Cambriol
Cambriol or New Cambriol was the name given to one of
This is our Colchos, where the Golden Fleece flourisheth on the backes of Neptunes sheepe, continually to be shorne. This is Great Britaines Indies, never to be exhausted dry.
History
Sir William Vaughan, a
New Cambriol's planter, sprung from
John Guy[4]
Vaughan had sent a number of settlers in 1617 with every good intention of making the maiden voyage himself and settling in his new colony with them. Because of ill health, Vaughan was not able to do so. Then in 1618 he requested Sir
I sayled thither in a shippe of my own which was victualled by that gentleman myself and some others. We likewise did set forth another shippe for a fishing voyage which also carried some victuals for those people which had been formerly sent to inhabit there, but this ship was intercepted by an English erring captaine (a pirate) that went forth with Sir Walter Rawleigh.....whereby the fishing voyage of both our shippes was overthrown and the Plantation hindered.
— Letter to Sir William Vaughan, 1618 by Sir Richard Withbourne.[5]
Upon arrival at Cambriol, Whitbourne was not pleased with the progress of the original settlers and sent all but six back to Wales citing a complete lack of pioneering initiative and thorough laziness.[4] Withbourne was harsh and vitriolic in his description of the work the settlers had done in the year since they first arrived as can be seen in his correspondence to Vaughan:
For certainly I have already seen and known by experience that the desired plantation can never be made beneficial by such idle fellows as I found there in 1618 when I was there with the power by virtue of a graunte from the Patentees, which people had remained there a whole yeere before I came theare or knew any or them and never applied themselves to any commendable thing, or not so much as to make themselves a house to lodge in, but lay in such cold and simple rooms all the winter as the fisherman had formerly built there for their necessary occasions the yeere before those men arrived there.
— Letter to Sir William Vaughan, 1618 by Sir Richard Withbourne.[6]
With the loss of population, Vaughan was obligated to hand over the northern part of his colony (Fermeuse area) to Lord Falkland and to Lord Baltimore the area around Ferryland.[1]
Vaughan at New Cambriol
Vaughan did eventually arrive at his colony in 1622
Vaughan had returned to his native Wales in 1630 to settle his financial affairs and at the same time to convince his brother-in-law Sir
Dissolution of colony
No other information is available to determine if Vaughan had returned to his colony New Cambriol after 1630, but his efforts to entice further colonization did not cease. In 1630 he published a medical handbook entitled Newlander's Cure,[4] whereby it contained advice for colonists on the preservation of health.
All efforts to increase colonization had failed and sometime between 1630 and 1637 the colony was abandoned. At that time Vaughan was nearly sixty years old and he had given up any further attempts of colonization. In 1637 the
Then in 1637 Sir
References
- ^ a b c d "William Vaughan and New Cambriol". Memorial University of Newfoundland and the C.R.B. Foundation. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. 2007 [1997]. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ "The Golden Fleece". Duleepa Wijayawardhana and Dr. Hans Rollmann. Memorial University of Newfoundland. c. 2000. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ "Sir William Vaughan". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval. c. 2000. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Poor Cambriol's Lord". Carmarthenshire Historian. carmarthenshirehistorian.org. 1961. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- (1834 – 1914), published in London by Macmillan and Co., 1895
- (1834 – 1914), published in London by Macmillan and Co., 1895