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32. Puritan’s Aims And Methods Flashcards

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When was the term ‘puritan’ first used?

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1560s

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What was a common definition at the time of puritan?

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The hotter sort of Protestant

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What were the puritan beliefs more closely aligned to?

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Continental Protestant beliefs such as Calvinism and zwinglianism

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What were some of the most radical puritans?

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Presbyterians

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What did Presbyterians want?

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Opposed to the use of bishops and wanted a less hierarchical structure

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What did Protestants believe that the only basis for religious beliefs was?

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The bible

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What practices did Protestants not believe in?

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Bowing at the name of Jesus, kneeling to receive communion and the wearing of vestments

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What did Protestant defenders of the settlement believe about acts associated with the Catholic Church?

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‘Adiophora’ (insignificant)

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What were Protestants not content with?

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Weren’t content with attending one service on Sundays and opposed games and entertainment on Sundays

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What did puritans do on Sundays?

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Often had private meetings in the afternoons, studying scriptures and reading devotional books

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What were puritans hostile to the presence of?

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The presence of bishops

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Who were bishops appointed by?

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The queen

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Why did the puritans not have unified aims?

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They were never an organised movement

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What did puritans want to remove from the church?

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Elements that were too Catholic or not based on biblical authority

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What examples of elements that were too Catholic were there?

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Holy days, the sign of the cross, and the surplice

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What did puritans want to do about the structure of the church?

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Change the hierarchical structure of the church

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What did the puritans want to change about the hierarchical structure?

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Wanted a reduction or abolition of the roles of bishops and archbishops

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What did puritans want to improve?

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The standard of the clergy and the amount of preaching

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How many church services did puritans want on a Sunday?

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Two

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How did puritans want to remodel the English church?

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Along the ideas of the Calvinist and Zwinglian churches of Northern Europe

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Who was John Field?

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Wrote the admonition to parliament in 1572

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Who was Walter Strickland?

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The MP who introduced a bill to reform the Book of Common Prayer to Parliament in 1571

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Who was Peter Wentworth?

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The MP who led an attack into clerical abuses in 1576

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Who was Anthony Cope?

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The MP who introduced the ‘bill and book’ into parliament in 1586

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Who was Thomas Sampson?

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Started the Vestiarian Controversy when he refused to wear the surplice in 1565

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Who was Thomas Cartwright?

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The Cambridge professor who introduced Presbyterian teaching in England

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Who were Robert Browne and Robert Harrison?

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Separatists who founded their own church in Norwich in the 1580s

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Who were Henry Barrow and John Greenwood?

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Separatists who founded their own church in London in the 1590s

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What started the Vestiarian controversy?

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Thomas Sampson refused to wear the surplice and was deprived of his position

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What did Matthew Parker say about Thomas Sampson?

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Said they could wear a very simple surplice

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What happened to clergy who wouldn’t conform to wearing the surplice?

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They lost their jobs

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How many London preachers lost their job as a result of refusing to conform in 1566?

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37 London preachers

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What did some of the preachers who lost their jobs in 1566 set up?

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Independant underground churches

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Was there a lot of independent churches set up?

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No

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Who was Bullinger?

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The main European puritan leader

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What did Bullinger advise the puritans to do?

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To give way to

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When did Thomas Sampson refuse to wear the surplice?

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May 1565

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Who was the leading academic critic?

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Thomas Cartwright

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What did Thomas Cartwright introduce into England?

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Presbyterian teaching

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What did Thomas Cartwright do in 1570?

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He gave a series of lecturers criticising the Elizabethan church, in particular the role of bishops which he said didn’t reflect the bible

41
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What was removed from Cartwright?

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His professorship was removed

42
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Where was Thomas Cartwright a professor?

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Cambridge

43
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Who removed Cartwright’s professorship?

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John Whitgift, the vice chancellor of the university

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What was published addressed to MPs but as a general appeal to the public?

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The Admonition to Parliament

45
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Who published The Admonition to Parliament?

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John Field and Thomas Wilcox

46
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When was The Admonition to Parliament published?

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June 1572

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What did The Admonition to Parliament argue?

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Argued for the eradication of superstitious practice and abolition of the current hierarchy of the church

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What did Elizabeth order would happen as a result of The Admonition to Parliament?

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Field and Wilcox were arrested and spent a year in Newgate prison

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What was good about the Admonition for puritans?

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It had a wide readership and was the start of a pamphlet war waged by Puritans

50
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What was written in 1573?

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The disciplinale ecclesiale

51
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Who wrote the Disciplinale Ecclesiale in 1573?

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Walter Travers

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What did the Disciplinale Ecclesiale argue?

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That each congregation should have a minister, a teacher, and an elder, rather than bishops and archbishops

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What was published in 1589?

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The anonymous Martin Marprelate Tracts

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What were the Martin Marprelate Tracts?

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A series of crude pamphlets

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What did the Martin Marprelate Tracts do?

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Alienated more people than they won over due to being so extreme

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How did the government fight back against the Martin Marprelate Tracts?

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They destroyed printing presses and imprisoned extremists

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When did a small group of puritans begin to press for basic reforms in the government of the church in Parliament?

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In the 1570s

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When did the puritans become more unified and organised?

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In the parliamentary sessions of 1563 and 1566-7

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What did the more organised ‘puritan choir’ force Elizabeth into doing?

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Adopting a more Protestant religious settlement than she really wanted

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What were the puritans concentrated on?

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Developing the reformed religion at a local level

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What were prophesyings?

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Meetings where prayers and sermons were said

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When were prophesyings increasingly used?

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In the 1570s

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What did elizabeth view the prophesyings as?

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Potentially encouraging unrest

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What did elizabeth order to happen about the prophesyings?

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Ordered archbishop Edmund Grindal to suppress them

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What happened when Edmund Grindal refused to suppress the prophesyings?

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He was confined to house arrest

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What movement developed in the 1580s?

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classical Presbyterianism

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What was classical Presbyterianism based on?

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Groups of local clergy who met in secret to discuss the scripture

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Who was the Classical Presbyterianism network coordinated by?

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John Field, and they also remained in touch with international puritan groups

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What did the classical Presbyterianism movement aim to do?

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Reorganise the church on the Genevan model

70
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Why did Elizabeth disagree with the genevan church?

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She believed the monarch should control the church

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What happened when Whitgift became archbishop?

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He set up a high commission to determine the clergy’s loyalty to elizabeth

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How many clergy were removed for being in sufficiently loyal by Whitgift?

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Between 300 and 400 clergy

73
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Where was Walter Strickland from?

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A gentleman MP from Yorkshire

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What did Strickland introduce in April 1571?

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A bill to reform the book of common prayer

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What did the bill to reform the book of common prayer abolish?

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The use of surplices, the ring in marriage, and kneeling at communion

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What did the privy council do about Strickland’s bill?

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They summoned Strickland to answer accusations he had infringed on the queens prerogative

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What happened to Strickland?

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He was barred from the House of Commons

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Why was Strickland allowed to return to the House of Commons?

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After an outcry from MPs

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What happened to Peter Wentworth?

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He was sent to the Tower of London

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When was cope an MP in parliament?

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1586 Parliament

81
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What happened in the 1586 Parliament?

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A lot of puritan MPs were chosen for Parliament

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What did Cope propose?

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A ‘bill and book’

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What did the ‘bill and book’ say?

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That the genevan prayer book would replace the Book of Common Prayer, and that the authority of bishops would be ended

84
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Who supported the bill and book?

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Job Throckmorton MP

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What happened as a result of the ‘bill and book’?

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On elizabeth’s orders, cope and four others were sent to the tower

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What did pro-government MPs argued about the bill and book?

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That the bill meant that all former monastic land would have to be surrendered to finance the new church

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Who’s an example of a pro government MP?

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Hatton

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What were separatists?

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Puritans who weren’t prepared to compromise so set up their own church

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What was an example of a separatist church?

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The plumbers hall congregation

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Who rooted out the Plumbers hall congregation?

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Edmund Grindal

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When did Edward Grindal root out the plumbers Hall congregation?

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1567

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What happened to Robert Browne after setting up their own church in Norwich?

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He was temporarily imprisoned

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What happened to Robert Browne and Robert Harrison after setting up their own church in Norwich?

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They emigrated to Holland in 1582

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What happened to Henry Barrow and John Greenwood after setting up their own church in London?

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They were arrested and executed, marking the end of the separatist movement

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What was bad about the separatism movement?

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It was very small and was never united

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