. The Tucker genealogy; a record of Gilbert Ruggles and Evelina Christina (Snyder) Tucker, their ancestors and descendants; . irs of the church no bishop, council, synod,court, or sovereign had authority. Other churches of the same faith mightnot, unasked, even offer advice. Their pastors bad no standing outside theparish. They were Separatists, Independents, or Congregationalists. Thefirst independent church in England, however, was opened in London in 1616by the Rev. John Lothrop, afterwards the famous pioneer preacher of Barn-stable, Mass., who had been won from Puritanism to Separatism by
. The Tucker genealogy; a record of Gilbert Ruggles and Evelina Christina (Snyder) Tucker, their ancestors and descendants; . irs of the church no bishop, council, synod,court, or sovereign had authority. Other churches of the same faith mightnot, unasked, even offer advice. Their pastors bad no standing outside theparish. They were Separatists, Independents, or Congregationalists. Thefirst independent church in England, however, was opened in London in 1616by the Rev. John Lothrop, afterwards the famous pioneer preacher of Barn-stable, Mass., who had been won from Puritanism to Separatism by I^obinson-in Holland. ; The Separatists, though few in number, were cruelly persecuted underMary (1553-1558). In 1567-1569, under Elizabeth, a London congregationwas thrown into prison. The men and women died of the horrors of theirprisons. They were allowed while in prison neither clothing or food, andsubsisted upon donations that came through their jailers. The lew Puritanswho were thrown into prison were mostly clergymen, whose prison life was Authority: The Pilgrim Republic, Boston, 1893. John A. Goodwin,,662 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 139 On Sept. 5, 1620, William Bradford and his wife lefttheir only child John in England, and with one hundredPilgrims, sailed for America in the historic ship May-flower. The voyage was a long and tedious one. Beforereaching their final destination they cast anchor in Province-town harbor, where, prior to the landing, the famousCompact was drawn up in the cabin of the May-flower, the name of William Bradford appearing as thesecond signer. comparatively mild. The Separatists, however, suffered not only from thepersecutions of the established church, but encountered also, says Bradford,^he sharp invective of the Puritans, who stirred up not only hostility at home,but even prejudiced the reformed clergy of other countries against theSeparatist refugees. From 1660 to 1688 sixty thousand non-conformists anddissenters were cast into English pris
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