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leisure by Rev. John White or Counsellor Whyte, on both of 

 whom the Company much leaned for counsel. But the Gov- 

 ernor's letter preoccupied the ground — more brief and less 

 minute, yet equally comprehensive and exhausting all the chief 

 topics — written with dispatch but touching every subject and 

 adopted in the Company's two letters as part and parcel of 

 them. And here again we see the master spirit. In the first 

 patent, Sir Henry Roswell appeared, but it was only in name. 

 Cradock's lot and part in the business, when he appeared, was 

 not only a name but a reality. Cradock's name was equivalent 

 to action ; and wherever that appeared, there was action. That 

 first dispatch of his to Endicott was significant of his over- 

 shadowing agency and acknowledged supremacy in the Company 

 affairs, and of the unbounded confidence of his associates in his 

 judgment and capacity. 



This letter is dated "From my house, Swithen's lane, near 

 London Stone, Feb. 16, 1628, ^tUo Anglia3," — and where is 

 that lane 7 Look at the map of London and you'll find, not far 

 from London Bridge, the very spot, where 228 years ago, 

 that letter was first penned by its author. 



In a little curved street, within the Roman walls of the old 

 city of London proper, between King Williams' and Cannon 

 Streets, with the Exchange, Mansion House and Bank of Eng- 

 land in sight or hard by, Lombard, Broad and Threadneedle 

 streets at the North, the Tower a few squares East, and St. 

 Paul's Church not many more squares West, (a lane, where in 

 modern days the Rothschilds pay out their foreign loan dividends 

 and by their purse control the policy of the nations and the 

 destiny of the people of Europe,) in that semi-circular obscure 

 lane, Cradock's brain first conceived this letter to Endicott 

 (saved as by a miracle to the present day) which embodied the 

 hopes and mirrored the policy of future millions of men. 



St. Swithen's Lane indeed ! so typical of toil and treasure 

 two centuries ago, and now so famous for its more than princely 

 banking inhabitants, was well worth the search it cost me to find 

 it on the map. In this vicinity was passed the early and later life 



