Antonio Sancho Davila, Marquis of Velada

The following year he was given command of a fleet destined to recover the town of San Jorge de Elmina in Ghana, but this expedition was never carried out.

Later, with the rank of captain general of sea and land, he was entrusted with the direction of an armada that would expel the Dutch from their settlements on the coast of Brazil, but this mission also never came to fruition.

[1]​ In 1640, together with the Bolognese Virgilio Malvezzi, he was sent as extraordinary ambassador to London in support of Alonso de Cárdenas, with the mission of concluding an alliance with Charles I of England.

The Spanish intentions were to avoid an alliance of England with France (in conflict with Spain in the Franco-Spanish war) and with the United Provinces, and to prevent the wedding of William II, Prince of Orange with Mary Henrietta Stuart.

After his mandate he obtained permission to return to Spain, where Philip IV offered him the viceroyalty of Sicily and the Captaincy General of Catalonia, which he rejected, alleging poor health.