Note 152 — Chapter II
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[The Spanish minister, indeed, protested against Drake’s piracies and his sailing in those waters; but the English Government made a declaration denying such prescriptive right to the Spaniards, unless it was enforced by possession. Cf. Camden’s History of Elizabeth, 1688, p. 225; Purchas, iv. 1180; Deane’s edition of Hakluyt’s Discourse, 236.—Ed.]