Pencil by his sd Father ye Dep Gov'r. And He
also told me yt He had lent & only lent his sd Grandfather Gov'r
Bradford's History of Plimouth Colony wrote by his own Hand also, to
judg Sewall; and desired me to get it of Him or find it out, & take
out of it what I thought proper for my New-England Chronology: wh I
accordingly obtained, and This is ye sd History: wh I found wrote in
ye same Handwriting as ye Octavo manuscripts above sd.

THOMAS PRINCE.

N.B. I also mentioned to him my Desire of lodging this History in ye
New England Library of Prints & manuscripts, wh I had been then
collecting for 23 years, to wh He signified his willingness--only yt
He might have the Perusal of it while He lived.

T. PRINCE.

Following this, on the same page, is Thomas Prince's printed book-mark,
as follows:--

This Book belongs to
The New-England-Library,
Begun to be collected by Thomas Prince, upon
his entring Harvard-College, July 6
1703; and was given by

On the lower part of a blank space which follows the word "by" is
written:--

_It now belongs to the Bishop of London's Library at Fulham._

There are evidences that this leaf did not belong to the original book,
but was inserted by Mr. Prince.

At the top of the first page of the next leaf, which was evidently one
of the original leaves of the book, is written in Samuel Bradford's
hand, "march 20 Samuel Bradford;" and just below there appears, in
Thomas Prince's handwriting, the following:--

But major Bradford tells me & assures me that He only lent this Book
of his Grandfather's to Mr. Sewall & that it being of his
Grandfather's own hand writing He had so high a value of it that he
would never Part with ye Property, but would lend it to me & desired
me to get it, which I did, & write down this that sd Major Bradford
and his Heirs may be known to be the right owners.

Below this, also in Thomas Prince's handwriting, appears this line:--

"Page 243 missing when ye Book came into my Hands at 1st."

Just above the inscription by Prince there is a line or two of writing,
marked over in ink so carefully as to be wholly undecipherable. On the
reverse page of this leaf and on the first page of the next are written
Hebrew words, with definitions. These are all in Governor Bradford's
handwriting. On the next page appears the following:--

_Though I am growne aged, yet I have had a long-
ing desire, to see with my ow