ABSTRACT
Hezekiah Haynes was a Puritan from ‘a strongly puritan East Anglian family’ centred in a Puritan network of kin and friends that stretched from Essex to Norfolk and to the New World.1 The 1633 emigration of his father to Winthrop’s Massachusetts, and most likely Hezekiah himself, was an obvious sign of his father’s Puritanism and response to Charles I’s increasing imposition of Laudianism. His broader experience of parliament’s armies and their religious diversity allowed Haynes a greater appreciation of some of the religious radicals he had to deal with, notably Fifth Monarchists, than his friend Josselin as a minister could contemplate. While they would have had religious differences, Haynes’ own actions against religious radicals in the 1650s and Josselin’s diary entries indicate that both men shared a concern about the development of radicalism and especially the threat of Quakers in the 1650s.
