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  2. Charles I of England - Wikipedia

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    Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.

  3. History of the Puritans under King Charles I - Wikipedia

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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 of Puritan reformers, who saw the Church of England moving in a direction opposite to what they wanted, and objected to increased Catholic influence both at Court and (as they saw it) within the Church.

  4. King Charles the Martyr - Wikipedia

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    Charles I, head of the House of Stuart, was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his death on 30 January 1649. He believed in a sacramental version of the Church of England, called High Anglicanism, with a theology based upon Arminianism, a belief shared by his main political advisor, Archbishop William Laud.

  5. Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) - Wikipedia

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    King James I and Charles I made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy who had been alienated by the lack of change in the Church of England.Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity, as opposed to the episcopal polity of the Church of ...

  6. Anglican Arminianism - Wikipedia

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    During the period 1603 to 1625 Arminianism took shape as a Dutch religious party, became involved by successive appeals to secular authority in high politics, and was crushed. In the same period English Arminianism existed (if at all) almost unavowed on paper, and since anti-Calvinist literature was censored, had no clear form until 1624 and a ...

  7. Laudianism - Wikipedia

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    William Laud, for whom "Laudianism" is named, as Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Charles I.. Laudianism, also called Old High Churchmanship, or Orthodox Anglicanism as they styled themselves when debating the Tractarians, [1] was an early seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that tried to avoid the extremes of Roman Catholicism and Puritanism by ...

  8. King Charles meets religious leaders to mark Inter ... - AOL

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    King Charles met with religious leaders from across the country to mark Inter Faith Week amid “challenging times.”. The monarch, who also celebrated his 75th birthday earlier this week ...

  9. William Laud - Wikipedia

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    William Laud (LAWD; 7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was a bishop in the Church of England.Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Charles I's religious reforms; he was arrested by Parliament in 1640 and executed towards the end of the First English Civil War in January 1645.