Excerpt from The Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers: And Their Founding of New Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony Together With Some Account of the Conditions Which Led to Their Departure From Old Boston and the Neighbouring Towns in England Church. Six long centuries had rolled their course since the first stone of the giant steeple was laid by the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, mother Of Queen Elizabeth. The site was an Older church Of St. Botolph, and the foundations of the colossal tower were sunk deeper down than the bed Of the river Witham by which it stands. The building of the Minster of the Fens. Continued during the reigns Of six sovereigns and occupied a hundred and fifty years. On through the cen turies the church has been a landmark, not only for the flat country and winding water ways stretching around, and fishermen and mariners upon the sea, but in the history un folded in two hemispheres. It is a noble Old pile to-day, and about it cluster many hallowed memories. 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.