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  2. List of Puritans - Wikipedia

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    Beeke, Joel, and Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints, (Reformation Heritage Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1-60178-000-3; Cross, Claire, The Puritan Earl, The Life of Henry Hastings, Third Earl of Huntingdon, 1536-1595, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966.

  3. Accepted Frewen - Wikipedia

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    The unusual forename is an example of the type of puritan name not uncommon in the area in the late sixteenth century; his brother was called Thankful Frewen. [1] He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1612. [2] Anthony Wood describes him as being at that time "puritanically enclin'd". [3]

  4. Virtue name - Wikipedia

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    An example of the use of "Praise-God" as a name is Praise-God Barebone, whose son Nicholas may have been given the name If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned. [3] In Britain, such Puritan virtue names were particularly common in Kent, Sussex and Northamptonshire. [3] They are sometimes referred to as hortatory names. [4]

  5. Puritans - Wikipedia

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    In the 17th century, the word Puritan was a term applied not to just one group but to many. Historians still debate a precise definition of Puritanism. [6] Originally, Puritan was a pejorative term characterizing certain Protestant groups as extremist. Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, dates the first use of the word to 1564.

  6. List of Christian preachers - Wikipedia

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    9 Puritan. 10 Baptist. 11 Methodist. 12 Independent. 13 Seventh-day Adventist. 14 Church of Christ. 15 Pentecostal. 16 Charismatic. 17 Preachers with secular ...

  7. Why so few men change their names in marriage - AOL

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    Story at a glance Marriages between men and women are in some ways becoming more egalitarian, but traditional name-changing practices are still alive and well. The vast majority of women continue ...

  8. History of the Puritans in North America - Wikipedia

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    In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England.Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church of England who believed that the Church of England was insufficiently reformed, retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrinal roots, and who therefore opposed royal ecclesiastical policy.

  9. Solomon Kane - Wikipedia

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    Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard.A late-16th-to-early-17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms.