This Does Not
Vary Greatly From The Tariff Of To-Day, (1900) As, Reduced To United
States Currency, It Would Be About $18; And Allowing The Value Of
Sterling To Be About Four Times This, In Purchase Ratio, It Would Mean
About $73.
The expenses of the thirty-five of the Leyden congregation
who came over in the MAY-FLOWER in 1620,
And of the others brought in the
LION in 1630, were slightly higher than these figures, but the cost of
the trip from Leyden to England was included, with that of some clothing.
In 1650, Judge Sewall, who as a wealthy man would be likely to indulge in
some luxury, gives his outlay one way, as, "Fare, L2 3 0; cabin expenses,
L4 11 4; total, L6 14 4."
CHAPTER IV
THE MAY-FLOWER - THE SHIP HERSELF
Unhappily the early chroniclers familiar with the MAY-FLOWER have left us
neither representation nor general description of her, and but few data
from which we may reconstruct her outlines and details for ourselves.
Tradition chiefly determines her place in one of the few classes into
which the merchant craft of her day were divided, her tonnage and service
being almost the only other authentic indices to this class.
Bradford helps us to little more than the statement, that a vessel, which
could have been no other, "was hired at London, being of burden about 9
score" [tons], while the same extraordinary silence, which we have
noticed as to her name, exists as to her description, with Smith,
Bradford, Winslow, Morton, and the other contemporaneous or early writers
of Pilgrim history.
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