The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[64]. Hakluyt, Voyages, vols. VII, p. 144, and III, p. 89.

[65]. Ibid., vol. II, p. 108; cf. also the earlier charter of Richard II (1391), cited by C. T. Carr, Select Charters of Trading Companies (Selden Society, London, 1913), pp. xi ff.

[66]. Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. VIII, p. 20. Professor H. L. Osgood states that “by the realm was usually meant England, Wales, and Berwick on Tweed.” The American Colonies in the 17th Century (New York, 1907), vol. III, p. 6. In Gilbert's charter, the words “realmes of England and Ireland” are used. Scotland, of course, was a separate realm.

[67]. Brown, Genesis, p. 20.

[68]. Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. VIII, p. 157.

[69]. S. Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes (ed. Glasgow, 1905), vol. XVIII, p. 302.

[70]. The clandestine nature of the voyage is proved by B. F. deCosta, “Gosnold and Pring,” in N. E. Historical and Genealogical Register, 1878, vol. XXXII, pp. 76-80.

[71]. Purchas, Pilgrimes, vol. XVIII, pp. 322-28.

[72]. “We found the land a place answerable to the intent of our discovery, viz. fit for any nation to inhabit.” “Rosier's Relation,” in Burrage, Early English and French Voyages (New York, 1906), p. 371. Sir F. Gorges, “A Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings, etc., 1658,” in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series III, vol. VI, p. 50.

[73]. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America and West Indies, 1574-1660, p. 695 (hereafter cited as Cal. State Pap., Col.); J. P. Baxter, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine (Prince Society, Boston, 1890), vol. I, p. 65.