The King's Exile (Thomas Hill Trilogy 2) (41 page)

Having been negotiated by Sir George Ayscue on behalf of the English Parliament, the terms of the charter had the unforeseen result of giving the island, after the restoration of the monarchy, more independence than it would otherwise have enjoyed.

Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that, for the sake of the story, I have delayed the arrival of Lord Willoughby in Barbados by about twelve months.

As always, my thanks to my long-suffering wife Susan for her moral and practical support and to my daughter Laura, son Tom and brother Michael for their encouragement and suggestions.

Emma Buckley, my editor at Transworld, has nursed me through two Thomas Hill books with skill and patience. It is a delight to work with her and her colleagues and I thank them. Without them,
The King’s Exile
would have been a much poorer thing.

Hilary Beckles,
A History of Barbados
, Cambridge University Press, 1990

Michael Braddick,
God’s Fury, England’s Fire
, Penguin Books, 2008

Charles Carlton, Charles I – The Personal Monarch, Routledge, 1983

Richard S. Dunn,
Sugar and Slaves
, University of North Carolina Press, 1972

Antonia Fraser,
Cromwell, Our Chief of Men
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973

Cynthia Herrup,
The Common Peace
, Cambridge University Press, 1987

Don Jordan and Michael Walsh,
White Cargo
, Mainstream Publishing, 2007

Richard Ligon,
A True amd Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes
, 1657

Matthew Parker,
The Sugar Barons
, Windmill Books, 2012

Carla Gardina Pestana,
The English Atlantic in the Age of Revolution
, Harvard University Press, 2004

Diane Purkiss,
The English Civil War
, Harper Perennial, 2006

Ivan Roots,
The Great Rebellion 1642–1660
, B. T. Batsford, 1966

Ronald Tree,
A History of Barbados
, Granada Publishing, 1972

After reading Law at Cambridge University,
Andrew Swanston
held various positions in the book trade, including being a director of Waterstone & Co. and chairman of Methven’s PLC, before turning to full-time writing. Inspired by a lifelong interest in seventeenth-century history, his Thomas Hill novels are set during the English Civil War and the early period of the Restoration. He lives with his wife in Surrey.

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THE KING’S EXILE
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