The ill-fated Charles Stuart was at the time carrying out the threat which his father made at Hampton Court when he told the Puritan divines that he would make them conform or he would harry them out of the land, or worse. At the time it sounded like an idle boast, but when they found that King James was determined to enforce one doctrine, one discipline, one religion, in substance and ceremony, many well to do people, as well as artisans and agriculturalists, who considered their spiritual welfare of more moment than their physical comforts, fled to Holland and later to America.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:16:45 +0000
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