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Laud and the Church of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

E. R. Adair
E. R. Adair
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McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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There are few more enigmatic figures in the history of the Church of England than Archbishop Laud. During his lifetime he was assailed by his opponents with almost every crime that their bitterness could suggest, while his friends spoke of him in terms of somewhat measured praise. Dead, to those who disagreed with him he still seemed the “Pope of Canterbury,” only a little less than Antichrist himself, while his followers, hailing him as a martyr to his faith, soon forgot all his qualities but those that seemed to typify the Church of England, by him restored to its proper glories.

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Church History , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1936 , pp. 121 - 140
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1936

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