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    The reign of Elizabeth I of England, from 1558 to 1603, saw the start of the Puritan movement in England, its clash with the authorities of the Church...
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    The Puritan's main purpose was to purify the Church of England and to make England a more Christian country. History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I...
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    Anglicans and Puritans from one another in the 17th century during the reign of King Charles I (1625–1649), that eventually brought about the English Civil...
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    From 1649 to 1660, Puritans in the Commonwealth of England were allied to the state power held by the military regime, headed by Lord Protector Oliver...
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    After Elizabeth's death, the Puritans were challenged by a high church, Arminian party that gained power during the reign of Charles I (1625–1649). The English...
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    the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England. Puritans were intensely devout members of the...
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    The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic...
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    Under Charles I, the Puritans became a political force as well as a religious tendency in the country. Opponents of the royal prerogative became allies...
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    between these anti-Puritans (later known as Laudians) and Puritan Calvinists under James' successor to the English throne, Charles I of England. In Basilikon...
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    Patrick (1967), Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I, London: Blandford Press. Neale, J. E. (1954) [1934], Queen Elizabeth I: A Biography (reprint ed.)...
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  • Brownists (category Puritans)
    Shakespeare Company. History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony) Religion Act 1592 Hakim, Joy (2003). Freedom: A History of US. New York:...
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    revived under Elizabeth I. It revealed concerns within the Church of England over ecclesiastical identity, doctrine and church practices. The vestments...
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    VI (1547–1553), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and James I (1603–1625). Most were executed in the short reign of Mary I in what is called the Marian persecutions...
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    Laudianism (category History of the Church of England)
    the Puritans. The re-establishment of the Anglican Church, would not occur until the Restoration in 1660 when William Juxon, who gave King Charles I his...
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    portal List of Puritan poets Lives of the Puritans by Benjamin Brook and Daniel Neal's History of the Puritans Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration...
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    daughter Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I) as his heir. Henry wanted to silence critics of these changes to legislation and heirs (for example, Elizabeth Barton)...
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  • Robert Browne (Brownist) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia)
    (1583) A Reproof of Certain Schismatical Persons (15??) A New Year's Guift (1589) History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I Robert Browne of Lilford, Lilford...
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    Caroline Divines (category History of the Church of England)
    the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. He was the spiritual father of Charles I. During the reign of James I,...
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    Savoy Conference (category The Restoration)
    of the Common Prayer... as amended by Westminster Divines, 1661 (Philadelphia, 1867; new ed., New York, 1880). Daniel Neal, History of the Puritans,...
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    Marian exiles (category Mary I of England)
    between the exiles over church organization, discipline, and forms of worship presaged the religious politics of the reign of Elizabeth I and the emergence...
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    The succession to the childless queen of England Elizabeth I was an open question from her accession in 1558 to her death in 1603, when the crown passed...
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    rejection of predestination. The Puritans fought against Arminianism, and King James I of England opposed it before, during, and after the Synod of Dort,...
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    Elizabethan Religious Settlement (category History of the Church of England)
    activism, he was content to leave the Puritans alone. Likewise, Elizabethan Puritans abandoned the hopeless cause of presbyterianism to focus on less controversial...
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    by the Puritans in the next century against the Anglican privileges. Despite this, writer G.W.O. Woodward claimed: There was no general policy of destruction...
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  • The history of the Anglican Communion may be attributed mainly to the worldwide spread of British culture associated with the British Empire. Among other...
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    sought to oppose the extremists (Puritans), rather than moving the Church of England away from Protestantism.: 4  The term "Anglican" is not found in his...
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    of Thomas Cranmer's work from the prior edition, it was used in Anglican liturgy until a minor revision in 1604 under Elizabeth's successor, James I....
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    Millenary Petition (category History of the British Isles)
    The Millenary Petition was a list of requests given to James I by Puritans in 1603 when he was travelling to London in order to claim the English throne...
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    Assembly during a time of increasing hostility between Charles I, monarch of England and Scotland, and the Puritans. Puritans could be distinguished by...
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    retelling of events, other Puritans kept and published diaries in which they reflected on God's involvement in their own lives. Puritans were not well known...
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