#the mayflower

[going-through-all-my-dvds]

The Mayflower Voyages

[mackenzieboydfan]

The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delft Haven for America aboard The Mayflower by British artist Ron Embleton.

[victusinveritas]

[pulpsandcomics2]

Landfall of the Mayflower

[msclaritea]

You say no one wants a remake of War of the Roses, but you also predicted that no one wanted Eric and it would be a massive failure. Yet it is the #1 movie on Netflix all over the world.

Way to retcon, STUPID. I said I DID NOT WANT TO SEE ERIC, and would not watch it. In the meantime, enjoy the growing number of videos on YouTube, also saying that Roses is a bad idea.

Of course Eric is #1. It's got one of the greatest actors of our generation, in the Lead, whom you inbred fucks keep treating like trash, and have repeatedly blocked from big screen films. And why is that? Because you're part of the network, including Netflix, that's killing our movie industry, over a Technology that the public is already turning against. Stellar move.

Do you love the irony that so far, your weak faves, like Andrew Scott and even RDJ can't drag people to the damn TV set? Because I sure as hell do!

Penguins, huh? The British Royal Family and the Pilgrim Society.

You dirty, retarded sons of bitches.

[citizenscreen]

On this date in 1620, English colonists aboard the Mayflower set sail for America, where they founded Plymouth, Massachusetts

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Bob Dylan aboard The Mayflower, Plymouth, MA, October 1975.

[theamericanparlor]

THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT

The "Mayflower Compact" was signed on 11 November 1620 onboard the Mayflower shortly after she came to anchor off Provincetown Harbor.

The Pilgrims had obtained permission from English authorities to settle in Virginia, whose northern border at the time extended up to what is now New York. The Pilgrims had originally intended to settle near the mouth of the Hudson River, but due to dangerous shoals and a near shipwreck on their attempt to head south, they decided instead to plant themselves outside the bounds of the Virginia Company patent--which caused some "mutinous speeches" amongst some of the passengers.  The Mayflower Compact was an attempt to establish a temporary, legally-binding form of self-government until such time as the Company could get formal permission from the Council of New England.  This formal permission came in the form of the Pierce Patent of 1621. 

The original Mayflower Compact has been lost, perhaps falling victim to Revolutionary War looting.  The text was first published in London in 1622 in A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceeding of the English Plantation Settled at Plymouth in New England.  A copy of it is found in William Bradford's handwritten history, Of Plymouth Plantation, made about 1630.  And Nathaniel Morton, secretary for Plymouth Colony, published it, along with the earliest known list of the signers, in his history, New England's Memorial, published in 1669.  A list of signers is also found in Thomas Prince's 1736 book, Chronological History of New England; and Thomas Hutchinson published a list of signers in 1767 as well.  It is uncertain if they had access to the original, or were basing their list of signers off Nathaniel Morton's.

The above is an image of the original handwritten page of Governor William Bradford's history Of Plymouth Plantation. This is followed by an exact, line-by-line transcription. Spelling and punctuation have not been modernized.  

In ye name of God Amen· We whose names are vnderwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soueraigne Lord King James by ye grace of God, of great Britaine, franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c

Haueing vndertaken, for ye glorie of God, and aduancemente of ye christian ^faith and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia· doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, couenant, & combine our selues togeather into a ciuill body politick; for ye our better ordering, & preseruation & fur= therance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof, to enacte, constitute, and frame shuch just & equall lawes, ordinances, Acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & conuenient for ye generall good of ye colonie:  vnto which we promise all due submission and obedience.  In witnes wherof we haue herevnder subscribed our names at Cap= Codd ye ·11· of Nouember, in ye year of ye raigne of our soueraigne Lord king James of England, france, & Ireland ye eighteenth and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano: Dom ·1620·| http://mayflowerhistory.com/mayflower-compact