page_title: William Vaughan (writer)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: William Vaughan (writer) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of The Golden Fleece by William Vaughan (1577-1641).
context_page_description: Sir William Vaughan was a Welsh writer in English and Latin. He promoted colonization in Newfoundland, but with mixed success.
context_section_description: His chief work is The Golden Grove (1600), under the pseudonym "Orpheus Junior", "a general guide to morals, politics and literature, in which the manners of the time are severely criticized, plays being denounced as folly and wickedness". The section in praise of poetry borrows much from earlier writers on the subject. 
  The Golden Fleece... transported from Cambriol Colchis, by Orpheus Junior (1626) is the most interesting of his other works. A long and fantastic prose allegory, it demonstrates "the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading" through the colonization of Newfoundland. After returning from Newfoundland he published two devotional works,The Church from the Time of our Saviour to 1640 and The Soules Exercise.
caption: Title page from The Golden Fleece (1626).
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