The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . I/THOUGH the doughty captain of the PilgrimFathers wrote his name Myles Standish,we follow the usual custom in modernizinghis spelling. He was born in the year 1584,in Lancashire, England, of a good family,of which there were two branches loneestablished in that country—the Standishesof Standish, and the Standishes of DuxburyHall. It is related by Froissart that therebel, Wat Tyler, when advancing to strike King Richardthe Second, was slain by a squyer of the Kynges calledJohn Standysshe, who was knighted for t
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . I/THOUGH the doughty captain of the PilgrimFathers wrote his name Myles Standish,we follow the usual custom in modernizinghis spelling. He was born in the year 1584,in Lancashire, England, of a good family,of which there were two branches loneestablished in that country—the Standishesof Standish, and the Standishes of DuxburyHall. It is related by Froissart that therebel, Wat Tyler, when advancing to strike King Richardthe Second, was slain by a squyer of the Kynges calledJohn Standysshe, who was knighted for the deed. Like many other adventurous young Englishmen of thatday, Miles served for some time in the Dutch armies, in thelong war which Holland carried on against Spain, and whichresulted at last in the establishment of Dutch suspension of hostilities having taken place, by the truceof 1609, Miles Standish settled with the English Separatists,who had fled to Amsterdam from persecution in their nativeland. Here they had John Robinson as their pastor, andWilliam Br
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