Chief of the Pilgrims, or, The life and time of William Brewster : ruling elder of the Pilgrim company that founded New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England, in 1620 . arly English Landed Gentry. As early as the forty-eighth year of Edward the Third, or in the year1375, John Breivster was witness to a deed in theParish of Henstead, in Suffolk, and not long after,in the reign of Richard the Second, a John Brew-ster was presented to the Rectory of Godwich, inthe county of Norfolk. In the list of the gentryof Norfolk, returned to Henry the Sixth, was Gal-fridus Brewster; and the Norfolk bra
Chief of the Pilgrims, or, The life and time of William Brewster : ruling elder of the Pilgrim company that founded New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England, in 1620 . arly English Landed Gentry. As early as the forty-eighth year of Edward the Third, or in the year1375, John Breivster was witness to a deed in theParish of Henstead, in Suffolk, and not long after,in the reign of Richard the Second, a John Brew-ster was presented to the Rectory of Godwich, inthe county of Norfolk. In the list of the gentryof Norfolk, returned to Henry the Sixth, was Gal-fridus Brewster; and the Norfolk branch becameconnected by marriage with the distinguishedHouses of De Narburgh, Spelman, Gleane, andCoke, of Holkham. But in the county of Suffolk,we find, further, that Robert Brewster, of Mutford,possessed also lands in Henstead, and that , of Henstead, and Robert Brewster, ofRushmere, died possessed of these estates, priorto the year 1482. This Robert had married thedaughter and co-heiress of Sir Christopher Ed-monds. Not fifty years after, Humphrey Brewster, ofthis connection, purchased the Manor and Liv-ing of Wrentham, not far distant, and in 1550, X-ZT. B ? 1 THENR-PUBLIC i ASlOR, XLiLUhti >K ANCIENT BRE\7STER FAMILY. 37 built Wrenthani Hall, where his descendants con-tinued to reside until 1810, when this venerablemansion was taken down, and the estate sold; theincome of the proprietors being derived from morethan twenty parishes in the two counties. To this family belonged the lordship of the INIa-nors of Wrentham and the advowsons of the parishchurch. In this parish church repose the remainsof Humphrey Brewster, over which was placed amonument to his memory on his death, in 1593,with an effigy in brass, retained therein to From this Suffolk connection, a branch becameestablished at Castle Hedingham, in Essex, nearthe time wdth that at Wrentham, and formed con-nections with the knightly families of Corbel, Clop-ton, Seckford, Quarles, Wentworth, of
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