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This page is important because of the extensive use of the word Presbyterian in histories and biographies dealing with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Congregations in England who called themselves 'Presbyterian' had a distinct character, which merits a distinct page in Wiki, though the name 'Presbyterian', in England after the Great Ejection, reflects an ambition rather than a reality.
Thus, this page has a number of links to significant complementary pages, rather than a lot of internal citations.
Its links to Calvinism should be treated cautiously, since English Presbyterianism throughout the Eighteenth century, whilst often Lutheran, quickly became distinctly anti-Calvinistic as it moved towards what would become a distinct, if evolving, Unitarianism.
This page does not consider 'Presbyterian' congregations in England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which are perhaps touched on under Nonconformism.
It is difficult to split this page into sections. Perhaps because the topic deserves a separate page dealing with 'The Presbyterian Church of England during the Commonwealth', leaving this page to deal with the Presbyterian aspect of the aftermath of the Great Ejection.