A REPORT OF THE SPANISH GRIEVANCES. 1 



insinuating his purpose to be an actor in that 

 worthy action of enlarging trade and plantation, is 

 become a pirate, and hath been so pursued, as his 

 ship is taken in Ireland, though his person is not 

 yet in hold. 



For the trade to the Levant, his Lordship opened 

 unto us that the complaint consisted in effect but of 

 two particulars : the one touching the arrest of a 

 ship called the Trial, in Sicily ; the other of a ship 

 called the Vineyard, in Sardinia. The first of which 

 arrests was upon pretence of piracy ; the second, 

 upon pretence of carrying ordnance and powder to 

 the Turk. That process concerning the Trial had 

 been at the merchants instance drawn to a review in 

 Spain, which is a favour of exceeding rare precedent, 

 being directly against the liberties and privileges of 

 Sicily. That of the Vineyard, notwithstanding it be 

 of that nature, as, if it should be true, tendeth to the 

 great dishonour of our nation, whereof hold hath 

 been already taken by the French ambassador re 

 siding at Constantinople, who entered into a scanda 

 lous expostulation with his majesty s ambassador 

 there, upon that and the like transportations of 

 munition to the Turk, yet nevertheless there is an 

 answer given, by letters from the king s ambassador 

 lieger in Spain, that there shall be some course taken 

 to give reasonable contentment in that cause, as far 

 as may be : in both which ships, to speak truly, the 

 greatest mass of loss may be included ; for the rest 

 arc mean, in respect of the value of those two vessels. 



