Northamptonshire, Marston Trussell - end of an adventurer
1612 Mark Brewster who gave 4s 10d to the poor and £40 to the church for a great bell . He was a freeman of the Ironmongers Company and made money being one of the first traders to Russia, as deputy agent of the Russian Company under John Merrick overseeing the factory in Moscow, trading free of duty perhaps involving piracy. After unrest in Moscow, suspension of the company's charter and the burning of the english house where he lived in the Varvarka, he
retired here in 1612. The Tsar however asked for his return and he was tried and executed in Moscow
Northamptonshire, Marston Trussell - end of an adventurer
1612 Mark Brewster who gave 4s 10d to the poor and £40 to the church for a great bell . He was a freeman of the Ironmongers Company and made money being one of the first traders to Russia, as deputy agent of the Russian Company under John Merrick overseeing the factory in Moscow, trading free of duty perhaps involving piracy. After unrest in Moscow, suspension of the company's charter and the burning of the english house where he lived in the Varvarka, he
retired here in 1612. The Tsar however asked for his return and he was tried and executed in Moscow