Puritans going to Church, each of the men, except the pastor, armed in case of attack by Indians or wild animals, 

 picture of life in the old Colonial days in New England 



From the painting by O. B. Soughton. R.A., Public Library, Ifeto Fork 



oxychloride, and this yields suc- 

 cessively di-iodopurine and purine 

 when treated with iodic acid and 

 zinc dust. Purine has been pre- 

 pared synthetically. Purine-like 

 substances are known as the 

 purine bases and include uric acid 

 and xanthine, which are found in 

 animal secretions. 



Puritans. Name primarily ap- 

 plied in the 16th century to those 

 advanced Protestants among the 



dominance, and after the Stuart roof (q.v. } along the latter's whole 

 restoration in 1660 the name of length. It serves to support any 

 Puritan was held up to derision by weight imposed upon the roof. 



such satirists as Butler. The New 

 England states were for many 

 years a Puritan stronghold. See 

 Calvinism ; Nonconformity. 



Bibliography. English Puritanism 

 and its Leaders, J. Tulloch, 1861 ; 

 Puritanism in the Old World and in 



Purnea OB PURNIAH. Dist. and 

 town of Bihar and Orissa, India, in 

 the Bhagalpur division. The dist. 

 lies N. of the Ganges, S. of Nepal, 

 and E. of the river Kosi. Only 

 two-thirds of the area is cultivated. 

 Paddy fields cover three-fifths of 

 the tilled area. The town, on a 



the New, J. Gregory, 1895; The 



._ . . 1JJ-VTT1 



ta ] > ^ItoS" iK The branch rl y- N - from Katihar ' was 



clergy who wished to purify the Chur ' eh ' an j t }j e p lir it a ns H O formerly a Mahomedan capital. 

 Church of England from what they Wakeman, 8th ed. 1902 ; The First The area is 4,998 sq. m. Pop., dist., 



Two Stuarts and the Puri tan Revolu- 1,990,000; town, 14,800. 



tion, S. R. Gardiner, new ed. 1902 ; 



Puritanism in England, H. Hensley 



Henson, 1912. 



Purl. Hot alcoholic beverage- 

 Tt is compounded of beer or ale 

 milk, spirits, sugar, and spice. The 



regarded as superstitious and cor- 

 rupt observances retained after the 

 severance from Rome. From the 

 clergy it spread to their supporters 

 among the laity, and then was 

 applied more particularly to the 

 sectaries who stood outside the 

 Church altogether. Generally, 

 though not necessarily, their doc- 

 trines were Calvinistic. 



Since the government of the 

 Stuarts was especially repressive 

 towards Puritanism, the parlia- 

 mentary opposition to the crown 

 found in them its strongest sup- 

 porters., and they claimed to be the 

 champions of religious liberty. Of 

 Puritanism in its best signification 

 Milton, Cromwell, and John Bun- 

 yan are the supreme types. The 

 Puritans, however, included both 

 tolerationists like Cromwell and 

 men whose idea of religious liberty 

 was liberty for themselves and the 

 enforcement of their own opinions 

 upon their neighbours. The harsh- 

 ness and rigidity of many of the 

 doctrines most in favour with them, 

 and in especial their view that it 

 was the business of the state "to 

 supervise the personal morality of 

 the citizens, caused a severe re- 

 action against the Puritan pre- 



Purple (Gr. porphyra, putple- 

 fish). Colour intermediate between 

 crimson and violet. In classical 

 antiquity the word denoted the 

 fast crimson dye resulting from 

 the exposure to sunlight of a 



spirit may be gin, rum, or brandy ; yellowish liquid secreted by whelk - 

 the milk may be omitted and gin- like molluscs of the genera Purpura 

 ger used, but the liquor must be and Murex. It isT chemically a 

 brought almost to boiling point dibromo-indigotin. Purple robes 

 and the ingredients well mixed. commanded high prices, and under 

 Purley. District of Surrey, Eng- the Roman emperors were limited 

 land. It is 13 m. from London, of to imperial use, hence the phrase 

 which it is a residential suburb, born in the purple. 



Purley, Surrey. The town seen from Riddlesdown, looking towards Russell Hill 



with stations, Purley and Purley The dye was imported into 



Oaks, on the L.B. & S.C. and S.E. ancient Egypt, and many biblical 



& C. Rlys. references illustrate its importance. 



Purlin. In carpentry, a hori- It was also used for mural painting, 



zorital beam placed above and ink, face-rouge, and for staining 



secured to the principal rafters of a vellum inscribed in gold. 



