[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.