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.
His trusted adviser in Church matters was Bishop Laud, and Laud, sharing Hooker’s dislike of Calvinistic dogmatism, was fully penetrated with the conviction that he and his friends must either crush the Calvinists or be crushed by them, and that the only way to produce that unity in the Church which he desired to see was to be found in the authoritative enforcement of uniformity in the practices o …
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.
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.