[Footnote 5: Remarks responding to the toast, "The Mayflower Compact,"
at the twenty-first annual banquet of the Society of Mayflower
Descendants in the State of New York, held at the Hotel St. Regis, New
York, November 23, 1915.]
[Footnote 6: Lafcadio Hearn, _Kokoro_, pp. 289-290.]
[Footnote 7: The original manuscript of the Mayflower Compact has been
lost or destroyed. The text, as preserved by Governor Bradford in his
annals entitled "Of Plimoth Plantation," is as follows:
"In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-writen, the loyall
subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of
God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith,
&c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of
ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to
plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by
those presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of
another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body
politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of
ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and
frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, &
offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient
for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due
submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed
our names at Cap-Codd ye 11. of November, in ye year of ye raigne
of our soveraigne lord, King James, of England, France, & Ireland
ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano: Dom. 1620."
Printed in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th
series, vol. III, pp. 89-90. See also the text in Bradford's History of
Plymouth Plantation, ed. W.T. Davis (1908), p. 107.]
[Footnote 8: The legislation against the Quakers as enforced in the
Plymouth colony seems to have been essentially political. The records,
so far as we have them, indicate that the Quakers were proceeded
against because of their attempts to disturb the peace and overthrow
established law and order, and not because of their religious beliefs.]
[Footnote 9: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th
series, vol. III, pp. 134-136.]