[3] Bradford, _History_, ed. Ford, I, 70n., 77n. Winslow reported the King’s conversation long after Plymouth’s settlement in _Hypocrisie Unmasked_, cited in Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Morison, 30n. It sounds a bit overdrawn. William Brewster, a former tenant of the Sandys family, may have introduced his associates to Sir Edwin Sandys. [4] Charles M. Andrews, _The Colonial Period of American History_ (New Haven, 1934), I, 254–255, describes the system of private plantations. Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Morison, 35, 37, identifying the offer of support by Thomas Weston; the 1619 patent in Susan M. Kingsbury, ed., _The Records of the Virginia Company_ (Washington, 1906), I, 221, 228; Edward Arber, ed., _Story of the Pilgrim Fathers_ (London, 1897), ch. XXV, on Brewster; Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Morison, 356–357, for Cushman’s report on Blackwell. [5] On the Dutch offer, Bradford, _History_, ed. Ford, I, 99n. See _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, LIV, 166, 168, 177, and Astrid Friis, _Alderman Cockayne’s Project and the Cloth Trade_ (Copenhagen and London, 1927), 370, for Weston as an ironmonger and “interloper.” The lawsuit against Weston filed in the Court of Exchequer by Pickering’s executors, John Fowler, James Sherley, and Richard Andrews, appears to confirm a streak of dishonesty in Weston. The original depositions and award include interesting details about some of the Plymouth partners and their associates, _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, LIV (1922), 165–178 (summaries); P.R.O., E. 134, 22 James I, Mich. 22; Mich. 59; Hilary 22/8. The award, E. 178/5451, was kindly transcribed for me by Prof. Norma Adams. “Governor Bradford’s Letter Book,” I _Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls._, III (1794), 27, on Weston’s debts to partners. [6] John Smith, _A Description of New England_ (1616), is a plea for fishing and plantation; also Smith’s letter to Sir Francis Bacon, 1618, transcript in Bancroft Mss., New England (New York Public Library), I, 19–23. [7] Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Morison, 49–50, 43, 42, 44, 50, 55. [8] £1200 Cushman reported raised by June 1620 still left them £300 or £400. Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Morison, 45–46, 55, 56; 104n., quoting John Smith, _Generall Historie ..._ (1626); 49, 50, 57, on sale of supplies; 60, on landfall. Nathaniel Morton, _New England’s Memoriall_ (1669), (Boston, 1903), 30, on Carver. [9] Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Morison, 75n.; Bradford, _History_, ed. Ford, I, 234n., 246f. for the text and a photograph of the original indenture now on exhibit in Pilgrim Hall; Frances Rose-Troup, _Massachusetts Bay Company and its Predecessors_ (New York, 1930), 3–4, explains the difference between an indenture and a patent. [10] Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Morison, 93, Weston’s letter; Henry Martyn Dexter, ed., _Mourt’s Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth_ (Boston, 1865).