His primary support Supporting base in England were Tory members of the Church of England , who remained Presence loyal until actions like the prosecution Legality of seven Anglican bishops seemed Perception_active to go beyond tolerance and into an assault Attack on the church .

It was revoked Removing in 1654 by William Claiborne , a Virginian who had been appointed as a commissioner by Oliver Cromwell ; he was an Anglican , a Puritan sympathizer , and strongly hostile to the Catholic Religion .

Anne Hutchinson has historically been placed Placing at the center of the controversy , a strong-minded woman who had grown up under the religious guidance of her father Francis Marbury , an Anglican clergyman and school teacher .