Religious Freedom Week '18 — Day 1

We blog so often about the many, many martyrs slaughtered under the Devil's dynasty—the Tudor monarchs Henry VIII, Edward VI, & Elizabeth I (& we lament the many Protestant martyred under the misguided & murderously Catholic Mary I)—& their diabolical successors, the Stuarts—James VI & I, Charles I, Charles II, & William III & Mary II—because they died not so long ago & not so far away. Those martyrs, including St. John Fisher & St. Thomas More, spoke modern English, as did their persecutors. We still read literature from their period, such as the works of William Shakespeare, Kit Marlowe, & John Dunne, & even listen to their music—"Greensleeves," anyone? The English colonies that eventually became these United States originated in this period—the Lost Colony of Roanoke in 1587, Jamestown in 1607, & the Plymouth Colony in 1620. If we are not watchful, & are not very careful, the grim specter of Tyburn could very well return to these shores.