WILLIAM BRADFORD.
New-Plymouth, June 9, 1625.
[Mr. Cushman died before this letter arrived.]
Next follows a letter to the Council of New England, wherein their help was supplicated.
To the right Honourable his Majesty’s Council for New England these be, &c.
June 28, A.D. 1625.
Right Honourable,
The assurance we have of your noble dispositions to releave the oppressions of the innocent, doth cause us to fly unto you, as to a sanctuary, in this our just cause. It hath pleased the divine Providence to bring us into this place where we inhabit under your government, wherein we now have resided almost these five years, having put some life, into this then dreaded, design, made way for others and to all that are here, have been and still are their bulwark and defence.