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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

their grienances and decreeth that the Popish presume not to minister Physicke to any Protestant but to them of their owne Sect. p. 54. CHAP. XI The Nobilitie of Parnassus do complaine that their Inferiours with their Wines do weare richer Apparell then themselues shewing likewise that they haue encroached on other Priuiledges of theirs to bee hurried in Coaches by which presumptions many other corruptions are lately crept into Apolloes Court. p. 57. CHAP. XII Apollo commands certaine of his Attendants to prescribe remedies how Husbands should liue with their Wines chastly and without iealousie to be Cuckolded as also how men should contemne the baites of beautifull Women pag. 62. CHAP. XIII A Corollary or an epitomized Censure of Apollo pronounced after the aforesaid Opinions deliuered touching the Election of Wiues and their vsage p. 72 CHAP. XIV Cato the Censour of good manners hauing arrested certaine Persons a drinking more then the Lawes prescribed them brings them before Apollo His Maiestie reproues them for their Drunkennesse and banisheth them for euer out of the precincts of Parnassus pag. 73. CHAP. XV. The Authour of this Treatise called the Golden Fleece exhibits a Bill of Complaint against the Tobacconists of Great Britaine Apollo condemnes the immoderate vse of Tobacco and recommends the care of the extermination thereof to the Clergie and to the Temporall Magistrate pag. 78. CHAP. XVI Traiano Boccalini the Authour of the Booke called the New-found Politicke complayneth to Apollo that the Seuen Wisemen of Greece who were put in trust to reforme the World did deceiue his Maiesties expectation and that the World was worse then euer it was Apollo retires himselfe in discontent but at length by the Fraternitie of the Rosie Crosse he is comforted and walks along with them in Procession pag. 83. CHAP. XVII The foure Patrones or Patriarches of Great Britaine doe sing in Procession the ensuing Rithmes Apollo pronounceth a conclusiue Oracle to remedie all Abuses preparing the way to the Golden Fleece pag. 87. CHAP. XVIII Orpheus Iunior sheweth that one of the chiefest causes of the Decay of Trading in Great Britaine proceeded by the rash Aduentures of the Westerne Merchants in passing the Straits of Gibrakar and i● fishing on the Coast of New foundland without wasting ships to defend them from Pirats pag. 102. The Contents of the Chapters of the third Part of the Golden Fleece CHAP. I. Orpheus Iunior is required by Apollo to discouer where the Golden Fleece lyes Orpheus performes his Maiesties commandement shewes that there bee sundry kindes of the Golden Fleece all which after an allusion to the English natures he reduceth into one mayne Trade to the Plantation and Fishing in the New foundland The generall cause which moued Orpheus to regard this Golden Fleece Page 1. CHAP. II. Orpheus Iunior particularizeth the manifold benefits of the Golden Fleece which might serue to repaire the decay of Trade lately complained of in Great Britaine and to restore that Monarchie to all Earthly happinesse pag. 11. CHAP. III. Apollo calls an Assembly of the Companie for the Plantation of Newfoundland where Master Slany Master Guy and others meeting by his Maiesties commandement Captaine Iohn Mason is willed to disclose whether the Golden Fleece bee there where Orpheus Iunior alledged it to be Captaine Mason a●erreth it to bee in the same Iland more abundantly then in any other place pag. 19. CHAP. IV. Apollo commands Iohn Guy Alderman of Bristow to sh●w how the Plantations in the Newfoundland might bee established and secured from the cold vapours and foggie mists which in the Spring are supposed to molest that Country pag. 26. CHAP. V. Sir Ferdinando Gorge is accused by the Westerne Fishermen of England for hindering them of their stages to dry their Fish in New England and from trading with the Sauages for Furres and other commodities Ferdinando Gorge his answere Apollo reconcileth their differences pag. 30. CHAP. VI. Apollo mooued to pitie 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 Britaine Sir Francis Drake Sir Martin Frobisher Sir Henry Middleton and Sir Thomas Button to signifie their opinions where about the best passage to the East Indies did lie pag. 39. CHAP. VII Apolloes censure of Sir Thomas Buttons Voyage to the Northwest Passage His directions for the preseruation of health in frostie seasons and for the preuenting of the Scuruy An Elegie in their commendations which aduentured their persons for the discouerie of the aforesaid Passage pag. 46. CHAP. VIII The Merchants of Lisbone doe complaine on the English and Hollanders for trading into the East Indies for Spices Drugges and other Commodities Apollo reiecteth their complaints and aduiseth how they may saile thither with lesser inconueniences then heretofore pag. 51. CHAP. IX Apollo sends for some of the Merchants Aduenturers of euery seuerall Company out of Great Britaine graceth them with his countenance and promiseth them the continuance of his Fauours pag. 58. CHAP. X. Apollo to make the Golden Fleece a complete Catholike Restoratine to the State of Great Britaine commands the seuen Wisemen of Greece to declare out of their experience some more meanes for the inriching of that State which they seuerally performe pag. 59. CHAP. XI Apollo not throughly contented with the proiects of the seuen wisemen of Greece commands others viz. Cornelius Tacitus Comminaeus the Lord Cromwell Sir Thomas Chaloner Secretary Walsingham Sir Thomas Smith and William Lord Burleigh who were knowne to be farre more Politick Statesmen to deliuer their opinions how Great Britaine might be inriched pag. 71. CHAP. XII The Order which Apollo Tooke for the setling of the Golden Fleece before his late Progresse into the Tropicke of Cancer recommending the same to the care of the Fraternitie of the Rosie Crosse the foure Patrons of Great Britaine The consultation of the foure Patrons for the good of Great Britaine The copy of Saint Dauids Sonnet which he pronounced in the Amphitheater ●t Parnassus in honour of the King of Great Britaines Mariage and Coronation pag. 81. CHAP. XIII Vpon an Information preferred before the Ladie Pallas against Scoggin and Skelton for interrupting of Saint Dauid in his Sonnet Shee vtters some Obseruations on the behalfe of the Learned and thereby takes an Occasion to banish all Scoffing Companions from Parnassus and from becomming at any time after partakers of the Golden Fleece discouered in this Treatise pag. 93. The Conclusion of Orpheus Iunior to his Souereigne the King of Great Britaine pag. 95. OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE THE FIRST PART The occasion of this Treatise called the Golden Fleece And the Reasons which moued the Author to intermingle merrie and light conceites among matters of Consequence IN the Moneth when the Celestiall Ram famous for the Grecians Golden Fleece had renewed the last Spring 1626. with an equall Proportion of Dayes and Nights the one presiguring Ioy for the Second Yeeres Raigne of