E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24950-h.htm or 24950-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/9/5/24950/24950-h/24950-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/9/5/24950/24950-h.zip) Transcribers note: Numbers in square brackets, [29], represent original manuscript pages. Letters in Square brackets, [AB], represent a link to a footnote located at the end of the book. A caret ^ indicates that the following letter/s are superscripted. The letters are enclosed in curly brackets where it may not be clear about which letters are superscripted. A square bracket, like [~m] indicates a letter with a tilde above. A square bracket, like [p=] indicates a letter with a macron under the letter. [=m] and [=n] sometimes are used to represent a double letter. 16^li. represents 16 pounds in monetary terms. The original manuscript used a middle dot before and after the numbers, but this publisher used only a single period/stop after the number. The 'li' appears to mean libra and in this book the 'l' is crossed with a middle bar or stroke. It was very difficult to represent in a Latin-1 text, so 'li' must suffice. Most often y, such as y^e, represents a thorn and the word is 'the'. Sometimes you will encounter the actual word 'the'. This book is composed of many letters written by a number of authors and each writer uses their own spellings and abbreviations, which was common for the time in which they were written. Spelling is inconsistent and is left unchanged from the original printing of this book. BRADFORD'S HISTORY "OF PLIMOTH PLANTATION." From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts. Printed Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, by Order of the General Court. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 18 Post Office Square. 1898. INTRODUCTION.