the Puritans came from an early group of reformers called the Cathars, or “the pure ones.” And so, they sought to change the government from the episcopal to presbyterianism and to reform the Book of Common Prayer so that what was read in the churches every Sunday would be more evangelical. They were not the separating Puritans, because they remained within the Church of England. Those that separated were called the separatists or the nonconformists. They were Puritans who left the Church of England