Puritans wanted the English Protestant Reformation to go further. They wished to rid the Church of England of “popish” – that ...

They felt their only option was to leave the church and create new, separate churches. Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they ...

These Puritans were disgusted with what they regarded as corruption in the Church of England and the tyranny of the crown. Seeking simple worship and personal intimacy with God, Puritan ministers ...

He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, Massachusetts. But while the Puritans had mostly set out to create a new, pure ...

After a long and bloody civil war that had pitted the religious militants known as the Puritans against the Stuart monarchy, the royals were once again in power in England, and Charles II and his ...

1588-89 Some Puritans published anonymous pamphlets called the Marprelate Tracts, complaining about the Church and bishops. The authors were never identified, although John Penry was believed to ...

I saw “The Puritan” many times as a kid, growing up a couple towns away from Springfield. It has stood since 1899 in a pocket park between the city’s Central Library and Christ Church Cathedral.

The black-clad, steeple-hatted Puritan, walking warily to church with Bible in hand and musket on shoulder, is an enduring image of New England’s formative colonial era. In “The Wars of the ...

The word Puritan comes from ‘purity’ or ‘purify’. These were extreme Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England by returning to the simple and uncomplicated worship and way of ...

They felt their only option was to leave the church and create new, separate churches. Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they ...