IN
THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are
underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James,
by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of
God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour 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 Presence of God and one
another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends
aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and
equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the
Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. IN WITNESS
whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh
of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England,
France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the
fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.