The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
LOG OF THE MAYFLOwER ;,
"e"iv Gov. Bradford's .Hfstorv Of
FHmOuth PLANTATION


""V. Bradford's "Hfstory of
PIfmOuth Plantations
Inere are facsimiles in several Nav,
LORI. rork city libraries of the so-caI,ad
log OF the Mayf1ower," which ras
91uiilea over to former Ambassador
Dayaro by the bishop of London re-
Gently The so-called log it tha
d. p,ei-hIoWn History of Plimouth
f "a written by William Brad
II t. n hsi,o OF the pilgrim governors.
.nat the manuscript turned over to
Ml. bayard is the original written nv
GOV. Bradfords own hand. Otherc
anu lhelr contention has been SIM
ported by many English and American
newspapers, believe that the bishon If
- tI Fulham MS. Is an early COW
OF the history as written bv Ca,.
Bradford. This opinion is based n uon;
Inc opinions of those learned in differ.
thhe!atlng handwritings They believe
elat the bishop of London's MS is a
copy made within twenty or thirty
years of Bradford's time.
HoV. bradford had the historians in
ton1t Kept records of events, and
LOOK every opportunity to collect lot
ters bearing upon pilgrim history T.,
Io4l and l64S he completed the history
oe the colony from 1920 up to the time
vi writing. This manuscript histor,,
was handed down, il is believed in his
own own family. Morton's New Englanfi,s
MienloI1al, published in 1869, Is almost
aeiieosether made up Of liberal Quota
tlons from Gov. Bradford's chronioI,
Late in the seventeenth centurJ, ~
history ms came into the hands of Rev
= dhomas Prince, who put it in the O15
South church collection Rev M
Frlnce said that this copy was the
original I.s,, as writ by the hand of Gov
Wllllam Bradford" But Prince was
tho selaGlous when holding forth upon
Inc value of his collection. TJnon hia
veracity in this particular instance
rests the entire contention for the an
tnentlc1ty of the bishop of Ton6on,s
MS: When it was in the possession Of
fr1nce 1t was also used as material
3or GOV. Hutchinsons History of New
!E I. When Prince died. in 1752
the care of the deacons. 40
upon the evacuation of Roston T.,
100 the British soldiery ransacked tho
museum In the tower of the Old south
cnurch. Gov. Bradford's letter book
Whlch was part of the historical trea
gre gre kept there, was carried to Nova
ocotla by the British. and onJv nort
OF it was ever recovered Gov R 90
Icrd's history vanished utterly for sew
envy years: In the early fifties Sam
uei WIberforce, bishop of Oxford NH
tsned a History of the PROTESTANT
Episcopal Church in America On
page 90 of that work is a reference 70
q Ms. History OF the Plantation of
plymouth in Fulham Librarv.' There
were citations from the volume tbus
referred to. They were observed -
re Identical with the citations from
the lost Bradford History" made hv
R1ince Morton and Hutchinson. John
Wlngate Thornton. of Boston. accord
ing to Prof Justin Wirtsor and other
authorltles, has the credit of first MOTTO
ing the correspondence between tba
ancient and modern citations sonr
after this the Massachusetts Histori-
cal society, through Charles Deane oh
tanned from the bishop of T,ondon
whose property the Fulham library is
the privilege of examining, and finally
IN 1886 of publishing the Mn Their
publ a. ion IS contained in that sccia W
.coleGtlons, fourth series, volume
.nlee; Inc Astor. Lenox. and Colum-
ola libraries have copies of this volnna
"lthln year the London MS. has
Deen copied in facsimile by a. nhotoN
lithographic process. Under the titIa
history history Of Plymouth Plantation. bV
William Bradford" these facsiniIes
may be seen at the Lenox and CoIunos
s I,m lloFar aes The price of the fac
The portions of Bradford,s b;.+o
Whlch record the voyage of the No
mower are contained in chan+er-
ana .. They have often been renrinted
samples showing how different tbn
chronicle is from the ordinary cancer
elon OF ships log may be seen in The
following: III 'lie
Cushn1an to E. s.. dated Dar+n roonas'
Aug. II, 1920, Incorporated in tha his,
tory.) ~ me ms
our pinass will not cease leakine
els think we had been halle wav a.
virginia, our Wage hither hath been
as fuil or crosses as our selves have
been full of crokednes. ->
"Poore William King and NV so,eo
zoe strive who shall be meate FIRST for
We nshes; but we locke for a glorious
resurrection, knowing Christ JesnS
AFTER We flesh no more but looking unto
We Joy vt is before US, we will endure
an these things and accounte them lpht
IN comparison of We joye we hope for :"
tory. '"e LIS
Ahd may not omite here a spetialI
work of Gods providence. Their was
proud very profane yong man. ono
OF we sea-men, Of s. hustle able bodv
which made him the more hauty. he
would allWay be contemning We moore
pSople III lHelT Sickness q curSinp them
dayly with greeveous excavations and
did not let to tell them, that he honed
to help cast halle of them overload
before they came to their jorney's end
and to make merry with what they had.
and II he were by any gently reproved
ne would curse and swear most hit
teI'ly. But it pleased God before thew
came halle seas over to smite this wong
man with greeveous disease of which,
he died in desperate maner and So
was himselfe we first vt was throwne
overheard. Thus his curses light on
his own head; and it was an astonisb-
mente to all his fellows, for thew noted
it to be We just hand Of God unon
him. Npoii
In the first few fyleAves of the MS
is a Hebrew glossary, in the same hand
writing as the body of the history
1t purports to be written by Gov
Bradford because of his longing de-
sire to see with "owne eyes something
of that most ancient language and
holy tongue in which the law, the ora
cles of God were wrote, and in which
God and his angels spake to the holy
patriarks of old time" In the back
is a list Of the Mayflowers company,