Brewer's: Congregationalists

Those Protestant Dissenters who maintain that each congregation is an independent community, and has a right to make its own laws and choose its own minister. They rose in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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