The name mangel-wurzel has German origins mangel or mangold refers to the silverbeet-like leaves, and wurzel means 'root' and it is also known as yellow mangel, mangold or mangold-wurzel.
Notions of freedom, liberty, and the role of religion within the state have long since been at the forefront of national debates. When the Puritans considered such ideas, their thoughts and writings on the matter were never quite forgotten, only shifted and modified to suit the taste of contemporary concerns.
The Puritans have very much a sense of being an oppressed people, that they are being driven out by King James and the Anglicans who are refusing to reform the church the way they wish it reformed. And so they come out with what on the face of it seems to be a paradoxical confidence.