Complex sentence: During the English Civil War, in 1643 the royalist Lawrence Washington was stripped of his clerical position as Rector of Purleigh by the Parliamentary Puritans and subsequently Lawrence became an Anglican Vicar of an impoverished parish in Little Braxted, Essex.
Split into simpler sentences: During the English Civil War, in 1643 the royalist Washington was stripped of his clerical position by the Parliamentary Puritans. He was reduced to serving as a Vicar of an impoverished parish in Little Braxted, Essex.