According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke ( who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop William Laud, had met Lucaris ) many of the choicest manuscripts from Lucaris ' library were saved by the Dutch ambassador who sent them by ship to Holland.

Williams had read their writings, and his own experience of persecution by Archbishop Laud and the Anglican establishment and the bloody wars of religion that raged in Europe at that very time convinced him that a state church had no basis in Scripture.

Charles was baptised in the Chapel Royal on 27 June by the Anglican Bishop of London William Laud and brought up in the care of the Protestant Countess of Dorset, though his godparents included his mother's Catholic relations, Louis XIII and Marie de ' Medici.

* The Grange ( GR ) ( 60 boys, 1928 ) includes many fine architectural features taken from the Archbishop's Palaces of Laud and Parker by the family who converted the granary ruins to a family house in the 1840s.

Tearoom Trade is the name of a book by American psychologist Laud Humphreys.

Laud and Wentworth shared, with King Charles I, the same fate as many others who at some time in his life, found reasons to conspire against Boyle: an early demise, with Boyle showing his customary astuteness by putting on a convincing show of politically appropriate response at every crucial juncture.

With the triumph of the Restoration and with it the Church of England, Dean Fell sought to revive a project proposed in the 1630s by the late William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury: a separate building whose sole use would be graduation and degree ceremonies.

The original nave was blocked off and a new tower erected, and a new carved oak rood screen, incorporating the arms of Scudamore, Laud, and King Charles I, was made by John Abel of Hereford.

It was substantially commissioned by Archbishop Laud and completed in 1636.

In the 1630s he was apprenticed to John Hewson, who introduced him to the Puritan physician John Bastwick, an active pamphleteer against Episcopacy who was persecuted by Archbishop William Laud.

Although unsuccessful, Hale was then called to represent William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, during his impeachment by the House of Commons in October 1644.

Among his works are Ladensium Aὐτοκατάκρισις, an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor by John Corbet in the form of an attack on Laud and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters with Jesuitry ; Anabaptism, the true Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, etc., a sermon which he criticises the rise of the early Baptist churches in England such as those lead by Thomas Lambe ; An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland ; The Life of William ( Laud ) now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Examined ( London, 1643 ); A Parallel of the Liturgy with the Mass Book, the Breviary, the Ceremonial and other Romish Rituals ( London, 1661 ).

On top of the wars England had with France and with Spain ( both caused by the Duke of Buckingham ), Charles I and William Laud ( the Archbishop of Canterbury ) began a war with Scotland in an attempt to convert Scotland to the Church of England ( the Anglican Church ).

This made him politically suspect when Laud was tried for treason and executed in 1645 by the Puritan parliament during the English Civil War.

In November 1635 he had been nominated by Laud to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, where, says Wood ( Athen.

This suspicion seems to have arisen chiefly from his intimacy with Christopher Davenport, better known as Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen Henrietta ; but it may have been strengthened by his known connection with Laud, as well as by his ascetic habits.

So far as the reaction was not directed against militarism, it was directed against the introduction into the political world of what appeared to be too high a standard of morality, a reaction which struck specially upon Puritanism, but which would have struck with as much force upon any other form of religion which, like that upheld by Laud, called in the power of the State to enforce its claims.

In 1637 aged only 11 he became a student at Christ Church, and in 1640 because of his " known desert ", he was specially allowed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, to proceed to his degree of B. A.

Following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, his son King Charles I, with the assistance of Archbishop Laud sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland.

Charles further allied himself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

The incident set an important precedent in terms of the apparent authority of Parliament to safeguard the nation's interests and its capacity to launch legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the Earl of Strafford and Charles I.

* 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.

* 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1573 )

* Archbishop William Laud imprisoned 26 February 1641

* 1573 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1645 )

The Star Chamber became notorious for judgements favourable to the king and to Archbishop Laud.

Wren was a firm supported of Archbishop William Laud, and under Wren the college became known as a centre of Arminianism.

* October 7 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1645 )

* January 10 – Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud is executed for treason on Tower Hill, London.

* January 10 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1573 )

Oxford's Chancellor, Archbishop William Laud consolidated the legal status of the university's printing in the 1630s.

In 1633, Ussher wrote to the new Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, in an effort to gain support for the imposition of recusancy fines on Irish Catholics.

In 1633, Ussher had supported the appointment of Archbishop Laud as Chancellor of Trinity.

For example, William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of King Charles I of England:

Archbishop William Laud delighted in Wentworth's attacks on Boyle and wrote: " No physic better than a vomit if it be given in time, and therefore you have taken a very judicious course to administer one so early to my Lord of Cork.

" The notion that ' sacrifice is made equally to God and Apollo ', in the same place where homage was due to God and God alone, was as repugnant to Fell and his colleagues as it had been to Laud "; with this in mind they approached the current Archbishop of Canterbury Gilbert Sheldon, for his blessing, his assistance, and a donation.

Scudamore was a friend of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, who is believed to have influenced the re-design and rebuilding of the church, for its use as a parish church.

Fellows and alumni have included Archbishop William Laud, Jane Austen's father and brothers, the early Fabian intellectual Sidney Ball, who was very influential in the creation of the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ), Rushanara Ali, Labour Politician and one of the first Bangladeshis to gain a PPE degree at St John's College and more recently, Tony Blair, former prime minister of the United Kingdom.

William Laud, President of St John's 1611 – 21 and Archbishop of Canterbury was reburied under the Chapel altar in 1663.

* William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

Trevor-Roper's first book was a 1940 biography of Archbishop William Laud, in which he challenged many of the prevailing perceptions surrounding Laud.

As a barrister, Hale represented a variety of Royalist figures during the prelude and duration of the English Civil War, including Thomas Wentworth and William Laud ; it has been hypothesised that Hale was to represent Charles I at his state trial, and conceived the defence Charles used.