Conversely, in large parts of England communities of Puritans had emerged, they were radical Protestants who based their beliefs on the theocracies which had grown up in cities like Geneva, under the minister Jean Calvin in the mid-sixteenth century.

相反，在英格兰的大部分地区出现了清教徒社区，他们是激进的新教徒，他们的信仰基于十六世纪中叶在日内瓦等城市在部长让·加尔文的领导下成长起来的神权政治。