America and West Indies: October 1639 | British History Online

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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1860.

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October 1639



Oct. 2. Ferryland.	40. Sir David Kirke to Archbishop Laud. Acknowledges his good wishes for their prosperity in that country, after the King, by patent, had granted it "to us." Out of 100 persons they took over, only one died of sickness. The temperature and general state of the country is described at large in the relations transmitted to the Company [see ante, No. 38]. The air of Newfoundland agrees perfectly well with all God's creatures except Jesuits and schismatics. "A great mortality amongst the former tribe so affrighted my Lord of Baltimore that he utterly deserted the country." Of the other sect, many frenzies are heard from their next neighbouring plantation, "the greatest His Majty hath in America." Their chiefest safety is a strict observance of the rites and service of the Church of England. Doubts not but the country will be numerously peopled in a short time. Endorsed by Laud, "Rec. Jan. 1640."