The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors . indicated by themotto he placed with his initials on the sundial of the westwing of the old hall:—Deus mi—nt tivibra sic vita. Is itimprobable that a lord of the manor so trained and soexpressing himself would be favourable and friendly tosuch earnest Christian men as those who founded thechurch at Gainsborough in 1602? Is it beyond thebounds of possibility that he in whose fathers houseconventicles had been held in Marys days, should favourthem in or near his own house in the days of Elizabethand James? May it not even be permi
The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors . indicated by themotto he placed with his initials on the sundial of the westwing of the old hall:—Deus mi—nt tivibra sic vita. Is itimprobable that a lord of the manor so trained and soexpressing himself would be favourable and friendly tosuch earnest Christian men as those who founded thechurch at Gainsborough in 1602? Is it beyond thebounds of possibility that he in whose fathers houseconventicles had been held in Marys days, should favourthem in or near his own house in the days of Elizabethand James? May it not even be permitted to us to believethat both he and the godly mother who reared him weresometimes found worshipping with Brewster and Bradford,perhaps in the old hall itself, accounting all nothing, asshe said, in comparison to liberty of conscience for theprofession of Christ ? The pastor of this Gainsborough church was John ^ * Certaine Old Stories recorded by an aged by her with her owne hand, 1620. Starks History 0Gainsborough, pp. 126-139. ^^^l-. THE OLD HALL, GAINSBOR(JUGH{From sketches by Charles Whymcer ) BEGINNINGS OF CHURCH LIFE. 91 Smyth, , of Christs College, Cambridge, where hegraduated 1575-6, and where he had Francis Johnson fortutor, a man of whom we shall hear more hereafter. In1585, he preached a sermon at Cambridge on Sabbath-keeping, for which he was cited before the Bradford tells us that he was an eminent man inhis time and a good preacher and of other good parts. In;a work of his entitled Paralleles, Censures, Observations, &c.,he states that before separating from the National Churchhe passed through several months of anxious doubt andinquiry, and at one time held a conference at Coventry asto the duty of withdrawing from churches in which theministry and the worship have become corrupted. He issaid to have been beneficed at Gainsborough before becom-ing pastor of the separated church in that town. This isscarcely pr
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