to do it, and Sir John Lawfon receiving the per-
fo mance of it in one, fhould have it denied him
in another? How, I fay, comes it to paſs,
Enghmen are made Prifoners for being found
in the Spanish Indies, and that our making the
Spaniards Friſoners there is made unlawful.
that
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1
:
'It is true, that for Reafons of our own (tho'
we were glad alſo the effect was acceptable to
them) we forbad the continuance of Hoftili-
ties at Jamaica, and fent home the Priſoners
taken, but how will it be underſtood that
there ſhould have been a Peace betwixt us and
'them in thoſe Parts, and no Comerce or Free-
dom of Ports accompanying it, if the Treaty
'hath faid it clearly, let it be produced and exa-
mined. This I have faid to Don Patricio Omu-
ledie, and he Anſwers me, the Treaty doth fay
it I tell him it doth not, and putting it as a
'point in the firft Paper, which he faith he is
preparing, it shall be tried and examined to
the bottom; but if the old Treaty prove not
' to have laid ir, let the new one (to be made)
plainly either Eftablish or deftroy it; the mat-
ter is fairly before us, and it will equally con-
*cern their Honour and Advantage, to let what
is paft lie as it doth, rather than revive it, on-
ly to difcompofe us in our future Agreements
and good Correfpondence, and according to
this and what your Intructions direct you,
are to word anv Article you may have occa-
'fion to make, concerning the Weft-Indies; we
muft infiit upon having the Comerce Free
there as in Europe, and we are perfuaded our
'Friend/hip (confidering the State wherein they
are now) is worth it. If our demand therein
be too large, and they think it too much to
grant us, fearing it may lead other Crowns or
States to demand the fame, let them reftrain
it; if God Almighty gives us good fuccefs in
our prefent Difputes with the Hollanders, the
Crown of Spain will quickly fee we have
better Cards to thew for that Game, than any
* King
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King or Potentate befides: and returning to the.
Hollanders how many places do they retain of
the Spaniards, acquired by their own War
with them, or that with Portugal, and yet
they remain in quiet Poffeffion of them, and
were not fo much as queftioned for them in
their Treaty with Spain? and I hope they will
allow we ftand upon a better Level towards
'them than the Hollanders do, whom but ye-
ſterday they called their Rebel Subjects.
As to the whole Treaty, let them chufe ei-
'ther to ftand by the former, or to make a new
one; we have made great advances on our
fide, which you muſt not diffemble with them,
have been very ill correfpondent with on
'theirs, and that his Majefty doth not find in
any degree that fatisfaction in your uſage at
Madrid, which the fending you there,and the
good ufage of you at your Arrival made him
hope for, neither is he in any degree, how
'well foever he like the Perfon, fatisfied with
'the Nomination of the Conde de Molina to be
"Ambaffador hither, and at the fame time to
fee Don Patricio Omoledei enter himfelf as Refi-
dent, and the Conde to begin his Journey from
Flanders into Spain; it is not fair to make a
pofitive Judgment and Conclufion of what we
have yet feen, but if Don Patricio Omuledey's
Propofitions in Paper prove to be the fame
which his Difcourfe foretels to us, they will
feem rather to be made by one that comes to
pick a quarrel with us, than to agree. He
faith they will contain his Maſter's Demands,
'for the Reftitution of Jamaica and Tangier (per-
haps for a valuable Confideration) this is the
beft fide of it) let the Minifters there bethink
'themselves how practical this Propofition is.
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'If
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If it could be admitted, what Fleets or Armies
can they ſend on their fide to take Poſſeſſion?
If we would agree to it, what Time and Mo-
neys muſt be wafted in it, there needs but one
quarter of an hours Thought on their parts,to
know that the very imagination of it is Chi-
merical? Befides that, our Government is not
in a ſtate to endure it ſhould be fo much as
'talk'd of one hour, if it were ſo, and that we
' had a mind to amufe them (the Spaniards) with
a long and feeming Treaty, how eafie were it
(I fay) for us to fpin out many years in the
handling and effecting of it? And could this ei-
ther turn to their account or ours? Do they
not fee and feel their own Weakneſs? Have
they not had Peace with all Christendom be-
fides, for five years paft, only to intend with
more vigor the Conqueft of Portugal? What
progrefs have they made in it? Do they not
fee and feel the dying Condition of their King,
and the young, tender, and uncertain Health
of their Prince? Do not they fee France with
their Swords Drawn, ready to Invade them on
all fides? What Friends have they to ftand by
them, if the Emperor hath made Peace with
the Turk (as this weeks Letters fay he hath)
is there not a Fire already Kindled in Germa-
ny, in their Difputes between the Elector of
Mentz and the City of Erford, which with the
other Factions and Partialities reigning in the
Empire, is likely to throw it into a worſe ſtate
than even the War with the Turk, againſt
which all hands went unitedly? If, I fay, to
fum up all thefe Reflections do not awaken
them, and oblige them to turn themſelves o-
therwiſe than they do, to cultivate the King
Our
( 288 )
!
our Master's Friendſhip, it must be conclud-
ed, fome irrefiftable Fate or Judgment from
"Heaven attends that Monarchy, which their
ત્
own skill cannot divert; therefore it would
become your Excellency to awake them the
'beft you can, and if you cannot bring them
to points,in which we can endure no delay, as
the Eſtabliſhing the Comerce free from all
trouble, and that of Tangier, and the good
Ufage of our Fleet; you muſt frankly tell
them you will be gone, and to make this Re-
folution of yours the better believed, you must
make fome ſeeming Preparations for it, what-
• ever it coft you, but not finally execute it till
you have an exprefs leave from hence.
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'In my former I told you how his Majefty
had done, and with what little Succeſs he had
attempted to get the liberty of the Marquefs
d'Eliche, which endeavours he will now again
revive for the Conde de Caftrillo's fake, with all
poffible earnestnefs, which you may affure the
faid Conde of by Meffage, fince you are not to
• Vifit him.
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'My laft told you in what ftate our Difpute
with the Hollanders was, fince which there is
દ્વ no variation on either fide, as to the Refolu-
tions; their Fleet is ready, attending a Wind
only, and fo is ours. On Tuesday at Midnight
his Majefty and Royal Highness took Boat to go
'down to the Hope,to fee the Guinea Fleet fet Sail,
and we are hourly now at Noon, on Thursday,
expecting their happy return, God grant it,and
give us fuccefs in this great Enterprize. What
' is recommended to you with relation there-
to, is only that you poffefs that Court rightly
* of our entring into, and that they are the Ag-
greflors and not we; the contrary of which
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'we
(289)
We hear they labour to perfuade in all places,
and to this effect, my laſt furniſht you with
fome Arguments which you will better im-
prove.
I am glad to find that Coll. Fitz Gerald hath
taken the way of fending his Letters through
your hands. I know not whether I fhall have
time this day to anſwer his two Letters come
in this your laft Pacquet, but I will endea-
vor to do it, tho' my principal Deſpatch to
him will be a Veffel that is now going to Tan-
gier. I must not end this without telling you,
that I like the way of Conveying your laſt
'Letter, and that I will make ufe of it, as I
،
'would be glad you would alſo do, varying it Out of
only fonetimes, and fending at the fame time Cypher.
your great and bulky Packet by the ordinary
'way, which you must take for granted will e-
ver be ſeen in France, but never contefed, and
finding your great Deſpatch, they will feek
no farther.
с
'Since I wrote this, God be thanked his Ma-
jeſty is happily returned. I am with all Truth,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET
Since this was written we received yours of the 7th
in which there was Cypher, but could not be opened
for want of the Key that was then employ'd in this.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 12 Nov. 1664. N. S.
SIR,
S new to add matter of
nothing new to add in matter of Negotia-
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Ince my laft to you of 5 Nov. N. S. I have
tion.
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tion. On Monday laft in the Afternoon, Ifhould
by appointment have had a Conference there-
upon with the Duke of Medina de las Torres, but
in the morning his Excellency fent to excufe
it for that time, upon notice then arrived of
the Death of his Kinſman the Duke of Meding
Sidonia, which ebliged him to the Offices which
thofe Cafes require.
The manner of this Dukes Death (like his
Quality) was extraordinary, his Excellency was
for his Diverfion and Recreation, being as then
in good Health, to all outward appearance, and
not much stricken in years, at a Town of his
own, not far from Valladolid, where you know
his conftant appointed Abode was; in that
place of Recreation his Excellency had fome
number of Dogs, newly given him, the which,
looking our of his Windows, he happened to
fee worrying a poor Woman. They neither
kill'd nor maim'd her, but the Duke's Appre-
henfion was fo great they would do the one
or the other, that violently crying out from
the place where he was unto his People to pre-
vent it, he fell into a fuddain Ecftacy; from
that into a deep Melancholly, and from that in-
to a Feaver, which defpatch'd him before his
Phyſicians could come from Valladolid, ſo there-
by verifying in his particular the Sirname of his
Family, de puro bueno murio.
I underſtand (you, I believe, knowing cer-
tainly whether it be fo or no) that the new
Duke his Son, may now live at St. Lucar, In
virtue of his Marriage Articles with the Daugh-
ter of Don Lewis de Haro; which I do heartily'
wifh, for the fingular Obligation which Eng-
lifh-men have ever had to dehre the profperity
of
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of that Illuftrious Family, and now more than
ever heretofore.
Upon the Nov. N. S. I fent my Secretary
in good Equipage, to the Duke of Avero to
Congratulate from me his Arrival in this
Court, and to let his Excellency know I would
do it in Perfon very fpeedily, tendering him
withal, what Service fhould lie in my power,
and all this by ſpecial and written Command
of the King my Mafter; wherewith alſo I had
long before acquainted the Dukes Irish Chap-
lain, whom you know, fhewing to him, as in
confidence, that very Inftruction which con-
cerns the Duke and his Sifter. The Mellage
being carry'd in by a Page, anfwer was re-
turned, that his Excellency was let Blood that Af-
ternoon, and therefore defired to be cxcufed for not
receiving my faid Secretary. From that time
to this I have not heard from him, upon which
the moft charitable Conftruction I can make,and
indeed I think the trueft is, that being com-
petently warm in Caftile,he is afraid of the very
Thadow of Tampering with any that may feem
unto the Jealoufie of this Court, to relifh of
Portugal.
Upon the 4th Nov. N. 5. I Vifited the Em-
peror's Ambaſſador, to give his Excellency the
Parabien of the Emperor's Peace with the Turk,
upon this fuppofition that it muſt needs have
been on good Terms to his Cefarean Majefty
and confequently to Chriftendom, becauſe it
was the Daughter of Victory.
Upon the 6th Nov. N. S. I Vifited the Ba-
ron de Batavile, who exprefs'd himfelf very.
well Affected to our Royal Mafter, and alfo to'
the English Nation, without any exception to
the general Rule.
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One paffage from him I muft needs acquaint
you with, which I do believe he did not intend
under the Seal of Secrecy; he ſaid, a curious
Impertinent had asked him, whether I had not
brought him fome Prefent from the King our Mafter,
in Supplement of a Jewel of course, which by reaſon
of his abrupt difmiſſion was omitted to be given him
by his Majesty, at the Barons departure from Eng-
land; whereunto he had answered not; for that if
it had been fo, be would not have concealed it, but
boasted thereof, as an Evidence that he was not fent
away in his Majefties inward Difpleafure, but only
for Complement of State to the French, in refpect
only of that Contest with Monfieur de Straid's
Coach upon Tower-Hill, in which my Master bad
reafon not to wed a Quarrel,which his Mafter deem'd
it not ſeaſonable to avow.
Upon the 7 Nov. N. S. I gave the King,
Queen, Prince, and Emprefs, the Para Bien of
the Prince' Birth-day.
The day itſelf was the precedent, and then
it was that I defired Audience to that end, by
the Mafter of the Ceremonies, but it was appoint-
ed me, as I have faid, to avoid Concurrence
with others, as I do believe, according either
to the old or new Stile of this Court; the which
I have formerly mentioned.
However for the English Ambaffador alone,
as might be fuppofed, all the Royal Perfons put
themſelves de gala, both as to Apparel and Hu-
mour.
True it is, to make up the Jollity enough for
two days at leaſt, there met in one, and the
Para bien was accordingly both from the other
Ambaffadors the day before, and from me then,
the Peace of Germany, and the Princes Birth-
day, and both were very well taken.
Upon
(293)
Upon the 10 Nov. N. S. I fent my Secreta-
ry, well accompanied, to Caramanchel, with the
beft Complement at adventure I could make
to a Minifter from the Duke of Savoy, there
lately arrived, having not as then been able to
inform my ſelf of more than his Perfonal Qua-
lity, which is, that he is Conte de la trenita Mae-
ftro de Campo General y Governador de la Cuidad de
Mondoui y Ju Provincia fu appellide de Cafa de
Cofta.
His Excellency (for fo my Meffage treated
him in refpect of his faid Perfonal Qualifica-
tions, and not of the Character of his Miniftry,
whatever the fame fhould fall out to be, higher
or lower, had fent a Gentleman of his to me
before, who not finding me at home, left not
from whom he came, whereby I become either
the first or second fender, as I will my felf;
this being a new Criticiſm I am forced to ſtudy
in my elder years.
I underſtand fince, that he comes under the
Character of Ambaffador Extraordinary; yet
with this poſitive Inftruction (at leaſt ſo inti-
mated) that, if he be not admitted as from a
Crowned Head, he must return without ap-
pearing in this Court, where he hath been
more than once privately, to pufh his pre-
tence.
That this Court hath no fort of Inclination
thereunto at this time, is very clear, efpeci-
ally confidering it could not be brought there-
unto, when Savoy was Marry'd to an Infanta of
Spain; but there enters the point, whether the
World muft not fee,that it fhall avail Savoy more,
even in Spain, to be Allyed with France, than
with Spain it felf. This Demonftration, among
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other
294)
other of the like nature, the French Ambaſſador
here feems to have upon the Anvil, and the
fuccefs thereof, added to other of the like na-
ture, will help to fhew the prefent temper of
the Spanish Court.
I underſtand all things are at prefent very
well at Tangier, and for the future rather like-
ly to be better than worſe, by ſomewhat of
more probability than lately, of a Peace with
Gayland, whereof you may have more in the
inclofed from the Governour; and by their
Free Comerce already with Andaluzia, which
hath been now Proclaimed; as likewife the
Liberty of thoſe of that Garifon who were
Impriſoned and Menaced with Death, and
Baniſhment to Oran, &c. for going about to
carry Materials thither, perfected.
1
The Prifoners upon account of the Weft-
Indies, are actually Releafed likewife.
The laft News of Capt. Allin's Fleet was from
Alicant, 10th Nov. that by fome fmall English"
Ships from Denia, they underflood they were
in Chafe after 5 Argier Men of War, and had
taken from thema French Bark, their Prize, La-
den with Wheat, and had 36 Moors Aboard
her; but what fuccefs they have ince had in
the purfuit of their Ships was not then
known there.
As dead à time as it is of the year, for
Feats of War, the Weather howfoever not be-
ing bad, the Portuguezes have very lately made
a fhift, not without a fratagem, to cut off
and take 4 or 500 of the beſt Horſe, with
fveral and much Reputed Officers of Bada-
jos; the particulars I will endeavour to get
for another opportunity of writing, in the
interim
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interim, with much fincerity of Affection, I
remain
Your moft Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW,
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, O&tob. 20. 1664,
Since
Ince Mr. Secretaries laft to your Excellen-
cy of the 13th, hath nothing occurred at
home material for you to know. My Lord
of Sandwich and Sir John Lawſon are here, at-
tending his Majefty in frequent Confultations
upon our Sea Affairs, which now wholly takes
us up. Prince Rupert in the mean time waiting
the Refult thereof, and what he is to do up-
on the Alarm Sir John Lawfen hath given us,
by his ftrong Jealoufie and Prefumption that
De Ruyter is gone for Guinea; and becauſe it is
very probable that this may produce new Infiru-
Etions to Capt, Allen and our Fleet on the Coast of Out
Spain, Mr.Secretary going out of Town for a day, Cypher
commanded me to advise your Excellency to prepare
Some speedy way and means whereby to fend to cur
faid Fleet any Packet on the shortest warning, that
may be sent to you from hence to that end; in order
whereunto you will find it requifite to gain punétus
and conftant Information (as is poffible) of their mo-
tion from time to time. And I was farther bid to
tell your Excellency, that fince the Spaniards do
with ſo much ſcruple and tenderneſs hearken to you
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Overtures
of
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Overtures concerning the Indies, and that they are
not yet fo fenfible (as in reafon they ought) that the
Friendship we offer deferves much more Compliance
than they seem to promife. It is judged fit here,that
on occafions of Difcourfe on that Subject hereafter,
that you forbear to prefs or infift on it too earnestly on
our part, fuffering rather the offers and propofition to
come from them. Touching which I prefume
Mr. Secretary will explain himſelf more fully
to you by the next.
Whilst I am writing this, I received a Packet
from your Excellency to Mr. Secretary, con-
taining only three Copies of Letters to you
from Sir John Lawfon, Mr, Croone,and Mr. Con-
ful Marften, but no Letter from your felf. I
am
My Lord, Your, &c.
1
W. GODOLPHIN
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
HAL
Paris Octob. 28. 1664. N. S.
Aft and my own Indifpofition, will make
this a very fhort Letter. It is to accom-
pany this Packet to your Excellency, which I
have juft now received: Your Excellency will
fee it is to carry Orders to Capt. Allen, to go
immediately for Guinea,after de Ruyter, of whofe
Fleet going that way I gave notice into Eng-
land fix weeks fince, then I am fure it would
have been time enough to have prevented all
the
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the miſchief that can be done by him; what
it will do I know not. I am with all Re-
ſpect,
My Lord, &c,
HOLLES.
To the Lord Amballador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Mr.
Whitehall, Octob. 13. 1664.
Y laft to your Excellency was as long as
this ſhall be ſhort, not having time to
make anſwer to fo much as yours of the 17
Sept. N. S. which I told you arrived whilft
our Cypher was employ'd.
Sir John Lawfon is fafely arrived, and brings
with him a confident perfuafion, that de Ruyter
is gone for Guinea, which may beget fome va-
riation in our Councils here, concerning the
ſending of Prince Rupert, who hath not yet had
weather to go out of the Downs.
Since my laſt Don Patricio Muledy was with
me, not ready yet with his Paper Preparatory,
to which he came to defire me to found his
Majefties mind, whether he would admit of
Propofitions concerning his parting with Tan-
gier and Jamaica, for a valuable Confideration?
The fum of my Anfwer was, he would either
by fuch an Overture make his Majefty very
angry or very merry. This was four days ago,
fince which time I have not heard from him,
neither
:
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neither have I any thing to add, but my con-
ftant Profeſſion of being with all Truth and
Affection,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
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I
To the Lord Ambaffador Holles.
Madrid Thurſday 20 Nov. 1664, N. S.
My Lord,
Have received your Excellencies of the
28 Octub. with the inclofed Packet from
England (whither I defire your Excellencies
Addrefs of this for Mr. Secretary Bennet) by
Mr. Augier, who arrived here upon Tuesday
laft about Noon. I fhall be glad to underſtand
by your Excellencies next Letter, that the In-
diſpoſition you had at the writing of the laft
did not long continue,
My laft News of Capt. Allen was of the 10th
Inftant from Alicant, which faid, that fome fmall
Engliſh Ships, arrived there from Denia, report,
that he with his Fleet was in chafe of 5 rgier
Men of War, and had taken from them a
French Bark, their Prize, laden with Wheat,
and had 36 Moors on Board her; but what
fuccefs he hath fince had, in purfuit of their
Ships, was not then known there.
As dead a time as it is of the year for Feats
of War, the weather however not being bad,
the Portugueſes have very lately made a ſhift,not
without a ftratagem, to cut off and take 4 or
500
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500 of the beſt Horfe, with feveral General and
much Reputed Officers of Bajadoz; the parti-
culars I have not yet obtained.
A Ship is lately arrived at Tangier, in a very
few days from England; in her, one Mr. John
Bland, Merchant.
Upon Saturday the 15th Inftant, N. S. the
French Ambaffador, after an interval of about
three Months fince I paid him his firft Vifit
(frequent Vifits of Complement being not u
fual in this Court at leaft) began a fecond turn
between us.
The Marquefs de Carecena, and the Conde de
Pennaranda, are newly arrived in this Court,
with great expectations what new matter may
happen there.pon, in State or Court.
His Majefties fervite not requiring that Mr.
Augier fhould make fo much haft back, as he
did hither (tho' he expreft himſelf to me as
willing to the one as the other) I adviſed him
to fpare himſelf for good Company, namely,
Mr. Carteret, Son and Heir to Mr. Vice-Cham-
berlain, who is going for Paris the next week,
and thence for England, and that in the inte-
rim he would ſee the Efcurial whither he is
gone this day) with what elfe may deferve
his curiofity here.
By him I fhall prefume to be very large to
your Excellency, and for the prefent crave
leave to reft
My Lord, Your, &C.
RICHARD FANSHAW.
To
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:
To the Lord Ambaffador Holles.
Madrid, Monday the 24th November, 1664. N.S
My Lord,
Mbeing upon his departure to your Ex-
R. Augier (your Excellencies Exprefs)
cellency, fuffering himfelf to be charged with
feveral large Packets from me to England, I
do moft humbly recommend them to your Ex-
cellencies farther Favour, for their final Con-
veyance, and render your Excellency a thou
fand humble Thanks for the choice of him in
this occafion, whofe diligence hither has well
anfwered it, and no lefs it would have been
back, had his Majefties Service required the
one as much as it did the other, as I advertifed
your Excellency before by the Ordinary. But
telling him that the prefent Deſpatches re-
quire more fafety in their Conveyance, than
fpeed (provided the latter be competent) and
he applying himſelf accordingly, as to the firft,
I cannot wish them in better hands. For what
I have more than this, I refer your Excellency
to other Letters from
My Lord, &c.
R. FANSHAW,
With this goes inclofed for your Fxcellency,
my Pallages with the Venetian Amballador
whereof I do not wifh any ufe fhould be made,
unleſs it ſhould be neceflary for my Juftification
Abroad
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Abroad (at Home it doth not need) againſt a-
ny Tax he may happen to have laid upon my
Carriage therein; or in order to the procure-
ing me fuch a Command from his Majefty, up-
on Addreſs from Venice, or otherwife, as may
inable me to refume with his Succeffor thoſe
Correfpondencies which have always till now
been obferved between English and Venetians.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
Hague the 20th Octob. 1664. O, S.
Right Honourable,
WE
E have News by a Ship come to Amfter-
dam, that New Amsterdam, and all New
Netherland, is for certain furrendred to Coll.
Nichols; Erford is furrendred to the Confederate
Troops, and they are faid to be marched to
Helderftin, to reduce that for the Elector of Co-
logn, and they ſpeak alfo of other Towns that
fhall follow the fame Fate.
The noise of his Majefties great Preparations,
which came by the laft Poft, doth mightily
nettle them here; they did not imagine that
his Majefty would have pur on fo far. Opdans
is ftill in Goree, and Van Campen being come be-
fore the Harbour with the Ships for Guinea,
out of the Texel, is ordered to come in alfo and
ride byOpdam,for fear,as it is faid, of foul wea-
ther; and that the wind that will carry Opdam
out,will carry him out alfo.They begin ftrongly
to apprehend that his Majefty will endeavour to
oppoſe them in the Channel,whereupon it hath
been propoſed to the Admiralties, whether they
might
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might not paſs round about by Scotland, but
they have returned for anfwer, that that is im-
poffible at this ſeaſon of the year.
The Eftates of Holland are ftill together, but
cannot yet agree which way to fupply them-
felves with Moneys.
Sir John Lawfon hath fill'd them at London
with apprehenfions that de Ruyter is gone to
Guinea; but put not your ſelf in pain thereat.
I have had but one from you: I write to you
twice every week. I am
Your Excellencies, &c.
G. DOWNING,
Out of
Cypher.
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Mỹ
Whitehall Octob. 24. 1664-
Y being out of Town the laſt Poſt-day
hindred me from writing to your Ex-
cellency; fince when I have received three Let-
ters from you, of 1, 2, and 8 Octob. N. S. one
of them a large one in Cypher,containing your
late Conference with the Duke of Medina de las
Torres, "wherein they have ſpoken fo plainly
"as to their indifference of coming up to
<<
any of thoſe things which we expected from
"them, that the King bid me tell you, he
"would have you as plainly declare the fame
66
on his part, telling them how your work is at
હૂંડ an end there, and that you have nothing more
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66
"to propofe,andthat you will confequently pre-
pare your felf to be gone, but not execute
the fame indeed, till you have more exprefs
Orders for it from hence, &c.
This is the Packet for which we laft week
beſpoke of you a fpeedy and careful Meffenger,
containing Orders to Capt. Allen, Comman-
der of his Majefties Fleet in thofe Seas; and be-
caufe we have no certainty whereabouts he
may be, there are Duplicates of his Orders, to
be fent with the fame care and fpeed to Cadiz,
Alicant, and Malaga, and to be recommended
accordingly to the Confuls in thoſe Ports, by
your Excellencies fpecial Letters.
Prince Rupert is ftill in Portsmouth Road, nei-
ther is the Dutch Guinea Fleet yet come forth;
if they delay it fome few days longer, not-
withſtanding their great number and strength,
we fhall be in a condition of looking them in
the face; and his Royal Highnefs declaring, as
he doth, that he will Embark himſelf, attend-
ed with all the prime young Nobility, moſt of
which have already offer'd theinfelves to ferve
as Volunteers under him, we are perfuaded
the Dutch will ſcarce find mettle enough to op-
pofe us.
You have long before this the affurance of
the Peace between the Emperor and the Grand
Seignior, and of the appearances of new Trou-
bles in the Bowels of the Empire, by taking
of Erford by the French. From France it is as
confidently affirm'd, that the Peace is made be-
tween Portugal and Spain, which we can give
no credit to, becauſe your Letters do not only
not fay it, but plainly contradict it. I am,
with much Affection, My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET
POST-
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Out of
Cypher.
POSTSCRIPT.
Confidering how near we are to a Breach
with the Dutch, it will not be amiſs that you
take notice thereof to the Merchants, to the
end they may beware how they expoſe them,
eſpecially if you fhould hear of any difference
between us here, or that any breach fhould
happen there.
Out of
SIR,
TH
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Friday 4 Nov. 1664. O. S.
His day hath been with me Father Pa-
trick O Duffy, the Irish Francifcan, whom
Cypher. you know: he is lately returned from Rome,
with a new Title of Definidor of his Order, a
place (as I am told) of great Eminence.
1
His Errand to me was from the Duke of Me-
dina de las Torres, upon the matter of my laft
Conference with his Excellency on the 3 Nov.
N. S. and of my Propofals and Letter to his
Excellency of 4 Nov. N. S. in purfuance of
the fame.
Several Propofitions he faid he had from the
Duke, the firit as followeth, viz.
If the King of England ſhall perſiſt to aid Por-
tugal, there must be no Peace between England
and Spain. What is your Excellencies Anſwer
to this?
I defire
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I defired the Fryer, in order thereunto, to
explain what was meant by aiding Portugal ?
He faid, his Majefty's affifting his Brother-in-
Law, for the maintaining himſelf in his pre-
tence of whatſoever Sovereign Title, or Sove-
reign Poffeffion, within the largeſt circumfe-
rence of Spain, comprehending Portugal, and
all other the Kingdoms therein; but excluded
not hopes of the Duke of Bragancas remaining
with Royal Dominions, and Titles too, elfe-
where, upon his Submiffion, Dereliction at
Home, and the Mediation of the King our
Maſter on his behalf with his Catholick Ma-
jefty.
I then demanded of the Fryer what was
meant by no Peace? Who faid, that (queftion-
lefs) no Peace, was War.
Upon thisl paufed a good ſpace, until he told
me that if I were not ready with a prefent An-
fwer,it might be a day or two hence,whereunto
I reply'd, I was not ſtudying what (being fuf-
ficiently Inftructed in that particular under my
Maſter's Hand) but how to anfwer; and was
now refolved of that likewife: Namely, that
if he would give me his Propofition in Wri-
ting, I would in like manner give him, Sub-
fcribed, my Anſwer thereupon immediate-
ly.
He faid for That he had no Order, but
would carry the particular Anfwer back by
word of Mouth, as he had brought the Propo-
fition. The which nevertheless (to fhew he
made it not without Authority) he repeated
diftinctly out of a Paper, where I perceived
there were many other particulars, all which,
he faid, was not to be read to me; and I, af-
ter this, thought it needlefs to fearch into any.
X
Wher
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When I faw there was no remedy, I gave
him by word of mouth, the anſwer follow-
ing.
As the Crown of England did never difoblige
his Catholick Majefty by concurring with
Arms, or Counfels, to fet up another King in
Portugal, fo the prefent King of England, my
Mafter, having now married into the unque-
ftionable Royal Blood of Portugal, however
the immediate Title to the Kingdom it felfis
queftioned by Arms, after above 20 years Pof-
feffion, and a Defcent caft, will not, through
apprehenfion of this unlook'd for Propofition,
at the coſt of his own Honour, difclaim
defending his Brother-in-Law, only becauſe
his Brother-in-Law will not diſclaim a
Crown whereof he ftands poffefs'd as aforefaid,
leaving that main Point in difference to his
proper Confcience and Judgment, upon fuch
Reaſons, or Dangers, as may be laid before
him by fuch as it concerns, to work him to
fo high a Pitch of Self-denial. Adding, that
in cafe his Catholick Majeſty ſhould, upon re-
port of this Anfwer in my Mafter's Name, ad-
here to his Refolution by this Propofition fig-
nified, none was fo fit to be fent with the
News to the King my Maſter, as my felf,
whofe abfence this Court might as freely com-
mand, as it did, when time was, that of my
Lord Cottington, and my now Lord Chancellor
of England, his Majefties laft Amballadors therein.
Thus far, as we were Commitlionated on
both fides.
Then (cooling a little, and falling to Reaſo-·
nings, as in our Perſonal Capacities, in the
quality of Well-wishers to a good Underſtand-
ing between the two Crowns of England and
Spain
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Spain, whatever difficulties offered themfelves
therein) but why (faid the Frver) fhould not
the King our Mafter, as a Friend, perfuade
his Brother-in-Law to quit Portugal upon fuch
Princely or Royal Conveniences, elfewhere to
be enjoy'd peaceably, as his Majefties Media-
tion may procure for him.
I defired him to lay his hand upon his Heart,
and then tell me ingenuoully, Whether he
thought that expedient at all practicable at this
time, with Portugal, I(who fhould know fome-
thing of that Nation, and have my felf feen
them in Extremity enough (they knowing at
the fame time, I had the Powers from my Ma-
fter, to mediate on their behalf, which now I
have) being for my own part clearly of opi-
nion, that altho both appear to me very dif-
ficult, yet of the too, it would be more pofli-
ble for their Enemies to force them, than for
their Friends to perfuade them thereunto, as
believing of themſelves no Men more, and in
Miracles none fo much, when their own
Strength, and all human Help from abroad,
fhould in appearance fail them, as in the Peace
of France excluding them, it did, and at feve-
ral other times it hath done: But then, faid
he, after this fair offer rejected, the King our
Mafter might in Honour leave them to ther-
felves. I replied, there he went to faft, but
thus far in general I could undertake our Ma-
fter would come to meet his Catholick Majefty
in this motion, that if upon an Overture of
a Peace between Caftile and Portugal, or of a
Truce, (becaufe fuch may not prejudicate his
Catholick Majefties reputed Right to the fame,
and for more Decency to be concluded, as be-
tween
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tween our Maſter and the Catholick King,)
Portugal fhall refufe to confent unto what is
reaſonable, in ſuch caſe the King our Mafter
will declare, that he fhall hold himſelf no far-
ther obliged to give any alliftance to it for the
time to come, not intending or pretending
thereby, to affume or comprife within the Um-
perage of his Britanick Majefty, the forefaid
main differences, which neither the Keys of
Rome, nor the Sword of Spain have been able
to compoſe or decide in fo many years: Far-
ther, if upon fuch overture of Mediation, Por-
tugal as puft up with hopes (vain, or other-
wife) of inlarging it felf upon this Crown,
by reaſon of future Contingencies, or promi-
fed Affiftances, provided they bide the War
out for a while with indifferent fucceffes, or
tolerable loffes on their part, or upon whate-
ver other pretext, fhould refufe all manner of
Terms of Accommodatton (a thing by me
particularly very pollible (if not rational)
to be fuppofed) that in this cafe likewife our
Mafter the King of England (I was confident)
would hold himſelf abfolved from their Affi-
ftance; the leaſt of theſe, and whatever other
inducements to a Neutrality, being more than
ever his Catholick Majefty would liſten to,
with reference to the Emperor, and the Ca-
tholick League, in the cafe of the Palat nate,
tho' wrefted from the undoubted Proprietor
thereof, as to the Right of Blood, by auarice
of the Spanish Arms; and altho' the Infanta of
Spain fhould have hap'ned to be Marry'd to the
Crown of England, the which I made plainly
out to the Father: I then farther arguing for
fome Accommodation or other with Portu-
gal,
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1
gal, not as any poſitive part of my Inftructions,
but as that without which there could be no
fuch strict and ufcful League (however firm
Peace and Comerce) between England and Spain,
as the King my Mafter is defirous thereof, and
(in fuch Cafe) ready for. The Fryer ask'd me,
why I faid, even in point of prudence. For that
Spain,if imbroiled ftill within it felf,and if more-
over invaded from Abroad, or Abroad, I con-
ceived (under favour) would pull down a fide,
knowing it (I confefled) ill Manners, as well
as foul Play, for Perfons difinherited to teach
in another Man's Game, and yet Abettors may
do it; fuch is any that fhould join in League
with another. He faid Spain had no Enemy
but Portugal; I anfwer'd, if it neither fufpected
nor expected any other, I admitted it would
need no Friend neither but it felf: He return'd,
what Enemy could it have confiderable to the
Power and Greatnefs of Spain? I named a Coun-
try not far off; that, faid he, is a meer Scar-
Crow: I (mov'd, I muſt confeſs, to find our
beſt Argumentum ad Homines eluded, by his de-
fpifing in words an eminent and an iminent
Danger, the which their Actions fpeak them
more apprehenfive of than well becomes them,
unless it were to gain fo much time only as
fhould be abfolutely neceffary for the com-
pounding a powerful Antidote, as that which
I intimated) reply'd with a flash of Choler,
but the English are no Crows; for our Mafter
doth not permit the Ambaffador of that Coun-
try I have mentioned, to give him Laws in his
Court, whereby with a high hand to oblige
his Majefty to reverfe (to the flighting of his
Friends) Orders which he had but very lately
made: The Fryer faid, he understood me not;
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and
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and I believe he did not, but thoſe will to whom
he fhall make the Report.
In procefs of Diſcourſe, he asked me why
(in cafe that would ferve the turn) an Article
might not run, difcharging to the World his
Majefties affifting of Portugal, yet his doing it
underhand to be connived at by Spain, as in
the Cafe of the French, who are under the like
Covenant. To this project (apprehending it
aimed at faving the King of Spain's Honour,
at the expence of our Maſters) I anfwer'd, I
would never willingly promote or confent to
any Article which I thought fhould not be as
clear as day, and which I did not hope and
believe would be inviolably obferved both by
the Spaniards and by us: Himfelf foon made a
fairer Conftruction of that Query, and truly,
I think, more proportionable to the principal
intent thereof, namely, that ftolen and diſclai-
med Succours will never in reafon be fo great,
as open and avowed ones will be: The which
I granted, but withal, that the former fort (in
my Confcience) would be great enough to keep
the Game on foot, wafted and tired in fuch
manner, as a third, who gapes for it, may come
to feize both, and the rather, becauſe in the
Portugal Army a confiderable Party (in Soldier-
fhip, if not in number) and in this, the whole
upon the matter) doth,and will ever be like to
confift of Foreigners.
More things the Fryer urged, and more I re-
ply'd, both the one and the other all to the fame
effe&t; he valuing the prefent condition of
Spain, in reference to the Conqueft of Portu-
gal, and to the balancing likewife the other
Power I had mentioned, upon the late Peace
of
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of the Emperor with the Turk; and I availing
my felf, in my diffenting Opinion, of thoſe
Reaſons which I had then newly learned out of
yours of the 6th paft,and therefore fuperfluous
to be here repeated
His final Conclufion was, (as indeed his con-
ſtant Poſition throughout our whole Conference
had been) that his Catholick Majefty, and that
with very much reafon (faid he) in point of Ho-
nour, will hazard the whole rest of his Monarchy,
rather than not to atchieve the Conqueft or Ren-
dition of Portugal.
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAVV.
POSTSCRIPT.
Tuesday 18 November, 1664. N. S.
TH
His Day conferring with the Duke him-
felf, at his Quarter in the Palace; his firſt
word (fmiling) was, Whether I came better con-
ditioned than I was the other day? I anfwered,
that at all times, when at the hotteft, I was eco-
ler than my Inftructions, and that at that time, the
Fryer had declared no less than War at first dash;
he Duke replied, he meant it not by that Confe-
rence with the Father,of which he had had no report
yet. True it was, the Father had been with
him to make it, but he, the Duke, being then
indifpofed, had referred it to another time, and
ever fince the Father himſelf had been fick.
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Then
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Then I repeated to the Duke the Fryers Pro-
pofition, and my Anfwer, in fuch manner as
the fame are above related.
His Excellency anſwered, the good man`might
ufe that fort of mistaken Rhetorick out of a good
mind too towards both parties, but affured me he
had no Warrant for it, nor in writing for any
thing at all, admiring what Paper he ſhould
make ufe of in that occafion; yet, purſuing
our Diſcourſe, I found not the Duke (the me-
nace only excepted) to relent in the leaft, as to
any point which the Fryer had inſiſted upon,
and fome high ones his Excellency added,
namely, the reftitution of Jamaica upon terms
of Recompence, the which, he faid, his Catho-
lick Majefty hath not only clear ground of
Juftice, but fome of Hope likewiſe to expect;
for that Hollands Minifters had affirm'd unto
him, that it had at fome time been offered to
the States for a fum of Money; a thing (I told
his Excellency) by me abfolutely incredible,
whether as to Holland, in the time paft, or to
Spain it felf in the future.Sure I was(for I abhor-
red to render my felf for a time only, accep-
table to this Court, by cafting out any vain
hopes whatfoever) I had no power to treat of
any fuch matter. The Duke faid, he knew it,
but that I might have. I replied, impofi-
ble.
A fecond higher than that (and indeed com-
prehending it) was ftarted; in the difcuffion
whereof the Duke did plainly declare, that ac-
cording to all the Treaties between the
Crowns of Spain and England, each relative to
the other, from the laft to the firft, which he
faid fhould be endeavoured to be found out;
we have no Peace with them in the left-Indies,
and
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and yet that they ought to have it there with
us, whofe very Planting there is a breach on
our parts. Whereunto I made no reply, but
with hands lifted up. I fuppofe before this day
his Majeſty hath both heard and read the fame
Doctrin in England, from Don Patricio Omuledei,
Et qual no me dexara mantir..
As to Portugal, the Duke of Medina de las
Torres ask'd me,why theDuke of Braganca might
not think himſelf well, at leaft the King of
England, that he had done well for him, if by
his Majefties Mediation (not elfe to be effected
neither) he might, for refigning here, have
confiderable Dominions elſewhere?
To this I answered,in the firft place,I thought
the Kingdom of Portugal it felf would, out of
a National oppofition, and to have always a
King of their own Nation to Govern them,
render that Propofition altogether unpractica-
ble. The Duke faid, no; for that it had been
heretofore offered (tho' never liftned to) to
quit Portugal, remaining with the Kingdom of
Algarve only.
In the fecond place, I replied, with another
Queſtion, whether by Dominions elfewhere was
intended any which that Prince hath not at
this time? The Duke anſwered, he hath now
nothing. Aftrong Argument (I confeſs) when
proved, to draw the King of Portugal to be con-
tented with a little.
Finding all things treated and difcourfed at
this Majeftical rate (tho' with a mixture of
tranſcendent Perfonal Civilities, very proper
both to the Nature and Breeding of this Duke,
as is well known at Home and Abroad) I con-
cluded the Conference with telling the Duke,
I now plainly felt my felf going for England.
Your
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Your Excellency (faid he) threatens us with
that: No, faid I, but my Mafter doth more
than threaten me with it. From that word of
the Duke I infer, either that this Court what-
ever Mien I make thereof, by command from
my Mafter) believes nothing of the English Am-
baſſador's leaving it in haft, or elfe cares little
whether he doth leave it or no. Therefore to
confirm the reality, and on the other hand to
be even with them, as to the indifferency, I
fhall now plainly declare the fame Indifferency
on his Majefties part, telling the Duke of
Medina de las Torres (as I have already began to
do) that my work is at an end here,and that I
have nothing more to propofe, but will confe-
quently prepare my felf to be gone (as your
laſt Letter of the 24th of the laft, by my Lord
Holles's Express doth Inftruct me; and in pur-
fuance thereof (as I am formerly inftructed by
yours of the 6,in a way the better to create inthis
Court a belief of that reſolution of mine, in cafe
had it been then declared, which it was to be, if
the conditions on their part, therein nominated,
had not been performed) I fhall forthwith put
in hand fuch vifible Preparations for my Jour-
ney as I fhall find neceffary for that end, whate-
ver it cost me to do or to undo again, in caſe
this matter fhould require my ftay, which I
prefume will not now be, after fo much threat-
ning them (as the Duke calls it) with my de-
parture, unleſs upon fome very weighty E-
mergency, and more than verbal compliance on
their part; attending in fuch poſture before I
execute his Majefties final and more exprefs Or-
ders, in complement of both thofe already men-
tioned.
:
I do
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I do confefs, when on the one fide I confider
that when this laſt pofitive Order for me to de-
clare myſelf in this manner was written, his
Majefty could not know how much of the
Conditions of the first have been comply'd with
by his Catholick Majefty, namely, Proclama-
tion of Free Trade with Tangier, Releaſe of the
English Priſoners relating to it, as alſo thoſe
taken in the West-Indies, (theſe particulars effe-
Atively) alfo Free Prattick to his Majefties Ships;
as much as newly repeated Orders, with larger
Expreffions in our Favour, will amount to. Fi-
nally as to the eſtabliſhing the Comerce in ge-
neral, free from all trouble, and moreover with
much more advantages to us than ever hitherto
(however fhort of my prelent demands) with
very fair hopes caft forth.
On the other fide, when I confider how ſmall
and revokable a part thoſe performances are of
the wider Differences which by Don Patricio O-
muledei's expreffes to you there,and the Duke de
Medina de las Torres his to me here, have comė
to height fince the writing of that last Order
alfo, and what Refolutions the knowledge of
both have, or will upon recepit hereof produce
in his Majefty, to the forcing him, by the Spa-
niards either wilful or negligent lofs of time and
opportunity, how much foever againſt the
grain of his proper Maxims and Difpofition,
upon new and very different Councils, Leagues,
Friendships, and Interefts, or at leaſt upon re-
ferving himself, in a perfect Freedom and Ca-
pacity, for the fame (together with other Ar-
guments and Conjectures pro and con) I find
my felf at a great ftand in the matter, and in-
deed, the moft to feek that ever I was fince I
was born, relying at all times very little upon
my
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1
my own judgment,and at all times very exceed-
ing fcrupulous not to offend or miſtake his Ma
jefty in the leaft.
In this Dilemma the neareſt medium I have
been able to imagine, is, the inclofed Draught
of a Letter to the Duke, which yet, whether
I ſhould ſend or no to his Excellency, I am not
able to come to a refolution within my felf,
but must refer it to fomething more of time,to
do thereafter as I may be farther prefs'd by
doubts arifing from hence,or farther enlightned
by fuch defpatches from home as may be now
upon the way to me, after knowledge of the
latter Carriage of this Court, both better and
worſe, in reference to England.
Yours, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
Second Poftfcript, Saturday the 22 Nov. 1664.
N. S.
U
Pon fecond thoughts, I am already refol-
ved to think o more of fending any
fuch Letter to the Duke of Medina de las Torres,
as is above-mentioned to be herewith inclo-
fed, unleſs in cafe only of having more clear
ground for it out of England than yet I have.
What I intended to fend was, that my Order
for leaving this Court (tho' in truth indefinite,
as to the time, as well as relative to farther Or-
der this circumftance to be fure, being to have
been no part of my Letter to the Duke) is to
Commence my Journy in the beginning of March
and
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and not before; Treating and Concluding in
the mean time with him whatfoever matter
within my Commiffions and Inftructions his
Excellency would come up to, by Propofitions
moving from limfelf, for that I was to make
no more on my Master's part than what I had
already done, and what could not be defpatch-
ed within that term, becauſe of prefent diffi
culties, if in themſelves not invincible, to be
left for future Negotiation, either in England or
here, by the fucceeding Minifters.
But finally cafting away this Imagination, I
judged it fafer to hold me clofe to the Letter of
my Orders; for the Reaſons before ponder 'd:
As firft, not being able to collect, with any ra-
tional certainty, whether his Majefty (fo long
trifled with is ftill at the liberty he was when
he imployed me hither; to conclude upon
the whole matter, in cafe Spain fhould come up
to it.
And fecondly, Spain perfifting, as moft pro-
bably it will, to confine the prefent Treaty to
the matter of the old, with fome farther Ar-
ticles in favour of Trade,the obfervance where-
of afterwards fhall be no otherwife than Spain
it felf will; and, as to Portugal, at the moſt on-
ly conniving at his Majefties fecret Affiftance
thereof. Finally, the matter of the Indies, un-
der a difèqual Interpretation, more plainly a-
vowed at this time than ever I thought it would
have been.
Whether his Majefty, fince the Spaniards have
thus far difcovered themſelves, will now confent
to a new Peace,in virtue of this Treaty,whereby
to bind his hands fafter, and yet not fill them
fuller; or rather chute to let it hang in the man-
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ner it doth, upon the old Hinges, until there
hall be a better opportunity to renew it, tho'
they pretend, that already done by you here,
fince his Majefties Reftauration; fo that all I find
my felf capacitated to do, is, to tell the Duke
I will till farther Orders, de bene effe, as long as
I am only preparing to go, receive any Propo-
fitions he pleaſes to give me; alfo to Treat up-
on them, and upon thofe I formerly gave his
Excellency, as to Comerce, but can undertake
no farther.
If his Majefty fhall think fit, revoking me,
however not to be without a Publick Mini-
fter in this Court, as long as his Catholick Ma-
jefty fhall have one in England, and yet to cry
quits with Spain for what is already paft (tho'
they ſhould mend it to Morrow) in giving you
a Reſident there when an Ambaſſador was pro-
miſed; that my Succeffor fhould be a Reſident
only. In fuch cafe I do moft humbly Requeft
you, to tender from me, with all dutiful Sub-
milion, unto his Majefties Confideration, my
Secretary both in this Court and formerly in
that of Portugal (Lyonel Fanshaw) to be the
Man, who (befides that Polfeflion of the Papers,
with more than three years painful Exercife of
the Function, without once looking homewards,
may be accounted eleven points in his Favour)}
doth want no other neceflary Qualification
for the Employment, at the utmoſt peril of my
Judgment, and of my Integrity too, in the opi-
aion of all, with whom I ſhould be troubled to
forfeit it: If his being my Kinfman, or any
other refpect whatfoever (neither he nor any
other Perfon living, exfpecting what I am now
wri.ing) makes me partial to him in this par-
zicular.
He
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He hath (for fome Pledge at home for his
good Behaviour Abroad, befides many honeft
Friends to fhame, if he ſhould carry himfelf
unworthily) a competent Eſtate of Land of In-
heritance. Neither, in feveral other Regards,
can it be any Difparagement at all to Don Pa-
tricio Omuledei, to have this Perfon named (as
they fay) upon the fame day with him. A-
gain
Your, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
Since the figning of all this, I am Adverti-
fed (the which, as to matter of Fact, his Ma-
jefty may relie upon for a Truth) that the
Minifters of this Court have gone through with
a Contract for ten Thouſand Hanegas of Bar-
ley for Gallicia, and for Ten Thoufand Hanegas
of Wheat, for Ceuta, both the one and the other
to be delivered refpectively by the end of Fe-
bruary next at the fartheft.
The former (together with other viſible
Preparations and Refolutions) do por end for
the next Spring a very potent and early Inva-
fion of Portugal.
The latter thould import fomething of War
too, tho' what I cannot yet hagine.
The prefent Spanish Garifon there, fingly con-
fidered, eſpecially when it thall be confidered
likewife, that the Harvest in Andaluzia will be
foon after drawing on, cannot poſſibly need ſo
great Stores.
As to the Moors of Barbary, their Harveſt
will be fomewhat earlier, and alfo (as I con-
eive) more plentiful.
True
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True and certain it is, that Spain is in good
Correfpondence with Gayland; for the Duke
of Medina de las Torres himfelf told it me, up-
on occafion of my Expoftulating, by command,
the matter of Tangier; but that it was in re-
ference to Bambucar only, who is (faid he)
more the Enemy of Spain, than Gayland is.
In the mean time, by virtue (as may feem)
of that Conjunction, Gayland is poffefs'd of the
Caſtle, as well as the Town of Sally, and Spain
as yet, has got nothing by him.
Upon the whole matter, tho' in Profeffions
of particular Friends, I do in my nature incline
unto Credulity, yet, in the higher and Na-
tional Concerns of our Mafter, his Majefties
Crowns and Dominions, I am (without con-
cluding ill of any) for fearing every thing
that is fafe; and therefore fhall not at all fcru-
ple, by the next opportunity for Tangier, right
or wrong, to put the fame jealoufies into the
head of the Governour there, which I do now
into yours.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Monday the 14th of Novemb. 1664
Engl. Stile.
SIR,
Mr.
Y Lord Holles's Exprefs, Mr. Augier, bea-
rer of this, as far as Paris (not know-
ing whether quite out to England or not) made
fo
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fo good ſpeed to me with yours of the 24th
paft (then immediately obeyed by me in all)
as to out-run two other Letters that had before
It been upon the way for me, the one of the
20th paſt, from Mr. Godolphin, by your com
mand; the other of the 13th of the fame, from
your felf: The Contents of all three, and of all
your former (for the frequentnefs, perfpicui-
ty, and every way obligingnefs whereof, I can
never render you fufficient Thanks) are an-
fwered in fum, as well as I am able, by three
large Packets accompanying this with the fame
Bearer, particularly by a Letter (which is one
of the three) with a running Date of 14, 18,
22, 24 Inftant, N. S. fwelling altogether to an
unreasonable bulk, becaufe, for more clearness,
I thought it would be better and of lefs real
trouble in the reading and skanning, to bring
the whole ſtate of my Negotiation under the
Eye at once, than by divided parcels; hoping
alfo, the tedioufnefs thereof will be the more
eafily digefted, becauſe the conftant tenor of
your Deſpatches for a long time paſt (each
Letter founding my Retreat ftill lowder than
the former) doth give me to believe, that af
ter this Ijhall do so no more; which is better
than asking pardon.
Inclofed with this, fend you a print of that
new Invention here for Ploughing, which you
did lately command me to enquire out, and if
you have any inclination to oblige me farther
than you have already done (fo far beyond my
merit or expectation) I do aflure you, you
cannot fhew it more evidently, than in employ-
ing me to make you provitions of fuch things
of importance as you may most affect in this
Country, and to bring them along with me for
Y
England;
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England; the which, how bulky foever, I will
not fail to perform with Care; fo for the pre-
fent, in hopes thereof, and of his Majefties fi-
nal Pleaſure concerning me with what poffi-
ble ſpeed, becauſe the winter fpends, I take
leave and reft,
My Lord, Your, &c.
RICHARD FANSHAW.
To the Lord Chancellor.
Madrid Monday 24 Nov. 1664. N. S.
My very fingular good Lord,
THE
He Duplicating of my frequent Defpatches
fent and received between this and Eng-
land, being hardly practicable, nor indeed to
be wifh'd (it being fufficient that things of that
nature and bulk can pafs fafe when fingle) it is
in the third place as little neceffary, I very well
knowing, that both the one and the other
wherefoever there is any thing of importance
or difficulty) are and muft by his Majefties fpe-
cial Direction be communicated to your Lord-
fhip for your Council; in which regard (be-
fides particular Letters fometimes, the Honour
whereof I owe to your Lordship's own Hand)
whatever I have received from Mr. Secretary
Bennet, I have ftill made my accompt to have
received from your Lordship; as on the other
fide, I do humbly hope, that all fuch as I have
and
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and do addrefs to Mr. Secretary, your Lordſhip
will accept as written to your felf.
Upon thefe Prefumptions, in purfuance of
my feveral preparatory Orders thereunto by
Mr. Secretary, by fucceffive Ordinaries, the lat-
ter ſtill warmer than the preceding, and war-
mer than all the reft, in a very fresh Defpatch
of the 24th of the laft, with an Expreſs I con-
ceive your Lordship doth expect me e'er
long.
This fuppofed, I do befeech your Lordſhip,
together with his Majefties final Refolution
and Order, to fpeed unto me your Commands.
to bring along with me what your Lordship
may most affect from this Country, the which
fhall be punctually performed.
Books, of which you formerly wrote to me,
I have ever fince had in my Eye and Enquiry,
and fhall bring along with me of that kind
without any farther Order (unless your Lord
ſhip thall name me fome particular ones) what
I can guefs will be moft to your Lordship's fa-
tisfaction.
My prefent Deſpatches to Mr. Secretary in
bulk are very large, indeed fo exceeding pro
that I am athamed of it, and yet knew not pof-
fibly how to avoid it without obfcurity, or gi-
ving occafion of a greater Trouble there than
reading of thefe, to reply to farther Queries in
things whereof the ftate of his Majefties Affairs
elfewhere, and impatience already fo often ex-
preft of the Delays of this Court, may, and
feem to tend to a final Judgment and Refolu-
tion with the fooneſt.
As to the matter of the faid Defpatches and
every particular therein, your Lora.hip wil
&
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give
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育
​give that Council thereupon which ſhall be
moſt for his Majefties Honour and Service, I
am fure, tho' I fhould be fo weak, or could
be fo wicked, as to follicite the contrary;
who am,
My Lord, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
A Copy of a Letter, and Propofitions in order
to a Treaty, fent by me to the Duke de
Medina de las Torres, upon the 4th of
Novemb. 1664.
IR Richard Fanshaw Ambaſſador from his Ma-
jefty of Great Britain to his Catholick Ma-
jefty, having at the motion of the Duke de Me-
dina de las Torres, taken into ſerious and parti-
cular Confideration, the Articles of the laft
Treaty concluded in the year of our Lord 1630.
and finding therein many things that are refer-
red to former Tranfactions and Treaties which
are obfcure, and have given occafion to many
Controverfies and Difputes in their conftructi-
on, from whence very great Difcommodities
and Grievances have hap'ned from time to time.
to Merchants, and others that have been con-
cern'd; moreover that the very ſubſtance of
the faid Articles was not extended to juft
and reaſonable Privileges on behalf of England,
which
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which his Catholick Majefty hath fince granted
to other Nations, neither yet to him other Pri-
vileges which the King of Great Britain, his
Maſter, doth conceive himſelf hath peculiar
ground of Equity and Reafon to pretend un-
to and infift upon, which is competent to no
other Prince or Nation whatfoever; he the
ſaid Ambaſſador adhering nevertheleſs fo far
as his Inftructions and the change of Times
will bear, to the Senſe and Matter of the faid
laft Treaty, alſo referving to himſelf a farther
liberty of Altering, Correcting, Subtracting,
Adding, Explaining, or Amplifying, fo often
as we fhall pleaſe and think good, during the
time he ſhall be in Treaty (fo that it be done
before the Treaty be perfected) doth pro-
pound as followeth, in order to the Eſtabliſh-
ing a future lafting Peace and mutual Co-
merce between the two Crowns of England
and Spain, the Subjects and Dominions of
both.
ARTI
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ARTICLES for the Renewing of a
Peace and mutual Commerce between his
moſt Serene Majesty of Great Britain, and
his moft Serene Catholick Majefty, the
Subjects and Dominions of both; offered
by Sir Richard Fanfhaw, Ambaſſador of
the King of England, to the Confide-
ration of the Duke of Medina de las
Torres, Commiffionated by the King of
Spain to Treat with the faid Ambaf
Jador.
1.
Hat there be from hence forward be-
tween the Crowns of England and
Spain, a good, general, fincere, true, firm and
perfect Amity, League and Peace, to endure
for ever, and invoiably to be obferved, as
well by Land as Sea, and Fréfh Waters; and
alfo between the Countreys, Lands, King-
doms, Dominions and Territories affociated
thereunto and under their obedience, and the
Subjects, People, and Inhabitants thereof re-
fpectively, of whatfoever Condition, Place, or
Degree they be, fo as the faid People and Sub-
jects refpectively, from henceforth do muru-
ally Aid, Affift, and fhew all manner of Civi-
lity and Offices of Friendship to each other.
2. That neither of the Kings, nor their
refpective People, Subjects, or Inhabitants within
their Dominions, fhall, upon any account
wharfoever, either fecretly or openly, do, act,
or
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or attempt any thing against the other, in any
place by Land or Water, nor in the Ports or
Rivers of each other, but fhall treat each other
with all Love and Friendship, and may come
by Water and Land fafely and freely into each
others Countreys, Lands, Kingdoms, Domi-
nions, Iſlands, Cities, Towns, Villages, Wal-
led or unwalled, Fortified or unfortified, their
Havens and Roads, and there remain and tar-
ry, and thence depart at their Pleaſure.
3. That the faid Kings of England and Spain
take care that their refpective People and Sub-
jects, from henceforth abitain from all Force
and Wrong doing, and if it fhall happen that
any violence or injury be offered by either of
the Kings aforefaid, or by the People or Sub-
jects of either of them, against the People or
Subjects of the other, either againſt any of the
Articles of this League, or againſt Common
Right, nevertheleſs no Letters of Reprifal,
Mark, or Counter mark, fhall be granted by
either of the Confederates, until Juftice be firſt
fought in the ordinary Courfe of Law; but if
Juftice be either delayed or denied, then de-
mand thereof ſhall be made from the Supreme
Power of the Kingdom whofe People or In-
habitants have received Wrong from that
Kingdom, by whom, as is faid, the Justice is
either delayed or denied, or from fuch Com-
miffioners which by either part fhall be ap-
pointed to hear or receive fuch demands, to
the end that all fuch differences may be either
Friendly, or according to Law compofed,
but if yet there fhall be delays and no Right
be done, nor Satisfaction given, within fix
Months after demand made, then Letters of
Reprizal, Mark, or Counter-mark, may be
granted.
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granted. And allCommiffions,Letters of Reprizal
and Mark, and otherwife, containing Letters to
take Prizes, which either part heretofore, with-
out obferving the aforefaid Rules, have, to
the prejudice of both Kingdoms, or either of
them, or of their People or Inhabitants, grant-
ed either to the Subjects or Inhabitants, or to
Strangers, fhall be hereafter void; as they
likewife by this Treaty are declared to
be.
4.
That betweeen the King of England
and the King of Spain, and their reſpective
People, Inhabitants and Subjects, as well by
Land as Sea, and Fresh Waters, in all and fin-
gular their Countreys, Dominions, Lands,
Territories, Provinces, Iflands, Plantations,
Ciries, Towns, Villages, Ports, Rivers, Creeks,
Harbours, and Diſtricts, there fhall be Free
Trade and Comerce, in fuch fort and manner,
that without any Self-Conduct or Licenſe,Ge-
neral or Special, the People and Subjects of
each Party, may freely, as well by Land as
Sea, and Fresh Waters, go, enter, and Sail in-
to the faid Countreys, Kingdoms, Dominions,
and all the Cities, Ports,Shores, Roads, Streights,
and other Places thereof, and put themfelves
into whatſoever Havens of the fame, with
their Ships, Laden or unladen, Carriages or
Draughts wherewith they bring their Com-
modities, and there to Buy and Sell as much
as they will, and in the fame places, upon juft
Prices, furnish themselves with Victuals, and
other Neceffaries for their Suftenances and
Voyages, as alſo, as need fhall require, Repair
their Ships and Carriages, and from thence
with their Merchandifes, Goods, and other
Commodities, freely to depart and return in-
to
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to their own Countreys, or other Places as
they think good, without any Lett or Mole-
ſtation; provided they, and every of them, on
each fide, do pay the Cuſtoms and Tolls ex-
preffed in the following Article, and conform
their Trade and Traffick to the Laws and Or-
dinances of each place refpectively, during the
time they Traffick there.
5. That the Subjects of the Crown of Eng-
land trading with their Ships, Frigats, Barks,
and other Veffels, or Land Carriages whatſoe-
ver, in and unto the Kingdoms, Territories,
Iſlands, Ports, or other Places whatſoever, with-
in the Dominions of the King of Spain, ſhall
not pay Custom, Subfidy, or Toll, neither fhall
any thing be impofed upon them but only
the Cuſtoms call'd in Spaniſh Alcavalla, as they
are impoſed according to the Law and qua-
lified Ufage of the Peace, where fuch Customs.
or Alcavallas are to be paid, and not other-
wife.
In like manner the King of Spain's Subjects
trading in any of the Countreys, Iſlands, Ports,
or places of or belonging to the Crown of
England, fhall not pay any Cuſtom, or Toll,
nor any thing be impofed upon them, but
only the Cuſtom and Excife, as they are laid
in every place where they are uſed to be paid;
and all other Tributes, Subfidies, and Payments
impoſed by either part upon the People of the
other, be they upon the account of Private
or Publick Commodity, fhall be henceforth ta-
ken away and be declared void, and no other
Tolls than they which are already mentioned,
ſhall either be impofed or exacted by either part,
for the time to come.
6. And
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6. And that no Officer or Minifter in any
of the Cities, Towns, or Places of either of
the faid Kings, do demand, take, or exact,
greater Tolls, Cuftoms, Payments, Rewards,
Gifts, or other Charges whatfoever, from the
Merchants and the People of the other, than
ought to be taken by virtue of the precedent
Articles. And that the faid Merchants and
People may underftand and know certainly
what is ordained in all things relating here-
unto, It is agreed, there shall be Tables hung up
in all the Publick Custom-Houfes in the feveral
Cities, Towns, and Places of or belonging to
either of the faid Crowns of England and Spain,
where fuch Cuſtom and Excife, or Alcanallas
are paid, wherein how much, and of what
fort fuch Cuſtoms and Tolls are, whereofmen-
tion is made in the foregoing Article, fhall
be ſet down in Writing and declared, as well
for Wares Imported as Exported. Further-
more, if any Officer, or other in their Names,
fhall upon any pretence, openly or fecretly de-
mand or receive of any Merchant, or People
refpectively, any Sum or Sums of Money, or
other thing, in the name of Toll, Cuſtom,
Gift, Stipend, or Reward, than what is fet
down in the faid Tables, altho' it were offer
ed gratis, that then fuch Officcer, or their De-
puty, being guilty, as aforefaid, and convi-
&ted before competent Judge, in that Coun-
try where the Crime was committed, fhall be
Imprisoned for three Months, and fhall forfeit
treble the Money or Thing they took, as afore-
faid, whereof one half fhall go to the King
of the Place or Country where fuch Crime is
Committed, and the other to the Informer;
for
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for which he may fue before any competent
Judge in that Country.
7. That it fhall be Lawful for the Subjects
of the Crown of England, to tranfport and
bring into Spain, and all other Countries and
Dominions of the faid King, and Traffick there
with all forts of Goods and Commodities of
the Kingdom of England, the Manufactures,
Goods, Fruits, and Commodities of the Iflands,
Places, and Plantations thereunto belonging,
and fuch as are bought by any English Factors
from on this fide or beyond the Cape of Good
Hope; and again at their pleaſure depart from
the Dominions of the King of Spain with any
fuch Commodities and Merchandifes, into any
of the Territories, Iflands, and Dominions of
the King of England, or any other place, pay-
ing for what ſhall be there Landed, thoſe Cu-
ftoms and Tributes which are mentioned in
the preceding Articles; and the reft and refi-
due of all their Lading on Board not Landed,
to retain, keep, and carry away in their faid
Ship or Ships, Vellel or Veffels, without pay-
ing any Cuſtom or Impoſition whatſoever for
the fame, as if therewith they had never been
within any of the faid Catholick King's Ports
or Harbours. And that all Goods, Wares,
Ships, or other Veſſels, with whatſoever elfe
brought into the Territories of the Crown of
England, as Prize, and fo adjudged in the faid
Kingdom or Territories, ihall be taken for
English Goods and Merchandife, within the
meaning of this Article.
8. That the Subjects of the Crown of Eng-
land, and the Subjects of the King of Spain,
may freely without any Licenfe, or fafe Con-
duct,
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duct, General or Special, fayl, paſs, and en-
ter into each other's Iſlands, Countries, Ports,
Towns, or Villages, and Places poſſeſſed by ei-
ther of them refpectively, not only in Europe,
but alfo in America, Afia, and Africa, and
there to Traffick, remain, and Trade with all
forts of Wares and Merchandifes, and them
at their pleaſure, in their own Ships, to tran-
ſport to any other Place or Country, any Law
made and publiſhed to the contrary notwith-
ftanding.
9. That the Subjects of the Crown of Eng-
land trading in any of the Kingdoms, Domi-
nions, Ilands, Territories, or Plantations of
the faid King of Spain, be obliged to bring
with them Certificates, Signed and Sealed by
the Officer of the Cuftom-Houfes of the Place
where their Ships fhall be Laden, that may
certifie the Ships Lading, or from fuch Per-
fons as his Majeſty of England fhall to that pur-
pofe appoint, and fuch Certificates being pro-
duced, fhall without difficulty be allowed and
admitted by the Officers and Miniſters of the
King of Spain, and the Goods and Merchandi-
ſes therein mentioned, held and reputed for
lawful Goods.
IQ. And that the Officers of the Cuſtom-
Houſes of both Parties, or other Perfons, that
fhall make Certificates, as is exprefled in the
foregoing Article, fhall not commit Fraud
herein, and if they do offend herein, they ſhall
loſe their Places, and have, farther Puniſhment
inflicted upon them according to Law.
II.
11. That the People, Inhabitants and Sub-
jects of either part, fhall not, upon any colour
or pretence of Comerce, carry or fend, dire-
ctly or indirectly, to the Enemies or Rebels of
the
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the other, any Contrabanda or Prohibited
Goods or Commodities, to wit, any kind of
Guns, or Locks, or Iron Barrels, or any other
Fireworks made for the ufe of War, Powder,
Match, Bullets, Pikes, Swords, Javelins, Hal-
bards, Musquets, Canon, or other Inftruments of
War, as Morter-pieces, Petards, Granadoes, Refts,
Bandaliers, Salt-petre, Bullets, Helmets, Head-
pieces, Caskets, Cuiraffes, Coats of Mail, or fuch
like, nor Soldiers, Horfe, or Horfe Furniture,
Holfters, Rapiers, Belts, and all Furniture fashio-
ned and made for ufe of War; provided, that
under the name of Contrabanda and Prohibited
Goods, be not comprehended Wheat, Rye, or
any other kind of Grain; neither Salt, Wine, Oyl,
or any thing else that ferves for the Prefervation
the Life of Man, which fhall be Free, and may
be carried to the Places belonging to the Rebels
and Fnemies of either, as alſo all other Com-
modities which are not particularly above-
named, except to fuch Towns and Places as are
Befieged, Block'd up, or Affailed by the Arms and
Power of either Party. And if any of the fore-
mentioned Prohibited Goods fhall be found
upon the Ships of either part, going to the
Rebels or Enemies of the one fide or the other,
they fhall, after due proof made, be confifcate
and adjudged Frize to him that takes them.
Nevertheleſs the Ship on which fuch Contra-
banda Goods are found, nor the other Wares
and Goods, nor Owner, or Mariners, ſhall be
moleſted or detained.
12. That the Ships, or any other Veſſel or
Veffels, belonging to the Crown of England,
or the Subjects thereof, fayling into the Do-
minions of the King of Spain, or any of his
Ports, fhall not be Vifited by the Minifters of
the
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the Inquifition, or Judge of Contrabanda Goods,
or any others, by their or whatſoever other
Authority; neither fhall they put upon them
Soldiers or Armed Men, Guards, or other Mi-
nifters whatſoever, for the Cuftody of them,
neither fhall the Officers of the Cuftoms fearch
the Ships of the People or Subjects of either
that ſhall come into their refpective Ports,
Countries, or Dominions, while their Ships
or other Veffels, are unlading, until they have
put on fhoar all fuch Goods and Merchandiſe
as they declare are to be Landed in the ſaid
Port, but may in the mean time have Officers
on Board the Ships or other Veffels, to ſee that
the Goods and Merchandiſe be duly delivered;
yet without any charge to the Ship or Ships,"
Veffel or Veffels, Merchants, Factors, or Own-
ers thereof.
13. That the Ship or Ships belonging to
the one Party or the other, or their refpective
People and Subjects, which fhall come into
each others Countries or Dominions, and un-
lade any part of their Goods and Merchandi-
fes in any Port or Haven, being bound with
the reft unto other Parts, either without or
within the aforefaid Dominions, fhall not be
compelled to enter or pay Cuftom for any o-
ther Goods and Merchandifes, than fuch as
fhall Land in fuch Port or Haven, nor con-
ftrained to give any Security for the Goods
they carry elſewhere, nor other Security, un-
lefs it be in cafe of Debt, Felony, Murther,
Treaſon, or other capital Offence.
14. That the People and Subjects refpe-
Aively of the one, being in the Dominions,
Territories, Countries, or Colonies of the o-
ther,
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ther, be not compelled to fell their Merchan-
dife for Brafs Money, or change them for o-
ther Moneys or Things than they are willing,
or having fold the fame, to receive Payment
in any other Specie than they contracted for,
any Law or Cuftom to the contrary of this
Article notwithstanding.
15. That it fhall be Lawful for the People
and Subjects of both fides, to have accefs in-
to their reſpective Ports, and there to remain,
and from thence to depart with the fame li-
berty, not only with their Ships, or other
Veffels for Trade and Merchandiſes, but alſo
with their other Shipping furnish'd for War,
Armed and Prepared to withstand the Face of
Enemies, whether they fhall arrive there by
force of Tempeft, or for Repairing their Ships,
or for Proviſion of Victuals; ſo as if they come
in on their own accord, they be not fuch a
number that may give juft occaſion of ſuſpi-
cion, namely, not to exceed the number
of
nor that they continue in the Ha-
vens, or about the Ports, longer than they fhall
have juft Caufe for the Repairing of their
Ships, or provifion of other Neceflaries, left
they ſhould be any occation of Interruption
upon the Free Comerce and Entercourfe of o-
ther Friends and Nations in Amity.
And whenever any unufual number of Ships
of War come by accident to fuch Ports, it
fhall not be Lawful for them to make any en-
trance into any the faid Ports and Havens, un-
lefs they firft obtain leave from them unto
whom the faid Ports do belong, unless they
be driven fo to do by Tempeft, or fome other
Neceflity, for avoiding the danger of the Sea,
and in fuch cafe they fhall forthwith make
known
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known to the Governour or chief Magiftrate
of the Place, the cauſe of their coming, nei-
ther ſhall they ſtay longer there than fuch Go-
vernour or Magiſtrate ſhall think fit, nor do
any hoſtile Act in thoſe Ports, that may be
prejudicial to either of the ſaid Kings.
16. That neither the faid King of England,
nor King of Spain, fhall by any Command,
general or particular, or for any Caufe what-
foever, imbark, ftop, arreft, or feize into their
reſpective Service, any Merchants, Maſters of
Ships, Pilots, or Mariners, their Ships, Mer-
chandiſe, Wares, or other Goods belonging
to them, of either of the other, being in their
Ports or Waters, unleſs either of the faid Kings,
or the Parties to whom the Ships appertain, be
firſt admoniſhed thereof, and fhall alfo yield
his or their confent thereunto; provided that
thereby fhall not be excluded the Arrefts and
Seizures in the ordinary way of Juſtice.
17. That the Merchants on both fides, their
Factors, Servants, as alfo their Ship-Mafters
and Mariners, may, as well Travelling and
returning by Sea, and other Waters, as in the
Havens of each other refpectively, carry and
ufe all forts of Arms for Defence and Offence,
without being compelled to Regiſter the fame,
and alfo on Shoar ufe and wear Arms for their
Defence, according to the Cuſtom of the
place.
18. That it fhall be Lawful for the Ships
of the People or Subjects, of the one fide or
the other, to ride at Anchor in the Sea, or in
any Road belonging to either, without being
compelled to come into Port. And in cafe
they be neceffitated thereunto by Tempeft,
purfuit
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purfuit of Enemies, or Pyrats, or for any other
reaſon or accident, it ſhall be lawful for them
to depart again at their pleaſure, with their
Ships and Merchandifes; neither fhall they
riding at Anchor, or entering into Port, as
aforefaid, be molefted or fearched, but it fhall
be fufficient for them in this cafe, to fhew
their Paſs-ports, and Sea-Letters, which the
Officers of the faid Kings refpectively having
feen, they may freely depart again with their
Ships whither they pleafe, without any far-
ther Impediment or Moleftation.
19. That all Goods, Wares, and Merchan-
difes whatſoever, of the faid Kings, or their
refpective People and Subjects, laden or found
on Board any Ship or Ships belonging to the
Enemy, on the one fide or the other, fhall be
Confifcate and Prize, as well as the Ships. But
all Goods and Merchandiſes whatfoever, be-
longing to the Enemies of the one fide or the
other, or laden or found on Board the Ships
or Veffe's of either of the faid Parties, or the
People or Subjects of either, fhall be Free, un-
lefs the fame be Contrabanda Goods, as is ex-
preſſed in the former Article.
20. To the end that the greater Advantage
may by this Concord accrue to the refpective
People and Subjects of the faid King of Eng-
land, and King of Spain, in their Kingdoms
and Dominions, each of them fhall endeavour
jointly and feverally, that their People and Sub-
jects refpectively, have not the Pallages top-
ped or letted unto any of their Ports, King-
doms or Dominions, nor that their Ports or
Rivers be ſhut, but that they may with their
Ships, Merchandifes, and Carriages, freely and
without Impediment, come and go (paying the
Cuſtoms
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Cuſtoms and Tolls, as in the precedent Articles
is expreffed) to and from the faid Kingdoms,
Countries, Cities, Ports and Places; and with
the like liberty to depart.
21. And, to the end Impediments may be
taken away, and the Merchant Adventurers of
the Kingdom of England permitted to return
into Brabant and Flanders, and the other Pro-
vinces of the Low Countries, under the Jurif-
diction of the faid King of Spain, all Laws,
Edicts, and Acts whatever, whereby the Im-
portation of Cloths, or other Woollen Ma-
nufactures whatever, either Dyed or undyed,
Dreffed or Rough, into Flanders, or the faid
other Provinces, are forbidden, or whereby
any Cuftom, Tribute, Tax, Charge, or Mo-
neys, are by permiffion, or any other manner,
laid or impofed upon Cloth, or other the afore-
faid Woollen Manufactures that are carried
into the faid Countries or Cities, except that
antient Tribute of two
upon every Piece
of Cloth, and fo proportionably upon every
fuch Woollen Manufacture, fhall be hence-
forth utterly Null and Void. And fuch like
Taxes and Impofitions fhall not hereafter at a-
ny time be fet or laid upon fuch Cloths or
Manufactures, upon any pretence whatſoever.
And all English Merchants trading in any the
faid Provinces, or Cities and Places thereof,
and their Factors, Commillaries, or Servants,
fhall hereafter enjoy all Privileges, Exempti-
ons, Immunities, and Benefits which here to-
fore were agreed and granted by antient Trea-
ties made between the then Kings of England
and the Dukes of Burgundy, and Governours
of the Low Countries; and moreover other
Privileges, Immunities, and Exemptions, fui-
table
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table to the prefent ftate of Affairs, fhall be
granted, for the encouragement of the faid
Merchants, and Security of Trade, according
as it fhall be agreed in a Special Treaty to be
made hereupon between both Parties.
22.
And for that the Rights of Comerce,
which do enfue by Peace, ſhould be rendred
unprofitable, as they would be, if the People
and Inhabitants of England fhould be troubled
upon the account of their Religion, whilft
they do remain in the Kingdoms and Domi-
nions of Spain; therefore to the intent that
their Traffick may be fafe without danger, it
is agreed and concluded by and between the
faid King of England, and the King of Spain,
That no Trouble or Moleftation be given to.
the People and Subjects of the faid King of
England, trading in any of the Kingdoms or
Countries of the faid King of Spain's Dominions,
for the cauſe of Religion, but that it be Free
and Lawful for the faid People and Subjects of
the Crown of England, either in their own
Houſes, or in the Houfes of other English Dwel-
ling there, or in their Ships, to Worſhip God
and Exerciſe their Religion, in their own man-
ner and form, according to their Confciences,
and alfo read English Bibles, or any other Books
without let or moleftation, either from the
Inquifition or their Miniſters and other Judges.
And that neither their Bodies nor Eftates be
feized by the Inquifition, or Imprifoned, nor
for any of the faid Caufes liable to their Ju-
rifdiction.
23. That the Captain, Officers, and Mari-
ners of the Ships belonging to the People and
Subjects of the King of England, being within
the
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the Kingdoms, Governments, or Iflands of the
faid King of Spain, fhall not commence any
Action, or procure any Trouble againſt the
Ships of the People and Subjects of the faid
King of England, for their Wages and Sala-
ries, upon pretence that they are of the Romish
Religion, neither fhall they upon the fame or
like pretence, put themſelves under the King
of Spain's Protection, or take up Arms for him,
but if any controverfie arife between the Mer-
chants and Maſters of Ships, or between the
Maſters and Mariners, the decifion thereof fhall
be left only to the Conful of the Nation, fo
as notwithſtanding he which will not fubmit
to his Arbitrement, may Appeal into Eng-
land.
That in cafe of feizure upon the Eſtate of
any Perfon or Perfons, within the Lands or
Territories of the faid King of Spain, by the In-
quifitions, or other Tribunal or Minifter of
Juftice, the Eftates and Debts which bona fide,
do belong to the People and Subjects of the
Crown of England, and fhall happen to be in
the Poffeffion of fuch Criminals, fhall not be
forfeited but reftored to the right owner in
Specie, if they be remaining, or otherwife the
juft value of them, according to the Contract,
or the Sum which was contracted for betwixt
the Parties, within one Month after fuch Sei-
zure or Profcription.
25. If any Prohibited Goods or Merchan-
difes, fhall happen to be Exported out of the
Dominions, Kingdoms, or Territories of either
part, by the refpe&tive People or Subjects of
the one or the other, that in fuch cale the
Prohibited Goods only fhall be Confiſcate, and
no
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no other, nor any other puniſhment inflicted
upon the Delinquent.
26. That the Goods and Eſtates of the Peo-
ple or Subjects of the one Party, dying within
the Countries and Dominions of the other,
be preſerved to the lawful Heirs and Succeffors
of the deceaſed, the Right of a third Party al-
ways referved.
27. That the Goods and Eftates of the Sub-
jects of the Crown of England, dying Inteftate.
in the Dominions of the King of Spain, be In-
ventory'd, with their Papers and Writings, and
Books of Account, by the Conful, and put in-
to the Hands of two or three Merchants to be
named by the fame Conful, to be kept for the
Proprietors and Creditors, neither fhall the
Cruzada, or any other Judicature whatſoever,
interpofe therein.
28. That the Immunities and Privileges gi-
ven by former Treaties and Grants, to the Mer-
chants and Subjects of either Nation, fhall
wholly be revived and have the full force and
ftrength, And that the Subjects of the Crown
of England Trading or Dwelling in any of the
Kingdoms, Governments, Iſlands, Ports, or Terri-
tories of the faid King of Spain,have,uſe,and en-
joy, thoſe Privileges and Immunities (upon de-
mand of theKing of England's Right in the Spanish
Court, for the time being, which the faid King
granted and confirmed to the English Merchants
remaining in Andaluzia, by Writing bearing
date the 19th of March, and 9th of Nov. 1645.
his Catholick Majefty hereby folemnly Re-con-
firming the fame, as a part of this Treaty be-
tween the two Crowns.
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29. That
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29. That if it fhall happen hereafter, that
any diſpleaſure arifeth between the ſaid Kings
of England and King of Spain, that may endan-
ger the Interruption of mutual Comerce and
Intercourfe, the refpective People and Subjects
of either party, fhall laave timely notice or mo-
nition, namely, the fpace of fix Months, to
tranfport their Merchandife, without any Ar-
reft, Reftraint, Moleftation, or Disturbance, in
the mean ſeaſon to be done or given unto them,
in their Perfons or Eftates.
30. That the Merchants of both Nations,
and their Factors, Servants, Families, Com-
miffaries, or others by them imployed, as alfo
the Mafters of Ships, Pylots, and Mariners,
freely fhall, and may fafely abide in the Do-
minions, Countries and Territories of either
of the faid Kings, and alfo in their Ports and
Shoars. And that the People and Subjects of
the one, may have and hold in the Countries
and Dominions of the other party, their own
Houfes to dwell in, and their Warehoufes for
their Goods and Merchandiſes, for ſuch time
as they fhall take them, without any moleſtation
whatever.
31. That if any Controverfie happen to
be moved in the Dominions of either party, by
any perfon not being under the Dominion of,
nor Subject to either party, for or upon occa-
fion of any Depredations, or Spoyl committed
upon them at Sea, the Caufe fhall be referred
to the Judge of the Jurifdiction under the King
againſt whofe People or Subjects the faid Suit
is commenced.
32. The People and Subjects of the one
fide and the other, fhall have and enjoy in each
other's Countries and Territories, fafety, and
as
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as ample Privileges, Security and Freedom, as
are or fhall be granted and allowed to the Peo-
ple and Subjects of the moft Chriftian King,
the States General of the United Provinces, or a-
ny other Kingdom or Commonwealth what-
foever.
33. The Confuls who fhall hereafter refide
in any of the King of Spain's Dominions, for
the Aid and Protection of the Subjects of this
Crown, fhall for the time to come be named
by the King of England, and being ſo named,
fhall have and exerciſe the fame Power and Au-
thority, in the Execution of their Charges, .as
any the former Confuls have done.
34 The Subjects of this Crown refiding in
Spain, fhall not be compelled to keep their Ac-
counts in the Spanish Tongue, nor to fhew the
Books and Papers of Accounts to any Perſon,
unleſs it be for Evidence for deciding of Con-
troverfies, neither fhall they be feized upon,
Arreſted, or taken out of their Poffeffion, upon
any pretence whatever; And the Subjects of
the King of Spain, fhall, throughout all the Do-
minions of England, enjoy the like Liberty and
Immunities,
35. That convenient Place ſhall be ordain-
ed and granted, for the Burying of the Bodies
of fuch of the Subjects of the Crown of Eng-
land, as fhall die within any of the Dominions
of the King of Spain.
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To Colonel Fitz-Gerald, Deputy-Governour of
Tangier.
$ 1 R,
Madrid, 25 Nov. 1664. N. S.
Ince my laft, I have had nothing of News
Site fend you,
to fend you, fave what you will find in
the herewith incloſed Extract of a Letter I Ye-
fterday defpatched, with a Packet alfo, from
your felf, to Mr. Secretary Bennet, by a ſafe
hand, for Paris,; recommending them and fe-
veral others to my Lord Holles, for his Excel-
lencies Addrefs of them according to their Di-
rections.
Tho' I am unwilling to believe what may
be conjectur'd from this inclofed Advertiſe-
ment,it is good to fufpect the worlt; and ſo to
a perfon intrufted with fo much by the King
our Mafter, as your felf. I likewife truft this
infirmity of mine (in reference to the Publick
only, not fo) being as a private perſon perfua-
ded in my own Thoughts, that there is no fuch
thing intended or imagined on the part of Spain,
as is hereby fuggefted. However, it can be no
harm to provide fo, without noiſe, while time
to be fure ferves, for your Garifon, of Mate-
rials, as Lime ftone, and whatfoever other ne-
ceffaries, not to be had fo eafily, fo well, or fo
cheap elſewhere, as if this bare fufpicion only
were in truth from a confidence, and that well
grounded. I am
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAVV.
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday the 16th of Novemb. 1664.
Engl. Stile.
SIR,
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Pon the 13th Inftant, O. S. the Holland
Ambaſſador having been at a Country
Village, and returned only to perform the Pun-
&tilio of coming to Town, fent his Secretary
to let me know, that he was now in Madrid,
ready to receive my Commands.
Upon the 14th, O.S. I fent my Secretary to
let his Excellency know, that I defired to kifs
his Hands the next day at his Houſe; in the in-
terim, one of his Gentlemen came to acquaint
me, that his Lord was to have his first Publick
Audience on the Wedneſday following, and defi-
red the Favour of my Coach and Family to accom-
pany him, according to the Cuftom of this Crown.
Upon the 15th, O. S. I went to Vifit him,
and told his Excellency, that I came as of com-
mon Obligation upon all Ambaſſadors, to wish him
Joy of his Arrival here, in the Capacity of Ambaf
fador: That I came before he had had Audience for
peculiar Reafon to my felf; which was, that I
could not fend my Coach and Family to accompany
him thereunto; and to stop the mouths of those who
might therefore be likely otherwife to say, that War
is already declared betwixt England and Hol-
land,
That
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:
That the King my Master, for Reafons moving
bis Majesty thereunto, had forbid this Ceremony, as
to all Foreign Ambaſſadors in his Court, where he
in whatſoewer Foreign
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Courts to all his own, of whom he must be obeyed
bikewife: Commanding us to feek out other ways to
express our Refpects to the Ambassadors of bis Ma-
jesties Allies.
This day the faid Ambaffador went to his
firft Publick Audience, in good Equipage and
like Comportment of himfelf,accompanied with
about fifty or fixty Gentlemen on Horſeback,
and the Coaches of the Ambaffadors of Germa-
ay, France, Venice, Luca, and Parma,
In the Afternoon (that he might not be
longer in my Debt) he came, in all his Trim,
to pay me my Vifit, and not finding me at
Home, ftaied fome time at a little diftance from
my Houſe, to expect my return, which was
not till the Sun was down, and therefore too
late to receive his intended Complement.
Upon theſe Terms we fland till a downright
Breach may fet us at a farther diſtance.
The Dutch Fleet of Merchant men, with two
Men of War, formerly advertiſed to have been
in Malaga Road, are fince joined in Cadiz, with
other of the like quality, which have been
now a good while there, in all, as near as I
can inform my felf, to the value of three or
four hundred Thouſand Pounds Sterling; and
the laft Letters from thofe parts do advertiſe,
according to their intelligence, that both the
one and the other will keep cloſe there this
whole Winter; ſymptoms, if ſo, of a War either
intended or feared.
The
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347)
347 The Printed Project in Spanish, of a new way
of Sowing and Ploughing, which fhould have
gone in my laft, but was then out of the way,
goes now incloſed with this. I am
Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To Colonel Fitz-Gerald, Deputy - Governour
of Tangier.
SIR,
A
Madrid the 2 December, 1664. N. S.
LL I underſtand at preſent from England
is, that they were in daily expectation
that the Hollanders would break with us,but that
we were then fo very near provided for them,
that we had no apprehenfion at all to be fur-
priſed in that part of the World, whatever we
may have been at Guinea; the contrary where-
of is well hoped likewife.
We hear that Capt. Allen hath concluded a
Peace with Algiers, upon the old Terms, and
without any Reftitution or Satisfaction on ei-
ther part.
We have certain Intelligence, that the French
have loft Gigheria with all they had there, and
their Fleet come back with the lofs of one con-
fiderable Ship, upon the Rocks near Marfel-
les.
This day came to my hands a Letter from
Cadiz, inclofing an Advice from Tetuan, that
Gayland
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1
Gayland intends fhortly to give Tangier a very
ſharp and fuddain Storm, and to that end hath
provided fome 500 Ladders for Scaling; but I
doubt not your being ready to receive him as
ſharply, whenever he comes.
This Advice I intend to fend to morrow for
England, in the fame form I received it; but
do not do fo to you, becauſe I am certified you
have it already. I am
I
Your moſt Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
POSTSCRIPT.
SIR,
BE
E pleased to advertize me bow you find his Ca-
tholick Majesty's Proclamation of Free Trade
with Tangier obferved, particularly as to Mate-
rials for Fortifications, and as to Victualling, and
the like.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
•
Hague the 27 of Octob. 1664. O. S
Right Honourable,
THE
HE Eſtates General do very much prefs
the Buſineſs of the Building of new Ships
this Winter, and they fay, that 10 of them
fhall be of 70, and 10 of about 60 Guns; they
alſo much prefs the haftning out of the 18 Ships
which they laft ordered to be Equipped, and
I
without
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។
without faying upon what Service; they have
alfo again propofed to the Admiralty, whether
their Guinea Fleet, and other Ships that are now
to go out, might not go round Scotland? but they
have returned for anfwer, that it is impoffible.
Hereby you may perceive, they do very much
apprehend, that his Majefty will endeavour to
obftruct their Paffage through the Channel;
and could but this Fleet get through, and
Opdam fafe at home again, they would laugh
at all his Majefties great Preparations, and give
him leave to brave it as much as he will till
Spring: And upon this account it is already
ordered, that their Smirna Fleet, which was
now to come home, ſhall not return till Spring.
Moreover, whereas a Fleet was to have gone
out for the Streights, they have taken away
the Convoy that they ſhould have had, and fo
they are not to go. Opdam is still in Goree
and the wind ftill contrary for his going out,
and he is not Victualled but till the middle of
December, N. S. he hath with him at this time
27 good Men of War, befides the 14 Sail for
Guinea, and other Merchants Ships bound fe-
veral ways. Prince William is dead of the
wound I gave you an account of in my laft:
Holland will have a lofs of him. The Estates
General have fent Deputies to the Provinces of
Gelder and Overyfell, to induce them to concur
in the feveral Petitions, for Moneys for the
carrying on their deſigns againſt England. There
is an Ambaſſador or Envoy from Mufcovoy, ar-
rived at Amfterdam by Sea, with a Train of
30 Perfons, who is to go for England, but he
hath demanded Reception here, for which or-
der is given. Prohibition is made for the Ex-
portation of Pitch, Tar, Cordage, Mafts, &c.
Our
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out of any part of this Country, for two
Months. Thofe of Holland have at laft con-
fented to the Levying of the 200th Penny,
which cauſeth very much murmuring; and
by which you may perceive how much they
are like to be put to it for Money, in caſe of
a War with his Majefty, whenas they are in-
forced to begin with fo defperate a Tax as
this is.
It would feem by this fuddain fending of
another Miniſter from Ruffia into England, that
that Duke is ſenſible of his having diſpleaſed his
Majefty, in not granting what he defired by my
Lord Carlife. He comes in hither only privately,
nor is he Lodged in the States Houſe, but in
a private Ordinary; for that it is faid, he hath
only a Letter for this State; and fo, it is fuppo-
fed, he will take the way of Flanders, for Eng
land, by reaſon of the Prohibition of Shipping
from hence. I am
My Lord, Your Excellencies, &c.
G. DOWNING.
I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
Whitehall, the 21st of Octob. 1664.
My Lord,
May feem much more guilty than I am, in
that I may call this my firft to your Lord-
Thip, and that I attain'd the Honour of Yours
(whereof I have now received two) before I
gave you the importunity of mine. But I pur-
$
fued
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fued your Lordſhips laft Directions you gave
me at your parting, That I should expect what
Service you commanded me, and making Comple-
ments in paying obfervance to what might concern
you: And this made me fatisfied in hearing of
your Health by others, until yours came, when
I was procul a negotiis, got down with my Lord
Treaſurer into Hampshire, from whence we are
but new return'd; yet I often confulted a very
good and uſeful Friend of yours, who affured
me he gave you the full Intelligence from hence,
and what was more advantageous for you. The
true Light and Defcant that was made upon
any of your Deſpatches, which, for ought I
underſtand, have had a very good value; and,
in fhort, the little progrefs you have made, at-
tributed more to the difficulty of your Propo-
fals, and the delatory Genius of the Nation you
treat with, than to any Failure in your Lord-
fhip; for we cannot be equal either to them
or to you,and not think Portugal,Tangier,and Ja-
maica,are too great Pills for the fqueamish Throat
of a Spaniard glibly to fwallow; and as you and
I have often conjectur'd, nothing but Neceffity
and Mifery could lead them to digeft; and
yet too probably that State of theirs would be
reflected on fo late, that when they could be
contented to let down thofe bitter Potions,
which were Medicinal, Nature would be too
weak; and this, I fear, will be a great part of
their Fate; for your Friend Moledo to me
(and I cannot but think he doth the fame in
his proper Orb of his Negotiation) would ra
ther Traffick for Tangier and Jamaica, than let
us Traffick in the latt place, but he'l find, here
is no Ear fo patient as to hear fuch Propofals:
And
1
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And if they would reduce us to fo formal a
Treaty as the old one, fure we can be of no
great Confideration to one another, not any
fuch as you and I were wont to wiſh in the
Pall-mall; and I am fure not ſuch as you would
have trode that Stage for; yet, fince you are
upon the Place, learn the Humour of the Na-
tion with patience, and let no heat of yours,
but pofitive and diftinct Orders from your Su-
periours make you affect your return. I re-
ceived a Letter from our Friend Norwood, how
your Duke interdicts all Trade at Tangier, who
told me, he had not heard of your Lordship of late,
but he would be diligent in informing you still of
the Condition of that Place. We are upon a ver-
tical Point, and therefore I fuppofe moſt Na-
tions will fufpend even what they intend to-
wards us, until they find what benign Afpect
our Stars have, in our Conteft with Holland;
who having very Affiduoufly follicited that we
would ſtay our Fleet for Guinea, and propofed
very vile Conditions, if they ftopt theirs, at
laft (as in a great Extremity) we confidently
believe now, have deferted the Mediterranean,
and Commiſſioned de Ruyter to fteal for Guinea,
which very probably will end in an Engage-
ment; but I am not on the other fide the Cur-
tain, and make no fuch Conjecture as is fit to
be offered you.
Opdam is coming out with his great Fleet,
who Convoys their Guinea Fleet.
Prince Rupert with his Fleet rides near Portf-
mouth. If Treaty end it not, his Royal High-
nefs will to Sea, Cæfarem vehis & fortunam
ejuss.
When
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When your Brother Turner Addreffes to my
Lord Treaſurer about your Concern, his Lord-
Thips Kindneſs makes me an eafie work to ferve
you.
My Wife prays for you, and all thofe that
have outgrown the name of little Ones. And
to my Siſter and your Lordſhip, I hope, I need
not a Profeffion; for I am very affectionately
and humbly
My Lord, Your, &c.
P. WARWICK.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
This
Whitehall Octob. 27. 1664.
,
His hath the Honour of fupplying the
place of Mr. Secretaries who find-
ing nothing of moment new fince his laſt
(which comes by an Exprefs from my Lord
Iolles's Hand, and it's hoped will be with your
Excellency e'er this) commands me only to
tell your Excellency fo much, but leaves me the
more room to ſpeak my own Services, were
they worth that trouble to your Excellency.
. The Dutch Fleet lie ftill in the Goree expect-
ing a Wind, being about 36 Men of War with
Opdam,and 10 with Van Campen the Zelander, the
reſt about 10 or 12 in number, are Merchant.
Men to be Convoyed; 6 of Opdam's are of the
Weft-India Companies, bound for Guinea, on
their Charge.
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}
-...
Our. Preparations go on a main here, and
with great forwardness in the Common Sea-
men.
The City, with great Affection, have lent
the King 10000ol. more towards the War.
Prince Robert lies ftill afore Portſmouth, and,
'tis fuppofed, will find better occafion here than
at Guinea, as the cafe ftands; fince de Ruyter's
gone that way.
The Earl of Sandwich is this day gone to
Sea, and his Royal Highness follows in few days,
with a great Train of Noblemen, Voluntiers.
Yeſterday a goodly Frigat was Launched at
Woolwich, named then The Royal Catharine, of
80 Guns, and a more perfect Model, in all Sea-
men's Opinion, than hath been hitherto hit
on; at which Ceremony their Majefties were
prefent. Sir John Lawfon is to Command up-
on her.
This day the Dutch Ambaffador had an Au-
dience, and with great Confidence would have
perfuaded the King, his Masters meant nothing
less than a War; but his Majefty replied, I will
be fooled no longer with fair Speeches, and fo
parted.
They are faid to be much diftracted in their
Councils in Holland. Prince William of Naffau
hath, by a late mifchance of his Piftol firing,
received a dangerous Wound in the Neck and
Face, but it is thought not mortal.
Mr. Oneile died here the 25th Inftant, of a
long and painful Sickneſs.
1 with your Excellency a moft perfect Health,
with your noble Lady and Family, with that
refpect which becomes
My Lord, &c.
JOS, WILLIAMSON.
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet
Madrid, Wedneſday 23 Nov. 1664. O. S.
SIR,
Ince my laft long Defpatch of 14 Nov. by
Mr. Augier (my Lord Holles's Exprefs) I
have had a Conference with the Duke of Me-
dina de las Torres, but fuch an one as afford
me no new matter from which to alter any
thing thereof, or to add any thing of moment
thereunto; tho' I told his Excellency at that
time more clearly, at leaft more particularly
than at our laft preceding Conference, the Or-
ders I had from the King my Mafter, to pro-
pofe nothing farther on my part, and from thence-
forward to prepare my felf, as already I had begun
to do, for my return.
Concerned enough his Excellency ſeemed, in
fo brisk a Refolution (rafh he was willing I
fhould think it) on the part of England, yet
not much furprifed, for two Reafons (as I con-
ceived) the one himself exprefs'd, namely, that
be bad fufficiently understood it from me the last
time; the other of my own Obfervation and
Collection, that neither the Duke nor this Court
in general, do believe it to be any other than a Me-
nace and Copy of our Countenance; than which
(fay they) nothing is more ordinary, or more
eafily to be decyphered.
Of theſe Interpreters the French Ambaſſador
(to whom I paid yefterday his Excellencies
Vifit to me of 15 Nov. N. S.) is one, and fo
exprefs'd himſelf to me.
Aa
But
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1
But to return to the Duke; in the first place, he
ask'd me whether my Orders togo Home were
now poſitive,or only in the nature of the former,
to depart if fuch and fuch a thing was not done? I
anfwered, they were now pofitive, yet if his Ex-
cellency had any Particulars to propound in Writing,
the which might reaſonably be fuppofed would stay
me, I would defpatch them into England, and, as
much as in me lay, Spin out the time till an anſwer
might come.
He then, in the fecond place, demanded of
me, whether notice of the fatisfaction his Catholick
Majesty had given, upon my former Conditional Or-
der, was arrived with the King my Master before
his Majeſty ſent me this positive one? I anfwer-
ed No.
Laſtly, his Excellency demanded of me, whe-
ther I did not think the arrival of that Notice would
alter the Cafe? whereunto my final reply was, I
doubted it very much; for that the granting of
thofe things which are common Requifites of the
flightest Peace imaginable, between Crowns and
Nations, were, I ſuppoſed, no Demonſtration of a-
ny great and real Kindness from Spain to us; and
yet that the denial thereof, would, for the fame rea-
fon, have been a clear one, that there is no fach
matter intended on their parts.
I fee little cauſe to repent this Argument,
upon what I have received this day fron Ma-
laga, herewith inclofed; by which it appears,
that as to the point of Free Comerce with
Tangier (the principal one this Court hath
feem'd to condefcend unto) either the order
was not fo fincere as they bad me believe, or
not fo indifputable as thofe of Kings pretend
and ought to be; either of which is enough
to ſpoil our Markets in thofe parts.
As
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As little do I fee caufe (putting all ends to-
gether) to recant as yet, the Jealoufies, which
right or wrong, I put into your Head by my
Letter of 14 Nov. and fince in purſuance of the
fame, into the head of Coll. Fitz-Gerald alfo, in
reference to the Ten Thoufand Hanegas of
Wheat, the which thefe People are actually
putting into Ceuta.
And now to return once more to the French
Ambaſſador here, his Difcourfe to me yefter-
day (whether artificial or otherwiſe, I deter-
mine not) ran much to this effect, that the
States Refident (now Ambaſſador) hath alrea-
dy entred, or is now entring amain, into a
moft ftrict League with this Crown; the which
(faid he) doth look upon them as their moſt
ufeful Allies, being, as on the one fide, if not
fuperiour, or at leaft equal to England, in Naval
Power (which is the only thing at prefent Spain
needs) yet ſo very near it, as that Spain even
by Sea can turn the Ballance to Hollands fide
fo far, as with their affiftance, upon more tole-
rable and fafe Terms, as to future Confequence,
than any they can expect from England, not
only to get their Treafures home fecure, but
even to throw us out of the West-Indies fo
vain and impoſſible are the imaginations of
fome) or, when leaft out of the Apple of their
Eye there, as Jamaica, &c. and here likewife,
as Tangier, repaying the Hollander for thefe good
Offices, with the fole Comerce with the Weft-
Indies, from the Eaft by the Philipinas, and from
Guinea for Negroes, to both which, as well the
Planted as unplanted parts thereof, and the
Trade of and to the whole and every part, muſt
be good to them, exclufive to all the World
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beſides,
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befides, and even to Spain it felf,upon a Title de-
rived to them from the King of Spain, and to
his Catholick Majefty from the Pope.
In purſuance of this Difcourfe the French
Ambafador (whom you know to be an Arch-
biſhop, and feems to be of no ill humour, but
when he talks with or of the Spaniards) told
me, laughing very heartily, it was a pleasant
thing to confider, what had lately paft in Argument
between him and this new Dutch Ambasador, the
Hollander afferting the Authority of the Popes
Bull, as that of which Holland holds in capite
quoad hoc. The Bishop oppugning it upon this
account, that neither the Popes in General, nor fo
much as that particular Bull, doth or can pretend,
in virtue of Chrifts Vicarſhip, to difpofe of Temporal
Dominions, otherwife than in Ordine ad Spiritu-
alia, for planting of the Catholick Faith in Coun-
tries uninhabited, or by way of Extirpation, where
any should be found Inhabited, either by Infidels or
Hereticks; and therefore (faid he) this being the
exprefs Sence and Meaning of the Bull, how can
any Catholicks of whatsoever Nation, be thereby
excluded, from places not poffeffed by fuch as are fo,
or any who are not fuch, in Virtue of the Bull, ad-
mitted.
I concluded this Vifit with teiling his Excel-
lency, that if it were so that I had any Interest or
Correfpondency in Rome, I for my part (as a lover
of Justice and Equity, in whatfoever Sphere) would
use my utmost Diligence, that the Cardinals Hat
which he the Archbishop might reasonably expect,in re
ward of his prefent Embally in this Court, fhould,
for this very Argument fake, be transferred from
him to the Holland Ambaffedor. At which word
his Excellency laughed very well again, in fight
(by that time) both of mine and his followers.
I think
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I think I need not tell you (for I believe you
there hear of it, as I do here, on both Ears)
that this Coaft is at prefent as much at leaſt as
ever heretofore, infefted with Biskay Men of
War, and moreover, by a hired Squadron of
the Principe de Montafarche, formerly (as I heard)
a Neapolitan Bandito by Land, and now by Sea,
as our Merchants feel, with 7 Frigats.
Certain News, whilft I am writing this, is
arrived here, that he hath taken and fent in to
be condemned,' and fome of them condem-
ned already in Gallicia (befides others hereto-
fore upon the fame account or pretence ).
Four English Cargoes of Wheat and Fish,
bound for Portugal, (fay they) and I, as to theſe,
think fo indeed, though the pretence alone
without any true ground, hath, in the caſe
of many (confign'd to fome of them to Spain
it felt) ferved their turn, both there in the
Ports, and alſo here in Appeal; as in thoſe o-
ther cafes, fo in thefe, I fhall not ſpare to ſay
and write what I think fit, no more than thoſe
Miniſters will to do on theirs, or the Free-boo-
ters finally on theirs, whatever Decrees, after
tedious folicitation, may be iffued from hence
in our favour; nothing vexing me more in
this matter, than the Cowardlinefs of the
Rogues (as once faid Sir Roger Williams to a
Dutch Boor) in drawing their Knife upon us
when we have nothing but a Sword and Dag-
ger by our fides.
Capt. Allen hath already ftruck up a Peace
with Algiers, the Articles,a Copy whereof I re-
mit herewith inclofed, being the fame in effect
with the former, but without any Reftitution
on either fide, a thing on the part of thofe Py-
rats I am told unpracticable.
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It
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It hath been farther intimated to me, in cafe
he hath yet buſineſs in that Sea, his usefulleft
Poft hereafter (neceffity urging) is like to be
that of Argier it felf; for that thefe of Spain,
in respect he hath touched there, will go near
to be ſhut againſt him, for, fear of Infection, or
at leaſt pretence thereof; in the mean time the
Holland Ships, to the number of above 100
Merchant-men, the much greateſt and richeſt
part of them in the Port of Cadiz, have their
retreat here, with orders from home (as far
as by Intelligence and other Tokens can be un-
derſtood of their fecret Intentions) to keep
themſelves cloſe in Harbour till the Spring, and
then to return round about Scotland, if in the
interim their paffage through the Channel fhall
not be diſobſtructed.
One Monfieur de le Roy, (a Flemish Gentle-
man of Condition) whofe Father I am told
was well known to his Majefty in Flanders, and
himſelf, together with his Brothers, Educated
in the English College at St. Tomar, hath been
in this Court fome weeks, in nature of a Com-
miſſioner, in behalf of the Publick Revenue and
Trade of thoſe Provinces.
Something I underſtand he hath to propofe,
in reference to a matter of 20000 Men, when
neceffity fhould require it, to be levied and paid
upon their own Account, and by their own
Managery, for the avoiding of Fraud by gree-
dy Officers and Minifters, but in other refpects,
with all due Cautions to the Dignity and Pre-
rogative of his Catholick Majesty.
Fut that being a thing (as yet at leaſt) in
the Clouds, the fpecial reafon for which I men-
tion this Gentleman at preſent is, that he hath
already, to his very great and unexpected Joy,
gor
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got a Grant for his Country, which could
never be obtained before (tho' much, and
with much reafon, pretended unto) that they
ſhould enjoy as ample Privileges of Trade in
Spain as the Hollanders do by their Articles.
My obfervation hereupon being, what a
time this Court (after long holding off) hath
pick'd out, to make Flemings from Hollanders,
and confequently Hollanders from Flemings, as
indiftinguishable as is poffible, tho' by as pene-
trating Eyes as thoſe of the Junta here for
Prizes. With all true Affection, I remain,
Your moſt Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
Upon the 13 Nov. Stilo Loci, I conjecture Cap-
tain Chichely, Commander of the Phoenix, fet
fail from Alicant with your Packet, which I recei-
ved by my Lord Holles's Exprefs, in fearch of Cap-
tain Allen.
R. Fanshaw.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
Hague the 3d of Nov. 1664. Q. S.
Right Honorable,
Riday laft the Muscoviter had his Audience
he only read a Complement to the Eftates
in his Maſters Name, and demanded a Ship to
Tranſport him for England, the which was ac-
corded to him.
Opdans
;
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Opdam is ftill in Goree, being kept in by con-
trary Winds; and the Eftates General have a-
gain demanded of the Admiralty, whether it
were not poffible for their Fleet to go round Scot-
land? but they have anſwered as before, that
it is altogether impoffible at this Seafon of the year.
Thoſe of Zeland have this week propofed, that
not only Pitch, Tar, &c. fhould be Prohibited to
be Transported, but whatever may be useful as to
the building or fitting cut of Shipping, for that they
do apprehend that his Majefty is in want of
thofe things. Thofe of Holland do much prefs
on the haft'ning out of the other 18 Men of
War. The Muscoviter is gone hence to Em-
bark for England; he faid to fome before his
going away, that he had great Affairs with his
Majesty, and that they would repair what bad
paffed with my Lord Carliſle.
The Estates General are very angry that de
Ruyter hath been ftill hindred from cleaning
his Ships at Cadiz, and have this Week writ
ten a Letter to the King of Spain, complain-
ing thereof, and that they think it very strange,
that others (meaning the Engliſh) should have
that liberty, tho' they come from the fame Places,
and they debarred it.
The Wind is now good for their Fleet to
go out. I am
Your Excellencies, &c.
G. DOWNING.
To
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To Colonel Fitz-Gerald, Deputy - Governour
of Tangier.
Madrid 29 Novemb. 1664. N. S.
SIR,
You
Curs of the 6 Nov. N. S. with a Poft-
fcript of the 12th of the fame, N. S. came
this day to my hands, with two Packets for
Mr. Secretary Bennet, which I fhall fend for-
ward to morrow by the Poft.
I have of late (as you may perceive by my
laft) fufpected that Gayland is preparing to give
you an Affault, but did, before that I received
yours above-mentioned, believe you would be
ready for him.
I am heartily glad your felf and the Gariſon
under your Command have fo good Health,
and befeech God to continue it.
We have no late News from England, the
laft was, that they are still in daily expectation of
a Breach with Holland.
The Spanish Proclamation for a Free Comerce
with Tangier, you take doubtleſs by the right
end, namely, that it may difcourage or (which
is the fame thing) put jealoufies into Gayland's
Head; tho' fome particular Spaziards may tell
him and help him, by their actions, to believe
there is no harm meant thereby towards him.
I am
Sir, Your Faithful,&c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
From
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From the Lord. Ambaſſador Holles..
My Lord,
Since
Paris 23 'Novemb. 1664. N. S.
Ince the Meffenger I fent, who is, I hope,
by this time well on his way hitherward
again, I have not been able to write unto your
Excellency, my Indifpofition having ftill con-
tinued, by that Defluxion upon the fide of my
Face and Teeth, which is not yet quite gone
but much better. I have received fince, a
Letter from you of October 12, N. S. brought
me by a Gentleman of the Ambaſſador of Man-
tua, and with it a Relation concerning Gigeri,
which giving an advantage to the Moors, was
not then believed, when every day the Victo-
ries of the French, were cried up and down the
Streets, but it ſeems it was true enough, as by
the Sequel appeared; very few days after, the
news coming of the French quitting the Town
and Country, and leaving all their fick Men
and Cannon behind; and,to fet out their hand,
of thoſe that did get off, when they were come
home upon the Coaft of France, a fhip funk
with ten Companies, one of their chief Com-
manders, Monf. de la Guillotiere, and fifty Vo-
Juntiers, Perfons of Quality in it. We have
been here in great apprehenfions alfo for the
young Queen, who fick of an Ague fell in La-
bor, fomething it feems before her time, upon
this day fennight, Sunday in the morning, and
was delivered of a Daughter, both of them in
great danger with strong Convulfion Fits for
fome
?
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fome days, and obferved to Sympathize toge-
ther, the Child to be worfe or better as the Mo-
ther was; now, God be thanked, great hopes
are of both, even to be paft all danger; the
young Madam is faid to have fomething of the
favour of a Moor, occafioned by the Queens ha-
ving young Meors about her, which it feems
were fent to the King from Gigeri,and wrought
upon her imagination.
Here goes with this a couple of Letters, one
from: Sir John Harrifon, my antient good Friend,
which fhould have been fent by me on Thurf-
day laſt, but I muſt beg pardon for flipping the
opportunity, my Lord Fitz Harding coming
unexpectedly hither that day, fent by his Ma-
jefty upon buſineſs to this Court, and my own
Indifpofition together,made me forget the Poft-
day; the other is from Sir George Downing;
which will tell you all of Holland. We fup-
poſe his Royal Highnefs now at Sea. I am,
Your Excellencies, &c.·
HOLLES.
I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Paris Octob. 29. 1664.
Have received your Excellencies Letter of
October 8. and tince that which accompa-
nied it, according to the Direction, to which
one of theſe that come along with this may be
an anfwer. I affure my felt they will inform the
Eftare
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Eſtate of the Holland Affairs; fo as I fhall not
need to ſay any thing of them, tho', to tell you
my opinion, I think all they do there is but
Grimace, both treating and arming, for they
do both fufficiently, and I verily believe all but
to amufe us, hoping their work will be done
the while at Guinea, by Ruyter, whom they ſent
from your Spanish Coaft in the beginning of
September laft, of which I prefently gave notice
into England,upon the advice I then received of
it from Bayonne, and now they believe it, Sir
John Lawfon having brought the confirmation
of it; but a great deal of time is loft, and f
pray God it be not too late for the new Coun-
fels they fay it will oblige them to take. Your
laſt Letters informing of his coming into Ca-
diz with his main Maft crack'd, is fome little
comfort. Prince Robert is not yet gone, which
I write to them I am very forry for; he ſtays
at the Downs for fome addition of Force; but,
I fay, expedition is now all in all. The Dutch
Fleet not at all ready, yet talk of going every
day, and till they hear the bufinefs is done will
talk ſtill and not go, except they fee Prince
Robert gone, when I believe they will follow.
In this Court there is little News, all full of
Jollity, and the more for your Marquefs of Ca-
racene's being here, who is much regaled with
Balls and Comedies.
The Town of Erford alfo, which has made
much noiſe, and was thought would have di-
vided Germany; all engaging either for or a-
gainst it, and the Town it felf very ſtrong,
were ftruck with a panick Fear, at the Sum-
mons of him who commanded the French
Forces, who feeing the Town not like to be
Carried
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carried by force, would try to fcare them into a
yielding, and ſo terrified them with threatning
what his Mafter would do, that they preſently o-
pened him the Gates, and promifed to yield to fuch
conditions as he should think fit to agree upon with
the Bishop of Mentz in their behalf; which ſtill
makes for the Honour of France.
They will have it here, that a Peace is cer-
tainly made with Portugal, and that the English
Ambafador hath done that work at Madrid:
This Poft-day hath a little furprized me, not
being aware of it, till very near too late to make
ufe of it.
I am
My Lord, &c.
HOLLES.
I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
1
Whitehall, Nov. 3. 1664.
Wrote not to your Excellency on this day
Sennight, becauſe I had done it the Monday
before, and had none from you to anfwer.
This day I have received yours of 15 and 11
Octob. N. S. which require no precife Anfwer;
there was in them a Copy of your laft Memo-
rial concerning Tangier, of which we muft ex-
pect the fruit by your following ones; and as
to your whole Negotiation, I have no farther
direction from his Majefty than what was ex-
preſſed in my laft. Expecting what they will fay Out of
to you, and bow take you, continuing to fret them Cypher.
with your preparation to be gone, and expecting
what
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what what that will produce, tho' the disjoined
condition of their own Affairs, and the fear they
have of the French, promiſe us no great advances
on their part.
In our Affairs here there is no alteration fince
my laft. The Holland Fleet is not yet come
out, tho' continuing ftill to make it ſelf ready
and ftrong, as we do ours with all poffible ap-
plication and diligence, and I am perfuaded, in
the next I fhall fend you word that his Royal
Highness hath Embarked himſelf, with a great
number of young Nobility following him as
Voluntiers. Prince Rupert and my Lord of
Sandwich continue ftill on Board their Ships.
I am with much Affection,
My Lord, Your, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
I have not heard one word of Don Patricio
Omuledei a long time, more than that he is In-
difpofed, neither doth he fend us any Papers,
nor hath made any kind of Overture to us.
I am commanded by his Majefty to recom-
mend to your Excellency very effectually, the
getting in the Bonds and Cancelling them,
which one Don Bartolome Balbaly Gally gave,
to obtain the Liberty of one Richard Carre,
whofe Petition to his Majefty goeth here inclo-
fed; in all their Complaints of us, they will
not find us using a Spaniard fo.
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid Wedneſday 30 Nov. 1664. O. S.
S ÍR,
Mr.
Y laft to you of 23 Nov O. S. giving an
account, among other things, of what
paſt in Difcourfe between me and the French Am³
ballador, upon the 22 Nov. O. S. repaying then
to his Excellency his Vifit of the 5 Nov. Õ. S. I
omitted one thing which I am fince of the mind
I ought not to have done, tho' it relate but to
Ceremony, if Ceremony among Princes may be
made a But of
He told me, the Nobleman fent from Savoy
(Comte de la Trenita) whom I mentioned to you
in mine of the 2 Nov, O. S. with the Title of
Ambajador Extraordinary (if this Court would fo
accept him, as from a Crowned Head) was ftill
at Caramanchel; That the faid Comte had been
much prefs'd to enter by this faid Court, with
render of a Houfe defpenfa, and all other Privi-
leges, equal to Amballadors of the first Rank, fave
only the Chappel and the Hat: That thereupon
he had come to Town Incognito, to confult the mat-
rer with him the faid French Ambaſſador, to whom
(faid he) my poſitive Advice was, not to ſuffer
himfelf to be drawn into the Court upon thofe
Terms, but to diſpute it out at Arms end from
Caramanchel, where accordingly he remains to this
day,
Whether this Advice or not did extend ſo far,
as that the Comte fhould return to Savoy without
entring this Court at all, in cafe he could not, af-
B b
ter
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Out of
ter all endeavours uſed, obtain his pretence of
Embaxador de Capilla. I cannot affirm of my own
obfervation, from the French Ambaſſador's mouth,
but have heard it ſaid by others, that in fuch caſe
he will return from his Village immediately, de-
puting the principal matter of his Negotiation to
be follicited by the French Ambaſſador, on his Ma-
fters behalf; the which principal matter is farther
faid to be a Debt from this Crown to the Duke of
Savoy.
Whilft I am writing this, I have received yours
of 3 November.
In reference to the Cypher'd part thereof, I have no-
thing lof farther light to add to my former Despatches,
Cypher. Save only this, that (Some days being past fince the last
of them) my
Declaration and Preparation to be gone,
hath been ſo far from producing any Advances on the
part of this Court, that their carriage feems to me eve-
ry day bitberto cooler and cooler towards England, and
methinks Don Patricio Omuledei's deportment in
England, according to your relation in the faid Letter,
imports no less.
Yours, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
POSTSCRIPT
HE inclofed from Tangier, which came to
T my hands yefterday, will I prefume fully
certifie the ſtate of that Garifon.
To
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嗫
​SIR,
I
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Cadiz, Nov. 30. 1664,
Here are ftore of Holland Ships at prefent in
this Bay, upwards of 20 Sail of brave Mer-
chant-men, of about 30 Guns each; feveral, this
and the last week, arrived from Norway, with
Deals. Some talk already of going in Corfo
againſt us.
Eight Portugal Men of War are abroad, the
Admiral hath 60 Guns of Brafs; they have been
met by feveral Ships, and lie off the Rock of
Lixa.
By Letters of the 2d prefent from Malaga, the
Smyrna Fleet were then there, being fix Merchants
Ships, and two Men of War.
They now write from Cales, there are no
Men of War there; fo (if there were any, as is
fuppofed there was) haply they are gone our
to meet the Smirna Fleet.
Admiral Allen,on the 16th paſt, O.S. paſt from
near Alicant (Peace being made with Algier) was
under Sail for Tangier: By which computation,
in cafe he had received Orders to meddle with the
Dutch, one would think the Devil had owed them
a Shame; for that 16 days before they were gone
from that open Road (which can afford no pro-
tection) for Cales; and by contrary Winds were
forced thereunto again.
Yours, &c.
Bbz
2
R. FANSHAW.
To
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1
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
TH
Whitehall, Nov. 10. 1664
His acknowledgeth your Excellencies of the
22 Octob. N. S. wherein I find the Diftem-
pers of that Court, occafioned by the fall of the
Braſs Money, are not yet allaied.
Two days ago Don Patricio Omuledei was with
me, telling me, you were now well fatisfied again
with the Intentions and Proceedings of that Court; that
the Duke of Medina de las Torres was appointed
more exprefly to confer with you about the Treaty; that
all our Country-men, Prifoners, were releafed; and
that the Comerce was allowed with Tangier, the Pro-
bibition of the Duke of Medina Celi bhaving been mif-
applied to us. All this is very good, but your
Letter, which is not an old one, faying nothing
to this effect, il faut attendre le boiteux.
In your aforementioned Letter, there is a con-
firmation of de Ruyter's being gone to Guinea,
which comes ſeaſonably to convince thoſe who,
will not yet believe it.
His Royal Highness took his leave yeſterday
Morning of his Majefty, to go and embark him-
felf upon the Fleet at Portsmouth, whither the reſt
of the Ships have order alfoto go from the Downs;
fo that now we are pretty ready for the Dutch, if
they come out, and the laft Letters faid, they
were only expecting a Wind for it. I am with
all Refpect and Affection,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 7 Decemb. 1664, O. S.
SIR,
You
Ours of the roth No. I received this day,
and doubt not but before you will This,
the lame Man that is mentioned in yours will
have waited upon you from me, with fatisfaction
in all points of my Negotiation, and to him I re-
fer you, having no more of moment at prefent,
or within my prefent view, that might rational-
ly endure an alteration of any refolution which
his Majefty may have taken upon thoſe latter re-
preſentations.
My laft 30 Nov. O. S. gave you that account
of Capt. Allen, a Copy whereof is here incloſed
likewife, only I forgot therein to do thefe Peo-
ple ſo much right as to certifie you, that in the
Spanish Port, from whence he took his courfe
Weftward, altho' he had newly come from Al-
gier, he was admitted to full Prattick the very firſt
day of his arrival there.
I am afraid I fhall not be able, by this Poſt,
to give you any farther account of him, or of
Tangier, or, laftly, of the Dutch Merchant-men
in the Bay of Cadiz, concerning whom I inti-
mated a fufpicion in the fame, herewith copied,
that they are changing their property, and ma-
king themſelves into a confiderable Fleet of Men
of War. All which I was very defirous to have
done, but the weather being bad, the Poft from
Andaluzia is not yet arrived. I am
Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
Bb 3
To
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SIR,
TH
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Thurfday Dec. 18. 1664. N. S.
'Hough in mine of yeſterday I deſpaired of
the Poſt from Andaluzia coming this week,
by reafon of the bad weather, he is now arrived,
and I have only ſo much time before the depar-
ture of this, as to incloſe the Intelligence I have
juſt now received from Cadiz and Malaga.
This King, who was reported this morning to
have had a bad Fit of the Stone the laſt night, is
faid, at the time of my writing hereof, to be very
well amended. I am
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
POSTSCRIPT.
The Advertiſements concerning Major Holms,
and Lisbone, I prefume will be no News to you
(himſelf having, I hope, before this can come
to hand, been the happy Bearer thereof) but that
of Capt. Allen, Smirna Ships, and Tangier, may
well be fo, and likewife produce more for the
next week.
To
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To the Lord Ambaſſador Holles.
Madrid, Thurfday the 8th of December, 1664.
English Account.
I
SIR,
Do befeech your Excellency to accept the inclo-
fed in part of my Obligation,and of the many
I have received from your Excellency, the laſt
whereof 2
23 of the laft, O. S. There is nothing
more at preſent here, but high Words concern-
ing the Springs Campaign; the which proportio-
nable Preparations feem to fecond, but, as yet,
have taken no diftinct Form whereby to be ca-
pable of a particular Deſcription.
I
The Catholick King had the laſt night an ill fit
of the Stone, but I hear to day it is well over.
am, with much dutiful Affection,
My Lord, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday the 14th Dec. 1664. O. S.
SIR,
WE
E have this week had no Letters from the
farther parts of Andaluzia, and therefore
can know nothing either of Capt. Allen or Tan-
gier, more than what I wrote to you in my laſt;
Bb 4
and
T
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and from Sevil they write, that the Poft from Ca-
diz,&c. cannot pafs by reaſon of the great Floods
they have had of late.
Thefe five or fix nights laft paft here hath ap-
peared a very ſtrange blazing Star, fo high and
fo clear, that I prefume it muft needs have been
feen in England likewife, and therefore forbear to
give you any defcription or judgment thereof,
the People of this Country not being ſo curious
in fuch matters as ours are there.
}
Yeſterday I went to give the King and Queen
the Nora buena of her Majefties Birth-day, which
was the day before. As foon as I came from the
King, the Dutch Ambaffador was called in, and
at his coming out (it being a very dry day, and
we having an hour to ſpend before the Queen
would be ready to receive us) I invited him in-
to my Coach, and we took a turn in the Town,
which caufed almoft as much wonder in this
People, as the Blazing Star, and indeed I did it
to that end partly, there being no offence in it,
that I know, fo long as his Majefty hath an Envoy
in Holland, and the States an Amballador in Eng-
land.
The truth is, many of this People begin to ap-
prehend, that our Diſputes with them will have
a quite other iffue, and a very different operation,
as other Interefts, and Spains amongst the reft,than
Spain imagined.
J
:
Laſt Night was before the Palace a Maſquerade
on Horſeback. I had a Balcone appointed me in
the Armory over the Stables of his Majefty, the
Dutch Ambaffador another for him next below
mine, the rest of the Ambaffadors in an Entrefuelo
of the Palace.
Mine I left to my Gentlemen, and fat my felf
with the Duke of Medina de las Torres, at his Quar-
}
ters
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ters in the Pallace, my Wife in another Room
thereby with the Dutchefs.
The Duke there, among other Diſcourſes, told
ine, by that time the Conde de Molina might be in
England.
I have nothing to add differing in fubftance
from my latter Defpatches, and therefore crave
leave to reft
Your most, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
Hague the 17th of Nov. 1664. O. S.
Right Honourable,
TH
His bufinefs of Gigery doth ftrangely furprize
them here, it was not expected that a Com-
pany of Moors fhould have frighted fuch a number
of French out of all their Valour and Honour, and
to have made them quit a Fortification in fo
ſhameful a manner, and tho' they could have been
very well content, that the French King fhould
meet with fome Rubs in his Career, yet they
would not have wished it just at this nick of time,
when their main hope is, that by the Reputation
of his fiding with him, they ſhall be able to reduce
his Majefty to their Terms; and they do confi-
dently give out, that Monfieur de Cominges fhould
have Orders to declare, that in cafe the Diſpute
come into Europe, his Mafter will not fit ftill, but
take part with this Country. A Swedes Ship loaden
with Mafts and other Neceflaries for Shipping, at
Gottenburgh, upon the account of fome London
Merchants;
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Merchants, and bound for London, being by ſtreſs
of Weather driven into the Texel, is there ftop-
ped by the Admiralty. The Swedish Refident
and I have each of us given in two Memorials
complaining thereof, as a direct Breach of their
Treaties with both Crowns, but notwithſtanding
ſhe is yet detained; of which you may make uſe
as occafion offers.
Opdam continues very much Indifpofed with the
Gout,Gravel,and Cholick, fo that they have given
him leave at laſt to come on fhoar for his Reco-
very; and now that it is found in good earneſt,
that his Majefties Fleet is at Sea, and the Duke
really gone or going they change their note here,
and while his Majefty plays only this kind of
game, viz. merely to fteer by their Compaſs, he
must be fubject to what they will be pleaſed to
impofe upon him; if he had not put out his Fleet
they would certainly have braved it through the
Channel and back again, elfe you may be fure
they would not have ftopped their Ships for the
East-Indies, as they have thefe fix or feven weeks;
and when the left-India Companies Ships, with
Provifions and Merchandifes for Guinea, came out
of the Texel, not have obliged them to come to
Goree to Opdam (as they did) but have let them
have flipped quietly away round by Scotland,
whereby they might have been now near Gui-
nea. They have fent Commillioners to their Fleet
to fee in what condition it is, and what it wants,
and it is certain, that it hath not above three
weeks Victuals, nor is any order yet taken for
their Victualling and which way that looks you
can eafily judge, but yet till they do actually
bring in their fhips into Harbour, there is
no trufting to their Intentions; and Refolu-
tions change according to opportunity, and
i c
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it is no fmall Reputation to his Majefty,
that having equipped fuch a capital Fleet
under their Admiral, and ftopped fo many rich
Merchant-men to take the benefit of that Con-
voy, that after all they ſhould not dare to ſtir out,
and thoſe Ships, after fo much lofs of time, put
to fhift for themſelves in this depth of the year;
and I affure you, this caufeth no fmall murmur-
ing in their Country, and is next door to a down-
right beating, and lets the Merchants fee what
they are like to expect, in relation to the Secu-
rity of their Trade in cafe of a War. The Eſtates
of Frize, in their Aflembly this laft week, have
committed the Government of her Son to the
Princeſs Dowager of Naffau, and given her the
Profits of her Husbands Charges of Captain Ge-
neral, and Stadt Helder, and that the fhall appoint
all the Magiſtrates in all the Towns, as abfolute-
ly as her Husband did, until the Child come to
be 17 years of Age, and that then he is to execute
thofe Charges himſelf, and they have by Letters.
notified the fame to the Eſtates General. Here
begins to be much noiſe about the Marching of
the French Troops in Germany to the Affiftance of
the Biſhop of Munster, againſt the Count of Ol-
denburgh, upon the account of a County which he
holds, but which the faid Bifhop doth pretend
belongs to his Biſhoprick. The buſineſs toucheth
as well the Swedes as the Danes, for that the In-
heritance thereof is difpofed by the prefentCount,
to come after his death to the Duke of Holstein.
My Lord Carliſle's Lady is brought to Bed of a
Son, at Copenhagen, and his Majefties Affairs go to
hearts Wishes with thofe Crowns. I have none
from you. I am
Your Excellencies, &c.
G. DOWNING
To
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SIR,
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Tueſday 30 Dec. 1664. N. S
His day I received yours of 24th and 28th
This
paft the former Queries how I find my
Correfpondence from your Office? whereunto
my anfwer is, I find it very full and punctual
both from you and your Officers refpectively;
for which I render you double Thanks. The lat-
ter affures me, the opening of the Parliament,
confirmed with a Thunder clap of 2500, 000l..
fuch a plaudit to his Majefties Preparations, and
his Royal Highneſs's Perfonal entrance upon the
Seat, as no Age hath heard, and the whole World
are ftartled at, fuppofing it every where as it is
here. His Majefties Speech at the opening, to
raife the wonderful Expectation of what will fol-
low, is already arrived in this Court, and in
good Spanish out of England, from which I con-
jecture it aright, which his Majefly owes to the
Zeal of Don Patricio Omule dei, wherein I do Don
Patricio no wrong neither, tho it is reported
here, I do him many ill Offices into England, and
that I am a profefs'd Enemy of Spain. In this
they do me a wilful Injury, for themſelves know
I profefs the contrary; and truly I do believe,
you, who know all my Thoughts and Proceed-
ings towards them, doth judge me more their
Friend than they are their own.
This latter Letter did moreover contain, a
Pacquet from Mr. Coventry, with a firſt,ſecond,and
third Bill of Exchange for Capt. Allen, the which
I will
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I will carefully remit by the next Ordinary for
Andaluzia, and would immediately by an Exprefs
in all diligence, but that I know from himſelf he
is in no preſent want thereof.
The laft Letters from Cadiz and Malaga,alarm'd
us with a fad Report to both thofe Places, from
Gibraltar, at which my Heart yet trembles, tho'
really I do not believe it, for feveral reafons, and
the rather, becaufe our Country-men in thoſe
parts, nor I here, have been able to trace it be-
yond Dutch Authors, as if two or three of his
Majefties Frigats, and fome will needs have the
Admiral himſelf to be one of them, had in a fogg
been caft away upon that Coaſt; the incloſed Ex-
tracts fpeak pro and con in the buſineſs, God grant
the beft to be likewife the true.
In Tangier I prefume all to be well, becauſe f
hear nothing to the contrary by two weeks Poft
from Cadix and Malaga now arrived together,
and by the Poft preceding them it was, that I re-
ceived, and immediately remitted to you the Ad-
vertiſement, that Gayland was near the Town
with his Army, and our Men fully and vigorou-
fly prepared to entertain him, in cafe he fhould
adventure to attack, with whatfoever num-
bers
Two Azogue Ships from Vera Cruz arrived, ac-
cording to the late Advice, at Cadiz, that they
have brought upon the King's accompt 600,000
Pieces of Eight. This is the general Vogue, nor-
withſtanding which,fome expert think little came
there for his Majefty.
Belides, three Ships lately from Buenos Ayres
arrived there, with good fore of Silver, but lit-
tle or none upon the King's accompt.
A Plot between Portuguezes on this fide, alfo
fome French, Catalans, and Andaluzes, to betray
and furprize the principal Fort commanding up-
on
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on Bajadoz, and faid to be fomented partly from
Madrid, partly from Sevil, is here accidentally
diſcovered.
The Almirante of Arragon is newly taken away
by fuddain Death, without Confeffion.
In like manner about the fame time, three or
four more in this Court, fome of them of Qua-
lity.
The Prince of Monte Sarche Illuftrio Cofario, un-
der Commillion of this Crown, with 7 or 8 Fri-
gats of his own, aggregating fome Abroad, and
of whofe Rapines upon our English Merchant-
men, for or upon pretence of their being bound
for Portugal; whereof I have lately certified you,
and made a formal Complaint to his Catholick
Majefty; his faid Squadron is, as I am credibly
informed, for the major part at leaſt, man'd with
Hollanders, not without fome English mixt with-
al.
I am as credibly informed, that many Flemish
Privateers will now take,if they have not already
taken,Commiffions againſt us from the Hollanders,
and that divers Holland Ships in thefe Ports, par-
ticularly of Biscay, having unladen their Goods,
as formerly advertifed, do go lading them in the
bottoms of Spanish Subjects, to be failed by fuch
for Holland.
Another Squadron of the like number with that
of Mente Sarche, in like manner aggregated, and
with like Commillion, is putting to Sea; one D.
Hippolito, Centurion Genoues, newly defpatched from
this Court, with full Authorities, and confidera-
ble Advance of preſent Moneys, and the reft Con-
fignations for that purpofe, towards Geneva.
Thefe Advertiſements, I hope, may prove of
fome uſe in our future managements, greater
oppofitions being more obvious to be encountred
than
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than thefe Clandeftine and Sinifter Practices, of
which it is probable you will find more blowing
from other Coats. I am
Your moft Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
There is much heat at prefent in this Court,
between the Emperor's Ambaffador and thefe Mi-
nifters, concerning the fending away the Emprefs
this Spring or not; the Iflue not known as yet,
but the flower pace much rather to be expected,
as I conceive, againſt the opinion of many.
POSTSCRIPT.
Ince the writing hereof, I have hunted out a
Letter bearing date the 20th December, to a
Licenciado of this Court, Native of Gibraltar, fron
the place it felf, with which he keeps a conftant
Correſpondence of all remarkable Events and Ac-
cidents, it ſpeaks not one word of this of our
English, Frigats, and yet the fuppofition is, that
the diſaſter hap'ned the 18th of the fame.
To the Lord Amballador Fanfhaw.
Hague the 24 Nov. 1664. N. S.
Right Honourable,
Ince the News of the Duke of York's being at
Sea, not a word of their Fleets going through
the Channel, tho' it is a thing that did very
highly import them, having not only ftopped
very
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;
very many rich Merchants Ships, for the benefit
of that Convoy, which otherwife might have
been long ago fafe through the Channel, but
they have near 300 Sail at this time in France,
for Wine and other Commodities,and many Ships
are alſo now expected from Spain,and other parts
Weftward, the which are all now left to mercy
to get home as they can, and fuch Ships as were
to go out, gone and going round Scotland, in
this dead feafon of the year, and for Opdam's Fleet
they are feparating and feparated to their refpe-
Etive Admiralties, but they intend to keep the
Men in half-pay all this Winter, to have them in
readineſs againſt the Spring, and to keep a Fleet
of about 30 Sail about the Weilings, but their Re-
folutions alter every day, according to their Ad-
vices from England. The News of my Lord Fitz-
Harding's being at Paris, hath fo alarm'd them,
as that immediately they refolved to fend Van
Buningen thither Polt, to countermine him, and
to push on that Court to mediate Agreement
upon their Terms, and if that cannot be, to de-
clare down-right for them, and it is the hopes
they have there alone that buoys them up. This
Van Buningon is of Amſterdam, and was one of
their Ambaſſadors extraordinary at the making
the late Treaty; a nimble Man, full of Difcourfe
and Fire.
The Elector of Brandenburgh hath chofen his
Majefty and the Queen of Denmark for Witneffes'
for his young Son, who is called Lewis, for that
he had a Charles before. The Deputies of the
Eftates General fent to the Affemblies of the
Eſtates of Gelderland, have had but a very cold
reception, nor could they draw them to any con-
clufion, but only that they would fend their an-
fwer by Deputies of their own; they told them,
ther and is perpetually making Wars and Broi-
leries,
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leries, for the advancement of their Trade, and
then they come to them for Money to carry them
on,who have no ſhare in the profit; that for their
parts they had no Quarrel with his Majefty, and
did defire to live 'in Peace with him, whofe
Friendſhip they judged fo neceffary for them, and
did not know how foon they might have occafion
for it, in cafe they fhould come to be Attacked,
as probably they might upon their Frontiers.
The Admiralties are all gone home, very ill
fatisfied one with another, each endeavouring to
Thift part of the Burthen upon the other.
am
I receiv'd none from you fince your first. I
My Lord, Your Excellencies, &c.
G. DOWNING.
I
To the Lord Ambaffacor Fanshaw;
My Lord,
Have received your Excellencies of Nov. 20.
N. S. and give you many humble Thanks for
your Favour and Care of my Health, which is,
I thank God, much better than when Mr. Augier
went hence, tho' I have not yet been out of my
Chamber, but hope it within a day or two.
I perceive the News of the Peace concluded
with Algier by Capt. Allen, was not then come
to you, which I queftion not but your Excellen-
cy hath fince had from him, and I hope he hath
receiv'd the Orders fent by Augier; fo as by this
time we may believe him fairly onward in his
way to Guinea, from whence we are in impatience
Oc
tor
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to hear in what condition our Men are, whether
de Ruyters Fleet have made havock amongſt them
or no, and what Capt. Allen is like to do with
his Fleet, either in prevention of Miſchief from
de Ruyter's, or for the recovery and reparation of
it being done.
Holmes we hear is come to Lisbon with 4 Ships,
fo far towards England, but in what condition
that Country left by him was, we know not. I
fhall fay nothing of the buſineſs with Holland, of
which the inclofed from Sir George Downing will
give, I am fure, a perfect Account; only we hear
from England this week, that their Wine Fleet
from Bordeaux of 22 Sail, with their Convoy, be-
ing 2 Men of War (the News is) are taken, but
I believe only ſtopped in England, driven in with
weather; other Dutch Ships are likewife faid to'
be taken, and Capt. Tiddiman, Rear-Admiral to
my Lord Sandwich's Squadron, to be in the Downs,
with order to ſtop all Dutch Men of War.
Our Parliament began this day fennight, Thurf-
day; was entertain'd by his Majefty with an ac-
count of the State of the Bufinefs with Holland
and of the Preparations he had made, and the
Charge it had put him to; with which both Hou-
fes were very well pleaſed; ordered Thanks, and
to enter forthwith, upon the confideration there-
of: So the beginning fpeaks fair, I hope the pro-
grefs and end will anfwer.
Here is coming to this Court Van Beuninghen from
Holland, they fay Poft, but he is not yet arrived;
it is certainly to make great out-cries upon the
English, for affaulting them at their Doors, taking
their Ships, and obftructing their whole Trade
and fo try if France will be engaged to affift them;
which I do not believe they will haftily prevail
in; for we are here a little alarm'd with the great
Prepa
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[
Preparation in Flanders, raifing Men, fortifying
their Frontiers by ſtrengthning the Garifons; they
talk alſo of the Emperor's Army (now at leiſure)
coming down thither; and of the Frontiers
ſtrengthning alfo on your fide in Catalonia; fo as
Troops likewife march that way towards Flan-
ders, I mean from hence.
We are well pleaſed with your News of Portugal,
of which I fhall defire the particulars at your next
conveniency, and that you will be pleafed to ha-
ften hither Augier, who hath my Wives French
Tongue in his Pocket, and the must be dumb the
while; therefore fhe will give your Excellency
Thanks for haftning of him. I am
My Lord, &c.
HOLLE S.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
FOR
Whitehall, Nov. 24. 1664
OR want of Letters from your Excellency,
and a multiplicity of other Bufinefs that E-
vening, I forbore to write to you, but whenever
I do fo, my Officers have order to fupply that
want, and to fend you all the current News; if
they fail to do fo you muſt complain to me, and
I fhall fee it remedied.
Since this day fennight (which I call my wri-
ting day to your Excellency) I have received three
of Yours, of 19, 25, and 26 Octob. O. S. In your
firſt there is an account of your Journey to the
Efcurial,
Cc 2
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Efcurial, and the good Reception you had théré
by his Catholick Majefties Orders; your meeting
the French Ambaffador upon your return, and the
Opinion ſpread there, that he is Recalled, which
we here confirm no other way.
In your fecond you confirm Don Patricio's
News, of a Free Trade granted to Tangier, New
Orders for the good Reception of of our Fleet in
the Spanish Ports, and laftly, the Liberty of the
Priſoners, of which yet your next did not allow,
that the Order was yet come to you, I mean that
of the 5th, in Cypher; to which I have nothing
to anſwer, till I fee what effect your Project pro-
duces.
Here incloſed, I fend you a Letter to Captain
Allen, from Mr. Coventry, containing Orders from
his Royal Highnefs for his feizure of all Dutch
Veffels; and becauſe I bethought my felf it might
not perhaps be enough to fend him one of them,
I have verified two more Copies under my Hand,
which I defire you to tranfmit unto him by the
way of Malaga and Alicant, at the fame time you
fend Mr. Coventries to Cadiz.
Our laft Letters from Holland do almoſt affure
us, that the Dutch Fleet will not come out; how-
ever his Royal Highneſs doth not yet think it fit
to leave the Fleet, and we have begun the buſineſs
now by the only way left us, that is, by feizing of
their Ships wherefoever we meet them. And this
day our Parliament met, very well difpofed, in
appearance, to contribute Liberally towards the
maintenance of the War. By this day fennight
I hope I fhall be able to fend you a good Vote of
theirs upon this Subject.
The Marquefs Caftel Rodrigo hath fent a Letter
to the King in Latin, giving his Majefty an ac-
count of his Arrival in Flanders; in return of
which,
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which, there will be a Gentleman deſpatched
to him very quickly. I am, with much Affe-
&tion,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
Whitehal Novemb. 28. 1664.
Have received nothing from your Excellency
fince my laft of the 25th, where I gave you
notice of the opening of our Parliament, and the
fair hopes we had, that they would chearfully
fupport the War with the Dutch; to juftifie which,
the Houſe of Commons the next day Voted the
raifing to his Majefty in three years 2500000l.
Sterling, but coming to Debate the manner of
raifing it the next day, they did not agree fo well,
but parted late in the Evening with great Heat;
notwithſtanding which, they have this day con-
cluded very peaceably, That the Committee of the
whole Houfe do proceed to confider of the rai-
fing of the 2500000l. in a regulated fubfidiary
Way, reducing the fame to a certainty in all
Counties, fo as no Perfon for his Real or Perfo-
nal Eſtate be exempted. The great ftrife hath
been between Subfidies and a Land Tax, the firſt
will make a great noiſe, and are of an uncertain
Value; the laft was the Child of thefe ill Times,
hath been renounced fince the King came home,
and at the best is unequally laid upon all the
Counties; fo that your Excellency must not be
furprized,
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furprized, if you hear ſome days have been ſpent
in making the manner effective, fince all agree in
the Quantum.
His Royal Highneſs finding the Wind fair to
bring out the Dutch, and his Fleet thoroughly
ready, is gone to Sea; fo if they have any mettle
they will come out to him, or muſt confefs they
dare not; and it will be worth fomething to us
in the Reputation of the World, as likewife coft
them dear at home, to have it ſeen they are no-
toriously afraid.
Laſt night arrived here Mr. Herbert from the
Fleet before Algiers, where Capt. Allen hath once
more made the Peace upon the fame Conditions
it ſtood before, ratified by the Grand Seignior,
but with ſome more favourable Explanations
concerning the fecuring our Merchants Traffick,
and their carrying on Board their Ships, Stran-
gers, and Strangers Goods, with a Proteftation
Signed and Sealed, that the laft Breach of the
Peace had no Countenance from their Govern-
ment, and that they had Drowned, Hanged, and
Baniſhed fome of thoſe who were the cauſe of it.
All which being finished much to our fatisfacti-
on, and Capt. Allen directing his courſe to Tunis
and Tripoli, to obtain the fame point there, they
preſſed him very earneftly to charge himſelf with
bringing the Artillery from Gigeri, which the
French left there; but the Captain flatly refuſed
it. Of this I hope you have received a larger
Accompt from Capt. Allen himſelf, and that you
have found means to convey thofe Defpatches
which we fent to you for him, and am
.
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 31 Dec. 1664, N. S.
SIR,
TH
His morning, fent unto by the Duke of Me-
dina de las Torres, I met his Excellency in
the Buen Retiro, where, in the first place, he told
me, an Anfwer I fhould have to my Propoſals
(the fame I fent you by Mr. Augier) but, that
thofe could be no Foundation of a Treaty ; for
that they were the fame which the Tyranical U-
furped Powers of England made to Don Alonzo de
Cardonas. I faid, it was very true, and were then
treated upon; but,that this was not the Title Don
Alonzo then gave them, as will appear upon their
Entrys in the Preface of the fame Treaty, where
he tells them, the greateſt Monarch in the World
is the firſt to acknowledge them a Free State. The
Duke reply'd, that was one of the Follies of Den
Alonzo, for which his Catholick Majefty remov'd
him from thence.
Then the Duke fell upon my talk of leaving
this Court, faying, it was impoffible to be meant
in earneſt, whereby to give the World occafion to
difcourfe, as if England were breaking with Spain;
Ordinary Ambaffadors being, by common accep-
tion, in the nature of continuing Pawns, between
Princes and States, of Peace and Amity already
Eſtabliſhed, without treating any farther matters.
Such a Peace was that in 1630, in full force at
this day, by virtue of the folemn Publication and
Renewing thereof between the two Crowns, fince
the Reftauration of his Majefty of Great Britain;
CC 4
Cc
and
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and fuch Ambaſſador is the prefent one of France,
and was the laft of Venice, with others.
I anſwered, what they did I knew not, but as
to my ſelf, his Excellency might perceive by my
prefent Orders, that the King my Mafter is not
minded to let me lie dead any longer, after fer-
ving his Majefty many years in the neareſt Trufts
about his Royal Perfon, as alſo out of his fight far
off, with gracious acceptance, and that confor-
mably when I came, tho' the Title I brought was
but of Ordinary, the Powers and Trufts repoſed
in me, were of a magnitude which many Extra-
ordinary Ambaſſadors have not been charged with;
and therefore (faid the Duke) we are willing to
treat with your Excellency, tho' but an Ordinary
Ambaſſador (till holding faſt to the Letter or Sub-
ftance of the Treaty of 1630. for the Foundation,
as far as that will go) upon fuch farther Con-
ceffions and Concerns, even of the higheſt Nature
between Crowns, as may be thought fit; praying
me accordingly to propound on the part of his
British Majefty.
I reply'd, that farther than I had already done,
I durft neither propound nor treat, till other Or-
ders from my Mafter (which I expected not from
any thing had been fince offered from this Court)
the laft being pofitive to prepare for my return
with the first of the Spring,
Then, had I not the fame Powers which I fo
often mentioned. I faid, Yes; but(to fpeak plainly
to his Excell. ncy) did not know whether the
King my Mafter continue as difengaged elfewhere
at this day, and how long he will be fo, as
his Majefty was when he gave them me,
and till very lately I am fure; knowing nothing
to the contrary, I protefted; but withal finding
that his Majefty defpaired of any thing of mo-
ment
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ment to be Negotiated here by me, after fo many
Months trial in vain, and I, as well as others, hea-
ring it rumour'd here, that fome body elſe hath,
in fewer days, fped better in another place.
Not any thing of moment, faid he; hath not the
Out of
King my Master condefcended to let you despatch a Cypher.
Gentleman of your own to Lisbon, to fend to you their
Propofitions, in order to a Treaty with the King of Eng-
land, on behalf of Portugal?
This is true, and I look Don Patricio Omule dei
fhould tell you, what a grand Pafs is made there-
by; but bepleafed once more to ſtay for the lame
Man, and withal to remember what he formerly
told you upon the fame Subject, there appearing
hitherto no relenting therein here in the leaft, for
all this feeming condefcenfion. However, fo long
as I continue here, I refolve to leave no stone un-
turn'd that may (how improbably foever, yet
poffibly) have any thing under it, which may
tend to the effecting my firft Inftructions, till I
know of change of Counfels at home, in that
regard; yet ftill keeping my felf pallive; for fo
I have told the Duke, that hearing and convey-
ing Propofitions from his Excellency (whether
before or with me, as they may come fooner or
later, to my Hands) in order to a more perfect
underſtanding in the future between the two
Crowns, is all I find my felf in the prefent capaci-
tated for.
In concluſion of all, the Duke making his ac-
compt, that the Conde de Molina would be now
fpeedily in England, defired me to prepare the way.
before-hand, that, when he fhould come, to pay
his due Refpects to her Majefty, in the notion of
Queen of England, her Majefty would be graci
outly pleaſed to receive his Excellency as befits
his Repreſentation, without other Reflections;
which bimfelf likewife would lay afide, in the
performance
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performance of thofe Functions. I answered, I
would write it, tho' I did in no wife doubt but
that would be. He faid, his doubt was, becauſe
when Don Patricio Omuledei attended her Majefty
upon the like occafion, her Majefty would under-
ftand no Spaniſh, and Ambaſſadors of Spain, can
fpeak no other Language, I yielding the Dukes
motion, as to an impartial Reception in the ge-
neral, to be reafonable, prefum'd to contradict
his Reaſon inſtanc'd in, replying, that if that were
Greatnefs in the Spaniard, I muft by the Rule of
Contraries unftudy the little Spanish I have, and
betake me to my Mother-Tongue too. He faid,
I had done fo at my firft Audience with his Ca-
tholick Majefty. True, I faid, and having there-
by taking Poffeffion of my Right, I was fince no
way fcrupulous to thrust my felf into any ſhape
which might render me beft underſtood, the thing
which every clear meaner hath most need of
With due acknowledgment of your many Favours.
I remain
Sir, Your Faithful,&C.
RICH. FANSHAW.
POSTSCRIPT.
His Conference, in my humble Judgment,
diſcovers fomething of farther and clearer
Light into this Courts fole End, in having folli-
cited my coming hither (I mean of fome body
from England, in the quality of Ambaffador) and
now my ſtay here, than what I formerly attain'd
unto; but not wholly to prejudice them neither.
I humbly refer his Majefty to their own Explana-
tion, when ſomething fhall come from themſelves
ip
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in writing upon the fame fubject, which I do
conceive will, ſpeedily after this, into England.
TH
RICH. FANSHAVV.
Second POSTSCRIPT.
Decemb. 30. 1664. O. S.
His I write with intent to ſend it by this
Court's Exprefs, who is to carry their own
Explanation in writing, above-mentioned, where-
by to perfuade his Majefty to continue me a-
mongst them, but their Anfwer firft above-men-
tioned to my Propofals, remitted to you in Copy,
by Mr. Augier, which was promiſed me in wri-
ting likewife, before the faid Exprefs fhould de-
part, is not yet come to my hands, confequently
little hopes of having it at all; neither have I fince
the above reported Conference, received any other
or farther Light than what the premiſes import;
in which regard, I have nothing to add to or va-
ry from my apprehenfions thereupon; therefore
if it be (as I fuppofe it is) the chief bufinefs of
their preſent ſpeedy Defpatch for England, to prefs
my ſtay, it lies upon them in the Negotiating
thereof, to demonftrate unto his Majefty what they
have not done to me, that they pretend not to
keep me here only for here's fake This time I
reft
Your moſt Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To
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F
To Admiral Allen.
Madrid 27 Decemb. 1664. O. S
SIR,
This
His inclofed from Mr. Coventry came to my
hands with the laft I received from England,
and ſhould have been deſpatched to you by an
Expreſs, had I not known that you had the fub-
ftance thereof before.
The fad News of your having loft 2 Ships by
difafter out of your Fleet, came to me but a
few days before the good of your Victory againſt
the Dutch, which I fuppofe was not at an end nei-
ther when the inclofed advice thereof was written,
the which I received from the Duke of Medina
de las Torres, otherwife the bad I had, without the
good, becauſe our Countrymen's Letters by the
laft Ordinary, this day arrived from Cadiz, fpeak
nothing of it, not withstanding the fight must have
been the very Day of the date thereof; but aç-
cording to computation of Time and other Cir-
cumſtances likewife, the Poft must have come a-
away in the morning, and the fight been in the
afternoon; fo taking the good News for infalli-
ble, I hope two principal and immediate Fruits
thereof, namely, the Recruiting our Ship-wrack'd
Men (for to my great Joy, I hear both they and
the Guns were all faved) with Dutch Ships, and
fupplying our Mould at Tangier with Dutch Work-
men, upon Liberal and Chriftian Terms, as to
their Perfons, and to the weakning of their Nation
in Mariners, till the prefent Controverfie between
them and us be ended.
Both
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Both theſe fucceffes are already upon the way
by a quick Poft for England. Congratulating your
Victory, Iremain,
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW!
To Capt. Thomas Allen, Commander in Chief
of his Majefties Fleet in the Mediterra-
nean Seas.
JAMES Duke of York and Albany, Earl of
Ulfter, Lord High Admiral of England and
Ireland, &c. Conftable of Dover Castle, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Gover-
nour of Portſmouth, &c.
Z
TOtwithstanding any former Orders to the
contrary, Thefe are to Will and Require
you, forthwith upon receipt hereof, to feize all
fuch Ships and Veffels belonging to the United
Provinces of the Netherlands, as you fhall meet,
whether Men of War or Merchants Ships, and
fend them unto Tangier, to be delivered unto the
Governour there, or otherwiſe to fecure them
as you fhall judge beft, until an opportunity pre-
fent of bringing them for England; and in cafe of
any of them fhall make reſiſtance, you are to en-
deavour to take them by force, or to deſtroy them.
Upon your ſeizing any Ships, as aforefaid, you are
to take care that their holds be immediately ſpiked
up,and all other means ufed for the prefervation of
their Lading,and alfo the Ships Furniture,and efpe-
L
cially
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cially their Bills of Lading, and other Papers. And
for fo doing this fhall be your Warrant. Given
under my Hand at Portſmouth this 21st day of No-
vember, 1664.
JAMES:
This is a True Copy,
HENRY BENNET.
By Command of his Royal Highness,
W. COVENTRY.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
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Hague the 1st of Dec. 1664. O.S.
Right Honourable,
TH
THE feizing and ftopping their Ships in Eng-
land, hath given them, as you may eafily
believe, a mighty Alarm here; they believed they
might have play'd with his Majeſty at their plea-
fure, and have put him to what charge they had
thought fit, and yet that he would not have da-
red to have fallen upon them in Europe, and out
of Europe they would have done well enough.
Immediately upon the News, they fent Orders to
all their Ports to ftop all Ships whatſoever, as alfo
they ordered the fending out of feveral Galliots,
to get into the Mouth of the Channel, to lie
there to advertiſe all Ships of this Country not
to paſs the Channel; Expreffes are alſo ſent Over-
land into France, Spain, and Italy, to advertiſe alf
Shipping of this Country to keep in Harbour. By
all
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all which you may find, that they are out of their
meaſures and furprized. There were above 50 Dutch
Ships in the Texel, juft ready to fet Sail, for France,
Spain, and thoſe parts, as theſe Orders came to
ftop them. And as for Engliſh ſhipping,I having fome
days before given notice to the English Merchants
to deſpatch them away, by good hap, thoſe from
the Texel, which were a confiderable number, got
out the very morning before the Embargo, and
15 Sail richly Laden, fome of them cutting their
Cables for haſt, eſcaped not a quarter of an hour,
infomuch that Boats from the Brill with Soldiers,
purſued them in their fight, and ſeized an Oyſter
Boat, and two fmall empty Scotch Veffels. The
Admiralties are again Summoned hither, but only
thoſe of Holland as yet come; the queftion is,
Whether they fhall again affemble that Fleet that
was under Opdam, which is wholly ſeparated?
Van Trump's Ship came up as far as the Pampus
by Amfterdam. And by all this you will fee them not
to be ſo very cunning, nor to take over true mea-
fure, as to their own Affairs. All their Ships out-
ward bound for this Winter, might have been
long e'er this fafe through the Channel, had they
not ſtopped them in expectation of Opdam's Con-
voy; and upon the fame account their Merchants
have laden vast quantities of Wines and other Mer-
chandiſes, in France, Spain, &c. and now muft
either not ftir out or run the hazard of being ta-
ken. How this will wound their Reputation, and
be looked upon by by-ftanders, you who are at a
distance may beft judge? And the Parliaments
Vote upon Friday laft, for fupplying his Majefty,
doth as much furprize them here as the reft, and
more; for that they fee thereby a Foundation of
carrying on Bufinefs against them, Their firft
tevenge is like to fall upon the English and Scotch
Troops here, thofe of Zeland have already Ca-
fhier'd
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thier'd Henry Coventry, and Capt. Morgan, who is
Deputy-Governour of Jamaica, and fpeak of dif-
poling their Companies to others this week; and
the Eftates of Holland are hot about the condera-
tion of Caſhiering them all in General, or at leaſt
impoſing a new Oath upon them. I had forgot to
let you know,that there is one alfo fent for Breft to
hire fome French or other outlandishVeffels there,to
lie alfo in the mouth of the Channel to advertiſe
their fhipping, both for fear their Galliots from
hence may be furprized, and becauſe they fuppofe
fuch a Veffel will be unfufpected. Van Buningen
went hence towards France on Friday laft in the
Afternoon; they expect Miracles from him. Their
Fleet for Guinea is not yet out, yet nothing paffed
the Ears here concerning de Ruyter's Voyage, but
Dewit hath done greater things than that e'er
now without acquainting them therewith, or any
more than fome particular confidents.
am
I have yet none from you fince your firft. I
Your Excellencies, &c.
G. DOWNING.
They here began first to ftop Ships, ſtopping
the Ships from Sweden, mentioned in the inclo-
fed Memorial, and do yet keep them; of which
you may make ufe as occafion ferves.
I
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Paris Decemb. 21. 1664. O. Ś.
Have received your Excellencies by Mr.Augier,
who arrived here this day Sennight, Sunday,
and
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and is by this time, I believe, in England, whether
I had occafion to fend him hence, Wednesday laft;
fo, as I may ſay, the Secretary hath now the black
Box you fent him: Neither he nor your Letter
gave me any knowledge what you had done with
Capt. Allen, if his Orders for Guinea were like to
meet with him, which would come opportunely
to find him at leifure to execute them, having
done his buſineſs at Algiers.
I did hope alſo to receive a more particular infor-
mation of the advantage gotten by the Portugueze
upon the Spaniard, about Badaiox, which hath
been very much hearkned after too in England.
We have here no News at all, tho' a Comet
feen every night, feems to tell us we fhall have e-
nough hereafter.
The Town hath for fome days been filled only
with the expectation what would become of the late
Superintendent Monf. Fouquet, whofe Proceſs was but
yeſterday perfected by the Chambre de Justice,and,
contrary to the defires of fome, and fears of ma-
ny, he hath eſcaped with Life; the Arreft going
to perpetual Baniſhment and Confifcation of E-
ftate, which all his Friends (who are almoſt all
Men, Women, and Children) look upon as a ve-
ry favourable one.
The Queen is well rid of her Ague, and the
little Madam in a fair way, beginning to fuck, fo
as there is hopes the may do well alto, and this
Court is now in jollity.
Of Holland I need fay nothing, the incloſed will
tell you all; their Envoy,Van Buningben, who comes
to make complaints againſt England, was expected
laft night: Better for us that they complain of us,
than either jeer or brave us, which they would
have done both fufficiently, if the King our Ma-
fter had not play'd his game well, who hath now
put them to an after-game.
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His Royal Highneſs, and Prince Robert, are re-
turned to Court; but our Ships at Sea take every
day fome Dutch, and will do, till we hear what
becomes of Guinea. Iam,
My Lord, &c.
HOLLES.
SIR,
UP
To Sir George Downing.
Madrid 9 Jan. 1664. N. S. .
Pon the 4th of this prefent January, N. S.
I fent you by a Hollands Exprefs, a Brief
Account of a Victory which Capt. Allen hath
lately obtained againſt 34 Sail of Hollanders, of
which it is confidently reported that 4 were Men
of War.
Preſently after I had deſpatched away that ſhort
Relation, I received a Note from the Duke of Me-
dina de las Torres, confirming the fame; a Copy
whereof you will find immediately following (in
the fame Paper) the herewith incloſed Intelligence
from Cadiz, and St. Lucar.
The incloſed Copy of a Letter from Capt. Allen
will tell you, that the fad News I formerly wrote
you, of the lofs of 2 of his Majefties Frigats near
to Gibralter, hath proved too true, yet (God be
thanked) the Men are all faved, alfo the Guns,
and much befide. I am
Sir, Your very Faithful, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To
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I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Tangier the ift of Octob. 1664.
Received your Excellencies two Letters of the
2d and 9th of Nov. N. S. and in return have
only to adviſe your Excellency, that the Sally
Men of War began to do very much harm to our
Merchant-men, and by a Letter I had lately from
thence, by a Perfon I know has always been true
in his Intelligence, I am informed, that they have
lately taken 4 Ships,befides what they took before,
and will grow very prejudicial now that Peace is
made with Argier, for, upon occafions, Argier Men
will pafs for thofe of Sally, and thofe of Sally for
Argier Men; fo that it would be good that place
was nipped in the bud.
Before this comes to your Hands, your Excellen-
cy will have received the unhappy News of the
misfortune our Fleet received near Gibraltar, ſo
fhall not trouble you with it, nor of the Holland
Fleet, which paffed by yeſterday to Cadiz, of which
I believe your Excellency has notice.
Capt. Bunn, whom I employed to Malaga,writes
unto me, that he has given your Excellency an ac-
count of his Succefs; but leaft his fhould mifcarry,
I here incloſed fend your Excellency a Copy of his
Letter to me; by which it is eafily perceived, the
Spaniards do not mean all they pretend.
Gayland yet keeps the Men I formerly wrote
your Excellency I fent him, the reaſons I cannot
imagine, unleſs it be to get better Conditions front
the Spaniards, by making them jealous that he is
in Treaty with this Place.
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Here
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Here has been ſeen for above a Fortnight a Bla-
zing Star, which brought along with it fuch Rains
and Storms, as fcarce ant body could ftir out of
Doors; I wish when it goes away it may take
them along with it.
I return your Excellency moft humble Thanks
for your Advice and good Correfpondency,
which I defire your Excellency would pleafe to
continue to me for his Majefties Service, whilft
I am in this Place; as alfo I give your Excellen-
cy hearty Thanks for the Care you are pleaſed to
take of my Letters directed to Mr. Secretary.
Here is a great part of Gayland's Army Plough-
ing within Cannon fhot of the Line, and we are
Ploughing and Digging within the Lines. We
are all well,and daily expect our Recruits and Pro-
vifions from England.
Conful Westcomb I prefume gives your Excel-
lency the fame Alarms he gives me, fo fhall not
trouble your Excellency with them, but my
Thoughts are, that we are pretty well fecured a-
gainſt their Attacks. By the next, I hope to give
your Excellency fome account of Gayland, and
more at large, for I have fent People into the Coun-
try for this purpoſe. I am
Your Excellencies, &c.
T. FITZ-GERALD.
SIR,
To Mr. Secretary Bennet
Madrid Friday 9 Jan. 1664. N, S.
HE incloſed Papers I had remitted to you
fome days fince, if I had not referved them
TH
for
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!
for a fafer Conveyance, which I prefume this is of
the Spanish Exprefs. In them, amongft fome
things worth noting (as particularly the Author-
lefs Project of a Peace with Portugal) our Royal
Mafter may fee, in Terms, the fummary reckon-
ing I have lately made with the Duke of Medina
de las Torres; to witneſs, bis Majesties real forward-
nefs, with my dutiful and early, as well as conftant
Endeavours, towards a stricter Amity than ever with
this Crown. His Majefty will conſequently diſcern
by what ſteps, with the fafe Conduct of this King,
I am come to fend an Expreſs to Lisbon, in order
to a Treaty, which Exprefs I fhall Deſpatch (God
willing) upon his way, within two days after
the date hereof, with a Letter from me to the
King of Portugal, a Copy whereof is one of the
incloſed; tho' with as little hopes of any fruit to
come thereof, as I have formerly fignified to you;
but however (as I then faid likewife) that I might
leave no stone unturn'd, for the removing (if poffi-
ble) that Block, the which, at the firft ftep I offer-
ed, was laid by this Court in my way of any effe-
Etual Treaty whatfoever; no whit affuring my felf
thereby neither as to other Remoras, rather fufpe-
&ting, from pregnant Circumftances, if this ob-
ftruction were removed, that two other would
prefently ſtep up in the room, the one in Ame-Out of
rica, the other in Africk, unless his Majesties, by Cypher.
theſe Peoples unexpected (martness with,and over pow-
ering of the Dutch fhall alter the cafe.
Whilft I am writing this, I conclude, out of a
Letter received from my Lord Holles, that the large
Deſpatch I ſent from hence by Mr. Augier,hath by
fame hand been put into yours many days ago.
Therefore, on the one fide, fuppofing it more than pro-
bable, that Letters of Revocation for me already are,
Out of
er Speedily will be, upon the way; alfo not improbable, Cypher
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that
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that the fame will come accompanied with Credentials
of Refident for my Secretary, Lyonel Fanfhaw. On
the other fide, admitting a fair likelybood of a good
Peace to be effected for Portugal by his Majefties Me-
diation; and, in confequence thereof, an advantageous
Peace for his Majesty, with this Crown, with a triple
Union to boot, comprehending Portugal; and that his
Majesty doth at this day as much concern himself in
all theſe things, as when I came hither he did; yet,
upon the whole matter, I am (fincerely speaking) with
all Humility of Opinion, that even in order to the ef-
fecting thereof, I should forthwith, after receipt of fuch
Defpatch, notifie my Revocation, and the Refident
actually prefent his Credentials, I (in virtue of fome
Secret Instruction of Provifional Liberty, which may be
there refolved from our Master) fufpending my actual
delivery of the former, so long only as this Court fhall
give me convincing Reaſons that my farther Negotiat-
ing here, or in Portugal, fhall really conduce to the ac-
complishment of the Ends above-named in due time. By
this expedient neither our Mafter will want my longer
Service in thefe parts, if his Majesty deems it necef-
fary, and not rather the contrary; nor this Court
(which callsmy Summons, and preparations homewards,
a Threatning Spain bave caufe to say, the King of
England Threatens vainly, when his Majefties Am-
baſſador fhall have a viſible Succeſſor here, with both hu
bands upon the Function, and my ſelf (who have the
bonour to be fo) one foot in the Stirrup to leave it. And
to make this Potion work the better with them, Ihould
be humbly of Opinion likewife, that not the leaft hopes
Should be given them there, or from thence, that his Ma-
jefties Ambaſſador may happen to stay longer among
them upon any Terms whatsoever, unless, and until
that I pro re Nata apon the place, shall find it to fome
good purpose, for me to declare his Majefties fecret per-
miffive Instruction on that behalf. In the mean time
being
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+
being come to Soundings, I shall employ my felf that
way with all the little strength and skill I have, if at
least there be any founding thefe People. I reft, with
all Truth and Affection,
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
SIR,
TH
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Friday 9 Jan. 1664. N. S.
His is my third to you of this fame date, and
ſerves only to give you fuch advice as hath
of late come to my hands.
By fufficient Witnefs of a Spaniard newly arri-
ved in this Court from Pennon upon the Coaft of
Barbary, about 6 weeks ago, the Governour there-
of received a Letter from his Catholick Majefty,im-
porting he thould look very ftrictly to his Charge,
becauſe the English are abroad in thofe Parts, with
many Men of War.
This ſeems to agree with their fending 10000
Hanegas of Wheat into Ceuta, which I lately adver-
tifed to you, as of a proportion much above the
needs of that Garifon; but why either in refpect
of England I know not, unlefs themſelves do, from
fome intentions of their own.
Herewith incloſed, you will find the Copy of
a Letter from Capt. Allen to me, wherein he gives
me a Relation of the fad lofs of his Majefties two
Frigats, the Phenix and the Nonfuch, whereof I
formerly gave you fome uncertain Advices.
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By
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By another Paper which is herewith incloſed,
you will fee what Intelligence I have lately recei-
Ved from Cadiz and St. Lucar, and at the latter end
thereof, you will alfo find a Copy of a Note I recei
ved from the Duke de Medina de las Torres,upon the
5th of January initant, N. S. preſently after I had
defpatched to you by a Hollands Exprefs; one gi-
ving in like manner an account in brief of Capt.
Allen's late good fuccefs against the Dutch.
By a Letter from Alicant, dated the 29th of De-
cember, it is thus written,
This day came into Port, and are again failed
hence, the Effex and Amity Frigats, from Genoa and
Leghorn, and in their Company the Lewis, Captain
Herlegraus, the Lady, Capt. Hofter, and the Ban-
tham, Capt. Haddock, from Zante, where the Re-
colta bath much failed this year. This morning failed
hence likewife 11 great Dutch Ships, all laden with
Corn from Sicilia for Malaga and Cadiz. The Let-
ters add, that if our Frigats had orders, they had
then a gallant opportunity. I am
Sir, Tour, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To the Lord Ambaffador Holles.
Madrid, the 9th of Jan. 1664. N. S.
My Lord,
Pon the 4th of January inftant, N. S. I fent
to your Excellency by a Hollands Exprefs, a
brief Advice of a Victory which Capt. Allen hath
lately had againſt 34 Sail of Hollanders, whereof
it is confidently believed, that 4 were Men of War.
Prefently
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Preſently after I had defparched away that fhorg
Relation, I received a Note from the Duke of Me-
dina de las Torres, confirming the fame; a Copy
whereof your Excellency wil find immediately fol-
lowing the inciofed Intelligence from Cadiz and
St. Lucar.
The herewith inclofed Copy of a Letter from
Capt: Allen will tell your Excellency, that the fad
News I formerly wrote you, of the lofs of two of
his Majefties Frigats, near to Gibraltar, hath pro-
ved too true, yet (God be thanked) the Men
are all faved, alfo the Guns, and much befide. I
humbly take leave
My Lord, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To Colonel Fitz-Gerald, Deputy - Governour of
Tangier.
!
Madrid the 13th of January, 1664. N. S.
S 1 R,
You
Ours of the 7th and 16th of Decemb. N.S. are
both come to my hands, for which I give
you many Thanks, and am heartily glad of your
being fo well provided for Gayland, who certainly
hath fome deſign to Affault you, by the keeping
of the two Men fo long. The laft week I receiv'd
two Packets from Conful Weftcomb,which he faith
are yours; one for Mr. Secretary Bennet, and the
other for Mr. Coventry; they fhall go both to mor-
row by the Poft.
My last to you was of the 6 Jan. N. S. with one
incloſed from Admiral Allen,
I have
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I have no Letters by this Poft, but Others who
have, ſay, that all things at Home go according to
our own Hearts defire.
We have at prefent nothing new. I am
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW,
To the Lord Ambafador Fanshaw.
Hague the 8th of Decemb. 1664. O. S.
Right Honourable,
T is yet more ftrongly reported, and the Ga-
zettes are full of it, as if Monfieur Rivignies go-
ing for England, at leaft in part, were for the car-
rying on a Treaty, faid to be in hand about the
felling of Tangier to the French.
Their Ships for Guinea are not yet gone,but fome
of the Admiralty are fent to Helvotfluice to de-
fpatch out fuch of them round Scotland as are the
Weft-India Companies Ships, together with two
only of Van Campens for their Convoy, but the
Men make very great difficulty of hazarding that
way, eſpecially without the advantage of a light
Moon. Van Campen with the other 8 of the E-
ftates Ships for Guinea, is ordered to go to the
Weylingen, to ride there, and the other 18 Men of
War that are making ready, are alſo to go thither,
and to be all under the Command of Cornelius E-
vertſon, and there they fuppofe they may ride all
the Winter, and without fear of the Ice, and to
be in readineſs to take the Sea at pleaſure. It is
alfo finally refolved out of hand, to Build 24great
Men of War, concerning which I have formerly
given
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given your Lordfhip an account, 12 whereof to
Carry 66, and 12 56 Guns a piece, 8 of which
are already upon the Stocks at Amsterdam, and
great quantities of Copper and Brafs are delivered
out for the making of Great Guns. The Admi-
ralties have alfo ordered to prepare what light
nimble Frigats they can, to be fent out to prey
upon the English Merchant-men, and they keep
in half pay all this Winter all the Men that were
in their Ships that are now come in; and alfo
they have Orders to be taking in already of o-
thers, that they may have Men enough at com.
mand, they are alfo ftill drawing more Forces
down to the water fide to all places upon their
Coafts, Here is very much talk of a Comet, faid
to have been ſeen many nights together, with a
Tail to the South-Eaft as long as a Pike. Every
Ship in this Country that can carry above 40
Guns, is ordered to be Inventored, in order to
the Eſtates buying them. I received none from
you, I am
My Lord, Your, &c.
G. DOWNING.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall the 8th of Decemb. 1664.
S It 20,
Ince my laft, I have received two from your
Excellency, of Nov. 12 and 20, N. S. in nei-
ther of them any thing requiring Anſwer, but
Coll. Fitz-Gerald's Letters, which yet are not of a
freſh Date, but ſhall be anfwered by the next, if
no better opportunity offers by Sea,
Your
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Your News of the Duke of Medina Sidonia's
Death will oblige the Court to take Mourning,
and your Diſcourſe with the Baron de Bateville
hath made us Smile, it not being anfwerable to his
Mettle and Generoſity.
There hath nothing hapned here fince my laft,
worth your trouble, if it be, you'l find it better in
the News Book. I am, with much Affection,
My Lord, Your, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
POSTSCRIPT.
This day the King, my Lord Chancellor, and my
Self, have received Letters out of Portugal from the
Marquefs d'Eliche, touching his Liberty, towards
which we have done already, and fhall continue to do
all poffible diligence.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Monday 19 January, 1664. N. S.
SIR,
Aving written to you many Defpatches by
this fame Conveyance, the extreme fierce-
nefs of the Seaſon, as the year falls out, hindring
the departure of this Exprefs, I fhall begin the pre-
fent in way of Diurnal, promiscuoully, as fol-
loweth :
Malaga 6 January, 1665. N. S.
WO of his Majefties Frigats, the Effex and
Amity, came hither on Saturday Morning,
Tw
with
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with 6 Merchants Ships from the Levant, but had
no Orders, elfe might have taken feveral Hollan-
ders which were coming into the Port, they went
away that night,and,I hope,are now with the Flag.
Antwerp the 26th of Decemb. 1664.
HE Hollanders have reported here, that the
English are upon felling of Tangier to the
French; all wonder at it, and the most believe it
not, but look on it as one of the Lies the Hollan-
ders now fo frequently Publiſh
Extract of a Letter from Sir George Downing to me,
Dated the 8th of Decemb. 1664. O. S.
IT
Tis yet more ftrongly Reported, and the Ga-
Zettes are full of it, as if Monfieur Rivigny's
going for England, at least in part, were for the
carrying on a Treaty, faid to be in hand about the
felling of Tangier to the French.
Out of
The Project of a Peace between Caftile and Portu-
gal, the which I inclofed with my second of 9 Janua- Cypher.
1y, N. S. is, according to my fancy, mare practicable
(as things feem to ftand) in many parts thereof, mu-
ratis mutandis, between us and the Hollanders, than
between these two Kingdoms.
The Marquefs of Caracena is named for Genera-
liffimo againſt Portugal; and (as I underſtand) after
many excuſes, doth, upon certain Conditions for
a Royal Preparation and Performance likewite,
both accept and own the Charge, by receiving the
Fara bien thereof from many.
For my own part, I Viſited him foon upon his
arrival in this Court (which was before Christmas,
N. S.) becauſe it was my turn fo to do, for the
giving him theWelcome; and becauſe I would not
have him think fome Perſonal Carriages of his in
Flanders
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Flanders towards our Mafter, are born ftill in mind.
He hath not paid it to this hour; what he hath
done to other Ambaffadors (who I do prefume
gave him the Welcome likewife) I am not as yet
certified.
Here it comes in well for me to advertiſe, that
about the fame time (fomething before, as to the
firft Comerce) I fent a Gentleman once,twice, and
thrice, to the Conde de Pennaranda, for his Licence
that I might give him the Perfonal Welcome;
who every of thofe times received my Melfenger,
and anſwered my Meffage with much Civility and
Complement, but at the laft, being now about three
weeks fince, requested, as out of fhame, that I
would fend no more; for that he would certifie
me when he could be in a pofture and at leiſure
to receive fo great an Honour; yet from that
hour to this not a word from him neither.
In the mean time, I know that he, for his par-
ticular, hath both received and paid a Vifit from
and to the Hollands Ambafador. And as to both
thefe new Councellors of State (upon whofe great
Activity and long Experience Abroad, both in
Civil and Martial Affairs, the expectations of the
Spanish Nation and Court do build more,than upon
all the reft of the future Counfels and Refolutions
that ſhall be taken, in reference to Abroad) I
muft needs fay for them, that the mention of the
English Ambaflador, and what fhould be done as
to England, cannot but have crofs'd their way in
Council more than once, fince I fought them with
all fairness of Addreſs, and once particularly,when
my Privilege was in Controvertie, in the Cafe of
my next Neighbour Don Francifco de Ayala, ftated
elſewhere at large by this felf-fame Convey-
ance. And moreover Pennaranda is a ſpecial con-
fident of the Duke of Medina de las Torres,as Caftel-
roderigo formerly inſtanced in upon the like occalion,
who
( 415 )
who could never find any thing to fay to an En.
gliſh Ambaſſador in Madrid, tho' himſelf going to
be our Neighbour in Flanders; it ſeeming unto
me, that the great Perfonages of this Nation, do
not act, or leave unacted, Ceremonies, without
fome Reafon of State, otherwife I do affure you
(and his Majefty will eafily believe it) I would
not complain of this want, if I were apt to com-
plain of any. But, like Bowlers, I am put to take
my Meaſures with rufhes, for want of a cloſe and
folid Treaty; whereunto, with his Majeſty,from theſe
and former Circumftances (in my humble Opi-
nion) Spain hath not had, nor yet hath, any
ftomach at all, unleſs their preſent Addrefs by this
Propio, or by the Conde de Molina, fhall demon-
ftrate the contrary there, with fuch real and truly
convincing Arguments (not unreaſonable with-
out doubt, to be now peremptorily infifted upon,
after ſo long hanging off on their part) as they
have not hitherto thought fit to impart unto me;
and ſtill to this hour I am without the promiſed
Anſwer to my Propofals of 4th Novemb. laft, N. S.
I remain
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW,
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, December the 15th, 1664.
Ince my laft, I have received your Excellen-
cies of the 4th and 24th November, by the
hands of that Gentleman who receiv'd them from
your Excellency in Spain, Mr. Augier. The for-
mer
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mer was a very long one, relating your Con
ference with Father Douffy, and a following one
occafioned thereupon with the Duke of Medina
de las Torres, wherein it is enough to fay to you,
That your Proceeding is approved, and nothing more
to be recommended to you, beyond the Profecution of
that and your Inftructions, till occafion is adminiftred
you from them.
This day the Houſe of Commons have made
an end of the feveral Repetitions and Method by
which the promiſed Sum is to be raiſed, and this
without Hiperbole, with as much fatisfaction as
if they had been to receive Money and not to give
it; which is one effect of our Mafter's good
Fortune, the Love of his Perfon, and the Cauſe he
is now promoting, in which we promiſe our
felves good Succefs, from the Confternation in
which our Enemies are, as well as our own Vi-
gour and Preparations.
Sunday laft their Majefties and the whole Court
took Mourning for the Duke of Medina Sidonia,
at the Queens Recommendation.
Your Letters mentioned the Defcription of a
Plough, but it came not in them, pray let us
know in your next, whether the Comet now ap-
pearing in France, and fo much talked of, hath
been ſeen in Madrid. I am, with much Affection,
My Lord, Your, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
I
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall Dec. 19. 1664.
Have juft now in my hand the honour of your
Excellencies of the 3d, which obliges me to
give
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give you this trouble of my Acknowledgments?
I find Mr. Westcomb at Bayone, whoſe cover we
have hitherto uſed for conveying ours to your
Excellency, begins to make more difficulty than
heretofore; fo as I muſt beg your Excellency to
confirm him, or give us a new Addrefs for our
future Correfpondence.
Your Excellency will find by the incloſed Or-
der of Council for General Reprizals againſt the
Dutch, how heartily that Council is likely to be
purfu'd. God continue to Blefs us with fuc-
cefs.
'
We are told this day of arich Holland Smirna
Ship worth 600ool. taken by the Bristol Frigat, in
the Streights; the truth and particulars are to be
expected. I am with all true Refpect,
My Lord, Your, &c.
1
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, Dec. 22. 1664
Ince my laft, I have received from your Ex-
cellency yours of the 26 Nov. N. S. and 3
Decemb. In the firft, the Difcourfe upon the new
Plough, which you had mentioned in a former, I
will adviſe with the Learned in that Art, and
tell you what they fay of it, in requital of your
Paper. In the laft was a Vifit of yours to the Duke
of Medina, one of the French Amballadors to you,
and the like with the new Holland Amballador;
to all which I can reply little, only of the former
you must be wary not to over act your part, of jeeming
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to
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to come away, least they perceiving it a trick, as you
Out of already fee they fufpect it is one,it lose its effect another
Cypher. time. Your farther ftay for the prefent may be easily
authoriſed, by their last favourable Orders concerning
Tangier, &c. Notwithstanding the ill Execution of
them.
7
This day we have heard the ill News of de Ruy-
ter's fuccefs in Guinea; the particulars whereof fhall
go in this, if I can get them from the Merchants
this Evening, the fum is, they have taken from
us Cape de Verde, and our laft Merchants Ships
which were ſent thither, with a great deal more
Booty than we care to brag of; and yet after all
this, they will have the Impudence to poffefs all
the Courts of Christendom, that we are the Ag-
greffors. That your Excellency may be fully In-
ftructed, even beyond what I have told you in
my former in this point, as foon as I can get it
written out (for it came into my hands but this
day) I will fend you Sir George Downing's laft Pa-
per, which he hath difperfed at the Hague to that
effect.
On Tuesday laft our Houſe Adjourn'd till the
12th of January next, after having put the Bill
for the 2 Millions and half in a great readineſs
towards being finiſhed at our next meeting. The
Lords, by miſtake, did not adjourn till this day,
fuppofing we would not have done it fooner. By
this interval we have time to make our felves ready
in our Naval Preparations.
譬
​My Lord Bellafis is made his Majefties Gover-
nour for Tangier, and fhall go away with the firſt
fhips, recommended to a Correſpondence with
your Excellency. In the mean time you will keep
alive all your Correfpondence relating to that
Place upon which we muſt look the Dutch will
exercife their Fraud, as well as Hoftility, which
now
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now is no longer minced betwixt us. I am, with
much Truth,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday the 11th Jan. 1664. O.S.
SIR,
HA
Aving lately written to You feveral large De-
fpatches, which, with fome others from
Tangier and Admiral Allen, I hope you will receive
by another hand as foon, if not fooner than this
will come to you.
This fhall ferve only to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of three from you, viz. of the 8, 15, and
22 Decemb. and to prefent to your perufal the
Cafe which is ftated in this inclofed Paper, recom-
mended to me by the Baron de Bate-vile. Yefter-
day I fent a Copy thereof to the Conful at Cadiz,
defiring him to confider it by himſelf alone, or
with Admiral Allen (if at hand) or with whom
elſe he thinks fit, and to give me his opinion there-
of, as well in reference to Fact (becauſe Iſuppoſe
the Baron takes that upon Truft) as to the Laws
and current Cuftoms of the Seas.
That of the 15th of December from you, owns
the receipt of mine 14th and 24th Novemb, N. S.
by Mr. Augier (confequently of my Letter, or Poft-
fcript of the 18th of the fame, N. S. inferted be-
tween both, and all fewn together. I prefume the
Cypher'd part of that large Defpatch was not then
Difcypher'd; therefore I hope by the next a more
particular
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particular and diftinct Anfwer and Refolution
from his Majefty thereupon, in feveral particulars
which feem to me of fome importance to his Royal
Service and Honour. I am, with much fincerity
of Affection,
Yours, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
I
To the Lord Chancellor.
Madrid the 24th of January, 1664. N. S.
My Lord,
fend your Lordfhip herewith inclofed, two
Tranfcripts, the one of a Project, at making
of which I was never good; but this is of a Peace,
and therefore I wish I were; a Peace between
Caftile and Portugal, hardly practicable upon any
Terms (as I do humbly conceive) much lefs up-
onthefe (propofed by an unknown Author) with
regard to either fide; yet I have thought them
not unworthy your Lordship's notice, as poffibly
more practicable elſewhere, as to Form, and in a
great meaſure as to Matter like wife, than in the
Altitude for which they were defigned.
The other Tranſcript is of a freſh Libel, in and
upon this Court and Palace, a Commodity I have
in my nature no inclination at all to vent, either
by wholeſale or retale, yet is this fit alfo (in my
humble Judgment) for Perfons of great nearneſs
to his Majefty not to be unacquainted with, re-
prefenting Sores which are in Foreign Kingdoms,
whereby to praiſe God the more for the Modefty
of ours at Home, as ours for the great Goodneſs
of
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of his Majefty that ftops our Mouths, or rather
fills them with Prayers to God and him; not cen-
furing other Princes, neither for the Liberties of
their Subjects in their difparagement, much lefs
thefe of Spain, than whom, from all times, none
talk more againft, or (our own Nation only ex-
cepted) act more for their Kings.
This damnable Libel doth nor fpare one Coun-
cellor of State here prefent, but the Inquifidor Ge-
neral,and (to Crown the Damnation of it)the King
himſelf bears the burden; befides the fmaller
Game it picks up by the way. So more than or-
dinary black is the Spanish Ink at this day, and
the Mouths of too to many (loud ones too) much
of the fame dye.
This King, by what I can collect, as craifie as
he is, may rub out many years; his Majefty eats
and drinks ordinarily with a very good Stomach
(I am told) three competent Meals a day, and full
of merry Difcourfe, when and where his lined
Robe of Spanish and Royal Gravity is laid aſide.
Some Difcourfe begins to be of Swearing the
Prince.
The fending the Infanta this Spring to her Im-
perial Crown is abfolutely concluded, ſay the
moft, and ſome fay no.
Certain it is, the Ceremony of this Kingdom
requiring, that a Cardinal in the Spiritual, and
fome very great Lay-perfon in the Temporal,
ſhould be Joint-Conductors of her Imperial Ma-
jefty;
for the first, Cardinal Colonna ( a Vaſſalborn
of this Crown) chofen by the Pope, is now actu-
ally entred in this Court to the fame end; and for
the fecond, the Duke of Cardona (invited thereun-
to by his Catholick Majefty, after many great
Ones, namely, the Duke of Alva and Montalto,
had refuſed or excuſed it) hath publickly ac-
cepted the Charge.
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By
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By this latter hangs a ſtory Your Lordſhip well
knows, that in thefe more civilized Countrys,
no Man will go upon his Mafters Errand
without a rewaid beforehand (fo the Mar-
quefs of Sandy, the Conde de Molina, and others
innumerable.) Therefore his Catholick Majefty,
even after acceptance, as a thing of courſe, was
graciouſly pleaſed to bid the faid Duke of Cardo-
na propofe for himſelf, referring him for that pur-
pofe to the Duke's Friend, the Conde de Caftrillo,
Preſident of Caftile. The Duke tells the Conde he
must have three things granted him in hand, elfe
would he not budge a foot. What are thofe, ſaid
the Conde, in fome diforder? Firſt (faid the Duke)
I will be made a Grandee of Spain (and his Ex-
cellency is fo, I take it, three or four times over)
Secondly, I will have the Tufon (he has it long fince)
Thirdly, the Conde de Chinchon fhall treat me with
Excellency. The Riddle of this is,that the ſaid Conde
de Chinchon, being no Grandee, and nominated for
Ambaſſador Ordinary to the Emperor (tho' fince
excuſed of going, for want of Health, or other
Allegations) doth, upon that account alone, du-
ring Life (according to the ftile of this Court)
remain with the Title of Excellency, This action
of the Duke of Cardona is here very much celebra-
ted, and the ſaying little lefs.
Of Thefe fomething, and of other Particulars
very largely, I have faid to Mr. Secretary Bennet
in Deſpatches (whereunto I humbly refer your
Lordship) of feveral Dates by the felf-fame Con-
veyance, for more furety of the Bearer hereof, a
Spanish Express for England, by the way of Flan
ders, in all diligence, that is to fay, when once he
fets forth; but I have ftay'd for his ftanding, up-
on warning of the Duke of Medina de las Torres,
already more than ten days,
Your
(423)
Your Lordſhip may pardon the tediouſneſs
of this Addrefs, upon the account that it is not
of my own hand writing, to your Lordship's dou-
ble vexation. What I dare give under my hand
as Bad as it is, is, that I am,
I
Your Lordships, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
POSTSCRIPT.
Am humbly of opinion, it would be a great
Point aimed for Portugal (whatever the fuc-
cefs ſhould prove afterwards) if, as I have now
his Catholick Majefties Licenſe and Safe-Conduct
to fend a Gentleman of my own to Lisbon, in or-
der to a Treaty of Accommodation between ca-
ftile and Portugal, the faid Treaty to be between
the King of England and his Portugal Majefty,
(not that the King of Spain calls him fo yet, what-
ever may be hereafter) and on the other fide, be-
tween the King of England,and his Catholick Maje-
fty,as an Expedient to meet in a third, who cannot
meet immediately, as the cafe ftands. If (I fay) I had
the like Licence and Safe-Conduct for my felf to
go in Perſon to Lisbon, to the fame end; there-
fore, in the first place, his Portugal Majefty ought
to fignifie his confent to this Umperage and Way
of Treaty, upon my motion.
R. F.
The two noble Priſoners are in Lisbon, the one
Nephew of the Conde de Castrillo, the other Son
of the Duke de Medina de las Torres, Father Pa-
trick.
RICH. FANSHAW.
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TO
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Saturday the 31 of Jan. 1664. N. S.
SIR,
HE
[Erewith inclofed, go two Papers of Adver-
tiſements, the one from Cadiz, dated the
11th Inftant, relating the then ftare of Captain
Allens Fleet, alfo the Dutch prefent, and fhortly ex-
pected Men of War, both natural and adopted,
as well of Strangers, Free-booters, as their own
Merchant-men, both the one and the other, im-
powred, by blank Commiffions for the most part,
whereby to ſtart up in the Mediterranean, and
round theſe Coafts, an Armada by ſtealth, as un-
expectedly to us at home, as de Ruyter went a-
way with one truly fo.
The faid firft Paper expreffing the Apprehenfi-
ons our People in thoſe parts have, as to their Co-
merce, when that ſhall be, and Capt. Allen gone
home, the which he hath declared must be very
fhortly, to which they might, or we may add, a
much greater danger in the Confequence, name-
ly, of their Surprizal of Tangier (which is not yet
a Noun Subftantive) with what other Coadjutors
we know not, but as to thefe two Apprehenfions,
under one I am fecured by yours formerly ac-
knowledged, of the 22 Decemb. wherein you cer-
tifie me, that my Lord Bellafis is made his Maje-
fties Governour for that Place, and fhall go away
with the firft Ships; moreover, that his Majefty
doth expect the Dutch will exercife thereupon their
Fraud, as well as Hoftility, the which thencefor-
ward was no longer minced betwixt us; and I
am the more confirmed, becauſe we have it here,
that
(425)
that thoſe firft Ships you mentioned, with which
my Lord Bellafis fhall come, are intended a Fleet,
perhaps more confiderable than that which Cap-
tain Allen carries from hence. Farther in the faid
firft Paper, is what they faw and apprehended of
the Blazing Star at Lisbon.
The fecond Paper of the roth Inftant from
Malaga, wherein is remarkable fomething in re-
ference to a Mould at Tangier; alfo to Blank
Commiſſions, in order to Reprizals on the Dutch
part, confequently on ours, if applied accord-
ingly.
The other Packets herewith inclofed likewife,
came recommended to me for Conveyance from
and by the way of Andaluzia. I am
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To Colonel Fitz Gerald, Lieutenant-Governour
of Tangier.
SIR,
Madrid Jan. 27. 166. N. S.
Have received none from you by the laſt Poſt,
neither have I any thing new to write you,
fo that this is only to keep my Correfpondency
with you, and to convey to you the herewith
incloſed Copy of his Majefties Warrant to the
Court of Admiralty, touching Dutch Prizes, which
perhaps you may not have feen.
The laft written News from Whitebal doth fay,
that the Dutch private Priſoners taken, are to be
diſpoſed in Garifons, and receive 5 d. a day, the
Officers 12d. till they can be Tranfported. I am
Sir, Your, &c.
}
RICH. FANSHAW.
POST-
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I
POSTSCRIPT.
Underſtand from England, that my Lord Bel-
lafis will be very fhortly with you, in the
Quality of Governour. I prefume (befides his
Perfonal Conduct and Experience, neither of
which can be wanting where you are) his Inte-
reft will bring many a tall Man to that Service,
and much advance towards the Mould; there-
foré in Confequence of the Publick, contribute
to your particular Advantage likewife.
1
RICH. FANSHAW,
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Sunday the 1ft of February, 1664. N. S.
SIR,
Ince my laft of Yeſterday (the Poft not being
Sinc
yet gone) give me leave to add, in a very
few words, fomething I did not then know fo
clearly and demonftratively to be ſtill the Sence
of this Court, becauſe of new Profeffions on their
part, to induce my ftay, and fome vifible im-
provement of Power (at leaſt in my judgment)
on ours, whatever it was before, as I now do by.
a paffage which follows, viz. upon Friday laft
Don Blafco de Loyola, Secretary of State to his Ca-
tholick Majefty, fpeaking courteously to Mr.
Goddard the Merchant (whom your Honour well
knows) concerning England, and the Propofals
I had delivered in the 4th of Nov. S. N. the which
he ſaid he hath in his own hands, and that they
{
A
are
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are Travelling for fome Anfwer thereupon, to
be given to the English Ambaffador; withal, faid
he, in conclufion, Hemos de obfervar aquellas Pa-
zes antiguas ab initio, y no andar en Cofas nuevas.
IT
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
POSTSCRIPT.
T is faid, that the Marquefs de Caracena Capi-
tulates that the Duke of Avero may go with
the Armada under his Command, and the Mar-
quefs's Orders in effect, but the word is duifes,
whereby his defigns (whatſoever they fhall be)
only known to himſelf, may not fail to be fe-
conded by the Duke; but that to this, the Duke
ftrongly fays no; and that he will be as inde-
pendent by Sea, as the other by Land, accord-
ing to the Stile of Spain. Sub judice lis eft.
DON
R. FANSHAW
POSTSCRIPT.
ON Antonio Pimentel is in freſh Perfecution
or Profecution, removed a Prifoner to Gra
nada, for what fort of offence I cannot yet cer-
tainly learn; and Don Diego Cavallero to fucceed
Governour in his place. I believe (and your
Honour may collect from former Treatments of
his, comparative with other Governours) no
change can be better for our Nation, tho' all but
ours were in Fee with him, and ours would
never.
R. FANSHAW.
To
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-
Out of
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wednesday the 28th of January, 1664.
SIR,
Mr
r Exprefs for Lisbon, formerly mentioned,
parted hence this morning, in Virtue of a Pafs
Cypher. from his Catholick Majefty, figned the 4th Inftant,
but not delivered till Yesterday.
As long have they been in defpatching an Express of
their own to England, by the way of Flanders, for
whom I have lying by me feveral large Defpatches
which I have written to you, they still telling me, Imay
expect his departure daily.
The last time I fpake with the Duke of Medina de
las Torres, among other general Expreffions of Spain's
Sincerity towards his Majefty, be cast out a word, Co-
mo que no dixo nada, that the French Ambafla-
dor bere had tempted them with many fair proffers, to
League with France against England, but that Spain
would never liften thereunto.
For my part, I have heard that our Mafter is fure of
the French King, if not, of the two things which the
Duke of Medina de las Torres affirmed; admitting the
former, I should be fomething apt to question the latter,
in futuro, at least thereafter, as the Holland's Game
may happen to be ſpun out in length, and other acci-
dents favour them. But, in fine, having related mat-
ter of Fact, I leave the Judgment to deeper Understand-
ings, and that seem to all hands.
Sir, Your, &c.
1
RICH. FANSHAW.
To
(429)
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Wedneſday 25 January, 1664. O. S.
SIR,
Since
Ince my laft of the 22 January, O. S. I have
not received any from you, this weeks Poft
not being yet arrived; wherefore I ſhall not have
much to trouble you with at this time.
Herewith incloſed, I remit to you Copies of
the Cafe of one Valentin Perez of Porto Santa Maria,
recommended to me by one Don Juan M. de
Aanes, Proveedor to his late Majefty in thoſe parts,
a Copy of whofe Letter I do likewife fend you,
prefuming that it will not be long before Don Pa-
tricio Omuledei comes to the King our Mafter,with
a Complaint and Memorial concerning this Bufi-
nefs, who making it appear, that the Action
complained of, hath been againſt the Articles, I
do no ways doubt, but Reftitution will be made
thereupon.
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall Dec. 29. 1664.
Have none from your Excellency fince my laſt,
nor no News or Bufinefs to furniſh me to-
wards this, which I write only to make good my
Cuftom of this day; inftead of it, I here inclofed
!
fend
(430)
fend you, a Paper of Sir George Downings, which
finding to be much to our purpoſe and likeing,
we cauſed it to be printed; it fufficiently proves
the Dutch to be Aggreffors; of the contrary of
which, they take much pains to poffefs the World,
if your Excellency chance not to be ready in the
Arguments on our fide, no Paper that I have,
can better fuggeft them to you.. To which I
have no more to add, but the wishing you a hap-
py New Year, y buena falida de pafquas; and am,
with all Truth and Affection,
My Lord, Your, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
Whitehall, the 5th of Jan. 1667.
Have this day received your Excellencies of
the 17
Decemb. N. S. which this goes only to
acknowledge, and to intimate to you, That the
Report of your coming away, hath ſpread it felf
fo far, that our Spanish Merchants begin to take
their Meaſures, as for a Breach betwixt his Ma-
jefty and that Crown; which it will be fit you take
fome pains to cure them of, fince you have fome
tolerable fatisfaction, as to a good Comerce with
Tangier, and that his Majefties Ships have fuch
good Prattick in their Ports.
I have nothing of News to add to my laft, fo
this fhall not be lengthned farther, than to affure
you of my being, with all Truth and Affection,
My Lord, Tour, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To
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To Mr. Secretary Bennet
Madrid, Wedneſday the 11th of Febr. 1664. N, S.
SIR,
Sinc
Ince my laft to you of 25 Jan. N. S. I have
received two from you, one of the 29 Dec.
and the other of the 5 Jan. laft, whereof this
ferves only for acknowledgment, referving the
particular Anſwer thereunto (together with other
Deſpatches already prepared, more large and nu-
merous than I, in Diſcretion and good Manners,
can juſtifie) for another Conveyance immediate-
ly to follow, more flow, but more ſafe.
According to my laft from Cadiz, of the firft
Inftant, by a Letter from Tangier, dated the 27th
ultimo, all was well there at that time. No Let-
ters hither, or for England from thence, or from
Captain Allen, nor any thing new concerning
him.
Great Apprehenfionsare ftill of ours in thoſe parts,
of their being left Defenceleſs when he returns to
England with his Squadron, the which is now dai-
ly expected to be, I no ways doubting, for my
part, but that all is very well forecaft there, and,
above all, what may concern Tangier, a Place and
Confequence never to be forgotten, with a moft
remarkable Circumſtance now newly experiment-
ed by Capt. Allen; That our King's Frigats can ride
at Anchor, even in Winter Seafon, within the very gut
of the Streights, with a Correspondence of Signs be-
tween them and that Garifon, whereby to be able to
command (if strong enough) all comers in and goers
out of the Mediterranean; and (if too weak) to re-
tire within our Moule of Tangier, when built.
Formerly
(432)
Formerly I Advertiſed you, that two great
French Frigats, met there by fome of ours, upon
like Signs, did immediately ſtrike to them, and
paſt on
Now it is moft certain, that four more from
France are appointed to Rendezvous with them in
thofe parts very ſpeedily, but to what end I can-
not learn.
Sir, Your, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To the Lord Chancellor.
Madrid, Wedneſday the 18th of Febr. 1664. N. S.
My very Singular Good Lord,
TH
HOI have much to fay to your Lordship at
this time (at leaſt fomething of much mo-
ment, as I do humbly conceive) in order to his Ma-
jefties Special Service, with reference to my Pro-
vince, Spain; I fhall remit it to another approach-
ing Conveyance within my view, giving the pre-
fent opportunity wholly to a fincere Condole-
ment, on the part of me and my Family, to your
Lordſhip and my Honourable Good Lady,of a lofs
we come to underſtand this day you have made,
of a most dear and hopeful Pledge; the which I
will not fo much as name at this time, leaſt I
fhould rub too much thereby, a private Sore
which (I truft in God) your Lordships Publick
Capacity (efpecially at a feafon of fo high Acti-
on and Cor cernment of the King and Kingdoms
requiring your Lordship's Thoughts intirely to
them) and your Lordſhips Diviner Meditations,
to my knowledge conceiv'd and penn'd in the
days
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days of Publick Calamity, will have well modera-
ted and affwaged before the arrival of this; which
farther affures your Lordship, how much (if my
felf could tell how much) I am,
My Lord, Your Lordships, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid, Thursday Febuary, 166‡.
SIR,
INA
N Anſwer to yours of the 5th of January,recei-
ved Yeſterday, which tells me, that the re-
port of my coming away hath fpread it felf fo
far, that our Spanish Merchants begin to take their
Meaſures, as for a breach betwixt his Majelly and
this Crown; moft certain it is, the faid Report
proceeding from my own Mouth and Pen, to
thefe Minifters,and feconded with vilble Preparati-
ons on my part, could do no lefs than fpread it felf
fo far,and farther, as in effect it had done before I
received out of England any Mitigation of my
feveral Orders on that behalf; wherein (with
fubmillion) I have not at all over acted my part;
fince, at higheft, I was never lowder than the
Prompter, i, e. my Warrant from more Hands
than yours (though that alone was fufficient)
for me to proceed in that Faſhion; and whereas
you
add in the fame, that it will be fit to cure our
Merchants of thoſe Apprehenfions, I have al-
ready done that, in reference both to them and
this Court, as much as in me lies, prefuming it
might be more effectually done from England,
Ff
(not
(434)
(not excluding better Expedients than either,
that may here be thought on) in the way which
former Deſpatches of mine (by Mr. Augier) did
humbly propoſe. Neither they nor Spain having
any Caufe to wonder, or be ſtartled (eſpecially if
the Conde de Molina fhould not yet go for Eng-
land, and although he fhould, after fo long de-
lays, when the ſpeeding of an Ambaſſador to our
Court was a condition in the fending one to this)
that the King our Mafter, meerly in the Point of
Retaliation and Refentment of that one failing
only towards him, fhould withdraw me, Autho-
rizing a Refident here to Correfpond a Refident
in England, or be it an Ambaffador there, yet fo
long at leaſt as I have here Correfponded D. Pa-
tricio O Muledey.
I can now farther and more particularly from
your Honours faid Letter, affure both this Court,
and our Spanish Merchants refiding (prefuming
your Honour hath already ſatisfied thofe in Eng-
land) that the revoking of me doth in no fort,
on his Majeſty's part, tend to a Breach with Spain,
but cannot at all affure our Merchants here or
there; that Spain hath no intention to break with
England, though I fhould continue here, when
Spain does plainly tell me they will, if his Majefty
defiſt not from defending Portugal, and his Majefty
faith, as plainly, he will not defift; and Spain
faith again, they will lofe the whole Monarchy
before they will confent to any Accomodation
with the Duke of Bracanca (as they call him)
otherwiſe, than abfolutely quitting to his Catho-
lick Majefty the Kingdoms of Portugal and Al-
garve.
True it is, I am not bound to take the Spani-
ards Word, that they will break with us down
right for all this; but thus far we have an earneſt
of it already, that they do actually take and
juftific
(435)
juftifie the taking of all our Merchants upon and
near theſe Coafts, whom they can diſcover, or
colourably pretend to be bound to or from Portu-
gal; and inore-over (of which we have freſh
Examples of Prifoners brought into Sevil fince the
freeing of the laft upon my Inftance) make Prizes
of us in the Indies where-ever they can, but both
theſe ſtand with the Articles (fay they) upon
feveral accounts; yet agree not, that we recipro-
cally may without breach thereof make Reprifals
of them, either upon this Coaft, or in the In-
lies.
And finally, although I had indeed at firft, up-
on my home-preffing thereof, fome tolerable fatis-
faction as to a good Commerce with Tangier, and
that his Majefty's Ships thould have free Prattick
in thefe Ports (things of courfe wherefoever any
Friendship is but pretended, whereof no doubt ar
all was made when I left England) yet, befides that
even thofe Particulars then granted upon my
finart declaring, I had Orders to return if other-
wife, have ever fince gone backward) there is
not one Main and Fundamental Point of my Pri-
mitive Inftructions which hath been complyed
with by this Court, or whereunto hath not at
laft been given a manifeft Defengano (a rare Jewel
to be here found) fo that being driven up to a
dead Wall in every Branch of my Emballie, I can-
not but think, after pondering upon this and my
other large Explanatory Defpatches accompanying
the fame (if not before upon former Reprefen-
tations) I fhall receive his Majesty's Letters of
Revocation, till when, in all probable appearance
of pure neceflity, I fhall ftand frock ftill, without
moving either forward or backward, unleſs his
Catholick Majeſty ſhould command me back, ma-
king me a Parallel in all with the Baron de Batavi-
la, though, fure I am, I have done nothing on
F f z
-
my
ד
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my part, but my duty to provoke it ; no extra-
vagant Suppofition, this (in my humble appre-
henfion) as defirous as theſe Miniſters have lately
feemed to me of my ſtay, their Neglects and Ex-
preffions of and towards me fince that time, in my
Publick Capacity only, being groffer than ever,
and fuch as if they had contracted new Animoſi-
ties againſt England, or liftened with Credulity
enough to new Suggeſtions of the English declin-
ing Intereft, or what elſe may be the motive I can-
not gueſs; but do guess there muſt be fome-
thing new in the matter of an extraordinary Na-
ture.
Yours, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
To Sir George Downing.
Madrid,
3
1 3
February, 1664.
SIR,
Since
Ince my laft to you here is nothing new from
Captain Allen or from Tangier, fave that, by
Letters newly arrived, at the writing thereof the
former was expected to be fuddainly in England
with his Squadron, the latter quiet and in good
Condition, having then freshly been fupplyed
with Four Ships of Provifions from home: This
together with Authentical Advertiſements from
England, that my Lord Bellafis is foon following
to Govern that moſt Important Place ) confirming
me there can be no colour of truth in a lateRumour
concerning the fame in reference to the French
King, which hath fpread it felf far and near, and
Lets this Court at prefent of a light Fire.
As
(437)
As little Novelty doth it afford. Councels and
Preparations multiply in order to a great and
early Campaign, both which they reckon upon.
Yeſterday was with me in Vifit an Ambaffador
from Switzerland, who told me the Auxiliaries
from thoſe Countries, to the number of 5000
Foot Effective, lately arrived in Catalunia, have
Orders fent them to march from thence by Land,
a long and troubleſome march (but to them
not fo, for that it is faid they do abfolutely refuſe
to budge any other way) towards the Frontiers
of Portugal; that they are to paſs through this
Town, but not in a Body. He told me farther
that they are hitherto very punctually paid ( elfe
you know, Point Swiz) and that most of them
are old Soldiers in the French Service, which puts
me in fome doubt how they will like of their
Spanish Quarters, by that they have tried them for
fo many hundreds of Miles; as likewife how
their Spanish Quarters will like of them.
By latter Pofts I have received nothing from
you, but, of yours I have from Mr. Secretary
Bennet, the which I am helping to turn into Spa-
nish, and, that done, fhall return a Copy to the
Author, from his,that is,
Sir, Yours, &c.
R. Fanshaw.
To the KING.
Madrid, Monday Febr. 6. 1664. O. S.
May it pleaſe Your Majesty,
T
HE Bearer hereof, Mr.Charles Bertie (Son 10
the Earl of Lindſey) having done me the
Ff 3
Honour
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Honour, together with other Gentlemen of Rank
and Perfonal Worth, to afford me his Company
out of England hitherto, and now with them
homewards bound, by the way of France; I find
my felf incouraged by the opportunity of fo no-
ble a Hand for conveyance, to give your Majefty
this firft immediate Trouble of any Lines of mine,
fince I had laft the Happiness to kiſs that of your
Majeftys, as well to throw my ſelf, in all Humi-
lity, at your Royal Feet, as to render very briefly
a faithful Character of this young Gentleman, in
a more particular manner, whofe Virtues and
Extraordinary Qualities(the former not loft,the lat-
ter acquired with much Travels at few years) do
no whit degenerate from the Nobility of his
Blood, and active Loyalty of his Progenitors;
my Duty to your Majefty, as well as my Affection
to his Perfon,obliging me ex officio to this fhort Te-
timony of his Merits unrequefted, to the end
fo hopeful a Branch of that Houfe may not want
even this means among others, of being
early known to his Sovereign, I could humbly
with, I could add, his Mafter too, and that in
fome near degree of Service to your facred Per-
fon, for the prefent,, in order to Publick Imploy-
ment for the future; towards which,as Years fhall
increafe, and Occaſions be miniftred, he is alrea-
dy furniſhed, in a very good meafure, with two
principal and proper Gifts, that of Tongues, and
that of Obfervation. But I forget to whom I
fpeak, for which most humbly begging your
Royal Pardon, I crave leave to fubfcribe my felf,
Your Majefties, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
To
(439)
I
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
Whitehall the 12th of January, 1664,
My Lord,
Have none of your Exellencies to Anſwer, nor
no more News, than that the Parliament met
again this Day, and took prefently into Confi-
deration the profecution of the Bill for the great
Aid againſt the Dutch, refolving not to let any
other Buſineſs intervene, till they have finish'd it.
We have very ill Reports running here, of fome
misfortune befallen Capt. Allen's Fleet, and par-
ticularly the Leopard, which makes us very im-
patiently call for your Letters, to tell us the
Truth.
Letters from Holland fay, the Eaft India Ships,
i. e. two of the three, are returned much hurt,
and their Men alfo, attempting to take the round
by Scotland, and fo avoid our Ships in the Chan-
nel; which paffage muft with this hard Weather
be grown much worſe.
The Portugal Ambaffador is making himſelf
ready to return home, and is only retarded now
by fome Indifpofition of the Queen, her Majefty
hath (God be thanked) no firm Sickneſs, but
the very cold weather obligeth her to keep her
Bed.
With the Portugal Ambaffador my Lord Bellafis
goes alfo, the new Governour of Tangier.
I have by his Majefties Command, entertain'd
the Ambaſſador with his defire, to obtain the Li-
berty of the Marquefs d' Eliché, and Don Annero
Guzman, who feems reaſonable well perfuaded
Ff 4
that
(440)
that he fhall obtain it, for fome limited time at
leaft.
His Majefty is fending Sir Charles Cotterel with
his Complements to the Marquefs Caftel Rodrigo,
I am, with much Truth,
Four Excellencies, &c.
HENRY BENNET,
To the Duke of York.
Madrid, Wedneſday, 18 Febr. 1664. N. S.
May it Pleafe your Royal Highness,
T
HE inclofed herewith fays, the bufineſs that
carries into England at this time the Bearer
of both, Sir Andrew King, importing fo much
the Publick Good (as in all probable appearance,
it doth) that it may not be unworthy your
Princely Patronage, and particular Furtherance;
which having, it cannot fail of good fuccefs.
He carries likewiſe an account of mine here,
with reference to my Negotiation, in ſeveral De-
ſpatches, which will come before your Royal
Highness in due place; where I beg your favou-
rable Afpect upon them, and upon me, when
they fhall fo do.
He can farther anſwer very pertinently (ac-
cording to my humble Judgment) to many im-
portant Queſtions your Highneſs may think fit to
make unto him, concerning the Guinea Trade,
as it may relate to Spain, and the Weft-Indies; pro
vided the faid Trade be Afferted and Eftablifhed to
the English alone, the which I doubt not but it
will yet be under your Highnefs's Aufpicious
Conduct of that Affair, both I and he having
much
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much ſtudied the Point, tho' things have never
been ripe hitherto, nor perhaps ever will be, for
an Ambaſſador to Negotiate any thing therein.
immediately and fingly with the Court, other-
wife than as it may be drawn in with Time by
degrees, and in confequence of other things.
He can laftly affure your Highneſs, with what
Joy and Hopes I do continually celebrate your
high Attempts; how I pray, with like Affiduity,
Almighty God to protect your Perfon in the
day of Battle; and how much and Truly, and
that from Antient Devotion, I am
Your Royal Highnelles, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW,
To the KING.
Madrid, Wedneſday the 18th of Febr. 166.
}
Success of my Negotiation in the Court of Spain,
after the utmoſt trials made by all plaufible
Addrefes, fome minatory (by immediate In-
ftruction from your Majesty, befides fundry fig-
nifications from time to time, of your Maje-
jefties Pleaſure, That I must return, unleſs
Speedy Satisfaction were had;) yet none rude
or unmannerly, briefly abftradled out of my
past and prefent Defpatches for England;
wherein the clear matters of Fact are laid
down and dilated upon.
6 Inftru-
&tion.
O Accommodation between Spain and Por-6 and 7
tugal, unleſs that King will furrender to Inftruct.
·N°
his
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2 and á
his Catholick Majeſty the Kingdoms of Portugal
and Algarve.
2. No Peace from Spain with England, if your
Instruct. Majefty continue to allift Portugal with Defenſive
2 Instr.
\
Arms.
3. No Trade for your Majefty's Subjects, to
or from thofe Kingdoms, during the War; dai-
ly Prizes being made of them upon that account,
by Frigats and Men of War, Navigating under
Commillions from his Catholick Majefty, with-
out any Reſtitution.
4. No Free Trade in the Spanish Dominions,
in the Indies, or from your Majefties therein, to
Spain.
5. No Peace for your Majefties Subjects in A-
merica, wherefoever the Spaniard finds himfelf
the ſtronger, according to their prefent Practice,
and Interpretation of the Articles of 1630. which
yet they must have understood to bind our hands
as to them.
5 and 6 6. No new Adjustment with England, other
Inftruct. wife than by way of Confirmation of thofe old
Articles.
7. No Reftitution of any Eftates of your Ma-
jefties Subjects, feized by Embargo of 1655. tho'
point-blank against the faid defective Articles
there, upon change of times, as feveral other
things are, which are daily acted by the Spa-
niards.
8. No Nulling the faid Embargo to this Day
(tho' long fince infifted upon by me) in reference
to Goods of your Majefties Subjects, which have
lain depoſited in fecret Truft from that time to
this; but a pretence of ftill feizing them to the
ufe of his Catholick Majefty.
9. No one Ryal for Sir Benjamin Wright; on
the contrary, a clear Declaration to him at laft,
from the Mouths of their Officers, after Confult,
upon
(443)
upon a Reference from the King, that he is not to
expect any thing, whether upon the accompt of
his Debt, or by way of an Aynda de Cofta, for the
Example-fake: So prophetically an Anſwer to
Colonel Walters likewife, who I underſtand is in
his way hither, upon the like Errand.
10. No Correfpondence to this hour, of Vi-
fit or Meffage to your Majeſties Ambaſſador, from
the Marquefs de Caracena, or the Conde de Penna-
randa; tho' the Dutch Ambalador told me long
fince, that the Conde had Re-Vilted him, and the
French hath told me, he hath been Vifited by both,
prefuming they have done the like towards all
Ambaffadors in this Court but my ſelf.
11. No Commiffion to this hour produced un-
to me, of any one or more nominated to Treat
with me,; no Project of a Treaty, on the part of
Spain, or Anfwer to That propofed by me; tho'
I never read or heard of any Negotiation in
Spain, or elſewhere, by the which any real Effect
was mutually intended, whereunto fuch Com-
millions were not the common Preface: Morco-
ver, that your Majefties Fifth Inftruction doth
point me to expect (as I did) fuch Commillion,
and fuch Project, on the Spanish part, for fome
ſpace before I exhibited mine; having, fince the
exhibition of mine, ufed fomething of Invitation,
befides the Example, to draw the like from them,
but in vain.
12. No Spanish Ambafador yet gone to your 14 Inft.
Majefty: in more than a twelve-month that I
have already been out of England (whatever the
Conde de Molina may yet do) tho' promifed there
fhould be one foon after my arrival here, before
your Majefty would confent to fend me.
Your Majefty having this clear Information
upon the whole, tho' this Court had never, in
obedience to your Majefties feveral Orders, been
threatned
(444)
threatned by me (as they call it) before with my
going away, will now, I prefume, not think it
your Service to continue me any longer here,
whatever may be deemed fit as to a Refident
(whether in the Perfon of my Secretary and
Kinfman, whom I humbly propounded to your
Majefty by Mr.Secretary Bennet; or whomsoever
elle your Majefty fhall judge meet for the Employ-
ment) whereby to keep things fair between the
Two Crowns, until a better mutual Underſtand-
ing for perpetuity, may be fettled between the
fame; vouchfafing your Royal Letters of Cre-
dence and Revocation refpectively, to the fame
purpofe, to be applied in manner as I have for-
merly humbly propofed likewife, by Mr. Secretary
Bennet, to your Sacred Majefty, whom God pre-
ferve ; the daily Private, as well as Common
Prayer of
I'
Your Majesties, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW,
POSTSCRIPT
F we would have Peace with Spain, we muft
either not aſſiſt Portugal at all (not cer-
tainly knowing neither, whether that it felf will
do it, without Tangier and Jamaica,) or affiſt it ſo
Powerfully, as to neceffitare Spain to make Peace
with Portugal likewife.
2. If we would Trade fecurely, even as to
Friends, to or from Portugal,or within 30 Leagues
of it (according to the prefent Rule and Practice
of Spain) we muft either Trade with Convoys,
or take all Spanish Subjects that go in or out of the
United Provinces, or which may be colourably In-
terpreted to be bound for or from the fames
thereby
t
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!
1
thereby to oblige his Catholick Majefty to grant
us the fame Privilege, as to Comerce with Por
tugal, which both the Hollanders and Hamburgbert
have, by expreſs Article. I will not fay (until
we have it fo) that we may fairly make Prize of
thoſe Prize-makers, as the Hollanders have done,
and juftified it without hazarding their Peace with
Spain; tho', on the other ſide, it feems very hard,
that becauſe our old Articles could not take notice
of the preſent Difference between Spain and Portu-
gal yet allowing us equal Traffick with both) and
Spain will make none New with us: We there-
fore ſhould be thrown into the fame predicament
with the French,who have exprefly Articled, they
will have nothing to do with Portugal, whether
in Trade or otherwiſe.
3. If we would have certain and conftant Prat-
tick for his Majeſties Frigats in the Spanish Ports,
and Free Comerce with Tangier, without being
fubject to Reverſal of Orders on that behalf, or
Humour of Governours; we muſt perfect the
Mole and Fortifications of Tangier, with what elfe
ſhall be there neceffary; whereby having lefs need of
the one and the other, and enabled, in fome mea-
fure, to retaliate good or bad Correfpondence,
we ſhall have of them what we lift, for the future,
with a great deal of Love to boot; whereas now
the leaft Indulgence to us is grudged, and very
fparingly complied with.
4. If we would not have the Spaniards take our
Men, Ships, and Places too, in the Indies, where-
ever they are the stronger (as they do, and more-
over avow fuch Actions not to be against the Ar-
ticles) we muft declare that Freedom to be Reci
procal, and act accordingly.
5. If we would Trade with the Spaniards in the
Weft-Indies, we muft not give them Jamaica for it
(a word
( 446 )
(a word to that purpofe having been dropt out to
me, by way of bait, to talk of that matter, which
I declined, by a great Minifter, but not of the firſt
Rank. I had almoſt faid (according to the Sence
of many very Experienced English, in matters of
Comerce) nor accept it neither, tho' it fhould
be granted for nothing, unleſs it could be by way
of Free Mart, in fome Neighbouring Gariſon or
Garifons of our own, upon certain fer Days and
Times of the Year, the which is bumbly conceived
more probable to be the natural Effect of Time
it felf, than of any Treaty in the preſent that
could have been.
6. If we would have Peace upon a New Foun-
dation of Articles (the old being fo Enigmatical
and ſhattered as they are) and if we would have
the fame full as large at leaſt as thoſe of the Hol-
landers, we muſt be as terrible to the Spaniard as
they were at the making thereof, and as ufeful to
Spain, upon reaſonable Terms, as they can pre-
tend to be.
7. If we would have the faid new Articles
(or thoſe we have, even where they are not du-
bious) duly obferved (without which they will
be but as fo many Traps to catch our Merchants,
and the larger the Privileges are, the wider will
be thoſe Traps, to catch more) we muft bind them
all together with a ftrong new Wyth or Cord, as
namely, That in cafe of Violation of Articles in any
particular, on either fide, after Reparation demanded
in due time, place, and form, to be particularly agreed
upon and fettled in clear Terms; it shall be Lawful,
without Breach of Peace, to iffue out Letters of Repri-
zal on that behalf; and that this account be frequent-
by exacted, often Reckonings making long Friends,
Retaining in his Majefties unquestionable Poffef
fion, not by way of Pawn, but Right, Tangier for
ONE
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one Surety of their good Behaviour in the pre-
milles, and Jamaica for another; befides what
ftrong Places may in poflibility farther accrue,
near home, in process of the Dutch War, or for
Conclufion of a Peace with Holland; whereby to
have an immediate influence of Neighbourhood
upon Flanders likewife, and Germany: All to the
Benefit and Safety of the Austrian Family and Do-
minions, provided they make a ftrict Friendship
with England, and keep it inviolably.
And, as to the English Privileges in Flanders,
(with the Confequences thereof, in a Trade up
into Germany) upon account of the old Capitu-
lations with the Houſe of Burgundy, continued in
full force from time to time with the Houfe of
Spain, but of a long time unenjoy'd, as to the
main thereof, and appearing to be quite given a
way from us to the Hollanders, by allowing them
in their late Peace, to block up the Paffage by the
River of Skelde to Antwerp; if it be ftill our In-
tereft and Right (as it is) to have it opened for
our Navigation, with great Ships and otherways;
as alfo the Intereft of Flanders, and their Right
too, if they had not barred themſelves thereof.
This feems a matter rather to be evinced from
Holland, as of undoubted Juftice, by way of for-
cible Treaty, than to be defired of Spain, in any
that shall be made with that Crown, farther, or
in other Terms than is already granted; but if
not, this particular may be remembred likewife;
Spain having had no morePower, without infringe-
ment of Articles with England, to barr us the Paf-
fage to Antwerp, in favour of the Hollander, than
the paffage to Sevil, to the Canaries, or to any
other Port of his Catholick Majefties Dominions;
whereunto, in virtue of the ſaid Articles, we might
and ought to have free access to Trade and Co-
merce.
The
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The above Conclufions (deduced from clear
Matters of Fact and Avowment, on the part of
Spain, upon Authenticated Certification of his
Majefties Ambaffador in that Court) are the hum-
ble Opinion of one fingle Counſellor only to his
Sacred Majefty, which one Counſellor is moreo-
ver humbly of Opinion, that the Cafe ftand-
ing as it doth) it is not for his Majefties Service,
or ftrict Punctilio between Kings (confidering
Spain's promife for the drawing one thither from
England; and now, after a prodigious beginning
of Kindneſs, the ufing him as they do) to con-
tinue or have an Ambaſſador at Madrid at this
time, whatever may be thought fit as to a Refi-
dent, to keep things fair between the two Crowns,
until a better mutual Underſtanding for perpetui-
ty may be fettled, whether in the Court of Spain
(as now on the part of England was offered)
or (by lapfe on the Spanish part) in that Peace
between us, in the Reign of King James was,
by the Condeftable of Caftile; and the prefent
Peace between Spain and Holland, at Munster, by
the Conde de Pennaranda; the faid fingle Counſel-
lor fubmitting all, with due Reverence, to the
better Judgment of fuch of my Lords unto whom
his Majefty fhall think good to remit the Confult
thereof; and, above all, to the final Pleaſure and
Determination of his Sacred Majefty, whom God
preferve.
R. FANSHAW.
To the Lord Chancellor.
Madrid Wedneſday 18 Febr. 166.
My very fingular Good Lord,
THE
HE only Buſineſs which carries the Bearer
hereof exprefly to his Majefties Feet at this
time
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time, is contained in the herewith incloſed Paper.
(Figure 1.) The reft he carries, contain (as brief
as I could make it) the clear State of my Nego-
tiation in this Court, with the fuccefs thereof,
and what alone remains now to be done there-
upon, as I humbly conceive, if I were to give my
Opinion upon the fame as a Counsellor ftanding
by, and only looking on upon the Affair.
If your Lordſhip would have and can endure it
more at large, with farther Demonftration and
Proofs of all particulars therein affirmed, as mat-
ter of Fact, Mr. Secretary Bennet hath enough in
his hands; to whom I humbly refer your Lord-
fhip in that behalf, and to Sir Andrew King for
many more Matters and Circumftances than can
be written; who (I think I need not tell your
Lordſhip) is a very honeft difcreet Gentleman,
an indefatigable Student and Labourer in the
Things of our Mafter's Service, with a perfect
Zeal towards the Honour and Intereft of his Ma-
jelty, and of the English Nation: Under which
Character, not partial (tho' I do confefs I love
the Man very well, but it is for that it f) I
humbly recommend him to your Lordhip's fa-
vourable Imployment and Protection, upon the
Word of
My Lord, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW,
To the King,
Madrid Wedneſday 8 Febr. 1664.0. S.
May it Pleaſe Your most Gracious Majesty,
TH
HE Bearer hereof, Sir Andrew King, is ſo well
known to your Majefty,and the World, for
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his
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his approved Integrity, and conftant Adherence
to the Crown, that I fhall not need to fay any
thing of his Perſon.
The Buſineſs upon which he takes this Journey,
at my fpecial Requeft, is, to inform your Majefty
and your Minifters (at a very fit feafon, as I do
humbly conceive) both the Right your Majefty
hath to clear the Navigation for your Subjects
to Antwerp, up the Skeld, as alfo the great
Advantages which thereby would return to
England, particularly by a Trade up into Germa-
my, now wholly diverted and appropriated (con-
trary to our Articles with Spain) to the enrich.
ment of a Nation that makes fo ill uſe of antient
Benefits, voluntarily derived upon them from the
Crown of England; this being none of their leaft
Incroachments upon it, in requital whereof, al-
tho', I do prefume, your Majefty is not with-
out fome notice already, yet this which is come
to my hands, is fo particular, from a Gentleman
in Flanders it felf, Mr. de Roy, not unknown, both
he and his Family, to your Majefty, and of more
than ordinary Skill and Intereft there, to carry
on the Work, that I thought it worth the while
not only to defpatch an Exprefs about it to your
Majefty, but an Exprefs capable to understand him
thoroughly in the matter; fuch is Sir Andrew
King, who, in order thereunto (the faid Mr. de
Roy being returning) accompanieth him as far as
Paris at leaft; and may from England farther Cor-
refpond with him, or Vifit him in Flanders, in
order to the fame End, as occafion may require,
if your Majefty fhall do him the Honour to Com-
mand it.
He is farther capable, upon this occafion of his
going for England, to anſwer pertinently (in my
bumble Judgment) many important Queſtions,
which
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which may be there made him by your Majefty,
or your Miniſters, in reference to the prefent ftate
and condition of Spain. And he carries feveral
Deſpatches from me, which were written for a-
nother Conveyance; feveral alfo, which upon
new matter, and with more openness of Stile,
(relying upon the fafety of this) I have prepared
fince the Refolution of his going; all amounting
to the clear State of the fuccefs of my Negotia-
tion in this Court; looking upon it now, from
former Orders of your Majefty, as at an end in-
deed, and only attending your Majefties final
Determination and Direction thereupon. My
faid Negotiation's Succefs being (for your Maje-
fties lefs trouble) fumm'd up into brief Heads, in
one of my Deſpatches, as in all the reft, proved
and dilated upon by
Your Majesties, &c.
RICH. FANSHAW.
I
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Tangier the 28th of Jan. 166.
Have had nothing this long time worth your
Excellencie's Trouble, for I ſuppoſe your Ex-
cellency has been adviſed, how that the Fleet has
been this long time detained in Gibralter, with
the Merchant Convoys that are to go along with
them, now they are here, but going back to fetch
fome more Merchant-men that are yet in Gibral-
ter.
All the Victuallers are fafely arrived, God be
thanked, and all delivered; fo that I have eleven
months
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months Proviſions in Stores, of which I am very
glad, eſpecially in this conjuncture between the
English and the Dutch.
The Corn we have fown in the Fields within
the Lines, comes very well up, but we have had
fuch a winter as has fcarce been ſeen, and the
great Rains has brought fome of the old Walls of
the Houſes down.
Gayland yet detains the two Men I formerly
wrote you word I had fent to him; the Reaſons I
do not well underſtand, but I believe now he is
weary of them; for they write me to fend a Fri-
gat for them.
We are all well, and Mr. Chomley, one of the
Undertakers of the Mold, is come over, and pro-
miſes the Mold will go on better than it has done
theſe ſeveral months paît. Iam
My Lord, Your Excellencies, &c.
T. FITZ-GERALD.
To the Lord Ambaſſador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Since
Whitehal Jan. 19. 1664.
Ince my laft, I have by feveral ways received
many of your Excellencies, of Dec. 14, 20, 21.
O. S. and Jan. 4. N. S. this laft bringing us very
good News, contradicting our Loffes, and affuring
us of Gain: In both which, for the contradiction
we have, we muft fubmit our felves to the expe-
tation of the lam'd Poft.
I would willingly entertain you a little upon
yours of Decemb. 31. N. S. if I had time for it, and
efpecially upon the four furprizing Lines in Cypher,
the words of the Duke of Medina de las Torres to
you,
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you, fpeaking of the leave allow'd you, to fend a Out of
Gentleman into Portugal to know that King's Mind, as Cypher,
to a Peace with Spain; which, I say, furprized us,
and is not in any degree Intelligible to us; fince you ne-
ver speak in any of your Letters of any fuch Gentleman,
or fo much as a Difpofition in them to hearken, in the
least degree, to any Overture of that kind, tho' you know
it is fufficiently deſired by us. Pray anſwer us clearly
in your next, to this point; and excuſe me that for
the preſent I do not lengthen this more, than to
aflure you of my being, with all Truth and Affe-
&tion,
My Lord, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid Wedneſday the 25th of Febr. 166. N. S.
SIR,
I 3
Mm you,
Mmediately after the going away of my laft
to you, by an Ordinary of the Inftant, I
received yours of the 12th paft, alfo, this very
day, another of the 19th of the fame, neither
the one nor the other requiring any Anſwer, fave
what, by Anticipation, I have long fince Writ-
ten; particularly as to the Point of thofe four
furpriſing Lines in mine of December, which
your last commands me to Anfwer clearly in my
next.
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Out
Your faid last was very wellcome to me, for the Oss of
light it gave me in the fame Point, namely our Ma-Cypher.
fter's still continuing Concernment for an Accomoda-
tion between Spain and Portugal, to all, notwith-
anding Spain's lofs of time, and the change of Times,
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as if the People whom it imports more than all the
World befides (unless all the World befides are grossly
mistaken) wou'd yet permit it to fignifie any thing;
whereof I fee less poffibility every day than other,
without the return of my Exprefs from Lisbon (whom
I may new shortly expect, he having past Safe from
Elvas, Portugal Ground, upon the 3d Instant New
Style) fhould produce fomewhat of Miracle; Adver-
tifement whereof his Majesty shall have with the
Sooneft; or in default thereof, the total Defenganno in
reference to what England may expect from this
Crown as to Portugal, and confequently as to Spain
it felf, according to the Spanish Account and Practice,
whereupon elsewhere I have already fuperabundantly
difcourfed to you.
More I perceive the light given me had been,
both in that and other Material Points of mine
aforeſaid,if you had then had time proportionable
to your willingness to entertain me thereupon;
and I hope alſo will have done it at more leifure,
in purfuance of the fame Inclination, by the next
I fhall have the happineſs to receive from you.
}
Yours, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
An Extract of a Letter from Sevil dated the 17th
of Febuary, 1664.
THE
HE Spaniards here give out, that the Mar-
ques de Monte a Legre is going in all haft
for England, in the quality of Extraordinary
Ambaſſador, to demand Satisfaction for Jamaica.
For Don Juan de Hoyas Ship. Burning of the Fleet
at the Canaries,&c. By the Meffage and Meſſenger
[
1
one
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I
one may gueſs it will be the 1st of April when
e'er he goes.
The above impertinency I have added by way
of Poftfcript, upon the fame account that fome
Phyficians write down the Dreams of their Pa-
tients, thereby the better to give a guefs at their
Natural Conftitutions.
R. F.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanfhaw.
My Lord,
You
Paris 4 Feb. 166. N.S.
OU will find your Holland Letter half open
and no more, which fhews the infide un-
touched; but too much was done to the outſide,
for which I was very forry; I was writing and
ſpoke to him that brought up the Letter to me
in which it was incloſed, to open it by the Fire,
who did fo, gave me mine, and began opening
the other before I was aware, but by good For-
tune I ftopt him; and your Excellency will par-
don it. I give you thanks for the good News
your laſt told of Captain Allen, which was a
good contradiction of your other written three
or four Days before, which makes him Drowned.
Sir George Downing writes, that in Holland they
make the Ship which he hath funk worth a Hun
dred Thouſand Pound, and that which he hath
taken to be very rich; but your Excellency never
yet cleared it to me, what became of the Order
fent him for Guinea, which Mr. Augier carried;
if he was not then to be found, or if a Counter
Order came, or what was the reafon he went
not. I am fure you know that Major Holmes is
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in
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in the Tower fince his coming into England;
but I hear he gives a very good account of his
Actions, and to have done nothing but upon the
Provocation of the Dutch, that he is far from
deferving blame: His Commitment hath occafi-
oned a report of an Accommodation, but I think
without Ground. All concerning Holland I affure
myſelf Sir George Downing informs,fo I fay nothing
of it. Here the Duch Envoy Van Buninghen pref-
fes hard for a'Declaration of Alliftance, and that
the English are Aggreffors; and the French Ambaffa-
dor in England continues his Sollicitation for an
Accommodation. I am juft now told that Or-
ders are this Day given for 1300c Foot, and 400c
Horſe to be ready inftantly to march, but which
way or upon what deſign is not yet known. I
am with all Sincerity,
My Lord, Yours, &c.
HOLLE S.
To the Lord Ambaffador Fanshaw.
Hague, January 19. 1664. O. S.
Right Honourable,,
I
T is this Week Refolved in the Eftates General
that a Placaert fhall be iffued out forbiding
any Ships of this Country to go to Greenland this
Year to the Whale-Fithing, which uſed to im-
ploy 12000 Seamen, and near 300 Sail of Ship-
ing that would be 200 Tuns one with another:
Moreover that another Plackart be iflued out for-
biding the going out of any Ships, through the
Channel or about by Scoland, or to the East Sea,
or Norway, till further Orders: Moreover that
the
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the Plackart of the Year 1653 be renew'd, which
forbids the bringing in or felling of any Goods,
Wares or Merchandizes of England, or any Lands
or Provinces thereunto belonging: Fourthly, That
Letters of Reprifal, which they call by a new
Name, viz. Letters of Retortion, fhall be given our
against the English, but under condition that thofe
that have them must be obliged to deliver to the
States as many Seamen as he intends to have in his
own Ship, that fo their Fleet may not want.
Fifthly, that the Wages of the ordinary Seamen
fhall be raiſed from Eleven Gilders to Twelve per
Month. Sixthly, That whereas two of the great-
eft Men of War of North Holland are catch'd in
the Ice near the Teffel, and in great danger of be-
ing loft, or at least of being very much damnified,
that that Admiralty do ftrictly examine by whofe
default it happen'd and punish them feverely.
Seventhly, That Confideration fhall be had for
the providing for fuch Seamen as happen to be
Maim'd in their Service: Moreover they do in-
tend to enforce theEaft India Company to furniſh
20 Men of War to join with their Fleet in the
Spring, good Ships of from 30 to 40 Guns and
upwards. They ſpeak alſo that they will neither
fuffer Hamburgers, Lubeckers, French, Swedes, nor
Danes,nor any to pafs. All the War with Cromwell
reduc'd them not to fuch defperate Refolutions,
and to be fure this is the way for to make them
not able to hold out long, for that without Trade
they must eat up one another in a fhort time.
They are alfo much alarm'd by Land, as if the
Biſhop of Munster, and other their Neighbours,
intended to lay hold upon this Opportunity, up-
on the account of the Difputes they have with
them, and upon that account Troops are draw-
ing out of their Garifons towards Flanders, for
the ftrengthing of their Frontiers towards Mun-
cra
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4
•
a
fter, and that way; and they fpeak of an intent
of raifing 4 Regiments of Swiffers, of whom they
never had as yet but 3 Companies; and they
Ipeak of making two or three Lieutenant Admi-
rals more, fo that then Opdam fhall be no other
than as the Ancienteft, which you may be fure
doth not pleaſe him, nor will it pleafe Zealand;
for that they fee plainly that this is done in á
great menfure upon their account, that fo in cafe
Opdam thould not be able to go to Sea, or be
kill'd, that yet the Command of their Fleet fhould
not fall under a Zealander, which otherwife it
muft do. My Lord Carlisle is paſt Breme in his
way homewards over Land, and my Lord Mor-
peth is gone from Cleve to Antwerp: They are
now endeavouring much to give Sweden Satis-
faction; and still their great Confidence is upon
France, and that they will work out an Accommode-
ment for them or otherways declare on their fide; Van
Beuningen bath an Expreffion in his laft Letter, that
Monfieur De Lionne fhould have told him, that bis
Mafter must have a care that he did not put his Ma-
jefty upon joyning with Spain, and that it was to be
endeavour'd fo to manage matters as if poffible to do
their business and yet avoid that Extremity. The
Ship King Solomen, that was funk by Captain
Allen, is here valued at a Hundred Thoufand
Pound Sterling at leaft, and the Leghorn Ship which
he took is also faid to have been rich; There was
one more taken, and one more funk, but thoſe
were but Malaga Ships: They fpeak of unlad-
ing the Goods in the reft of them, and turning
them all, and all the reft of their Ships in the
Straights, and thoſe Parts, into Merchant Men of
War; fo that you fee that for this Year they in-
tend to be all Fighters, that fo there may be no-
thing to take,which they think will make theEng-
ifh a weary, for that they fay the main Encou-
ragement
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ragement to this War is the hopes of Booty; and
befides, hereby they hope to make but a fhort
bufinefs of it, for that they plainly fee that they
cannot hold out long againſt England, and there-
fore that they will venture all at a pufh, and they
hope that England will do the like with them.
They ſpeak much of De Ruyter's farther Deſigns,
and of his going to Barbadoes, and other his Ma-
jefties Colonies, when he fhall have done in
Guinea.
I have now received lately three or four Letters
from you, whereof the latter was by the Hollands
Expreſs from Cadiz. The Eftates Letters mention z
Ships funk, whereof the one a Smirna Ship worth
above 100000 /. Sterling, and two taken, where-
of one a rich Ship from Venice, Leghorn, and Genoa.
Brakell their Admiral kill'd the fix Fore-Mates in
his Hould. I am,
Sir, Yours, &c.
G. DOWNING.
They have declared Premiums to all that fhall
take any Engliſh Men of War, that is to fay, he
that fhall take the Admiral 5000 l. Sterling and
the Ship, and all in her, and fo proportionably
for every Ship.
Their Minifters begin more than ever to Preach
for the Prince of Orange, for which they are Si-
lenced this Week at Rotterdam.
G. D.
To
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I
SIR,
To Sir George Downing.
Madrid Feb. 1664.
11
Have received yours of the 19th paſt, for
which I give you many thanks, this place at
prefent affords me little or nothing to return you
in requital.
This Court hath lately been very much alarum-
ed by two Expreffes, fome few days fince arived
here, from that of France; one from that King
to his Amballador here, and the other from the
Spaniſh Amballador there to the King his Maſter,
both adviſing of fome Conteſt which hath lately
happened between fome Spaniards and ſome French
upon the Frontiers of Flanders, at a certain Place
there which the Marquefside Caftel Rodrigo was a-
bout to Fortifie, whether he will defift or they
perfift, and how Holland concerns themſelves ei-
ther for the one or the other, I fhall be glad to un-
derſtand from you, in the mean time, for the
conftant Favours of your very material and feafo-
nable Advertiſements hitherto, do thankfully.
reft,
į
Sir,
Your very affectionate Friend,
and faithful Servant,
RICH. FANSHAW.
To
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1
To the Lord Ambaffador Holles.
My Lord,
Y
Madrid 1 Feb. 1663.
Our Excellencies of the 4th of February New
Stile, is come to my Hands, for which I
render you humble thanks; as alſo for the inclo-
fed from Sir George Downing, the which could not
well receive Prejudice whilft in your Excellencies
Prefence, if it had been by miſtake opened.
As to your Excellencies Command concerning
thofe Orders which Mr. Augier brought me for
Captain Allen, they came Sealed to me, and in
like manner I immediately defpatch'd them away
to him, from whom I have fince understood, that
they were not to command him for Guinea, but
to lye about the Streights, and the Coafts of Spain,
to take the fairest Advantage he could against the
Dutch, by a Letter from him Dated at Gibralter
the 21st of January, he was waiting for a fair
Wind to Sail homewards with his Fleet, both of
Men of War and Merchant Ships as fhould be
ready to go home with him.
This Court hath been very much alarum'd by
two Expreffes which arrived here from yours a
few days fince, one from the French King to his
Ambaſſador here, and the other from the Spaniſh
Ambaſſador in that Court to his Catholick Majefty,
both giving an account of a Difpute hath lately
happened in Flanders between the Spaniards and
the French about a place which the Marques de Ca-
felrodrigo attempted to Fortifie upon thofe Fron-
tiers: which it is probable thofe 13000 Foot and
4000 Horfe your Excellency mentioneth are or-
dered
1
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dered to March, whetherfoever it be, obferving
the Conjuncture, it may be an Alarum to many,
and ſeems a War upon fome body. There are here
that utter big Words upon it,whether the Actions
would be proportionable I much queſtion, unleſs
they ſhould refolve to defer to another Age, their
now more than ever hoped Conqueft of Portugal,
as far as I am able to make any Judgment by
thofe Language and Preparations. I humbly co-
vet your Excellencie's fenfe upon theſe Matters,
as well as Matter of Fact from the great and
active Metropolis, with which recommending the
incloſed for Sir George Downing to your Excellen-
cie's Favour, alſo one for Mr. Coventry (being
from Captain Allen) I humbly crave leave to
reft,
My Lord, Yours &c.
Richard Fanfhaw.
To Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Madrid,Wedneſday the 22d of February, 1664. O, S.
SIR,
Sinc
"Ince my laſt to you of 1 February, this Court
affords no homebred News, fave that the
Condeftable of Caftile, among feveral Pretenders,
is pitch'd upon for General of the Horfe, and
inatters here towards an early Campaign.
Some difturbance it hath been to their Thoughts
here, and fome new matter it hath yeilded for
Counfels, that the French did lately open the King
of Spains Packets hitherwards from Flanders, up-
on the Borders thereof, and moreover that the
French King did downright threaten a Breach
upon
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*
upon the Marquefs of Caftelrodrigo's introducing
German Forces into thofe Provinces, and attempt-
ing to Fortifie thofe Frontiers; his moft Chriftian
Majefty to make good the faid Threats, having
already caufed 13000 Foot, and 4000 Horfe to
march that way; but I have been told this Ala-
rum runs no farther in their Heads, whether it is
that they have News the French King relents in the
Point (as fome fay) or (as others) that his
Catholick Majefty hath refolved to give him his
Will at prefent in this Particular; yet, whether that
will ferve the turn or no, I make no little Quefti-
on, becauſe this very day, by a Letter from Be-
yonne, I am told of confiderable Parties of Horfe
and Foot come over the River of Bourdeaux, and
that there is none of that Country will beleive,
but that the King of Spain is dead; the Writer
noting that that is not the way to Gigery, and F
cannot but obferve that it is not the way to Han-
ders neither; fuppofing alfo they are not to fight
with this Army, the Major part thereof conlift-
ing of French, and fuch other Nations as have for-
merly ferved that Crown.
By a Letter receiv'd this day likewife from
Sir George Downing, I am told it is difcourfed in
the Hague, as if Matters were in a clofe Treaty
at London, by the Interpofition of the French King,
and with his Minifters there, towards an Accom-
modement, and that very confident they are, that
he will either work it out, or in the Conclulion
declare for them; if this latter part fhould be true,
the French laying about them all ways at once
would feem to me fomewhat ftrange, but that I
fee them at every turn prefume very much upon
the Spanish Patience, notwithstanding that his
Catholick Majefty is yet alive, and alive like to
be (as I am verily perfwaded) for fome num-
ber of Years: Poffibly the fame Opinion now in
the
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the French King himſelf being party-cauſe of fome
of theſe Motions fooner than was intended.
With much Truth and Affection I am and re-
main,
Your Honours, &c.
R. FANSHAW.
}
To the Lord An:baffador Fanshaw.
My Lord,
Sinc
Whitehall, January 26. 1664,
Ince my laft of this day Sevenight, I have re-
ceived none from your Excellency, but from
Captain Allen we have a particular account of his
lofing the two Frigats, with the Favour of your
Licentiado of Gibralter, and of his repairing him-
felf as well as the Weather would permit him up-
on the Dutch Smirna Fleet, fo that for other rea-
fons we long for your Letters; we are now ful-
ly fatisfied as to thefe two Points.
The Portugal Ambaffador is not yet Embarked,
nor confequently my Lord Bellafis, neither is
Sir Charles Cotterell departed, defigned to carry
his Majefty's Compliments to Marquefs Castle Ro-
drigo; but all this we fuppofe will be over before
the Conde de Molina arrives, who is daily ex-
pected,
Our great Bill for his Majefty's Aid in the
Dutch War is now at an end in the Houfe of
Commons, after which a few days will diſpatch
it in the large. I am with much Affection,
My Lord, your Excellencies, &c.
HENRY BENNET.
Tranf-
(465)
Tranſactions between England
and Spain, from the Year
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1650.
Etters Credential from the King of Spain to 2 Dec.
Alonfo de Cardenas, his Amballador in Eng-1650.
land, directed to the Parliament of the
Commonwealth of England, were read in Parlia-
ment.
The faid Ambaſſador, Don Alorfo, had Audi- 31 Dec.
ence in Parliament, where he fpake to this pur- 1650.
pofe; That the Authority and Sovereignty of
England being now refiding in the Parliament
of the Commonwealth of England, the King of
Spain had by his Letters Credential, qualified hin
to acknowledge the fame. And being himfelf
the Greateſt and firſt King of Chriſtendom,would
oblige this Commonwealth,in being the firſt that
made this Acknowledgment by him his Ambaf-
fador, and offers them his Amity and Friend-
ſhip.
That the Catholick King had a moft lively Re-
fentment of the unhappy Accident upon Anthony
Alcham, Refident of this Commonwealth, and
had done therein all that the Laws would permit,
and more, to bring the Delinquents to Juftice,
and would not ceafe till he had effected it; allu-
ring them, that the Cafe fhould not be more pref-
fed if the dead Perfon were a Prince, Heir to the
Crown of Spain.
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That
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That as a farther Effect of the Friendſhip of
Spain towards the Parliament, the Ships of the
Navy of the Commonwealth, have had fhelter
and Entertainment in all the Spanish Havens, and
fhall have for the future; and that in the mean
time neither Prince Rupert nor his Ships fhall be
admitted.
The Parliament Anfwers, That this Nation be-
ing reftored to their Liberty and Settlement, now
enjoy'd in the prefent Government, their care
was to maintain Amity with their Neighbours,
and particularly with the Great and Powerful
King of Spain; and to that End fent their Refi-
dent Afcham to that Court; and now take in
good part the King of Spain's Acknowledgment
of the Authority and Sovereignty of this Com-
monwealth to Refide in the Parliament.
That they take notice of the Favour fhew'd to
their Admiral and Fleet upon the Coast of Spain,
by the King and his Officers; tho' the Narrative
thereof made by the Ambafiador, differs from
what they received from Admiral Blake.
That they Entertain and Accept the firm
Friendſhip and good Correfpondence which the
King tenders, offering the fame on their part;
demanding Juftice against the Murderers of their
Reſident Afcham, and defire the Ambaflador to
convey their Letter for that purpofe, to the King
himfelf.
That what he had farther to Communicate,
they had appointed the Council of State to receive
it, and to return their Refolutions.
The Ambaffador by a Paper (without Date, and
it is mark'd for his 4th Paper,) reprefenteth to
the Council of State, That the King of Spain is
not only willing to maintain a good Correfpon-
dence and Amity, but to beget a more ftrict one,
and propounds a Conjunction of Deſigns in Spain,
France,
(467)
France and Portugal, or Flanders; and for the Ma-
nagement thereof, defire a fecret Commifoner
of the Council, and that the whole Bulinefs be
kept fecret.
A Copy of his Powers being demanded, in or-12
der to the taking this Paper into Confideration, 822
he refers the Council to his Letters Credential, o. S.
which he conceives fufficient to enable him to
Treat in This or any other Matter.
Hereupon the Council appoint fome of their
own Number to meet the faid Amballador, and
to hear his Propofitions to a ftricter and nearer
Union. At which Conference he delivers the
following Paper.
That the King had not only an intention to 17 Febr.
Maintain and Conferve a good Correfpondence, 1651.
but to beget a nearer Union between him and
this Commonwealth; the means whereof he was
ready to propound; but before he deſcended to
Particulars, he defired to know, as Preliminary
thereunto, The Intention of the Parliament, whe-
ther Theirs be conform to that of the King; and
in cafe it be, then whether they will Treat of an
Union for the Common Good.
The Parliament directs the Council to give. March
Anſwer to the foregoing Paper, and to Treat with 1651.
the Spanish Ambaffador.
In purſuance hereof, the Council take the ſaid
Paper ofthe 17 February into Confideration, and
return this Anfwer; That the Parliament in their
Anſwer to his Speech at his firft Audience, and in
their Letter to the King, declared their Accep-
tance of the Friend/hip offered, and their own
Refolution to make return anfwerable; and the
Ambaſſador having in his Audience in the Coun-
cil, and after by a Paper, defired a fecret Com-
mittee, to whom he might make Propofitions of
a nearer Alliance; and the Council having ap-
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pointed
31 Mar.
9652.
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27 May,
pointed a Committee accordingly, to confer with
him, inſtead of new Overtures, which they ex-
pected, he only propounded the Matter of the a-
forefaid Paper of the 17 February, wherein the
Parliament had before explained themfelves. Their
Anſwer therefore to That is, That they are ready
to Treat with his Excellency upon what he hath
propoſed on the behalf of the King his Mafter,
as well concerning the former, as a more ſtrict
Amity.
Upon this Anfwer, the Ambaſſador by a Paper.
fignifies his fatisfaction in what the Parliament
1652. had declared; and having alfo received a Pleni-
potency from his Mafter, a Copy whereof he pre-
fented to them, he propounds, as a Foundation
of a farther Alliance, the Renewing the Treaty
made betweenthe King of Spain and King Charles,
the 5 Nov. 1630. N, S. offering to alter or en-
large the fame, according to the difference of
Time, juncture of Affairs, and Change of Go-
vernment, as may be good for both Nations.
22 July, He preffeth for an Anfwer to the foregoing
1652. Paper.
22 July,
The Ambaſſador had Audience of the Council,
1652. and there by word of Mouth and Writing com-
plained of Delay, not having received any An-
fwer to his Propofition made 26 June, 1652. O. S.
whereby he propounded the Renewing of the old
Amity, as the beſt Foundation of a nearer Alli-
ance; and prefleth for their Anfwer.
12 Aug.
The Council giveth Anſwer, That when the
1652. Ambaſſador fhould, out of former Treaties, or
otherwife, propofe fuch Particulars fuited to the
Conftitution of preſent Times and Affairs, as were
intended to be the Foundation of an Alliance,
he ſhould receive fuch an Anſwer as ſhould ma-
nifeft the continued Defires of the Parliament, to
maintain a good Correfpondence with the King.
Her-
(469)
Hereupon Don Alonſo delivered 24 Articles of 2 Sea
Peace and Confederation (formed, as he faid, 165,
out of a Treaty of 1630, but much differing from
them in many things) to the Committees of the
Council; which, by his Paper thereunto annex-
ed, he defireth may be Confider'd, and if liked,
may be proceeded in and brought to a Conclu-
fion. Referving a Power in himſelf to add to,
fubtract from, and alter, before the conclufion
of the Treaty, as he fhall judge convenient, ac-
cording as Occurrences fhall fall out in the pro-
fecution of the fame.
The Trea
ARTICLES Propounded by Don Alonſo
de Cardenas, &c. in order to the Renewing
ty of
of the Peace, Confederation, and Amity, 1630.
betwixt the King his Master and the laid
Commonwealth.
HAT from this day forward there fhall be
¹TH
a Good, General, Sincere, True, Firm
and Perfect Amity, League, and Peace,
to endure for ever, and Inviolably and Recipro-
cally to be obſerved and kept, as well by Land as
Sea, and Fresh Waters,betwixt the moft Renouned
King of Spain,his Heirs and Succeflors, and the Com-
monwealth of England,and betwixt whatever King-
doms, Lordſhips, Lands,People and Subjects of both
Dominions, now being, or which fhall hereafter
be, of what Condition, State,or Degree they are,
or may be; fo as the faid People and Subjects re-
fpectively, from henceforth are each of them to
favour other, and to ufe one another with all kind
and Friendly Offices.
The First Article is the fame word for word.
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II. Item,
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II. Item, That neither the faid Renowned King
of Spain, his Heirs and Succeffors, nor the faid
Commonwealth of England, by himself,nor them-
felves, or by any others, fhall do, treat, or at-
tempt any thing against the other, or against their
refpective Kingdoms, Lordfhips, Dominions, or
Territories whatſoever, in any Place, or Land,
or Sea, or in the Ports, or Fresh Waters, by pre-
tence of any Caufe, or upon any occafion. Nei-
ther any of them fhall give Affiftance, or confent,
or adhere unto any War, Council, Attempt, or
Treaties, had, made, or to be made, in the Pre-
judice of either, or against the other.
The Second Article in the Treaty of 1630, is omit-
ted, as only proper for that time, the effect of it being
only to put an end to War and Hoftility.
The Third Article in the Treaty of 1630, agrees
verbatim with the fecond, on the other fide.
III. That neither of the former Parties fhall
themſelves give, or fhall confent to be given by
any of their Vaffals, Subjects, People, or Inha-
bitants refpectively, Aid, Favour, or Counſel,
directly or indirectly, on Land, Sea, or Frefh
Waters, nor fhall ſupply, or minifter, nor con-
fent to be fupplied or miniftred by their faid Vaf-
fals, Subjects, People, and Inhabitants refpective-
ly, unto the Enemies or Rebels of either part, of
what Nature, Ufe, or Condition foever they be,
(whether they fhall Invade, or have invaded,the
Countries and Dominions of the King and Com-
monwealth, or either of them, or fhall with-
draw themſelves from their Obedience and Sub-
jection) any Soldiers, Provifion of Victuals, Mo-
neys, Arms, Horfes, Inftruments of War, Mu-
nitions, Ships, or whatſoever other Aid elfe, to
fuccour or encourage them, and to maintain
War.
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The Third Article is drawn to agree with the Fourth,
in the Treaty of 1630, but this difference is between
them. ft. By the New Article, no Affistance is to be
given to the Enemies that have Invaded, or Rebels
who have withdrawn themselves from their Obedience,
as well as thoſe who ſhall; whereas in the old Treaty.
this Article relates only to the future Time; and this
was no doubt penn'd to accommodate Spain, as to Bra-
zeel and Portugal. 2d. In the enumeration of the
Particulars, Affiftances not be given, Horfes and Ships
are added.
IV. And farthermore, the aforefaid Renowned
King of Spain,and the faid Parliament of the Com-
monwealth of England, fhall renounce, as by the
Tenor of thefe prefents each of them hath, and
doth Renounce whatſoever League, Confederati-
on, Capitulation, and Intelligence, made by what
manner foever, in the prejudice of the one or the
other, which doth or may repugn againſt this
Peace and Concord, and all and fingular the Con-
tents thereof; all which, and every of them, fo
far as they do concern the effect aforefaid, they
ſhall annul and make void, and declare to be of no
force or moment. And they do promife likewife,
that from henceforth they will make no League
or Confederations which fhall or may repugn this
Peace.
This Article is drawn to agree with the Fifth in the
old Treaty, and doth agree with it, fave that this new
Claufe is added in the new Article, to wit; And they
do promife likewife, that from henceforth they will
make no League or Confederations, which shall or may
repugn against this Peace, as aforefaid.
V. That the faid moft Renowned King of Spain,
and the faid Parliament of the Commonwealth of
England,fhall take care that their refpective Subjects
and People, fhall from henceforth abftain from all
force and wrong doing, and that they likewiſe
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fhall revoke all Commiflions and Letters of Reprizal
and Mart,or otherwife,containing to take Prizes,of
what condition or kind foever they are,being to the
prejudice of the one or the other of the faid King
or Commonwealth, or of their respective Subjects
or People, whether the fame have been given or
granted by them, unto their reſpective Subjects or
People, or Inhabitants, or unto Strangers, and ſhall
declare the fame to be void and of no force, as
by this Treaty of Peace they are fo declared to
be. And whofoever fhall do any thing to the cun-
trary, he fhall be puniſhed not only Criminally,
according to the merit of his offence, but fhall alfo
be compelled to make Reftitution and Satisfaction
for the Loffes, to the party damnified, requiring
the fame: And that from henceforth no Letters
of Reprizal fhall be granted by either Party to
their refpective Subjects or People, Inhabitants or
Strangers, except that firft intimation of the Com-
plaint, with a Copy thereof, be given to the Am-
baffador or Publick Minifter of the faid King or
Commonwealth (if any fuch fhall be prefent, or
refiding in the Court refpectively of either Do-
minions) againſt whofe Subjects or People the ſaid
Letters of Reprizal fhall be defired, and likewife,
except there be firft had cognizance of the Caufe,
and except in Cafes permitted by the Laws in that
Cafe provided, and according to the Order pre-
fcribed by them.
The former part of this Article agrees with the fixth
Article in the old Treaty; but the latter part, in re-
ference to the not granting of Letters of Mark for the
future, is wholly new.
VI. Item, That between the moft Renowned King
of Spain, and the Commonwealth of England, and
every of their Vaflals, Inhabitants, Subjects and
People refpectively, as well by Land as Sea, and
Fresh waters, in all and fingular their Kingdoms
Domi-
(473)
Dominions, Iſlands, or other Lands, Cities, Towns,
Villages, Havens and Streights of the faid King-
doms and Dominions of the ſaid King and Com-
monwealth, there be or may be free Comerce. In
which before the War between Philip II. King of
Spain, and Elizabeth Queen of England, there hath
been Comerce betwixt the fame Kingdoms,accord-
ing as it was agreed on in the Treaty of Peace
made in the year 1604. in the 9th Article, like
and according to the ufe and obfervance of the
antient Leagues and Treaties made before the ſaid
time, in fuch fort and manner, as that without
any Safe-conduct, or other Licence General, or
Special, the Subjects of the faid King of Spain,
and People of the Commonwealth of England, may
freely, as well by Land as by Sea, and Fresh Wa-
ters, go, enter, and fayl in and to the faid King-
doms and Commonwealth, and their Dominions,
and all the Cities, Havens, Shoars, Sea-Roads, and
Streights thereof, and put themfelves into what-
foever Havens of the fame; where, before the a-
forefaid time, there hath been a mutual Comerce,
and like and according to the uſe and obſervance
of the antient Leagues and Treaties aforefaid, with
Carriages, Horſes, Burthens, Ships, as well Laden
as to be Laden,to bring in Merchandiſes, and there
to buy and fell as much as they will; and in the
fame places, upon pitcht Prifes, to procure and
have Proviſion of Victuals for their Suftenance and
Voyages; and likewife, as occafion fhall require,
to Repair ſuch Shipping and Carriages as either ap-
pertain to them improperly,or elfe they have hired
or borrowed. And from thence alfo with their
Merchandiſes, Goods, and other Commodities
whatſoever, (the Cuftoms and Tolls, as they are
preſently rated, according to the Ordinance of the
place, being paid) they may with like freedom
depart and go to their own Countries, or any o-
ther
(474)
ther Places, at their pleaſure, without let or im-
pediment.
This agrees word by word with the feventh Article
of the old Treaty.
VII. Item, That it may be lawful to have accefs
unto the Ports of the King of Spain, and Common-
wealth of England refpectively, and there to make
ftay, and from thence with the fame liberty to
depart, not only with their Ships of Merchandi-
fes and Burdens, but alfo with other Shipping
furniſhed for War, and prepared to withstand the
force of Enemies, whether they fhall arrive there
either by force of Tempeft, or for Repairing their
Ships, or Provifion of Victuals, fo as they exceed
not the number of fix or eight Ships, when they
come in of their own accord, nor that they con-
tinue nor make ſtay in the Havens, or about the
Ports, longer than they fhall have juft Caufe, for
the Repairing of the fame Shipping, or for provi-
fion of other Neceffaries, leaft they fhould be any
occafion of interruption unto the free Comerce
and Entercourte of other Friends and Nations in
Amity. And whenfoever any greater number of
Ships of War than is before fpecified, fhall have
occafion of acceſs into thofe Ports, then fhall it not
be lawful for them to make any entrance, without
the privity and confent of the King, and Parliá-
ment of the faid Commonwealth. Provided al-
fo they do no hoſtile A&t within the faid Potts, to
the prejudice of the faid King or Commonwealth,
but demean themſelves there quietly, as Friends
and Confederates, with fpecial caution ever to be
had, that under the colour and pretence of Co-
merce, no warlike Aid, Provifion of Victuals, or
of Arms, or of Munitions, or other fuch Mate-
rials, for the Wars, be carried by the Vaffals,
Subjects, People, or Inhabitants refpectively, of
the
( 475 )
the faid Kingdonis, or Common-Wealth, to the
Comodity or Benefit of the Enemies or Rebels of
the one or the other. And whofoever fhall at-
tempt to the contrary, fhall be punished with thoſe
fharp Pains and Puniſhments which uſed to be¶n-
flicted upon Seditious Perfons, and breakers of
Faith and Peace. Provided alfo, that the Subjects
and the People refpectively of the one, in the
Dominions and Territories of the other, be not
worfe handled than the refpective Natural Sub-
jects and People, in their States and Contracts for
their Merchandizes, as well in refpe&t of the Prizes
as otherwife; but that the Condition of For-
reigners be equal, and like herein unto the re-
fpective Natural Subjects and People, notwith-
ftanding any Statutes or Cuftoms to the con-
trary.
This Article agrees Word for Word with the 8th
Article in the Old Treaty of 1630.
VIII. That the Parliament of the Common-
Wealth of England fhall prohibit, and after the
Confirming of thefe prefent Articles by Proclama-
tion or otherwife, forthwith provide that no one
of the People, Inhabitants or others of the faid
Common Wealth, fhall lade or carry over by any
means directly or indirectly, in his own Name,
or Name of any others; neither fhall lend his
Ships or other Veffels for Carriage, or ufe his
Name for the Tranfporting or Conveying of
any Ships, Merchandizes, Manufactures, or any
other thing out of Portugal, nor out of the Con-
queſts of that Kingdom, into Spain, or other the
Kingdoms or Dominions of the King of Spain;
neither his Ships fhall carry any Portugal Mer-
chant unto the faid Ports, upon the Peril of the
Parliament of the Common-Wealth of Englands
Indignation, and other Punishment ufually in-
flicted on the Contemners of Supreme Com-
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mands.
( 476 )
mands. And to the effect thatFraud, which through
the likeneſs of Merchandizes might happen, be
the better avoided. It is alſo provided in this pre-
fent Article, that the Merchandizes to be carried
and conveyed out of England, Scotland and Ireland
to the Kingdoms and Dominions of the King of
Spain, fhall be Regiſtred and Sealed with the Seal
of the Town or City from whence they fhall be
Laden, and that they being fo Regiftred and Seal-
ed, fhall be without any difficulty or queftion
whatſoever reputed and held to be English, Scot-
tish, or Irish Merchandizes, and fo refpectively
accordingly to the Seal and Mark be allowed and
admitted, always excepted that in cafe of Fraud,
Proof fhall be admitted, without ftay, notwith-
standing of let of the Courfe, or Venting of the
Merchandizes in the mean time.
And touching fuch Merchandizes, as fhall not
be Regiftred nor Sealed, the fame are to be Con-
fifcate and taken for good Prize. And likewife
all Portugals which fhall be found in the fame
Ships may alſo be taken and detained.
This Article instead of Holland and Zealand m2-
ferts Portugal, and in all other things agrees with the
9th Article in the Old Treaty.
IX. That English, Scottish, and Irish Merchan-
dizes may freely be Conveyed and Tranfported
out of the faid Common-Wealth of England into
Spain, and others the Dominions of the faid moft
Renowned King, as before expreſſed, paying on-
ly the Cuſtoms and Tolls ufually required.
This agrees with the 10th Article of the Old
Treaty.
X. Item, That for the Merchandizes which
English, Scotish, and Irish Merchants fhall buy in
Spain, or other the Kingdoms and Dominions of
the faid King of Spain, and fhall carry in their
own Ships, or in Ships hired or lent unto them,
(except
(477)
(except as before hath been faid the Ships of Por
tugal); no new Cuſtoms or Tolls fhall be increaf-
ed, yet fo as they carry and convey the fame
Goods and Merchandizes to the Dominions, Ter-
ritories, Ports or Places of the Common Wealth
of England, or to the Provinces being in Amity,
Subjection and Obedience to the King of Spain,
and to the Kingdom of Portugal,nor to any part of
theDominions and Territories thereof. And for the
more furety that Fraud be not committed herein,
and that the faid Merchandizes be notTranfported
to other Places and Kingdoms, and efpecially not
unto Portugal,nor to any of his Conquefts that the
faid Merchants fhall bind themſelves at the time
that they do lade their Ships in Spain, or in the
Dominions of the King of Spain above declared,
before the Magiftrates of the place in which they
fhall lade, to pay the Impofition of 30 in the 100
in cafe they carry away the fame Goods and Mer-
chandizes to other Dominions and Countries.
And to obtain alfo within the ſpace of twelve
Months following a Certificate from the Magi-
ftrates of the Places where they fhall difcharge or
unlade the fame Goods, teftifying their diſcharge
to have been either in the Dominions and Ter-
tories of the Common-Wealth of England, or in
the Ports of the Provinces under the Obe-
dience, and in Amity with the faid King of
Spain, upon the exhibiting whereof the Obliga-
tions concerning thefe matters fhall be delivered
up unto the Bringers of the fame Certificates.
This Article agrees also with the 11th in the Treaty
of 1630. changing Portugal for Holland, and add-
ing thefe Words, And not to the Kingdom of Por-
tugal, nor to any part of the Dominions and Ter-
ritories thereof.
And alſo that the faid Parliament of the Com-
mon-Wealth of England fhall prohibit, ſoon after
the
(478)
the Confirming of this Accord, that none ſhall
Export any Merchandizes out of Spain, or other
Kingdoms or Dominions of the King of Spain,
to be carried to other Places than to Dominions
and Territories of the Common Wealth of Eng-
land, and to the Ports and Provinces of Flanders,
and of all others that are in Amity with Spain, up-
on penalty of Confiſcation of all their Merchan-
dizes to the ufe of the faid Common-Wealth of
England, to be paid to the ſaid Parliament, of the
which Merchandizes or the value thereof, one
half thereof is to be given to the Informer, the
Impofition of 30 in the 100 to be deducted, to
roo
be paid to the Minifter and Deputies of the King
of Spain: And the Proofs lawfully received in
Spain,and tranfmitted into England in Authentical
form are to be credited. And it is alfo declared,
that the faid Prohibition of Goods to be carried
out of Spain unto other places than to the Domi-
nions and Territories of the Common-Wealth of
England, and the Provinces in Amity as above-
faid, doth no way comprehend thofe Kingdoms
and Dominions which enjoy a free Trade with
the Kingdoms of Spain. For the People of the
Common-Wealth of England may lawfully tranf-
port the Goods of the Kingdoms of Spain, unto
thoſe that have a mutual Trade with Spain, the
forementioned Cautions, Conditions, and Pe-
nalties rehearfed in the Precedent Article a-
gainst the Offenders remaining ftill in Force and
Strength.
This Article agrees with the 12th in the Treaty of
1༦༣༠.
XII. Item, That the Magiftrates of the faid
Towns or Cities of the Dominions and Territo-
ries of the Common-Wealth of England, which
ſhall make Certificate of the unlading of Ships,
and are to give Teftimony of the Regiftring of
the
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1
the Merchandizes fhall not commit any Fraud
therein, under peril of the Indignation of the
Parliament of the Common Wealth of England,
and pain of loſs of their Offices, and other more
greivous Puniſhments at the Parliaments Plea-
fure.
2
This Article agrees with the 13th Article in the
Old Treaty of 1630.
XIII. And as the faid King and Parliament do
Religiouſly promife, that they will not at any
time yeild any Warlike Succour to any of the
others Enemies, or Rebels, fo it is provided that
their Subjects and People refpectively, or the In-
habitants in their Kingdoms, Dominions, and
Territories of what Nation or Quality foever they
be, may not under colour of Entercourfe and
Commerce, nor under colour of Pretence, give
any Aid or Help to the Enemies or Rebels of the
faid King or Common-Wealth, or either of them,
or confer or fupply them with Mony, Provifions
of Victuals for War, Armour, Horfes, Muniti-
ons, Ordnance, Artillery, or other Warlike Pro-
vifion. And thofe which fhall do the contrary
are to take knowledge that they fhall be punished
with the fevere Punishment accuſtomed to be in-
flicted upon breakers of Leagues, and Seditious
Perfons.
The 14th and 15th Articles of the Treaty of 1630
are omitted, and this 13th agrees with the 16th in
the faid Treaty.
XIV. Item, That alfo greater Benefit may
through this Concord come unto the refpective
Subjects and People of the moſt Renowned King
of Spain, and of the Common Wealth of Eng-
land in their Dominions and Provinces. The faid
moft Renowned King, and the Parliament of the
Common-Wealth of England joyntly and feveral-
ly fhall and will do their Endeavours,that their re-
fpective
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[pective Subjects and People have not the Pallages
ftopt, or letted to any of their Ports,or refpective
Kingdoms and Dominions, as abovefaid; that
thereby they be not hindred, freely and without
Impediment to come and go with their Shipping,
Merchandizes, and Carriages (the ordinary Cu-
ftoms and Tolls being paid) to all the faid Ports,
Kingdoms and Dominions refpectively, and with
the like liberty (when it fhall feem fo good to
them) with other Merchandizes from them to
depart.
This Article agrees with the 17th Article in the
Treaty of 1630.
XV. But as concerning the Antient Treaties of
Entercourfe aud Commerce, whereof diverſe are
extant betwixt the fometimes Kingdom of Eng-
land, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions of
the Dukes of Burgundy and Princes of the Low
Countries, which notwithstanding, during fome
times of Troubles, may have been interrupted,
and peradventure in fome parts impaired. It is
provided that they fhall retain and have their
ancient Force and Authority, and that they fhall
be uſed on both Parts, as they were before the
Wars between Elizabeth Queen of England, and
Philip II. according as it was agreed on in the
Treaty of Peace made in the Year 1604. in
the 22d Article. And if it happen that ei-
ther by both parts, or any one part, any Breach
thereof be alledged, or that the Subjects, or Peo-
ple refpectively fhall complain that the Conven-
tions are not obferved, or that more grievous
Burdens than were accuſtomed are impoſed on
them; there ſhall be Deputies appointed on either
part which may meet, and calling to them (if
need be) Merchants experienced in fuch matters
may friendly treat, and equally renew and re-
ftore fuch things as fhall be found either to have
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flipped out of courfe,or to have been changed by
the injury of Times, or by corrupt Cuftom and
Uſe.
This agrees with the 18th Article of the Treaty
of 1630.
XVI. And for that the Rights of Commerce
which do enfue by Peace, ought not to be made
unfruitful, as they would be, if the People of
the Common-Wealth of England, whilft they
have recourſe to and from the Kingdoms, and
Dominions of the faid King of Spain, and do re-
main there for Commerce, fhould be molefted in
the cauſe of Confcience. Therefore to the intent
their Traffick may be ſafe, and without danger, as
well on Land, as on Sea, the ſaid moft Renowned
King of Spain fhall take care and provide, that for
the faid cauſe of Confcience they fhall not be mo
lefted, nor difquieted in ufing their Trade and
Commerce, fo as they give no Scandal unto o-
thers. And the faid Parliament fhall likewife for
the fame Reaſons, and upon the fame Grounds,
take care that within the ſaid Common-Wealth,
or any of the Dominions of the fame, the Sub-
jects of the King of Spain thall not be molefted
or difquieted in the cafe of Confcience, in uſing
their Trade or Commerce, fo as they give no
Scandal unto others, any Law, Statute or Cuſtom
on either fide to the contrary notwithstanding.
The last Clause of this article, to wit, the reci-
procation in the cafe of Religion is new. the rest of it
agrees with the 19th Article of the Treaty of 1630.
XVII. Item, That if it happen any Goods or
Merchandizes prohibited to be carried or con-
veyed out of the refpective Kingdoms, Domi-
nions or Teritories of the faid moft Renowned
King of Spain, or of the faid Common-Wealth
of England, by the refpective Subjects or People
of the one or of the other, that in fuch caſe the
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Perfon only offending fhall incur Punishment,
and Goods only prohibited ſhall be Confifcated.
This Article agrees with the 20th in the Treaty of
1630.
XVIII. That the Goods of the Subjects and
People of one Party,that fhall dye in the Provinces
and Dominions of the other, fhall be conferved to
the right Heirs and Succeffors of the Deceaſed,
the right of a third Perfon always preferved.
This is the fame with the 21th in the faid Treaty.
XIX. That the Grants and Privileges given here-
tofore by the Kings of Spain, and Kings of Eng-
land, to Merchants of both Nations, coming to
their Kingdoms, and which Privileges for fome
Caufes and Reaſons have ceaſed, fhall from hence-
forth wholly be revived, and have their full force.
and ftrength.
This agrees with the 22th Article of the faid
Treaty.
XX. Item, If it fhall happen hereafter (which
God forbid) that any Difpleafure do arife be-
tween the faid moft Renowned King of Spain,and
the faid Common-Wealth of England, whereby
danger might grow of the Interruption of In-
tercourfe and Commerce, then the refpective
Subjects and People of either of the faid King and
Common-Wealth are therefore to be fo admc-
nifhed, as that they may have fix Months, from
the time of the Monition, to Tranfport their Mer-
chandizes without any Arreft, Disturbance, or
Hurt, in the mean feafon, to be done or given
unto them either in their Perfons or Merchan-
dizes.
This agrees with the 23d of the Old Treaty.
XXI. That neither the aforefaid King of Spain,
nor the aforefaid Parliament of the Common-
Wealth of England, fhall Imbargue, or ftay
for their Provifion of War, or for any other Ser-
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vice, to the Prejudice of the Owners, the Ship of
the reſpective Subjects or People fof either of the
other, being in their Ports or Waters, unless the
faid King of Spain, or the Parliament of the Com-
mon-Wealth of thofe refpective Parties to whom
the Ships do appertain, fhall firſt be admonished
thereof, and fhall alfo yeild their Confent there-
unto,
This agrees with the 24th Article of the Old
Treaty.
XXII. Ítem, If during this Peace and Amity,
any thing happen to be attempted, commited, or
done against the force or effect thereof, by Land,
Sea, or fresh Waters, either by the faid Renowned
King of Spain, his Heirs and Succeffors, or by the
faid Parliament of the Common-Wealth of Eng-
land, and their refpective Vaffals, Subjects and
People, or Allies, that fhall be comprehended in
this League, or of any their Heirs or Succeffors
of thofe Allies, their Subjects or Vaffals; yet not-
withſtanding this Peace and Amity fhall remain in
Strength and Vertue, and the Attempters, and
fuch as do offend therein only, and no others,
fhall be puniſhed for their Attempts.
This agrees with the 25th Article in the ſaid
Treaty.
XXIII. If any Controverfie happen to be mov-
ed in the reſpective Kingdoms, Dominions, and
Territories of the King of Spain, or of the faid
Common-Wealth of England, by any Perfon not
being fubject or under the Dominion of the faið
King or Common-Wealth,for or upon occaſion of
any Depredation or Spoils committed, the cauſe
is to be committed to the Judge of the Jurifdicti-
on under the King, or Common-Wealth, againſt
whofe Subject, or Subjects, People, or any of
them the Suit is Commenced.
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:
The 26th and 27th Articles in the faid Treaty of
1630. are omitted, and this Article agrees with the
28th in the Old Treaty.
XXIV. Item, That the Subjects of the faid
King of Spain may at their pleaſure, in any of the
Ports or Places of the Dominions or Terrritories
of the Common-Wealth, freely and fecurely Im-
port any Goods, Commodities, or Merchandizes,
growing, produced, or made in any part of the
King of Spain's Dominions, Kingdoms, or Terri-
tories whatſoever, in any Ship or Ships belong-
ing to the Subjects of the faid King, wherefoever
they ſhall dwell or inhabit within the faid King's
Dominions. And that the Ships belonging to any
one Kingdom, Country, Illand, Province, City,
Town, Subject, or Subjects of the ſaid King, or
to any Inhabitants of any of the places aforefaid,
may lawfully Import, as aforefaid, Goods, Com-
modities, or Merchandizes, growing, arifing, or
made in any other of the faid places whatſoever,
belonging unto, or under the Obedience of the
King of Spain: And if any Goods or Merchan-
dizes fhall from henceforth, from any part of the
King of Spain's Kingdoms or Dominions whatfo-
ever, be Imported into Spain, it shall be lawful
for the Subjects of the faid King, or any of them
to Tranſport the faid Goods forth thence into any
of the Dominions and Countries of the Common-
Wealth of England,in any Ship or Ships belonging
to any of the Subjects in any part of his Domini-
ons whatſoever, any Law, Statute, or Cuftom to
the contrary notwithſtanding.
This Article is wholly New, and is contrary to the
Article of Navigation, and all the remaining Articles
in the Old Treaty are omitted.
Thefe Articles being thus propounded, and the
Council finding them to have a great reference to
the Old Treaty of 1630. informed themfelves of
the
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the Spanish Merchants, how the Intereft of Trade,
in reference to this Nation, ftood upon that
Treaty, and fecondly what the execution thereof
had been in Spain, and how obſerved.
The Merchants thereupon prefent a Remon- See the
ftrance, wherein they fet forth fome Particulars, Remon-
wherein the Treaty it felf is deficient, and alfo france
complain of the Wrongs done to them in their in Print.
Trade, by the non-obfervance of it on the part
of Spain, to their lofs of above Four Hundred
Thouſand Pounds in a few Years.
They alſo in their Remonftrance fet forth cer-
tain particular Privileges granted to the Mer-
chants refiding in Andalufia in the Year 1645. by
the King of Spain, for the advantage of their
Trade; in confideration of 2500 Ducats, which
they paid to that King, whereof there was little
or no obfervance.
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The Council upon fuch Confiderations, as were
before them refolved not to proceed upon the
Treaty of 1630. Nor upon this Draught of
Articles exhibited by the Spanish Ambaffador; but
having drawn a new Concept of 39 Articles, ten-
dered to it the Ambaffador, as the Terms of the
intended Alliance.
The Ambaſſador returns for Anfwer, That ha-
ving framed 24 Articles, and prefented them to
the Commiffioners, Mutatis Mutandis, not adding
any thing to the laft Peace, except it were in the
24th Article, which yet is not New, though it
feem to be, becauſe the Matter thereof is con-
tain'd in the 7th Article of the aforefaid Peace.
He expected the Council fhould have approved of
the faid 24 Articles; but inftead thereof they had
delivered him 35 Articles, wherein were contain-
ed divers Points, not tending to a Renovation of
Peace, but to an Innovation, and to introduce
therein that which before was not in it at all, and
therefore
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therefore defired that the Treaty may be profecut-
ed,either upon the aforefaid 24. Articles propound-
ed, by him, or elfe upon thofe of the laft Peace;
which being concluded, the way into a ftricter A-
mity and Confederation will be facilitated.
But the Council infiiting upon the 35 Articles,
as the Subftratum of the Treaty, the Ambaſſador
condefcended thereunto, and many Conferences
were had thereupon, between him and the Com-
millioners of the Council.
The Thirty Five ARTICLES were as followeth :
THE
HE Council of State having taken into Con-
fideration the Conditions of the Peace and
League offered by the King of Spain's Ambafla-
dor, compriz'd in 24 Articles, and to be renewed
between the Parliament of the Commonwealth
of England, and his faid Majefty, and finding
therein many things that are referred to former
Tranfactions and Treaties that are obfcure, and
have given occafion to many Controverfies and
Difputes in their Conftruction, from whence ve-
ry great Dilcommodities and Grievances have be-
fallen from time to time, Merchants, and others
that have been concerned, do judge it not con-
venient, that the Articles in thofe Treaties, and
any thing elfe that they fhall think to conduce to
the Etablishment of a mutual Commerce, be re-
duced into one entire Body of 35 Articles; which
they now propound to the faid Amballador; re-
feiving to themſelves nevertheleſs,liberty of alter-
ing, correcting, adding, or amplifying, fo often
as they fhall pleaſe and think good, during the
time they fhall be in Treaty, fo that it be done be-
fore the Treaty be perfected.
ARTICLES
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ARTICLES for the Renewing of a Peace
and Friendship between the Parliament of Nov.12.
the Commonwealth of England, and his most 1652.
Serene Majefty the King of Spain; offered
by the Council of State to the Ambalador of
the Said King.
TH
HAT there be from henceforth between
the-Commonwealth of England, and his
Majefty the King of Spain, a good, general, fin-
cere, true, firm, and perfect Amity, League,and
Peace, to endure for Ever, and inviolably to be
obferved, as well by Land as Sea, and freſh Wa-
ters; and alfo between the Countries, Lands,
Kingdoms, Dominions, and Countries affociated
to them and under their Obedience, and the Sub-
jects, People, and Inhabitants of them refpective-
ly, of whatfoever Condition, Place, or Degree
they be; fo as the faid People and Subjects re-
fpectively, from henceforth do mutually aid, affift,
and fhew all manner of Civility and offices of
Friendship to each other.
This Article the Ambassador affented to; referving
the point of Precedency to be fettled last of all.
II. Neither of the Parties, nor their refpective
People, Subjects, or Inhabitants, fhall not upon
any account whatfoever, either fecretly, or open-
ly, do, act, or attempt any thing against the other,
in any place by Land or Water, nor in the Ports
or Rivers of each other, but thall treat each other
with all Love and Friendship, and may come by
Water and Land,fafely and freely into each other's
Countries, Lands, Kingdoms, Dominions, Iflands,
Cities, Towns, Villages, walled or unwalled, for-
tified
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tified or unfortified, their Havens and Roads;
and there remain and tarry, and thence depart at
their pleaſure.
This allented to by the Ambafador, with this addi-
tion in the end of the Article: In manner, and ac-
cording as thall be agreed in the eighth Article of
the Treaty.
III. That the Parliament of the Commonwealth
of England, and the King of Spain, take care,that
their reſpective People and Subjects, from hence-
forth, abstain from all force and wrong doing, and
if it fhall happen that any violence or injury be
offered by the Commonwealth, or King aforefaid,
or by the People or Subjects of either of them, a-
gainſt the People or Subjects of the other, either
against any of the Articles of this League, or a
gainft Common Right. Neverthek fs, no Letters
of Reprizal, Mark or Countermark, fhall be grant-
ed by either of the Confederates, until Juftice be
first fought in the ordinary courfe of Law, but if
Juftice be either delayed or denied, then demand
thereof fhall be made from the fupreme Power of
the Commonwealth, or the Kingdom whofe Peo-
ple and Inhabitants have received wrong from that
Commonwealth or Kingdom, by whom, as is
faid, the Justice is either delayed or denied, or
from fuch Commiffioners which by either part
ſhall be appointed to hear and receive fuch de-
mands,to the end that all fuch differences may be
either Friendly, or according to Law compofed;bue
if yet there ſhall be delays and no Right be done,
nor fatisfaction given, within Three Months after
demand made, then Letters of Reprizal, Mark, or
Countermark may be granted. And all Commif-
fions, Letters of Reprizal and Mark, and other-
wife, containing Letters to take Prizes; which
either part heretofore, without obferving the a-
forefaid
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forefaid Rules, have, to the prejudice of the Com-
monwealth, or Kingdom, or either of their Peo-
ple or Inhabitants, granted either to the Subjects
or Inhabitants, or to Strangers, fhall be hereafter
void and of no force, as they likewife by this
Treaty are declared to be.
The Spaniſh Ambaſſador adds,after the word (deni-
ed longer than the caufe fhall require, having re-
gard to the diſtance of the place where the proofs
are to be made.
The Ambaſſador adds, fix Months after, &c.
With the Two Amendments aforefaid, the Ambaf
- fader confents to this Article.
IV. That between the Commonwealth of Eng-
land and the King of Spain, and their reſpective
People, Inhabitants and Subjects, as well by Land
as Sea, and freſh Waters, in all and fingular their
Countries, Dominions, Lands, Territories, Pro-
vinces, Ilands, Plantations, Cities, Towns, Villa-
ges, Ports, Rivers, Creeks, Harbours and Diſtricts,
there fhall be free Trade and Comerce, in fuch
fort and manner, that without any Safe-conduct
or Licence, general or fpecial, the People and Sub-
jects of each party, may freely, as well by Land
as Sea, and fresh Waters, go, enter, and fayl in-
to the faid Countries, Kingdoms, Dominions, and
all the Cities, Ports, Shoars, Roads, Streights, and
other places thereof, and put themſelves into what-
foever Havens of the fame with their Ships, la-
den or unladen, Carriages and Draughts where-
with, they being their Commodities; and there
to buy and fell as much as they will, and in the
fame places, upon juft prifes, furnish themſelves
with Victuals, and other Neceffaries for their Su、
fenances and Voyages; as alfo, as need fhall re-
quire, Repair their Ships and Carriages; and
from thence with their Merchandifes, Goods,
and other Commodities, freely to depart and re-
turn
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turn into their own Countries, or other Places,
as they think good, without any let or mo-
leftation; provided they, and every of them, on
each fide, do pay the Cuſtoms and Tolls expreffed
in the following Article, and conform their Trade
and Traffick to the Laws and Ordinances of each
place refpectively, during the time they Traffick
there.
The Ambaffador adds here thefe words, after the
word (Diſtricts,) [In manner and according as
fhall be declared in the 8th Article of this Treaty]
And with this Addition the Ambaſſador confents to this
Article.
V. That the People and Inhabitants of the
Commonwealth of England, trading in the King-
doms, Territories, Iflands, Ports, or other Places
whatever, within the Dominions of the King of
Spain, fhall not hereafter pay any Cuſtom, Subſidy
or Toll, neither fhall any thing be impofed upon
them, but only the Cuftoms called in Spanish Al-
cavalla,as they are now impofed, according to the
Law of the Place where fuch Cuſtoms or Alcavallas
are to be paid. In like manner the King of Spain's
Subjects, trading in any of the Countries, Ilands,
Ports, or Places, of the Commonwealth of Eng-
land, fhall not pay any Cuftom or Toll, nor any
thing be impofed upon them, but only the Cuſtom
and Exciſe, as they are laid in every place where
they are uſed to be paid; and all other Tributes,
Subfidies, and Payments, impofed by either part
upon the People of the other, be they upon the
account of private or publick Commodity, fhall
be henceforth taken away and declared void, and
no other Tolls than thofe which are already men-
tioned, fhall either be impofed or exacted by ei-
ther part, for the time to come.
Inftead
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Instead of this Article, the Ambaffador propounded
this following; That the People, Inhabitants, and
Subjects of the aforefaid Confederates, trading in the
refpective Kingdoms, Dominions, Islands, Ports, Ha-
vens, and Places whatſoever, belonging unto, or in the
Poffeffion of the one or of the other party, shall be treat-
ed and dealt withal as the refpective Natives;
fo as no time, or upon any occafion (altho' the
fame be for publick or particular Neceffity) they shall be
put to pay, or be burdened with any Impofitions,
Taxes, or other Charges whatsoever, excepting only
the Customs, Alcavallas, or Excife, which are paid by
the Natives of the refpective Dominions of the faid
Commonwealth and King, and that all other Impofi-
tions, Taxes, and Charges, fet or impofed by the one
fide or the other, upon the Perple of either, whether for
publick or particular ufe, are hereby abolished and de-
clared Null; nor shall any other Duties than as afore-
faid, be fet, or impoſed, or taken, by either fide, in any
time to come.
VI. And that no Officer or Minifter, in any of
the Cities, Towns, or Places of the faid Common-
wealth, or King, do demand, take, or exact,
greater Tolls, Cuſtoms, Payments, Rewards, Gifts,
or other Charges whatever, from, the Merchants
and the People of the other, than ought to be ta-
ken by the virtue of the precedent Articles. And
that the faid Merchants and People may under-
ſtand and know certainly what is ordained in all
things relating hereunto, it is agreed there fhall be
Tables hung up in all the Publick Cuſtom-Houſes
in the feveral Cities, Towns, and Places of the
Commonwealth of England, and of the King of
Spain, where fuch Cuſtom and Excife, or Alcaval-
las are paid; wherein how much and of what
fort fuch Customs and Tolls are, whereof men-
tion is made in the foregoing Article, fhall be fet
down in writing and declared, as well for Wares
Imported
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هر.
Imported as Exported. Furthermore if any Of
ficer or other in their Names, ſhall upon any pre-
tence openly or fecretly demand or receive of any
Merchant or People refpectively, any fumm or
fumms of Mony, or other thing in the Name of
Toll, Cuftom, Gift, Stipend, or Reward, than
what is fet down in the faid Tables, although
it were offered Gratis, that then fuch Officer, or
their Deputy being guilty as aforefaid, and con-
victed before a Competent Judge, in the Country
where the Crime was commited, fhall be Impri-
foned for three Months, and fhall forfeit triple the
Mony or thing they took, as aforefaid, whereof
one half fhall go to the faid Parliament, or King,
and the other to the Informer; for which he may
fue before any Competent Judge in the Country
where the Fault was commited.
The Ambafador affented to this Article.
VII. That it ſhall be lawful for the People of
the Common-Wealth of England to tranfport and
bring into Spain, and other the Countries and
Dóminions of the King, and traffick therewith
all forts of Goods and Wares of this Common-
Wealth, or the Manufactures of the Ilands, Places
and Plantations thereunto belonging, or fuch as
are brought by any English Factors from on this
fide, or beyond the Cape of Good Hope. And
again at their pleaſure depart from the Domini-
ons of the King of Spain, with any Commodities
and Merchandizes, into any of the Territories,
Iſlands and Dominions of the faid Common-
Wealth, or any other place, paying thofe Cuftoms
and Tributes which are mentioned in the preced-
ing Articles, or otherwiſe Ratably according to
their Proportion, and that all Goods, Wares, or
Ships brought into theTerritories of thisCommon-
Wealth as Prize, and ſo adjudged, ſhall be taken
for
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:.
for English Goods, which is the meaning of this
Article.
The Ambaſſador adds before all forts of Goods, &C.
theſe Words, [ like and according as it shall be declared
in the injuing Article.] And leaves out the Words,
[ or any other place.]
VIII. That the People of the Common-Wealth
of England, and the Subjects of the King of Spain,
may freely without any Licence or Safe-Conduct,
General or Special, Sail into each others Islands,
Countries, Ports, Towns, or Villages, and Places
poffeffed by either of them refpectively, and other
Parts, as well in America, as Afia or Africa, and
there toTraffick,Remain andTrade with all forts of
Wares and Merchandizes, and them at their Plea-
fure, in their own Ships, to Tranſport to any o-
ther Place or Country, any Law made and pub-
lifhed by either part to the contrary thereof not-
withstanding.
The Amballador propounds instead of this the fol
lowing Article, That the Subjects of Spain, and the
People of England refpectively, may freely without
any Licence or Safe-Conduct, General or Special, Sail
into the Kingdoms, Dominions, Ports, Havens, Towns
and Villages of each other, and that there be free Co-
merce, except, as hitherto, in the Kingdoms, Provin-
ces, Ilands, Ports and Places ftrengthned with Forts,
Lodges or Castles, and all other poffeffed by the one or
the other Party in the East or Weft Indies, or other
Parts as well in America, as in Afia or Africa, fo as.
the Subjects of Spain fhall not Sail nor Trade into the
Ports, Ilands, Dominions and Plantations which
England poffeffeth in the faid Parts, nor the People of
England into the Kingdoms, Islands and Dominions
which in all the aforefaid Parts are poffeffed by and be
long to Spain.
IX. That the People of the Common-Wealth
of England, Trading in any of the Kingdoms,
Dominions,
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Dominions, filands, Territories or Plantations of
the faid King, be obliged to bring with them
Certificates Signed and Sealed by the Officers of
the Cuſtom-Houfes of the place where their Ships
ſhall be laden, that may certiñe the Ships Lading,
or from fuch Perfons as the Parliament fhall to
that purpoſe appoint, and fuch Certificates being
produced, fhall without difficulty be allowed and
admittedby the Officers and Minifters of the King
of Spain, and the Goods and Merchandizes there-
in mentioned held and reputed for lawful Goods.
The Amballador defired that this Article may be
made reciprocal,and that the following words be added
after the word King, [like and according as is declared
in the Precedent Article,] and confents to the rest.
X. And that the Officers of the Cuftom-Houfe
of both Parties, or other Perfons that thall make
Certificates, as is expreffed in the foregoing Arti-
cle, fhall not commit Fraud herein, and if they
do offend herein they fhall lofe their Places, and
have farther Punishment inflicted upon them ac
cording to Law.
The Ambaſſader confents to this Article.
XI. That the People, Inhabitants and Subjects
of either part, fhall not upon any colour or pre-
tence of Comerce, carry or fend, directly or in-
directly, to the Enemies or Rebels of the other,
any Contrabanda or Prohibited Goods or Comino-
dities, to wit, any kind of Guns, or Locks, or
Iron Barrels, or any other Fire-works made for
the uſe of War, Powder, Match, Bullets, Pikes,
Swords, Javelins, Halbards, Musketts, Cannons,
or other Inftruments of War, as Morterpeices,
Petardes, Granadoes, Refts, Bandaliers, Saltpe-
tre, Bullets, Helmes, Headpieces, Caskets, Cui-
riafles, Coats of Mail, or fuch like; nor Soldiers,
Horfe or Horfe Furniture, Holfters, Rapiers, delts,
and all Furniture fafhioned and made for ute of
War:
( 495 )
War: Provided that under the Name of Contra-
banda and Prohibited Goods,be not comprehended
Wheat, Rye, or any other kind of Grain; nei-
ther Salt, Wine, Oyle, or any thing else that
ferves for the prefervation of the Life of Men,
which fhall be free, and may be carried to the
Places belonging to the Rebels and Enemies of ei-
ther; as alfo all other Commodities which are
not particularly abovenamed. And that if any of
the forementioned Prohibited Goods fhall be found
upon the Ships of either part, going to the Re-
bels or Enemies of the one fide or the other, they
ſhall after due proof be made confifcate,and adjudg
ed Prize to him that takes them, nevertheleſs the
Ship on which fuch Contrabanda Goods are found,
nor the other Wares and Goods, nor Owner or
Mariners fhall be molefted or detained.
The Ambafador infifted to have added amongſt
Contrabanda Goods, all kinds of Mony, Gold, Sil-
ver, or Plate wrought or unwrought. As also thefe
Words added after the word abovenamed, [except to
fuck Towns and Places as are Befieged, block'd up, or
affailed by the Arms and Power of either Party. This
Amendment was confented to by the Confel, and the
former waved by himself, and fo the Article was
agreed.
XII. That the Ships of the Common-Wealth
Sailing into the Dominions of the King of Spain,
or any of his Ports, ſhall not be vifited by the Mi-
nifters of the Inquifition, or Judge of Contrabanda
Goods, or any others by their Authority; nei-
ther fhall they put upon them Soldiers or Armed
Men, for the Cuftody of them; neither fhall the Of-
ficers of the Cuſtoms on either fide ſearch the Ships
of the People or Subjects of either, that ſhall come
into their reſpective Ports, Countries or Domini-
ons, while their Ships are unlading, until they
have put on Shoar all their Goods, but may in
the
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mean time have Officers on board the Ships, to
fee that the Goods be duly delivered, yet without
any Charge to the Ship or Ships, orOwners there-
of. And if any other Goods or Merchandizes be
found on board the Ship or Ships, or Veffels, than
are expreſſed in the Bill of Lading, and are difco-
vered before the Ship be unladen, leave fhall be
given to make a poft-Entry to fave the Forfeiture.
And in cafe Entry or Manifeftation be not made
within the time aforefaid, that then the particular
Goods fo taken fhall be forfeited, and no other,
nor other trouble or punishment inflicted upon
the Merchants and Owners aforefaid.
Instead of this Article the Ambaſſador propounded
the following Article. That the Ships and Veffels on
either fide. Sailing into the Dominions of the other,
or their respective Ports or Havens fhall be vifited by
the Officers and Minifters according to Custom and
Practice used with the People and Subjects on both
fides, fo as the faid Vifits and Searches be made with-
out any Molestation or Charges to the Ship or Ships, or
Owners thereof; and that Entry be made of the La-
ding of the faid Ship or Ships in the Custom-Houfe,
according to the uſual form, which done, if any more
Goods be found in the faid Ship or Ships, than are al-
ready entred, a term of four days ſhall be granted, be-
ginning from the first unlading of the faid Ships, to
the end they make a post-Entry to ſafe the Forfeiture;
and in cafe Entry or Manifestation be not made within
the time aforesaid, that then the particular Goods fo
taken (though the unlading be not yet ended) fhall
be Forfeited, and no other Trouble or Punishment in-
flicted upon the Merchant and Owner aforefaid.
XIII. That the Ship or Ships belonging to the
one Party or the other, or their refpective People
and Subjects, which fhall come into each others
Countries or Dominions, and unlade any part of
their Goods and Merchandizes in any Port or
Haven,
(497)
Haven, being bound with the reft unto other
Parts, either without or within the aforefaid Do-
minions, ſhall not be compelled to enter or pay
Cuſtom for any other Goods and Merchandizes,
than fuch as fhall Land in fuch Port or Haven,
nor conſtrained to give any Security for the Goods
they carry elſewhere, nor other Security unless it
be in cafe of Debt, Felony, Murther, Treafon,
or other Capital Offence.
The Ambaſſador confented to this Article.
XIV. That the People and Subjects, refpective-
ly of the one being in the Dominions, Territo-
ries, Countries, or Collonies of the other, be not
compelled to fell their Merchandize for Brafs Mo-
ny,or change them for other Monies,or things than
they are willing,or having fold the fame, to receive
Payment in any other Specie than they contracted
for any Law or Cuftom to the contrary of this
Article notwithſtanding.
This Article confented to.
XV. That it ſhall be lawful for the People and
Subjects of both fides, to have accefs into their
refpective Ports, and there remain, and from
thence to depart with the fame Liberty, not only
with their Ships of Merchandizes, and Ships of
Burden,but alſo with their other Shipping furnish-
ed for War, armed and prepared to withstand the
Face of Enemies, whether they fhall arrive there
by force of Tempeft,or for repairing their Ships,or
for Provifion of Victuals, fo as if they come in on
their own accord, they be not fuch a number that
may give juft occafion of fufpition, nor that they
continue in the Havens, or about the Ports lorger
K k
than
(498)
than they ſhall have juft caufe for the repairing of
their Ships, or Proviſion of other Neceffaries, left
they fhould be any occafion of interruption unto
the free Commerce and Entercourfe of other
Friends and Nations, in Amity. And whenever
unuſual number of Ships of War come by acci-
dent to fuch Ports, it fhall not be lawful for them
to make any entrance into any the faid Ports and
Havens, unleſs they firft obtain leave from them
unto whom the faid Ports do belong, unless they
be driven fo to do by Tempeft, or fome other ne-
ceffity for avoiding the danger of the Sea, and in
ſuch caſe they ſhall forthwith make known to the
Governour, or chief Magiftrate of the Place the
cauſe of their coming, neither fhall they ftay
longer there than fuch Governour or Magiftrate
fhall think fit, nor do any Hoftile Act in thoſe
Ports, that may be prejudicial either to the faid
Common-Wealth or King.
The Ambaſſador defired that the number of Eight
Ships of War might be Inferted instead of the indefinite
number which was admited. As alfo that in the end
of the Article might be added thefe Words [nor to
their refpedive Enemies, which may chance to be in
the Ports of either fide, for as long as they ſhall continue
there] which was admitted, and to this Article was
agreed.
XVI. That neither the faid Common-Wealth,
nor King of Spain, fhall by any Command Gene-
ral or Particular, or for any caufe whatſoever
Imbargue, Stop, Arreft, or Seize into their re-
fpective Service any Merchants, Mafters of Ships,
Pilots, or Mariners, their Ships, Merchandize,
Wares, or other Goods belonging to them, of ei-
ther of the other, being in their Ports or Waters,
unleſs
(499)
uniefs the Parliament, or faid King, or the Parties
to whom the faid Ships appertain, be firft admo-
niſhed thereof, and ſhall alfo yeild his or their con-
fent thereto; provided that thereby ſhall not be
excluded the Arrefts and Seifures in the ordinary
way of Juſtice.
This Article was affented to.
XVII. That the Merchants on both fides, their
Factors, Servants, as alfo their Ship-Maſters and
Mariners may, as well travelling and returning by
Sea, and other Waters, as in the Havens of each
other refpectively, carry and ufe all forts of Arms
for Defence and Offence, without being compel-
led to Regifter the fame, and alfo on Shoar wear
and uſe Arms for their defence, according to the
Cuftom of the Place.
This Article was confented to.
XVIII.That it fhall be lawful for the Ships of the
People or Subjects of the one fide or the other to
ride at Anchor in theSea, or in any Road belonging
to either, without being compelled to come into
Port. And in cafe they be neceffitated thereunto
by Tempeft, purfuits of Enemies or Pyrates, or
any other Reafon or Accident: It fhall be lawful
for them to depart again at their pleaſure with
their Ships and Merchandizes; provided they
break not Bulk, nor expoſe any thing to Sale; nei-
ther fhall they, riding at Anchor or entering in
Port as aforefaid, be molefted or fearched; but ic
fhall be fufficient for them in this cafe to fhew
their Pals-ports and Sea Letters, which the Off-
cers of the faid Common-Wealth or King re-
ſpectively having feen, they may freely depart
Kk z
again
(500)
again with their Ships whither they pleaſe, with-
out any further Impediment or Moleftation.
The Ambaſſador confented to this Article with the
addition following in the end thereof. But if there
happen to be fome fufpicion that they carry Merchan-
dizes of Contrabanda to the Enemy of the one or the
other Party: In that cafe they shall not only be obliged
to fhew their Pass-ports and Sea Letters unto the Off-
cers as before, but likewife to give a particular Specifi-
cation of their Lading,which being feen,and found that
there io no Contrabanda Goods in the faid Ship or
Ships, they may freely depart, as aforesaid.
XIX. That all Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes
whatſoever of the faid Common-Wealth or King,
or their reſpective People and Subjects, laden or
unladen, on board any Ship or Ships belonging to
the Enemy on the one fide or the other, fhall be
Confifcate and Prize, as well as the Ships. But
all Goods and Merchandizes whatſoever belong-
ing to theEnemies of the one fide or the other,and
laden or found on board the Ships and Vèffels of
either of the faid Parties, or the People or Sub-
jects of either fhall be free, unless the fame be
Contrabanda Goods, as is expreffed in the former
Article.
The Ambaffador confented to this Article upon Con-
dition the following Claufe were admited, which takes
in the fubftance of the last Article of thofe 24 which
be
he formerly delivered in. The Claufe is this. And
here it is declared, that whatſoever Goods, Commodi-
ties, or Merchandizes, growing, produced or made in
any part of the King of Spain's Dominions and Terri-
tories whatsoever, belonging to the Subjects of the
faid Ring, may be carried and transported to the
Dominions
( 501 )
Dominions of the Common-Wealth of England, in
any Ship or Ships whatsoever that shall belong to the
faid King, or to his Subjects, though they be not of the
fame Place, where the faid Commodities or Merchan-
dizes are made or grown, any Law, Statute or Cu-
ftom to the contrary notwithstanding.
XX. To the end that the greater Advantage may
by this Concord accrue to the refpective People
and Subjects of the faid Common-Wealth, and
King of Spain, in their Kingdoms and Domini-
ons, each of them fhall endeavour jointly and fe-
yerally that their People and Subjects refpective-
ly have not the Paſſages ſtopp'd or letted unto any
of their Ports, Kingdoms and Dominions, nor
that their Ports or Rivers be fhut, but that they
may with their Ships, Merchandizes, and Car-
riages freely and without Impediment come and
go (paying the Cuftoms and Tolls, as in the
precedent Articles be expreffed) to and from the
faid Kingdoms, Countries, Cities, Ports, and
Places; and with the like Liberty to depart; and
particularly the King of Spain fhall do his utmoft
to open the Pallage by the River Skelde to Ant-
werp.
The Amballador offered his confent to this Article,
adding thefe Words, [except into the Ports and Ri-
vers where heretofore there was no free access] after
the word fhut. And omitting that Claufe concerning
the River Skelde, in the latter end of the Article.
XIX. And to the end all Impediments may be
taken away,and the Merchant Adventurers of this
Common-Wealth permitted to rerarn into Bra-
bant and Flanders, and the other Provinces of the
Low Countries, under the Jurifdiction of the faid
Kk 3
King,
(502)
King. All Laws, Edicts and Acts whatever,
whereby the Importation of Cloaths or other
Woollen Manufactures that are either Dyed orUn-
dyed, Dreſſed or Rough, into Flanders, or the faid
other Provinces are forbidden, or whereby any
Custom, Tribute, Tax, Charge or Monies are by
Permiſſion or any other manner laid or impofed
upon Cloath or other the aforefaid Woollen Ma-
nufactures that are carried into the faid Countries
or Cities, except that antient Tribute of two-—-—-
upon every peice of Cloath, and fo proportiona-
bly upon every fuch Woollen Manufactures, fhall
be henceforth utterly Null and Void: And fuch
like Taxes and Impofitions fhall not hereafter at
any time be Let or Laid upon fuch Cloaths or M
nufactures, upon any pretences foever. And all
English Merchants trading in any the faid Pro-
vinces or Cities, and Places thereof, and their
Factors, Commiffaries or Servants, fhall hereafter
enjoy all Privileges, Exemptions, Immunities,
and Benefits which heretofore were agreed and
granted by antient Treaties made between the
then Kings of England and
e Dukes of Burgun
dy and Governours of the Low Countries. And
moreover other Privileges, Immunities and Ex-
emptions fuitable to the prefent ftate of Affairs,
fhall be granted for the Encouragement of the
faid Merchants and Security of Trade, according
as it ſhall be agreed in a fpecial Treaty to be made
hereupon between both Parties.
The Ambaffador objected against this Article, that
it was against the Privileges granted to the Subjects,
of Flanders, and therefore could not be granted. And
upon the debate thereof the Council was willing to
wave it, if the Ambassador thought it not for the
advantage of Spain; but the Ambassador acknow-
ledging
(503)
ledging it beneficial to their Subjects, faid, That though
the whole could not be now granted, yet it might be
convenient to have fomething done therein, and pro-
pounded in the ftead thereof the ensuing Article.
And as concerning the antient Treaty of Entercourse
and Commerce which have fometimes been betwixt
the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland,
and the Dominions of the Dukes of Burgundy, and
Princes of the Low Countries, which in fome times of
trouble might have been in fome points intermitted. It
is agreed by way of Provifion between the faid Par-
ties, that they shall retain and have their antient
Force and Authority; and that they fhall be used on
both parts, as they were before the War between Don
Philip II. King of Spain, and Elizabeth Queen of
England, according as it was agreed on in the Trea-
ties of Peace, and particularly in the Year 1604. in
the 22d Article, and in the Year 1630. in the 18th
Article, referving to a further Treaty the Adjustation
of the Privileges, Immunities and Exemptions which
fhall be thought convenient to be reciprocally granted for
the Encouragement and Security of the respective
Merchants Adventurers of the Common Wealth of Eng-
land, into Brabant and Flanders, and thofe other
Provinces of the Netherlands under the King of
Spain.
XXII. And for that the Rights of Commerce
which do enfue by Peace, fhould be rendered un-
profitable, as they would be if the People and
Inhabitants of England fhould be troubled upon
the account of their Religion, whilft they do re-
main in the Kingdoms and Dominions of Spain.
Therefore to the intent that their Traffick may
be fafe without danger, it is agreed and conciu-
ded,by and between the faid Common-Wealth and
King of Spain, that no trouble or moleftation be
Kk 4
given
(504)
given to the People of the faid Common-wealth
Trading in any of the Kingdoms or Countries of
the King of Spain's Dominions, for the caufe of
Religion, but that it be free and lawful for the
faid People, either in their own Houſes, or in the
Houſes of other English dwelling there, or in their
Ships, to worſhip God, and exercife their Religi-
on, in their own manner and form, according to
their Conſciences; and alfo read English Bibles,
or any other Books, without Let or Molefta-
tion,either from the Inquifition or their Miniſters,
and other Judges; and that neither their Bodies
nor Eftates be feized on by the Inquifitions, or
Impriſoned, nor for any of the faid Caufes liable
to their Jurifdiction.
Instead of this Article the Ambaffador propounded
this following. And for that the Rights of Commerce
which do enfue by Peace, ought not to be made unfruit-
ful, as they would be, if the People and Inhabitants
of the Common-Wealth of England, whileft they have
recourse to and from the Kingdoms and Dominions of
the King of Spain, and do remain there for Ccm-
merce, or their own Bufinefs, fhould be molefted in the
cauſe of Conscience. Therefore to the intent their
Traffick may be fafe, and without danger, both at
Sea and Land, the ſaid King of Spain fhall (that
the People of the faid Common Wealth be not troubled
and mclefted for the faid caufe of Confcience contrary
to the Laws of Commerce, ſo as they give no Scandal)
and the faid Common-Wealth fhall also provide for
the fame Reasons, that in none of their Dominions the
Subjects of the Said King be troubled or molested,
contrary to the Laws, fo as they give no Scandal.
XXIII. That the Captain, Officers and Mari-
ners of the Ships belonging to the People and
Subjects
(505)
Subjects of the Common-Wealth, being within
the Kingdoms, Governments or Iflands of the
faid King of Spain, fhall not commence any Action
or procure any trouble againſt the Ships of the
People of the faid Common-Wealth for their
Wages and Salleries, upon pretence that they are
of the Romish Religion; neither thall they upon
the fame or like Pretext, put themfelves under the
King of Spains Protection, or take up Arms for
him, but if any Controverfie arife between the
Merchants and Mafters of Ships, or between the
Mafters and Mariners, the decifion thereof fhall
be left only to the Conful of the Nation, fo aš
notwithstanding he which will not fubmit to his
Arbitrement may appeal into England.
The Ambaſſador propounded a Reciprocation in this
Article. idly, That the Words Romish Religion be
omitted, and instead thereof under any colour or pretext
whatſoever. 3dly,That the appeal to England might be
omitted as needless, which was not much gainfaid,
and fo this Article was agreed
XXIV. That in cafe of feifure upon the Eſtate
of any Perfon or Perfons within the Lands and
Territories of the faid King, by the Inquifitions,
or other Tribunal or Miniſter of Juftice,the Eſtates
and Debts which, bona fide, belong to the People
of this Common-Wealth, and fhall happen to be
in the poffeffion of fuch Criminals, fhall not be
forfeited, but reftored to the right owner in Spe-
cie, if they be remaining, or otherwiſe the juft
value of them, according to the Contract or the
Summ which was contracted for betwixt the Par-
ties, within one Month after fuch Seifure or Pro-
fcription.
This
(506)
This Article was agreed to, taking away the Word
Inquifition, as being comprehended in thefed Wors,
whatfoever Tribunal, and that inftead of one Month,
there be allowed three Months for Satisfaction and
making it Reciprocal.
XXV. If any prohibited Goods or Merchandi-
zes fhall happen to be Exported out of the Domi-
nions, Kingdoms or Territories of either part,
by the refpective People or Subjects of the one or
the other, that in fuch cafe the prohibited Goods
only ſhall be Confifcate, and no other, nor
other Puniſhment inflicted upon the Delinquent.
any
The Amballader confents with this addition in the
clofe, Except in cafe of Exporting without Licence out
of the respective Dominions, of the one or the other
fide, any Gold or Plate, wrought or unwrought, in which
cafe any Perfon fo offending, fhall be fubject to the Pe-
malties of the Laws of either their refpective Demi-
nions,
N
XXVI. That the Goods and Eftares of the Peo-
ple or Subjects of the one Party, dying within
the Countries and Dominions of the other,be pre-
ferved to the lawful Heirs and Succeffors of the
Deceaſed, the right of a third Party always re-
ferved.
This Article confented to.
XXVII. That the Goods and Eftates of the Peo-
ple of this Common-Wealth dying inteftate in the
Dominions of the King of Spain be Inventoried,
with their Papers and Writings, and Books of
Account, by the Conful, and put into the Hands
of two or three Merchants, to be named by the
+
fame
( 507 507)
)
fame Conful, to be kept for the Proprietors and
Creditors; neither fhall the Crufada or any of the
King's Subjects interpofe therein.
This Article was confented to by the Ambaffador,
with this Variation in the latter end, after the word
Creditors, And in fuch cafes as it fhall belong to the
Cruzada, in the Dominions of the King of Spain, to
name the faid Depofitaries, that it be done with fa-
tisfaction of the English Conful.
XXVIII. That the Immunities and Privileges
given by former Treaties and Grants to the Mer-
chants and Subjects of either Nation fhall wholly
be revived, and have their full Force and Strength.
And that the People of this Common-Wealth,
Trading or Dwelling in any of the Kingdoms,
Governments, Illands, Ports or Territories of the
faid King of Spain, have, ufe and enjoy thofe
Privileges and Immunities, which the faid King
granted and confirmed to the English Merchants
remaining in Andaluzia, by Writing bearing date
the 19th of March, and 9th of November, 1645-
The first Point of this Article the Ambaſſador agreed
te, for renewing Antient Privileges, fo as they be
not contrary to what is fettled in this Treaty. For the
Second Part be Pen'd it thus, And likewiſe that the
Privileges, Infranchiſements, Liberties and Immuni-
ties as were granted and confirmed by the faid King
of Spain, bis Schedules of the 19th of March, and
9th of November, 1645. to the English Merchants
refiding in Andaluzia be renewed and confirmed,where-
by be refufeth to extend thofe Privileges to the Eng-
lish Merchants in general, which were granted to
thoſe in Andaluzia, which was the Scope of the Coun-
cils Article,
XXIX. That
( 508 )
XXIX. That if it fhall happen hereafter, that
any diſpleaſure arifeth between the faid Common-
Wealth and King of Spain, that may endanger
the interruption of mutual Commerce and Inter-
courfe, the refpective People of either Party fhall
have fuch timely notice or monition to Tranf-
port their Merchandizes, without any Arreſt,
Reftraint, Moleftation, or Disturbance in the mean.
Seafon, to be done or given unto them, or their
Perfons or Merchandizes.
The Ambaſſador confents to this Article.
XXX. That the Merchants of both Nations,
and their Factors, Servants, Families, Commiffa-
ries, or others by them imployed; as alfo the
Mafters of Ships, Pilots and Mariners, freely fhall
and may fafely abide in the Dominions, Coun-
tries and Territories of the faid Common-Wealth
or King; and alfo in their Ports and Shoars. And
that the People and Subjects of the one may have.
and hold in the Countries and Dominions of the
other Party, their own Houfes to dwell in, and
their Warehoufes for their Goods and Merchan-
dizes, for fuch time as they thall take them, with
out any Moleftation whatever.
This Article confented to.
XXXI. That if any Controverfie happen to be
moved in the Dominions of either Party, by
any Perfon not being under the Dominion of,
nor Subject to either Party, for or upon occaſion
of any Depredations or Spoil committed upon
them at Sea, the caufe fhall be referred to the
Judge of the Jurifdiction under the faid Com-
mon-
(509)
Wealth or King, againſt whofe People or Sub-
jects the Suit is commenced.
The Ambaſſador agrees to this Article.
XXXII. The People and Subjects of the one
fide and the other fhall have and enjoy, in each
others Countries and Territories, fafely, as am-
ple Privileges, Security and Freedom as are
granted and allowed to the People and Subjects
of any other Common-Wealth or Kingdom
whatfoever.
The Ambaſſador agrees to this Article.
XXXIII. The Confuls who fhall hereafter refide
in any part of the King of Spains Dominions, for
the Aid and Protection of the People of this Com-
mon-Wealth, fhall for the time to come be named
by the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of
England, and being fo named fhall have and ex-
ercife the fame Power and Authority in the exe-
cution of their Charges,as any of the former Con-
fuls have done.
The Ambaſſador agreed to this Article, fo it be Re-
ciprocal, and fo his Majefty may name his own Sub-
jects for Confuls in any part of the Dominions of the
Common-Wealth of England,
XXXIV. The People of this Common-Wealth
refiding in Spain, fhall not be compeled to
keep their Accounts in the Spanish Tongue,
nor to fhew the Books and Papers of Ac-
counts to any Perfon, unlefs it be for Evidence
for defiding of Controverfies, neither fhall
they be feized upon, arrefted, or taken out
of
(510)
of their Poſſeſſion upon any pretence whatſoever.
And the Subjects of the faid King ſhall through-
out all the Dominions of England enjoy the like
Liberty and Immunities.
The Ambaffador agreed to this Article.
XXXV. That convenient place fhall be ordain-
ed and granted for the burying of the Bodies of
fuch of the People of this Common-Wealth as
fhall die within any of the Dominions of the
King of Spain.
The Ambaſſador confented to this Article.
of Septem-
In this ftate the Treaty ftood the
ber, 1653. And although the Ambaſſador by a
Paper of the % of October after preſſed for a Re-
folution of the Council, whether they would
conclude the Treaty upon the Articles, as con-
fented to by him; yet it doth not appear that
they returned any Anfwer, or that the Subſe-
quent Government made any proceeding there-
in.
FINIS
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