A Biography of Roger Williams, an English Puritan Theologian (382 words, 1 pages)
"Roger Williams" c.1603-1683, clergyman, advocate of religious freedom, founder of Rhode Island b. London. A protg of Sir Edward Coke, he graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1627 and took Anglican orders. He early espoused Puritanism and emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1631. Williams became teacher and, after ...
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