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Updated: June 17, 2025

But he probably thought that he had no ill-will to fear from the inhabitants generally, and that the Spanish authorities would not be strong enough to meddle with him. His ill star had brought him there at a time when Alvarez de Baçan, the same officer who had destroyed the English ships at Gibraltar, was daily expected from Spain sent by Philip, as it proved, specially to look for him.

James Anthony Froude - English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century: Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4