Is the image supposed to be satirical? Was it propaganda? What are the different sects pictured? One of them is titled as “Arian”, didn’t the Arian heresy end in like 700 A.D.? Also, another is listed as “Arminian” - are they referring to the Armenian Apostolic Church? The figure described as being an “Adamite” is nude; was that an early form of nudism? What’s a “Soule Sleeper”?
I can't help answer your question, but I would like to add that the image you've linked to is only the top part of a 1647 broadsheet which also included verses about each group. The full text of the broadsheet can be found here.
This is a really interesting question! I am not sure if I will be able to provide information about every image but I can hopefully shed some light on what the purpose of this document was and why it contains such a seemingly baffling array of lesser-known and out of place sects.
Firstly, although its a good guess, this isn't from the Elizabethan or Jacobean period, but from 1647, at the height of the Civil Wars, when both political and religious order had largely broken down and all manner of new and strange dissenting Protestant sects and political movements start to appear in sources. Some of these groups were real and genuinely influential, others were real but their numbers were exaggerated, and others appear to have been almost entirely fictional.
As you alluded to in your question, many of these groups carried names which would more immediately be associated with late antiquity or the early medieval period than the early modern. Partly, this was because many Protestant dissenters had a genuine interest in emulating the early church and returning institutions like the episcopacy to their pure 'apostolic' form. However, as I already mentioned, there was also a great degree of exaggeration and panic regarding these new sects, and writers and pamphleteers often applied lurid names which evoked ancient heresy to groups which did not really have much in common with their namesakes at all.
Because of this, the way in which I would advise approaching this image is not so much as a literal catalogue of sects and opinions in England at the time, but rather to think of each image as a caricature of certain trends and ways of thinking that the author wishes to attack. As another poster pointed out, there are actually poetic verses which go along with each of these images, which help shed further light on their meaning.
So with that out the way, let's see what I can say about the images. I don't sadly have time to go through all of them in detail, but I will try and provide some information about the ones that stand out to me.
Firstly, the Jesuit. The Jesuits, were, and still are, a real Catholic missionary order, long feared and despised in Protestant England as seditious agents of the Pope. Their significance in the 1640s went beyond this, however, and the word became an embodiment more generally of religious tyranny over civil matters. The idea was that what made the Jesuits so dangerous was a belief in the 'deposing power' of the Pope, in other words, the ability to dethrone kings and princes. This concept became extended even to Protestant groups who were seen as using religion to usurp civil authority, and it is not uncommon in this period to find different groups of Protestants accusing each other of behaving in 'Jesuitical' fashion. This is encapsulated in the opening couplet of the accompany verse regarding Jesuits:
By hellish wiles the States to ruine bring,
My Tenents are to murder Prince or King:
The next image does not explicitly have a label on the image beyond a description of them as Welsh and blasphemous, but from the verse appears to be a Socinian. which was a nontrinitarian doctrine which emerged in the 16th century, but which was also became common in England as a catch all term for dissenters viewed with suspicion, and I suspect that is how it is used here, with the relevant verse rather vaguely accusing the Socinian of trickery and 'strange notions':
By cunning art my way's more nearly spun,
Although destructive to profession;
Obscuring truths, although substantiall,
To puzle Christians or to make them fall:
That precious time may not be well improv'd,
Ile multiply strange notions for the lewd.
The next one is the Arminian, which slightly confusingly does not have anything to do with the country of Armenia, but instead derives from the name of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius. Arminianism was a form of Reformed Protestantism which differed from classical Calvinism on issues like predestination, which is the topic of the verse attached to this image:
Would any comfortlesse both live and die?
Let him learne free wills great uncertaintie:
Salvation that doth unmov'd remaine,
Arminian Logick would most maintaine,
And faith that's founded on a firme decree,
Is plac't by them to cause uncertaintie.
The relevance of Arminianism to early modern England is that many saw it as the theological inspiration behind the reforms undertaken by Archbishop William Laud.
Laud was Charles I's Archbishop of Canterbury who oversaw attempts at various reforms to the English and Scottish churches, which were often unpopular and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil Wars. The extent to which Laud's reforms genuinely represented an attempt to impose Arminianism on the British kingdoms is still a matter of debate, but readers in 1647 would likely associate it with the reforms which brought the kingdoms into chaos.
Next is the Arian, which as you rightly pointed out, seems about a thousand years out of place at this point. There were, in fact, some genuine attempts at reviving Arianism in early modern England. The priest John Assheton who recanted in front of Thomas Cranmer in 1548 has been labelled as an Arian, although others have argued his views were not true Arianism but more closely resembled Socinianism, or some other form of antitrinitarianism. In any case, as I mentioned at the start, there was often rhetorical value in associating one's opponents with known forms of heresy.
The Adamites, as you guessed, genuinely did go naked during their services. However, much like the Arians, they were primarily a phenomenon of late antiquity rather than the early modern period. While there were reports of Adamite revivals in the Reformation period elsewhere in Europe, I have not before encountered a reference to them appearing in England, and from a quick search can find no other reference to this besides other discussions of this image. Without further evidence I'd have to assume this is probably more of a rhetorical flourish than a reference to genuine Adamites, though in the chaos of the Civil Wars, I suppose its possible there genuinely were attempts to revive Adamitism.
This answer is getting very long and frankly, I would be drifting into guesswork were I to attempt to go into detail about some of the even more obscure sects that the image and poem mentions (the poem has even more sects not featured in the image), which isn't the point of this sub.
A couple of final points before I stop though. 'Soule Sleepers' refers to 'Christian mortalism', which is the belief that the soul is not conscious prior to resurrection, though I am afraid I know nothing about the role of this belief in early modern England. As for the background of this image, I can find no record of an author, but printed propaganda of this sort was common in the 1640s, and its purpose, ultimately, was likely to advance the religious and political agenda of its author.
Precisely what agenda this was is hard to be certain of without an author, but given that it attacks Jesuits, Arminians, Independents and dissenters, my speculation would be that this image and poem were created by a Presbyterian. The Presbyterians can be seen broadly as the 'moderate' faction within the Parliamentarian alliance, who rebelled against the king initially but by 1647 had become alienated by what they saw as the extremism of the Puritan/Independent faction (the most famous member of which was Cromwell).
If there are any particular parts of the rest of the image or poem that you're interested in though, do please ask and I'll see if I have anything to say on them!
The image is at times satirical, absolutely propaganda. Here is a transcription of the text on the woodprint, as well as the writings within about each of the different groups. What follows is my interpretation in light of those inscriptions and other general knowledge from the period.
All of the sects were outlawed and suppressed at the time, and most likely, this print was part of a chapbook (small, easily printed booklet used for ideological purposes) used to help common people know how to identify these sects and refute their beliefs.
Briefly, I'll give a quick outline of the ones I recognize and update the list when/if I find information on the ones I don't.
As the link above shows, there are more listed in the chapbook than what are in the woodcut, but I'll stop there. If you see more sects you want to know about, just comment, and I'll see what I can do.
SELECTED SOURCES
The Radical Reformation by George Hunston Williams
The Swiss Reformation by Bruce Gordon
A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700 edited by J.M. Stayer.
The English Bible in the Early Modern World edited by Robert Armstrong, Tadhg Ó Hannracháin.
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos Eire
*The Collected Works of Thomas Muntzer" edited by Peter Matheson