Register of births, deaths, and marriages for the Parish of
St Martin in the Fields
, entry for the
burial of
Robert Brett
(
Jonson
's stepfather?), 29 Aug.
1609
Eugene Giddens
Sepulturae 1609
[Trans.: Burials
1609]
Augusti
29
Sepultus fuit Robertus Brett
[Trans.: On
29 August
Robert Brett
was buried]
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.