already, may rest them ther a while, least worse blocks come in ye way ere 7. years be ended.  If you had beaten this bussines so throuly a month agoe, and write to us as now you doe, we could thus have done much more conveniently.  But it is as it is; I hope our freinds they, if they be quitted of ye ship hire, will be indusced to venture ye more.  All yt I now require is yt salt and netts may ther be boughte, and for all ye rest we will here provid it; yet if that will not be, let them but stand for it a month or tow, and we will take order to pay it all.  Let Mr. Reinholds tarie ther, and bring ye ship to Southampton.  We have hired another pilote here, one Mr. Clarke, who went last year to Virginia with a ship of kine.

You shall here distinctly by John Turner, who I thinke shall come hence on tewsday night.  I had thought to have come with him, to have answered to my complaints; but I shal lerne to pass litle for their censurs; and if I had more minde to goe & dispute & expostulate with them, then I have care of this waightie bussines, I were like them who live by clamours & jangling.  But neither my mind nor my body is at libertie to doe much, for I am fettered with bussines, and had rather study to be quiet, then to make answer to their exceptions.  If men be set on it, let them beat ye eair; I hope such as are my sinceire freinds will not thinke but I can give some reason of my actions.  But of your mistaking aboute ye mater,
     & other things tending to this bussines, I shall nexte informe you
more distinctly.  Mean space entreate our freinds not to be too bussie in answering matters, before they know them.  If I doe such things as I canot give reasons for, it is like you have sett a foole aboute your bussines, and so turne ye reproofe to your selves, & send an other, and let me come againe to my Combes.  But setting aside my naturall infirmities, I refuse not to have my cause judged, both of God, & all indifferent men; and when we come togeather I shall give accounte of my actions hear.  The Lord, who judgeth justly without respect of persons, see into ye equitie of my cause, and give us quiet, peacable, and patient minds, in all these turmoils, and sanctifie unto us all crosses whatsoever.  And so I take my leave of you all, in all love & affection. 
         I hope we shall gett all hear ready in 14. days. 
                       Your pore brother,
                                 Robart Cushman.
[London] June 11. 1620 [O.S.].

VI
A letter of Mr. John Robinson to John Carver,
June 14. (N.S.), 1620

[Professor Arber ("The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers,” p. 317) has apparently failed to notice that in the original Ms. of Bradford, this letter is dated “June 14, 1620, N. Stile,” which would make it June 4., O.S., while Arber dates it “14/24 June,” which is manifestly incorrect.  A typographical error in Arber (p. 317) directs the letter to “Leyden” instead of to London. ]

June 14. 1620.  N. Stile.