Puritan demands escalated political tensions in Elizabethan England.

Evidence

Most of the Puritans had at first been willing to conform to Elizabeth’s Church Settlement in the hope of transforming it from within, but they now strove to drive the Government into an aggressive Protestant foreign policy, and at the same time secure their own freedom of religious organisation. … Their aim and object was nothing less than the establishment of a theocratic despotism. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 897

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 897