Former Anne Hutchinson disciple Mary Dyer was the third of four Quakers to be executed in New England. Persecution of Quakers was rampant across the English speaking world, ranging from imprisonment in Suriname to whipping in the Chesapeake to executions in New England. In England, itself, by 1655, they were dubbed the greatest threat left to England's future.
But why?
(This episode is a little bit more inappropriate than most. I wouldn't say it's explicit, exactly, but various instances of public nudity are discussed).
