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ROYAL GOVERNMENT.
In November, 1620, there sailed into a quiet harbor on the coast of what is now Massachusetts a ship named the Mayflower, having on board one hundred and two English Non-conformists, men and women and with them a few children.

These latest colonists held a patent from the Virginia Company and have left in writing a statement of their object: "We...
having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia--".

The mental reservation is, of course, "where perchance we may serve God as we will!" In England there obtained in some quarters a suspicion that "they meant to make a free, popular State there." Free--Popular--Public Good! These are words that began, in the second quarter of the seventeenth century, to shine and ring.

King and people had reached the verge of a great struggle.