"All who decide to go with us are to meet by Ryton Ford while the bogs and fens are veiled in morning mist.  There, boats will be riding, sheltered beneath the willows..." Thus were the plans laid for a new life for Matthew and Winnifret and young 'Memby, Goodman Over, and his wife.  For ever since the King's Messenger had come pounding down the North Road from Londontown to spy upon William Brewster from the Overs' garden, the good folk of Scrooby had known the time had come to seek out a new home in the Low Country where they could be free form the cruel Stuart King and could live and worship as their consciences guided them.  

So Amsterdam in Holland became their home, and then Leyden, before the King's Men again descended upon them and started them upon their arduous journey to the New World.

Adventure waits in this story of Young Matt and his Pilgrim companions on their gallant quest, and how each one of them found his journey's end in the wilderness of the New World gives the book a romantic climax.

From the dust jacket