Register of births, deaths, and marriages for the Parish of
St Martin in the Fields
, entry for the
baptism of
John Brett
(possibly
Jonson
's stepbrother?), 1
January 1582 .
Eugene Giddens
Baptismus 1581
[Trans.: Baptisms 1581]
...
Januarii
1 Baptizatus fuit Johannes Brett
[Trans.: On 1 Jan.
John Brett
was baptised]
Bibliography
Mason,
St Martin in the Fields
St Martin in the Fields was established in the thirteenth century in the 'fields' between Westminster and the City of London . Today it is in Trafalgar Square. It was rebuilt, and its boundaries extended, by Henry VIII c . 1542, and enlarged again in 1607 at the charge of Henry , Prince of Wales . The present church was built 1721-26.