6o 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) Vaug- The second fragment of the original block fell to the lot of 



han*s stib- ^ Welsh bard : and it too chipped itself into smaller fras^ments. 

 colony nem- ' ^^ ^ 



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



^'h^^'^^^ poems and poetic prose, bought the land which lay south of 

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

 1616; j^j^ ^j^^ i6i8. 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.^ He was one of the 

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

 doubtless the events of 161 5 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 ' Ts '), 

 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 Cary Lord Falkland, who came from an 

 ^cdmy 'near °^^ Devonian stock, and, like Sir H. Gilbert, Sir J. Popham, 

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

 ^ ^3 • interest in the internal colonization of Ireland, bought a strip 



lying between a headland south of Renewse and a headland 

 1 State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, vol. iv, Nov. 10, 1626. 



