linhares

Updated: June 1, 2025

And in 1637 the Conde de Linhares, recently appointed governor of Brazil, told the English ambassador, Lord Aston, that he was very anxious that English ships should do the carrying between Lisbon and Brazilian ports. The settlement of the Windward and Leeward Islands and the conquest of Jamaica had given a new impetus to contraband trade.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century