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Leonard Busher, a refugee from [[London (England, Great Britain)|London]], living in [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]] about 1610. He was the head of a party of Teleiobaptists (i.e., of people who practiced adult baptism). He was a friend of [[Helwys, Thomas (ca. 1575-ca. 1616)|Thomas Helwys]], a [[Brownists|Brownist]] leader. Busher is also the author of a treatise, <em>Religious Peace or a Plea for Liberty of Conscience</em>, which was printed anonymously in England several times, and also of <em>Persecution for Religion Judg’d and Condemn’d . . . Proving That no Man Ought to be Persecuted for His Religion</em> (n.p., 1662, reprint), likewise anonymous. The group mentioned above was not Mennonite, as is stated in <em>Prophane Schism</em> (p. 65) by Christian Lawne, but a separated group of Brownists, who later probably joined the [[Baptists |Baptists]] in England; Busher himself also returned to England about 1614.


= Bibliography =
<em>Catalogus der werken over de Doopsgezinden en hunne geschiedenis aanwezig in de bibliotheek der Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam</em>. Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, 1919: 158.

Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de and William Elliott Griffis. <em>History of the Free churchmen called the Brownists, Pilgrim fathers and Baptists in the Dutch republic, 1581-1701</em>. Ithaca, NY: Andrus &amp; Church, 1922: 171, 176, 177.


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