Adm. 1521 Bently cum Arksey,
Ordnance Survey Map- 1841
Issue-
· 2I. WILLIAM-
m.c. 1558 MAUDE MAN
William of Bentley cum Arksey was taxed in
1524.
All Saints Church- Arksey
Issue-
· 3I. WILLIAM-
b.c.1535, m.1. c.1564 MARY SMYTHE (d. of William Smythe of Stainford,
Hatfield, m.1. before 1556 John Symkinson of Dancaster,
· II. James- vicar of Sutton cum Launde, Notts.
· III. Henry-
Ref:
"The English Ancestry and Homes of
the Pilgrim Fathers"- Charles Edward Banks, 1929, pp.35-9
3I. WILLIAM (WILLIAM 1, WILLIAM 2)
b.c.1535
m.1.c.1564 MARY SMYTHE (d. of William Smythe of Stainford, Hatfield,
m.1. before 1556 John Symkinson of Dancaster, (d. after 1562))
2. Prudence ______
bur. 22 Aug. 1590 Scrooby, Nottinghamshire
In 1579 William and Mary sued in chancery
William and Francis Hobson, claiming life settlement of lands in Doncaster,
late of John Symkinson, formerly husband of Mary.(1)
Srooby Manor House- Home of the Brewsters
Scrooby Manor was in the possession of the
Archbishops of York. Brewster's father, William senior, had been the estate
bailiff for the archbishop for thirty-one years from around 1580. With this
post went that of postmaster, which was a more important one than it might have
been in a village not situated on the
Issue-
· 4I. WILLIAM-
b.c.1566 Scrooby, m. MARY ______ (b.c.1568, d. 17 Apr. 1627
· II. Prudence- m. Robert Peck of Everton
Ref:
(1) PRO- Proceedings in
Chancery, C2 Eliz. B31/1, a bill addressed to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper
"The Lamson Family of
"Brewster Genealogy 1566-1907"- Emma Brewster Jones
4I. WILLIAM (WILLIAM 1, WILLIAM 2, WILLIAM 3)
b.c.1566 Scrooby, Nottinghamshire
m. MARY ______ (b.c.1568, d. 17 Apr.; 1627
d. 10 Apr. 1644
William studied briefly at Peterhouse,
St. Peter's College, Cambridge- Rudolph Ackerman- 1815
After Davidson's disgrace, Brewster returned
to Scrooby where he held the position of bailiff and postmaster being appointed
about 18 months before his father's death. As such he was responsible for the
provision of stage horses for the mails, having previously, for a short time,
assisted his father in that office. (1)
"22 Aug. 1590
48. Mr. John Stanhope to Mr. Secretary Davison.
Regrets he cannot comply with his request. On
the death of old Bruster, one Samuel Revercotes had written to him for the
place of postmaster at Scrooby, with which he had complied. States his reasons
for not conferring the place on young Bruster, who had served in that place for
his father, old Bruster."(2)
On the back of this letter are the following
notes in Davison's hand:
"That Brewster ought not to be displaced
more than the rest of the Postes. If he were possessed of the place by Mr.
Randolph's guifte longe before his fathers death, no good cause now to except
against him then ought he more to be displaced than the rest of the postes. But
he was possessed of the place by Mr. Randolphs guifte longe before his fathers
death as may appear by the:
Enmt. of his name in the rolls amongst the
other postes:
by receipt of the fee the yeare and halfe;
the testimony of his mr that recommends him thereunto.
Mr. Mills that was privie to the guifte and
did both register his name and pay him the wages
his exercise of the place now above a yere and a half & wch may be
testified by the postes his next neighbours.
Neither is there any just otherwise cause now to except against him either in
respect of his:
honestie
sufficiency for the service
discharge thereof hitherto
or other reason whatsoever."
In a different hand (probably William's):
"Therefore he ought to be no more displaced than the rest of the postes.
Other reasons:
The charge he hath been at for provision this hard year proveth dear.
The loss he should susteyn or rather to be bearing by being suddenly
dispossessed.
The enrollment of the example."(3)
By the 1590s, William's brother, James, had
become a rather rebellious Anglican priest and vicar of the parish of Sutton
cum Lound, in Nottinghamshire. From 1594, it fell to James to appoint curates
to Scrooby church so that William, James and leading members of the Scrooby
congregation were brought before the ecclesiastical court for their dissent.
A church court in 1597 considered simony
charges against James Brewster, vicar of Sutton cum Launde, Notts. Before the
Rev. Mr. John Benet, LLD "appeared William Brewster, gen., brother of the
aforesaid James Brewster, cleric, which William gave assent to the findings of
the court, by which the salary of said cleric was to be withheld." (the
original Latin reads: "cum consensu et assensu Willelmi Brewster gen.
fratris dicti Jacobi Brewster clerici").(4)
From about 1602, Scrooby Manor, the
Brewster's home, became a meeting place for the dissenting Puritans. In 1606,
they formed the Separatist Church of Scrooby.
Restrictions and pressures applied by the
authorities convinced the congregation of a need to emigrate to the more
sympathetic atmosphere of
Initially, the Pilgrams settled in
William was in Leyden in 1609 when before the
aldermen he came, age 42, as guardian of Ann Peck, native of Launde, when they
granted to Thomas Sinkinson of Hull, merchant, the power to receive £ 7 that Ann had left in the hands of William Watkin,
pastor of Clarborough when she left England.(5)
In
Plimouth Plantation
William came to
William Brewster's chest, brought from
William Bradford's Copy of the Mayflower
Compact
Signing of the Mayflower Compact- Bas
Relief at the
The following is from Gov. Bradford's Letter
Book:
"This next year being Anno. 1626, we
sent Mr. Allerton into England, partly to make some supply for us, and to see
if he could make any reasonable composition with the adventurers and because we
well knew that nothing can be done without money, we gave him an order to
procure some, binding ourselves to make payment thereof, as followeth:
Know all men by these presents, that whereas
we William Bradford, Governour of Plymouth in New' England, and William
Brewster, Capt. Miles Standish, Isaac Allerton, Samuel Fuller, Edward Winslow,
John Jeney, John Howland, and John Allden; being all inhabitants of Plymouth,
aforesaid, are for ourselves, and divers others, our associates, &c. And
whereas the said Isaac Allerton (by God's providence) for the necessary
occasions of the colony abovesaid, is bound for England ; and whereas divers of
us above named, have acquainted divers of our worthy and approved friends (by
our letters *) with our raw and weak estate, and want of ability of ourselves
to manage so great an action, as the upholding of the plantation aforesaid. If
therefore God shall move the heart or hearts of any of our friends, in
compassion of our wants and present straits, to lend us above named, the sum of
one hundred pounds sterling, for the space of two years, upon any such- terms
as shall be agreed upon, between him or them and the said Isaac Allerton, our
partner and agent, and deliver the same into his hands for our use ; that we,
the said William Bradford, William Brewster, &c. together with the said
Isaac Allerton, do bind ourselves, our heirs, &c. jointly and severally,
for the faithful performance of such obligations, conditions, or covenants, as
shall be agreed on, &c. In witness whereof, we have put to our hands and
seals, this 2d of July, Anno 1626, &c.
Upon this order, he got two hundred pounds,
but it was at thirty in the hundred interest, by which appears in what straits
we were; and yet this was upon better terms than the goods which were sent us
the year before, being at forty-five per cent, so that it was God's marvellous
providence, that we were ever able to wade through things, as will better
appear if God give me life and opportunity to handle them more particularly, in
another treatise more at large, as I desire and purpose (if God permit) with
many other things, in a better order."(6)
Brewster was granted land amongst the islands
of
William Brewster's Chair- Pilgrim Hall Museum
Brewster died in 1644 and was
likely buried in Miles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury.
Issue-
· 5II. PATIENCE-
b.c.1600, m. 5 Aug. 1624
· III. Fear- b.c.1605, m. Isaac Allerton (d.
1659), d. 12 Dec. 1634
· IV. _____- bur. 20 June 1609 Leyden,
· V. Love- b.c.1611
· VI. Wrestling- b. before 1620, d.s.p. after
1627
Ref:
(1) TAG-
Vol.41, No.1, p.1
(2) "Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series,
1581-90"- p.686
(3) Ibid
(4) Act Book of the York Diocese Chancery Court, 1595- 1599, R.
VIII. AB. 46, ff. 104 v, 122, 131
(5) NEHGR- Vol.111, pp.319-20
(6) "Governor Bradford's Letter Book"- in The
Mayflower Descendant- Vol. V, No. 4 (Oct. 1903), p. 198
"The Lamson Family of
"Brewster Genealogy 1566-1907"- Emma Brewster Jones
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