tors are to meet at Goldsmith's Hall here in London the Twentie Seventh of June next, Old Stile or sooner if it may be, and shall the same day, make solemne oath before the Judge of the High Court of Admiraltie of England That they will proceede without respect or relation had to either State or any particular interest whatsoever: and moreover the foresaid Arbitrators shall from the ffirst day of August next unless they agree upon sentence sooner be shutt up in a Chamber by themselves without fire, candle, meat, drink or any other refreshment till such time as they come to an Agreement concerning the matters referred to them. And the sentence which they shall award shall be Obligatorie to both parties: And the States Generall of the United Provinces doe firmly oblige themselves by these presents to execute or performe the same, as alsoe to pay such summe of moneyes here at London as the said Arbitrators shall adjudge to be paid for the use of the said Owners to such person or persons as his Highnesse shall nominate within Twentie ffive Dayes after Adjudication made. And the said States Generall shall within Two Dayes after the Instruments of Ratification of the said Articles of Peace are mutually delivered, pay here at London the summe of five Thousand Pounds Sterling towards the charges of the Merchants, Masters or their Assignes for their journey to Denmarke, and the summe of Twentie Thousand Ryx Dollars to such persons as his Highnesse shall appoint within Six Dayes after the Arrivall of the said Persons there, for the use of the Merchants, Masters and Owners, towards repairing their Shipps and fitting them for Sea, which said Summes shall be accounted in part of payment of such summe as shall be awarded by the said Arbitrators-and that Caution and Securitie be given (the forme of which Caution is already agreed upon) by sufficient and responsible men living here in London and binding themselves in an Obligation of One Hundred and ffourtie Thousand Pounds Sterling (which Obligation is to be delivered at the same time with the Instrument of Ratifications) that restitution shall be made according to the premisses, and that the submission and payment as well of the Twentie Thousand Ryx Dollars, as of such summe or other things as shall be adjudged and determined as aforesaid shall on their parte be duely performed. And if all and singular the Conditions be not really and effectually performed on the parte of the Lords the States Generall in manner and time aforesaid, Then the said Obligation shall be forfeited, and the Said Summe of One Hundred and ffourtie Thousand Pounds Sterling shall be paid to such person or persons as his Highnesse shall nominate to the end the Losses of the Merchants, Masters and interessed may be satisfied.

NOW WE THE SAID LORD PROTECTOR of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and alsoe We the said Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces ratifying and confirming the said Article and all the matters and things therein Contained, and being respectively willing, covenanting and greeing that the same and every parte and clause thereof be duely and firmely held and observed bona fide, according to the nature and qualitie of contracts of [Princes] and Suvreaine States, without any manner of evasion or avoydance for want of any Solemnities. And renouncing on both sides all subtilties and niceties of Law, to the end the premises may have and take full effect according to the true meaning of the said article WE THE SAID LORD PROTECTOR for our parte, and We the said Lords the States Generall aforesaid for our parte have by one unanimous Consent nominated and appointed, and doe by these presents nominate and appoint Edward Winslow, James Russell, John Beex, William Vander Cruyssen to be Arbitrators Commissioners full and absolute Judges to receive, heare, examine, and by all due wayes and meanes to determine and give judgment upon all and singular the complaints and demannds of all and every the Merchants, Masters, Owners, and interessed in all or any Shipps, Vessells, Tackle, Apparell, furniture, provisions, wares, goods and other things whatsoever at any time arrested or detained within any of the Territories or Dominions of the King of Denmarke since the Eighteenth Day of May One Thousand Six Hundred ffifty and Two, whereof mention is made in the Bills of the Merchants exhibited in March 165 and pertaineing consigned or belonging to any of the People of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, or any of the Dominions thereto belonging, and WE THE SAID LORD PROTECTOR and alsoe We the said Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces doe joyntly and unanimously commit and by these, presents give unto the said Edward Winslow, James Russell, John Beex, and William Vander Cruyssen full power and authoritie to convene and assemble together upon the Twentie seaventh day of June next ensuing old stile in the cittie of London in or at the Hall or Place in the said cittie called Goldsmith's Hall who being there assembled shall sweare and take a solemne oath before the Judges of the High Court of Admiraltie of England who are by the said Lord Protector authorised by these presents to administer the said oaths and required and enjoyned duely to attend at the said Goldsmith's Hall upon the said Twentie Seaventh day of June for the ministration of the said oaths accordingly. That they and everie

of them shall in their examining hearing and determining of the said premisses and matters by these presents to them committed renounced and sett aside all partialitie favor and a.fection in relation to either or any of the said States, or any particular interests, and proceede impartially to the searching out of the truth and summary determining and assessing of the rights interests and just dammages in all and everie the demannds aforesaid, and being sworne the said Edward Winslow, James Russell, John Beex, and William Vander Cruyssen shall forthwith enter upon and take cognisance of all such Complaints and Demannds as shall be on the behalf of any of the People of the said Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland &c. produced or offered touching any Shipps or Vessells whatsoever and all manner of Merchandize Consignements Goods or any other things seised, [imbarged] or detained as aforesaid. And also all and singular shall be produced on the other parte by way of defence, diminution or payment of the said demands. And shall either by Oath, or without Oath or by Instruments documents or any other Evidence whatsoever such as they shall find requisite and conducible to this purpose examine the truth of all and everie the said Complaints and Demannds, and the true and just value of all and singular such Shipps and Vessells, Tackle furniture freight Provisions Merchandize goods or other things and all and everie the Dammages sustained by the said seisures and Detentions by losse of the said Shipps Vessells and freight thereof, and alsoe by the losse and damages of the said goods, Wares, Merchandize or otherwise respectively-And the said Edward Winslow, James Russell, John Beex and William Vander Cruyssen are hereby impowered enabled and authorized to ascertaine the said Premisses and everie of them and to liquidate assesse and tax the dammages for all and singular the said premisses, and to arbitrate and adjudge the same according as they shall hold just and meete and to pronounce and publish in writing under their Hands and Seales their finall judgment which said judgment pronounced and published shall be binding and obligatory to both parties without any further review appeale or reclamation of any partie whatsoever-And THE SAID LORDS THE STATES GENERALL by these presents binde and oblige themselves effectually and [really] to performe the same, and to pay such summe of moneyes as shall be soe adjudged and arbitrated to be paid for the said dammages and premisses within Twentie ffive days next immediately following after the publishing, of the said final judgment and arbitration and the said Edward Winslow, James Russell, John

Beex and William Vander Cruyssen are hereby authorised and required to convene and assemble at the said Goldsmith's Hall and procede upon the said [premisses de die] in diem without intermitting any day after their first meeting upon the Twentie Seaventh day of June (the Lord's dayes commonly called Sundayes only excepted) and to the end the said Edward Winslow, James Russell, John Beex and William Vander Cruyssen may not long procrastinate the said matters to them committed or breake off abruptly without coming to any certaine and final Judgment upon the said premisses IT IS ACCORDED AND CONCLUDED as well on the parte of the Lord Protector as the Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces, That if the said Edward Winslow, James Russell, John Beex and William Vander Cruyssen shall not agree and publish their finall judgment upon the premisses before the first day of August they shall be shutt upp in the said Goldsmith's Hall in a roome by themselves without fire, candle, meat drinke or other refreshment, untill they shall agree and publish in writing under their Hands and Seales their finall judgment and determination of and upon the premisses

which

said finall Judgment and determination soe to be made after their such shutting upp shall neverthelesse be as firm [valide] and binding as if it had been made before their such shutting upp as aforesaid to all intents [constructions] and purposesIN WITNESS of all and singular which are for the surer performance of the premisses, without any manner of

and cavillation the said Lord Protector and the said Lords the States Generall have agreed that Two partes of this Instrument word for word shall be made after the manner of an Indenture And that the said Lord Protector for the

thereof for his parte shall cause the Greate Seale of England to be affixed unto the one parte thereof and the said Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces shall cause their Greate Seale to be affixed to the other; And accordingly Wee the said Lord Protector have signed the said one parte of this Instrument with our owne Hand, and have caused the Greate Seale of England to be affixed thereto, at Westminster, the nineteenth day of April in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six Hundred fifty and ffoure.

1656. This year, it was ordered that card playing should be punished by a fine of fifty shillings. Servants or children, playing at cards, dice, or other unlawful games, for the first offence to be corrected, by their parents or master, and for the second, to be publicly whipped. A law was passed by which a magistrate, at his discretion, was authorized to inflict corporal punishment on all who denied the scriptures to be a rule of life. Vilifying any church or ordinance, was punished by a fine of ten shillings; profaning the Lord's day, by a fine of ten shillings, or a public whipping; and neglecting to attend public worship on each Lord's day, by a fine of ten shillings.

We have now to notice the lamented death of that hero of the Pilgrims, Capt. Miles Standish. He died at his residence in Duxbury, this year, at a very advanced age. Captain Standish was one of the companions of Carver, Bradford and Winslow, in the Mayflower, and shared in all the perils and privations to which they were subjected. He was one of the first settlers of Duxbury, but resided occasionally at Plymouth, especially in the winter months, and was the principal officer of the garrison at that place. In 1645, when war-like movements were commenced against the Narragansets, Standish commanded the Plymouth troops. In 1653, when hostilities with the Dutch at Manhattan were apprehended, a council of war was appointed in Plymouth colony, of which Standish was one. Warrants were issued for the impressment of 60 men, and Standish was appointed to command them. It thus appears that he continued active in military employments, on every necessary occasion, until within three years of his death. He was frequently one of the board of assistants. After the loss of his wife in 1620-1, he soon married again. In the assignment of lands in 1623, the name of Mrs. Standish is on the list; we know not the previous name of the lady, but it appears she came in the ship Ann. In 1627, when the cattle were divided, he stands at the head of the third lot, with his wife Barbara.' Charles, Alexander, and John, his children, are associated with him in that assignment. Alexander married Sarah Alden, daughter of John Alden. Dr. Belknap informs us that Dr. Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, and the father of Dr. Kirkland, President of Harvard College, are descended from him. In the cabinet of the Pilgrim Society is the identical sword blade * used by Capt. Standish, the hilt being of more modern date, and also his iron pot, and pewter dish.

This relic is substantiated by unquestionable authority.