William Laud: References & Edit History

H.R. Trevor-Roper, Archbishop Laud, 1573–1645, 2nd ed. (1962); W.M. Lamont, Godly Rule, ch. 3 (1969), stressing Laud’s idea of the “Elect Church”; Christopher Hill, Economic Problems of the Church, from Archbishop Whitgift to the Long Parliament, pt. 3 (1956), on Laud’s large but unsuccessful schemes for restoring the church’s economy; J.W. Allen, English Political Thought, 1603–1644, vol. 1, pt. 2 (1938, reprinted 1967), showing the vagueness of his political ideas; E.C.E. Bourne, The Anglicanism of William Laud (1947), an uncompromisingly favourable clerical view.