ABSTRACT
The years immediately following the Restoration are of extreme importance in the history of the British Empire. In the east they saw the acquisition of Bombay, in the west the transfer from Holland to England of the Middle Colonies, New Jersey and New York. The Barbados assembly, in the years immediately following the Restoration, was dominated by a party with which Thomas Povey was prohibited from intercourse by his alliance with Lord Willoughby. By the time the assemblies of Jamaica and Leeward Islands started to take an interest in the agency, his power had declined. The settlement of Jamaica was too little advanced for a prominent place to be taken by its affairs, and the Leeward Islands were still as yet many years behind Barbados in economic development. Even Jamaica, despite its very acquisition, could look for support from friends at home.
