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Show The "Mayflower'' Compad In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are writen, the lovall ' subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, ', ', of Great Britaine, Fiance, & Ireland, king, defender of ye faith, &c, ; '; haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye '' Christian faith, and honour of our king & cnunlrie, a voyage to plaut ye first colonie in ye Xortherue parts of Virginia, dac by thexe vrc.-'ents $ solemn!' & mutual;.' in yo presence of God. and one of another, rove- nant & combine our -fives togenther iuto a civil body politick, for our' ! better ordering &- preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid: and ! I by rertue hearof to onaete, constitute, and frame such just. Jc equall laues, I ordinances, actes, constitutions. & offices, from time to time, as shall be ' 1 thought most meote & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonic, unto ! I Tvhicb we promise all due submission and obedience. In Tvitnes whereof we '. have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape-Cod ye 11. of November, in '! , the year of vc raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Jumos, of England, France & Irdaud ye IS, and of Scotland ye f iftie-fourth, Ado. Dom. 1620.' ;' r s |