The English Occupation of Tangier (1661–1683)1

Enid Routh

doi:10.2307/3678227

The English Occupation of Tangier (1661–1683)1

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Enid Routh

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When Charles II. announced his impending marriage with Catharine of Portugal, the inclusion of Tangier in the Princess's dowry was the most popular clause of the marriage treaty.

English hopes ran even higher round the little African port than over the companion gift of Bombay, for Tangier, situated almost on the north-west point of Morocco, lay in the direct trade route from the Levant to Western Europe. The English Consul at Lisbon pointed out that it might from its position become a magazine for all the Levant, a port which would be used by the Spanish West India fleet homeward bound to Seville or Cadiz, in order to avoid the high duties imposed by the Crown of Spain in its own ports—valuable asset this in case of war with Holland, Spain, or France.

Type: Research Article
Information: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 19 , December 1905 , pp. 61 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3678227 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1904

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^{page 61 note 2} State Papers, Portugal, v. 200, P. R. O.

^{page 62 note 1} Col. Corresp., Tangier, iii. 37.

^{page 62 note 2} State Papers, No. 1.

^{page 63 note 1} State Papers, No. 1.

^{page 63 note 2} State Papers, Portugal, v. 200.

^{page 63 note 3} State Papers, Tangier, i., 09 13, 1661Google Scholar.

^{page 64 note 1} State Papers, Tangier, i., Instructions to Peterborough: undated.

^{page 64 note 2} Davis, p. 19.

^{page 64 note 3} State Papers, Tangier, ii. 66.

^{page 64 note 4} Ibid. vi. 121, and viii. 30.

^{page 64 note 5} Ibid. ii. 22.

^{page 64 note 6} Ibid. i. 46.

^{page 64 note 7} Ibid. i. 92.

^{page 64 note 8} Ibid. i. 90.

^{page 64 note 9} 'Abd Allah Ghaïlàn.

^{page 65 note 1} A Description of Tangier, Brit. Mus.

^{page 65 note 2} State Papers, i. 109.

^{page 65 note 3} Ibid. i. 110.

^{page 65 note 4} Ibid. i. 92.

^{page 65 note 5} Ibid. i. 147.

^{page 65 note 6} Ibid. ii. 16–21.

^{page 66 note 1} An Account of Tangier.

^{page 66 note 2} State Papers, iv. 40.

^{page 66 note 3} Ibid. iv. 76.

^{page 66 note 4} Ibid. iv. 105.

^{page 67 note 1} Total length about 478 yds. Shere's Report, Dartmouth MSS., vol. i. p. 102.

^{page 67 note 2} Pepys's Diary, September 30, 1663, and May 19, 1664.

^{page 67 note 3} State Papers, ii. 173.

^{page 68 note 1} State Papers, iii. 20.

^{page 68 note 2} Ibid. iii. 34.

^{page 68 note 3} Ibid. iii. 32.

^{page 68 note 4} Ibid. iii. 34.

^{page 68 note 5} Ibid. iii. 53.

^{page 69 note 1} Fanshaw MSS., p. 158.

^{page 69 note 2} State Papers, iii. 71, 73, 110.

^{page 69 note 3} Ibid. ii. 134.

^{page 69 note 4} Fanshaw, p. 195, and State Papers, iii. 216.

^{page 69 note 5} State Papers, iv. 105.

^{page 69 note 6} Fanshaw, p. 220.

^{page 70 note 1} State Papers, iv. 102.

^{page 70 note 2} Ibid. iv. 166.

^{page 70 note 3} Ibid. iv. 65.

^{page 70 note 4} Ibid. iii. 256.

^{page 70 note 5} Ibid. iii. 160.

^{page 70 note 6} Ibid. iv. 15.

^{page 70 note 7} Ibid. iv. 10.

^{page 70 note 8} Davis, p. 105.

^{page 70 note 9} State Papers, iv. 43.

^{page 70 note 10} Ibid. iv. 167.

^{page 70 note 11} Smith, , Life of Pepys, p. 444Google Scholar.

^{page 71 note 1} State Papers, iv. 72.

^{page 71 note 2} Ibid. iii. 214.

^{page 71 note 3} Ibid. iii. 42.

^{page 71 note 4} Ibid. iv. 71.

^{page 71 note 5} Ibid. vi. 27.

^{page 71 note 6} Ibid. vi. 51.

^{page 71 note 7} A Description of Tangier, Brit. Mus.

^{page 72 note 1} State Papers, x. 113.

^{page 72 note 2} Last Account from Fez.

^{page 72 note 3} State Papers, xxix. 30.

^{page 72 note 4} ibid. xxix. 202.

^{page 72 note 5} Tangier's Rescue, 1681.

^{page 73 note 1} Smith, , Life of Pepys, p. 403Google Scholar.

^{page 73 note 2} Dartmouth MSS., vol. i. p. 61.

^{page 73 note 3} Last Account from Fez.

^{page 73 note 4} Dartmouth MSS. i. 83.

^{page 74 note 1} Dartmouth MSS. i. 102.

^{page 75 note 1} Charles Russell to Pepys. Smith, , Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Pepys, pp. 386 and 387Google Scholar.

^{page 75 note 2} Moorish Empire, p. 154.

^{page 78 note 1} 1. An Account of Tangier, and, 2, A Short Account of the Mole at Tangier.

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