Leaving The Established Church
Though vigorously persecuted, Separatist congregations had been active, especially in London, for a number of years. Later that year, a group of Puritans at the village of Scrooby in northwest Nottinghamshire formed a Separatist congregation that came to number about one hundred members. In circa 1607 Robinson became associated with the Scrooby Separatists. The congregation met at Scrooby Manor, home of William Brewster. Brewster was the local postmaster and bailiff, and he was instrumental in the formation of the group. He was an old friend of Robinson as well as a Cambridge alumnus.
Richard Clyfton served as their minister, and John Robinson became the assistant pastor following his uniting with them. Other leaders included William Bradford, latter who gave them the name by which they are known in history when Bradford described himself and Robinson's followers at Leiden as “pilgrims and strangers upon the earth.”
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