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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

Dauid doth morally teach vs that wee must not smite our Princes with the sword of our Lips though they wrong vs nor that we teare the hemme of their superfluous deeds If wee approoue not the holinesst of their liues let vs applaud the holinesse of their Vnctions In the English Chronicles euen when the Pope was at the highest staire of worldly triumph it is registred that Anselmus Archbishop of Canterbury in some difference betwixt him and King William Rufus would haue appealed to the Pope And that the King and the Bishops withstood it In the Raigne of King Henry the Second a Law was made on paine of Treason not to appeale out of the Kingdome of England Thus from time to time it is manifest that the Popes power hath beene inferiour and subiect to Earthly Princes And therefore to broach out such damnable Paradoxes for the iustification of murther and the warranting of priuate men to conspire against their Soueraignes is a Doctrine which God hates Somtimes men are plagued by the immediate hand of God sometimes by mediate and secondary means for their sins Sometimes men are forced to endure extraordinary stormes tempests famine warres and also crosses at their very friends hands Sometimes their women are deliuered of abortiues or mishapen Creatures All which they must patiently brooke Much more must they beare with the spots of Princes who haue long Eares and long hands It is not safe or vertuous to meddle with litigious wares nor to trouble the braine with these kind of Problemes For if men liue in a Monarchy which is hereditary the Fault is the greater If in other Kingdomes the fundamentall Lawes must be regarded by the publike States and not by priuate persons If the Kingdome be Electiue as Poland let the Chancelor looke to it If in Germanie it belongs to the Electors to decide the quarrell betwixt the Emperour and the Subiects Wee doe therefore vtterly detest these Iesuites for maintayning of these bloudy Tragedies and from henceforth wee banish that pestilent Race of Sectaries out of our Iurisdiction of Parnassus Mariana heere we doe order to bee perpetually tortured in Phalaris his Brazen Bull and his Bookes also to be burnt and the ashes to be scattered in the Riuer of Lethe CHAP. III. Now Doctor Wicliffe of Oxford espying in a Church at Athens a Franciscan Frier a kissing of a Maide of Honour belonging to the Princesse Thalia brought Saint Frances to surprize them who of meere Idiotisme applaudes the Fact IN May last when all liuing Creatures followed their naturall motions and kinds Doctor Wicliffe of Oxford who in King Richard the Seconds time by the countenance of Iohn of Gaunt and the Londoners opposed himselfe against the Romish Clergie as hee was entring into the Temple of the vnknowne God at Athens espied a Franciscan Frier very heartily kissing a Gentlewoman which in that jouiall and merrie time had made choise of that lustie Frier to confesse her whereupon Doctor Wicliffe being euer held to be of an vnblemisht behauiour and as chaste as Origen but that he had not gelt himselfe as Origen did burned with Zeale and like another Phinehes thought once to haue runne vpon them both to haue scratcht their eyes out for weapons he had none to offend with such was the Law of Apolloes Court But remembring himselfe of a place in Homer how Achilles as he intended to draw out his Sword against Agamemnon was preuented by the Ladie Pallas who inuisibly restrained his hand from that reprochfull Act he reculed backe vnseene by the youthfull Couple whose lips were so fastned together that as if they had beene in a trance the Church might haue falne by piece-meales about their eares before they would been parted from their sugred kisses and like an Arrow out of a Bow hee rushed into Saint Frances cloyster where meeting with the Old man a mumbling on his Orisons and Rosaries he desired him in all haste to come and visit the Corpse of one of his Friers which was strooke dead by the Planet Venus together with a Maide of Honour belonging to the Princesse Thalia At these words Saint Frances flung away his deuout Offices and went a long with Doctor Wicliffe to the place where he found the Frier and the gentlewoman a kissing After that Saint Frances had considerately noted how lo●ingly the Frier lay as it were in an extasie with his lips as close as Iuy to an Elme vnto the Maides lips the good man fell downe vpon his knees and thanked God that he had seene so much Loue and Charitie in the World which before hee doubted had forsaken all humane race CHAP. IIII. Doctor Wicliffe connents Saint Frances and the kissing Frier before Apollo Saint Frances defendeth the cause and discouereth seuen sorts of kisses Apollo refuteth his Defence condemnes the Frier and abolisheth all Monasticall Orders DWicliffe the next day after this aduenture loth to be accessary to such baudy deeds made the matter knowne vnto Apolloes Maiestie who immediately sent Mercury for both the Friers And vpon the Friday after appointed a speciall Conuocation for the ordering of this lasciuious Cause About nine a clocke in the morning vpon the prefixed day both the Friers being brought before the Lords of the Connocations Apollo spake in this wise to Saint Frances The first time that you were initiated in morall Precepts and sithence matriculated in our Court you vndertooke aswell for your Monasticall Order as your selfe to liue chast and not to minister occasion of scandall to the married Societie to suspect the least token of incontinencie in your carriages But we find that you are flesh and bloud subiect to concupiscence as well as others Saint Paul therefore aduiseth you rather to marrie then to burne But you on the contrary doe forbid your Clergy to marry at all although in your consciences you know it a most grieuous yoke the which our Sauiour Christ said that no man can beare vnlesse as a speciall Gift some few receiue it from Heauen And therefore Saint Paul tels you It is the doctrine of deuils to forbid Marriage Why then haue you imposed such a burthen such a vow on these silly Nouices of your Fraternitie which they can neuer keep without hinneying and lusting after the Female Sexe Haue not you heard that a certaine Hermite cockolded the chiefest Nobles of a Princes Court whose Wiues vsed to repaire to his Cell for Spirituall Physicke as if he had beene another Baptist Endeauour yee neuer so violently to expell the affections of nature they will breake into your thoughts and bodies doe what yee can as on a time another Hermit but more holy of life experimented in a Nephew of his who notwithstanding that hee had brought him vp euen from his cradle in his hermitage shut vp from the sight of all Women-kinde and afterwards by chance following his Ghostly Father to a Towne when he had looked on the Sexe of women and askt his Father what creatures those prettie

Mastership haue Nor to carke for cloth or for food From euery mischiefe he would them saue Their Clothing should be Righteousnesse Their Treasure pure life should be Charity should be their Riches Their Lordship should be vnitee Hope in God their Honestie Their vessell cleane Conscience Poore in spirit and Humilitie Should be Holy Churches defence The Griffon said thou shalt abie Thou shalt be burnt in balefull fire And all thy Sect I shall destry You shall be hanged by the swire I le cause you soone to hang and draw VVho giueth you leaue for to preach Or thus to speake against Gods Law And the people thus false to teach Thou shalt be cursed with Booke and Bell And disseuer'd from Holy Church And cleane ydamned into Hell Otherwise but you will worke The Pellican said I doe not dread Your Cursing is of little value Of God I hope to have my meed For it is falshood which you shew For you beene out of Charity And would doe vengeance as did Nero. To suffer I will ready be I dread not that what thou ca●st doe CHAP. XV. Sir Geffrey Chaucer being pro●oked by Scotus to defend his Cause proues the Pope to bee the great and vniuersall Antichrist prophesied in the Scriptures AFter that the Pronotarie had read that Part of the Plowmans Tale which Sir Geffrey Chaucer had published against the Pope the Romish Church hee was commanded by Apollo to defend his Doctrine Sir Geffrey Chaucer obeyed and framed this extemporary Oration Most high and redoubted Emperour I am glad that Scotus hath prouoked mee this day to open that Secret which by the craft of our Arch sorcerer of the Christian Church hath beene concealed from the vulgars knowledge vntill this fulnesse of Time which the Holy Ghost hath appointed for his Discouerie The Waldenses Albigienses and many others long before my time haue done their endeauors in other Countryes to reueale him but here in England Abbot Ioachim excepted who in K. Rich. the firsts dayes proclaymed the Pope Antichrist no man durst for feare of his formidable Tyrannie disclose what they knew in their Consciences to bee apparantly true This Illumination and Gift of discerning Spirits was indeed kept from the Common people by that execrable Policie of with-holding the Bible from our English translation so that these two Witnesses which lay martyred and yet vnburied in the streets of Spirituall Sodome and Aegypt could not performe their proper offices Now that it hath pleased God to remoue that palpable Darknesse they begin to reuiue and to stand vpon their feet to the amazement of the Carnall Beholders By their sacred motion the eyes of my vnderstanding are likewise opened and I doubt not but all your Maiesties Court shall know out of my mouth this day that the Pope and none but he is that Antichrist which was so long agoe prophesied to come and seduce the Christian Church with lyes Equiuocations and the wonders of Sathan For the manifestation of which damnable practices inspire my heart O fierie Comforter Inflame my mind with true Zeale the seale of thy sacred Spirit that I may soare vp like an Eagle to the Sunne of thy Grace with feruencie founded on Diuine Discretion for Feruencie is but foolish furie without Diuine Discretion The first marke of Antichrist I gather from our Sauiour himselfe who prophefied many shall come in my name and shall say I am Christ vnder this Title the Pope doth most blasphemously co●er his Temporall Power For what signifies the word Christ but Anointed Insomuch that whensoeuer any of his Clergie hath offended the Temporall sword must not punish them but for their protection his Holinesse wardeth them with that saying of the Prophet Dauid Touch not mine Anointed Meddle not with my Christs Though they be taken fighting in the Field with Armour on their backs hee termes them his Sons the Conqueror must leaue them to depart in peace Which made a Prince sometime to returne him this Answer I haue sent your Holinesse your Sonnes Coat the Armour in which I found your Bishop fighting when I tooke him Prisoner And if you be as quick-sighted as Iacob let me know whether this be your Iosephs Coat vntill King Edward the first his time Clergie men were the Lawyers in England as an Ancient Writer testified Nullus Clericus nisi Causidicus They sate as supreme Iudges in Temporall Causes But when their King should chastize them for their briberies and extortions then they shrowded themselues vnder the Spirituall keyes and appealing to the Pope they freed themselues from all Accusations Thus did Errors play vpon the preheminence of Kings vntill they were beaten out from their Law and at the last from their chiefest holds by the valour of King Henry the Eight and well worthy seeing that they presumed to make vse of the name of Christ to cloke their falsehoods and lewd tricks The second Mark of Antichrist I collect out of Saint Paul that in the last dayes men should bee high-minded louers of pleasures more then louers of God hauing a shew of godlines but denying the power thereof All these are verified in the Pope and his Clergie Hee exalteth himselfe aboue Emperours and Kings comparing himselfe to the Sunne and them to the Moone and lesser starres Yea he ranketh his Courtly Cardinals with Kings Which ambition moued Cardinall Wolsey to place himselfe aboue his King Ego Rex meus What greater pleasure can worldly men enioy more then the Pope and his Hierarchie doe They haue a large command of Cities and huge Territories Besides Rome Romania Bolonia Ferrara Auinion the Pope is like to possesse very shortly the Dutchie of Vrbin Nor doth his Ambition cease in these pleasant places many other Episcopall Seates out of Italie doth hee dispose of In Humilitie farre from Christs life yet pretending sanctimonie and a vertuous life but denying the effects thereof as his tolleration of the Iewes and Stewes his seruing of Idols his vnlawfull Dispensations and monstrous Pardons doe plainly demonstrate The third marke of Antichrist is deriued from another place of Saint Paul Now the spirit speaketh euidently that some should fall from the Faith giuing heede to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Deuils speaking lyes in hypocrifie forbidding Marriage and Meates Now what Church is the same which forbiddeth Marriage and the eating of flesh at prefixed times Is it not the Romish The Greeke Church whom for Antiquitie none can deny but they stand parraleld and equall with the Romane doe prohibit no such things Their Clergie as the Abissines in Aethiopia haue alwayes continued marriage Therefore let this Marke serue for one to conuince the Pope of the Doctrine of Deuils as Saint Paul calls it And for their prohibition of meates who doe insist more strongly then the Pope and his Clergie To eate Flesh vpon some dayes is a mortall sinne vnlesse it bee with their speciall dispensation as the Castilians haue bought out their freedome vpon some forbidden

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

a Patent deriued from his Earthly Soueraigne of great Britains Prerogatiue most vncharitably vnlawfully committed against them their Factors and Mariners on the Coast of New England in America Apollo willed them to declare their grieuances First they particularly shewed that this place was an Heathenish Coast vntilled and voyd of Christian Inhabitants in regard whereof they tooke it to be lawfull for them being Christians who in such remote wild Countreyes were to passe for Freemen and equal for right with Alexander the great that went into the East Indies as they into the West there to enioy the benefit of the Law of Nations to discouer new Countries to exchange wares for wares Cloath for Furres Ciuility for rudenesse and likewise to transport Fish which they laboured hardly for Pitch Tarre Masts and such like which they could not haue in Europe without a farre greater charge All this notwithstanding Sir Ferdinando Gorge by his Lieutenant and Agents opposed their Commerce forced them to compound for their Stages and pretended the Commodities of the Country to bee due to him and his Associates who first discouered the same and afterwards had obtained a Patent thereof of the Noble King Iames for their vse Likewise they intimated that the Sea was free and common to all men more common then Ergo in the Schooles or the word Homo which the Grammarians euen since Orbilius Quintilian and Priscians time haue stoutly maintained to bee a common name to all men ciuill and sauage yea and to all sorts of women the chast as the strumpet In respect of which Community warranted by the Lawes of the Rhodes the statutes of Oleron by the Constitutions of Holland and lastly by his transcendent authority which wrote the Booke called Mare liberum they hoped to settle a beneficiall Trading as well for Fishing on these forraigne Coasts as for such Land-Commodities which the Sauages would trucke with them Apollo vnderstanding of these oppositions tending in appearance to be a publike grieuance demanded of Sir Ferdinando Gorge wherefore hee sought to engrosse those merchandizes and to make a monopoly of the Furres which being bought of the Sauages might in time by this concourse of his fellow Christians proue a meane to ciuilize those rude Nations and specially his Maiestie askt him why he went about to appropriate the Sea Coasts to some few of his adherents which ought to be common which serued to exercise honest men in industrious courses and to make good his Law against the eating of flesh vpon prefixed dayes Sir Ferdinando Gorge answered Most dread Soueraigne the honour of a King consisteth as well in aduancing the building vp his Sauiours Church as the inlarging of his Territories which may proue an addition to the strengthening of his Forces and the inriching of his Crowne For the perfection of which glorious worke it pleased God to raise mee and others to aduenture our meanes for the discouery of this Country called New England which before lay vnknowne Hauing found it a habitable place commodious for the vse of many distressed people whom I saw to grone vnder the burthen of pouerty in my natiue Soile I resolued to imitate the painefull Bees to build houses like Hiues and therein to transplant them For which purpose to auoyd the confused state of an Anarchy I prepared the Plantation intended with the support of the Regall countenance and to that end got the Patent specified by my Aduersaries with large priuiledges immunities and power whereby our Planters might rest assured not onely of security against Drones but also of the quiet fruition of their profitable endeuours hazarded with their liues and not to bee attained without labours and the sweat of their browes Of what consequence not only this Plantation is but likewise all others of the like nature who knowes better then your Maiestie who once a yeare suruayes the vttermost parts of the earth euen to the Southerne Pole For what is it which renders a Nation vnhappy Next to the want of Gods knowledge which the Scripture termes Darknesse it is the want of necessaries for the sustentation of life as meat drinke and apparell And when through a long peace and their ouerspent fields their Country-men doe increase and mulply so that the extent of their natiue Land is not capable nor sufficient to maintaine them what poore soules shall they doe If they rob or steale they are hanged If they looke for worke perhaps they may meet with some couetous wretch that will retaine them during the haruest of Hay and Corne but in the Winter which in this Climat is longer then the Summer they may starue for lacke of food rayment and fyring This inconuenience was foreseene aboue 100. yeares since by Sir Thomas Moore who grieuously bewailes the ouer-sight of our Policies for condemning men to be hanged who robd of meere necessity whereas their Country like a prouident Mother ought rather to prouide them reliefe whereby they might liue like men borne of a wise and politike mother Some mothers haue loued their children that they haue hazarded their own liues to get heritages for their younger children yea and were content to suffer want themselues rather then their ofspring should miscarry Examples we can produce many How came the world first to be planted If the first Generations after Noahs Flood had all abode in Armenia Chaldea and Assyria the rest of the world had beene created in vaine Therefore God sundred them by confounding their languages at Babell that the glory of his power might be noised in all Regions and the sound of his Name throughout all Nations This made Saturne to plant in Italy This made Hercules to trauell to the Atlantique Iles and to ingraue his name on those memorable Pillars at the Straights of Gibraltar This made Iaso● with his braue Fleete of Argonantickes to saile into Cholchos in hope of a perpetuall Trade for the Gold of that place with his Grecian Commodities How came the Iles the Iles of the Gentiles to be peopled but by Plantations transported vpon the charge of able and substantiall persons Marseiles was ciuilized and inhabited with a Greeke Colony From whence are we all come into these parts We are not Natiues but after many hands led into this Kingdome Wee came from Saxony our selues as the most of Italy doe descend from the Northerly parts of Germany The Spaniards deriue their pedegrees from the runnagate Gothes or from the Moores who likewise glory to bee a remnant of the fugitiue Arabes O what a shame is it vnto vs at this day to see whole numbers of our English and Scottish dispersed abroad in Popish and Moorish Countries turned Apostataes and in time forgoing the memory of their naturall Mother-tongue as of the tue Faith wherein they were baptized Now how easily might this monstrous and inhumane absurdity be preuented by a timely Plantation To this end haue I and my Copartners laboured But as we were laying the foundation these Antiplanters