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The trial of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, took place in stages in the first half of the 1640s, and resulted in his execution on treason charges...

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May...

Church of Rome, taking the side of the Puritan party in the English church in opposition to William Laud, whom Charles had appointed Archbishop of Canterbury...

appointed William Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury. Laud aggressively attacked the Presbyterian movement and sought to impose the full Book of Common Prayer...

William Laud (LAWD; 7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I in 1633, Laud was...

deism, and teachings of the Baháʼí Faith. The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) was formed in 1961 through the consolidation of the American Unitarian...

The history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan...

writes of the 1630s, old church lands, and the accusations that William Laud was a crypto-Catholic: To the heightened Puritan imagination it seemed that...

Laudianism, the programme of William Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to shape the Church of England in terms of liturgy, discipline, and polity...

(or Independents) seized control of the parliament with Pride's purge (1648), arranged for the trial and execution of Charles I in January 1649 and subsequently...

The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church...

War political power was held by various factions of Puritans. The trials and executions of William Laud and then King Charles were decisive moves shaping...

slaves were entitled to a trial by jury, even if accused of a crime by their master. The first voices in favor of the abolition of slavery were Puritans....

Trevor-Roper, Hugh Archbishop Laud Phoenix Press Reissue 2000 p.326 Trevor-Roper p.330 The trial is published at 3 Howell State Trials 709. The sentence...

beginning of a long series of crises in Massachusetts, beginning with King Phillip's War (1675–1678) and ending with the Salem Witch Trials (1693). Many Puritans...

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645). Laud and his followers believed the Reformation had gone too far and launched a "'Beauty of Holiness'...

the reign of Charles I, the Arminians were ascendant and closely associated with William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645). Laud and his followers...

The Puritan culture of the New England colonies of the seventeenth century was influenced by Calvinist theology, which believed in a "just, almighty God...

observance of Sabbath in Christianity that is typically characterised by devotion of the entire day to worship, and consequently the avoidance of recreational...

Church of England under Elizabeth was broadly Reformed in nature: Elizabeth's first Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker, had been the executor of Martin...