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Thomas Cartright: "An American Moses"

The History of the American Commonwealth is one deeply rooted in its Christian Founding. Every schoolboy in the Commonwealth knows the history of the 1574 expedition sent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

In 1559 England had just begun emerging from the grips of the Bloody reign of Queen Mary. It was during this time that in order to secure her realm against the Catholic Menace that her nation would become a hotbed of Protestant Activism. The Act of Pardon (1560) would lead to the return of many of England’s leading theological minds that had fled under the reign of “Bloody Mary.” Among them was Thomas Cartright who would become the greatest critic of Elizabeth’s “Anglican Church” and founder of the Exodus…

A Brief History Leading to the Founding of Roanoke Colony

The 1560’s

Throughout Elizabethan England lay an underground church…. The Catholic forces had never really been sequestered it was during this time that two plots to overthrow the Queen would be foiled with ruthless efficiency.

This and a increasingly ruthless persecution of Protestants in France would lead to an unofficial policy by the English Government of accepting numerous Protestant Refugee’s from the Continent.

1570’s

England was secure in her form of the Protestant Reformation, but had another problem looming within her shores….

While the persecution of Catholics within England had never been greater under the Anglican Church, various Protestant “Movements” had gained widespread support under the Elizabethan Government. While the Anglican Church was still the state church of England it was steadily on the decrease. Various Protestant movements from Calvinists to Puritans had begun replacing the state church with several other forms of Protestantism. This would lead to the Edict of Dublin in 1781.

It was during this period that Thomas Cartright, Elizabeth’s largest critic, would begin preaching a form of Puritan separation.. Known as the Exodus. He wished to carve in the vast lands of the New World a new kind of church. One free from the grasping hands of the corrupt Catholics and Anglican’s alike…

From: The Early American: A History of the Colonies 1575-1760
Published: Eliot Press, New Rhodes, Commonwealth of Arcadia 1902
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