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England, from the Discovery to 1680." Massachusetts Historical
Collection, 2nd Series, Vol. I., p. 62.)

Palfrey says: "All that is extant of what can properly be called the
legislation of the first twelve years of the colony of Plymouth,
suffices to cover in print only two pages of an octavo volume." (History
of New England, Vol. I., pp. 340, 341.)]

[Footnote 15: "Their residence in Holland had made them acquainted with
the various forms of Christianity; a wide experience had emancipated
them from bigotry; and they were never betrayed into the excesses of
religious persecution, though they sometimes permitted a disproportion
between punishment and crime." (Bancroft's History of the United States,
Vol. I., p. 322.)

"The Plymouth Church is free from blood." (Elliott's History of New
England, Vol. I., p. 133.)]

[Footnote 16: "Charles the Second, with a spirit that does honour to his
reign, at that time meditated important plans for the reformation of New
England." (Annals of the Colonies, pp. 88, 89.)]

[Footnote 17: Moore's Lives of the Governors of New Plymouth, p. 228.

The contest between the Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Puritans of
Massachusetts, in regard to granting a separate charter to the former,
was severe and bitter. The Plymouth Government, by its tolerance and
loyalty, had been an "eyesore" to the other intolerant and disloyal
Puritans of Massachusetts. Perhaps the Imperial Government of the day
thought that the fusion of the two Governments and populations into one
would render the new Government more liberal and loyal; but the result
proved otherwise.]

[Footnote 18: "Most of his descendants were loyalists during the
American Revolution. One of them was the wife of John S. Copley, the
celebrated painter, and father of the late Lord Lyndhurst" (Moore.)]

[Footnote 19: Jahleel Brenton, grandson of Governor Wm. Brenton, had
twenty-two children. His fourth son, born Oct. 22, 1729, entered the
British navy when a youth, distinguished himself and rose to the rank of
Admiral. He died in 1802. "His son Jahleel was bred to the sea, rose to
be an Admiral, and was knighted in 1810." (Moore's Lives of the
Governors of New Plymouth, p. 229.)]

[Footnote 20: In 1650 he removed to the West Indies, where he laid the
foundation of several large estates, and where he died, in Barbadoes, in
1655. (Moore, p. 126.) "Thomas Richard, the third Lord Holland, married
an heiress by the name of Vassall, and his son,