The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors (1896) (14780796862)

Identifier: pilgrimfathersof00brow (find matches)
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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doorway of thesame period has two nook shafts with cushioned caps,supporting an arch enriched with zigzag and beak-headedmoulding, in the tympanum being a rude figure of a dragonwith other ornaments. The interior was re-pewed in an ex-cruciating manner about sixty years ago, but the outsideremains probably much as it was when on March 19, 1589(N.S. 1590), William Bradford was brought to be baptisedby Henry Fletcher, who in his own neat, clear hand enteredthe record in the old register, which goes back to 1559. Bradford, born in the same year that Brewster wasappointed Post at Scrooby, was thus his junior by somethree-and-twenty years, and was only a youth of aboutseventeen when he began to consort with the brethrenmeeting in Scrooby Manor House. The house in whichhe is reputed to have been born is still shown by the sideof the road as we make our way to the church. Hisfather seems to have been a yeoman of fairly good position ;but he died when William was little more than a year old,
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SOUTH DOORWAY, AUSTERFIELD CHURCH. F 2 SCROOBY AND AUSTERFIELD. 69 leaving him, as Cotton Mather tells us, a comfortableinheritance. The fatherless child thus left was committedto the care of his grandfather, who also died some fiveyears later, after which the boy was brought up by hisuncles William, Thomas, and Robert Bradford, or Brad-furth, who devoted him, like his ancestors, unto the affairsof husbandry. Some idea of the social position of theBradfords may be gathered from the fact that Williamsmaternal grandfather, John Hanson, shared with oldWilliam Bradford the honour of being the only subsidy-men at Austerfield; and also from the will of his uncle, Robert Bradfurth, of Austerfield, yeoman. In this thetestator, who was of the yeoman class—the class in thereign of Elizabeth next to the acknowledged gentry, usingcoat-armour of right—sets out with declarations of hisChristian faith in more energetic terms than usual, andthen leaves bequests to Austerfield Chapel, and to Thoma