Spanish Documents Concerning English Voyages to the Caribbean 1527-1568 by Wright Irene A.;

Author:Wright, Irene A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

We also petition your majesty to deign to give to this city's residents the proceeds from the said slaves which the Englishman left here, inasmuch as it appears that by their conduct they earned it on this occasion and also two years ago when this city was visited by another English armada of four large ships with a great supply of artillery and more than five hundred soldiers.

Nota bene.

At that time the city was not fortified and there were few people here and these few unarmed. The citizens had not the arquebuses they have now and, therefore, the English being so strong and we so unequal to resisting them, we were obliged to let them land that they might not burn the city and to give them a large stock of subsistence there was on hand. We were forced to trade for certain pieces of slaves and your majesty's judges of the royal Audiencia at Santo Domingo commissioned a judge to investigate and report the case, and although they saw from the evidence that we were innocent, they have not seen fit to pronounce sentence. Along with this despatch we send your majesty's royal council a copy of the información and entreat your majesty to have it seen, and when it is discovered how little we were at fault, to order us to be cleared of the charges.

Let the evidence be brought before the council.

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