Independents

Independents or Congregationalists are a Protestant sect deriving both names from their principle of government; repudiating both Episcopacy and Presbyterianism, they hold that every congregation should manage its own affairs, and elect its own officers independent of all authority save that of Christ; they profess to derive all rules of faith and practice from the Scriptures, and are closely akin to Presbyterians in doctrine. Numerous as early as Queen Elizabeth's time, they suffered persecution then; many fled or were banished to Holland, whence the Mayflower conveyed the Pilgrim Fathers to New England in 1620. Regaining ascendency under Cromwell, they again suffered at the Restoration; but political disabilities then imposed have gradually been removed, and now they are the most vigorous Dissenting body in England. The congregations in the English Union (a union for common purposes and mutual help) number 4700, those in the Scottish Union 100.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Inchbald, Elizabeth
Inchcolm
Inchkeith
Incitatus
Incledon, Charles Benjamin
Incorruptible, The
Increment, Unearned
Independence, Declaration of
Independence, The War of
Independence Day
Independents
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India
India
Indian Civil Service
Indian Mutiny
Indian Ocean
Indian Territory
Indiana
Indianapolis
Indians, American

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Independents in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

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Ames, William
Angel, John
Bastwick, Dr. John
Brown, Robert
Fiennes, William
Ford, Simon
Milton, John
Needham, Marchamont
Nye, Philip
Pagit
Parr, Richard
Wallis, John