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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

pay 20. shillings for a vertuous purpose And perhaps the same would lessen the exaction of the rest in the mercie of God To this furtherance of money I would haue those Brokers and extorting Iackes receiue corporall punishment who shall by indirect tricks and monthly bills exact vpon pawnes more interest then euer the Iew of Malta tooke of his deadly enemies After him the Lawmaker Solon discoursed as followeth I haue heard this day sundry pretty proiects pronounced by my Colleagues for the enriching of Great Britaine But if all these fall out happily and the Deuill still continue to sow his seeds of dissention in mens hearts to goe to Law one with another for a Goats haire by the procurement of Makebates and the aduice of some couetous Lawiers to what end shall his Maiestie spend his time to succour and supply them with money and they presently after to bestow the same on others for the molesting of Innocents This were to make our great Appollo accessary and priuie to iniurious dealings First let my good Ilanders weed out or at least wise restraine the insolencies deceits and equiuocations of Lawiers and then seeke for remedies to heale their indispositions Shall the mild Comforter of humane soules minister an occasion of scandall to reprobates and fewell to their iniquities If they get wealth men as I see haue not the wit to keepe it Therefore I thinke fit and it is a treasure inualuable to tame the Lawiers before any more riches be giuen as swords in mad mens hands to offend the seruants of God What intolerable knaueries haue beene exercised of late yeares by fellowes of this ranke against honest men yea against whole Countries whose blood like that of Abell doth cry for vengeance I know one poore Lordship in Wales which was persecuted by them and forced for foure thousand pounds to compound for their natiue freehold which by Records found in the Tower their Ancestors had enioyed 300. yeares and all vpon that farre fetcht maxime Nullum tempus occurrit Regi that no prescription of time might barre the Prince of his Right And if the wise King Iames of blessed memory had not set a period to their insinuations by limiting 60 yeares to his titulary demand God knowes to what euent their dangerous positions would haue issued vnto It is an easie thing for a man to find a staffe to beat a dog and for a cunning Lawier with the crochet of his braine to circumuent harmelesse people How many thousand pounds are yearely spent in Wales alone to maintaine suites at Law which might be well spared if the fountaine were dam'd vp Let the King of Great Britaine shut vp the spring which enuenomes multitudes of his poore subiects who grone vnder their burthen worse then the Israelies vnder the bondage of Egypt and Wales alone shall saue aboue 40. thousand pounds a yeare which row they consume besides their dear time not to be redeemed in vnnecessary suits at Law CHAP. 11. Apollo not throughly contented with the proiects of the seuen wise men of Greece commands others viz. Cornelius Tacitus Cōminaeus the Lord Cromwell Sir Thomas Chaloner Secretary Walsingham Sir Thomas Smith and William Lord Burleigh who were knowne to be farre more Politicke Statesmen to deliuer their opinions how Great Britaine might be inriched APollo liked reasonable well of the inuentions demonstrated by the Seuen wise men of Greece But for all that some of them hee deemed to be more theoricall then really practick and therefore He caused some of his vertuous Attendants which had been famous for their Actiue diligence in managing matters of State to discouer more proiects whereby Great Britaine might attaine to a present fruition of Treasure For as his Imperiall Maiestie said Philosophers being Clinickes and retired to close chambers delighting more to be as Persius notes of them Esse quod Arcesilas arumnosique Solones Obstipo capite figentes lumine terram Like to Arcesilas or Solons found With down bent heads eies vpō the ground then personally to bestirre themselues as men of motion ought in bringing their purposes and plots to execution they could not proue so necessary members to act what he intended as those which had by their industry got the start of them in actuall businesse The euent his Maiestie saw in Cicero and Caesar which moued our most prudent Apollo to referre these Pragmaticke affaires of Great Britaine to the experienced Cornelius Tacitus to Philip Comm●naus to the Lord Cromwell which flourished in King Henrie the 8. daies to Sir Thomas Chaloner sometimes Ambassadour in Spain author of those admirable books de repub Anglorum instaur to Sir Francis Walsingham to Sir Thomas Smith which wrote the Common-wealth of England and to William Lord Burleigh Treasurer of England Cornelius Tacitus as the most ancient was elected first to certifie his censure who with a free Romane candour framed this discourse There is asmuch difference betwixt the face and state of Great Britane at this day and the fashion as it stood in Domitian time when I liued there with my victorious father in law Iulius Agricola as we see betwixt it and the Countrey of the Crime Tartare Then there was elbow roome for the Inhabitants sufficient without multiplicities of Law-suites subtle shifts conycatching or contagious thronging and hudling together But now Sunt homines alij natura Britannica differt In Britanes Isle both men and Land are chang'd We Romanes by our Legionary Cities wonne them to ciuility which they according to their quicke capacities speedily apprehending embraced the Christian Faith paid tribute to Caesar and continued in loyall obedience vnder his Lieutenants vntill our Monarchy became translated to Constantinople that so the fulnesse of time might inuest Antichrist in old Rome the Babylon of the West Since which time as the Children of Israel were sometimes aloft sometimes cast downe this Iland indured sundry changes But in my iudgement next vnto suits at Law which the wise Solon obserued to begger both Towne and Country the populousnesse of some chiefe Cities and specially of London doth impouerish the Royall Chamber of that Empire insomuch that it is in a manner impossible to inrich them before the Drones and yong hungry Bees bee remoued to some forraigne Places by an Act of Parliament and so prest by transcendent authority The people which I would haue thus prest are the Inmates the Cottagers the needy and needlesse numbers An honest Minister assured me that in his Parish at London there were many which perished of want being ashamed to begge and that he knew tenne persons hauing but a roome of twelue foot square to containe them but one bed for them all Many of the like calamity might bee found in that City two or three housholds crept into one house that I haue diuers times wondred that they are not euery second year visited with the Plague or Purples considering the multitudes of Channels Iakes and other vnpleasing places which

enuying at those hopefull attempts like those which repined at the rebuilding of Ierusalem would needs inioy the fruits of our labours despoyling vs of our Stages and the plaine plats of ground bounding on the Sea and not thus content they would cut downe a tree worth forty shillings fit for a Mast where a tree of two shillings might serue their turne Sometimes they would either of despite to the Planters or in a wanton vnbrideled humour set fire on the woods two or three miles together We neuer gaine-said them to fish vpon our Coast but on the contrary we were very glad of the occasiō Only we sought to curbe their in solencies which committed these outrages We endeuoured to hinder their wilfull casting their ballast into the harbours which in small time will quickly decide this present controuersie when the harbours shall by this outragious abuse bee choakt and dammed vp without any hope of recouery As for the Trade of Furs how can this be a grieuance more then it is in England where the petty Lords of Mannors clayme a farre greater Iurisdiction there to enlarge their Forrests and games yea and some haue obtained a Free Warren that none whatsoeuer should hawke or hunt vpon their Lands or within their Precincts If this be allowed in Old England much more ought we to stand vpon out Royalties in New England in lieu of our infinite charge and paines taken in our voyages and setling there our new inhabitants What Gentlemen of fashion will forsake their Country except they shall haue a larger extent of command and more hopes of benefit then at home To suffer such barbarous insolencies to bee done on a mans Free-hold cannot but trouble the meekest man on the earth yea another Moses another Iob. To this I adde how some of these Antiplanters led by an vnheard-of greedinesse of gaine haue sold vnto the Sauages Muskets Fowling-Peeces Powder Shot Swords Arrow-heads and other Armes wherewith the Sauages slew some of those Fishermen which had so inconsiderately sold such dangerous wares to Infidels By which means they are now become dangerous formidable to the Planters themselues And farre more fearefull would they haue proued vnto vs if the King of Great Britain our Soueraign had not strictly made a Proclamation to the contrary that no Subiect of his should presume to sel thē any such vnlawfull ware Vp on the brute of which Proclamation the Sauages being hopelesse euer to receiue of our Nation more Gunpowder they very circumspectly sowed in the best cornefields they had all the Powder which remained with full expectation to reape a goodly haruest thereof as of Mastard or other seedes Apollo according to his wonted manner hauing paused and meditated on the Plaintiffes and Defendants allegations about one quarter of an houre at last pronounced this definitiue sentence Forasmuch as wee conceiue both this Plantation and the Fishing Trade to be very expedient to Great Britaine we order both of them like Hippocrates Twinnes to consociate together in brotherly amity and to assist one another without malicious emulation That the Fishermen haue conuenient places for the drying of their Fish on the land with as much woods as will serue for their fewell during their abode in that Country and for their returne homewards by the way and also as much woods as will build vp on repaire their Ships Stages prouided that the common sort of Marriners shall not of their owne heads without their Master of the Ship and one of the chiefe of the Planters be present cut or cast down any woods but what by them shall be seene fit for those necessary vses Secondly that none of the Fishermen shall throw their Ballast into the Harbours to deface the same Thirdly that for some few yeares they shall not traffique with the Sauages but shall leaue the same to the Planters vntill the Plantations be compleately strengthened and of sufficient power to liue of themselues and bee conueniently armed against those barbarous people Fourthly that all such plats of plaine lands neere to the Harbours which the Planters shall from henceforth rid of woods and make apt for Stages to dry fish vpon shall belong to the Planters And that all such places which the Fishermen haue already rid and built Stages vpon shall appertaine to them for euer As also al such Stages which they shall hereafter build for that purpose In lieu of which priuiledges euery Ship shall transport a Tunne of such prouisions which the Plantations want receiuing for the same tenne shillings towards the fraught and the price of the goods by them disbursed in England Fiftly that both the Planters and the Fishermen shall ioyne and suddenly assemble all their forces together with their best endeuours to expell Pirates and their Countries enemies if any arriue on that Coast with intent to prey vpon eyther of them Sixtly if any dissention happen betwixt the Fishermen and the Planters the matter shall be compromitted to twelue mens arbitrement sixe of the one side and sixe of the other and if they misse to accord the parties difference then the chiefe person in the Plantation and the Master of the Ship whereof the Fisherman is to end the businesse as Vmpires and principall Iudges CHAP. 6. Apollo moued to pitty vpon a Petition preferred vnto him by certaine Saylers Widowes whose Husbands perished in the voyages vnder the East Indies Company causeth foure famous Knights of Great Britain Sir Francis Drake Sir M●●●in Furbisher Sir Henry Middleton and Sir Thomas Button to signifie their opinions whereabout the best passage to the East Indies did lye VPon the Feast day of Saint Marke the Euangelist last past 1626. as Apollo was conferring with certaine Cosmographers for the aduancing of the East Indy Trade the Lady Pallas whispered his Maiestie in the eare to admit some into that conference which had beene principall Nauigators imployed for discoueries towards those Coasts For said she though speculation bee the most noble Science in Philosophy yet for the atchieuement of a reall and beneficiall Trade it serues to no other vse then as a Preparatiue in Phisicke to make the humours pliable and tractable for the insuing Purgation the which notwithstanding may proue erroneous and deceiueable if it meetes with a malignant stubborne or peruerse matter For who can by a coniecturall knowledge pierce into more hidden occurrences There is as much difference betwixt speculation and practise as is betwixt a clinicall scholler discoursing of Countries by his Map or Globe on a Table as a Mariner trauersing the Ocean where oftentimes he meetes with such difficulties that hee is forced to returne home and to wait for a more seasonable opportunity Therefore if you meane to hold vp and continue this Company it were good you sent for some choyse and well experienced Nauigators which may direct this businesse associated with the Gentlemen aboue named Apollo liked very well of this aduise and presently caused these foure famous Knights to

infect the Aire able to poyson the strongest Snake For the verifying of this my allegation I will produce one example which may serue to confirme the same I haue heard it reported by very credible persons that about 4. yeares past in a house neere S. Dunstons of the West the Priuies there being emptied on a night the next morning they found not onely their Brasse and Pewter in the lower roomes soild and filth'd but likewise their Plate two sto●●s higher standing on their Cupboord tainted and corrupted with a yellowish vnseemely colour Yea and that which Aristotle himselfe would admire at they found their money in their purses to haue lost the colour as if it had beene of purpose varnished with smoaky dung If the serious regard of their healths moue them not yet let the wisedome of Magistrates foresee the inconuenience which yearely accrues to the Generality by suffering vnnecessary people to hinder the gaines of the industrious and withall to know this that too many of the industrious Craftsmen themselues flocking together doe so diuide the profit which more politikely being fitter for a few that both the one and the other are often seene to faint vnder their owne waight Better it is for a City to content themselues with a few substantiall neighbours then to be troubled with many rakers If the City of London which is thought to hold eight hundred thousand Soules within it and the Suburbes were rid of 40000 of these the rest would thriue the better and saue at least two hundred thousand pounds a yeare which now are spent in vain hereafter wil be conuerted for the weale of the whole Iland In one yeare there were suppressed 700. Cottagers in Glocestershire since which time that Country flourished Comineus Lord of Argenton the great Statesman of France whom Katherine de Medicis Queen Mother and somtimes Regent of that Kingdome was wont to terme the Heretike of State because he disclosed the secrets of Princes vttered his opinion next after Cornelius Tacitus In the warres betwixt the House of Burgundy and my Soueraigne Lewis the eleuenth I remember that Money fell out very scarce as it doth now in Great Britaine for all that saying which this wise King was accustomed to repeat that his France might be compared to a Meadow ready to bee mowne twise a yeare And one of the principall meanes which he inuented to be stored with money was to raise his Coine From the Saxons time vntill my time in the Raigne of King Henry the sixt an ounce of Siluer was diuided into 20. peeces and so passed for 20. pence King Henry by reason of his wars with vs and afterwards with the House of Yorke proclaimed the ounce at 30. pence King Henry the 4. vpon the like necessity enhansed it to 40. pence which so lasted vntill King Henry the 8. daies who raised the ounce to the value of 45. pence King Edward the 6. proclaimed it at fiue shillings If Money continues still scant I see no reason but that it might be raised higher as in former times which also would induce men to bring forth their Plate In France Venice yea and in Golden Spaine Brasse money goes current two and thirty Marauedis amounting to sixe pence which they call a Reall Of these Marauedis I heard a Rhodomonting Castilian vaunt that hee would bestow 600. thousand of them with his deare Daughter to her mariage In some Countries they vse Shelles Pepper and lether peeces for money In other places gaddes of Steele or Iron At the first troubles of the Low Countries they made stampes on Past-Boords which they licensed to goe current for Money In the last warres of Ireland base Coine was ordained to supply the vse of the finest Siluer As long as it will passe in estimation and warranted by publike authority either Money may bee raised or the same of a mixt alloy as the Venetian Liure or the French Souls or of such other mettall as the Prince liketh may serue the Subiects turne in time of warres as it serues those Nations both in Warre and Peace The Lord Cromwell succeeded this Noble Frenchman and said that hee was one of the chiefest Instruments vnder King Henry the 8. to dissolue the Religious Houses in England wished that now some of those Farmes and impropriated Tithes were for a few yeares lent by the State of England to support Ecclesiasticall persons in the new Plantations meaning those which the State could spare in their places And he hoped by this meanes the Clergy being prouided for in those New Lands Churches would there be built the sooner and the Plantations in a short time would helpe to inrich this Kingdome with many sorts of Commodities specially if some of the Religious that went in person others well beloued in their Country that for their sakes others of good account would accompany them and so assist the Common-wealth by their power and example Sir Thomas Chaloner renewed the old proiect of building Busses flat Flemish boates for fishing on the Easterly coasts of this kingdome saying that it was a shame for his nation to looke on while the Hollanders yearely tooke worth 300000 pounds of fish vpon our sea coasts and in our liberties although they fished farther off then they did for the truth of which assertion of his he alleadged the testimony of Bartolus the famous Lawier As Ilands saith he in the sea next adioyning so likewise the Sea it selfe to an hundred miles extent is assigned to the bordering Countrey I● Insul ff ●de Iur. Secretary Walsingham was of opinion that letters of Mart or Reprizals would furnish the land with treasure so that they went forth in Fleetes more strongly prepared then in Queen Elizabeths daies For that now-a-dayes the Pyrates of Algiere had taught the Spaniards more wit not to go so weakly mand and stor'd as in times past In Drakes Haukins and other braue Aduenturers voyages our English found a Golden age But that now the case was otherwise Therefore they must goe strong if they meane to surprize any rich Carricks Likewise he wished them whose powers extended not to supply themselues with many Copartners to watch about the lesser Ilands in America and not to draw too neere those Forts where the Gallies frequēted nor to be aduenturous about the time when the Spanish Fleet repaired thither About Brazill and the riuer of Plate hee supposed they might intercept good booties with more safety or if they entred into Lameeres straights they might in the South sea meet with rich prizes Further he animated the East Indy Company to ioyne with the Hollanders to driue the Portingals out of the wade of Spiceries Further he aduised the English to prouide the like kinde entertainment for the Spanish prisoners if not in their owne Countrey yet in the Summer Ilands and other Plantations where they might be put to labour as well as they employ them in their Gallies vntil they paid sufficient ransomes Lastly he