History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . n to escape from England disastrously andmost unrighteously foiled. The Second organized attempt of the Scrooby FreeChurchmen to reach the Land-of-Promise was by wa/ otMollie Browns Cove on the Humber River, then a lonelyspot eleven miles to the south of Grimsby and nine milesnorth of Hull. (The new Grimsby docks at Imringhamare near this site.) These were the days before the Dutchengineers had drained the fen lands—about which CharlesKingsley wrote so graphically—and also those eastern coun-ties w
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . n to escape from England disastrously andmost unrighteously foiled. The Second organized attempt of the Scrooby FreeChurchmen to reach the Land-of-Promise was by wa/ otMollie Browns Cove on the Humber River, then a lonelyspot eleven miles to the south of Grimsby and nine milesnorth of Hull. (The new Grimsby docks at Imringhamare near this site.) These were the days before the Dutchengineers had drained the fen lands—about which CharlesKingsley wrote so graphically—and also those eastern coun-ties which DeFoe described, thus turning millions of acresof swamps into a garden. A large part of Lincolnshire isstill called New Holland. Even today one walks from therailway station at Scrooby over low, swampy land, on araised board walk to the village some hundreds of yardsaway. Thornton Abbey is five miles distant. A veritable swampland edged the thousand and moreacres of upland fronting Mollie Browns Cove. The cupidity of a Dutch captain, this time from the THE SEPARATISTS IN ENGLAND 145. /IIL ,!: ...IS ,.
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