THE PURITANS:
Precursors of The Scarlet Letter

STORY CHAPTER LINKS
1. STORY PREFACE
2. HENRY VIII SOWS THE SEEDS
3. WHO WERE THE PURITANS?
4. HISTORY OF THE PILLORY
5. PURITANS AND THE PILLORY
6. HAWTHORNE AND THE SCARLET LETTER
7. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
8. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES

PREFACE

There are three things that earthly riches can never do;
they can never satisfy divine justice,
they can never pacify divine wrath,
nor can they ever quiet a guilty conscience.
And till these things are done, man is undone.


Thomas Brooks
Puritan Writer


Henry VIII, England’s King, had a problem. He was not as powerful as he thought. Wanting a son and tired of his once-beautiful wife, Catherine of Aragon, Henry wished to marry Anne Boleyn. But the Catholic Church rarely granted divorce dispensation and Pope Clement VII would make no exception - not even for Henry.

Cataclysmic events were about to ensue.

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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.