Note 219 — Chapter VII · 1570-1578

Fleetwood, in one of his letters to Cecil (Wright’s State Papers), gives particulars of one such. A son of Alderman Lee came and said that his brother, although a Catholic, was in perpetual prison in Spain, the reason being that Guaras having bought a ship called the Clock, had given to Lee £160 to man the ship and attack Flushing. Lee having failed to carry out the plan to his satisfaction, Guaras had had him kidnapped and imprisoned in Spain. Guaras, he said, had thirty or forty spies in his service, who used to sit or walk in his hall downstairs at night without a candle, until, one by one, they were led up to Guaras’ room by Dela to report what they had discovered. Guaras’ house at Dowgate, Thames Street, was on a portion of the site covered by Cannon Street Station, and was bought by the Drapers’ Company on his conviction.—Domestic Calendar.