Excerpt from The Americana, an Universal Reference Library, Vol. 7 of 16: Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., Of the World Fleece Golden, in Grecian mythology, the fleece of gold taken from the ram on which Phrixus and Helle escaped from being sacrificed. Fleece, Order of the Golden, a military order instituted by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, at Bruges, 10 Jan. 1429, on the occa sion of his marriage with the Portuguese prin cess, Isabella. The order now belongs to both Austria and Spain. See golden fleece, order of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.