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From: "Ulster-Scotsman" <lhawkins(a)3wave.com>
To: <CARLISLE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: "Sugar & Slaves, The Rise of the Planter Class in the Eng. W.
Indies, 1624-1713"--pt 6
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From: "Jay & Carol Menges" <jh-cj.menges(a)worldnet.att.net>
To: <CARLISLE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: "Sugar & Slaves, The Rise of the Planter Class in the Eng. W.
Indies, 1624-1713"--pt 6
> >From pp. 123-124, Chapter 4, "The Leeward Islands," the last reference
to
> James Hay CARLISLE as the "earl of CARLISLE:"
>
> *****************
>
> In the 1660s the Leeward planters began to make sugar in earnest and
put
> aside the mutinies and mini-wars that had kept the four islands in
turmoil
> during the preceding two decades. Like the Barbados planters
they had
long
> since thrown off their proprietary allegiance to the earl of CARLISLE.
At
> the Restoration the Leeward planters made the same bargain with
Charles
II
> as the Barbadians: in exchange for royal government and
confirmation of
> land titles, the four island assemblies consented in 1664 to a 4.5
percent
> duty on commodities exported from the islands. In one important
respect,
> however, it was a poorer bargain. The king appointed Francis
Lord
WILLOUGBY
> as commander in chief of the Leeward Islands in addition to Barbados.
The
> Leeward colonists chafed at this arrangement, for the Barbadians
were
their
> chief economic competitors and they wanted a separate administration.
> Certainly the union with Barbados soon ended disastrously.
>
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