they embarked at night, and at the moment when they
expected the vessel to be loosed from her moorings, they were
betrayed by the captain and seized by the officers of the town.
They were plundered of their goods and money, arraigned before
the magistrates, and committed to prison till the pleasure of
the lords in council should be known. They were dismissed at
the expiration of a month, seven of the leading persons being
bound over to appear at the assizes. The following spring a
second attempt was made. They hired a small Dutch vessel, and
agreed to meet the captain at a given point on the banks of the
Humber, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire. After a delay of some
hours, a part of the company, chiefly men, were conveyed to the
vessel in a boat. When the sailors were about to return for
another portion of the passengers, the captain saw a great
company of horse and foot, with bills and guns, in full pursuit
of the fugitives on shore. He immediately hoisted sail, and
departed with the men he had on board, leaving their wives and
children, and the remainder of the pilgrim company, with Mr.
Robinson, to the tender mercies of their pursuers. A few of the
party escaped, the others were seized and hurried from one
magistrate to another, till the officers, not knowing what to
do with so large a company, and ashamed of their occupation in
seizing helpless, homeless, and innocent persons, they suffered
them to depart and go whither they pleased. Other attempts at
expatriation were subsequently and successfully made. The
persecuted Separatists at length reached the hospitable shores
of Holland, and rejoined their families and friends in the land
of strangers, thankful to their Almighty Father that they had
escaped in safety, from the 'fury of the oppressor,' and the
perils of the deep."

In 1609, Robinson with his people removed to Leyden, where he spent the
remainder of his days, building up the church in the truth, laying broad
and deep in the minds of the Pilgrim fathers the principles which fitted
them to become the founders of America's future greatness, and writing
those works which constitute his noblest memorial, and have yet a
mission to fulfil in our own and succeeding ages.

The fame of Robinson rests principally on three things: first, his
relation to the pilgrims; secondly, h