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 ...
Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England needed to be reformed, but they elected to remain within the church, rather than separate from it. They arrived by the thousands ...
Theatres in England flourished in the Elizabethan period ... others were worried about the growing popularity of the theatre: Puritans feared that plays distracted people from God and took ...