[205]. Bradford, Plymouth, p. 27.
[206]. Ibid., pp. 28 f.
[207]. Brown, Genesis, pp. 991-94.
[208]. Correspondence in Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 31-38. The articles are reprinted by E. D. Neill, History of the Virginia Company of London (Albany, 1869), pp. 123 f.; Arber, Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 280 f.; and elsewhere.
[209]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 29 ff.
[210]. Ibid., p. 30.
[211]. Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington, 1906), vol. I, pp 221, 228. Its date was not known when Palfrey wrote. Bradford gives few dates, and the exact sequence of events is much a matter of inference. The Wincob patent has not been preserved, and its terms are unknown.
[212]. Records of the Virginia Company, vol. I, p. 303. On Feb. 16, it was stated at a meeting of the Company that Pierce's colonists did not intend to sail for two or three months. Ibid., p. 311. This early patent is connected with the Pilgrims by inference only, which, however, seems reasonable.
[213]. The text of agreement and objections is in Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 45 ff.
[214]. Smith, Works, vol. II, p. 783.