[New post] William Brewster

johnmanders posted: " And then…I don't find evidence of the Pilgrims setting up their printing press in Plymouth. Not surprising, really, when you think about it. They'd landed by accident in a place where everything had to be built from scratch. No houses, no barricades or " Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on John Manders' Blog William Brewster by johnmanders And then…I don't find evidence of the Pilgrims setting up their printing press in Plymouth. Not surprising, really, when you think about it. They'd landed by accident in a place where everything had to be built from scratch. No houses, no barricades or fort for protection, very little food. Setting up a printing operation wasn't at the top of their to-do list. Besides, when they packed the press, the Pilgrims expected to land in Virginia where there might've been a market for pamphlets and books—a large audience who spoke and read English. I assume the press was William Brewster's. In Holland he'd been an underground printer, printing pamphlets and books that were critical of the Church of England and King James I. This made Brewster an internationally wanted man, in hiding from King James' men for a year before the Pilgrims set sail. As far as that goes, all the Pilgrims/Puritans were underground. To be English and not worship with the Church of England was to question the divine right of kings (King James was the head of the C of E, just as Henry was). The Pilgrims worshiped privately at somebody's house—usually in the country, so they wouldn't be caught at it. They all faced the possibility of arrest and punishment. There was no religious freedom in the Pilgrims' home country. Anyhoo, it would be a few years before a press began running in North America. https://www.prphbooks.com/blog/pilgrim https://americanantiquarian.org/earlyamericannewsmedia/exhibits/show/news-in-colonial-america/colonial-print-culture http://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2009/12/pilgrims-and-printing-press.html https://plymrock.org/william-brewster-and-the-pilgrim-press/ https://americanminute.com/blogs/todays-american-minute/william-brewster-and-how-pilgrim-covenant-twisted-into-social-contract-then-socialism-american-minute-with-bill-federer https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pilgrims-progress-135067108/ Back to the beginning of The Western Civ User's Guide to Reading & Writing. Don't forget: I wrote another Western Civ User's Guide! Back to the beginning of The Western Civ User's Guide to Time & Space. johnmanders | December 2, 2021 at 12:49 pm | Tags: church, divine right of kings, drawing, homeschool, mayflower, New England, pamphlet, pilgrim, printing press, puritan, Reformation, religion, religious freedom, sketch, underground | Categories: book promotion, Western Civilization | URL: https://wp.me/p9ipu-1zt Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from John Manders' Blog. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://johnmanders.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/william-brewster/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com