Religious

• what was the st Gregory case an example of

  puritan opposition to laudianism
• st Gregorys case 1633

  • church challenged laudian impositions in church
  • parishioners brought before privy council by Charles as a test case
• examples of puritan opposition to laudianism

  • williams
  • st gregorys
  • Prynne Burton bastwick
  • lilburne
• williams antilaudianism case 1637

  • bishop Williams imprisoned for criticising alter policy
• Prynne case 1637 


  • worked with bastwick and Burton
  • were brought before the star chamber for anti laudian literature
  • fined £5000 each , life imprisonment , ears cropped
• Lilburne case 1638


  • helped bastwick distribute his work
  • found guilty for printing unlicensed literature
  • fines , whipped and pillared in public
  • imprisoned
  • continued to write in prison