PURITANS

were a separate sect before the acce ion of Edward VI., but did not become prominent the reign of Elizabeth. Afterwards they split up into Independents and Presbyterians, and the influence of Oliver Cromwell made the former supreme. Since the Revolution the word has been replaced by 'Nonconformist ’ or * Di enter ’; but, of course, Romanists in England and Protestant Episcopalians in Scotland are just as much Nonconformists or Di enters as Baptists or Methodists are.