On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 pages Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. He conducted a lifelong debate over religious freedom with distinguished figures of the seventeenth century, including Puritan minister John Cotton, Massachusetts governor John Endicott, and the English Parliament. |
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... received from Coke was the means to higher education . With the jurist's sponsorship , Williams enrolled first at Charterhouse and then , in 1624 , at Cambridge's Pembroke College . While Pembroke College was more loyal to the Anglican ...
... received word that he was again teaching from his home in Salem , they dispatched men to put him on a boat to England ( where Archbishop Laud would certainly send him straight to the Tower of London ) . Some of his friends , however ...
... received a copy of an anonymous critique of religious persecution entitled An Humble Supplication to the King's Majesty.13 He thought that Williams had sent him the text , so when he prepared a de- 12. John Milton , " On the New Forcers ...
... to Clarke ( who never received adequate reimbursement for his efforts as colony ambassador ) , Williams continued to insist that individual freedom , so cherished by Rhode Island's residents , must 34 34 INTRODUCTION.
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