The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island, off the Spanish Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua.
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| History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I |
| History of the Puritans under James I |
| History of the Puritans under Charles I |
| History of the Puritans from 1649 |
| History of the Puritans in North America |
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| Puritan |
| Definitions of Puritanism |
| Puritan choir |
| Vestments controversy |
| Martin Marprelate |
| Millenary Petition |
| Arminianism in the Church of England |
| Impropriation |
| Providence Island Company |
| Puritan Sabbatarianism |
| Scrooby congregation |
| Trial of Archbishop Laud |
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