The Captain of the Watch was under instructions to Two prayer services, one in the morning and one in the evening, were held Monday through Saturday. Services were held fourteen times a week, with sermons preached twice on Sunday and once on either Wednesday or Thursday.
When Lord de la Warr imposed martial law in 1610, he mandated church attendance to establish control over the servants of the Virginia Company: 1
Ongoing rivalry in the 1500's, 1600's and 1700's with Spain, a Catholic country, highlighted the sense that religious differences were also political differences and that non-Anglicans were non-patriotic. Parliament approved a Book of Common Prayer that was used in Anglican services. The government got to determine what religious beliefs and practices were acceptable, and to punish those it determined were guity of heresy. Henry VIII increased his wealth and power by seizing the monestaries and redistributing their land and wealth to his supporters. King Henry VIII had separated England from the Catholic church in 1534, and the king in London replaced the Pope in Rome as the head of the church in England.Ĭonsolidating power over church and state strengthened the monarchy. The head of state in England (i.e., the king or queen) had been head of the church as well for nearly 75 years before colonists arrived at Jamestown. Source: Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, Marshall House (p.15)įrom the settlement of Jamestown until several years after the American Revolution, the Church of England (Anglican Church) was the official "established" church of colonial Virginia. State and church were not separated in colonial Virginia - Anglican church buildings (such as Pohick Church in southern Fairfax County) and Anglican ministers were funded by mandatory taxes imposed by the vestry on local property owners
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