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He was the son of William Brewster and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) Brewster and he had a number of step-brothers and step-sisters, including James, Prudence, Henry, George, and Edward Brewster. His paternal grandparents were William Brewster (1510–1558), and Maud Mann (1513–1558).
Hugh Saunders or Breakspear 1510-1517. Prebend of Broomesbury 1517. ... William Clyff 1548-1558. ... William Brewster 1442-1465. John Walter 1465-1467.
Died in the West Indies (before arriving to Virginia) John Brookes: Gentleman Edward Browne: Gentleman Brown, E. 1607–08–15 James Brumfield: Boy Brunfield, J. Andrew Buckler: Shipmaster [12] Bucler, A. 1625 [citation needed] William Bruster: Gentleman Brewster, W. 1607–08–10 Died from native wound John Capper: Carpenter
William Brewster-In the 1580s, he was an assistant to William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I; Davison was a party to the 1587 execution of Mary Queen of Scots. About twenty years later, Brewster was among those prominent in the early English Separatist church, emigrating to Holland in 1608 where he became Ruling Elder of the Leiden church.
Brewster used his home as a church for an underground religious group called the Separatists, who were critical of the Church of England and chose to break away entirely (hence the name). "He was ...
William E. Brewster (1858–1945), American banker, merchant, and politician from Maine; William N. Brewster (1864–1917), American Protestant Christian missionary to China; William R. Brewster (1828–1869), American Civil War general; Willie Brewster (died 1965), whose murder was the first time in the history of Alabama that a white man was ...
William West, 1st Baron De La Warr (/ ˈ d ɛ l ə w ɛər / ⓘ DEL-ə-wair) [1] of the second creation (c. 1520 – 30 December 1595) was the elder son of Sir George West (d.1538), second son of Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr, by his third wife, Eleanor Copley, and Elizabeth Morton, widow of Robert Walden, and daughter of Sir Robert Morton of Lechlade, Gloucestershire.
In 1510, Anne was the subject of a sex scandal. Her brother had heard rumours that Anne was having an affair with Sir William Compton, who was close to Henry VIII; she had been one of Henry's mistresses. [6] On one occasion, Stafford found Compton in Anne's room. Compton was forced to take the sacrament to prove that he had not committed adultery.