various congregations; the flight of the little flock to Holland and thence to America, and the daily life of those first eventful years. The narrative continues down to the year 1646. It is accurate and readable, and it is almost the only authority for the period which it covers.
The manuscript has had a romantic history. It was not published, and at the death of its author it passed from hand to hand, many of the historians of the time making large extracts from it, until at length it found its way into the archives of the old South Church of Boston. After the British occupation of this church during the Revolution, it disappeared, and for almost a century it was mourned as lost. But in 1855, it was found in the library of the Bishop of London and published entire by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Required Reading.- Extracts from Bradford's History. Maynard, Merrill & Co.
2. John Winthrop (1588—1646).
Life (by Robert C. Winthrop; by Joseph II. Twitchell). As Bradford is the historian of the PlymouthHistory of New England.
1630—1646 Colony, so Winthrop is the chronicler of Massachusetts Bay. He was the first governor of the Plantation, and from 1643. until his death he was governor of the united Colonies of Massachusetts.
The first entries in Winthrop's journal were made on shipboard during the long two months' voyage to New
