Lincolnshire Radical History

During 17th century St. Boltoph’s Church in Boston, Linclonshire, was home to the radical preacher John Cotton (1585 – 1652).

John Foxe (1516/17 – 1587), born in Boston, Lincolnshire, wrote his Book of Martyrs in 1563 to wide success.

The Pilgrim Fathers, the first settlers to form a permanent colony in New England, 1620, have several connections to Lincolnshire.

The Old Rectory in Epworth was the family home of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church movement.

Ann Hutchinson (1591 – 1643) was a radical preacher, from Lincolnshire, who became famous in America for the Antinomian Controversy.