[85] This debate is copied from Bradford, pp. 25-27. [86] Bradford, Young, Elliot, Bancroft, etc. [87] Wilson’s Pilgrim Fathers, p. 341. [88] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 204. [89] Ibid. [90] Ibid., Bradford, Young. [91] Wilson’s Pilgrim Fathers, p. 356. [92] Ibid., Bradford, Bancroft. [93] Bradford, p. 29. [94] Ibid. [95] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 304. [96] Bradford, p. 28. [97] Bradford, p. 28. [98] For some account of Sir Edwin Sandys, one of the most prominent members of the Virginia company, see Hood’s Athenæ Oxon., vol. 2, p. 472. [99] This letter, as also that of Sandys which occasioned it, may be found _in extenso_ in Bradford, pp. 30, 31, 32, 33. [100] Bradford, p. 29. [101] Bancroft, p. 305. [102] Bancroft. [103] Bradford. [104] Ibid. “Being taken in the name of one who failed to accompany the expedition, the patent was never of the least service.” Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 303. [105] Bancroft, pp. 305, 306. The title of the company thus formed was “The Merchant Adventurers.” See Elliot, vol. 1, p. 49. [106] Bradford. Winslow in Young’s Chronicles. [107] Ibid. [108] Bradford. Winslow in Young’s Chronicles. [109] Bradford, p. 42. [110] Bancroft. [111] Ezra 8:21. This is the version in Bradford’s Narrative. [112] Stoughton, Spiritual Heroes—The Pilgrim Fathers. [113] Neale; Winslow in Young; Belknap, Stoughton, etc. [114] Stoughton, p. 97. [115] The first separatists were so called after Robert Brown, who, in the latter part of the sixteenth century, propounded a system of church government which contained many of the features of modern Congregationalism. Brown was born in 1549, and was a relative of Elizabeth’s lord-treasurer, the famous Burleigh. In 1582 he published his book, “The Life and Manners of True Christians,” and suffered persecution therefor. Eventually, after a roving life, he conformed to the church of England, and was made rector in Northamptonshire. Shortly after, he died very miserably in a jail. Strype’s Annals, vol. 2. Collier’s Eccl. Hist., part 2, book 7. [116] Winslow’s account of Robinson’s Sermon. [117] Wilson’s Pilgrim Fathers. Bradford, Belknap. [118] Elliot, Hist. of New England, vol. 1. Palfrey, etc. [119] Ibid., Bradford, Young. [120] Winslow in Young’s Chronicles. [121] Stoughton. [122] Ibid., p. 100. [123] Young’s Chronicles. Bradford. [124] Bradford. [125] Bradford, pp. 69, 70. [126] Dated Dartmouth, August 17, 1620. Cushman remained in England. Elliot, vol. 1, p. 57. [127] Bancroft. [128] Virgil’s Æneid, book 1. [129] Elliot, Hist. New England, vol. 1, pp. 58, 59. [130] See this whole letter in Bradford, pp. 64-67. [131] Bradford, Young, etc. [132] Bancroft, vol. 1, p. 310. This compact was signed Nov. 11, 1620. [133] Ibid., p. 309. [134] “Some have charged that the Dutch bribed the captain to deceive the Pilgrims. Bradford does not mention it, and the Dutch historians deny it.” Elliot, vol. 1, p. 59. [135] Uhden, Wilson, Smith’s Narrative, etc.