Footnote 154: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 20.
Footnote 155: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 145.
Footnote 156: [(return)]
Ibid., Nos. 259, 278. In Lord Windsor's original instructions of 21st March 1662 he was empowered to search ships suspected of trading with the Spaniards and to adjudicate the same in the Admiralty Court. A fortnight later, however, the King and Council seem to have completely changed their point of view, and this too in spite of the Navigation Laws which prohibited the colonies from trading with any but the mother-country.
Footnote 157: [(return)]
Art. ix. of the treaty. Cf. Dumont: Corps diplomatique, T.V., pt. ii. p. 625. Cf. also C.S.P. Venetian, 1604, p. 189:—"I wished to hear from His Majesty's own lips" (wrote the Venetian ambassador in November 1604), "how he read the clause about the India navigation, and I said, 'Sire, your subjects may trade with Spain and Flanders but not with the Indies.' 'Why not?' said the King. 'Because,' I replied, 'the clause is read in that sense.' 'They are making a great error, whoever they are that hold this view,' said His Majesty; 'the meaning is quite clear.'"
Footnote 158: [(return)]
S.P. Spain, vol. 35.
Footnote 159: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 61.
Footnote 160: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 259.
Footnote 161: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 355.
Footnote 162: [(return)]
Ibid., No. 364.
Footnote 163: [(return)]
Thurloe Papers, IV. p. 154.