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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, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum
John Bunyan
English author
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
William Laud
William Laud
archbishop of Canterbury
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
John Robinson
English minister
Edmund Grindal
archbishop of Canterbury
Prynne
William Prynne
English pamphleteer
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
Bible
John Eliot
British missionary
Peter, Hugh
Hugh Peter
English minister
John Rogers
English Monarchist leader
Ames, William
William Ames
English theologian
Vavasor Powell
Welsh preacher
William Strode
English politician
John Aylmer
bishop of London
John Owen, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Miles Coverdale
bishop of Exeter
John Cotton, detail from a portrait in The Beginnings of New England, by John Fiske
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