HKB
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Often appears with: weapons ban on island · viceroy signed peace terms · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · hostages · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: law or decree (1) · betrayal (1) · detachment (1)
The English agree to Spanish terms for peace: surrendering hostages, limiting weapons on a small island, and having generals guarantee promises, though the English initially distrust the guard arrangements.
and such ordnance as was planted in the same island, which was eleven pieces of brass, and that no Spaniard might land in the island with any kind of weapon. These conditions at the first he somewhat misliked--chiefly the guard of the island to be in our own keeping; which, if they had had, we had soon known our fate; for with the first north wind they had cut our cables, and our ships had gone ashore; but in the en…