![]() They arranged for a Dutch ship to meet them at Scotia Creek at Boston, Lincolnshire, to sneak them out of the country, but the captain betrayed them and turned them into the authorities, according to Bradford: Due to a statute passed in the reign of Richard II, no one could leave England without a license, which the group did not have. The group first attempted to leave for Holland sometime near the end of 1607. Yet seeing them selves thus molested, and that ther was no hope of their continuance ther, by a joynte consente they resloved to goe into ye low-countries, wher they heard was freedoms of religion for all men…” Yet these & many other sharper things which afterward befell them, were no other then they looked for, and therefore were ye better prepared to bear them by ye assistance of Gods grace & sprite. For some were taken & clapt up in prison, others had their houses besett & watcht night and day, & hardly escaped their hands and ye most were faine to flie & leave their howses & habitations, and the means of their livelihood. “But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted & persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them. The pilgrims decided to leave England for Holland because they were being persecuted for their religion and felt they had no other choice but to leave, according to William Bradford in his book Of Plimoth Plantation: When & Why Did the Pilgrims Leave England? Various members of the group were eventually detained and fined for their beliefs, such as William Brewster, who was summoned to his local ecclesiastical court in 1607 for being “disobedient in matters of Religion.”īrewster was fined £20, which is the equivalent of $5,000 today, but he refused to appear in court or pay the fine. Realizing how dangerous it had become to worship their religion in public, the separatists began holding their services in private homes, such as at William Brewster’s home Scrooby manor. These canons declared that anyone who rejected the practices of the Church of England excommunicated themselves and it required all clergymen to accept and publicly acknowledge the royal supremacy and authority of the Prayer Book. ![]() In 1604, the Church introduced 141 cannons, which was a sort of test to flush out nonconformists. ![]() The separatists refused to attend services at the Church of England and instead held their own services where their pastor preached that everyone had a right to discuss and interpret the Bible, that parishioners should take an active part in services and how anyone could depart from the official Book of Common Prayer and speak directly to God. ![]() Non-separatists felt that the church could still be reformed and remained in the church to do so. Separatists felt that the Church of England was too corrupt to save and decided to separate from it. At the time there were two types of puritans within the Church of England: separatists and non-separatists. The Mayflower pilgrims were members of a Puritan sect within the Church of England known as separatists. disctincte bodys or churches & in regarde of distance of place did congregate severally for they were of sundrie townes & villages, some in Nottinghamshire, some of Lincolnshire, and some of Yorkshire, wher they border nearest togeather.”Ī preacher named John Smith was the pastor of one of the groups and a preacher named Richard Clifton was the pastor of the other. The group was so spread out across the area though that they formed two different groups, according to Bradford: Scrooby Village, England, photo published in Albert Addison’s book, The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims, circa 1911
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