Both groups, he said, shared "many common concerns," for good quality education, strong families and religious toleration.

John appears to have ushered in a period of religious toleration.

He favored an established church, but allowed for a degree of religious toleration.

He is now known for his contribution to the history of religious toleration.

They had not gone overseas out of a belief in religious toleration.

The same year, he also wrote a public letter encouraging religious toleration.

During his time in the 1st Parliament, he tried to secure religious toleration.

Despite a common background, the groups' views on religious toleration were mixed.

The era and place where these characters lived there was no religious toleration.

This was, however, not his main motive for promoting religious toleration.