BY A. C. ADDISON AUTHOR OF "OLD BOSTON: ITS PURITAN SONS AND PILGRIM SHRINES," ETC. WITH NUMEROUS ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BOSTON L. C. PAGE & COMPANY MDCCCCXI COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST IMPRESSION, SEPTEMBER, 1911 THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS·NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A...

This is written in a Pilgrim cell, one of those dark and narrow dungeons which the Pilgrim Fathers tenanted three hundred and four years ago, in the autumn of 1607, and behind the heavy iron bars of which men have for generations delighted to be locked in memory of their lives and deeds. The present-day gaoler, less terrible than his predecessor of Puritan times, has ushered me in and closed the rusty gate upon me, and left me alone, a willing prisoner for a space. I look around, but do not star

Photograph by Hackford, Boston The River Witham, Boston II THE ARREST AT BOSTON AND FLIGHT TO HOLLAND Great things were destined to result from that none too joyous jaunt of Elder Brewster's when, late in 1607, charged by the Scrooby community to find them a way out of England, he went down to Boston and chartered a ship. William Bradford was of the Boston party. Everything was quietly done. In all likelihood the intending emigrants never entered the town, but gathered at some convenient spot on