[Footnote 41: 1611, February 28. Sir Thos. Roe to Salisbury. Port d'Espaigne, Trinidad.--He has seen more of the coast from the River Amazon to the Orinoco than any other Englishman alive. The Spaniards here are proud and insolent, yet needy and weak, their force is reputation, their safety is opinion. The Spaniards treat the English worse than Moors. The government is lazy and has more skill in planting and selling tobacco than in erecting colonies and marching armies. Extract, C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660. (Roe was sent by Prince Henry upon a voyage of discovery to the Indies.)] [Footnote 42: "An historical account of the rise and growth of the West India Colonies." By Dalby Thomas, Lond., 1690. (Harl. Miscell., 1808, ii. 357.)] [Footnote 43: Oviedo: Historia general de las Indias, lib. xix. cap. xiii.; Coleccion de documentos ... de ultramar, tom. iv. p. 57 (deposition of the Spanish captain at the Isle of Mona); Pacheco, etc.: Coleccion de documentos ... de las posesiones espanoles en America y Oceania, tom. xl. p. 305 (cross-examination of witnesses by officers of the Royal Audiencia in San Domingo just after the visit of the English ship to that place); English Historical Review, XX. p. 115. The ship is identified with the "Samson" dispatched by Henry VIII. in 1527 "with divers cunning men to seek strange regions," which sailed from the Thames on 20th May in company with the "Mary of Guildford," was lost by her consort in a storm on the night of 1st July, and was believed to have foundered with all on board. (Ibid.)] [Footnote 44: Hakluyt, _ed._ 1600, iii. p. 700; Froude, _op. cit._, viii. p. 427.] [Footnote 45: Scelle., _op. cit._, i. pp. 123-25, 139-61.] [Footnote 46: Colecc. de doc. ... de ultramar. tom. vi. p. 15.] [Footnote 47: Froude, _op. cit._, viii. pp. 470-72.] [Footnote 48: Corbett: Drake and the Tudor Navy, i. ch. 3.] [Footnote 49: Corbett: Drake and the Tudor Navy, ii. chs. 1, 2, 11.] [Footnote 50: Corbett: The Successors of Drake, ch. x.] [Footnote 51: Marcel: Les corsaires francais au XVIe siecle, p. 7. As early as 1501 a royal ordinance in Spain prescribed the construction of carracks to pursue the privateers, and in 1513 royal _cedulas_ were sent to the officials of the _Casa de Contratacion_ ordering them to send two caravels to guard the coasts of Cuba and protect Spanish navigation from the assaults of French corsairs. (Ibid., p. 8).] [Footnote 52: Colecc. de doc. ... de ultramar, tomos i., iv., vi.; Ducere: Les corsaires sous l'ancien regime. Append. II.; Duro., _op. cit._, i. Append. XIV.] [Footnote 53: Colecc. de doc. ... de ultramar, tom. vi. p. 22.] [Footnote 54: Ibid., p. 23.] [Footnote 55: Marcel, _op. cit._, p. 16.] [Footnote 56: Colecc. de doc. ... de ultramar, tom. vi. p. 360.] [Footnote 57: Colecc. de doc. ... de ultramar, tom. vi. p. 360.] [Footnote 58: Lucas: A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, vol. ii. pp. 37, 50.] [Footnote 59: Weiss, _op. cit._, ii. p. 292.]