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In the Treaty of Utrecht England promised to restore and respect Spanish boundaries

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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…the court of London could not fail to bear in mind Article 8 of the Treaty of Utrecht dated July 13, 1713, in which*[Arredondo note * A literal copy of Article 8 of the Treaty of Utrecht.] "the Most Serene and most Powerful Princess Dona Anna, Queen of Great Britain, promises that she will aid the Spaniards with her forces and means, so that the former boundaries of the regions in America belonging to Spain may be restored and perpetuated as they were in the time of Senor Don Carlos II, and the losses and diminution from which they have suffered since the said Carlos II died may be repaired." 64.

[Bolton note: The English text of the treaty reads as follows: "On the contrary, that the Spanish dominions in the West Indies may be preserved whole and entire, the Queen of Great Britain engages, that she will endeavour, and give assistance to the Spaniards, that the ancient limits of their dominions in the West Indies be restored, and settled as they stood in the time of the above-said Catholic King Charles the Second, if it shall appear that they have in any manner, or under any pretence, been broken into, and lessened in any part, since the death of the aforesaid Catholic King Charles the Second." Chalmers, George, A Collection of Treaties Between Great Britain and Other Powers, etc., II, 82 (London, 1790); the same in Herstlet, II, 201 (London, 1840). A Spanish version is in Calvo, Carlos, Coleccion Completa de Tratados, II, 119, (Paris, 1862).]

5. This is the same as though the Queen of Great Britain had guaranteed to maintain and defend the right of the crown of Spain to the Western Indies, and very far from any intention of usurping it. And since the original possessions of the Spaniards in this region in the time of Senor Don Carlos II of Spain extended to Santa Elena, according to what has been alleged and proved, and since the losses and diminution happened after the treaty of 1670, it follows as a necessary consequence that they ought to be repaired, in fulfillment of the guarantee of the Most Serene Queen of Great Britain, stipulated in the Treaty of Utrecht of the year 1713, 65. [Bolton note: See Note 64.] and in that of the 18th of November, old style, of the same year, ratified between his Catholic Majesty and his British Majesty, in which, by the first article, their Majesties promised mutually to observe and fulfill all that was contained in the articles of the preceding treaties.