Note 5 — PART I Financing the Plymouth Colony
Reading edition
On the Dutch offer, Bradford, History, ed. Ford, I, 99n. See Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., LIV, 166, 168, 177, and Astrid Friis, Alderman Cockayne’s Project and the Cloth Trade (Copenhagen and London, 1927), 370, for Weston as an ironmonger and “interloper.” The lawsuit against Weston filed in the Court of Exchequer by Pickering’s executors, John Fowler, James Sherley, and Richard Andrews, appears to confirm a streak of dishonesty in Weston. The original depositions and award include interesting details about some of the Plymouth partners and their associates, Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., LIV (1922), 165–178 (summaries); P.R.O., E. 134, 22 James I, Mich. 22; Mich. 59; Hilary 22/8. The award, E. 178/5451, was kindly transcribed for me by Prof. Norma Adams. “Governor Bradford’s Letter Book,” I Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., III (1794), 27, on Weston’s debts to partners.