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20 matches to Puritanism
Admonition to Parliament. 1572. Puritans demand episcopacy abolition.
Barebones Parliament. 1653. Cromwell’s Nominated Puritan Parliament. Named for MP, Praise-God Barbon.
Bunyan, John. 1628-88. English Puritan author: Pilgrim’s Progress 1678.
Cambridge Agreement. 1629. Allowed Puritans to manage Massachussets Bay Company.
Cavalier Parliament. 1661-79. Royalist. Repressive laws against Puritans and Catholics.
Diggers. 1649-50. English communal Puritan farmers. “True Levellers”.
Eliot, John. 1592-1632. English Puritan leader. Parliamentary liberties.
Fifth Monarchy Men. 1645- English Puritan Millenialist anarchists. Venner led rebellions 1657,61.
Hampton Court Conference. 1604. James I authorizes bible translation. 300 Puritans ejected from office, a cause of Civil War.
Hutchinson, Anne. 1591-1643. Expelled from Massachussets. by Puritans, founded Rhode Is. 1637.
Independents. Separatists. 17C English Christian sects believing that congregation should control its own affairs. Congregationalism. Puritans.
Marprelate Tracts. 1588-9. Anonymous seditious Puritan pamphlets for which Penry was executed.
Mather. 17-18C. Family of influential American Puritan ministers.
Millenary Petition. 1603. Presented by 1000 Puritan ministers to James I. Calls Hampton Court Conference.
Nashe, Thomas. 1567-1601. English anti-Puritan satirist, imprisoned on Isle of Dogs with Jonson.
Penry, John. 1559-93. Welsh Puritan executed for Marprelate Tracts.
Puritanism. 16-17C. English Calvinist movement to purify church of Catholic and political elements. Valued hard work, education, thrift.
Pym, John. 1583-1643. English Puritan. Led Long Parliament. Civil War.
Ranters. 1649-60. English Puritan mystic sect.
Savoy Conference. 1661. London. Failed to agree on new prayer book. Puritans leave Church of England.