The decline of Puritanism

When did Puritan influence decline?

The late 1580s

Why did the influence decline?

Partly because of the deaths of Leicester, Mildmay, and Walsingham, its political supporters at court, and partly because of the defeat of the Spanish Armada reduced the perceived threat of Catholicism, and lessened its attractions.

What dud the disappearance of Presbyterianism mean?

Puritan attitudes became more acceptable within the traditional Church structure

Where were the fundamentally Calvinist beliefs of the Church of England reaffirmed?

Lambeth Articles of 1595

What did the Articles prove acceptable to?

Puritans and their opponents such as Whitgift

What was the 1559 Book of Common Prayer accepted by?

Both Puritans and their opponents as the basis for an acceptable form of worship