Scrooby

Ed Marshall Scrooby, Nottinghamshire• The Home Office's predictable reply to calls for legalisation of the possession of drugs The drug laws don't work, they just make it worse: campaign calls for reform again, 2 June was: "Drugs are illegal because they are harmful – they destroy lives and cause untold misery to families and communities."

Letters: Getting high is a basic human right 2011

Ed Marshall Scrooby, Nottinghamshire• The Home Office's predictable reply to calls for legalisation of the possession of drugs The drug laws don't work, they just make it worse: campaign calls for reform again, 2 June was: "Drugs are illegal because they are harmful – they destroy lives and cause untold misery to families and communities."

Letters: Getting high is a basic human right 2011

Scrooby had been an agricultural community, whereas Leiden was a thriving industrial center, and the pace of life was hard on the Pilgrims.

Matthew Yglesias » The War on Christmas: The Early Years 2008

He wrote in his 1907 Dunham Genealogy that "It has been found to be a very difficult task to establish this John Dunham, of Scrooby, and reëstablish him, as the Plymouth John Dunham, who, as a Separatist, fled from England, escaped from his pursuers by assuming the name of John Goodman when in Holland and America."

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

About 1606, their church congregation began meeting in secret at the Scrooby manor, where Mary and William lived.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

She was presumably from the vicinity of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, because she married William Brewster there in about 1592.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

But did you know that the congregation founded by the Pilgrims in Scrooby, England, way back in 1606 and transported to Plymouth via the Netherlands in 1620 is also the ancestor of a Unitarian Universalist congregation?

Philocrites: November 2006 Archives 2006

Nonetheless, Scrooby has made at least one concession to its departed predecessors: the Pilgrim Fathers pub, a low, whitewashed building, right by the main road.

Archive 2006-11-01 M-mv 2006

But did you know that the congregation founded by the Pilgrims in Scrooby, England, way back in 1606 and transported to Plymouth via the Netherlands in 1620 is also the ancestor of a Unitarian Universalist congregation?

Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: Pilgrims' progress. 2006

One of the earliest examples -- really, the archetype and source of all the others -- is our very own First Parish UU in Plymouth, Mass., founded in Scrooby, England, in 1608.

Philocrites: 'Utmost purity': A parable. 2005