Mayflower in 1620 were Brownists, and the Pilgrims were known into the 20th century as the Brownist Emigration. The Brownists were eventually absorbed...

Robert Browne (1550s – 1633) was the founder of the Brownists, a common designation for early Separatists from the Church of England before 1620. In later...

immigrated to the New World, especially to the Thirteen Colonies and Canada. Brownists founded the Plymouth Colony. English dissenters played a pivotal role...

imprisonment, like other Brownists, and in the autumn of 1607, the Scrooby Congregation decided to emigrate to the Netherlands. A large Brownist congregation, the...

December 1610. The 'Ainsworthian Brownists' as they were popularly termed, were excommunicated by the 'Franciscan Brownists.' Ainsworth began a lawsuit for...

became a religious leader as a Protestant Separatist, one of the original Brownists. Harrison matriculated as a pensioner of St John's College, Cambridge...

language other than English. Massachusetts was founded and settled by Brownist Puritans in 1620, and soon after by other groups of Separatists/Dissenters...

impulsive. His views were distinctly Presbyterian, and he stoutly opposed the Brownists or Independents. He never conceived of a separation between church and...

existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being a Brownist (or Puritan Separatist). William Brewster was born in 1566 or 1567, most...

Devon). The Pilgrims' leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownists, or Separatists, who had fled religious persecution in England for the...

separatist Puritan congregation in Leiden, The Netherlands (also known as Brownists), who were seeking to establish a colony in the New World where they could...

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therefore considered it no Christian church at all. These groups, such as the Brownists, would split from the established church and become known as Separatists...

London put together a team of 42 ministers and academics to visit the Brownists twice a week and engage in theological debate in order to win them back...

well as to English custom.: 2  Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Brownists (a sect of English Protestant dissenters) who came to be known as the...

Barrowe) (c. 1550 – 6 April 1593) was an English Separatist Puritan, or Brownist, who was executed for his views. He led the London underground church from...

After associating with the Puritan party in the Church, he joined the Brownists, but submitted to the Church of England after being arrested in London...

concern. Short lifespans were typical of Separatist churches (also known as Brownist congregations). These were small congregations who met in secret and faced...

or Brownist, minister who was executed for his faith. He led the London underground church from 1587 to 1593 and wrote several works of Brownist apologetics...

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the first true congregational church in England. Associated with the Brownists, he asserted the autonomy of the church, and advocated for ecclesiastical...

impartial in their repudiation of all other churches and sects, including Brownists and Barrowists. Nicholis's message is said to have appealed to the well...

Coventry discussing whether to quit the Church of England and become Brownists. The conference included John Smyth, John Robinson, Richard Bernard and...

and economic powerhouse. The English religious dissenters known as the Brownists developed their governing institutions in Middelburg before emigrating...

its officers, was to govern itself. As early as the 16th century, the Brownists would advocate for independent congregations. New England ministers formalized...

returned to London. There he had published The prophane schisme of the Brownists or Separatists With the impietie, dissensions, lewd, and abhominable vices...

English Dissenters and Separatists from the Church of England, followed Brownist notions of self-governance of local churches. The notion of free will was...

another ship to be hired in England. This initial group included the mostly Brownist congregation. Myles and Rose Standish were aboard, along with the Bradfords...

Church at Amsterdam, 1612. The book attacked is The prophane Schism of the Brownists or Separatists, with the impiety, dissensions, lewd and abominable vices...

Pilgrims. Most of them were of a Calvinistic separatist group known as the Brownists. Other Calvinistic Puritans settled in the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colony...