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Old and New London
… 1589 the Lord Mayor closed two theatres for ridiculing the Puritans. Burbage and his friends, alarmed at this, … allow them to repair and enlarge their theatre, which the Puritans of Blackfriars wanted to close. The Council allowed … the heretics. "If it had been a Protestant chapel," the Puritans cried, "the Jesuits would have called the calamity …
A New History of London
… from the old religion, and these were denominated Puritans. By their numbers and inflexible hatred of every … the late queen; and James, who had been plagued with the Puritans in Scotland, bore them no good will; but being a … at Hampton court between the church clergy and the Puritans, in order to bring about a comprehension of both …
A New History of London
… together with theological controversies between the Puritans and Arminians, occupied the house of commons. The … Laud, then bishop of London, was strenuous in opposing the Puritans, and in introducing new superstitious rites, when … to read after divine service, tended to inflame the Puritans, whose principles were too severe to consider it in …
A New History of London
… laws. The antipathy between the church party and the puritans, with the political confusions in the reign of …