ABSTRACT
The military force by which Jamaica was conquered was accompanied by seven chaplains. Men like Baxter, the author of the “Saints’ Rest,” had occupied a similar position in the English army, and there seems reason to suppose that those who came to the island were worthy, earnest men. Cromwell manifested great concern for the religious interests of the men he had sent forth. In one letter to his commanders he writes: “The Lord Himself hath a controversy with your enemies, even with that Roman Babylon of which the Spaniard is the great underpropper.” After the defeat at Hayti he wrote: “We have cause to be humbled for the reproof God gave us at St. Domingo, upon the account of our sins as well as others.”
