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... Laud's godson , reported this to Laud , who instituted a search , when further incriminating verses , abusing Bucking- ham and the King , were found . - This was no joke , after an assassination , and Gill received a severe sentence ...
... Laud's godson , reported this to Laud , who instituted a search , when further incriminating verses , abusing Bucking- ham and the King , were found . - This was no joke , after an assassination , and Gill received a severe sentence ...
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... Laud's demand for conformity . Laud's personality and policy have received utterly unsympathetic and uncomprehending treatment from the dominant Parliamentary and Whig tradi- tion in historical writing . We should do him justice . Laud ...
... Laud's demand for conformity . Laud's personality and policy have received utterly unsympathetic and uncomprehending treatment from the dominant Parliamentary and Whig tradi- tion in historical writing . We should do him justice . Laud ...
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... Laud among nobility and gentry : they could not bear that someone born so far beneath them should occupy power and place above them . One or two of them expressed precisely this attitude . For his part Laud was courageously determined ...
... Laud among nobility and gentry : they could not bear that someone born so far beneath them should occupy power and place above them . One or two of them expressed precisely this attitude . For his part Laud was courageously determined ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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