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terror of the Grand Armada, checked, although it did not subdue, the ardour of the most sanguine of those who were bent on planting newly-discovered countries; and fifteen years passed away before an- other voyage was made to Newfoundland. The spirit _ of trade and discovery was again revived in England by Mr Guy, an intelligent merchant of Bristol, who wrote several judicious treatises on colonization and commerce; and, from the arguments of this gentle- man, several persons of distinction applied to James I. for that part of Newfoundland lying between the Capes of St Mary and Bonavista, which they obtained in 1610, under the designation of “ The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the Cities of London and Bristol, for the Colony of N ew- foundland.” This patent was granted to the Earl of Northampton, the Lord Chief Baron Tanfield, Sir John Doddridge, Lord Chancellor Bacon, Lord Veru- lam, &c., and was in substance, “ That Whereas divers of his Majesty’s subjects were desirous to plant in the southern and eastern parts of Newfoundland, where the subjects of this realm have, for upwards of fifty years past, been used annually, in no small num- bers, to resort to fish, intending thereby to secure the trade of fishing to our subjects for ever; as also to make some advantage of the lands thereof, which hitherto have remained unprofitable; wherefore, his Majesty now grants to Henry, Earl of Northampton, (and forty-four persons herein named,) their heirs and assigns, to be a corporation with perpetual suc- cession, &c., by the name of the Treasurer and Com-