[178] I do not find any exact authority for this. [179] "This is to certify that I took the schooner _Harmony_, Nathaniel Carver, master, belonging to Plymouth, but, on account of his good services, have given him up his vessel again. "HORATIO NELSON. "Dated on board H.M. ship _Albemarle_, 17th August, 1782." [180] Governor Bradford's "History of Plymouth." [181] Green's Harbor, perhaps. [182] Followed as literally as possible, to preserve the style. [183] Named by De Monts, and supposed to be Brant Point. [184] "The south part of New England, as it is planted this yeare, 1634." [185] "Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society." [186] See Popham's settlement on the Kennebec; the Episcopal service was doubtless the first religious exercise in New England. [187] Captain John Smith, speaking of the town in 1624, says of this fortress, there was "within a high mount a fort, with a watch-tower, well built of stone, lome, and wood, their ordnance well mounted." [188] During some excavations made on the hill, remains of the watch-tower of brick came to light, indicating its position to have been in the vicinity of the Judson monument. There also existed on the hill, until about 1860, a powder-house of antique fashion, built in 1770. It had an oval slab of slate imbedded in the wall, with a Latin inscription; and there were also engraved upon it a powder-horn, cartridge, and a cannon.--"Pilgrim Memorial." [189] Robert Brown, the founder of the sect, after thirty-two imprisonments, eventually conformed. Henry Penay, Henry Barrow, and other Brownists, were cruelly executed for alleged sedition, May 29th, 1593. Elizabeth's celebrated Act of 1593 visited a refusal to make a declaration of conformity with the Church of England with banishment and forfeiture of citizenship; death if the offender returned into the realm. [190] Sir Matthew Hale used to say, "Those of the Separation were good men, but they had narrow souls, or they would not break the peace of the Church about such inconsiderable matters as the points of difference were." In this country the Independents took the name of Congregationalists. They held, among other things, that one church may advise or reprove another, but had no power to excommunicate. The churches outside of Plymouth did, however, practice excommunication. [191] Governor Bradford's Letter-book. [192] The teacher explained doctrines; the pastor enforced them by suitable exhortations. [Illustration: THE PILGRIMS' FIRST ENCOUNTER.] CHAPTER XVIII. PLYMOUTH, CLARK'S ISLAND, AND DUXBURY. "Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! They have left unstain'd what there they found-- Freedom to worship God!"--MRS. HEMANS.