Question

Which of the following is a counterclaim the separatists anticipate from Great Britain in regards to leaving and starting a new colony?

" True it was, that such atempts were not to be made and undertaken without good ground & reason; not rashly or lightly as many have done for curiositie or hope of gaine"


" But hear I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amased at this poore peoples presente condition..."


"From hence they departed, & co[a]sted all along, but discerned no place likely for harbor; & therfore hasted to a place that their pillote..."


" All great & honourable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages."

Answer 1

• The counterclaim which Separatists anticipate from Great Britain regarding leaving and starting a new colony in William Bradford's Plymouth Plantation is:

"True it was, that such atempts were not to be made and undertaken without good ground & reason; not rashly or lightly as many have done for curiositie or hope of gaine".

• In the 17th century, the Separatists, also called the Pilgrims, anticipated that it would be difficult to move to the Americas (because of the persecutions made by the English Church), but it was not impossible with "good ground and reason".
• To further illustrate how Great Britain worked in this period for the Separatists to get to dislike them, the narrator also states that "Great Britain with all those courts, cannons, & ceremonies, togeather with all such livings, revenues, & subordinate officers, with other such means as formerly upheld their antichristian greatnes, and enabled them with lordly & tyranous power to persecute ye poore servants of God".