Christopher Lawne
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Christopher Lawne was an English merchant and Puritan of note, who emigrated to Jamestown in 1619 and died shortly thereafter. His will was witnessed by Nathaniel West (younger brother of Thomas West, Lord De La Warr), and chirgeon Pharaoh Flynton.
Lawne's Creek, on the south bank of the James River (Virginia), is named for Christopher Lawne.
Like many English Dissenters, Lawne initially left England for Holland, drawn by the atmosphere greater religious tolerance. He was an Elder among the Ancient Brethren of Francis Johnson's church. However, he eventually grew disenchanted with the often-fractious sect, and eventually returned to London, where he had published The prophane schisme of the Brownists or Separatists With the impietie, dissensions, lewd, and abhominable vices of that impure sect: Discovered by Christopher Lawne, John Fowler, Clement Saunders, Robert Bulward; lately returned from the Company of Master Johnson, that wicked Brother, into the bosom of the Church of England, their true Mother in 1612 and Brownism turned the inside outward: Being a Parallel betweem the Profession and the Practice of the Brownists' religion. By Christopher Lawne, lately returned from that wicked Separation London, 1613.
He may have been influenced in his writings by the Rev. John Paget of Nantwich, Cheshire, first minister of the English Reformed Church (ERC) in Amsterdam.
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Arber, Edward. The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1606-1623 A.D.: As Told by Themselves, Their Friends, and Their Enemies London: Ward and Downey, 1897.
Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia; A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1973.
Sprunger, Keith L. Dutch Puritanism A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Studies in the history of Christian thought, v. 31. Leiden: Brill, 1982.
Sprunger, Keith L. Trumpets from the Tower: English Puritan Printing in the Netherlands 1600-1640 E.J. Brill Leiden Boston 1994
