This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...have his turn served before the other. Laud settled the controversy by advising the king to take all to himself. "Many clergymen," he said, "had served as chaplains to the forces, and had ventured their lives at the Isle of Ehe, and some reward was due to them; here was an opportunity." The king acted in accordance ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...have his turn served before the other. Laud settled the controversy by advising the king to take all to himself. "Many clergymen," he said, "had served as chaplains to the forces, and had ventured their lives at the Isle of Ehe, and some reward was due to them; here was an opportunity." The king acted in accordance with the bishop's advice, and committed the said benefices to the disposal of Laud, Cottingham, and Coventry, acquiescing in an arrangement which saved them from considerable difficulty. The amount of work which Laud at this time accomplished, weak in health and feeble in body as he was, seems extraordinary. As Bishop of London, he had his Great work particular duties to perform, which in themselves were Bishop of onerous; but he had also to look after the affairs of the LondonChurch generally, for Archbishop Abbot, from age and infirmity, was incapacitated from work. As the adviser of the king, he had to consider the appointments to the bishoprics of which mention has been made, and he had also to prevent abuses or errors gaining ground, and taking root in the Church. He had an "eagle eye" in discerning such abuses or errors, and never lost time in redressing them. It is for this reason that he was accused Chap. of being hasty and hot-headed; but in his activity and XXM' readiness lay the secret of his power and influence, which LaudTM was so great that the puritans saw no other way of re1633-45. moving it but by his death. Th.e, Busied as he was with high matters of Church and error.ers State, he also had his eye on other less important affairs. The king's printers made a mistake in a new issue of Bibles, and omitted the important monosyllable "not" in the seventh commandment. Laud discovered this at once...
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