Divers Recollection of Puritan Strictness E-book
Author: William Bradford
Genre: Government / Economics, History / Biography
Bradford, William (1590-1657) English-born, American statesman who arrived
in the colonies on the Mayflower. Bradford was the governor of the
jurisdiction of Plymouth from 1621 to his death, except for a five year
period during which he refused election. His best-known work, "The History
of Plymouth Plantation," is a chronicle of the events in that colony from
its inception to 1646. For years in the possession of his family, the work
was published in 1856.
Divers Recollection of Puritan Strictness (1648) Bradford recalls Mr.
Johnson, late the pastor of the church of God in Amsterdam, and his wife,
a godly woman "ready to do any good works in her place." He then relates a
story in present day (1648) Norwich to illustrate the "strictness or
rigidness" of Johnson's day and the relative "excess of our times."
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