1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

In the 1630s he was apprenticed to John Hewson, who introduced him to the Puritan physician John Bastwick, an active pamphleteer against Episcopacy who was persecuted by Archbishop William Laud.

* February 12-Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ( died 1728 )

* August-Henry Jeanes, Puritan controversialist and pamphleteer ( born 1611 )

When John Lilburne was his apprentice in the 1630s, he introduced Lilburne to the Puritan physician John Bastwick, an active pamphleteer who was persecuted by Archbishop William Laud.

Springfield itself features international tourist attractions like the Basketball Hall of Fame and the Springfield Armory National Park ; it also features the Dr. Seuss Memorial, Augustus Saint Gaudens's outdoor masterpiece, " The Puritan ," and The Quadrangle — five world-class art, science, and history museums.

The Hastings family, descendants of English Puritan immigrant Thomas Hastings, was originally settled at Watertown, but within a generation members of the family had relocated to Hatfield, where they produced a succession of Hatfield physicians, including Dr. Thomas Hastings ( 1652 – 1712 ); Dr. Thomas Hastings ( 1679 – 1728 ); Dr. Waitstill Hastings ( 1714 – 1748 ); and Dr. John Hastings ( 1765 – 1845 ).

Dr. Graham was a third generation American of Irish descent and her mother Jane Beers was a tenth generation descendant of Puritan Miles Standish.

Contemporary Puritan writers in the Marprelate tracts allude to Dr John Bridges, Dean of Salisbury, author of A Defence of the Government of the Church of England, as the reputed author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, but he obviously could not be properly described as " Mr. S ".

In the following decade Packer, along with Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones, led a revival of Puritan studies amongst British pastors.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.

Puritan New England regarded obesity as a flagrant symbol of intemperance, and thus a sin.

In 1630, aboard the ship Arbella, Puritan preacher John Winthrop delivered his famous sermon Shining city upon a hill.

the Puritans as a political entity largely disappeared, but Puritan attitudes and ethics continued to exert an influence on American society.

The Puritan minister Increase Mather dismissed the word as bereft of power.

Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

On his accession and following the so-called Millenary Petition, James I called the Hampton Court Conference in 1604 — the same meeting of bishops and Puritan divines that initiated the Authorized version of the Bible.

With the defeat of Charles I ( 1625 – 1649 ) in the Civil War the Puritan pressure, exercised through a much-changed Parliament, had increased.

It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

Among those major Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism are those Congregational Churches known by the " Congregationalist " name that descended from the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century, the Baptist churches, and most of the groups brought about by the Anabaptist movement in Germany that immigrated to the U. S. in the late 18th century.

He was the son of Increase Mather, and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather, all also prominent Puritan ministers.

Mather, as a Puritan thinker and social conservative, drew on the language of the Bible to speak to contemporary audiences.

As with many colonists, Williams ' Puritan beliefs were enmeshed in every aspect of his life, and he used the Bible to state his case.

Generally, Puritan pastors favored the inoculation experiments.

Puritan theology, with God as Creator and the laws of nature as God's " second causes " encouraged such experimentation.

Cotton Mather strongly challenged the perception that inoculation was against the will of God and argued that the procedure was not outside of Puritan principles.

" The Puritan minister began to embrace the sentiment that smallpox was an inevitability for anyone, both the good and the wicked, yet God had provided them with the means to save themselves.

James Shapiro interprets her theory both in terms of the cultural tensions of her historical milieu, and as consequential on an intellectual and emotional crisis that unfolded as she both broke with her Puritan upbringing and developed a deep confidential relationship with a fellow lodger, Alexander MacWhorter, a young theology graduate from Yale, which was subsequently interrupted by her brother.

Alexander Nowell ( c. 1507 – 13 February 1602 ) was an English Puritan theologian and clergyman, who served as dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign.

Leighton saw good and bad in both the Episcopal and the English Puritan forms of worship.

The Puritan Party gained such popularity that Leighton retired from the Ministry at Newbattle, citing the introduction of the Cromwellian ideas as to doctrine and ritual, as his main reason.

* Ronald J. Vander Molen, " Anglican Against Puritan: Ideological Origins during the Marian Exile ", Church History 42. 1 ( 1973 ): 45-57.

* Ronald J. Vander Molen, " Anglican Against Puritan: Ideological Origins during the Marian Exile ," Church History 42. 1 ( March 1973 ): 45 – 57.

* Sir John Trevor Jr. of Wales ( 1596 – 1673 ), Puritan Member of Parliament and future member of the Council of State during the Commonwealth of England

Parliament appointed Protestant commissioners loyal to their cause to subdue the colonies, and two of them, the Virginian William Claiborne and Puritan leader Richard Bennett, took control of the colonial government in St. Mary's City in 1652.

The Puritan Parliament divided its vote equally.

On 27 February James Morice, a Puritan Member of Parliament, proposed two new bills: one against the bishops of the Church of England, and the other against the Court of High Commission.

They were defended by Francis Knollys, one of the few remaining Puritan Members of Parliament, while other Puritans spat and coughed to drown out speeches by opponents.

However, many moderate Members of Parliament were alienated by the radical momentum, led by the Puritan opposition to Charles I.

This was followed by An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament ( 1640 and 1641 ), an eloquent and forceful defence of his order, which produced a retort from the syndicate of Puritan divines, who wrote under the name of Smectymnuus.

Politically, the English had suffered a Civil War that had culminated with the beheading of the king, years of the Interregnum under the Puritan, Oliver Cromwell, and then Parliament inviting the king back to rule in 1660.

During the English Civil War, Bolton supported Parliament and the Puritan cause.

Stratford is one of many towns in the northeastern American colonies founded as part of the Great Migration in the 1630s when Puritan families fled an increasingly polarized England in the decade before the civil war between Charles I and Parliament ( led by Oliver Cromwell ).

The Long Parliament in 1642 " banned theatres, which had met with Puritan disapproval.

It was during the English Civil War that the Puritan Army of English Parliament wore yellow ribbons and yellow sashes onto the battlefield.

A Puritan, Claiborne sided with Parliament during the English Civil War and was appointed to a commission charged with subduing and managing the Virginia and Maryland colonies.

Claiborne found a new ally in Richard Ingle, a pro-Parliament Puritan merchant whose ships had been seized by the Catholic authorities in Maryland in response to a royal decree against Parliament.

However, he was a Puritan and an ally of Parliament during the English Civil War, and upon the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660, he had few friends left in government.

Beginning as a coup d ' état with the aim restoring lost lands in the north of Ireland and defending Catholic religious and property rights, ( which had been suppressed by the Puritan Parliament of England ) it evolved into the Irish Confederate Wars.

While the Church of England remained dominant, a powerful Puritan minority, represented by around one third of the members of Parliament, had much in common with the Presbyterian Scots.

Many Puritan leaders were members of Parliament and this tension eventually resulted in civil war, which lasted from 1642 until 1649.

Lord Fairfax of Cameron and his son Sir Thomas Fairfax, who commanded for the Parliament in Yorkshire, had to retire to the district between Hull and Selby, and Newcastle was now free to turn his attention to the Puritan " clothing towns " of the West Riding, Leeds, Halifax and Bradford.

In the irregular fighting in Lincolnshire, during June and July ( which was on the whole unfavourable to the Parliament ), as previously in pacifying the Eastern Association itself, these Puritan troopers distinguished themselves by long and rapid marches that may bear comparison with almost any in the history of the mounted arm.

" England was at the time under Puritan Commonwealth Rule, although 1653 was the year Oliver Cromwell dissolved Parliament, beginning The Protectorate.

Parliament was sufficiently incensed by Nayler's heterodox views that they punished him savagely and sent him back to Bristol to jail indefinitely This was especially bad for the movement's respectability in the eyes of the Puritan rulers because some considered Nayler ( and not Fox, who was in jail at the time ) to be the actual leader of the movement.

After the Parliamentarian victory in the Civil War, the Puritan views of the majority of Parliament and its supporters began to be imposed on the rest of the country.