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3 matches to Separatists
Independents. Separatists. 17C English Christian sects believing that congregation should control its own affairs. Congregationalism. Puritans.
Pilgrim Fathers. 1620. English religious Separatists who sailed on Mayflower to avoid persecution.
Separatists. 16-17C. Factions who left Church of England. Brownists, Pilgrims, Quakers.