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  • Puritans founded Harvard University.
  • Puritans' Sunday church services could last for up to six hours.

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John Bunyan
John Bunyan
English author
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
William Laud
William Laud
archbishop of Canterbury
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Thomas Cartwright
English Presbyterian leader
John Foxe, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1587; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Foxe
English Puritan preacher and author
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John Robinson
English minister
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Edmund Grindal
archbishop of Canterbury
Prynne
William Prynne
English pamphleteer
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Sir Henry Vane, the Younger
English administrator
Richard Baxter, detail from an oil painting after R. White, 1670; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Baxter
English minister
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John Eliot
British missionary
Peter, Hugh
Hugh Peter
English minister
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John Rogers
English Monarchist leader
Ames, William
William Ames
English theologian
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Vavasor Powell
Welsh preacher
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William Strode
English politician
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John Aylmer
bishop of London
John Owen, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Owen
English minister
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Miles Coverdale
bishop of Exeter
John Cotton
John Cotton
American colonial leader

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