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The Further Correspondence of William Laud (Hardcover)
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The Further Correspondence of William Laud (Hardcover)
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The correspondence of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury from
1633 to 1645, provides revealing insights into his mind, methods
and activities, especially in the 1630s, as he sought to remodel
the church and the clerical estatein the three kingdoms. William
Laud, archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, is a central
figure in the history of seventeenth-century Britain. Laud's
correspondence provides revealing insights into his mind, methods
and activities, especially in the 1630s, as he sought to remodel
the church and the clerical estate in the three kingdoms. The
Further Correspondence of William Laud prints 223 letters, drawn
from thirty-eight libraries and archives, which were not included
in the nineteenth-century edition of his Works. It has real
importance for our perception of Laud and the early Stuart church,
greatly increasing the number of his letters for the 1620s and
providing significant new information, such as the three earliest
letters to his closest political ally, Thomas Wentworth, in 1630.
Other correspondents include politicians such as Sir John Coke and
Lord Keeper Coventry, the diplomat Sir William Boswell, numerous
heads of colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge, and churchmen such
as Bishops John Bridgeman of Chester and John Bramhall of Derry as
well as Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople. A lengthy
introduction assesses the waysin which these letters deepen our
knowledge, broaden our understanding and refine our views of Laud's
various roles, as chief ecclesiastical counsellor to Charles I,
court politician and administrator, chancellor of Oxford
University, and overseer of religious reformation in the kingdoms
of England, Scotland and Ireland. An appendix lists all of Laud's
correspondence in chronological order. Collectively, the letters
attest to his extraordinary energy andtireless commitment to reform
and point to the indelible impact that Laud made on his
contemporaries. KENNETH FINCHAM is Professor of Early Modern
History at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on
religion and politics in early modern Britain, including two
monographs, Prelate as Pastor: the Episcopate of James I (1990)
and, with Nicholas Tyacke, Altars Restored: the Changing Face of
English Religious Worship 1547-c.1700 (2007); edited two
collections of essays, The Early Stuart Church 1603-1642 (1993)
and, with Peter Lake, Religious Politics in post-Reformation
England (2006); and edited two volumes of Articles and Injunctions
of the Early Stuart Church (1994-8) for the Church of England
Record Society.
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