There were religious restrictions on Puritans and other nonconformists in England when James I was king. That's why so many of them went to the Netherlands. The settlers who went out to Plymouth Colony went from the Netherlands--not England. William Bradford (who became governor of the colony) wrote in History of Plimouth Plantation that they needed to leave the Netherlands because they were worried their children weren't growing up to be good Puritans, being surrounded by non-Puritan neighbors.
I had been mixing up some details of the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter (which was very much a profit-making enterprise, with a lot of royal support) with the Plymouth colony of a few years earlier.
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Date: 2014-11-19 03:33 am (UTC)I had been mixing up some details of the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter (which was very much a profit-making enterprise, with a lot of royal support) with the Plymouth colony of a few years earlier.