Golding was given the job of completing John Brende's translation of Caesar's "Gallic War" when Brende died. Sir William Cecil passed the manuscript to Golding for completion sometime between Brende's death in 1560 or 1561 (the exact year he died is not certain) and 1564. At same time Golding was working on the first four books of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", which he finished in December 1564. He completed a translation begun by Philip Sidney from Philippe de Mornay, "A Worke concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion" (1604).