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Laud's plans, however, hit terrible obstacles, both personal and political.

Falling foul of political intrigue, he was executed in 1645, by which time the English Civil War had broken out.

Oxford became a Royalist stronghold during the conflict, and many printers in the city concentrated on producing political pamphlets or sermons.

Some outstanding mathematical and Orientalist works emerged at this time – notably, texts edited by Edward Pococke, the Regius Professor of Hebrew – but no university press on Laud's model was possible before the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.