Robert Browne, Father of Congregationalism Video

Robert Browne, 1550 to 1633, was one of the first separatists from the Church of England and his ideas provided the foundation for the congregational structure of the Pilgrims churches in the New World and are still seen today in Unitarian Universalist congregations.

Sources:
http://www.reformedreader.org/history/shakespeare/bacpch02.html

http://www.exlibris.org/nonconform/engdis/brownists.html

by Rev. Renee Ruchotzke
for the class "Congregational Polity for the Indifferent Lay Leader"
http://www.cerguua.org/moodle/