The Puritans and the English Civil War

puritans were a group of christians who hated the high church pomp and circumstance of anglicanism. In 16 forty, four parla ment ordered that christmas should only be celebrated by fasting, not feasting. It was basically a government order to stop having fun. All the people all over england revolted against it. And when charles the second returned to the throne in 16 61, one of his nicknames was the merry monarch because he restored all the christmas traditions they had tried to destroy.