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Now wheras the fishinge in this Hand is alwayes sooner ended 

 by 40. or .50. dayes then in other places by which meanes the 

 ships in retorninge may with smale preiudice and lyttle losse of 

 tyme view all the harboroughes alonge the coaste of cape 

 Brytton and so ffrom thence in the south pte of Newfoundland, 

 where yf so yt stand with her highnes pleasure and the good 

 lykinge allso of the lords of the Counsell very sufficiente service 

 (thorough god his pvidence) may be pformed againste such ships 

 of Bayon St Jn° de lus and Ciborrow in Ffraunce (which ar 

 aparauntly knowne every yeare from those pts to serue the 

 Kinge of Spaigne with ffishe) to the greate preiudice of the Kinge 

 of Spaigne, who were not able to maynteine his ships at sea yf 

 he were not supported by theise fishermen. 



FFurther as towchinge the inhabytinge in the said Hand and 

 the contries thereabouts in few yeares yt may be effected to the 

 peaceable continuaunce of the inhabitaunts only by keepinge the 

 commaund of the chieffeste harbours in those contries, by which 

 meanes all other nations wilbe discoraged in shorte tyme 

 and wholly worne out of that trade, then shall the inhabitaunts 

 without resistaunce enioy all the fishinge in the Bay which is as 

 yeat an unknowne benefitt, as allso have the whole trade of all the 

 inland contries only in their owne hands. 



by this meanes her maiesties revenues and dominions may in 

 shorte tyme be greatly enlarged to her endless honor in all 

 posteryties which the lord of heaven graunte yf yt be his will. 



London, this 4th of October 1597. 

 by me Charles Leigh. 



APPENDIX E (pp. 53, 54 ante) 



{State Papers, Colonial. Vol. i. No. 9.) 

 Yt beinge a verrey noble action to inlarge a dominion, 

 wheath' yt be by open conquest, wheare resistance is made or 

 by plantinge vpon plases neclected thoroughe the barbarousnes 

 of the inhabitants or neyghbors the most vertuous minds are 

 easly taken w*^ falseste hopes ; . . . th'tore in this preposition of 

 plantinge an Englishe collonee in the no^'the weste of Amerrica : 

 ... the difficulties should be examined, . . . and as itt is to bee 



