ABSTRACT
Much of the educational legislation of the Long Parliament was abortive and the work of Cromwell and his Council during the Protectorate was limited in its effects. Nevertheless the ideas of Puritan reformers as Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662), John Dury (1596–1680) and the Moravian Comenius (1592–1670) had a delayed effect in influencing educational development in subsequent centuries and particularly in the Dissenting Academies which developed after the religious legislation of the Restoration had evicted many scholars from their existing teaching posts and livings.*
