"Oliver Cromwell intended Jamaica to serve as a base for plunder, much like Providence Island a few decades before—including the creation of Admiralty courts, so captains could condemn their prizes immediately after the island was taken from the Spanish in 1655. However, Colonel Edward Doyley, governor of the recently conquered military state, struggled to command the men who remained in the West Indies after the Western Design, as well as the new arrivals yearning for a better life on the island."