ABSTRACT
As to the city of Belize, the founder was a certain Captain Wallace, after whom it was named. It appears in the archives of British Honduras as Valys, Bullys, Bellise, Belice, and finally Belize. Undeterred by Raleigh’s misfortunes, Wallace seems to have continued his seafaring career. He reappears in history some twenty years after Raleigh’s execution as captain of a small fleet of buccaneers in the West Indies. Somehow or other he had got together a band of three hundred Scottish and English adventurers of his own kidney who had recently been expelled from the island of Nevis, near S. Kitts, by the Spaniards. Wallace must have known that according to Stuart policy his exploit might be regarded at Court as ‘trespassing on Spanish territory’, despite the fact that no Spaniards had ever landed there, and that there were no visible signs of Spanish possession.
