Treaty of Madrid (1670)

Treaty of Madrid

William Godolphin by Peter Lely
Context	A treaty for the composing of differences, restraining of depredations, and establishing of peace in America, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain, concluded at Madrid the 8/18 day of July, in the year of our Lord 1670.
Signed	8 July 1670 (1670-07-08)
Location	Madrid
Condition	28 September 1670
Negotiators	William Godolphin Gaspar de Bracamonte Count of Peñaranda
Signatories	William Godolphin Gaspar de Bracamonte Count of Peñaranda
Parties	England  Spain
Ratifiers	Charles II of England Mariana of Austria for Charles II of Spain
Language	Latin

The Treaty of Madrid, also known as the Godolphin Treaty, was a treaty between England and Spain that was agreed to in July 1670 "for the settlement of all disputes in America".^[1] The treaty officially ended the war begun in 1654 in the Caribbean in which England had conquered Jamaica.^[2]

The 1670 Treaty of Madrid was highly favourable to England, as its Adverse Possession in the Caribbean Sea and the rest of the Americas was confirmed and made legal by Spain. Before 1670, Spain had exclusively regarded the Americas as Spanish territory with the exception of Brazil, which was Portuguese according to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas that had confirmed Christopher Columbus' claim of the New World for Spain since 12 October 1494.^[3][4]