1590) was an English merchant and Puritan of note, who was among the earliest settlers in the Virginia Colony in the early 17th century.
Born in Blandford, Dorset, he emigrated on his ship, the Marigold[1] (or Mary Gold[2]) in May, 1618, and died in Virginia the following year.
Like many English Dissenters, Lawne initially left England for the Netherlands, drawn by its greater religious tolerance.
There he had published The prophane schisme of the Brownists or Separatists With the impietie, dissensions, lewd, and abhominable vices of that impure sect: Discovered by Christopher Lawne, John Fowler, Clement Saunders, Robert Bulward; lately returned from the Company of Master Johnson, that wicked Brother, into the bosom of the Church of England, their true Mother in 1612 and Brownism turned the inside outward: Being a Parallel between the Profession and the Practice of the Brownists' religion.
John Paget of Nantwich, Cheshire, first minister of the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam.