Show LOO OF ft HOW PRECIOUS RECORDS CAME GAME TO OK oil 09 RESTORED STORED TO AMERICA watery 1 er of the tb tot movement te to negate the maarup tho tb bedeck sad 4 the tM tarr rr la in the be belham arary ottes after aft feely tear taro 04 when the th chancellor chancello of the conold col tiry dot boutt of the be dionn ef of london landon announced recently the tb de cission of the court to return to america the long lout lost log of abe tb mayflower he L that the petition fur for its it return wa was no cot by a i ingle single per on but by ue as U e whole hole of a great notion POD a hn de la in the tb test orally wills great britain A pre for ila U return WM was found in the tho friendly action of she Il dillile lile dell dl his hi library in restoring to gnat great dris ain mo fit vol ulues were am once part ot of the archives tit of augland Fu gland to or which vl luni Ito milly sho then tuaato of the th roll rolls formally 1 the deep shenk of england tl 71 e log of the th mayflower flower he be inid con settled a of births marriA em and e abito and the pronty pr orty of the descendants of the pilgrim aki ir inter eats bupt be and ilia court decided tu to follow the custom pro rm tailing when a new einrem to t set e oft froe from an n ou old one on in watch ono the registers of birth births deaths and Ii 1 jarri are r great berred tu to the he new the urme of the ceder were won reviewed 01 ol byar liy ur Tristram judge of the rt in chamia rl within a hort short time a copy on parchment will li be pr epand and nd will bo be hendon over to mr wr layard Il Le yard with the tit aljo a a w will I 1 11 we won regain 1 of one 0 of the t h molt mt fanoun and valuable docu ment in american history hir tory governor wll will ram bradford i a of the voyage ayag of the tb mayflower and nd the Ivro onal 1 end and oo 00 events thereto ther there cutrary follow follows upon the th effort of tho the gov go bramms of tho the american antiquarian and ocl rUn the 1111 grins of plymouth ily mouth und d tho he hew new society of new now sctt 1 II 11 14 lla surra in 11 1 L 3 d cf ef the archbishop of canterbury ads nod the bishop of william bradford adford Dr a story of the May mayflower li Is one of the most valuable document documents connected with the history of this country it tell solid in f fane tue written gnei t not only the toy voy age ge of the it fl but the event in cogland england add hud 11 holland maln 4 aich ru if its ailing it also relate relates the ot of the pew pow mouth colony tor for dearly 1 10 40 yer years after the famous landing ou on plymouth hock it 16 li to a work of great accuracy and detail the author the roond omond governor of the colony poems from the bout of the hip ship i a ailing to have hod had his hi history la to mind lie appreciated the fact that be he and hid cou were living in an A epoch making j m ilo arved and filed aled awny away letter letters bad had document with tho the core cam and 1 ono mont of a bom editor ago AM poverty and the cares of eta tate to abere to defeat his hi lit ilia pm wrote on it liy by daa in the nide dimly lighted log robinson robin bin of ahe the time if by night in the glimmer of ottino loots or the open HI work when fini abed was T BJ the ocener tone stone otnel of mcw ung england ts atory it was the he of the magnificent publio library of boston ahn original script now about tn in be I 1 to so this cen contains cont a book plate stating that thi this book L long longs to the now england libroy tun to be collo cled by thoaas Pr prince Illos july 6 aos 1 1 this library wait depool by him la in the nerpio chamber of the old south church and after many la in the year igor ad in truit trust to the horton P jallo library hut the ancient llam library wa was not comp complete loto not only GOT gov eeor eror brodford Ur odford llord a history bat other works t great 1 ae bad had boben tn deterred to england how ilow they got then in 1 a matter of con joo ture it Is lia has lin in suggested that the li radford may have been among she possessions of governor when thy they we scattered oat tred by the nob in IM 1764 or may have ixon been preened by him and taken awk to Eng england landL it is li is more likely however bat that it Is wae was appropriated from the chamber when the old south woe was occupied I 1 ly y british troops during the ICKO time of boston in 1776 a and oar car tied lied to england aft after the evacuation the only i roof that uch such a work ever existed wai was gloumi in quotation from it in the book books of morton prince and nd ether en aru ly writers it alm otred in 1835 in the 1 1 beary by ho tho bishop of col oxford w writing a history of the church in america rev john P secured a copy of this church in and recognizant dome quotation quotations credited to I 1 a in fulham library a idea with quotations which morton and prince credited to governor Brad bradford fords history I 1 be cl was followed up and by a oom am mr carloo 1 0 with other known ro to belong 0 to governor bradford radford li the identity of the mayflower history was WK ito ila return to thi this country delayed for 40 40 year trill will be welcomed by all sobol arst and historians governor william cradford bradford was wa born in england in ills father and grandfather were both named william ilia 1 father died when be bewab was IS m minth antho old and bid hl grandfather when ho ba won 9 6 lie wo edvald edva td by his hl uncle he no wa won imprisoned lu in boston in lincoln shim hire and wa was arrested at braland fee his hi religious rell glou beliefs who when a mere more boy lie WM wast but 13 when he be went to holland with tb abe pilgrim in amsterdam he erred served a st frenchman french maa at the working of arta aki the volume to 1 bound in old luin with A america merka written on the bm boca in ink with the of a few low fly if it to in excellent exo ellent condition and the text Is 1 ov I 1 a clear and readable the ink asod mck by governor bradford till still lewns a dap black color while that in which the addition were made after his hi 6 weak and mattry new cw yoa crali 11 |