Each reckoned a number of really able and efficient men among its heads of colleges, and in its staff of professors and tutors.

In Oxford there was Dr.John Owen, head of Christ Church, and all but permanently Vice-Chancellor of the University, with Dr.Thomas Goodwin, Dr.John Wilkins, Dr.Robert Harris, Dr.Thankful Owen, Dr.John Conant, Dr.
Jonathan Goddard, and others, as heads of other Colleges, and Dr.
Henry Wilkinson, Dr.Lewis Du Moulin, Dr.Pocock, and the mathematicians Dr.Seth Ward and Dr.John Wallis among the Professors.

Cambridge boasted of such men as Dr.Ralph Cudworth, Dr.
Benjamin Whichcote, Dr.John Worthington, Dr.John Lightfoot, Dr.
Lazarus Seaman, Dr.John Arrowsmith, Dr.Anthony Tuckney, Dr.Henry More, and others now less remembered.

And under the discipline and teaching of such chiefs there was growing up in both Universities a generation of young men as well grounded in all the older sorts of learning as any generation of their predecessors, with the benefit also of newer lights, as was to be proved by the names and appearances of many of them in English history to the end of the century.

Even Clarendon admits as much.