The Mayflower

by Rebecca Fraser

  * Burying the dead became an unusual luxury. In the future the sheer numbers of English bodies, and fear of hidden Indians waiting to pick off survivors, meant soldiers had to leave them where they lay.

  * Her aunt Mistress Bellingham had not received her own legacy of £30 a year from Waldegrave and could have sued at the same time, but she seems to have been a less forceful character. It was not until over ten years later, when her nephew Edward Pelham became interested in suing Waldegrave for further misdemeanours, that Mistress Bellingham was spurred to action.