The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims - And Its Place in Life Today by Addison

Author:Addison [Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
ISBN: 9781528790802
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
Published: 2020-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Pilgrims Going to Church

Photograph by A. S. Burbank, Plymouth

From the Painting by G. H. Boughton

Then Elder Brewster desired the Governor of Massachusetts and Mr. Wilson to speak to it, which they did. When this was ended the deacon, Mr. Fuller, put the congregation in mind of their duty of contribution; whereupon the Governor and all the rest went down to the deacon's seat, and put into the box, and then returned."

There is nothing here about the music of the services, such as it was, vocal only, rugged, but not without melody. We know, however, that the Pilgrims used that psalter, brought over by them to New England, with its tunes printed above each psalm in lozenge-shaped Elizabethan notes, which Longfellow so grandly describes in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" as

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