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The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635-1642 (Hardcover)
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The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635-1642 (Hardcover)
Series: Church of England Record Society
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Contributes to a better understanding not only of ecclesiastical
power and politics but of life in an elite household in
seventeenth-century Britain The Lambeth and Croydon Palace accounts
for William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, represent the only
extant record of the archiepiscopal household during his tenure in
office. Spanning the period from December 1635 to January 1642,
they offer a unique prism through which to view the highs and the
lows of Laud's controversial career. They provide a wealth of new
insights into his formal role, his private life and his personal
habits, while at the same time casting new light on his
associations with men and women from across the social hierarchy,
including courtiers, privy councillors, merchants, MPs and, of
course, the king. Yet the document itself, lost between 1642 and
1912 andnow housed in the National Archives, Kew, has almost
entirely escaped the attention of modern scholars. This important
manuscript is edited and analysed here in full for the first time.
A lengthy introduction provides an overview of the ways in which
the document brings to life both the household and its head,
demonstrating how the household responded to its immediate social
environment and the wider political context; interrogating the
gifts and their givers to identify networks of people in social,
political and religious terms; and, more generally, teasing out the
relationship between material objects and political power. This is
followed by a complete text of the manuscript, with contextual
footnotes. Thus, the volume contributes to a deeper understanding
not only of ecclesiastical power and politics, but of life in an
elite household in seventeenth-century Britain. LEONIE JAMESis
Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury and
author of 'This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland,
1617-1645 (Boydell Press, 2017).
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