" That was Friday. Sunday morning
there came a note from Mr. Grenfell to the Bishop. I enclosed
it to his Lordship in one from myself, in which I said that
if it were agreeable to him, I would call at Fulham the next
Tuesday, at an hour which I fixed. I got a courteous reply
from the Bishop, in which he said that he would be glad to
show me the "log of the Mayflower," as he called it. I kept
the appointment, and found the Bishop with the book in his
hand. He received me very courteously, and showed me a little
of the palace. He said that there had been a Bishop's palace
on that spot for more than a thousand years.
I took the precious manuscript in my hands, and examined
it with an almost religious reverence. I had delivered the
address at Plymouth, the twenty-first of December, 1895, on
the occasion of the two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary
of the landing of the Pilgrims upon the rock. In preparing
for that duty I read carefully, with renewed enthusiasm and
delight, the noble and touching story as told by Governor
Bradford. I declared then that this precious history ought
to be in no other custody than that of their children.
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