• 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)?