Note 191 — Chapter V · THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS
Reading edition
Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, ed. by C. Deane (Boston, 1861), pp. 409 ff.; H. M. Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (Boston, 1905), pp. 216-320. Scrooby was a halting place on the great northern post-road, and the duties of “postmaster” were more varied and important then than now.