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WILLIAM BRADFORDMayflower CompactIN THE NAME OF GOD, AMENWe whose name s are underwrittérj, the loyal subjects of our dread Soverelgn Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, Francey and Ireland King, Dejfender of the Faith, etc.. 'Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honor of our King and Country a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presene of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a.Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and préservation and furtherance of the ends a-foresaid; and by vlrtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from tirne to tirne, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto whioh we promise ali due Submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of ttovember, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620