Stephen Tomkins - The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

The
JOURNEY
to the MAYFLOWER

GODS OUTLAWS AND THE INVENTION OF FREEDOM

STEPHEN TOMKINS

PEGASUS BOOKS

NEW YORK LONDON

To my dad,

across the main ocean

By the same author:

John Wesley: A Biography

William Wilberforce: A Biography

A Short History of Christianity

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Act of Uniformity 22, 23, 25, 50

Admonition to the Parliament, An (Field and Wilcox) 7274, 79

Admonition to the People of England, An (Cooper) 162

Advertisement..., An (Clifton) 296

Advertisements (Parker) 2728

Advice tending to Reformation (Egerton and Jacob) 248

Against disordered preaching at Paules crosse (Browne) 102

Against parish preachers and hyred lecturers (Browne) 102

Ainsworth, Henry; see also Amsterdam English Separatists, Ainsworths church

background 237

baptism debate 278, 292, 29798

congregationalist views 28889

death 333

Hebrew, study of 266

Johnson brothers feud 238

Johnson, debates with 28890, 292, 29798, 319, 320

marriage 267

petition to James I 25051

poverty 237, 239

Slade, dispute with 239

Smyths Baptist church 274

submission to Church 24344

Whites accusations 264

written works

Articles of Difference 290

Booke of Psalmes 297

Clifton, reply to 296

Communion of saincts 267

Covnterpoyson 26770

defence of Separatism 26770

Johnson, debates with 319, 320

Old Testament translations 296, 297, 320, 333

Smyth, reply to 272

Alba, Fernando lvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke 5657, 76, 83

Allen, William, Cardinal of England 86, 148, 14950

Allens, Miss or Mrs 115, 117

Allin, Edmund 13

Ames, William 291, 304, 310, 317

Amsterdam English Separatists

Ainsworths church 290, 298, 312, 320, 328

Bushers church 28485, 307

Claphams church 23738

disputes/divisions 26566, 27173, 28890, 29398, 312

Dutch Church, relationship with 22425, 230

English-language Dutch Reformed Church 267, 312, 320

Helwys church 283, 29192, 303

Jewish learning 26667

Johnsons first church

Ainsworth elected teacher 237

Ancient Church 26566

controversies 24345

Dutch Church, relationship with 23940, 241, 242

excommunications 230, 24345

growth 242

Johnson brothers dispute 238, 24041, 243, 245

Johnsons defence of Separatism 24142

London Separatists, relationship with 243

moving around 22930

Norwich Separatists, quarrel with 24243

petition to James I 25051

schism over congregationalism 28890

Slade elected elder 239

Johnsons Franciscans

American, emigration to 316, 319

baptism debate 29798

elders, power of the 288, 293

endurance 334

excommunications 294

move to Emden 298

return to Amsterdam 311

Studley, allegations against 24445, 29394

poverty 266

Scrooby Separatists 238

Smyths church

arrival 265

attempt to join Waterlanders 28186, 298

becoming Baptists 27374

Bible banned 271

church structure 271, 272

disagreements with Johnsons church 26566

financial giving 27172

joining Waterlanders 309

Whites and Powells church 26264

Anabaptists

Aldgate Dutch 8386, 87

beliefs 78, 8384, 108, 109, 225, 273, 27475, 282, 284, 310

Calvins censure of 189

in the Netherlands 106, 224, 230, 266, 28186

in Norwich 11011

persecution of 10, 8386, 303

Separatists views of 10, 48, 78, 276, 29192

Smyths church, influence on 273, 27475, 28186

Anderson, Anthony 215

Andrewes, Lancelot 17879, 196, 216

Answer to Maister H. Jacob..., An (F. Johnson) 24142

Answere to a Certaine Libel Supplicatorie, An (Sutcliffe) 203

Answere to Master Cartwright..., An (Browne) 12829

anti-puritan campaigns

Bancrofts 6263, 12122, 163, 169, 172, 174, 18687, 251, 252

Whitgifts 12325, 132, 15253, 158, 185, 199, 202, 210

Antwerp 55, 116, 135

Apologie or Defence of svch trve Christians... An (F. Johnson and Ainsworth) 251

Arminianism 28081, 318

Arminius, Jacobus 22425, 280

Arran, James Stewart, Earl 134

Arthington, Henry 19799

Articles of Difference (Ainsworth) 290

Austoo, James and Margaret 15

Aylmer, John, Bishop of London 135, 145, 152, 161, 16568, 178, 182, 186, 233

Babington, Anthony 136

Bancroft, Richard, Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury

141 canons 25152

anti-puritan campaign 6263, 12122, 163, 169, 172, 174, 18687, 251, 252

on Barrow 139

Barrow and Greenwood interview 178

Browne, Robert 96, 113, 154

death 295

Hampton Court Conference 248, 249

in Pickerings poem 24950

Separatist services, description of 143

baptism debates 126, 19092, 27378, 28788, 292, 29798, 311

Baptists

Anabaptist influences 27475

Bushers church 307

disputes/divisions 28485, 29192

Helwys church 291, 300301, 3067

in North America 335, 336

Particular Baptists 334

religious freedom 3078

Smyths church 27374, 276, 28186, 298, 309, 333

views of other Separatists 274, 287, 292, 312; see also baptism debates

Barrow, Henry

appeals 2078, 216, 218

arrest 146

background 139

baptism debate 19092, 275

Brownes Treatise against 154

Calvin, disagreement with 18990, 201, 269

on Cartwright 2023

Cartwrights visit to 184

conversion to puritanism 140

conversion to Separatism 14041

covenant, church as 19394

Elizabeth, disappointment in 18

execution 218

Gifford, debate with 19395, 200203

imprisonment 147, 149

interviews 14647, 16568

Old vs. New Testaments 27273

prison debates 17881

puritans, admonition to 14445

religious freedom 17576

Somes Treatise against 157

trial 21114

Wolsey, views on 243

written works

Brief Discoverie of the False Church, A 18892

Few Observations, A 2012

Four Causes of Separation 14445

Plaine Refutation of Mr George Giffardes Reprocheful Booke, A 19395

prison debate accounts 18182

True Description Out of the Worde of God, of the Visible Church, A 17576

Bartlett, John 28

Bellot, Arthur 182, 19495, 216

Bellot, Scipio 188, 21314, 216

Benson, John 45, 50

Bentham, Thomas 1617, 22, 90

Bernard, Richard 253, 254, 25558, 259, 260, 269, 270, 279

Bernher, Augustine 16

bill against nonconformists 21718

bishops, puritan views about

Barrow 144, 166, 16768, 18081, 188, 213

Browne 94, 95, 97, 15859

Cartwright 60

Field 61

Fitz church petition 68

Harrison 103

Marprelate 16061, 162, 16970, 17273

Udall 17677

White 64

Blackwell, Francis 306, 319, 322, 324

Bolton, John 4142, 50, 69

Bonham, William 50, 65, 81, 141

Bonner, Edmund, Bishop of London 19, 5354

Book of Discipline (Travers) 135, 13839

Book of Martyrs (Foxe) 6, 19, 2527, 36, 41, 149, 16970