 Edward Perrinette's forefathers were French Huguenots, members of John Calvin's French Reformed Church. Escaping persecution, they traveled to Switzerland before settling in Edward's homeland of England. And although he served the Anglican Church as a pastor like his father before him, Edward Perrinette disagreed with the Church of England and its many practices, which he labeled nonsense, so he quit and moved to the tiny independent church of Canterbury to become their under-shepherd.