Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they hoped to worship freely, without harassment from church authorities. Some members of the ...

Many Puritans had fled abroad when Mary I, a Catholic, was queen and had become influenced by Calvinist ideas. When Elizabeth, a protestant, came to the throne these 'exiles' began to return.

Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they hoped to worship freely, without harassment from church authorities. Some members of the ...