The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony 1620 P4

Many of the Pilgrims attended the non-State church led by English Reformer John Greenwood. He objected to any monarch being head of the Church because, “there could be but one head to the Church and that head…was Christ!” For making that declaration, he was charged with “denying Her Majesty’s ecclesiastical supremacy” and was executed. Parliament, to reinforce its support of this brutal policy, then passed a law requiring that if “any of Her Majesty’s subjects deny the Queen’s ecclesiastical supremacy….they shall be committed to prison without bail —-a law aimed directly at groups such as the Pilgrims.

After years of enduring such government persecution…they left England and went to Holland, where they found religious toleration.

Content sourced from "The American Story, the beginnings" by David Barton and Tim Barton