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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 come in morters, as these people were forcte 
to doe many years before they could get a mille.” 
The characteristic stern 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 
