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  • Disapproving of the Laudian reforms at the cathedral, which involved fencing off the communion table and turning it into an altar, she defaced the hangings by pouring hot tar over them, sat on the bishops throne and declared herself Primate and Metropolitan Bishop.59 This led to her committal to Bethlem on 17 December 1636, where she was placed, not in a cell, but in the household of the steward, Mr Langley.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Disapproving of the Laudian reforms at the cathedral, which involved fencing off the communion table and turning it into an altar, she defaced the hangings by pouring hot tar over them, sat on the bishops throne and declared herself Primate and Metropolitan Bishop.59 This led to her committal to Bethlem on 17 December 1636, where she was placed, not in a cell, but in the household of the steward, Mr Langley.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • He reminds me more and more of Charles I and his ill-fated Laudian 'reforms'.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Disapproving of the Laudian reforms at the cathedral, which involved fencing off the communion table and turning it into an altar, she defaced the hangings by pouring hot tar over them, sat on the bishops throne and declared herself Primate and Metropolitan Bishop.59 This led to her committal to Bethlem on 17 December 1636, where she was placed, not in a cell, but in the household of the steward, Mr Langley.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • This story first became known to Western scholarship in 1663, when Edward Pococke, the Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford, published an edition of the Arabic text, with Latin translation, of part of the History of the Dynasties of the Syrian-Christian author Barhebraeus, otherwise known as Ibn al-'Ibri.

    The Vanished Library Lewis, Bernard 1990

  • Laud declined to take action against the doctor, although on a major issue of the Laudian program Prideaux was flagrantly guilty.

    Great Tew: An Exchange Ollard, Richard 1988

  • For good measure, Mr. Adams adds that Chillingworth's book is "flashy" and superficial and its author little more than a Laudian hack, "an agent of Archbishop Laud, … an accomplice of the persecutor… continuously, consistently active as spy, propagandist, informer, and intriguer," a "backstairs" royalist manipulated by the Catholic queen.

    Great Tew: An Exchange Ollard, Richard 1988

  • Thus, we are told, he was "flagrantly guilty" on "a major issue of the Laudian program"; for Laud was "actively engaged in a wide-ranging campaign against pluralism in the Church."

    Great Tew, Continued Trevor-Roper, Hugh 1988

  • To argue from all this that Chillingworth was really a double agent working for the archbishop and that therefore the Great Tew circle was a crypto-Laudian cell, not a stronghold of liberal, Erasmian Christian humanism, seems extravagant.

    Great Tew: An Exchange Ollard, Richard 1988

  • I did not say Chillingworth's book was superficial, I did not say its author was little more than a Laudian hack, I did not say or imply that the philosophy of Great Tew was identical with Laudianism.

    Great Tew: An Exchange Ollard, Richard 1988

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