FOOTNOTES:
[28] The correct vote, according to the Company's Records (I, 212), is 59, 23, and 18 (No. 28 below). This, of course, was the election in April, 1619, by which the Liberals came into power. Cf. American History and Government, §§ 27, 49 and note.
[29] Things did "settle" rapidly. Bradford's narrative continues: "But at last after all these things and their long attendance, they had a Patent granted them and confirmed under the Companies seale [June 9/19, according to Records of the Virginia Company for May 26 and June 9, 1619]. ... By the advice of some of their friends, this pattente was not taken in the name of any of their owne, but in the name of Rev. John Wincob (a religious gentleman then belonging to the Countess of Lincoline), who intended to goe with them. But God so disposed as he never went, nor they ever made use of this patente, which had cost them so much labour and charge. ..."
[30] Bradford's longer accounts are omitted here, because they are quoted so freely in American History and Government.
[31] Bradford gives forty-two names,—those still interested in 1626. (Bradford's Letter Book, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, First Series, III, 48.) In his latest work (Advertisements, etc., 1630) Smith implies that the London merchants lost far the greater part of their investment,—"being out of purse six or seven thousand pounds," and accepting in lieu of this the promise of the Planters in 1627 "to pay them for nine years two hundred pounds yearely, without any other account [settlement]." Smith, no doubt, heard only the merchants' side and exaggerates their loss. Bradford's History shows that the accounts were badly muddled.
[XI. THE FOUNDING OF MASSACHUSETTS]
51. The Gorges Claim to Massachusetts
a. Charter from the New England Council to Robert Gorges. December 30/January 9, 1622/3
Hazard's State Papers (1792), I, 152 ff. Reprinted from Sir Ferdinando Gorges' Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings ... of Plantations into ... America (1658). Gorges' Briefe Narration is reprinted in full in the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Third Series, V, 45-93.
The Gorges Charter is short, and is given almost in full below.