As the years passed, the separatists became concerned that they would lose their identity as English if they remained in Dutch society, and so they decided to migrate to the Americas and set up their own colony. Pilgrims migrated to the city of Leiden in the Netherlands, where they would not have to obey the Church of England. Pilgrim journeys Migration one: 1606-07 – from England to the Netherlands

They were separatists and would later be called pilgrims. A particular group of Puritans decided that England would never give them the chance to follow their religion in the way they wanted, so they migrated from England. Some Protestants in England, known as Puritans, thought that the new Church needed to be stricter and plainer to keep it as far away as possible from the old Catholic traditions. In the end the new Protestant Ulster people did not drive the native Catholics away, and they ended up living alongside each other, although the Catholics were not as privileged as they had previously been. Charter of King James to the town of Coleraine, 1613 Quote Establish the true religion of Christ among men almost lost in superstition. To King James the Plantation of Ulster would be a civilising enterprise that would: King James was clear about the religious purpose of the migration. Protestant church ministers migrated to Ulster to convert the native Irish to the Protestant faith. The majority of the new Protestant settlers came from Scotland, and the idea was that they would not allow Catholics to stay on their land or work for them, so that the whole area became Protestant. Īfter this war, in 1607 during the reign of King James I of Britain, a plan was devised to settle Protestants in Ulster, taking the lands of a group of Ulster Catholic nobles who had fled the country. Towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, the English fought a Nine Years’ War in Ireland to establish English control and to remove the power of the Irish Catholic nobles. The English government had faced a lot of challenges in Ireland through the Middle Ages, and had tried to control the island from its base in Dublin.In the 16th century, England became a Protestant country, but this change did not happen in Ireland. Ulster Plantations and migration to Ireland These changes produced a number of situations where groups of people decided to migrate because of their religion. The Christian Church became divided into Catholic and Protestant through a movement called the Reformation. The intellectual developments of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century also played a part in instigating change throughout Europe. Christianity was still the dominant intellectual force but it had been strongly influenced by the cultural Renaissance of the 15th century.

The 16th and 17th centuries were periods of tremendous change in Britain and Europe.

Ulster Plantations, Pilgrim Fathers and the migration of Huguenots Looking West

Pilgrims vs puritans