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LR1e - Westminster City Archives - Parish Register for the Parish of St Martin in the Fields, 25 Sept. 1589

Register of births, deaths, and marriages for the Parish of St Martin in the Fields   , entry for the burial of Alicia Breet (sic) (possibly Jonson 's stepsister?), 25 Sept. 1589
Eugene Giddens

Sepulturae 1589
[Trans.: Burials 1589]
...
Septembris
...
25 Sepulta fuit Alicia Breet
[Trans.: On 15 September Alice Brett was buried]

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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.