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 . of age, and resemblance of signatures, which * Hunter, pp. 5S and 73. 112 LIFE AND TIME OF ELDER BREWSTER. is indeed striking.^ And this James had marrieda Welbeck; and the Welbecks appear to havebeen from Suffolk, the original location of theearly Brewsters. Presented, some years before, byArchbishop Sandys to the mastership of the richlyendowed Bawtry Hospital, but having surrenderedthe same to the crown, under the claim
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 . of age, and resemblance of signatures, which * Hunter, pp. 5S and 73. 112 LIFE AND TIME OF ELDER BREWSTER. is indeed striking.^ And this James had marrieda Welbeck; and the Welbecks appear to havebeen from Suffolk, the original location of theearly Brewsters. Presented, some years before, byArchbishop Sandys to the mastership of the richlyendowed Bawtry Hospital, but having surrenderedthe same to the crown, under the claim of thecommissioners ybr concealed lands^ he, with others,afterwards received it back from the crown forprivate possession. A long contest in law ensu-ing, both the surrender and transfer were declaredto be illegal. Our William must have been ac-quainted with these transactions respecting hisnamesake, and perhaps brother; and also withthe further fact of James Brewsters presentationto the additional Vicarage of Gringley-on-the-Hill,near at hand.^ One minister, whom Brewster and friends mayperhaps have been instrumental in procuring for ® Fac similes— jfMn Wimlir-. ^ Hunter, 73, 86 ; other facts, ford, near the seat of the Sandys lately discovered by Cardinal in Essex Co., seem to confirm the Brewster, Esqr., relative to James connection stated, or intimate ac- Brewsters residence at Chelms- qnaintance. NEIGHBORING MINISTERS. 113 the vicarage of A^orksop, a neighboring parish,south of Scrooby, was liichard Barnard. He hadbeen educated at Cambridge by the aid of twoeminently pious daughters of Sir ChristopherWray, Chief Justice of England, and was ap-pointed to that vicarage in 1601. Eminentlysuccessful as a minister and writer, wavering, andat one time declining to conrorm to some of theprescribed ceremonies, but at length conforming,he became a close observer of the movements ofthe times, and especially at Gainsborough andScrooby. One of his esteemed treatises was the Faithf
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