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The Puritans were a group of English-speaking Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. A Puritan was any person who tried to become purer through worship and doctrine. Puritans disagreed with some of the Church of England's actions and thought that the English Reformation had not gone far enough.
In 1534, King Henry VIII separated from the Roman Catholic Church and established the Protestant Church of England. Queen Mary returned the Church to Roman Catholicism in 1553, and this did not change until Elizabeth I became Queen of England. Many people celebrated the return of a Protestant monarch, but some believed that the Church had not changed enough and was still too much like Catholicism.[1]