From p. 120, Chapter 4, "The Leeward Islands," still referencing James Hay
CARLISLE as the "earl of CARLISLE:
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When the earl of CARLISLE secured his title as lord proprietor of the
English Caribbees (Barbados and the Leeward Islands), he confirmed WARNER as
governor of St. Christopher. Surplus English colonists fanned out to occupy
Nevis in 1628, Antigua and Montserrat around 1632. The first comers to
Nevis had a particularly discouraging start. The Spanish fleet that sacked
St. Christopher also attacked Nevis. The planters fired their single great
gun from Pelican Point and readied their militia for a fight, but the
servants in the militia threw away their arms, crying "Liberty, joyfull
Liberty," and other servants swam to the Spanish ships to tell the enemy
where the English planters hid their possessions [footnote #5: HARLOW,
*Colonising,* 4-17."]! Having weathered the Spanish invasion, the settlers
on all four islands made tobacco their staple crop. Tobacco grew rather
more successfully in St. Christopher than in Barbados, but not well enough.
In 1639 WARNER imposed a ban on tobacco production in a vain effort to force
up the English price. By 1641 the impoverished Leeward planters were
reduced to the "pointe of undoeing, haveing spent their whole Tyme in
peddling and chaffering to the multiplying of debt, the infecting them with
the love of a long accustomed Idlenes" [footnote #6: "According to the
tobacco statistics printed in OLIVER, ed., *Caribbeana,* III, 197-198, St.
Christopher shipped twice as much tobacco to England as Barbados, 1637-1640.
For the tobacco cessation of 1639-1641, see BENNETT, "The English Caribbees,
1642-1646," *Wm. and Mary Qtly.,* 3rd Ser., XXIV (1967), 360."].