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of getting or doing good in those parts. But we hope beter things of you, and that you will not only bear one with another, but banish shuch thoughts, and not suffer them to lodg in your brests. God grant you may disappointe the hopes of your foes, and procure the hartie desire of your selves and friends in this perticuler.

By this it appears that ther was a kind of concurrance betweene Mr. Allerton and them in these things, and that they gave more regard to his way and course in these things, then to the advise from hence; which made him bould to presume above his instructions, and to rune on in the course he did, to ther greater hurt after wards, as will appear. These things did much trouble them hear, but they well knew not how to help it, being loath to make any breach or contention hear aboute; being so premonished as before in the leter above recited. An other more secrete cause was herewith concurrente; Mr. Allerton had maried the daughter of their Reverend Elder, Mr. Brewster (a man beloved and honoured amongst them, and who tooke great paines in teaching and dispenceing the word of God unto them), whom they were loath to greeve or any way offend, so as they bore with much in that respecte. And with all· Mr. Allerton carried so faire with him, and procured shuch leters from Mr. Sherley to him, with shuch applause of Mr. Allertons wisdom, care, and faithfullnes, in the bussines; and as things stood none were so fitte to send aboute them as he; and if any should suggest other wise, it was reather out of envie, or some other sinister respecte then other wise. Besides, though private gaine, I doe perswade my selfe, was some cause to lead Mr. Allerton aside in these beginings, yet I thinke, or at least charitie caries me to hope, that he intended to deale faithfully with them in the maine, and had shuch an opinion of his owne abillitie, and some experience of the benefite that he had made in this singuler way, as he conceived he might both raise him selfe an estate, and allso be a means to bring in shuch profite to Mr. Sherley, (and it may be the rest,) as might be as lickly to bring in their moneys againe

with advantage, and it may be sooner then from the generall way; or at least it was looked upon by some of them to be a good help ther unto; and that neither he nor any other did intend to charge the generall accounte with any thing that rane in perticuler; or that Mr. Sherley or any other did purposs but that the generall should be first and fully supplyed. I say charitie makes me thus conceive; though things fell out other wise, and they missed of their aimes, and the generall suffered abundan[t]ly hereby, as will afterwards apear. [169]

Togeither herewith sorted an other bussines contrived by Mr. Allerton and them ther, without any knowledg of the partners, and so farr proceeded in as they were constrained to allow therof, and joyne in the same, though they had no great liking of it, but feared what might be the evente of the same. I shall relate it in a further part of Mr. Sherley's leter as followeth.1

I am to aquainte you that we have thought good to joyne with one Edward Ashley (a man I thinke that some of you know); but it is only of that place wherof he hath a patente in Mr. Beauchamps name; and to that end have furnished him with large provissions, etc. Now if you please to be partners with us in this, we are willing you

1 By the date of Mr. Sherley's and Hatherley's letters of March 19, 1629-30, it seems that all this account of Ashley should be brought into 1630. — PRINCE in Bradford Ms.

2 The Letter Book, 72, makes Sherley say, "whom most of you know." Sherley here assumes that some at New Plymouth knew Ashley. He afterwards admits, however, that the English partners knew nothing about him, and had been persuaded to employ him by Allerton. The terms of the contract agreements proved to be disadvantageous to New Plymouth. See p. 121, infra.

This patent, dated March 13, 1629-30, was granted to John Beauchamp of London, gent., and Thomas Leverett, of Boston in Lincolnshire. It described all the land lying between Muscongus on the south, or southwest, and a straight line extending thence ten leagues up into the mainland, and ten leagues on the north and northeast of the river Penobscot. The original patent is in the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is printed in its Proceedings, 11. 544. The history of the grant is given in 4 Mass. Hist. Collections, 11. 226.