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  2. History of the Puritans from 1649 - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Puritan settlement of New England was a major influence on American Protestantism. With the start of the English Civil War in 1642, fewer settlers to New England were Puritans. The period of 1642 to 1659 represented a period of peaceful dominance in English life by the formerly discriminated Puritan population.

  3. History of the Puritans - Wikipedia

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    It is not typically summarised as a whole, since the political events of the 1640s, sometimes called the Puritan Revolution, have complex roots, not any more than the term "Puritan" can be given a useful and precise definition outside the particular historical context. The Puritan's main purpose was to purify the Church of England and to make ...

  4. Puritans - Wikipedia

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    The Puritans: A Transatlantic History. Princeton University Press. H-Net online review. Neuman, Meredith Marie (2013). Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Winship, Michael P. (2018). Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. Yale ...

  5. 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.

  6. History of the Puritans under King James I - Wikipedia

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    The Puritan ministers and theologians during the reign of King James that contributed to the further development of the Puritan movement in England were many. The most outstanding contributors include: Thomas Cartwright (1535–1603) preacher, scholar, and controversialist, considered the patriarch of the Presbyterian movement within Puritanism ...

  7. History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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    Like most Puritans, he advocated further reforms to the Church of England from within. A second Puritan development under Grindal was the rise of the Puritan prophesying, modelled on the Zurich Prophezei (Puritans learned of the practice through the congregation of refugees from Zurich established in London), where ministers met weekly to ...

  8. Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Wikipedia

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    The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1628–1660 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889, 1906, 1951) read online; A Student's History of England, from the Earliest Times to 1885 (2 vols.) (London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1890–1891, 1895–1897). read online; The Hanoverian Period (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1891) read online

  9. Connecticut Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut.It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker.