These supplementary documents do not call for any further Introduction beyond the Notes, though special attention may be directed to the additional documents relating to the shrievalty of Edmund de Stonor

The document which forms the subject of the present communication is a Spanish account, heretofore unknown, describing the English seizure of the island of Jamaica, in May, 1655, and the Spanish resistance to that invasion up to July 3 of the following year. It was written by an ecclesiastic, Captain Julian de Castilla, who was "one of those present upon these coasts, south and north, nearly fourteen months "–that is, during the entire period which his narrative covers

These papers, which the kindness of the late owner, Mr. Shaw-Hellier of Wimbourne Wodehouse, and of Mr. W. P. Gibbons of The Foxhills, Wimbourne, near Wolverhampton, have placed in the hands of the Society, are taken from a commonplace book compiled by Richard Broughton, man of business to Walter and Robert Devereux, Earls of Essex

For three years "the valiant and victorious General Captain Jackson" drew all eyes upon him by conducting a daring andtriumphant war on the power of Spain in America. By so doing he largely contributed to the decision of Cromwell to continue the Elizabethan tradition of reprisals against Spain; and to embark upon an enterprise, the object of which was the substitution for a Catholic and Spanish empire, of one that was English and Protestant.

Homo quidam descendebat ab Ierusalem in Ierico et incidit in latrones qui despolia(verun)t (eum) et vulneraverunt, plagis inpositis (ab)ierunt, semivivo reli(ct)o, Domino doctore . . . sanctos.