“ His chief work is The Golden Grove (1600) , 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 jun., alias Will Vaughan, which contains information about Newfoundland, is the most interesting of his other works. ”