The pope had granted most of North and South America to Spain, and the rest of it to Portugal. England was protestant, so didn’t have to listen to the Pope. Spain, anyway, was in decline, so couldn’t really exploit its empire. The Protestant countries started sending privateers to prey off their shipping, and then outright colonized. The Dutch were originally part of Spain, then gained independence, which is why they felt free to go after the pine trees, since they were also Protestant, I think. So if King Henry VIII hadn’t been randy for Ann Bolin, America would never have happened, or everyone would be speaking Spanish or Dutch, or something.
The deal was France and Spain had a treaty of commerce and amity that allowed even French protestants to participate in the Atlantic trade with Spanish ports.
The specific Swedes who came to America to cut pine trees ALSO had close ties to the same rural Protestant Breton nobility who were trying to get Spain to take over Brittany!
May have been the Swedes simply went to the same place Coligny was offered ~ which would be today's Pennsylvania.
When the Spanish began surveying the lines specified in the Treaty of London (1604) Greater NY CITY are as we know it was South of the line surveyed between Acadia (Owned by Scotland) AND Virginia (Owned by no one in particular ~ all European Protestants could go there apparently)
Ribault's failed colony was South of the Virginia/North Carolina line so it was out of bound and well within what Spain considered La Florida.
England didn't come into a power position in the Americas until after the Glorious Restoration ~ by then economics and populations had changed enough they had the upper hand over Spain and France. By 1700 it was pretty Clear England and the Scandinavians were going to be dominating Europe's direction for a long time. I"m not sure the English in the 1700s drew any clear distinctions between themselves and the Scandinavians and the northern Germans.