East Anglia

ently good people in Dr. Doddridge's acceptation of the term, and I fancy did much as lords of the manor--and as inhabitants of Wrentham Hall, a building which had ceased to exist long before my time--to leaven with their goodness the surrounding lump. It seems to me that these Brewsters must have been more or less connected with Brewster the elder--of Robinson's Church at Leyden, who, we are told, came of a wealthy and distinguished family--who was well trained at Cambridge, and, says the historian, 'thence, being first seasoned with the seeds of grace and virtue, he went to the Court, and there served that religious and godly Mr. Davison divers years, when he was Secretary of State, who found him so discreet and faithful as he trusted him, above all others that were about him, and only employed him in matters of great trust and secrecy; he esteemed him rather as a son than a servant, and for his wisdom and godliness in private, he would converse with him more like a familiar than a master.' When evil times