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• Conventicling — Con*ven ti*cling, a. Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• History of the Puritans — The history of the Puritans can be traced back to the Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI ending in a decline in the mid 1700s. Background, to 1559 The English Reformation, begun his reign in the reign of Henry VIII of England, was… …   Wikipedia