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Tales of the New English was a feature film project shot between April 1984 and March 1988.
Set in 1677 Plymouth Colony in the aftermath of King Phillip's War, the story follows the travels of Isaac Harlowe, a destitute farmer's son from the Outer Cape, and Rupert Greenwich, an aristocrat sent from London to investgate the whereabouts of a Regicide--one of the Puritan Judges who condemned Charles I after the English Civil War.
Determined to "better his prospects," Isaac Harlowe leaves his family's impoverished farm in Eastham to seek out his uncle in Scituate, Sebastian Entwistle, a wealthy merchant with suspected Royalist connections.
Matt Fallon as Isaac Harlowe (right) and Bill Barnard as Sebastian Entwistle
Tales of the New English was a feature film project shot between April 1984 and March 1988.
Set in 1677 Plymouth Colony in the aftermath of King Phillip's War, the story follows the travels of Isaac Harlowe, a destitute farmer's son from the Outer Cape, and Rupert Greenwich, an aristocrat sent from London to investgate the whereabouts of a Regicide--one of the Puritan Judges who condemned Charles I after the English Civil War.
Determined to "better his prospects," Isaac Harlowe leaves his family's impoverished farm in Eastham to seek out his uncle in Scituate, Sebastian Entwistle, a wealthy merchant with suspected Royalist connections.
Matt Fallon as Isaac Harlowe (right) and Bill Barnard as Sebastian Entwistle
Entwistle's Great Hall.
By the 1670s, Scituate was the wealthiest town in Plymouth Colony, its economy dominated by a handful of shipowners and merchants known as "The Men of Kent." One of them is Sebastian Entwistle, whose worldly Dutch and English trading connections and presumed Royalist sympathies, is viewed with suspicion by the Puritan authorities. And when the war forces inland settlers to take refuge in the port towns, Entwistle fears that the hysteria will turn towards him, and so he fills his household with displaced relatives, taking in Isaac as well.
The Ministers of Scituate.
Each town in Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Colony was organized around a Puritan "Covenant," as their parishes were called. Each member had a designated role and position within a well-defined hierarchy. At the head of each covenant was a minister, and when the inland towns were abandoned during King Philip's War the remnants of their covenants regrouped in towns like Scituate, where their squabbling ministers formed an inquisitional "Committee."
Paul Boynton, Mario Giammarco as Reverend Ottershaw, Jeff Ginsburg, and Mark Rogers as Reverend Hammett.
Rupert Greenwich.
Matt Fallon in a later Incarnation.
Monika Anderson and Gretchen Hopkins.
Gretchen Hopkins as Penelope, daughter of the Regicide Oliver Frye, and Tom Shillue, as a later incarnation of Isaac Harlowe.
The Stevedores of Scituate.
David Prifti and Dennis Conway.
The Wild Scot.
John Franklin as Mungo Macdonald.
Scottish Highlanders were brought to New England as prisoners captured after various uprisings during the 17h century. In the episode "The Papists" the newly arrived Scot attempts to escape, only to be talked down from a tree by one of the ministers Irish servants. Unknown to the ministers, the Irish Servant, Martin, is actually a Catholic Priest who tends a secret parish. This storyline was drawn from the historical precedent of a Jesuit who was discovered ministering to an underground church in Hingham in 1668.
Ensign Foxe
Bob Deveau as Ensign Harry Foxe, the leader of the Militia Column sent from Scituate to recover settlers from towns abandoned during the war.
The Militia.
Group Shot. Tucker Stilley as Juno Finch, Bob Deveau as Ensign Foxe, Larry Blamire as Lloyd Mercer, Eric Robinson as Ian Chandler, Bill Barnum as Job Kendrick the Pedlar, Ken Skeer as the Baliff, Andy Giammarco as John Buttons, Matt Fallon as Isaac Harlowe, and Doc Crane.
The March to Bridgewater.
Matt Fallon, Tucker Stilley, Andy Giammarco, Larry Blamire, and Bob Deveau.
The Bridgewater Garrison.
Andy Giammarco as John Buttons.
Susi Alloush as a later incarnation of Penelope Frye.
Margit Baldemair as Goody Hallett.
Bob Moussavi and Gretchen Hopkins.