- venient cellars of the country squires.[1] Sometimes the
unsuspecting trader was pounced upon during the course of the night by a lugger full of armed men, which had lain in wait for her, hidden, during the day, among the rocks or in one of the inlets on the coast.
Conduct of the Spaniards.
A.D. 1563.
No doubt the Spaniards had, in many instances,
provoked acts of piracy by rousing a spirit of revenge
for the cruel sufferings Englishmen had sustained at
the hands of the Inquisition. Thus Dorothy Seely,
when petitioning the Lords of Elizabeth's Council for
recovery of the losses and sufferings of her husband,
who, with others of the Queen's subjects, had been
thrown into a Spanish prison, prays that she and "the
friends of such of Her Majesty's subjects as be there
imprisoned, afflicted and tormented against all reason,
may be allowed to fit out certain ships for the sea at
their own proper charges, and to capture such
Inquisitors, or other such Papistical subjects of the
King of Spain, as they can take by sea or land, and to
retain them in prison in England with such torment
and diet as Her Majesty's subjects had suffered in
Spain. . . . Or that it may please Her Majesty to
grant unto the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
bishops the like commission in all points for foreign
Papists, as the Inquisition has in Spain for the Protestants,
that thereby they may be forced not to
trouble her subjects repairing to Spain, or that there
may be hereupon an interchange or delivery of
prisoners."[2]*
