agreement they were bound to fully “outfit” the colonists before they embarked (and did so), as was done by Higginson’s company coming to Salem in 1628-29 at considerable cost per capita, and as was done for those of the Leyden people who came over in 1629 with Pierce in the may-Flower and the Talbot to Salem, and again in 1630 with the same Master (Pierce) in the Lion by the Plymouth successors to the Adventurers (without recompense), does not clearly appear.  No mention is found of any “outfitting” of the may-Flower passengers except the London apprentices.  There is no doubt that a considerable supply of all the above-named articles was necessarily sent by the Adventurers on the may-Flower, both for the Pilgrims’ needs on the voyage and in the new colony, as also for trading purposes.  There seems to have been at all times a supreme anxiety, on the part of both Pilgrim and Puritan settlers, to get English clothes upon their red brethren of the forest, whether as a means of exchange for peltry, or for decency’s sake, is not quite clear.  There was apparently a greater disparity in character, intelligence, and station between the leaders of Higginson’s and Winthrop’s companies and their followers than between the chief men of the Pilgrims and their associates.  With the former were titles and considerable representation of wealth and position.  With the passengers of the may-Flower a far greater equality in rank, means, intelligence, capacity, and character was noticeable.  This was due in part, doubtless, to the religious beliefs and training of the Leyden contingent, and had prompt illustration in their Compact, in which all stood at once on an equal footing.  There was but little of the “paternal” nature in the form of their government (though something at times in their punishments), and there was much personal dignity and independence of the individual.  An equipment having so much of the character of a uniform—­not to say “livery”—­as that furnished by Higginson’s company to its people suggests the “hedger and ditcher” type of colonists (of whom there were very few among the Plymouth settlers), rather than the scholar, publisher, tradesman, physician, hatter, smith, carpenter, “lay reader,” and soldier of the Pilgrims, and would certainly have been obnoxious to their finer sense of personal dignity and proportion.  Doubtless an equivalent provision existed—­though in less “all-of-a-pattern” character—­in the bales and boxes of the may-FLOWER’S cargo for every need suggested by the list of the Higginson “outfit,” which is given herewith, both as matter of interest and as affording an excellent idea of the accepted style and needs in dress of a New England settler (at least of the men) of 1620-30.  One cannot fail to wonder at the noticeably infrequent mention of provision in apparel, etc., for the women and children.  The inventory of the “Apparell for 100 men” furnished by Higginson’s