ABSTRACT
The medieval European traditions not only of pilgrimage, but also of persecution and, at times, physical uprooting brought on by rivalry between different faiths, and the frequent use of religious orthodoxies by centralising authorities as tools to be employed against those with different beliefs, survived the Reformation. British emigrants certainly worshipped together in Scandinavian churches too and even received positions within the episcopate there, although the phenomenon of common Scots or English-language services seems not to have occurred so much in Lutheran parts of Europe, where Calvinism was generally not tolerated. The central European setting offers British and Irish members of the curious', even those who wished to maintain a Protestant identity, a relatively supportive environment. In the central Europe to which the early modern British and Irish visitors came, and despite both the Austrian Habsburg and Polish rulers remaining Roman Catholic and their kingdoms sheltering Eastern Orthodox the legacy of the Hussites remained visible and influential.
