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divers places, which did not suit the fishermen — who did not 

 always attend. Further, Mr. Commissioner Whitbourne was 

 unpaid, except by the fines which he levied, so that it was his 

 delight as well as his duty to fine the absentees ; and his 

 mission did not throw oil on the troubled waters. Therefore Then the 

 Mason's rule was not profitable, and the merchants, 'acquainted ^f-'^^J ^^^ 

 with more speedy gain,' became impatient, and 'concluded to into 

 divide the land into several shares V which the allottees re- 

 sold. The colony from time to time shed portions of itself, 

 division led to sub-division, and new characters appeared 

 upon the scene. 



In the first place Guy's settlement shrivelled into a tongue (i) « TTar- 

 of land between three bays — Conception Bay, Trinity Bay, sub-colony 

 and Placentia Bay. R. Hayman, of Devonshire and Lincoln's under 

 Inn, who succeeded Mason as Governor of this reduced ^^21^'^^' 

 territory, made Harbour Grace instead of Cuper's Cove his 

 capital, called Newfoundland Britaniola with one ' n ' and 

 one * t ', and having, as he naively said, nothing to do except 

 to oversee the work of other people, wrote poetry (1621-27). 

 His poems were entitled ' Quodlibets lately come over from 

 New Britaniola old Newfoundland . . . composed at Harbour 

 Grace ... by R. H., sometime Governor of the plantation 

 there, 1628,' in which he celebrated in limping lines the vices 

 of Papists and Puritans, the virtues of settlers like E. Payne, 

 Rowley, and Poyntz, the patriotism of colonizers like Vaughan, 

 Falkland, Baltimore, and Mason, and the dishonesty of the 

 agents, who failed to make the patriotism of their em.ployers 

 pay. He claims to have spent one winter only in Newfound- 

 land, and almost every summer down to the end of his 

 government ^ ; but we do not hear that he made the patriot- 

 ism of his employers pay. There were no resident Governors 

 of Guy's settlement after Hayman; and in 1628 John Slaney — 



^ Egerton MSS. 2541, fol. 166. 



2 Ibid., fol. 162-9. Down to 1630, if the endorsed date, which is not 

 in the same handwriting as the documents, is correct. The documents 

 are undated copies. 



