Register of births, deaths, and marriages for the Parish of
St Martin in the Fields
, entry for the
baptism of Margareta Brett (possibly
Jonson
's stepsister?), 16
June 1585
Eugene Giddens
Baptismus 1585
[Trans.: Baptisms 1585]
...
Junii
...
16 Baptizata fuit Margareta Brett
[Trans.: On 16 June
Margaret
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.