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Title: The Pilgrims and their monument
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carpenter, Edmund J. (Edmund Janes), 1845-1924
Subjects: Provincetown, Mass. Pilgrim monument Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r righteousness and Christs sake. A prison door finally opened for Browne and Har-rison, and later they were banished to Holland, wherethey remained for some years, their followers, mean-time, rapidly increasing, under the name of Brownists. Another leader of Separatism was one John Rough,who in Marys day was the teacher of a Separatistcompany in London. This was one of those by whosedeath at the stake, Mary sought to root out heresyfrom the land. In the Dutch city of Middleburg was, at this time,a refuge for all who were persecuted for the sake ofconscience. You have no right to trouble yourselfwith any mans conscience, declared William theSilent, so long as nothing is done to cause privateharm or public scandal. In this safe retreat Brownefor a time found a home, and busied himself in writ-ing and publishing tracts and pamphlets which, whenthey appeared in England, were regarded as littleless than assaults upon the queens supremacy. In 1583 were arrested, tried, and executed, John 6
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WILLIAM THE SILENT. THE ENGLISH SEPARATISTS Copping and Elias Thacker, two Englishmen whohad been active in the distribution of Brownestracts. Five years later the authorities, who perhapsimagined that this severity had checked independentthought, were puzzled and distressed by the appear-ance of a series of tracts, seven in number, which wereextensively circulated, under the mysterious signatureof Martin Marprelate, and which were an argumentfor independence in religious thought and a series ofattacks upon the Establishment. The imprisonment or execution of Separatist lead-ers availed little to check the tendency of the age.The more was the sect persecuted, the more did itincrease in numbers, until, alarmed at its spread,resort was had to statutes to check its growth. Ban-ishment was decreed as a punishment, but banishmentwas of no avail. In Holland, where many of theSeparatists took refuge, they came in contact with theAnabaptists, who had likewise there taken refuge. The Separatist

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