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tered, as well as a discouragement to any grasping 

 tendency which might be latent in the breasts of the 

 not altogether regenerate. "Which did make me 

 often thinke," says Bradford, "of what I had read in 

 Plinie of ye Romans first beginnings in Romulus 

 time. How every man contented himself with two 

 aceres of land, and had no more assigned 

 them . . . and long after the greatest present 

 given to a Captaine that had gotte a victory. . . . 

 was as much ground as they could till in one day. 

 And he was not counted a good but a dangerous man 

 that would not content himself with seven aceres of 

 land." Also it reminds him of "how they did pound 

 their corne in morters, as these people were forcte 

 to doe many years before they could get a mille." 



The characteristic stem disapproval of joy and 

 gaiety and beauty for beauty's sake that formed so 

 great a portion of the creed of those who settled Ply- 

 mouth Colony, was cherished by the later Puritans, 

 as well — those "new planters" who settled on the 

 shores of Massachusetts Bay ten years after the found- 

 ing of Plymouth. In many ways, indeed, these were 

 greater fanatics than the little band of Independents 

 who had found Holland and the Hollanders not al- 

 together to be approved. They had not separated 

 themselves from the Church of England, to be sure, 

 as the Independents had; but they were in the throes 



