LOUD BALTIMORE 'S COLONY. 157 and so delighted was the proprietor, now created Lord Baltimore , with the prosperity of the colony, that he emigrated there with his family, built a handsome and commodious house and a strong fort at Ferry- land, and resided many years on the island. About the same time, Lrod Falkland, then Lord Lieutenant, sent a colony from Ireland to ¬ land ; but Lord Baltimore 's departure soon after for England , to obtain a grant for that part of the coun¬ try called Maryland , prevented the growing prospe¬ rity of his colony, which he called ,* but which, however, he still retained, and governed by his deputies. In the course of about twenty years after Lord Baltimore planted Ferryland, about three hundred and fifty families were settled in fifteen or sixteen parts of the island ; and a more decided interest in its affairs was taken than at any former period. This led, on the part of the inhabitants, to apply for some civil magistrates, to decide matters of dispute or dis¬ order among them ; but the measure was strenuously opposed by the merchants and shipowners in Eng¬ land concerned in the trade, who petitioned the Privy Council against the appointment of any governor to manage the affairs of Newfoundland , and the prayer of this petition was absurdly enough granted. * This was the ancient name of a place in Somersetshire on which Glastonbury now stands, and is said to be the spot where ^' Christianity was first preached in Britain. Lord Baltimore , with the idea that Ids province was the place in where Chris¬ tianity was first introduced, named it .