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The Spanish ambassador said indignantly to Elizabeth: “Your mariners rob my master’s subjects on the sea; they plunder our people in the streets of your towns; they attack our vessels in your very harbors.
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Sumner quotes the Spanish ambassador to illustrate the grievances against English maritime practices.
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