Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 2

Carla Gardina Pestana, Sharon V Salinger

• Proclamations by both Charles II and Oliver Cromwell encouraging people to settle in the Caribbean are included alongside writings by Aphra Behn, (author of Oroonoko (1688) which she wrote after visiting Surinam), and Sir Thomas Lynch, Governor of Jamaica. Imperial Rivalries Henry Saville, A Libell of Spanish Lies (1596); Thomas Scott, An Experimentall Discoverie of Spanish Practises (1623); Anon., Two Famous Sea-Fights (1639); Alonso de Cardenas, A Speech, or Complaint, Lately Made by the Spanish Embassadour to His Majestie at Oxford (1643) Great Fights between the English and the French: Anon., A Great and Wonderful Victory Obtained by the English Forces (1655); Anon.,Three Great and Bloody Fights between the English and the French (1655). 'I. S.', A Brief and Perfect Journal of the Late Proceedings and Successe of the English Army in the West-Indies (1655); Anon., A Dialogue, Containing a Compendious Discourse Concerning the Present Designe in the West-Indies (1655); Oliver Cromwell , A Declaration of His Highnes ... Setting Forth ... the Justice of their Cause Against Spain (1655); D. K., 'Dedication', in Thomas Scott, The Spaniards Cruelty and Treachery to the English in the Time of Peace and War (1656); 'The Substance of Divers Letter's From the Generalls and Commissioners in the West-Indies to His Highnes', in Anon., A Book of the Continuation of Forreign Passages (1657) Edward Dowley's Victories in Jamaica: [Edward Doyley], A Narrative of the Great Success ... Against the King of Spains Forces (1658); Edward Doyley, A Brief Relation of a Victory ... in the Island of Jamaica. Against the Forces of the King of Spain (1659); Charles II, Articles of Peace &Alliance Between ... Charles the Second ... and ... Lewis XIV (1667); Charles II, A Treaty, for the Composing of Differences (1670); Peter Constant, Tobias Bridge and [E. B.], A Letter Sent from Barbado's to a Friend in London (1673); John Tosier, A Letter from Captain John Tosier (1679); Anon., Sad an