Ethan Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the first-born child of Joseph and Mary Baker Allen, both of English and Puritan descent.

This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy.

– 2 February 1648 ) was an English writer, known as " The Puritan " and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.

Isaac Ambrose ( 1604-January 20, 1663 / 1664 ) was an English Puritan divine, the son of Richard Ambrose, vicar of Ormskirk, and was probably descended from the Ambroses of Lowick in Furness, a well-known Roman Catholic family.

* 1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman ( b. 1585 )

After the English Restoration of 1660 and the 1662 Uniformity Act, almost all Puritan clergy left the Church of England, some becoming nonconformist ministers, and the nature of the movement in England changed radically, though it retained its character for much longer in New England.

The accession of James I brought the Millenary Petition, a Puritan manifesto of 1603 for reform of the English church, but James wanted a new religious settlement along different lines.

The English Puritan William Gouge wrote:

In 1660, one of the most notable victims of the religious intolerance was English Quaker Mary Dyer who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.

* Edward Sexby ( 1616 – 1658 ); English Puritan, soldier and Leveller ; he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination

After public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signalled a renaissance of English drama.

* May 21 – John Eliot, English Puritan missionary ( b. 1604 )

** Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician ( d. 1662 )

* December 27 – Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman

* October 20 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman ( b. 1585 )

** Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer ( b. 1621 )

* March 23 – Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist ( b. 1550 )

* April 6 – John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist ( hanged )

* November 10 – Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician ( b. 1530 )

** Isaac Ambrose, English Puritan divine ( d. 1664 )

** Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and Separatist ( d. 1593 )

** Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier / Leveller ( d. 1658 )

* August 20 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher ( b. 1591 )

* July 20 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher ( d. 1643 )

All theatres were closed down by the Puritan government during the Interregnum.

The dark view of human nature also fit well with the Puritan view of the world, and some of the most stridently mercantilist legislation, such as the Navigation Acts, were enacted by the government of Oliver Cromwell.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

He thought it helped preserve Puritan traditions ( strict observance of Sabbath, among other things ), and believed in the Federalist support of an alliance with Britain and a strong central government.

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 Peck was eventually forced to flee to Hingham, Massachusetts, founded by many members of his parish, where he resided for several years, until King Charles I had been executed and Oliver Cromwell had taken the reins of government.

Though pietism shares an emphasis on personal behavior with the Puritan movement, and the two are often confused, there are important differences, particularly in the concept of the role of religion in government.

Prior to the constitutional turmoil of the 1680s, Massachusetts government had been dominated by conservative Puritan secular leaders.

* April 15-The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for new housing.

* September 2-The theatres in London are closed by the Puritan government ; the " lascivious mirth and levity " of stage plays are to " cease and be forborn " for the next eighteen years, during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.

During the Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell, the manufacture of wallpaper, seen as a frivolous item by the Puritan government, was halted.

The heavy Puritan heritage of New England meant that local government was strong enough to regulate — and close — rowdy places.

He was a Puritan minister who was involved with the government of the colony, the administration of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials.

Nearly all layers of government and church life ( except in Rhode Island ) remained " Puritan ", and only a few of the so-called " upper crust " joined the British government-sponsored Anglican church.

His mother was Elisabeth Daggett Hooker, a descendant of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, the Puritan leader who founded the town of Hartford and either wrote or inspired the first written constitution in history to form a government.

The Court included both government officials and Puritan clergy.

They based their government on that of Massachusetts but maintained stricter adherence to the Puritan discipline.

Because of his early views on the primacy of congregational government, his was an important role in Puritan aspirations to become an example to help reform the English church.

When King William was informed that this would result in a return of the hard-line Puritan government, he acted to prevent that from happening.

After the Civil War ended in 1648, the new Puritan government clamped down on " unlawful assemblies ", in particular the more raucous sports such as football.

During the reign of King Charles I, however, as divisions between Puritan and traditional Catholic elements within the Church of England became more bitter, and Protestant Nonconformity outside the Church grew stronger in numbers and more vociferous, the " High Church " position became associated with the leadership of the " High Church " Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, ( see Laudianism ), and government policy to curtail the growth of Protestant Dissent in England and the other possessions of the Crown.

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.

By 1649 Winslow had traveled to England to serve the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell, never to return to Plymouth.

He was consulted a good deal by the government on such questions as England's attitude towards the Council of Trent, and political considerations made him more and more hostile to Puritan demands with which he had previously sympathized.