Major William Rainsborowe, or Rainborowe, was an officer in the English Navy and New Model Army in England during the English Civil War and the Interregnum. He was a political and religious radical who prospered during the years of the Parliamentary ascendancy and was an early settler of New England in North America.
Tower of London viewed from the River Thames
Saffron Walden Debates May 1647 St Mary's Church
Anti Ranter Publications 1650
Thomas Rainsborough, or Rainborowe, 6 July 1610 to 29 October 1648, was an English religious and political radical who served in the Parliamentarian navy and New Model Army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. One of the few contemporaries whose personal charisma and popularity rivalled that of Oliver Cromwell, he has also been described as "a soldier of impressive professional competence and peerless courage".
Port of Wapping, c. 1803
Rainsborough's flagship in 1648, the Constant Reformation
Plaque installed in Wapping 12 May 2013