New-Englands Memoriall: or, A brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God, manifested to the planters of New-England in America; : with special reference to the first colony thereof, called New-Plimouth: As also a nomination of divers of the most eminent instruments deceased, both of church and common-wealth, improved in the first beginning and after-progress of sundry of the respective jurisdictions in those parts; in reference unto sundry exemplary passages of their lives, and the time of their death/ Published for the use and benefit of present and
New-Englands Memoriall: or, A brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God, manifested to the planters of New-England in America; : with special reference to the first colony thereof, called New-Plimouth: As also a nomination of divers of the most eminent instruments deceased, both of church and common-wealth, improved in the first beginning and after-progress of sundry of the respective jurisdictions in those parts; in reference unto sundry exemplary passages of their lives, and the time of their death/ Published for the use and benefit of present and future generations, by Nathaniel Morton, secretary to the court for the jurisdiction of New-Plimouth; [Six lines of Scripture texts]. . and of the opprejfor, when they wandredin the defert Wildernefsout of the way, and found no City to dwell in ^ both hungry andthirfly, their foul was overwhelmed in them .• Let them thereforeconfefs before the Lord his loving kmdnefs, and his wonderful Vpor^sbefore the children of men t Of the frft Planters their Combination hy entrihg into a BodyPolitick together $ With their proceedings in difioveryef .a place for their Settlement and Habitation. BEing thus fraudulently dealt with (as you have heard) andbrought fo farre to the Northward, the feafon being fharp,and no hopes of obtaining their intended Port; and therebytheir Patent being made void and ufelefs as to another place:Being at Cape Cod upon the Eleventh of November 1620. itwas thought meet for their more orderly carrying on of theirAffairs, and accordingly by mutual confent they entred into afolemn Combination as a Body Politick, Tofubmit tofuchGo-verrnment and Governours, Laws and Ordinances, asihould• 3 •• ; .. by. New-Enplands Memoriall. M by a general Confent from time to time be made choice of, andaflfented unto. The Contents whereof followed. IN the Name of God% Amen. We whofe Names ^ »as th2are under-written, the Loyal Subjects of our dread ,f^^boveraign Lord
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