331, 332.)] [Footnote 52: "'The Planters' Plea' was printed in London in 1630, soon after the sailing of Winthrop's fleet [with Dudley].

It has generally been ascribed to the Rev.John White, of Dorchester, England.

'The Planters' Plea' appears to have been unknown to our historians.

Neither Mather, Prince, Hutchinson, Bancroft, nor Graham make any allusion to it." (Young's Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts, from 1623 to 1630, pp.

15, 16, in a note.)] [Footnote 53: The _first_ emigration under the authority of the Massachusetts Company was that under "Master Endicot, who was sent over Governor, assisted with a few men, and arriving in safety there in September, 1628, and uniting his own men with those who were formerly planted there into one body, they made up in all not much above fifty or sixty persons." The second emigration was under Higginson, who says: "We brought with us about two hundred passengers and planters more," arriving in June, 1629.
The third, or "great emigration," was under Winthrop, arriving in May, 1630.] [Footnote 54: Young's Chronicles, &c., pp.