By the time Governor William Phips ended the trials, fourteen women and five men had been hanged as witches.

Premium How Akbar and Aurangzeb have contrasting images in India and Pakistan Akbar and Aurangzeb were both great Mughal rulers, but their legacies have been shaped not only by their achievements but also religious and nationalist politics that swept across India in the centuries to follow. The Salem witch trials of 1692 had a lasting impact on the historical reputation of New England Puritans. The Westminster Divines, on the other hand, were divided over questions of church polity and split into factions supporting a reformed episcopacy, presbyterianism, congregationalism, and Erastianism.In 1642, Massachusetts required heads of households to teach their wives, children and servants basic reading and writing so that they could read the Bible and understand colonial laws.

In church polity, some advocated separation from all other established Christian denominations in favour of autonomous gathered churches.At this point, the term " Dissenter" came to include "Puritan", but more accurately described those (clergy or lay) who "dissented" from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Puritans adopted a covenant theology, and in that sense they were Calvinists (as were many of their earlier opponents). cites and quotes Patrick Collinson, "Fundamental Objections", Times Literary Supplement (17–23 February 1989), p.

William Prynne, the most rabid of the Puritan anti-toasters, wrote a book on the subject, Health's Sicknesse (1628), that "this drinking and quaffing of healthes had it origin and birth from Pagans, heathens, and infidels, yea, from the very Deuill himself. The main difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans is that the Puritans did not consider themselves separatists. As per popular understanding, under Aurgangzeb’s reign several Hindu temples were destroyed in the course of the 18th century. The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement known as Puritanism that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century. Puritanism had a historical importance over a period of a century, followed by fifty years of development in New England.In 1647, Massachusetts passed a law prohibiting any Jesuit Roman Catholic priests from entering territory under Puritan jurisdiction. According to Ali, in Pakistani educational curricula, Akbar is not mentioned directly but indirectly as a rival of Ahmad Sirhandi, a Sufi scholar.