Richard Whitbourne
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Sir Richard Whitbourne was an English colonist, mariner and writer.
Whitbourne encounters a "strange creature" in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland
William Vaughan (writer)
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Sir William Vaughan was a Welsh writer in English and Latin. He promoted colonization in Newfoundland, but with mixed success.
Richard Whitbourne
…was therefor appointed by the High Court of the Admiralty to set up the first English court of justice in North America at Trinity in 1615. Asked by William Vaughan to govern his colony at Renews in Newfoundland, he did so from 1618 until 1620 when Vaughan abandoned the venture. Whitbourne was sent to establish law…
Title page from The Golden Fleece (1626).