
Francis "Francisco" Lembry (died 1616), also known as James Lembry, Lemry, or Limrick was an English spy in the service of Spain. Lembry, likely a Catholic who joined the Spanish Empire's multinational army amid the Anglo-Spanish War and the Dutch Revolt, and he concealed his English background and claimed to have originated in Aragon. In 1611, he was sent to aid Don Diego de Molina in a spying missiong against the English colonies of Jamestown and Henricus, sailing to Point Comfort, Virginia aboard La Nuestra Senora del Rosario. Molina, Lembry, and ensign Marco Antonio de Perez snuck past the guns of Fort Algernon on their way to Jamestown, but the Spanish ship's crew panicked and fled after the English captain John Clarke came out to guide the ship to safer anchorage, taking Clarke captive and abandoning Molina, Lembry, and Perez. The three Spaniards were taken prisoner and later transferred to Henricus, where Perez died in poor prison conditions. Lembry and Molina smuggled letters to King Philip III of Spain through a Venetian merchant, telling him of the colony's weaknesses, from the low morale of its soldiers to the starving of its settlers and the poor quality of its defensive fortifications. While Molina was exchanged for Clarke in 1613, Lembry was taken back to England on the same ship that carried John Rolfe and Pocahontas to London in 1616, and he was hanged from the mast and his body displayed as the ship arrived at Plymouth.