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Topic: Archbishop William Laud

	Laud, William - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		LAUD, WILLIAM [Laud, William] 1573-1645, archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45).
		Laud thought of the English church as a branch of the universal church, claimed apostolic succession for the bishops, and believed that the Anglican ritual should be strictly followed in all churches.
		In 1633, Laud became archbishop of Canterbury and continued on a larger scale his efforts to enforce High Church forms of worship.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Laud-Wil.asp (436 words)

	University of Oxford
		The comprehensive set of statutes, known as the Laudian Code, was drawn up by Archbishop William Laud in 1636 and ratified by Charles I.
		The University supported the king during the English Civil War, and was the site of his court and parliament, but eventually clashed with his second son, the Roman Catholic James II, who was later overthrown in the Revolution of 1688.
		The Glamour of Oxford (1911) is a collection of verse and prose edited by William Knight, and another anthology — Seccombe and Scott's In Praise of Oxford (1912) — spans two volumes.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/un/university_of_oxford.html (2911 words)

	Movers: Renaissance and Reformation (1400 - Mid 1600s) By Miles Hodges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Archbishop Laud attempted to rebuild the hierarchical church--working closely with royal authority to relocated power at England's traditional political center of monarchical and episcopalian (bishop) authority.
		Laud's efforts backfired and in 1640 he found himself arrested by Parliament and led off to the Tower of London--where he remained until his trial in 1644.
		With the crown's appointment of Cardinal Granvelle as ruler of the Netherlands Egmont (along with William, Prince of Orange and Filips van Montmorency, Duke of Horn) successfully petioned for Grenvelle's removal.
	www.newgenevacenter.org /movers/renaiss-reform2.htm (5673 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Reprisals against Sir John Eliot, one of the prime movers behind the Petition of Right, and the prosecution of William Prynne and John Hampden (who were fined after losing their case 7–5 for refusing to pay ship money, taking a stand against the legality of the tax) aroused widespread indignation.
		Laud was appointed by Charles as the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 and started a series of reforms in the Church to make it more ceremonial, starting with the replacement of the wooden communion tables with stone altars.
		In 1637 John Bastwick, Henry Burton and William Prynne had their ears cut off for writing pamphlets attacking Laud's views—a rare penalty for gentlemen to suffer, and one that aroused anger.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/English_Civil_War (5907 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West
		William Harrison (1534-1593): Description of Elizabethan England, 1577
		William Penn: A Letter to the King of Poland On behalf of the Friends of Dantzic, 1677 [At Delphi]
		William III of England: Address to Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701 [At LSU]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook1.html (3979 words)

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