History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . INTERIOR OF ST. WILFRIDS CHURCH AT SCROOBY. 134 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS. CARDINAL WOLSEY. of realism and intensity, by the Puritan, though with lessconsideration for others. The Puritans ship was freightedto the gunwale with that formalism so realistically chris-tened Lord Brethren bythe Episcopal clergyman,William Blaxton, founderof Boston, when he shookthe dust of the rigid Puri-tan town from his feet andsought the restful atmos-phere of Study Hill, atRehoboth, Rhode Island. That was


History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . INTERIOR OF ST. WILFRIDS CHURCH AT SCROOBY. 134 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS. CARDINAL WOLSEY. of realism and intensity, by the Puritan, though with lessconsideration for others. The Puritans ship was freightedto the gunwale with that formalism so realistically chris-tened Lord Brethren bythe Episcopal clergyman,William Blaxton, founderof Boston, when he shookthe dust of the rigid Puri-tan town from his feet andsought the restful atmos-phere of Study Hill, atRehoboth, Rhode Island. That was a wonderfultrio of seventeenth centuryEnglishmen, ReverendJohn Robinson of Norwich,William Brewster, postof Scrooby, who at the ageof thirty was an earnest ex-pounder of Separatism, and William Bradford of Austerfield,that English town close by a former Roman camp. This ladwhen between the years of thirteen and seventeen, probablythe latter, though against par-ental or guardian wishes, strodea short two miles, across fields,to Scrooby, as a follower ofBrewster. All three were toaid mightily in forming the newOver - Sea - Empire, althoughJohn Robinson never crossedthe Atlanti


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