Suggested preparatory reading:

J. Twigg, The University of Cambridge and the English Revolution, 1625-1688 (1990), 103-205;

W.A.L. Vincent, The State and School Education, 1640-1660, in England and Wales: a survey based on printed sources (London, 1950);

B. Worden, ‘Politics, Piety, and Learning: Cromwellian Oxford’, in his God’s Instruments, Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (2012), 91-193