. King's handbook of Boston harbor. ins of theRoundhead colony. In his fascinating romance of Merry-Mount, Motleyplaces Sir Christophers home just north of Squantum, at the head of a beau-tiful cove. He also speaks of him as being the same person (under anothername) as the renowned Sir Fulk de Gorges, a knight of Malta, hero ofmany naval battles with Turkish fleets and Dalmatian pirates, captainof Venetian free-companies, a gallant adventurer in Spain, and a close allyof Sir Ferdinando Gorges in his schemes for renewing the triumphs ofCortez and Pizarro on the coasts of New England. But the Pu
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. ins of theRoundhead colony. In his fascinating romance of Merry-Mount, Motleyplaces Sir Christophers home just north of Squantum, at the head of a beau-tiful cove. He also speaks of him as being the same person (under anothername) as the renowned Sir Fulk de Gorges, a knight of Malta, hero ofmany naval battles with Turkish fleets and Dalmatian pirates, captainof Venetian free-companies, a gallant adventurer in Spain, and a close allyof Sir Ferdinando Gorges in his schemes for renewing the triumphs ofCortez and Pizarro on the coasts of New England. But the Puritans madeshort work of this brilliant and ambitious monk-soldier, who was brandedin their colonial records, as a person unmeete to inhabit here. , in his History of Massachusetts (written 120 years ago), thusdespatches the unfortunate knight: In the same ship [in 1631] Sir Chris-topher Gardner was sent home under confinement. He was a Knight ofthe Sepulchre, but concealed his true character, and came over last year,. Captain Miles Standish. XT/JVCS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 99 under pretence of separating himself from the world, and living a life ofretirement and devotion. He offered to join to several of the churches,but he was suspected to be an immoral man, and not received. He hada comely young woman which travelled with him. He called her his some miscarriages in Massachusetts, he fled to the Indians. Theycarried him to Plymouth, having first used him pretty roughly. Fromthence he was sent to Boston. He joined afterwards with Gorges, Mason& others in complaints against the colony. In his Rhyme of Sir Chris-topher, Longfellow is equally censorious : — It was Sir Christopher Gardiner,Knight of the Holy Sepulchre,From Merry England over the sea,Who stepped upon this continentAs if his august presence lentA glory to the colony. But a double life was the life he led;And, while professing to be in searchOf a godly course, and willing, he said,Nay, a
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