Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . F PEREGRINE WHITE. the • Mayliower by Bradford, and afterwards givenby liim to the church ; a book printed In ElderBrewster: the notebook of Elder Faunce: a numberof interesting autographs ; and a collection of vesselsused in the Sacrament, presented to the church manyvears ago, but now superseded bv those of moremodern stvle. The .\ldcn case stands on the south side of thehall, near tlu Sargrnt jiicturc. and contains |ohnAldcns llihlc, piintcd in i(>2o: a iKilbcrd he onceowned and jirobabb broir^ht with liiiu in llie Mav- 18 fl
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . F PEREGRINE WHITE. the • Mayliower by Bradford, and afterwards givenby liim to the church ; a book printed In ElderBrewster: the notebook of Elder Faunce: a numberof interesting autographs ; and a collection of vesselsused in the Sacrament, presented to the church manyvears ago, but now superseded bv those of moremodern stvle. The .\ldcn case stands on the south side of thehall, near tlu Sargrnt jiicturc. and contains |ohnAldcns llihlc, piintcd in i(>2o: a iKilbcrd he onceowned and jirobabb broir^ht with liiiu in llie Mav- 18 flower ; also ancient documents with his to this is the Standish case, in which is thefamous Damascus sword of the redoubtable Pilgrimcaptain. Gen. Grant, on his visit to Plymouth, , 1880, was much interested in this ancient weapon,and handled it with evident satisfaction. The Arabicinscriptions on the blade have always been a puzzle,and, notwithstanding many attempts, remained unde-cipherable until the visit to the town, June 7, 1881, k. / - SWORD, POT AN of Prof. James Rosedale, of Jerusalem, with a troupeof Arabs from Palestine. Mr. Rosedale, being anexcellent linguist, was shown the sword, and pro-nounced the inscriptions to be of different dates;one of them in Cufic, very old, and the other inmedi;Tival Arabic of a later period, but still veryancient. To the last he readily gave the followingtranslation : — 19 /TV/// peace God ruled His shues {creatures)^ ami7Cif/i the jud^^uiciit of His ar/u He troubled the uiii^htvof the ivicked. He had no doubt that the weapon dated back twoor three centuries before the Christian era, and mightbe much older. It is probable that this famous bladecame down to Capt. Standish from the Crusaders,and possessed an interesting history even in his this case are an iron pot and other articles founda number of years since in the cellar of the Standishhouse at Duxbury. There is also a piece of embroi-dery, worked by th
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