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The independence of the folk of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, did not please the Stuart King James, who sent his men to force them to worship in the orthodox church. But Scrooby men were free men, who prized their freedom, and were prepared to give up everything else to retain it. They slipped away down Ryton Water and across the North Sea to live among the kindly Dutch, where liberty of conscience was secure. Orris Over, wife of Goodman Mathew Over, carried with he a bowl of cuttings from her herb garden, and for twelve years they flourished in the soil of Leyden. The Over family flourished too, and as the Dutch tulips grew beside the English pansies so the Owens and the Corts lived as friends and neighbors. By 1620, King James's men had discovered the refuge of the Pilgrims and once more the little colony set out—this time to the New World in the two ships Mayflower and Speedwell. The story of these years of pilgrimage and of the founding of the new colony—New Plymouth—is told by Young Matt, a child of five at the start, but a young man with a family of his own at the finish, and through the story the charm and humour and wisdom of Orris Over is as fragrant as the herbs and simples from her garden that was thrice transplanted.
—from the dust jacket
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