St Andrew's Church
Fellows of Corpus Christi College were prohibited from marrying, and a desire to marry required Robinson to resign his Fellowship on February 10, 1604. Five days later, on February 15, 1604 at Greasley parish in western Nottinghamshire, he married Bridget White, the daughter of Alexander and Eleanor (Smith) White, formerly prosperous yeoman farmer parents at Sturton-Le-Steeple, who were deceased at the time of Bridget's marriage. At her marriage, Bridget was residing near Greasley on land held under a 99 year lease by her older brother Charles, who had inherited the lease by father Alexander's will.
In August 1603, Robinson became associate pastor of St. Andrews Church in the bustling commercial center of Norwich, England. This rapidly growing industrial city had contacts on the continent with Holland and Flanders. It also had a considerable number of foreign workers and political refugees. In addition, the most influential political leaders and merchants in Norwich were Puritans.
Soon after he assumed his new duties in St. Andrews, King James of England issued a proclamation requiring that all ministers conform to a new book of canons. The deadline to conform was set for the end of November. The bishops, reacting to pressure from the King, made life intolerable for Anglican ministers with Puritan beliefs. For that reason, Robinson left the church at Norwich but remained a resident of Norwich, where he was unsuccessful in gaining the low level mastership of the Great Hospital of Norwich. He subsequently preached privately at various locations throughout northern Nottinghamshire, including in the Spring of 1605 at his home town of Sturton-Le-Steeple.
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