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 . time appears to have beenthe residence of Sir Samuel. In the church standsa monument to Penelope, one of the Sandysfamily, who died in 1690.^ Under Sir Samuel it was, as appears some fewyears later, that the manor was held by Brewster:not, indeed, a district of country, throughoutwhich were enjoyed certain feudal privileges, butthe manor place,^^ including, doubtless, its landsand parks. And this suggests not only anacquai
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 . time appears to have beenthe residence of Sir Samuel. In the church standsa monument to Penelope, one of the Sandysfamily, who died in 1690.^ Under Sir Samuel it was, as appears some fewyears later, that the manor was held by Brewster:not, indeed, a district of country, throughoutwhich were enjoyed certain feudal privileges, butthe manor place,^^ including, doubtless, its landsand parks. And this suggests not only anacquaintance, but business transactions, betweenBrewster and the Sandys family. Tracing the history of this manor-place a littlefurther, we find, that after William Brewstersoccupancy some fifteen, perhaps nineteen years,it was at length gradually neglected, and finallysuffered to go to decay. One hundred years later—while the park still remained, the house hadnearly fallen to the ground. In 1813 nothingremained, marking the ancient abode of splendor Biograpliia Britannica, article Sandys, and Stryi^es Annals, ii. 64-70. Hunter, 18, 22, 139, and Bartlett. PRESENT ASPECT OF SCROOBT. 107 and hospitality, but some small part incorporatedinto a farm-house, and in the garden, an oldmulberry tree, planted, tradition said, by thehaughty Wolscy/^ Finally, as seen and describedby a tourists eye and pen,^ in the summer of1853, Scrooby presents to view one of those richpastoral districts, common in England, which withno marked features of hill and dale, the hand ofindustry has covered with such exuberant crops ofgrain, in fields neatly divided by green hedge-rows, as it is delightful to behold. On the lowestlevel, lower than the surrounding cornfields—whereonce Vi^eve fenny wastes—the retreat of abundanceof wild fowl, and other varieties of game, justifyingits celebrity as a hunting seat, now are seen richreclaimed marsh lands of vivid green, whereonare groups of grazing
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