William Laud
historical figure · 1 work · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Archbishop of Canterbury · Laud · Bishop Laud · Lord Archbishop of Canterbury · late Archbishop of Canterbury · the Archbishop
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Bishop, later Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles I's principal ecclesiastical adviser who enforced religious uniformity, provoking widespread opposition.
and that an end should be put to the alterations in the conduct of worship, which in Laud’s eyes were but the restoration of legal order, whilst in the eyes of others they were unauthorised innovations.
It was doubtless upon Laud’s advice, though ostensibly upon the advice of as many Bishops as could be got together upon short notice, that Charles prefixed a Declaration on the subject to a new edition of the Articles (No.
In 1634 Laud undertook a metropolitical visitation of the Province of Canterbury which lasted for three years, and which imposed the new system upon every parish in the Province, whilst Neile, the Archbishop of York, took the same measures in the Northern Province.