Puritans

Her upper-class family were Protestants at a time when this was a bold thing to be, both in religious and intellectual terms. She became, like her parents, a fervent Puritan .

JD 's family belonged to the gentry class. They were AnglicanPuritans in religion and supporters of the parliament side in the English Civil War.

FF was presumably white, and descended from Puritan colonists who first settled in Boston,Massachusetts, in 1630. Her father, Nathaniel Willis , was deeply, and strictly, religious. Sara, however, always resisted his form of Calvinism...

KP came on both sides from middle-class Puritan English families. Though she married another Puritan, she grew increasingly Anglican and royalist. Though born a Londoner, she entered whole-heartedly into the Welsh identity...

JM was an Englishman who admired Italy and a strong Protestant (often described as a Puritan ) who held various heretical views in theology.

Hers was the first name that Bunyan entered as joining this Puritan congregation, not long after his release from prison under the terms of Charles II 's Declaration of Indulgence (promulgated on 15 March 1672)...

In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...

She grew up as a merely nominal Anglican without any inward and spiritual faith. She later acquired intense Puritan piety. The memoirist Elizabeth Walker credited Mary Rich's conversion to her husband, the Rev. Anthony Walker .

Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan , more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian in religion. Eales and others have applied to her...

Living as a wife in her father-in-law's house at Leighs inEssex, Mary Rich was affected by its Puritan ethos. By 1646 she was seeking a new and better life.

Brought up in a family that was strongly Puritan , MH continued her piety throughout her life. She attended church every day (putting her public religious duty ahead even of her extensive private observances), engaged...

AB belonged to the English Puritan gentry; her faith was keen, but troubled. Her family's Puritanism shaped her life by taking her to America. Once she reached New England, it became an important factor...

She grew up in the Puritan part of the Anglican faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist s, and later still of the Presbyterian s or Independents . She then...

Having had religious struggles as a child, AB found her heart rose (that is, rebelliously) at the Puritan community of New England. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted...

Her family belonged to the English gentry class. She seems to have favoured the reformed religion, that is puritanism . At this distance of time there is no prospect of determining whether the promiscuity attributed...