Scrooby

In 958, King Edgar granted an estate including land at Scroppenþorpe, including an area now in the modern Scrooby, to Oscytel, Archbishop of York. The Manor House belonged to the Archbishops of York and so was sometimes referred to as a palace. (A nearby former farmhouse is still called Palace Farm.) At the end of the sixteenth century, the house was occupied by William Brewster, the Archbishop's bailiff, who was also postmaster. His son, also named William Brewster, took that post in the 1590s after a job as an assistant to the Secretary of State under Elizabeth I. The junior William had been schooled in Peterhouse, Cambridge University, at the same time as the infamous Welsh Protestant…