Did some know what contentment I found there, Alwayes enough, most times somewhat to spare. With little paines, lesse toyle, and lesser care, Exempt from tanings, ill newes, lawing, feare.... _To the first Planters of Newfound-land._ What ayme you at in your plantation? Sought you the honour of our nation? Or did you hope to raise your owne renowne? Or else to adde a kingdome to a crowne? Or Christ's true doctrine for to propagate? Or drawe salvages to a blessed state? Or our o're peopled kingdome to relieve? Or shew poore men where they may richly live? Or poore mens children godly to maintaine? Or aym'd you at your owne sweete private gaine? _To some discreet people who thinke anybody good enough for a plantation._ When you doe see an idle, lewd, young man, You say hee's fit for our plantation. Knowing your selfe to be riche, sober, wise You set your owne worth at an higher price. I say, such men as you are, were more fit, And most convenient for first peopling it: Such men as you would quickly profit here: Lewd, lazy lubbers, want wit, grace, and care. _To the famous, wise and learned sisters, the two Universities of England, Oxford and Cambridge._ Send forth your sons unto our new plantation; Yet send such as are holy, wise, and able. The same writer submitted to Charles I. a remarkable "proposition of profitt and honour," in which he unsuccessfully called for the King's help and patronage in regard to the colonization of the island.[27] In 1637 the Commissioners of Foreign Plantations, who had been appointed three years before, resolved that the old colonial grants had lapsed, and transferred them to new patentees, prescribing, under the new fishing rules made by the Star Chamber (1634), one system and area of control for settlers, and another for fishermen, and restricting their respective activities. The first Governor under this regime was Sir David Kirke, who established himself at Ferryland (1638) with a number of settlers variously estimated at from thirty to one hundred persons. His charter was a liberal one, embracing the whole island, and was the reward of his gallantry in the capture of Quebec. He introduced the practice of levying rent, imposing licence fees, and exacting an excise of 5 per 120 fish on alien fishermen. The convulsions of the Civil War were felt even in Newfoundland, and Kirke paid for his Royalism by the loss, under the Commonwealth, of his noble possession (1651).