A week after authorising the deportation of 10 Blackmoores, Elizabeth
sent an open letter to various public officials, including the lord
mayor of London, requiring their co-operation in the deportation of
sufficient numbers of Blackamoores to defray the costs incurred by
the merchant, Casper van Senden, in returning English prisoners from
Spain and Portugal.
No one could be taken without the consent of his or her master. Elizabeth
did not offer any compensation, expecting they would 'like Christians
rather to be served by their owne countrymen then with those kynde
of people'.
PC 2/21, f. 306 (18 July 1596)
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