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,