Separatists

• These were Puritans unprepared to compromise and could not accept the services offered in an English Church and so set up there own, they didn’t want church reform as mainstream Puritans tried but to establish their own
• Some grew out of churches which had continued to meet secretly under Mary I; like the Plumbers’ Hall congregation discovered and rooted out of Edmund Grindal in 1567
• 1580s; Cambridge graduates Robert Browne and Robert Harrison established a Church in Norwich (brownist movement), but moved to Holland (1582) due to authorities' troubles; Browne later returned, and conformed
• 1590s; fall out from the suppression of classics movement encouraged another separatist church led by Henry Barrow and John Greenwood, this was based in London
• After a legislation against separatists, Barrow and Greenwood were arrested and executed (and John Penry); end end of the Separatist movement, it had attracted very few - most Puritans had come to accept the English Church
• After a legislation against separatists, Barrow and Greenwood were arrested and executed (and John Penry); end end of the Separatist movement, it had attracted very few - most Puritans had come to accept the English Church
• Elizabeth’s Church had its prayer book and 39 articles - enforced by her supremacy - her concern as outward conformity
• Her subjects had the liability of conscience to believe what they like as long as they attended her church on a Sunday, respected her Bishops/Clergy and gave no obvious signs of Dissent