Index of Gardiner's History of England

Laud, William (Bishop of St. David, 1621; of Bath, and Wells, 1626; of London, 1628; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633),

• character and opinions of,
• is elected President of St. John's,
• opinions of,
• becomes Dean of Gloucester,
• alters the position of the communion-table at Gloucester,
• becomes Bishop of St. David's,
• refuses to be consecrated by Abbot,
• holds conferences with Fisher,
• is treated by Buckingham as a confessor,
• opinions of, on religious liberty,
• character of the religious movement in which he partakes,
• gains Charles's ear,
• draws up an O and P list,
• declares that Montague's opinions are not condemned by the Church,
• preaches at the opening of Charles's second Parliament,
• his devotion to Charles,
• reports in favour of Montague's book,
• helps Buckingham in his defence,
• view taken of the Royal authority by,
• political theories of,
• remonstrates against licensing Manwaring's sermons,
• preaches at the opening of the Parliament of 1628,
• becomes Bishop of London,
• advises the re-issue of the substance of the King's proclamation for the unity of the Church,
• comments on the resolutions of the Commons on the Articles,
• writes to Vossius on the intolerance of the Commons,
• his views on toleration, and on the beauty of holiness,
• his attention to dreams and omens,
• respects the Royal supremacy,
• his unpopularity in London,
• is appealed to on behalf of Cosin,
• forbids Dr. Brooke to publish a controversial book,
• is elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford,
• enforces discipline,
• is pleased at the birth of an heir to the Crown,
• baptizes Prince Charles,
• defends episcopacy in his speech against Leighton in the Star Chamber,
• becomes intimate with Wentworth,
• authority of, in Oxford and London,
• enforces bowing in church, and consecrates St. Catherine Cree,
• urges the collection of money for the repair of St. Paul's,
• encourages Page to write against Prynne, and enforces the King's declaration at Oxford,
• attempts to enforce conformity, but is not spiteful in doing so,
• his respect for legality,
• urges the punishment of Sir Giles Alington,
• is pleased at the arrest of a congregation of Separatists,
• votes for a heavy sentence in Sherfield's case,
• attacks the feoffees for impropriations,
• is consulted on the Prayer-book prepared by the Scottish bishops,
• thinks that the English Prayer-book ought to be introduced into Scotland,
• accompanies Charles to Edinburgh,
• preaches at Holyrood on conformity,
• tells Charles that he must not execute Balmerino,
• becomes Archbishop of Canterbury,
• offer of a cardinal's hat to,
• want of imaginative sympathy in the mind of,
• his conduct in the cases of Ludowick Bowyer and Lady Eleanor Davies,
• his harshness,
• is directed to restrict ordination,
• and to bring lecturers and chaplains to order,
• objects to power being given to laymen to appoint or dismiss ministers,
• his view on the Royal authority over the Church,
• takes an interest in the repairs at St. Paul's,
• makes changes in the chapel at Lambeth,
• speaks in favour of placing the communion-table at St. Gregory's at the east end,
• promotion of bishops favoured by,
• does not wish to interfere with foreign churches,
• wishes to bring to conformity English churches on the Continent,
• urges the use of the Prayer-book by the English regiments in the Dutch service,
• hears that a large number of Puritans are emigrating to New England,
• finds fault with Chief Justice Richardson, and makes inquiry as to the feeling in Somerset about the wakes,
• his speech at the sentence on Prynne for the Histriomastix,
• objects to depriving Prynne of pen and ink,
• is without female admirers,
• brings charges against Portland,
• informs Charles that Portland does not answer Wentworth's letters,
• becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
• advocates the policy of Thorough,
• his conversation with Hyde,
• conduct of, on the Treasury Commission,
• quarrels with Cottington about the soap monopoly,
• quarrels with Windebank,
• is energetic in looking for new sources of revenue,
• opposes the enclosure of Richmond Park,
• complains of the selfishness prevalent at Court,
• takes part in the Star Chamber against Bagg,
• his wish to make men equal before the law,
• claims the right of metropolitical visitation,
• sends Sir Nathaniel Brent as his Vicar-General,
• his superstitious reverence for legality,
• orders the removal of communion-tables to the east end,
• unsympathising nature of,
• brings his authority to bear on the foreign churches in England,
• treats rich and poor on an equality,
• is thought to wish to place England at the feet of the Pope,
• tells the King that if he wishes to go to Rome the Pope will not meet him,
• recovers influence with Charles,
• exults over the appointment of Juxon as Treasurer,
• holds aloof from Panzani,
• is not sure of the King,
• decision that the right of visiting the Universities belongs to,
• refuses to be reconciled to Windebank,
• Hyde expostulates with,
• his reception at Oxford,
• accompanies the King at Oxford,
• is an advocate of peace,
• shrinks from toleration,
• is placed on a commission for regulating the colonies,
• warns Wentworth of the danger of exciting enemies at Court,
• comments on the proposal to send the Elector Palatine to sea,
• is attacked by the unlicensed press,
• defends his conduct in a speech at the trial of Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton,
• his views on episcopal jurisdiction,
• complains that the prisoners are allowed to speak to the people from the pillory,
• libels against,
• wishes to execute the laws against the Catholics,
• urges Charles to allow proceedings to be taken against Walter Montague,
• proposes that the chapels of the Queen and of the ambassadors shall be closed against English Catholics,
• triumph of Henrietta Maria over,
• regrets Charles's determination to pardon Williams,
• helps Chillingworth to return to the Church of England,
• his views compared with those of Chillingworth,
• is supposed to have instigated Chillingworth to write The Religion of Protestants,
• his interview with Charles,
• insists on the full payment of tithes due to the City clergy,
• remarks on the deformation of the Scottish churches,
• takes part in the revision of the new Prayer-book and canons for Scotland,
• urges the King to insist on the adoption of the Prayer-book,
• Archie Armstrong flogged for railing at,
• blame of the troubles of Scotland thrown on,
• dislikes the Queen Mother's visit,
• publication of his Conference with Fisher,
• takes a despondent view of Scottish affairs,
• supports Wentworth's proposal to summon a Parliament,
• his report of the state of the Church in 1639,
• acknowledges that he cannot suppress the Separatists and Anabaptists in his own diocese,
• asks the Lords to adjourn on account of the sitting of Convocation,
• instigates Hall to publish his Episcopacy by Divine Rights
• says that it is lawful for the King to take the supply which the Commons have denied him,
• riots directed against,
• a party of lawyers drinks confusion to,
• Baillie's attack on,
• objects to the continuance of Convocation after the dissolution of Parliament,
• suspends Bishop Goodman,
• protests that Charles is far from Popery,
• is ordered to suspend the Etcetera Oath,
• wishes the Star Chamber to punish the mob which had broken into the High Commission Court,
• proposal to impeach,
• impeachment of,
• Articles voted against,
• is sent to the Tower,
• gives his last blessing to Strafford,
• is amused by a caricature of Williams,