Oliver Cromwell And The Puritan Movement
Two hundred years earlier the Puritan movement, led to the installment of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell had temporarily overthrown the British monarchy. He imposed a strict moral code on the people. Cromwell's objective was of spiritual and moral reform. He wanted to restore liberty of conscience and promote both outward and inward godliness throughout England. Cromwell even installed a set of "triers" assess the suitability of future parish ministers, and also a set of "ejectors" to dismiss ministers and schoolmasters who were deemed unsuitable for office. After Cromwell’s death the monarchy had been restored and the two social forces of Puritanism and libertinism continued to motivate the collective psyche of Great Britain. Religious morality