The Pilgrims held Wikipedia:Calvinist religious beliefs similar to the Wikipedia:Puritans but, unlike many Puritans, maintained that their congregations needed to be separated from the English state church.Īs a separatist group, they were also concerned that they might lose their English cultural identity if they emigrated to the Netherlands, so they arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America. The Pilgrims' leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th–17th century Holland in the Netherlands. England was a Protestant country but many Puritans believed the Church of England, under the control of the monarch, had not been sufficiently reformed of its Catholic tendencies.
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It was to Leiden in 1609 that around 300 English religious dissidents fled hoping to live free from religious persecution. Shortly after that they were the basis of the group to sail in the Mayflower to the New World. In 1607/8 the Congregation emigrated to Netherlands in search of the freedom to worship as they chose. They were called "Separatists" because of their rebellion against the religious authority of the Church of England, the official state religion. Scrooby Separatists were a mixed congregation of early English Protestants / non-conformists founding living in the border region of of South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. Leiden is known as the place where the Pilgrims (as well as some of the first settlers of New Amsterdam) lived (and operated a printing press) for a time in the early 17th century before their departure to Massachusetts and New Amsterdam in the New World.
This group was based in 1608-1630 in the dutch city of Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands.
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