Montemar's papers dealing with the War of Jenkins' Ear, 1739-40, showing the difficulties Spain had in making war on a maritime power. They include four memorials, by a parish priest of Cuenca, a certain Maxim de Bouchet, a captain of cavalry and an anonymous memorialist, making suggestions for the prosecution of the war, either by a landing in Scotland or by striking at England's trade (a long minute, presumably by Montemar, recommends forming a joint stock company in Seville to operate the Asiento in place of England). One proposal is to muster an army of Irish Catholic emigres, to be recruited by missionaries in Ireland. Letters include letters of Conde de Itre, Corunna, 6 January 1740, describing the shortage of wheat and the need to disperse the troops concentrated there for a landing in the United Kingdom; Joseph Francisco de Alos, 16 pp 4to, on the application of the royal decree forbidding trade with England; a copy of a letter from Montemar to Villarias about the British squadron cruising off Cape St Vincent; and copies of two reports on British abuses of their right under the Treaty of Utrecht to send one trading ship a year to the Spanish American colonies, 1722. There are intelligence reports of British naval and military strength, of the strength of a British squadron calling at Lisbon and the stores supplied to it, of British men-o-war with their captains' names, and two, from French sources, of men-o-war in commission and of British political parties.