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A15072	A discourse containing a louing inuitation both honourable, and profitable to all such as shall be aduenturers, either in person, or purse, for the aduancement of his Maiesties most hopeful plantation in the Nevv-found-land, lately vndertaken. Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of Exmouth, in the county of Deuon; Discourse containing a loving invitation for the advancement of his Majesties most hopefull plantation in the New-found-land	Whitbourne, Richard, Sir, fl. 1579-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 25375; ESTC S119923	29,118	56

beast from one side of the harbour to the other vpon any occasion which is a greater commodity for that purpose then any other harbour in that land which I know that hath the like And from thence to the harbours mouth a peece of Ordnance will shoote a Bullet leuell and so the like aboue to euery place where men vse to salt and dry fish so that if a sortification be made in that Iland where the fresh Riuers are so pleasant it will not only offend any enemie from comming into that harbour but also defend such Ships and men which come yeerely there a fishing or to trade And if any enemies should at any time come thither by land from any other place to pretend hurt to any man there he cannot be at any place on either side of the said harbour where men vse to labour about their fish but that a peece of Ordnance being placed on that Iland will shoote a Bullet to any such so that by such a fortification euery man which comes there may in more security reape the benefit of their labours then some men haue done in that Countrey in former times And then there may fitly be some shelters builded whereby to succour such Beasts as are carried thither at the first so as no deuouring beast of that Countrey may spoile them by night and in the day time they may feede in the pleasant valleys and vpon the hils euen close by the said Iland on both sides of the said harbour where a peece of Ordnance will shoote a Bullet vnto them if there be cause There vsually come euery yeere in the fishing trade vnto the harbours of Formosa and Renowze aboue eight hundred English men which men may to assist one another vpon any occasion come together in lesse time then two houres warning either by Sea or Land And there is yeerely all the Summer time great fishing neere vnto both the said harbours mouthes where men may when they thinke good stand vpon the land and call vnto the Fishermen to come into the said harbors vnto them which is also such a good commoditie for securitie as few harbours in that land haue the like In both which harbours there is store of Lobsters Crabbes Muscles and other Shell-fish And aboue the foresaid Iland it is the most commodious place for Geese Ducks and other Water-fowle winter and summer as there is not the like in any other harbour on the East side of that Land to the Southward of the Bay of Conception whereof those men which I left there all the winter season in Anno 1618. made good proofe and so likewise the winter before that time and sithence THus hauing expressed a part of the commodiousnesse of the Land and Sea neere vnto the harbours of Formosa and Renowze I will also relate a part of the commodiousnesse and great hope of good which may come vnto such as will be Aduenturers with your Lordship in your other circuit of Lands in that Countrey now called by the name of Trinity Land which beginneth at the middle way of the entrance into the Bay of Trinity in 48. degrees and two terces of Northerly latitude and from thence towards the West vnto the inmost part of the said Trinity Bay and from the inmost part of Trinity Bay vnto the bounds of the Sea on the West side of that Land And from the foresaid latitude at the entrance into the said Trinity Bay directly from thence towards the North so farre as the Northmost part of a certaine small Iland lying neere the latitude of 51. degrees called by the name of Penguin Iland And from thence to the Westermost part of the New-found-land in that latitude And from that latitude on the West side of the sayd Trinity Land so farre to the South as the foresaid West line which commeth from the inmost part of the foresaide Trinity Bay And all the Lands Harbours Bayes Roades Ilands and whatsoeuer which is inclusiuely within the said circuit The Cape Bona vista is the head land on the North side of the entrance into Trinity Bay and there is a reasonable good harbour where Ships doe yeerely vse to fish called the harbour of Bona vista and diuers small Ilands are neere thereunto where yeerely breed great aboundance of diuers sorts of Sea-fowles of which birds and their egges men may take so many of them as they list and from the harbour of Bona vista vnto a little harbour called S. Catalina on the North side of Trinity Bay where fisher Boates doe often harbour vpon some occasions it is neere sixe leagues West South-west in towards the said Bay And from thence vnto a Roade for Ships called English Harbour towards the North-west it is two leagues where some yeeres 6. or 7. saile of good Ships haue made their fishing voyages And from thence to the North-west halfe a league lieth a harbour called Salmon Coue wheresome yeeres 10. saile of good Ships haue made their voyages And from thence to the West a league lieth a good Roade called Robin Hoods Bay where some yeeres 6. good Ships haue made their voyages From thence vnto the West halfe a league lye the best harbours in that Land called by the name of Trinity Harbour where some yeeres aboue 20. saile of good Ships haue made their fishing voyages And from Trinity harbour towards the West two leagues lieth the harbour of Bonauenter where some yeeres 5. or 6. good Ships make their voyages And from thence to the West neere two leagues lyeth a Riuer or Inlet nauigable fit for any ship to saile in stretching towards the North which I may well call the Riuer of Bonauenter because it is supposed to runne into the Bay of Flowers which lyeth on the North side of Trinity harbour At the entrance of of which Riuer some yeeres diuers Ships hau● rid there at anchor to make their voyages And from thence West 4. leagues lieth a harbour called Hartsease where diuers good Ships haue made their voyages And betweene the foresaid Riuer of Bonauenter and the said harbour of Hartsease there is a very good harbour stretching towards the North aboue 6. leagues called Hayleford Hauen where Ships doe not vse to fish by reason there are no conuenient places to dry their fish on neere the entrance into the said harbour And aboue the said harbour of Hartsease to the Westermost part of Trinitie Bay it is no lesse then twelue leagues And there is also good fishing farre into the Bay within the said harbour of Hartsease as by good proofe hath beene often made Betweene the said harbour of Hartsease and the foresaid English harbour there are many delightfull and fruitfull Ilands none of them aboue a mile from the Land And the Bay of Trinitie is in breadth at the neerest place which is right ouer against the harbour of Hartsease aboue 5. leagues And those that fish on the South side of the said Bay doe yeerely send their Boates to

neere in forty sixe degrees and a halfe of Northerly latitude beginning on the East side of that Iland at a certaine Harbour called Renowze And from thence West vnto a certaine Bay in that Iland called by the name of Pleasaunce And from the foresaid harbour of Renowze towards the North so farre as halfe the way betweene another certaine Harbour there called Agafort and another Harbour called Formosa And from thence towards the West so far as the foresaid Bay of Pleasaunce And so from the said West line towards the South vnto the abouesaid West line which commeth there from the aforesaid Harbour of Renowze And all that which is inclusiuely within the said Circuit From the said Harbour of Renowze vnto the middle way betweene the said Agafort and Formosa it is in breadth South and North aboue 6. English miles And in length no lesse then 50. East and West Formosa is a Harbour fit for any Ship of what burthen soeuer there to ride well at Anchor and stretcheth towards the West from the entrance thereof neere foure miles into which Harbour there yeerely comes aboue 20. saile of English Ships which haue commodious places to salt and dry fish on and also diuers Portugall Ships It is a Harbour that with small charge may be well defended so as no Pirats might come in there but by leaue The Land on the North side of the said Harbour neere a mile in length by the Harbours side is fit for drying of fish and other purposes the rest of the North side of the said Harbour to the innermost part thereof by the Harbours side is something rocky where grow store of Firre and Spruise trees and other fruits There are diuers commodious places on the South side of the said Harbour for salting and drying of fish and building of houses and many more such conuenient places may very fitly be made there when people begin to inhabite that place For the fertility of the soyle in diuers places betwene Formosa and Renowze I thinke it to be so good as any other Land in all that Countrey not onely for the pleasantnesse ef the Climate it lyes in but also for the goodnesse commodious and leuell lying of many hundred acres in large valleyes of good deepe earth open and cleane without rocks and trees which questionlesse is fit for Wheat Rye Barley and other graine As also for Flax Hempe Woad Tobacco and many other purposes How the goodnesse of that Circuit is towards the West from the innermost parts of these two harbours I cannot directly write of more then fiue miles The which Land further into the Countrey as I did often obserue it standing on the hils it seemed to me so far as I could descry to be very pleasant and promise well There are large ponds and a faire broad and long riuer of deepe fresh waters vpon the hils betweene the said two harbours wherein are store of good Trowts taken some times And the Firre and Spruise trees growing round about the said Ponds and Riuer fresh and greene Winter and Summer with such flagrant shewes as no trees in such a Clymate can make a more delightfull sight of greennesse then those doe there wheron the Thrush Thrussels Nightingales and other birds doe often sit and sing so pleasantly as if they were neuer pincht with cold or want of food as such birds are in England diuers winters Betweene the harbours of Formosa and Renowze it is three English miles where wayes may be commodiously and easily made both for man and beast to trauell from one of the said harbours to the other And in my opinion which I submit to better censures the fittest place within that Circuit first to settle a Colony is neere vnto the harbour of Renowze which lyeth fiue degrees more towards the South then the City of London which is is no lesse then 280. English miles It is a very pleasant place for that purpose hauing seuerall large valleyes which are more then three hundred acres of good open land deepe earth cleane without rockes and trees lying vnder the hils on the Northside of them very commodiously which are fit to bee imployed with little labour for corne meddowes pasture or whatsoeuer And there are seuerall brookes of fresh water which fall into the said harbour where comes yeerely great store of good Salmons Salmon-peales Trowts and other fish of which kinds there are taken great store Looke into the woods and open lands neere vnto Renowze there comes often great store of Deere and other beasts which are fit for profit and delight As also in and neere thereunto infinite numbers of land-fowle and sea-fowle and in Summer time there are abundance of fruites as there are not better of such kinds else-where As also herbes and pleasant flowers which grow there naturally very plentifully And diuers Fishermen haue carried thither seeds and sowed them in conuenient places whereby they haue often had good Cabbage Lettice Beetes Carrets and such like very faire and good and for Turneps I neuer saw better then there both for greatnesse rellish and goodnesse I esteeme them to be equall with any Potato roots which are growing else-where There is also store of Spruise Firre Pine and Birch trees fit for many seruiceable purposes And many long rushes which are fit to couer houses withall as the reed of wheat or rye wherewith diuers mens houses of good ability are couered And I am also of opinion vpon some proofe which I made that there are lime stones which is a speciall necessary to begin a Plantation withall There come yeerely to that harbour of Renowze aboue twenty saile of English Ships to fish besides other Nations and there are commodious places for them all to salt and dry fish on and much better in time may those places bee made for that purpose And there come also into those two harbours Ships and Barkes yeerely from England and other places to load fish and traine oyle from the Fishermen In which Ships great store of people and prouisions as also beasts may be cheaply carryed thither There is a small Iland of stones and Beach at the innermost part of the harbour of Renowze whereon a ship of sixty tunne burden may well labour to make his fishing voyage on which is neere the circuit of two acres of ground and it doth ebbe and flow in and out by both sides of the said Iland sixe foot of water vpright euery tide and that tide runnes halfe a mile aboue the said Iland where it is very deepe water and of a good breadth diuers Ships doe yeerely salt and dry their fish aboue the said Iland on both sides of that Riuer although there is not water for any Boate to passe in or out by the said Iland at euery low water for the space of more then an houre And there may be commodiously a Bridge made on either side in lesse then halfe a day fit to passe at al times both for man

the North side for baite to take their fish withall because such baite is there in great aboundance And on those foresayd Ilands there yeerely breed innumerable store of Geese Ducks Gulls and other Sea-fowle to which places the natiues of the Countrey doe often come from the North and fetch those Fowles and their egges as they haue beene often seene so to doe There haue diuers yeeres been aboue sixty saile of good Ships fishing in the foresaid Trinity harbour and those foresaid Bayes Roades and harbours and they haue all made as great thriuing voyages there as any other Ships haue made at any other place in that Countrey all that North side of Trinity Bay lyeth pleasantly against the South being neere in the latitude of 49. degrees by which it may be well conceiued the Climate of it selfe should be very pleasant considering that the City of London is more then three degrees to the North then that place which is no lesse then 180. English miles and there is all such fruits in great abundance as are formerly recited in my discouery of that Countrey and all such sorts of fish of what kind soeuer so plentifull as in any other part to the Southward on that Coast and the Firre Spruise Pine and Birch trees are there much greater and longer and the Countrey fuller of woods then it is to the Southward and if some people doe once begin to inhabite there questionlesse there is great hope in doing much good not onely in fishing and manuring of land but also in sawing of boords and squaring of Timber fit to be transported from thence into other Countries as also for making of Iron Salt Sope Pitch and Tarre whereby good profit may be gotten considering what commodities in all Europe do more decay then wood whereof there is no likelihood in the opinion of man euer to be any want thereof in that Countrey So that it may be well conceiued it is a good neighbor Countrey to lay hold on seeing it may be possessed so fitly Thus according to my certaine knowledge I haue partly shewed how your seuerall Circuits lye in that Countrey and partly the great hope whereby it may incourage diuers worthy men to become suiters vnto your Honour to bee Aduenturers to further the same when they shall also bee made acquainted with such bountifull conditions as you will bee pleased to grant vnto euery such Aduenturer Which conditions are as it hath pleased your Lordship something to acquaint me withall That any who will aduenture 100. pounds to settle a Colony neere vnto the foresaid harbour of Renowze and towards the setting forth of such shipping thither yeerely in the fishing trade as it may please you and such as shall aduenture therein to thinke good wherby to aduance the said Plantation and also to defray the charge in setting forth such shipping with good profit So that such shipping so imployed shall carry people yeerely and prouisions for all such as shall continue there and such beasts and all other necessaries as may be thought fit and not to hire any other Ship for that purpose onely And that any Aduenturer shall not onely haue his equall part proportionably of the benefit which may bee yeerly gotten there by the fishing but also such part of the benefit as may be gotten by the labours and industry of those which shall yeerely bee sent to remaine there as seruants to you and the Aduenturers who are to prouide for them And also any such shall likewise haue which aduentures 100. pounds to be imployed as aforesaid the one halfe part and preogatiue of one of the foresaid Harbours Bay or Road on the Northside of Trinity Bay and the circuit of two thousand acres of such land and woods as is next adioyning thereunto in fee for euer to be holden of your Lordship by the rent of a penny by the yeere for euery such hundred acres of land and woods which is twenty pence by the yeere for two thousand acres And also he shall haue in fee for euer to him and his assignes a conuenient place to build a Stage and necessary roomes to salt fish on and to build a dwelling house and other conuenient houses neere vnto the harbours of Formosa and Renowze with a sufficient circuit of ground to dry fish on and for some other purposes fit for a Ship of fouresore Tun burthen So that any such vndertaker doe within a fit time limited settle and maintaine there to inhabite eight persons at least and so many more as he shall think good and take the benefit of their labours to his owne particular account which may bee worth yeerly a great profit to any such Aduenturer and to pay for the same as a rent by the yere 10 s And for default of not continuing there yeerely after a fit time limited eight persons or for non payment of the foresaid rents of ten shillings by the yeere and the abouesaid rent of twenty pence by the yeere then any such vndertaker shall forfeit his right title and interest in all such land and woods and likewise in the said place for salting and drying of fish but not the benefit of such a summe as he shall so aduenture And if any such aduenturer or any of his seruants or assignes shall at any time finde within your said lands there any mines of gold siluer or what metall soeuer hee shall yeeld vnto your Lordship or assignes an indifferent part thereof And whosoeuer will aduenture 200. pounds may not onely haue a whole Harbour Bay or Road to himselfe in fee for euer and foure thousand acres of land and woods thereunto adioyning on the North side of Trinity Bay but also a conuenient place and ground to build Stages and houses and for drying of fish fit for a Ships fishing voyage of 160. tunne burthen neere vnto the harbors of Formosa and Renowze so that any such Vndertaker or his assignes doe within such a conuenient time as shall bee set downe in his grant maintaine there sixteene persons as his seruants or tenants and to pay double so much rent by the yeere as whosoeuer aduentures but 100. pounds as aforesaid And likewise he shall receiue double so much of the benefit and good which may come by the aduenture of any such summe in setting forth of such shipping as are to be imployed as aforesaid and also the like by the labours of those which shall be imployed in the intended Plantation And whosoeuer shall aduenture lesse then 100. li. be it 80. li. 60. li. 50. li. 30. li. or 20. li. shall haue lesse proportionably in euery respect what hee shall haue that aduentures 100. pounds And whosoeuer shall aduenture 200. pounds or a greater sum or but 100. pounds or a lesse summe should disburse the one moity or halfe part thereof this first yeere whereby to make prouisions for the fishing voyage and shipping to bee in perfect readinesse in fit time And any man which shall thus