D.H. Pennington
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Fellow and Tutor in History, Balliol College, Oxford, 1965β82; former Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford. Author of Seventeenth Century Europe.
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William Laud was the archbishop of Canterbury (1633β45) and religious adviser to King Charles I of Great Britain. His persecution of Puritans and other religious dissidents resulted in his trial and execution by the House of Commons. Laud was the son of a prominent clothier. From Reading Grammarβ¦
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