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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<P>A SPEECH, OR COMPLAINT, LATELY Made by the Spani&s;h Emba&s;&s;adour to his Ma|je&s;tie at <HI>Oxford,</HI> upon occa&s;ion of the taking of a Ship called <HI>Sancta Clara</HI> in the Port of <HI>Sancto Domingo,</HI> richly laden with Plate, Cocheneal and other commodities of great value, By one Captaine BENNET STRAFFORD, and by Him brought to <HI>Southampton.</HI>
Being a matter of high concernment betwixt the two Kings of <HI>Spaine</HI> and <HI>England.</HI>
Al&s;o a Proclamation prohibiting the buying or di&s;po&s;ing of any the lading of the &s;hip called the <HI>Sancta Clara,</HI> lately brought into <HI>Southampton.</HI></P>
<P>Tran&s;lated out of the Spani&s;h, in OXFORD, BY S^R TORRIANO, <HI>an Italian.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>Nathaniel Butter, Jan.</HI> 17. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Don Alon&s;o de Cardenas,</HI> The Emba&s;&s;ador Ordinary for the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI>
His Speech unto His Maje&s;tie at <HI>Oxford, Decemb. the</HI> 30. 1642. occa&s;ioned by the taking out of the <HI>Port</HI> of <HI>Sancto Domingo</HI> one of the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> his Ships called <HI>Sancta Clara,</HI> laden with Plate, and other merchandize of rich value, by Cap. <HI>Bennet Strafford,</HI> by him brought unto <HI>Southampton,</HI> and there made prize; together with the an&s;wer of his Maje&s;ty &s;ent on New-yeers day unto the &s;aid Emba&s;&s;adour, by the Lords <HI>Mowbray</HI> and <HI>Faulkland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe un&s;ufferable wrong the King my Ma&s;ter hath lately &s;u&s;tained by a Subject of your Maje&s;ties (wherein many of his owne Merchants have likewi&s;e borne &s;ome &s;hare, and what your Maje&s;ty for the future may do is not yet known) have in obedience to my Ma&s;ters commands (who is but too &s;en&s;ible of this affront, and his peoples lo&s;&s;es,) con&s;trained mee to make this my repaire unto your Maje&s;ty, and to trouble you in the&s;e your mo&s;t &s;erious and important affaires of your Kingdomes, it having not been my unhappine&s;&s;e &s;ince I had fir&s;t the charge of this honourable imployment, to provoke di&s;content by &s;uch me&s;&s;ages unto your Maje&s;ty, e&s;pecially at &s;uch a time wherein my Ma&s;ter perfect|ly under&s;tanding how it fareth with your Maje&s;ty, for the cordiall refe|rence he ever bore unto your Maje&s;ties owne per&s;on, had rather afford your Maje&s;ty a cordiall then a corra&s;ive: yet this in briefe mu&s;t be the &s;um of my complaint unto your Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>That on the eighth of <HI>October Stilo veteri,</HI> there arrived in the habour, or rather clo&s;e port of <HI>Sancto Domingo</HI> of the <HI>We&s;t Indies</HI> (the very centre of my Ma&s;ters Dominions) a Ship of your Maje&s;ties, and a Pinnace, under the command of Captain <HI>Bennet Strafford,</HI> an Engli&s;h man, and a member of your Maje&s;ties Fleet at Sea, which letting fall anchor under colour of
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<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">aking in fre&s;h water, &amp; &s;ome other nece&s;&s;ary provi&s;ion, about one or two of the clock the &s;ame evening (the Ma&s;ter and other Officers of my Ma|&s;ters faire Ship, called <HI>La Sancta Clara,</HI> lately having taken in her lading of Silver Ingots, to the number of 2000. with Coucheneale, Tobacco, Indie hides, to eight hundred tunne weight) was in a thievi&s;h and Piratick manner &s;tollen out of the &s;aid harbour by the Captaine of your Maje&s;ties Ship above mentioned, that is, <HI>Bennet Strafford,</HI> who&s;e men comming a|board the &s;aid Ship, under pretence of chearing and merry making, ob&s;er|ving the wind &s;erved for their de&s;igne, cut the cables, and let her drive, till &s;uch time that the Captain perceiving his advantage, forthwith &s;eized and boarded the &s;aid Ship, clapping all my Ma&s;ters Sailers and other Of|ficers there aborad her under the hatches, carried the &s;hip unto <HI>Cape de bo|na Speranza</HI> there landed them a&s;hore in his long boate like &s;laves and cap|tives, manned my Ma&s;ters Ship with his owne men, unto your towne of <HI>Southampton,</HI> and there made prize of her, expo&s;ing my Ma&s;ters goods to mo&s;t uncon&s;iderable rates and valuation, to make the better di&s;patch of his unlawfull attempt. Sir, I am rigorou&s;ly commanded by the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> my Ma&s;ter, to intimate to your Maje&s;tie, that an affront of this kind hath never been committed again&s;t him by the Crowne of <HI>England,</HI> or by any other Crowne or State, during the time of their league and ami|ty, neither during his peace, &s;worne either between your Maje&s;ties father or your &s;elfe, can any evident proofe be brought of the lea&s;t appearance of violation either betwixt Crownes or Kingdomes on his Catholike Maje|&s;tie my Ma&s;ters part: For in&s;tance whereof, my Ma&s;ter de&s;ireth your Ma|je&s;ty to con&s;ider his &s;incere and princely dealing with your Maje&s;ties &s;elf, as touching your Rebels in <HI>Ireland,</HI> whom he hath been any way &s;o far from &s;uccouring, ayding, or countenancing, that hee hath &s;traitly charged all his Subjects of all his Territories and Dominions, by open proclama|tion, upon paine of death, not onely not to aid or relieve them with any armes, &s;hipping, ammunition or victualls; but not to trade with them during the time of their rebellion again&s;t your Maje&s;ty, upon any termes, &s;emblances, or pretences what&s;oever; having further given in command unto the officers of his Finances and Excheate, that the pen&s;ions u&s;ually paid unto certaine of the nobility of <HI>Ireland,</HI> in way of acknowledgement that they or their fathers have done him any memorable &s;ervice, either in the <HI>Low-countries</HI> or any other his Dominions, &s;hall in no wi&s;e be any longer paied to any of them, either father, childe, or any of the linage that &s;tand at this time, or ever &s;hall &s;tand in oppo&s;ition again&s;t your Maje&s;ty or undoubted i&s;&s;ue; and hath in particular di&s;abled Sr. <HI>Philomie O neale</HI> of the large gratuite annuity of 4000. ducates <HI>per annum,</HI> though granted not by his now Maje&s;ty &amp; my Ma&s;ter of <HI>Spain,</HI> but by his father unto the Earle of <HI>Tyrone</HI> his heyrs &amp; &s;ucce&s;&s;ors by pattent; by all which I earne&s;tly de&s;ire
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your Maje&s;ty to weigh my Ma&s;ters high di&s;content, and in that regard his ju&s;t demands: a Ship of that e&s;timate is taken in &s;uch a daring &s;cornfull manner, not upon the maine (that in &s;ome &s;ort had quallified the affront though not the damage) but out of my Ma&s;ters Port, laden with Bullyon for his owne particular u&s;e, by a Subject, yea, a &s;ervant of your Maje|&s;ties Crowne arriving there (as it &s;eemed) for reliefe; and having partaken of all the favour the haven then could afford, his Subjects and &s;ervants turned a&s;hore as villaines and &s;laves; his Ship and goods made prize. My Ma&s;ters demands unto your Maje&s;ty in a wrong of &s;o high a condition are the&s;e: That the &s;aid Captaine may receive condigne puni&s;hment, as who (what lay in him) hath broken the league on your Maje&s;ties behalfe; that full re&s;titution be made both to my Ma&s;ter and the owners, according to the ju&s;t valuation of the goods, as by bil of lading &s;hal be made manife&s;t; that &s;trict orders may forthwith pa&s;&s;e from your Maje&s;ty, for the &s;taying of farther havock, and embe&s;elling of the goods yet remaining in the Ship at <HI>Southampton;</HI> that full reparation be likewi&s;e made for &s;tay of the Ship, and fru&s;tration of her voyage; upon refu&s;all of which I am expre&s;ly to de|clare unto your Maje&s;tie, that the King my Ma&s;ter will cau&s;e &s;peedy &s;tay and arre&s;t to be made upon all the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Merchants &s;hips throughout his ports, which mu&s;t needs occa&s;ion great di&s;content, lo&s;&s;e and inconvenience to both the Crownes, if no other wor&s;e thing ari&s;e.</P>
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<P>This Speech, or rather Complaint of the Emba&s;&s;adors ended, the King withdrew him unto the window in his pre&s;ence-chamber at Chri&s;t Church; there &s;pake certaine words in private, and after (before certain Lords there about him) told him, that unto his me&s;&s;age or complaint &s;ome time to morrow he would by his Secretary, or &s;ome other, &s;end him an an&s;wer; whereat the Emba&s;&s;ador tooke leave of the King, and re|paired unto his lodging in <HI>New-Colledge.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>New-years Day (being Sunday, Ianuarie 1.) about foure of the clock in the After-noone, the Lord <HI>Mowbray</HI> and the Lord <HI>Faulkland</HI> brought from the King unto the Emba&s;&s;adour this An&s;wer following.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> 
The King Our Ma&s;ter hath commanded Vs to returne this An&s;wer as touching your heavie complaint unto Him ye&s;terday.</OPENER>
<P>THat His Maje&s;ty hath with deep di&s;content re&s;ented the particulars of your Lord&s;hips Me&s;&s;age, or Complaint. Yet neither him&s;elfe, nor any Mi|ni&s;ters, Agents, or Servants of His, by Sea or Land, are in any wi&s;e (as from Him) to be blamed of any breach of amitie; much le&s;&s;e of this, being in &s;o high a nature as his Lord&s;hip had lately related it.</P>
<P>That Captain <HI>Bennet Strafford</HI> was never employed by Him in any of His Ships or Pinnaces: and therefore (when time &s;hould &s;erve) &s;hould not onely an&s;wer for what hee did in His Maje&s;ties Ships, but by who&s;e authoritie hee came there.</P>
<P>That His Maje&s;ty further de&s;ired, that what at this time, above all other, might be done against the League, either by Sea or Land, might not be imputed unto Him; his Maje&s;tie (through the di&s;tempers of &s;ome of his Subjects) ha|ving as little command over his &s;hips, as he had over his Towns and Ca&s;tles.</P>
<P>That He would i&s;&s;ue forth a Proclamation, with all convenient &s;peed, to pre|vent the further embezelling of the Merchandizes of the Ship; and likewi&s;e for the re&s;toring what &s;hould be found in the hands of any of His Subjects or Of|ficers, and therein would give e&s;peciall command unto the Iudge of His Admi|raltie. But would be &s;orrie the King of Spaine &s;hould make all his Subjects trading under him to &s;uffer, for the villanous act of one per&s;on, authorized by he knew not whom.</P>
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<OPENER><BYLINE>By the King.</BYLINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>A Proclamation prohibiting the buying or di&s;po&s;ing of any the lading of the Ship called the <HI>Sancta Clara,</HI> lately brought into <HI>SOUTHAMPTON.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_COmplaint having been made unto His Maje&s;ty, by <HI>Don Alonco de Cardenas</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador from the King of Spain, that a Ship called the <HI>Sancta Clara,</HI> belonging to the &s;aid King and his Subjects, hath beene lately treacherou&s;ly brought to <HI>Southampton,</HI> by one Captaine <HI>Bennet Straf|ford</HI> and others, from <HI>Sancto Domingo,</HI> the &s;aid Ship be|ing laden with Silver, Cocheneal, and other Wares and Merchandizes, to a very great value; And that the &s;aid Ship and Goods being by the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adour arre&s;ted, and the &s;aid <HI>Bennet Strafford</HI> apprehended, while&s;t a &s;uit for the &s;aid Ship and Goods is depending in the Court of Admi|ralty, the Silver (part of the lading of the &s;aid Ship, to a very great value) hath been di&s;po&s;ed of, contrary to Law, without any other &s;ecurity given for the &s;ame, then the empty name of <HI>Publicke Faith;</HI> which without His Maje&s;ty cannot (as is well knowne to all the world) be engaged; or if en|gaged without His Maje&s;ty is not valid, or to be relyed on for &s;atisfacti|on. And it is further complained by the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adour, that the Co|cheneale, and other Merchandizes formerly &s;eque&s;tred at <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Southampton,</HI> albeit they are not peri&s;hable, but have rather encrea&s;ed in their price and value, are likely to be &s;old again&s;t the will of tho&s;e who pretend to be the Owners, (Parties to the &s;uite depending in the &s;aid Court of Admiralty) which is alledged to be apparently again&s;t the Rules of Law, and practices of that Court in &s;uch ca&s;es. His Maje&s;ty well
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weighing what may be the ill con&s;equences of &s;uch injurious Proceed|ings, manife&s;tly contrary to the Law, and the Articles of Treatie be|tween the two Crownes, and plainly fore-&s;eeing how heavily it may light upon &s;uch of His good Subjects who have e&s;tates in <HI>Spaine,</HI> and how de|&s;tructive it may prove to the Trade and Commerce of His Subjects and Kingdomes, doth hereby not onely expre&s;ly charge and command the Judge of His Admiraltie, and all others whom it may concerne, to pro|ceed in a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of &s;uch value and con&s;equence, with Care, Expediti|on, and according to Ju&s;tice: But doth al&s;o expre&s;ly prohibite all per|&s;ons, of what condition &s;oever, upon pretence of any Order or Warrant from one or both Hou&s;es of Parliament, or any authoritie derived from thence, to buy, meddle with, or di&s;po&s;e of any part of the &s;aid Coche|neale, or other Goods or Merchandizes belonging to the &s;aid Ship, untill the propriety thereof &s;hall be judicially decided and determined, upon paine of His Maje&s;ties high di&s;plea&s;ure, and of being re&s;pon&s;ible and li|able to payment and &s;atisfaction for what&s;oever damage &s;hall happen to any of His Maje&s;ties good Subjects, who&s;e Goods or E&s;tates &s;hall for that cau&s;e be embargued or &s;eized in <HI>Spaine.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Court at <HI>Oxford,</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd day of <HI>Januarie,</HI> in the eighteenth yeere of His Maje&s;ties Reigne.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King,</CLOSER>
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