Sir Edwin Sandys I quote the following passage, which Noble spirit in which they address them perilous undertaking. shows the spirit in which they began their selves to their perilous enterprise: "We verily believe and trust that the Lord is with us, to whom and whose service we have given ourselves in many trials, and that he will graciously prosper our endeavours according to the simplicity of our hearts. We are well weaned from the delicate milk of our mother-country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange land. The people are, for the body of them, industrious and frugal, we think we may safely say, as any company of people in the world. We are knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond and covenant of the Lord, of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves strictly tied to all care of each other's good, and of the whole. And lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish ourselves at home again." Who, reading this, must not wish them Good speed? Let us leave them on their voyage, and return for a moment to the country they had left. Scrooby continued to be a possession of the family of Sandys till near the beginning of the eighteenth century, when an heiress carried it away to another family. It was settled by Sir Scrooby since their de parture. Samuel Sandys on his second son, Martin Sandys, who was born in 1597. Martin left a son, Francis Sandys, who, or a son of that name, was buried at Scrooby on February 14th, 1696. He Extinction of the family of Sandys. has no monument, but there is one for Penelope, a daughter of Sir Martin, who died on the 25th of December, 1690. Francis Sandys left an only daughter and heir, named Mary, to the guardianship of Sir Willoughby Hickman, of Gainsborough, from whose house she was married in 1707, to John Stapylton, the only son of Sir Bryan Stapylton, of Myton, in Yorkshire. This John Stapylton succeeded his father in the baronetcy, and died during his canvass of the county of York, at the election of 1733. It forms now part of the estate of Robert Pemberton Milnes, of Bawtry, Esq., who was some time member for Pontefract, as his son, Richard Monckton Milnes, now is. The Archiepiscopal mansion at Scrooby having been first abandoned to tenants, was soon taken Scrooby Manor. down and the materials removed. As long ago as 1673, Thoroton speaks of it thus: "Here, within memory, stood a very fair palace, a far greater house of receit and a better seat for provision than Southwell. It hath a fair park belonging to it; Archbishop Sandys caused it to be demised to his son, Sir Samuel Sandys, since which the house hath been demolished, almost to the ground. Mr. Francis Sandys is the present tenant." None of the stone-work remains, except what appears to have been a gate-way or out-housing, which is converted into a farm-house. But the site is strongly marked by what was the ancient moat. After Brewster, Francis Hall was the postmaster at Scrooby, to whom succeeded John Nelson, and after him were William Nelson, and Edward Wright, who held the office at the beginning of the Civil Wars. I know not exactly the time when the great Diversion of the Post Road. North Road was diverted so as to leave Scrooby on the left hand, and to pass through Bawtry, to which place the post-office was removed. Beside the interest which must always attach even to the site of an edifice, with which are connected events of no ordinary kind, there is nothing of interest at Scrooby now except the church, and that is not so remarkable as we might The Church and Monu ments. have expected, when we remember that it must have been erected under the observation of some early Archbishop. wood-work remains of one of the favourite symbols of Christianity in the middle ages, a vine bearing clusters of grapes. There are a few monumental memorials of persons who had been officers of the Archbishops, one of whom, Mr. Robert Hill, was "aiaciscanus to Archbishop Rotherham, a word rarely found in English inscriptions, and equivalent to the farmer or manager of the estate. We may observe, however, in the There is only one monumental inscription of any person, who can be supposed to have been contemporary with Brewster, and it is in a state of much decay. It is of one of the family of Torre, who lived in these parts before one of them settled at York, the better to pursue those researches by which he rendered such inestimable benefit to the diocese of York. Marcida THEOPHILI TORI subterraneus ossa Obiit 26 Aprilis anno dom. 1620. In none of the other churches of the neighbourhood, Bawtry, Austerfield, Blythe, Sutton, or Babworth, do we find monuments of the persons spoken of in this book, or of their contemporaries. One word respecting the descendants of Brewster, Bradford, Robinson, and Clifton. The dants of the Brewsters and Bradfords took root in four principal The descen persons. New England, where they flourished, and are still flourishing. Brewster gave to his children names of quite the ultra-puritan mintage, Patience, Fear, Love, Wrestling, Brewster. and Jonathan: I say of an ultra-puritan mintage, but there was a meaning and purpose in the adoption of names such as these. The names previously used in England, had been for the most part the names of holy men and women, who had been honoured in the ancient church, and placed by her in the Kalendar. They had therefore a relation to the abrogated system, and they contributed to keep up the memory of it, which the Puritans wished to see die away. They had recourse therefore to Old Testament names, and to such words as fear, love, and patience, which we see Brewster selected out of a pretty copious vocabulary. In one parish in England, that of Halifax, Old Testament names supplanted almost entirely the former personal nomenclature, and |