154 NEWFOUNDLAND . 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 Mary and Bonavista , which they obtained in 1610, under the designation of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the Cities of and Bristol , for the Colony of ¬ 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-