News Feed for 2012-01-08 Posted on January 8, 2012 by gemma Puritans came not to escape religious persecution, but to escape a country in which religious persecution was illegal…#QI #randomfacts # Powered by Twitter Tools Tweet
A country in which religious persecution by *puritans* was illegal. The Church of England, contrary to Eddie Izzard’s brilliant comedy routine, got up to plenty of persecution of its own.