Remarkable
History
The Pilgrim
Fathers
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The Pilgrim
Fathers
in exile in Leiden, Netherlands.
Some days ago I
had some time left,
while I was in
Leiden, Netherlands.
In Leyden I
studied mathematics and physics.
I walked through
the inner city of Leiden
and found the
memorial for the Pilgrim Fathers.
The tablets are
fastened upon the Saint Peters church
from where the
Pilgrim Fathers left to cross the ocean.
The Peeters church rises up in the middle of the little
streets of the inner city of Leiden.
Many times I
passed by the First Tablet
when walking from Kamerlingh
Onnes Physics Laboratory
to the Academy
building for my Mathematics Lectures.
The tablets are
placed in a very worthy square
on the wall of the
Saint Peters Church
on this ancient
square the castle
of the judges of
Leiden is standing,
the 's Gravensteen.
The old castle of Gravensteen.
First Tablet of
the Pilgrim
Fathers:
From Leiden,
Netherlands
the Mayflower
crossed the ocean in 1620.
The Second Tablet
of
the Pilgrim
Fathers.
During their years
of exile in Leiden
from 1609 until
1620,
many of the wifes
and children died of illness and age.
Many Pilgrim Fathers and their relatives are
buried here in the "Pieters kerk" (Saint Peters
Church).
This Tablet has
been placed there recently (1991?)
This remarkable
fact of history
is worth
remembering.
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Updated April
12, 2012
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