| Summary: | Newfoundlander In 1594 a ban on shipping was lifted to allow 36 ships to leave for the island, 22 English vessels were observed fishing at Ferryland alone, and Sir Walter Raleigh estimated that, as over 100 ships had visited the fishery that year, their loss "would be the greatest blow every given to England." The following year it was reported from Plymouth that 50 Newfoundlanders had reached that port alone within a fortnight, and that some 2,000,000 fish were available. There was some justification, then, for Raleigh's statements to the Commons that the trade was "the stay of the West Countries." PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G. M. Story FEB 1971 JH FEB 1971 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used
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