[41] The facts in the above description of Amsterdam are taken from Motley’s Rise of the Dutch Republic, from various accounts of travels in the Low Countries, and particularly from the very interesting and instructive “Tour” of W. Chambers. London, 1837. [42] Bancroft, Hist. United States, vol. 1, p. 303. [43] Ibid. Bradford, Young, Stoughton, etc. [44] Bradford, Hist. Plymouth Plantation. [45] Stoughton, p. 82. Young’s Chronicles. [46] Morton’s Memorial, Prince, Bradford. [47] Bradford, Cotton Mather, etc. [48] Stoughton, p. 82. [49] Bradford, Hist. Plymouth Plantation, p. 17. [50] Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius; first printed in English in 1534. Debley’s Typog. Antiq., vol. 3, p. 289. [51] Bradford, pp. 17, 18. [52] Bradford, pp. 17, 18. Young, etc. [53] Bradford, pp. 17, 18. [54] Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 47. [55] Bradford, p. 18. Stoughton. [56] Cited in Stoughton, p. 84. [57] Robinson died at Leyden, March 1, 1625. [58] For an interesting account of Ziska, or Zisca, the blind Hussite leader of the Bohemian insurgents, who was never defeated, see Mosheim’s Eccles. Hist., cent. XV., Hallam’s Hist. of the Middle Ages, vol. 1, p. 463, or the Encyclopædia Americana, article “Zisca.” [59] Bradford, pp. 18, 19. [60] Ibid., pp. 19, 20. [61] The Walloons inhabited the southern Belgic provinces bordering on France. As they spoke the French language, “they were called _Gallois_, which was changed, in Low Dutch, into Waalsche, and in English into Walloon.” Many of them were Protestants, and being subject to relentless persecution by the Spanish government, they emigrated in great numbers into Holland, carrying with them a knowledge of the industrial arts. See Bradford’s Hist. Plym. Plantation, p. 20, note. [62] Bradford, p. 20. Stoughton, Young, Ashton’s Life of Robinson. [63] Stoughton, p. 85. [64] Bradford, Young, Neal, Mather, etc. [65] A collection of the Works of John Robinson was printed in London in 1851, with a memoir and annotations by Mr. Robert Ashton. [66] Bradford, p. 21. Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, vol. 1, p. 47. [67] Bradford, Mather, Stoughton. [68] Ibid., Young, Ashton’s Life of Robinson. [69] Robinson’s Apology for the Romanists. [70] Uhden, New England Theocracy, p. 42. Robinson’s Works, etc. [71] Uhden, p. 42. [72] This “famous truce,” so long desired, embraced a period of twelve years. It was signed in April, 1609, and expired in 1621. Grattan, Hist. Netherlands. [73] Bancroft, Hist. United States, vol. 1, p. 303. [74] Bradford, Hist. Plymouth Plantation, pp. 22, 23. [75] See Plutarch’s Life of Cato the Younger. [76] Bradford. [77] Proverbs 22:3. [78] Bradford. [79] Bradford, p. 24. [80] Bradford, p. 24. [81] For additional reasons, see Young, p. 385. [82] Bancroft, Hist. United States, vol. 1, p. 303. [83] Bradford, p. 24; Young’s Chronicles, etc. [84] In allusion, probably, to the plantation project at Sagadahoc, in 1607. See Bancroft and others.