LAUD, WILLIAM

(1573-1645); En g. abp.: d. at 0 xford; In 1611 ma do pres, of St. John’s Coll. there, an ean O | Gioucester, 1616, where he gave offense hy removing the communion table to the east end; bp. of St. David’s, 1621; and on acce ion of Charles I. did all in | his power to crush the Puritan party; chancellor of Oxford Univ., 1629,, | where he did much good work for learning and discipline; abp. of Canterbury; 1633; supported absolutism of Charles I, | in Church and State; impeached, 1640, and after being kept in prison executed. was a man with many good qualities, but narrow-minded and bent at all costs on maintaining outward uniformity (for pure theol. he cared not so much), Se Serhon to understand the temper of eC.