Tuesday, Aug. 29/Sept. 8
                              Lying at Plymouth.  Transferring cargo.

Wednesday, Aug. 30/Sept. 9
                              Lying at Plymouth.  Transferring cargo.

Saturday, Sept. 2/12
                              Ditto.  Reassignment of passengers.  Master
                              Cushman and family, Master Blossom and son,
                              Wm. Ring and others to return in pinnace to
                              London.

Sunday, Sept. 3/13
                              At anchor in Plymouth roadstead.

Monday, Sept. 4/14
                              Weighed anchor and took departure for
                              London, leaving may-Flower at anchor in
                              roadstead.

Saturday, Sept. 9/19
                              Off Gravesend.  Came to anchor in Thames.

The end of the voyage and
of the log of the
may-FLOWER’S
consort

From Bradford we learn that the Speedwell was sold at London, and was “refitted”, her old trip being restored, and that she afterwards made for her new owners many and very prosperous voyages.

CHAPTER III

THE MAY-FLOWER’S CHARTER AND THE ADVENTURERS

The ship may-Flower was evidently chartered about the middle of June, 1620 at London, by Masters Thomas West Robert Cushman acting together in behalf of the Merchant Adventurers (chiefly of London) and the English congregation of “Separatists” (the “Pilgrims"), at Leyden in Holland who, with certain of England associated, proposed to colony in America.

Professor Arber, when he says, in speaking of Cushman and Weston, “the hiring of the may-Flower, when they did do it, was their act alone, and the Leyden church nothing to do with it,” seems to forget that Cushman and his associate Carver had no other function or authority in their conjunction with Weston and Martin, except to represent the Leyden congregation.  Furthermore, it was the avowed wish of Robinson (see his letter dated June 14, 1620, to John Carver), that Weston “may [should] presently succeed in hiring” [a ship], which was equivalent to hoping that Carver and Cushman—­Weston’s associates representing Leyden—­would aid in so doing.  Moreover, Bradford expressly states that:  “Articles of Agreement, drawn by themselves were, by their [the Leyden congregation’s] said messenger [Carver] sent into England, who together with Robert Cushman were to receive moneys and make provisions, both for shipping, and other things for the voyage.”

Up to Saturday, June 10, nothing had been effected in the way of providing shipping for the migrating planters though the undertaking had been four months afoot—­beyond the purchase and refitting, in Holland, by the Leyden people themselves, of a pinnace of sixty tons (the Speedwell) intended as consort to a larger ship—­and the hiring of a “pilott” to refit her, as we have seen.