60 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



the original treasurer of the Company of 1610 was regarded 

 as ' the Governor of the whole land ', ex officio, but, so far 

 as is known, Slaney was never further west of London than 

 Shropshire. 



(2) Vang- The second fragment of the original block fell to the lot of 



hanssub- a \y e i sn hard: audit too chipped itself into smaller fragments. 

 colony near ' L r 



Trepasscy, In 1616 Sir W. Vaughan, a Welshman who wrote prosaic 

 CTY., wider p Oems anc ] poetic prose, bought the land which lay south of 

 bourne, the latitude of Petty Harbour, and dispatched colonists in 

 1617 and 1618. The second batch was taken out by Sir 

 R. Whitbourne, who became Governor of Vaughan' s colony, 

 wrote A Discourse of Newfoundland (1620) in praise of 

 colonization, and prided himself (1626) on having made 

 three colonizing expeditions thither. 1 He was one of the 

 very few fishers who crossed over to the settlers' party, and 

 doubtless the events of 1615 had something to do with his 

 conversion. Mason's map placed Vaughan's head-quarters at 

 Trepassey (which he called Cambrioll Colchos), a cove south 

 of Renewse (which he called Vaughan's Cove), and a spot 

 between Renewse and Aquafort (which he called Golden 

 Grove), all of which are in the south-east corner of the south- 

 east peninsula of ' Britannioll ' (with two ' n's ' and two ' 1's '), 

 as he called Newfoundland. Whitbourne resided little, if at 

 all, in his government ; and Hayman says that Vaughan was 

 intending to visit his province for the first time in 1630, 

 a previously intended visit having been apparently prevented 

 by illness. Vaughan's colony soon shrank into its shell near 

 Trepassey, or merged itself in the sub-colonies of South 

 Falkland and Avalon, which were carved out of it. 



(3) Falk- Thirdly, Henry Gary Lord Falkland, who came from an 

 *ynar old Devoni an stock, and, like Sir H. Gilbert, Sir J. Popham, 

 Renewse, Sir F. Bacon, and other famous colonizers, took a practical 



interest in the internal colonization of Ireland, bought a strip 



lying between a headland south of Renewse and a headland 



1 State J'apers, Colonial Series. 1574-1660, \ol. iv, Nov. 10, 1626. 



