Pilgrim Fathers Memorial

It commemorates the attempt at finding religious freedom in September, 1607 by the Scrooby Congregation, a group of English Separatist Protestants who left for Holland.

The men from Scrooby, Nottinghamshire,[1] chartered a Dutch vessel to transport them to the Netherlands in 1607,[2] but the attempt was thwarted when the captain betrayed them to the local authorities.

[1] They were arrested and taken by boat to attend a hearing by the magistrates in the Boston Guildhall, and they were imprisoned in the cells there for about a month.

[6] The ceremony was attended by several members of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, who made a donation towards the cost of the monument.

Its design is a tapering shaft rising from a base-block, intended to symbolise the urge which drove a small band of men and women to leave their country and kinsfolk for conscience's sake.