The Cavaliers & Roundheads of Barbados, 1650-1652

Darnell Davis, Nicholas, The Cavaliers & Roundheads of Barbados, 1650-1652, Georgetown, British Guiana: "Argosy" Press, 1887. [fragile]

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From the author’s Foreword:

Nicholas Darnell Davis (1846-1915) was born in Grenada, and spent brief periods in Mauritius and Sierra Leone, but his main public career was in British Guiana [Guyana], where he served as Postmaster General (1876-1881), Comptroller of Customs (1881-1895), and Auditor-General (1895-1908). Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana, Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health.

Contents:

1) Declaring for the King in Little England.
2) Westward Ho.
3) Colonizing in the Olden Times.
4) Rival Claims to Barbados.
5) Growth of the Colony.
6) ‘Far Barbados on the Western Main’.
7) Troubles in Old England.
8) Troubles in Little England.
9) Lord Willoughby’s Arrival at Barbados.
10) The Commonwealth and the Colonies.
11) A Declaration of Independence.
12) The Blockade of Barbados.
13) Colonel Modiford Proclaimed a Traitor.
14) Capitulation of the Cavaliers.