Kings and Queens of England during early part of Reformation

Henry VIII (1491-1547)
    - Catherine
            Mother of Mary Tudor
    - Anne Boleyn
            Mother of Elizabeth
    - Jane Seymour
            Mother of Edward VI

Edward VI (ruled during 1547-1553)
        - Ruled six years (9 until 17 years old)
        - Reform ideas continued to grow

Mary Tudor (ruled during 1553-1558)
        - Catholic
        - Persecuted those who held to reformed views - "Bloody Mary"

Elizabeth (ruled during 1558-1603)
        - Elizabethan Settlement (1563) - a theological statement that formed the basis of the Church of England
 
Puritans
    - Did not feel that the Elizabethan Settlement did not go far enough in rejecting Catholic theology and practices. They wanted to reject the settlement and purify the church of all Catholic elements.
    - Persecuted by English kings and queens

Separatists (Plymouth Plantation)
    - Separating
    - Holland
    - Plymouth Plantation

The Great Migration (Puritan) (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    - English Persecution
    - John Lathrop (common ancestor of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, etc.)
    - Religious Intolerance
            Roger Williams (War of books between Williams and Cotton)
            - Williams - The Blood Tenet of Persecution. (The blood was from those killed because of their religious ideas.)
            - Cotton - The Bloody Tenet Washed and Made White.
            - Williams - The Bloody Tenet Made Yet More Bloody by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to Wash it White in the Blood of the Lamb.
    - Salem Witch Trials

American Revolution (1775-1783)

Constitution and Bill of Rights
    - Constitution ratified in 1788
    - Bill of Rights ratified in 1791