 ... was a gentleman , born in Lancashire , and was heir apparent unto a great estate of lands and livings , surreptitiously detained from him ; his great grandfather being a second or younger brother from the house of Standish . In his younger time he went over into the low countries , and was a soldier there , and came acquainted with the church at Leyden , and came over into New England , with such of them as at the first set out for the planting of the plantation of New Plymouth , and bare a deep share of their first difficulties , and was always very faithful to their interest . 
