Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . nt bythe people,— A cliurch without a bishop,A state without a kini;. Here is their writing, some of it tpiaint and crabbed,some fair and legible. Here, on these verv pages,rested the hands, fresh from handling the sword andthe musket, or the peaceful implements of husbandry,of Bradford and Brewster and Standish. and othersof that heroic band. Here is the original laying-outof the first street,—Leyden Street.^ Here is theplan of the plots of ground first assigned for yearlyuse, which they called, in the tinge ^of the Dutch 24 tongu
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . nt bythe people,— A cliurch without a bishop,A state without a kini;. Here is their writing, some of it tpiaint and crabbed,some fair and legible. Here, on these verv pages,rested the hands, fresh from handling the sword andthe musket, or the peaceful implements of husbandry,of Bradford and Brewster and Standish. and othersof that heroic band. Here is the original laying-outof the first street,—Leyden Street.^ Here is theplan of the plots of ground first assigned for yearlyuse, which they called, in the tinge ^of the Dutch 24 tongue they had acquired in their long residence inHolLand, • meersteads. Here are the simple andyet wise rules — laws they can hardly yet be called— laid down for the government of the infant is the will of Standish ; the order establishingjury trial, in Gov. Bradfords writing; the order forthe tirst customs law; the division of cattle intolots, one cow being divided into thirteen lots. Itwas four years after the Landing before any domestic. PILGRIM MEERSTEADS, TOWN BROOK. cattle were brought over, and in order to equalizethem they were divided into lots, each family havingone. It must have been a pretty nice affair to dividethe milk of one cow among thirteen parties, tosatisfy all. Here, also, is the original patent to the companyfrom the Earl of ^^arwick, granted in 1629, with itsgreat wax seal engraved for the purpose, and theoriginal box in which it came from England. Hereare signatures, also, of nearly as much interest as 25 those of the Pilgrims themselves,— the marks of theoriginal proprietors of all these broad helds andforests, whose names are represented by signs ofbows and tortoises, of reptiles and animals. Here are also ancient deeds written in the Indianlanguage, as put in form by Eliot and Mayo. Therecord clerk must have had his patience severelytaxed when they were copied. A handsome lawn lies in the rear of the CourtHouse, and near by is tli
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