"You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers."

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“At last, upon those inducements, some well disposed Brownists, as they are termed, with some Gentlemen and Merchants of Layden and Amsterdam, to save charges would try their owne conclusions, though with great losse and much miserie till time had taught them to see their owne error; for such humorists will never beleeve well, till they bee beaten with their owne rod.”

“Nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam, and Leyden went to New Plimouth, whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year, to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.”

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