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  1. Form of church government adopted by those
  2. Protestant Christians known as
  3. Congregationalists, who let each congregation
  4. manage its own affairs. The first
  5. Congregationalists were the Brownists, named
  6. after Robert Browne, who defined the
  7. congregational principle 1580. In the
  8. 17th-century they were known as Independents,
  9. for example, the Puritan leader Cromwell and
  10. many of his Ironsides, and in 1662 hundreds
  11. of their ministers were driven from their
  12. churches and established separate
  13. congregations. The Congregational Church in
  14. England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church
  15. in England merged in 1972 to form the United
  16. Reformed Church. The latter, like its
  17. counterpart the Congregational Union of
  18. Scotland, has no control over individual
  19. churches but is simply consultative. Similar
  20. unions have been carried out in Canada
  21. (United Church of Canada, 1925) and USA
  22. (United Church of Christ, 1957).
  23.