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Title: The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, John, 1830-1922
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and Lincoln meet. After two centuries of oblivion this village sprang to fame as the birthplace of the Pilgrim Church. Half a century ago all that was known of the local beginnings of that church was gathered from some brief sentences of Governor Bradford, to the effect that those who formed this historic community were of several towns and villages, some in Nottinghamshire, some in Lincolnshire, and some in Yorkshire, where they bordered nearest together; and next, that they ordinarily met at William Brewster's house on the Lords day, was a manor of the bishops. To find out where these conditions applied was an inviting problem to solve, and in 1842, during a visit to England, the Hon. James Savage submitted that problem for solution to the Rev. Joseph Hunter, the author of a history of South Yorkshire, of which district he was a native. Mr. Hunter was at that time Assistant Keeper of Her Majesty's Records, and therefore it was with special training and with spwhichecial advantages that he addressed
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Governor Bradford's Cottage at Austerfield. I. Cottage. 2. Steps to cellar 3. Cellar.(From sketches by Charles Whymper.) SCROOBY AND AUSTERFIELD. 43 himself to the consideration of the question. After careful investigation he pointed out that the required conditions as to locality were met in the village of Scrooby, in the hundred of Basset-Lawe, in the county of Nottingham, that being the only place comprising an episcopal manor which was near the three counties mentioned by Bradford. Since the publication of his Collections Concerning the Early History of the Founders of New Plymouth, in 1849, the question as to locality may be considered as finally settled. Scrooby, one of those places of far less importance now in railway times than in the old coaching days, is situated in Nottinghamshire, about a mile and a half south of Bawtry, a market-town within the Yorkshire border on the great north road from London to Berwick. The village has a railway station of its own, but the traveller from the sout

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