[283]. There was no uniform designation until the issue of the charter of 1629, the company being variously styled “the New England Company,” “the Company of Adventurers for New England in America,” etc. Thornton, Landing at Cape Anne, p. 57 n.
[284]. Gorges, Briefe Narration, p. 80 (written many years later).
[285]. Haven, Lowell Lectures, pp. 153 f.
[286]. White, Planter's Plea, p. 43; E. Johnson, Wonder-working Providence of Sions Saviour in New-England (ed. New York, 1910), p. 45.
[287]. W. Hubbard, History of New England (1815), p. 110.
[288]. Bradford, Plymouth, p. 238.
[289]. The Robert Gorges claim had been sold in two parts, one to Sir Wm. Brereton and one to John Dorrell and John Oldham. J. G. Palfrey, History of New England (Boston, 1859), vol. I, p. 294; cf. T. Prince, Chronological History of New England (Arber reprint, London, 1897), p. 483; and Cradock's instructions in Young, Chron. Mass., pp. 147 ff., 171.
[290]. Prince, New England, p. 489; Young, Chron. Mass., pp. 132, 216. The number included 35 of the Leyden congregation bound for Plymouth.
[291]. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (ed. N. B. Shurtleff, Boston, 1853), vol. I, p. 5 (hereafter cited as Massachusetts Records). The charter is given on pp. 1-20. S. F. Haven, prefatory chapter to the Company's Records, in Archeologia Americana, 1857, vol. III, pp. cxxxiv-cxxxvi.
[292]. Young, Chron. Mass., pp. 141-71.