They can get no account from him, and have reason to fear he means to play the rogue with the ship and cargo and never return.

It is believed that within two months he may put in at Leghorn; and the Protector requests the Grand Duke to give the merchants, in that case, facilities for the recovery of their property.

(2) A James Modiford, merchant, complains to the Protector that certain goods of his, taken to Leghorn about 1652 by another English trader, Humphrey Sidney, were there seized by some Italian creditors of Sidney.

Modiford has been unable to obtain redress; and the Grand Duke is now prayed to see his goods restored and any claims Sidney may have upon him referred to the English Courts.
(CXLVI.) To ALFONSO V., KING OF PORTUGAL, _April_ 1659:[1]--A Francis Hurdidge of London complains that a ship of his, called _The Mary and John_, cargo valued at 70,000 crowns, employed in the Brazil trade in 1649 and 1650, was seized by the Portuguese.

The ship was afterwards taken from the Portuguese by the Dutch.