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whence returning the fame year,heEmbarqu'd himfelf again,together With his Lady 

 and all his Family, except his eldeft Son, for jivalon the year following - at which 

 time (there being then War between England and France) he redeem'd above twenty 

 Sail of Englifh Ships, which had been taken there that year by French Men of War, 

 whereof one Monfieur De la %ade had the chief Command, and fliortly after took 

 fix French Fiftiing-Ships upon that Coaft, and fent them the fame year, with a great 

 many French-men Prifoners, into England. Coming thence, he left a Deputy there, 

 and continu'd the Plantation till his Death, which was in Jpril 1632. After whofc 

 Deceafe it defcended of right to his Son and Heir Cecily now Lord Baltemore ; who 

 thereupon fent one Captain William Hill as his Deputy thither, to take pofTeflion 

 thereof, and to manage his Intereft there for him. Captain Htll, according to his 

 Commiffion, fliortly after repair'd thither, and liv'd fome years at the Lord Bal- 

 timore's Houfe at Ferryland above mention'd. 



In the thirteenth Year of King Charles the Firft, of England Sec. about the Year 

 of our Lord 1638. Marquefs Hamilton, Earl of Pembroke, Sir David I\irk, and others, 

 under pretence that the Lord Baltemore had deferted that Plantation, obtain'd a 

 Patent of all New-found Land 1 , wherein Avalon was included, and fliortly after dif- 

 poflefs'd the Lord Baltemore of his Manfion Houfe in Ferryland, and other Rights 

 there, and during the late Rebellion in England kept pofTeflion 5 but His now Ma* 

 jefty King Charles the Second, immediately after his moft happy Reftauration in 

 th* Year 1660, upon the now Lord Baltimore's Petition, thought fit to refer the 

 whole Matter to be Examined by Sir Orlando Bridgeman, then Lord-Chicf-Juftice, 

 now Lord*Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and others, to report the true (late 

 thereof to His Majefty, together with their Opinions thereupon : The Referrees 

 accordingly, upon full hearing of Council on both fides, certified, That they con- 

 ceived the laid Patent to Sir George Calvert, to be a good Patent, in force, and not 

 avoided by the later to Sir David Kjrk and others j and that the Title and Intereft 

 to the faid Province did therefore belong to the Lord 'Baltemore. Whereupon His 

 Majefty, on the twentieth of March in the fame Year, Order'd thePofleflion thereof 

 to be re-deliver'd to hisLordfliip, which was accordingly executed : Since which 

 time his Lordfliip has peaceably enjoy 'd the pofTeflion thereof, and continues the 

 Plantation to this day, by deputing Lieutenants there from time to time, for the 

 better Government of that Province, the reft of Ke^ found Land remaining ftill to 

 the aforefaid Proprietors, claiming by the Patent of 13 Qar. 1. 



The Commodities that are either by Art or Nature prodne'd there, are the fame 

 withthofe of the remainder of New-found Land. The Winter there is extream cold, 

 the Summer very hot, but withal pleafant } and during that Seafon there is great 

 plenty of Pafture for Cattel. 



The Coaft of this Province is very fafe, and as well furnifli'd with variety of 

 bold and pleafant Harbors, as any other part of Ne^-found Land . where the Eng- 

 lif? likewife Fifli for Cod, the lefTer fort whereof is call'd Toorrfohn, which is there 

 caught in great abundance, efpecially at Ferryland, and in the Bay of Bulls. Bcfides 

 thefe two there are divers other excellent Harbors on the Eaftern Shore of Avalon, 

 as Capling Bay, Qape Broyle, Brittus, Ifle of Spears, Barrom CoVe, IVhit burns Bay, and Petit 

 Harbour above mention'd. On the Weft are the Bay of Placentia, and fcvcral other 

 good Harbors, 



There arc no Indians in Avalon, and but few Englifh y by reafon of the execflive 

 Cold in Winter, though Sir David Kjrk and his Lady, and alio his Family, liv'd in 

 the Lord Baltemore's Houfe at Ferrylafid for the fpace often years and upwards. 



The Soil feems to promife great ftore of Mines, which probably may in time be 



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