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colony n 1 A seventeenth-century English settlement in Newfoundland
authorized by royal charter; PLANTATION.
[1611] 1895 PROWSE 99
[Guy's laws) No master of any ship to receive into his ship any person of the Colony,
that are already planted by virtue of His Majesty's gracious Patent without speciall
warrant under the handwriting of the Governor of the Colony or Colonies in the
Newfoundlande aforesaide. [1620] ibid 108 Grant of a Commission from George, Duke of
Buckingham, Lord Admiral to the Treasurer & Company of the Colony of Newfoundland.
1626 [VAUGHAN) The Golden Fleece [sig 3 C1] The Lord Baltimore
is likewise busie in supplying his Colony at Feriland. [1640] 1895 PROWSE 151
We doubt not but you shall find a sufficient quantity of provisions to maintain you, and
the Colony all the winter.
2 The de facto English
settlements in the eighteenth century; esp the Island of Newfoundland, including the
jurisdiction of Labrador, as formally recognized by the granting of representative
government in 1832; freq in phr the old(est) colony.
[1814]
1895 PROWSE 398 [Instructions to Sir Richard Keats] Directed his attention to the
propriety of authorising the cultivation of those lands of the colony which might be
applicable to that purpose. 1842 BONNYCASTLE i, 157 The year 1831 is remarkable from the
numerous petitions and memorials to the home government for constituting a permanent
colony, by the institution of a 'Local Legislature' for the island. These petitions were
vehemently opposed by the principal mercantile houses at home connected with the
fisheries; and after long and patient discussion, a 'Representative Assembly' was granted
in 1832, which placed Newfoundland on a par with the neighbouring provinces of Great
Britain. 1845 Journ of Assembly Appendix, p. 223 This colony can hardly be
supposed to raise such a sum as above for bounties, and ... it seems too much to expect
the Mother country will advance the amount. 1897 HARVEY 55 England's oldest Colony has
shared in this great boon of self-government; and, in common with the others, has
profited thereby. 1924 ENGLAND 56 Captain Westbury Kean had 119 men caught on ice by an
immense blind whiteness that raged for two days... Again the Colony was plunged in woe.
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