This paper discusses the spiritual, commercial and political relationship between the Puritan colony of Massachusetts and England from 1630 to 1691, the start of the colonial separation from England.
In the spiritual, commercial, and political life of the Puritan Colony of Massachusetts from 1630 to 1691 a recurring problem was that of defining the proper relationship of the colony to England and authority there.
This period was one of the most turbulent, domestically, in the more modern history of the government of England. Gone was the relatively firm autocracy of the Tudors, who brought revolution out of earlier chaos. Gone, too, was the skillful hand of a Virgin Queen who held the state together with the guile of her father and grandfather. Not really being born to the throne, they were more concerned with holding its position than perhaps the more rightful owners. The pattern for the new rulers, the Stuarts, was set by James I, (1603-1625), who had waited for the crown while Elizabeth took her time in dying. The early Stuarts …