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The Journey to the Mayflower

God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

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The Journey to the Mayflower

By: Stephen Tomkins
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
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2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower - the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It's a foundational event in American history, but it began as an English story, which pioneered the idea of religious freedom.

The illegal underground movement of Protestant separatists from Elizabeth I's Church of England is a story of subterfuge and danger, arrests and interrogations, prison and executions. It starts with Queen Mary's attempts to burn Protestantism out of England, which created a Protestant underground. Later, when Elizabeth's Protestant reformation didn't go far enough, radicals re-created that underground, meeting illegally throughout England, facing prison and death for their crimes. They went into exile in the Netherlands, where they lived in poverty - and finally the New World.

Stephen Tomkins tells this fascinating story - one that is rarely told as an important piece of English as well as American history - that is full of contemporary relevance: religious violence, the threat to national security, freedom of religion and tolerance of dangerous opinions.

This is a must-listen book for anyone interested in the untold story of how the Mayflower came to be launched.

©2020 Stephen Tomkins (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Christianity History England Mormon Royalty
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An extraordinary story

An extraordinary story, at times inspiring, at times horrifying, at times hilarious. Finally puts the London underground church in its rightful place at the heart of the story of the Mayflower pilgrims.

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