ABSTRACT
The little settlement of Puerto de Caballos, exposed by its long beaches to attack and ill-equipped with arms or men to defend itself, was recognised as easy prey by the marauders. Before they had recovered from the successive shocks administered by Langton and Newport, the unfortunate citizens were to suffer further loss and humiliation at the hands of William Parker and his French consort Jeremias Raymond. Parker in 1594 sailed once again in the Richard of Plymouth, and was perhaps accompanied by the pinnace Margery. In the absence of any High Court of Admiralty evidence, Parker's 1595 raid remains in a number of important respects obscure. The Spanish reports differ as to the number of the privateers, but it is clear that they included one ship and one or more smaller vessels.
