Jane Partridge wrote.
<<<<<<Being a noble woman, I suspect that she would have worn the bande
(falling collar) with lace trim until approaching the years of the civil
war, when if hers was a Parliament family, she would have dressed
plainly to avoid being mistaken for a Royalist. I'm not sure when
Puritanism first came into being in England; certainly up to a
relatively short time before anyone not Church of England would have
been executed for heresy and despite Elizabeth's tolerance, freedom of
religion wasn't gained until the 1700s. The first we heard of it in
history at school was with the reign of Oliver Cromwell - and that began
five years after this lady died.>>>>>
I found a website from which I have cut and pasted a section here. the site
is http://biblia.com/christianity2/3b-england.htm
<< In 1560, lead by T. Cartwright, the "Puritans" or "Precisians", thought
the Anglicans were too Catholic, and the Church should be "purified" of the
old leaven of Catholicism, and reformed along Calvinist lines in severe
simplicity.
These are some of the "purifications" they wanted: Reform the government
of the Church of England, its worship, and teachings. Stop the clerical
dress, the kneeling at the Mass, the sign of the cross... the ministers
should be chosen by the people, and the office of the bishop abolished; this
amounted to a demand of the Presbyterian form of church as Calvinism, in
place of the Episcopalian way of Anglicanism. >>
There is more to this but I have just pasted the first little bit.
I found this paragraph on the site of the Church of England wesbite, on the
History of the Church of England pages. I quote:-
"at the end of the 16th century Richard Hooker produced the classic defence
of the Elizabethan settlement in his <Of the Laws of the Ecclesiastical
Polity>, a work which sought to defend the Church of England against its
Puritan critics who wanted further changes to make the Church of England
more like the churches of Geneva or Scotland"
Though Lady Harley died in October 1643 she would have been alive at a time
when the Puritan religion was becoming well established, by the look of it,
so I doubt she would have dared wear her lace. Her husband was a member of
Parliament and away in London while she defended their Castle in
Herefordshire. It seems that organising the defence of the castle may have
worn her out, because she died in Oct., 1643 and the castle still needed
defending after that time by others. The Puritans had to fight their way up
to a position where they could take over the country and execute the king
and that is not done overnight, it would have taken years to get to the
point where Oliver Cromwell became the Protector of England.
But I agree with Jane, at school we were only ever taught about the time
concerning Oliver Cromwell and how it changed the country not what came,
for many years, before him with regard to the Puritan religion.
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis, Spain
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