The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . SCROOBY MANOR HOUSE. Scrooby, a sleepy Notts village situated among themeadows bordering the winding river Idle, was not onlythe birthplace of William Brewster, the Elder of thePilgrim Church at Leyden and afterwards at Plymouth,New England, but may be regarded as the birthplace ofthe religious movement which led to the departure of thePilgrim Fathers in the Maj^flower. The home ofWilliam Brewster and the plac
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . SCROOBY MANOR HOUSE. Scrooby, a sleepy Notts village situated among themeadows bordering the winding river Idle, was not onlythe birthplace of William Brewster, the Elder of thePilgrim Church at Leyden and afterwards at Plymouth,New England, but may be regarded as the birthplace ofthe religious movement which led to the departure of thePilgrim Fathers in the Maj^flower. The home ofWilliam Brewster and the place where his Separatist Churchused to meet was Scrooby Manor House, now a farmhouse,which bears a tablet with the following inscription : Thistablet is erected by the Pilgrim Societ}^ of Plymouth,Massachusetts, United States of America, to mark the siteof the ancient manor house where lived William Brewster,from 1588 to 1608, and where he organised the PilgrimChurch of which he became ruling Elder and with whichin 1608 he removed to Amsterdam ; in 1609 to Leydenand in 1620 to Plymouth, where he died April 16, , it may be added, was an ancestor of Longfellowand General
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