Excerpt from Lays of the Pilgrim Fathers: Compiled in Aid of the Fund for Completing the Memorial Church of the Pilgrim Fathers, in Southwark It had occurred, some ten years since, to earnest and thoughtful men, that, notwithstanding the light and liberty at present enjoyed, many advantages would attend the erection of a memorial which should remind the present, and keep informed the coming generations, of the martyrdom, sufferings, and privations of those who were the fathers of restored freedom of conscience and free worship in the old world, and who became the founders of an empire of free worshippers in the new. It was felicitously suggested that a memorial building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.