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Quotation from Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
“they knew they were pilgrimes, & looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to y^e heavens, their dearest cuntrie, and quieted their spirits.”
Of Plymouth Plantation, The departure from Leyden (1898 Wright & Potter official manuscript edition)
Bradford describes the congregation leaving Holland for a new country, and he gives the word by which later readers have named them.
Citation: "they knew they were pilgrimes, & looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to y^e heavens, their dearest cuntrie, and quieted their spirits." — William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, The departure from Leyden (1898 Wright & Potter official manuscript edition). (id of-plymouth-plantation-q1)
