William Ames (1576-1633) was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where William Perkins was his tutor. He attended the Synod of Dort as an English observer and there began to develop his reputation as a brilliant theologian. From 1622, he was professor of theology at the University of Franeker in Holland, where he attracted students from all over Protestant Europe. John Dykstra Eusden (1922-2013; PhD, Yale Divinity School) served as chaplain and Nathan Jackson Professor of Christian Theology at Williams College. He wrote Puritans, Lawyers and Politics in Early Seventeenth-Century England.