William Laud was a bishop in the Church of England.
20 Facts About William Laud
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William Laud graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1594, Master of Arts in 1598 and Doctor of Divinity in 1608.
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When William Laud was going through his exercises as a candidate for the degree of Bachelor in Divinity, in 1604, he contended "that there could be no true churches without diocesan episcopacy".
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When Buckeridge left St John's in 1611, William Laud succeeded him as president, but only after a hard patronage struggle reaching high circles at court.
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William Laud was chaplain to Richard Neile, who was Clerk of the Closet.
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William Laud believed he had the king's blessing to renovate and improve the run-down building, but he offended his bishop, Miles Smith.
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William Laud became a confidant of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, at the end of the reign.
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William Laud ascended rapidly to a position of influence in the period 1626 to 1628, advancing not alone but with a group of like-minded clerics who obtained bishoprics.
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William Laud immediately changed the Chapel services to privilege prayer over preaching, since King Charles's views were the opposite of his father's.
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Historian Mark Perry argues that by 1626 in private consultations with the king and Buckingham, and in his public role in the House of Lords, William Laud was a highly effective parliamentarian and a key adviser and policy-maker.
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William Laud distrusted parliamentary bargaining, and was always determined to resist all encroachments upon the royal prerogative, especially in matters of taxation.
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When Wentworth was posted to Ireland in 1632, William Laud brought his personal correspondence from him rapidly to the king's attention.
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William Laud was almost 60 years old when he became archbishop and, having waited for a decade to replace George Abbot, was no longer prepared to compromise on any aspect of his policy.
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Whereas Wentworth saw the political dangers of Puritanism, William Laud saw the Calvinist movement's threat to the episcopacy.
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In 1637, Histriomastix's author, William Laud Prynne, was convicted of seditious libel along with John Bastwick and Henry Burton, and had their ears cropped and faces branded.
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Toward the end of his life, Charles I admitted that he had put too much trust in William Laud, and allowed his "peevish humours" and obsession with points of ritual to inflame divisions within the Church: he warned his son not to rely on anyone else's judgment in such matters.
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William Laud was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he remained throughout the early stages of the English Civil War.
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William Laud was buried in the chapel of St John's College, Oxford, his alma mater.
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William Laud's collected works in seven volumes were published between 1847 and 1860 in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology.
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The pun "give great praise to the Lord, and little William Laud to the devil" is a joke attributed to Archibald Armstrong, Charles's court jester; William Laud was known to be touchy about his diminutive stature.