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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

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

throats with Cods-heads In what a case thinke you will your Iasons bee with their Fishing for the Golden Fleece if some of these Raggamu●●ins make hauocke of their Ships Mariners Goods and Plantations Before you borrow the personal presence of those Gentlemen who are here wanting it were fit you tooke some order to secure that Coast from Piraticall rouers The Lord Vicount Falkland looketh vnto his great Gouernement in Ireland to see the same well fortified and guarded The Lord Baltimore is likewise busie in supplying his Colony at Feriland Sir William Alexander attends on the valiant King of Great Britaine night and day taking care by what meanes he may most commodiously transport his Scottish Colonies into those parts Sir Francis Tanfield and Sir Arthur Aston two generous Knights which to their immortall glory doe imploy their times in building and manuring that new ground cannot be spared from their Plantations lest the wild Boares breake into their Gardens I thinke said Apollo I must send for Hercules from his starry Spheare or get another Medusa whose very sight shall turne these Dunkirkes into stones before my vertuous followers shall endure the least affront at the hands of malicious Erynnis that Patronesse of barbarous Pirates In the mean time we will thinke on some conuenient course to restraine these threatned thunders and blustering blasts And seeing that you my deare seruants are here assembled at this time I must haue you to satisfie the wauering world whether the Golden Fleece be in greater plenty and abundance in this Iland or in New England Virginia the Summer Iles or in some other forraigne Coast which your Nation may easily possesse At these words there was much muttering among the English and Scottish For some contended on the behalfe of Virginia others contested for New England Euery man had his opinion according to his imaginary obiect wherein most preferred priuate fantasies before the intellectuall facultie His Maiestie hauing patiently awayted for their vnanimous resolution like Brethren of the same Iland borne vnder the same Prince Religion and Gouernement and seeing no end of their disputes hee willed Captaine Mason to breake the Ice in respect he had beene sixe yeares acquainted with ice and frosts at Cupert Coue one of the coldest places of those Countries and boldly without partiality feare or sinister regard to disclose the secrets of the Soile the benefits of the Land and whether this Plantation were such an inestimable iewell as Orpheus Iunior had deliuered or to be had in more estimation then any other place Captaine Mason after some complementall excuse of his disability answered in this wise I could haue wishe that Mr. Iohn Guy my predecessor in Britannioll a man both learned experienced in these exploits had spared me the relation which your Maiestie hath imposed on me But seeing the lot is falne into my share I will repeat those passages which hee and others here know better then my selfe This Iland now in question is altogether as large as England without Scotland And at the degree of 51. of Northerly latitude Where England ends there this blessed Land beginnes and extends it selfe almost as farre as the degree of 46. iust in a manner as the climate lieth from Caleis to Rochell The weather in the winter somewhat like vnto it in Yorkeshire but farre shorter for the Sun shines aboue halfe an houre long●r in the shortest day then it doth in London The Summer much hotter then in England and lasteth from lune vnto Michaelmas specially in the Southerly part I haue knowne September October and Nouember much warmer then in England But one thing more I found worthy of an Astrologers search wherefore the Spring begins not there before the end of Aprill and the winter comes not in before December or Ianuary the causes I know not vnlesse Nature recompenceth the defect of the timely Spring with the backward and later winter Or else because our Plantations lay open to the Easterly windes which partaking of the large tract of the Sea and of the icie mountaines which flote there being driuen by the current from the Northerly parts of the world might happily proue the accidentall cause of the Springs backwardnesse yet tolerable enough and well agreeing with our constitutiōs Towards the North the land is more hilly and woody but the South part from Renoos to Trepassa plaine and champaine euen for 30. miles in extent It abounds with Deere as well fallow Deere as Ellans which are as bigge as our Oxen. And of all other sorts of wilde Beasts as here in Europe Beuers Hares c. The like I may say for Fowle and Fish I knew one Fowler in a winter which killed aboue 700. Partridges himselfe at Renoos But for the Fish specially the Cod which drawes all the chiefe Port townes in Christendome to send thither some ships euery yeare either to fish or to buy the same it is most wonderfull and almost incredible vnlesse a man were there present to be hold it Of these three men at Sea in a Boat with some on shoare to dresse and dry them in thirty dayes will kill commonly betwixt fiue and twenty and thirty thousand worth with the Traine oyle arising from them one hundred or sixe score pounds I haue heard of some Countries commended for their twofold haruest which here we haue although in a different kinde yet both as profitable I dare say as theirs so much extolld There is no such place againe in the world for a poore man to raise his fortunes comparable to this Plantation for in one moneths space with reasonable paines he may get as much as will pay both Land-lords Rent Seruants wages and all Houshold charges for the whole yeare and so the rest of his gaine to increase As for the other question whether the title of the Golden Fleece may bee conferred more deseruedly vpon this Iland then on any other forraigne place where his Maiesties Subiects of Great Britaine doe vse to Trade By the last part of my Discourse it is plaine that it goes farre beyond all other places of Trade whatsoeuer and iustly to be preferred before New England Virginia and other Plantations for these foure reasons First it lieth neerer to Great Britaine by three or foure hundred leagues then eyther of them For wee may saile hither within twelue or fourteene daies being not aboue sixe or seuen hundred leagues passage whereas Virginia lieth as far again Secondly it is better in respect of Trade and the concourse of people which with 500. or 600. Ships doe yearly resort thither By which meanes they augment their Princes Customes and doe maintaine many thousands of their fellow-subiects their wiues and children Thirdly he conueniency of transporting Planters thither at tenne shillings a man and twenty shillings the Tunne of goods And if the party be a Labourer it will cost him nothing for his passage but rather hee shall receiue foure or fiue pound for his hire to helpe the Fishermen on