Greater Love

William Mompesson, a Cambridge graduate, arrives with wife Catherine as replacement for the sacked Puritan Thomas Stanley. Embittered, Stanley lives on village charity while William lives finely in the rectory on money donated by the squire. Stanley, having been rector for 17 years naturally has most of the men on his side. William believes that fleeing the village is the answer. Stanley insists on incarceration. This incredible true story charts how the whole village, with the exception of the richest - squires etc. decided to stay inside the village boundaries in order not to spread the Plague. So effective no-one is allowed out of the village, nor anyone new allowed in. The greatest compassion arises from the story of two young lovers, Emmy Sydall and her fiancé Rowland.