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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

bee sent for Sir Francis Drake Sir Martin Furbisher Sir Henry Middleton and Sir Thomas Button As soone as they were come into his Maiesties presence he related vnto them that vpon a Petition exhibited vnto him by many poore Widowes of the City of London and of other Cities Towns in Great Britaine how their Husbands perished in their voyages to the East Indies by the distemperature of the climate in passing so often vnder the Tropickes and the burning Zones they therfore desired eyther that he should dissolue the East Indie Company or finde out a more conuenient passage to these Countries where the Spices grew which their Country men wanted Otherwise they must of necessity continue still vnmaried or liue in daily feares to lose their succeeding Husbands who for their reliefe would hazard their liues as the others had formerly done For such was their ineuitable Fate they said that none would aduenture on Sailers Widowes but men of the same vocation Vpon which clamors of these distressed Creatures his Maiestie being moued to pitty and commiseration required them to yeeld their seuerall censures by what passage the English Nation might traffique into those Lands of Spiceries with lesse perils and losses of Sailers Sir Francis Drake first deliuered his opinion that the moderne Cosmographers agreed vpon foure waies to the East Indies Two imaginary by the Northeast which Pliny mentioned Sir Hugh Willowby attempted and the Hollanders prosecuted vpon the North of Muscouy to Noua Zembla Waygate and the Ri●er Ob but all in vaine and by the North-west which Sir Martin Furbisher first entred into and Sir Thomas Button sithence pursued but without fortunate successe The other two waies to ●aile into the Lands and Ilands of Spices were famous which himselfe had past The one through the Streights of Magellan the other by the Cape of good Hope Of these he liked those of Magellan and now the rather for that Tierra del fuego which is the South part of those Streights is lately found out by certaine Hollanders to be an Iland And that himselfe had beene driuen by foule weather as farre as 57. degrees of Southerly latitude where he found some Ilands and in all likelihood an open passage about the 60. degree which the Hollanders tried to be true now stiling the same Lameers Streights This way hee approued lesse dangerous then the other specially to the Molucca Ilands so that they would begin their voyage about the end of August from England that they might arriue there by the end of December which falls out to be the first of Iune or end of May in these Streights Sir Maurice Abbot contradicted Sir Francis Drake and said that the greatest comfort in such long voyages was to be sure of fresh victuals which they could not bee assured of by those Southwest Streights To this Sir Francis Drake answered that for Wood Water Fish and Fowle they might haue enough on this side and neere the Streights that they might be relieued in distresse at the Riuer of Amazous by their Countrymen where Captaine North Captaine Parker and Captaine Christmas had planted whereof the two last liued there of late foure years in despite of the Spaniards whom they wearied out of the Country with the helpe of the Natiues for all that they came with 1500. men to surprize them Being past the Streights they might haue fresh victuals in abundance at the Iland of Mocha in the height of 38. degree which is subiect to the States of Arauco deadly enemies to the Spamards and but fiue or sixe leagues from that Centinent Or else they may get some with ease at the Iland of Saint Maries twenty or thirty leagues further If the Trade be to the Moluccaes they may spare two moneths voyage this way and also they shall meet with Salomons Iles and many rich places vpon the Coast of New Guinea which affoord plenty of victuals Gold Pearles and Spice Sir Henry Middleton much misliked this Southwest way because of the vncertainty of prouision and the solitarinesse of the voyage whereas hee was sure all the way by the Cape of good Hope at Sancta Helena Soldana at the Iland of Madagascar to be stored with necessaries vntill he came to his iourneyes end Further hee said as also the East India Company confirmed the very same to be true that they had small doings now to the Moluccaes For their Trade lay about laua maior where they had a Factory at Bantam and to Serrat in Cambaia to Sumatra and the Persian Gulfe After some altercation betwixt these last afore-specified Apollo commanded Sir Martin Furbisher to declare his opinion touching the Northwest passage which hee accordingly did prouing that the most part of Meta incognita where hee had beene seemed by all probability to bee broken lands and Ilands and that if he had had sufficient store of prouision hee would haue aduentured through in despite of the mountaines of Ice which threatned to immure him in And that hee much maruelled at their slownesse of late which finding the passage cleere and open in a farre more temperate climate then where he had beene did notwithstanding misse to finde it out Sir Thomas Button much incensed to bee taxed for slownesse who had busied himselfe all the daies of his life in warrelike actions hauing beene at the sacking of Cales and imployed in Ireland against the Spaniards in Hispaniola at the voyage of Algiere and many other Sea voyages for answere said That if Sir Martin Furbisher had wintred in the 58. degree in America which experience taught to be as the 63. degree of Europes coldnes hee would not haue beene so briefe to impute slownesse vnto him As for the Passage hee verily beleeued as Sir Martin did it lay open And that hee would haue done his endeuour to haue sailed through For in Hudsons Bay hee saw two very likely passages towards the Northwest to enter in but that hee was otherwise authorized and commanded to goe on Southwestwards to the bottome of Hudsons Bay so that hee durst not but follow the tenor of his Commission Yet notwithstanding he hoped that he had not spent his time in vaine during his voyage in those angry climates For first he discouered that those Seas could not bee sailed through but in Iune Iuly and August being alwaies subiect to foggs ice stormes and sudden windes The sunne seldome seene so that the best Nauigator can hardly obserue the certaine height thereof Onely his chiefest comfort during his abode there was that the dayes were very long with very short nights though otherwise the want of cleernesse to obserue either sunne or starre were able vtterly to ouerthrow the whole voyage Further he noted that Trumpets might not be spared but most necessary to be had of such as passe in those Seas For if two ships went together they would quickly lose one another by reason of the thicke mist though they went so neere as they might hallow one to the other

hee care for the Church of God Thus in admonishing the Clergie to satisfie themselues with one wife the Apostle leaues the Temporall to their choise who accounted it in those times one of their chiefest felicities to haue many children And therefore in regard of their Custome of their hot Climate being farre more vnfit for procreation of children then the cold Countries as also for that their wiues were busied in giuing sucke themselues two or three yeeres vnto their little Ones Saint Paul meddles onely with the Clergy-mens marriage which laudable custome none contradicted vntill the Manichees and Ebienites first beganne to taxe them for Marriage So we reade that Saint Gregory Bishop of Nazianzen had a Sonne called Gregorie who succeeded him in his Bishopricke Saint Ierome a Bishop of Africke had a Daughter called Leonti● who was martyred by the Arrians Saint Athanasius writing to Dragontius saith that he knew many Bishops vnmarried and Monkes married as also hee saw Bishops married and many Monkes singlemen The sixt generall Councell kept at Trulla did much detest this Antichristian Policie against Priests Marriage and therefore made this Constitution For as much as we are informed that a Canon hath beene lately enacted by the Romane Church that no Priest or Deacon shall haue to doe with a Wife Wee following the Apostles Orders and Discipline doe order that the lawfull Marriage of Priests be for euer vsefull and auaileable And a little after they yeeld the reason why they did it lest say they we bee compelled to dishonour Marriage which was first instituted by God and sanctified by his presence What greater euidence will my friend Becket expect then these Primitiue Lights If these will not satisfie his curious Iudgement but that he yet relies on the Decree of the Romish Church let him belieue the Deuill himselfe out of the heard of Swine confessing the Truth of my allegations euen your famous Canonist Cardinall Panormitane continencie saith hee in clericis Secularibus in Secular Clergy-men is not of the substance of their Order nor of the Law diuine because otherwise the Greeke Church should sinne nor could their custome excuse them It followes and I doe not onely belieue that the Church hath power to make such a Law but I likewise belieue that such a Statute were expedient for the health of their Soules that all that were willing might marrie seeing that Experience teacheth how a contrary effect ensues out of that Law of Continencie seeing they liue not spiritually nor are they cleane but defiled with vnlawfull copulation to their most grieuous sinning whereas they might liue chastly with their owne wiues If this mans authoritie who was one of your principall Darlings seemes but a Conceit in your Saint-like vnderstanding yet me thinkes my Lord the Pope vpon your discreet motion might mitigate his rigour and tolerate with vs to marrie as well as hee tolerates the Iewes and Stewes at Rome What stirres and tumults haue lately ensued vpon this Edict in the Church of Saint Dauid in Wales our friend Giraldus Cambrensis who is our Coaetaneus with many honest Clergy-men can assure you For when you sent this Canon vnder colour of your Metropolitane Visitation that whole Diocesse withstood not onely this Canon but also your owne Prerogatiue pretended from the Romish Church clayming themselues as heeretofore for the keeping of their Easter to liue according to the Rites of the Greeke Church at Constantinople to which place as the Seat of the Romane Empire appointed by Constantine they appealed for the deciding of all doubts Insomuch that our King Henry the Second was faine to intreate for aide from the Lord Rice Prince of South Wales to bring in your Visitation of Canterbury If these cloudes of witnesses serue not to confirme the truth of my Poeme which you terme a Libell let vs then bee dispenced withall to keepe prettie Wenches in corners and these to be dignified with the old Titles The Lords Concubine the Priests Leman and the Kna●es Whore Apollo reuerseth the Popes Canon made against the Marriage of the Clergie and to that purpose sends out a Proclamation APollo well noting the speeches of Walter de Mapes and the great inconuenience which the Prohibition of Marriage to the Clergie had wrought in the Christian Church with the Consent of al his Parliament assembled at Parnassus reuersed that Canon whereof Saint Paul had prophesied that it was the doctrine of deuils to forbid Marriage and withall caused this Proclamation to bee fixed in all places subiect to his populous Iurisdiction Of late there rose a Sect of Caiphas kind Which great renowme with Pen tongue assign'd To Wedlock-bands and with a large extent Confirm'd the same to be a Sacrament Yet ne'rethelesse by quirks and tricks they push As if they found a knot within a rush Forbidding it to all the Clergy-men A doctrine sure come from the Deuils de● But what 's the fruit Their bodies Lust inflames That they doe burne as scorcht in Aetnaes flames Enamoured they wish for cruell death To end their watchfull cares and wearied breath Their mind runnes all on Loue. Loue moues the braine To muse vpon sweet Beauty dy'd in graine This is the vpshot of their rash made vowes Vnlesse the Baudy-house which Rome allowes Like to a lakes doe ease their pampred reines Or like a Horse-leach suck their puft vp veines Returne then Marriage to thy free estate Repent yee Shauelings ere it be too late Vse lawfull meanes and leaue of stolne pleasure Account of Marriage as the Churches treasure Christs easie yoke yee need not stand in awe Dissolues old vowes and for Dianaes Law Christs easie yoke yeelds Priests a freer life That one man be the Husband of one wife CHAP. IX Apollo vpon Information giuen him by the Greek Church of Images erected by the Pope in the Westerne Churches and of Inuocations on Saints confuteth these Idolatrous Traditions both by the Testimony of the Scripture and by the Positions of the Primitiue Church THe Greeke Church seeing that by no perswasions the Pope would condiscend to abolish Idols grauen Images out of the Romane Church but that still he suffered euen in the chiefe Temples at Rome the Pictures of the Virgin Mary and of many other Saints to bee worshiped and called vpon with Prayers and Oblations they resorted to Parnassus on Good Friday last shewing to Apollo that the Popes not satisfied by their cunning practises and treasons to defeat them of the Primacie belonging to Constantinople as to the Head Citie of New Rome but likewise they set vp Charles of France about the yeere 801. to inuest himselfe in the Empire of the West and so by their Confederacie to compel all Christendome to wander after the strange Beast of the seuen hilled Citie which now grew to such a height that his voice stood peremptory as a Law Idolatry he accounted the Mother of Deuotion The Romish Church were summoned to answere these Accusations who made

choice of Thomas Aquinas the famous Schooleman for their Aduocate and him they sent to patronize their Cause before his Maiestie vpon the first of Aprill last according to the ancient stile 1626. this Doctor appeared in the Delphick Hall before Apollo and said that he came thither on the behalfe of the Latine Church to maintaine the lawfulnesse of Images in their Church Apollo bad him proceed and shew what hee could in their Defence Aquinas then began in this manner Most sacred Prince farre be it from vs to adore any grauen Images Wee that are learned know it is damnable But when your Maiestie shall vnderstand the reasons why wee tolerate them in our Churches we shall not be found much in fault For herein wee follow the counsell of the famous Gregory the Great Bishop of Rome This learned Father hearing that Serenus his fellow Bishop had defaced and broken all the Images in his Church he commended his Zeale therein But afterwards wished him to permit them in Churches to the intent that the vnlettered might bee edified by their view on the wals seeing they could not reade them in Bookes Yet with a prouiso that those ignorant people should bee admonished not to worship them The like aduice doe wee giue to our vnlearned people that they adore not Idols but onely that they inuocate and honour the Saints which those Idols doe represent We worship not the Images of Christ or of the Virgin Mary because it is Idolatry so to doe But we worship Christ and his Mother before their Images because their Images doe allure vs to loue them For mine owne part I confesse it were good to abolish them but we are constrained to tolerate them to the end the simple sort of people might be won by the sight of them to giue the more reuerence to holy mysteries Apollo hauing heard this glozing Apologie answered By your subtill speech you would make the Learned belieue that you worship not these Images at all but onely that you offer your seruice vnto them like a Courtier Yet neuerthelesse you bow your bodies and kneele vnto them you begge for their fauours to be intercessors for you Saint Anthony must helpe you for the Poxe Saint Margaret must come from Heauen to assist women in Child-bed Saint Vitus must learne you to dance Saint Iames must defend you in your Pilgrimage The Pagan Poets neuer had so many houshold Gods Lares D●●s Tutelares as your Superstitious Religion allowes you to haue O foolish men will ye still repaire to muddie pooles neglecting the Fountaine of liuing waters God is a spirit and they which worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth He is inuisible to mortall eyes so that no man should presume to mould his likenesse into Gold or Siluer Plates His Saints are at rest and must not bee raised vp like Samuel by any Endor Witches The Virgin Mary liues in eternall ioyes not to bee disturbed with the clamorous inuocations of worldly Creatures This was the Heresie of the Collyridians as our vertuous Epiphanius who flourished within foure hundred yeares after Christ quotes downe to the memoriall of all Posterities Whose Arguments with the Cause I will not repeat vnto you because all yee which goe vnder the naked name of Catholickes may leaue off to tender your seruice to the Creatures iniuring your Creator who will not communicate his glory to any whatsoeuer Saint Angell or Principality according to our Sauiours speech Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue In Arabia certaine women vsed vpon some Holy-dayes in the yeare to beare about a foure squared Table with a cloth spred and Bread thereon laid which they offered to the name of the Virgin Marie Epiphanius confutes this Heresie saying that this was meere madnes a Sicknes of Eue now againe deceiued nay of the Serpent which abused Eue. His Arguments are these First No women euer sacrificed in the Old Testament Secondly If any women it had beene a regular Custome in the Church that Mary her selfe did sacrifice in the New Testament which wee neuer read of Thirdly Nor was the Sacrament of Baptisme euer committed to Mary Or else her Sonne would haue made choise of her and not of Iohn The Gospell was committed to the care of the Apostles and not to any woman Fourthly The Daughters of Philip did prophecie but neuer medled with those mysteries which belong to men who onely executed the Priestly office Fistly Women were forbidden to speake in the Church Out of these Propositions he proues that the Virgin Mary is not to be worshipped First Because he is a Deuill which making a God of a mortall nature in the eyes of men doth expresse by the varieties of Art any carued Images which represent the shape of man Secondly Because the minde commits adulterie which falls from the euer-liuing God to honour the Images of the Dead like to a Whore which forgoes the lawfull vse of a Husband to lye with others Thirdly Because Mary was not giuen vs to be worshipped but that her selfe should worship her Sonne Fourthly For that these words in the Gospel doth warne vs to take heed Woman what haue I to doe with thee That by these words wee might note in calling her Woman that others might not admire her as a Virgin too holy and sacred Fiftly Because in the Scriptures wee doe not find that any of the Prophets euer commanded vs to worship any man much lesse a woman Sixtly God allowes vs not to worship Angels Therefore hee will not haue vs to worship Mary Shee may bee mentioned with honour But Worship and Adoration is a mysterie due onely vnto God The greatest Angels receiue not that Glorification These bee the reasons which Epiphanius exhibited against the Collyridians There was a Sect called Caianes which Epiphanius noted likewise to call vpon the Angels The which also Saint Augustine ascribed to those Heretickes which were termed Angelici The same Augustine mentioneth another sort of Heretickes called the Carpocratians which worshipped the Images of Iesus and Saint Paul Saint Ambrose auerreth it an Heathenish I dolatrie for any man to worship the Crosse whereon Christ suffered The Prophet also denounceth him accursed which reposeth hope in man saying Cursed is the man which putteth his trust in man Singular is that Example of Epiphanius who on a time beholding a vaile in a Church painted with the Image of Christ thereon hanging on the doores contrarie to the Authoritie of the Scriptures hee tore it downe and deliuered it so defaced to the Wardens bidding them to bestow it for a shrowd on the next poore body that died And when the Churchwardens murmured saying that seeing he had tore it he ought to haue bought a new one or not to haue rent it so much as he did Epiphanius promised to send them another vaile to bee hanged vp in lieu thereof which afterwards he performed in a letter