 In his famous history, Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford wrote that Sarah Lyford came forward and explained

"how he (Lyford) had wronged her, as first he had a bastard by another before they were married, and she having some inkling of some ill cariage that way, when he was a suitor to her, she tould him what she heard, and deneyd him; but she not certainly knowing the thing, other wise then by some darke and secrete muterings, he not only stifly denied it, but to satisfie her tooke a solemne oath ther was no shuch matter.Upon which she gave consente, and married with him; but afterwards it was found true, and the bastard brought home to them.She then charged him with his oath, but he prayed pardon, and said he should els not have had her.