At the Restoration, the men who had conquered Jamaica for Cromwell were unwilling to return to England.
Monmouth's rebellion and the expulsion of the Stuarts produced a fresh influx.

But, whether Cavaliers or Roundheads or Jacobites, they came from the landholding class in England.

The evidence may still be read in old West Indian graveyards, where the crumbling monuments show the carefully engraved armorial bearings, and the inscriptions record the families and homes in England from which those whom they commemorate had sprung.
In the East Indies nothing of the kind was possible.

The acquisition of land for agriculture was out of the question.

Trade was the only opening, and that was monopolized by the Company.