43. Negotiations between the Pilgrims and the Virginia Company for the Wincob charter: Cushman's letter explaining the delay; from Bradford's _Plymouth Plantation_ 113 44. Articles of Partnership between Pilgrims and London merchants; _ib._ 114 45. The "farewell letter" from Pastor Robinson: the Pilgrims a "body politic" with power of self-government; _ib._ 116 46. The Mayflower Compact; _ib._; with addendum--The Exeter Agreement; from Hazard's _State Papers_ 116 47. The Peirce charter of June, 1621, from the New England Council; from the _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_ 118 48. Early history and hardships:[2] _a._ Edward Winslow's letter of December, 1621, to a friend in England; from Arber's _Story of the Pilgrim Fathers_ 120 _b._ Captain John Smith's account, in 1624; _Works_ 122 49. The final source of Plymouth land titles: _a._ Bradford's Patent of 1630; from Hazard's _State Papers_ 124 _b._ Bradford's surrender of the same to the colony; _ib._ 126 50. Extracts from the "Fundamental Laws" of 1636; _ib._ 127 XI. The Founding of Massachusetts Bay 51. The Gorges claim: _a._ The charter from the New England Council to Robert Gorges (1622); from Sir Ferdinando Gorges' "Briefe Narration," in Hazard's _State Papers_ 129 _b._ The Gorges expedition of 1623; _ib._, in _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_ 131 52. The founding of Salem and Charlestown: White's "Relation" (1630); from Young's _Massachusetts Chronicles_ 132 53. The Massachusetts Company's charter of 1629; from the _Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay_, edited by Nathaniel Shurtleff (usually quoted here as the _Massachusetts Colonial Records_) 137 54. The docket of the above charter, as it was presented for royal approval (showing the King's expectation that the charter was to remain in England); from the _Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings_ for 1869-1870 144 55. Excursus: discussion of the original intention of the grantees in the Massachusetts charter as to removing to America, with illuminating extracts from the "Charter of the Company of Westminster for the Plantation of Providence Isle"; (the document from the manuscript in British Record Office) 146