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Puritans
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First used in the 1560s as a term of abuse for those Protestant reformers who wished to 'purify' the *Church of England of all taints of Roman Catholicism. In the way of radical movements they soon split into many opposing sects, the chief of which were the *Presbyterians and the *Congregationalists.
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