These activists wanted to get rid the Catholic parts that was still in the church, but the majority of England, saw the Puritans as a threat to them, so they forced the Puritans to retreat. ... This created a conflict, the case of Anne Hutchison and Roger Williams. ...
Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable remains of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew being heartless to Puritan demands. They insisted that the Puritans conform to religious practices that they hated, removing their ministers from office and threatening them with" extirpation from the earth" if they did not follow their rules. Passionate Puritan laymen received savage punishments. For example, in 1630 a man was sentenced to life imprisonment, his property was co...
