Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the PilgrimsMacmillan, 1. 4. 2007 - Počet stran: 272 David Lindsay, researching old records to learn details of the life of his ancestor, Richard More, soon found himself in the position of the Sorcerer's Apprentice-wherever he looked for one item, ten more appeared. What he found illuminated not only More's own life but painted a clear and satisfying picture of the way the First Comers, Saints and Strangers alike, set off for the new land, suffered the voyage on the Mayflower, and put down their roots to thrive on our continent's northeastern shore. From the story, Richard emerges as a man of questionable morals, much enterprise, and a good deal of old-fashioned pluck, a combination that could get him into trouble-and often did. He lived to father several children, to see, near the end of his life, a friend executed as a witch in Salem, and to be read out of the church for unseemly behavior. Mayflower Bastard lets readers see history in a new light by turning an important episode into a personal experience. |
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... Lords table and required to repent as Revelation 2:21. —The Records of the First Church of Salem. A. COMMON FAME: that was the heart of it. You had heard of his exploits, and what you had not heard could always be gleaned from the gossips ...
... Lord's Supper; and then at last, as the captain departed, cut off from the church—a man hove into the darkness—the bell took up its tolling again. But you must have wondered, too, at what lay behind his words, which in the end were only ...
... Lord Zouch, a post he kept until his lordship's death in 1625.3 If Samuel needed a change from his situation at home, Lord Zouch provided a first-rate opportunity. Zouch had spent his youth on the Continent as a self-admitted wastrel ...
... Lord Zouch's had remarked, “and most of the presenters went backward, or fell down; wine did so occupy their upper chambers.”7 Falling in with the Zouch retinue, Samuel could easily drown his worries in the pageantry of it all—and ...
... Lord Zouch in London. This is some stunningly swift maneuvering for a man who had sat idle through five years of unhappy wedlock. But Katharine was not entirely unprepared, either: she, too, could avail herself of those labyrinthine ...
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THE PROMISED LAND | |
A MOTHERS WISH | |
TO | |
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF RICHARD MORE | |
THE BELL | |
THE QUAKER CRISIS | |
BATTLES LARGE AND SMALL | |
UNDER WATCHFUL EYES | |
HYPOCRISY UNMASKD | |
HYSTERIA | |
STONE REMAINS | |