15^ HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



Authorities 



The State Papers are now no longer accessible ; although extracts are 



1 accessible in Reeves, Prowse, and other historians. Committees of the 



s^ I House of Commons published three valuable Reports on Newfoundland 



I Jn 1793, and another Report in 1817. Reeves and Anspach, and in 



minor matters Griffith Williams, the Cartwrights, and Chappell write 



with authority about events in which they took part. In the references 



to Jukes and the Church in the Colonies may be read recollections by 



octogenarians of the days of their youth. Statutes of the Realm and 



Law Reports begin to throw considerable light on the history. The 



1 Royal Gazette (Newfoundland) dates from 1807. 



1 Amongst second-hand authorities, see The Very Reverend M. F. 

 Howley, Ecclesiastical History of Newfoundland, 1888. The author 

 is the Roman Catholic Archbishop at St. John's and is a well-known 

 writer on the origins of the history of Newfoundland. 



