54 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



which have bear a share in it, as it might incite French, or possibly 



described Spanish jealousy.^ With the change of century Spain had 



been deposed from, and France had been promoted into the 



position of arch-rival. 



A little later, Virginia and Maine were colonized, and while 



colonists were on their way to Virginia and Maine (1607) 



Sir J. Popham, who had promoted both movements, initiated 



a third movement, and wrote to the merchant adventurers of 



Bristol urging them to recolonize Newfoundland. In reply, 



the merchants asked for royal support, which was promised. 



Then they subscribed funds, and John Guy, one of the 



subscribers, wrote a pamphlet in favour of the scheme. On 



April 27, 16 10, the King incorporated them under the title "x 



/of ' The Treasurer and the Company of Adventurers and ) 



I Planters of the city of London and Bristol for the Colony 



was nomi- \x Plantations in Newfoundland.' ^ As in the Virginian 



nallydual, Company of 1606, London and the West of England were 



yoked together; and, as in the Virginian Company, the 



first names of members were names of statesmen. Two of 



these names were significant — Henry Earl of Northampton, 



a reputed Roman Catholic, and the great Sir Francis Bacon, 



who wrote that ' it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take 



the scum of people and wicked condemned men to be the 



people with whom you plant '.^ Next on the list was ^ 



Thomas Aldworth, perhaps the same ' T. Aldworth Mayor 



of Bristol' who promoted Sir H. Gilbert's expedition of 



1583. John Guy and his brother Philip, both of Bristol, 



J. Slaney and H. Slaney, both of London, were the only 



others of the forty-six members who afterwards became 



had an famous in connexion v/ith Newfoundland. The colony, 



Inner *^ like De Mons's colony, had an inner and an outer limit. 



limit, like 



De Mons, State Papers, Colonial Series, vol. i, No. 9, an unsigned, undated 



copy, with corrections by Sir E. Conway, endorsed ' Plantacion in 

 America ', Calendared? 1600 given in Appendix E, pp. 250-3. 

 2 Purchas, Pilgrims, vol. xix, p. 406. 

 ^ Essay on Plantations, 1625. 



