Of Plymouth Plantation | Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA)

An Electronic Edition · William Bradford (1590-1657)Original Source: Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646. Ed. William T. Davis. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908Copyright 2003. This text is freely available provided the text isdistributed with the header information provided.Full Colophon InformationHISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATIONAnd first of the occasion and indusments ther unto; the which that I may truly unfould, I must begine at the very roote and rise of the same.The which I shall endevor to manefest in a plaine stile, with singuler regard unto the simple trueth in all things, at least as near as my slender judgmente can attaine the same.1. ChapterIT is well knowne unto the godly and judicious, how ever since the first breaking out of the lighte of the gospell in our Honourable Nation of England, (which was the first of nations whom the Lord adorned ther with, affter that grosse darknes of popery which had covered and overspred the Christian worled,) what war...