‘A kind of ruffling course in the world’: Perceptions of ‘Captain Shrimp’
Continued from https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-in-art-arms-and-men.html A purported portrait of Myles Standish, allegedly painted in 1625, first published in 1885. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Standish From Plymouth to Gainsborough and from Southampton to Scrooby, towns all over England have been anticipating Mayflower 400, with plans to mark what has been seen as a historic moment four centuries ago when the Plymouth Pilgrims arrived in the New World and set up their Massachusetts colony. After so much hard work to prepare pageants and exhibitions the disruption and postponement of events caused by Covid 19 is being keenly felt. Myles Standish Way, Chorley Image credit: Chorley Council Most of the Pilgrims came from the East of England – none was from Devon. But Chorley in Lancashire was particularly proud of its link with the Mayflower through Captain Miles Standi...