Providence Island Company

The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island, off the Spanish Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua.

Puritan History
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History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I
History of the Puritans under James I
History of the Puritans under Charles I
History of the Puritans from 1649
History of the Puritans in North America
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Vestments controversy
Martin Marprelate
Millenary Petition
Arminianism in the Church of England
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Providence Island Company
Puritan Sabbatarianism
Scrooby congregation
Trial of Archbishop Laud

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