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the
17th century
Puritan
physician
Alexander Leighton
incurred the wrath of
King Charles I
for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his
Star Chamber
to public whipping,
branding
, and having his ears cut off?
the
Cotswold Games
were organized by
Robert Dover
as a protest against
Puritanism
in the early
17th century
?
in
Puritan
Massachusetts Bay Colony
, when
Dorothy Talbye
fell into despair
with fits of
violence
in 1638, she was
excommunicated from the church
,
bound and chained to a post
, publicly
whipped
and finally, after
murdering
her daughter,
hanged
?
The Book of Sports
was a
1617
declaration of
James I of England
listing
archery
and
dancing
as permissible on Sundays and that
Puritans
in
Parliament
had it publicly burned in
1643
?
Nathaniel Higginson
(signature pictured)
, the first Mayor of
Madras city
and the second American-born
President of Madras
, was the son of
Puritan
minister
John Higginson, a leading investigator in the
Salem witch trials
?
Puritan
colonist
Nicholas Upsall
saved the lives of jailed
Quaker
pioneers
Mary Fisher
and
Ann Austin
, was later
banished
, and then helped found the first
Monthly Meeting
of the
Quakers
in America?
Facts on topics related to Puritan
England
11-year old
Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
is regarded by
Jacobites
as third in line for the throne of
England
,
Scotland
,
France
, and
Ireland
?
19th-century
smugglers
in
Worthing
,
West Sussex
,
England
, were known to store their
contraband
in
table-tombs
at
West Tarring
's
St Andrew's Church
(pictured)
?
2,273 passengers booked travel from
Templecombe railway station
,
England
in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
Rear-Admiral
Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian
(pictured)
was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave
England
, but twice had it forced back to port by severe
gales
?
Ain-Ervin Mere
, commander of the Estonian
Sicherheitspolizei
, was
sentenced to death
in 1961 for organizing the
holocaust in Estonia
, but died as a free man in
England
?
Air Chief Marshal
Sir
Charles Burnett
was born in the
United States
to a
Scottish
father, educated in
England
and eventually became the
Australian
Chief of the Air Staff
?
General Augusto Pinochet
was once kept under
house arrest
at a house on the
Wentworth Estate
, an exclusive residential area surrounding the
Wentworth Golf Club
in
Surrey
,
England
?
Australian
-born
lumber
executive
John A. Campbell
was said to have introduced
surfing
on the
Cornwall
coast of
England
?
Caryl Churchill
's play
Mad Forest
, developed partly in
Bucharest
in collaboration with
Romanian
and
English
drama students, was in production less than six months after the
Romanian Revolution of 1989
?
German rugby club
SC 1880 Frankfurt
adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the
English
club
Blackheath F.C.
, who also played in those colours?
English Reformation
Lorenzo Campeggio
, the
cardinal protector of England
during the
English Reformation
, determined that
Henry VIII
's marriage could not be annulled?
The Play of the Weather
by the
Catholic
playwright
John Heywood
is a plea for religious tolerance after the
Reformation
in the form of an
allegory
?
despite nine hundred
Roman Catholic
churches being built in
England
in the fifty years after
1791
,
St John the Baptist's Church
in
Brighton
was only the fourth to be
consecrated
since the
Reformation
?
on appointment in 1486,
Robert Morton
became the last
English
Bishop of Worcester
until the
English Reformation
?
Charles I of England
George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny
(pictured)
who was killed at the age of 24 at
Edgehill
, the first pitched battle of the
English Civil War
, was a cousin of King
Charles I of England
?
John Harrison
(pictured)
, seventeenth century benefactor of
Leeds
, is reputed to have slipped
Charles I
a tankard of gold coins disguised as
beer
?
William Marshall
produced an engraving
(pictured)
of
Charles I of England
as a Christian
martyr
for the
Eikon Basilike
, published ten days after the King was executed in 1649?
William Wroth
founded the first
independent
chapel
in
Wales
in 1639, after he refused to obey
King Charles
' instruction to allow
sports
to be played on Sundays?
Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in
West Rock Ridge
,
Connecticut
, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the
death warrant
of the
King Charles I
?
despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of
comptroller
to
Prince Charles
in 1616,
John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery
later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
during the
English Civil War
,
Charles I
was staying in
Gamul House
,
Chester
,
Cheshire
, when his army was defeated at the
Battle of Rowton Moor
?
during the reign of the
English Commonwealth
, worshippers at
St. Stephen Coleman Street
seeking
Communion
had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of
Charles I
's
death warrant
?
in 1649,
Thomas Andrewes
attended the execution of
King Charles I
, was responsible for proclaiming the abolition of the
English monarchy
, and was appointed to be the
Lord Mayor of London
?
one of
Sir Henry Firebrace
'
s escape plans for
Charles I of England
failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?
Calvinism
the
Calvinist
philosopher
and
New Testament
scholar
Vern Poythress
argues that
mathematics
is the
rhyme
of the
universe
?
Oliver Cromwell
Skinnand
is a
deserted medieval village
in
Lincolnshire
, and that its
Norman
church was probably burned down by
Oliver Cromwell
in the
English Civil War
?
before
John Parker
became
Archbishop of Tuam
and of
Dublin
, he had been imprisoned by
Oliver Cromwell
's forces as a suspected
Royalist
spy
?
in 1648,
Oliver Cromwell
sent letters to
Haverfordwest Castle
in west
Wales
and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
portrait painter
John Michael Wright
painted both
Charles II
and the daughter of
Oliver Cromwell
?
the statue of the
Virgin and Child
in the porch of the
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
in
Oxford
was cited as evidence in
Archbishop Laud's
execution trial, and has bullet holes made by
Oliver Cromwell
's troops?
Book of Common Prayer
Humphrey Toy
financed the publication of the first
Welsh
translation of the
Book of Common Prayer
?
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
(pictured)
is reputed to have thrown either a
Bible
or a
Prayer Book
at the head of
King George IV
?
one of the
liturgies
of the Antiochian
Western Rite Vicariate
, a part of
Western Rite Orthodoxy
, is a modified form of the 1928 American
Book of Common Prayer
?
Congregational Church
the
Church of South India
, a union of
Anglican
,
Methodist
,
Congregational
,
Presbyterian
, and
Reformed
churches in
South India
, was inaugurated in 1947 at
St. George's Cathedral
(pictured)
in
Madras
(now Chennai)?
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