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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... continued to chuckle the rest of the way to Shrewsbury, where he dispatched me with the utmost civility. From there he hastened onto a train to London, where, it seemed to me, he had some terribly unimportant appointments to keep. In ...
... continued in that vein well into his maturity—abandoning a wife who did not please him, reigning over the Council of the Marches of Wales like a despot, even deigning to be interred in the end beside his wine cellar, a decision that his ...
... continued to go smoothly between the Mores even then. But by the time Richard More was baptized, on November 13, 1614, a cruel physical fact was becoming all too plain. As Samuel put it, there was a “likeness and resemblance of most of ...
... continued to be so, Katharine could expect an ally—and perhaps some small dispensation—from her uncle, who, in addition to having no heirs, lived in far-off London. She would need that alliance, because the worst was still to come ...
... continued to receive a dispensation.) Back and forth they went, then back and forth again. Katharine must have relocated to London for the trial—perhaps to her uncle Mathew Smale's manor in Paddington—because the Act Books record no ...
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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 | |