The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, Protestants
Dissenters around to support for Home Rule for Ireland, putting the dissentingProtestants in league with the Irish Catholics in an otherwise unlikely alliance
buildings hidden in pre-existing buildings. Catholics, some Jews and dissentingProtestants worshipped in such buildings. A large influx of foreigners of many
in mid-17th-century England from the Legatine-Arians and other dissentingProtestant groups breaking with the established Church of England. The Quakers