[Sca-cooks] OT Puritans and Protestants are not necessarily the same

[Wanda Pease]

The Puritans were a Protestant sect. Not all Protestants were Puritans (see
the Pilgrims as an example).  A nasty group of "holier than thou" theocracy
wanna-be's in my opinion.  Besides Ollie and company are out of period for
us (1599 to 1658).  They came in and savaged Charles I (not that he was much
better).

Elizabeth kept her Puritanical types on a very short rein. Both Burley and
Walsingham seem to have wanted anyone who didn't worship in a very rigid
format kept in check.  They had the value of being of real service to
Elizabeth and she kept them around.  John Knox on the other hand was just a
rabble rouser (wrote the thing about a Monstrous Regiment of Women while in
Elizabeth's England of all places.  When Burley tried to get him a
preferment so he could stay in England Elizabeth sent him about his
business, which unfortunately sent him on to Scotland.  One of the other
times Mary might have made out better if she had had the backbone to simply
eliminate a problem promptly.

Regina

>
> > Were the Puritans ever in a position to impose their opinions on
> > English (or Dutch) society as a whole?
> >
> > Stefan
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> Ask Oliver Cromwell.
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> Bear
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