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In 1647, the Puritan-led ... "How the 'War on Christmas' Controversy Was Created". The New York Times This page was last edited on 7 December 2024, at 04:16 ...
June – the Long Parliament passes an ordinance confirming abolition of the feasts of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun, though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular holiday. [ 4 ] 15 July – the King is allowed (at the request of Fairfax) to meet his children ( James, Duke of York , Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester , and Princess ...
A spirit of rebellion took the people of Cromwell's England and celebrations went ahead despite strict rules banning festivities.
Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast". [110] They also objected to Christmas because the festivities surrounding the holiday were seen as impious (English jails were usually filled with drunken revelers and brawlers). [111]
The controversy over Richard Montagu's anti-Calvinist New Gagg was still ongoing when Parliament met in May 1625, and he was attacked in Parliament by the Puritan MP John Pym. When Montagu wrote a pamphlet asking for Royal protection entitled Appello Caesarem or "I Appeal to Caesar", a reference to Acts 25:10–12 , Charles responded by making ...
The Levellers' agenda developed in tandem with growing dissent within the New Model Army in the wake of the First Civil War. Early drafts of the Agreement of the People emanated from army circles and appeared before the Putney Debates of October and November 1647, and a final version, appended and issued in the names of prominent Levellers Lt. Col. Lilburne, Walwyn, Overton and Prince appeared ...
Samuel Chidley (1616–c. 1672) was an English Puritan activist and controversialist. A radical separatist in London before and during the English Civil War, he became a leading Leveller, a treasurer of the movement.
John Geree (c. 1600 – February, 1649) was an English Puritan clergyman preacher, and author of several tracts engaging in theological and political issues of the day, who was silenced for nonconformism but later reinstated.