J. W. DAMER POWELL UDGE PROWSE'S 'History of Newfoundland,' I896, p. I33, contains a reference to a manuscript in Lambeth Palace Library written by Guy, who sailed from Bristol in I6IO and founded first English colony in that island. This manuscript, which author did not discover until after his book was in print, is bound up in a miscellaneous volume of voyages (MS. 250) and consists of twelve folios, with a title page on which is written in a different hand, A Journall of voiadge of discoverie made in a barke builte in Newfoundland called Indeavour, begunne 7 of October I612 & ended 25th of November following. By of Bristow. It apparently has not been examined by any later writer, and a comparison with account published by Purchas I under heading Occurrents in Newfoundland, as of writ it in his own termes, leaves no doubt that Guy's MS. was source from which he derived his information. The signature John Guy occurs in narrative four times, and is identical with that on a document in Public Record Office signed by when Mayor of Bristol in 1619, so apparently manuscript is an original in his own handwriting. The period of Endeavour's voyage from time she sailed from Cupids Cove, site of colony, until November 5, except for one paragraph, was much abridged by Purchas, and included in matter left out is a list of Endeavour's crew, pioneers of English dominion in Newfoundland. Eight place-names, viz. Avon, Mounteagle Bay, The Elbow, Truce Sound, Savage, Alhallows, Flagstaff and Passage Harbours, failed to become established,as they are not found on any old or modern maps that writer has seen. They have been identified with more or less certainty by aid of Admiralty Chart No. 296 (Trinity and Conception Bays), on which other place-names mentioned, already in use before Guy's time, will be found. The portion from November 6 to 8, giving Guy's description of Indians, was copied by Purchas practically verbatim and is therefore omitted. It is impossible to say if explored any new ground. Some parts of Newfoundland coast had been visited annually, since Cabot's discovery of fisheries in I497, by numbers of English,' French, Portuguese, and Spanish fishermen, who arrived in spring and left in autumn. It is evident that east side of Trinity Bay was already known, as way overland to Conception Bay is mentioned. entered the sound (Bull Arm) in good hope that it would bring them to Bay of Placentia, and as in this part of voyage only place-names referred to are those given by himself, it is probable that he had no information about west side of Trinity Bay. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's annexation in 1583 had not been followed by permanent settlement, so there had been no incentive for explora-