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Lay patrons of Puritanism were prominent in the middle years of the reign of Elizabeth I. [18] Godly gentlemen, the so-called Puritan gentry, then became a significant factor in English life and politics. Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon was a renowned member of the godly nobility. [19]
Anne Bradstreet was the first female to have her works published in the British North American colonies. Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader and eventually became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was a very religious man and was considered an independent Puritan.
the people grew very tumultuous and put out Mr. Coddington and the other three magistrates, and chose Mr. William Hutchinson only, a man of very mild temper and weak parts, and wholly guided by his wife, who had been the beginner of all the former troubles in the country and still continued to breed disturbance.
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.
Human–animal marriage is a marriage between a human and a non-human animal. This topic has appeared in mythology and magical fiction. [1] In the 21st century, there have been numerous reports from around the world of humans marrying their pets and other animals.
With this new psalm book came a new method of singing, called "singing by note" [1] which called for a lead singer and familiar melodies, both of which made the practice of congregational singing more individualized and personable. [5] This alteration caused contention among the Puritans because the new hymn book broke from the Puritan societal ...
What Does ‘The Black Dog’ Mean? The term “black dog” was initially coined in the 1700s to describe “a brief period in a person’s life” but has since expanded to cover the spectrum of ...
The earliest confirmed publication is the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud, [2] in which a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, "Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to see a man about a dog." [3] [4] Time magazine observed that the phrase was the play's "claim to fame". [5]