Puritanism

• when was it an important influence?

  1560s/70s
• what did Puritans believe in?

  the eradication of 'popish superstition'
• when can their emergence be traced back to?

  the failure of the Convocation of Canterbury in 1563 to go further in its reforms of the Church
• what posed a challenge to the settlement?


  some groups within the broader Puritan framework