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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana, London: The National Archives, ISBN 978-1-9033-6543-4. McGrath, Patrick (1967), Papists and Puritans under...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for List of Puritans
    The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church...
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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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    the London press under the title of The Book of Martyrs. Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and only five years after the death of the...
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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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    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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    Convocation Book. The post-Puritan Parliament passed a series of four laws, known as the Clarendon Code, to prevent Puritans and other Nonconformists from...
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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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    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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    political Puritans. Henry Parker in his Discourse Concerning Puritans (1641) distinguished also the religious dogmatic Puritan. The native English strand of Arminianism...
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    vandalism wrought by the Puritans in the next century against the Anglican privileges. Woodward concludes: There was no general policy of destruction, except...
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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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    make the Church of England more like the Continental Reformed churches. These nonconformist Calvinists became known as Puritans. Some Puritans refused...
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  • Catholicism under Henry VIII's elder daughter, Mary I. Finally, upon the coronation of Elizabeth I and the re-establishment of the Church of England as...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation
    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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