Wednesday, Aug. 2/Aug. 12
                              Lying at anchor at Southampton.  Master
                              Weston, principal agent of the Merchants
                              setting out the voyage, came up from Lon
                              don to see the ships dispatched, but, on
                              the refusal of the Planters to sign certain
                              papers, took offence and returned to London
                              in displeasure, bidding them “stand on
                              their own legs,” etc.

[The two “conditions” which Weston had changed in the proposed agreement between the Adventurers and Planters, the Leyden leaders refused to agree to.  Bradford, op cit. p. 61.  He says:  “But they refused to sign, and answered him that he knew right well that these were not according to the first Agreement.”  Dr. Griffis has made one of those little slips common to all writers—­though perfectly conversant with the facts—­in stating as he does (The Pilgrims in their Three Homes, etc. p. 158), with reference to the new “conditions” which some blamed Cushman for assenting to, as “more fit for thieves and slaves than for honest men,” that, “nevertheless they consented to them;” while on p. 169 he says “The Speedwell people [i.e. the Leyden leaders would not agree with the new conditions, without the consent of those left behind in Leyden.”

The fact is that the Pilgrims did not assent to the new conditions, unwarrantably imposed by Weston, though of small consequence in any view of the case, until Cushman came over to New Plymouth in the Fortune, in 1621, and by dint of his sermon on the “Sin and Danger of Self-Love,” and his persuasion, induced them (they being also advised thereto by Robinson) to sign them.  All business up to this time had been done between the Adventurers and the Pilgrims, apparently, without any agreement in writing.  It was probably felt, both by Robinson and the Plymouth leaders, that it was the least reparation they could make Cushman for their cruel and unjust treatment of him, realizing at length that, through all vicissitudes, he had proven their just, sagacious, faithful, and efficient friend.  There does not appear to be any conclusive evidence that any articles of agreement between the Adventurers and colonists were signed before the may-Flower Sailed.]

Thursday, Aug. 3/Aug. 13
                              Lying at anchor at Southampton.  After
                              Master Weston’s departure, the Planters had
                              a meeting and resolved to sell some of such
                              stores as they could best spare, to clear
                              port charges, etc., and to write a general
                              letter to the Adventurers explaining the
                              case, which they did.  Landed some three
                              score firkins of butter, sold as
                              determined.