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A56135	A breviate of the life of VVilliam Laud, Arch-bishop of Canterbury extracted (for the most part) verbatim, out of his owne diary, and other writings, under his owne hand : collected and published at the speciall instance of sundry honourable persons, as a necessary prologue to the history of his tryall, for which the criminall part of his life, is specially reserved / by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier [sic].	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3904; ESTC R19543	54,825	42

received a Command that I should repaire to the Reverend Bishop of Winchester and that I should demand what he would have done in the Cause of the Church and that I should bring backe his Answer especially in the 5. Articles c. Aprill 10. being Sunday after the Sermon ended I went to the Bishop who was at his Chamber at White-Hall I related what things I had received in Command He gave mee an Answer Aprill 13. I related to the Duke of Buckingham what the Bishop of Winchester answered At the same time he certified me what the King had resolved concerning the Bishop of Durham Clerke of the Chappell to the King and concerning a successor Aprill 17. Easter day the Bishop of Durham being sicke I was by the said Bishops Petition to the illustrious Earle of Psmbrooke Lord Chamberlain assigned to serve the Kings Majestie in the place of the Clarke of the Closet which Office I performed till the first of May Aprill 23. Burton delivered a writing to the King An. 1625. May 11.19.29 I writ Letters to the Duke of Buckingham into France May 30. I went to Chelsey to the Dutches of Buckingham June 5. I received Letters from the Duke of Buckingham out of France I answered them the next morning June 12. Queene Mary passing the Seas arrived on our shore about seaven of the Clocke in the afternoone GOD grant shee may bee an Evening and happie Starre to our world June 25. All the Bishops which were then present were brought in to kisse the Queenes hand Shee received Us with highest savour July 3. King James appeared to me in Dreames I saw him only swiftly passing by Hee was of a cheerfull and serene countenance In the passage he saw mee beckned to me smiled and suddainly was withdrawne out of my sight Iuly 7. 1625. Richard Mountague was brought into the lower House of Parliament c. July 9. Saturday it pleased most Excellent King Charles to intimate to that House that those things which were there spoken and determined concerning Mountague without his Privitie did not please him Iuly 11. The Parliament was translated to Oxford by reason of the plague Iuly 13. I went into the Countrie to the House of my most deare Friend Francis Windebanke As I was traveling thither Richard Mountague casually met me I was the first who certified him of the Kings favour towards him Iuly 31. I fell I knew not how in the Parlour at Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford and hurt my left Shoulder and Huckle-bone August 21. I staied at Brecon in Wales that night in a Dreame the Duke of Buckingham seemed to me to ascend into my bed where he carried himselfe with much love towards mee after such rest wherein wearied men are wont exceedingly to rejoyce And likewise many seemed to mee to enter the Chamber who did see this Not many dayes before I seemed to see the Dutches of Buckingham that Excellent Lady in a Dream at first she was much perplexed about her Husband but afterwards merry and rejoycing that she was freed from the feare of abortion that in due time she might be a mother again Aug. 24. My Coach was twice overturned the first time I was in it the later it was emptie Decemb. 4. I was very much troubled by Dreames The Duke of Buckingham his servants and family wholly tooke mee up All things were not well ordered The Dutchesse being ill calls out her maids and goeth to bed Det Deus meliora Septem. 11. I dreamed that Dr. Theodore Price admonished me concerning Ma and that he was unfaithfull towards me and revealed all things which he knew and that I should beware of him and no more c. Afterwards I dreamed of Sacke Croe that he was dead of the Plague when as he had not been long with the King Septem. 26. I Dreamed of the marriage of I knew not whom at Oxford all present flourished with greene garments I knew none but Thomas Flaxney presently after without any wakening that I know of I saw the Bishop of Worcester having his head covered with linnen clothes He friendly perswaded me that I would dwell with them at the place where the Marches of Wales was then kept but not expecting my answer himselfe answered that hee knew I could not live so meanely Nov. 17. Charles the Duke of Buckinghams sonne writes hee was borne whom God blesse with all the good things of Heaven and earth Janu. 4. and 23. I met to consult of the Ceremonies of the Kings Coronation And in January hee compiled the booke for the Kings Coronation wherein hee altered the Coronation Oath executed the Office of the Deane of Westminster at the Coronation instead of Dr. Williams then Deane of Westminster Bishop of Lincolne and Lord Keeper of the Great Seale whom the King would not admit to be present at the Ceremonies of his Coronation Ianu. 29. I understood what the Duke of Buckingham collected King Charles had determined with himselfe concerning the Cause Booke and opinions of Richard Mountague I seeme to see a Cloud arising and threatning the Church of England God for his mercy dissipate it Febr. 6. I preached before the King and Nobles at the beginning of the Parliament Feb. 11. 17. There was a Conference at the Duke of Buckinghams in the presence of many Noble men about Mountagues Appeale and his Popish and Arminian Tenents therein broached Bishop Morton and Doctor Preston opposing them and he with Doctor White defending them Febr. 21. The Duke of Buckingham writes he sent for me to come to him then hee gave mee in command that c. Febr. 21. I sought the Duke at Chelsey There I first saw his late borne heire CHARLES but not finding the Duke I returned home where I found his servant seeking me I hastened with him and found him in the Court I related what I had done Feb. 14. I was with the Duke at his House almost three houres where with his owne hand c. He commanded me that I should adde some thing I obeyed his command and brought it the next day March 1. Being Saint Davids day there began a clamour in the lower House of Parliament against the Duke of Bukingham by name for staying a Ship called the St. Peter of Newhaven after sentence pronounced from that day there were perpetuall agitations in that House March 11. Docter Turner a Physition propounded in the House seaven questions commonly called Queres against the Duke of Buckingham yet grounded on no other foundation then what hee received as hee said from publike fame An. 1626. March 26. Sunday the Duke of Buckingham sent mee to the King there I acquainted the King with 2. busines which c. The most Gratious King gave me thankes March 29. King Charles made a speech to both Houses of Parliament both by himselfe and by the most Honourable Lord Keeper of the Great Seale in the Palace of White-Hall He reproved the Lower House for many

tamen haud multum fido August 19. Friday I was in great hazard of breaking my right Legge August 19. Munday King Charles and Queene Mary entered Oxford being to be there entertained by me as Chauncellor of the Vniversity August 30. on Tuesday I entertained them at Saint Iohns Colledge It was Saint Felix his day and all passed happily Charles Prince Elector Palatin and his Brother Prince Rupertus was there these two were presented in Convocation and with other Nobles were made Masters of Arts Wednesday August 31. they left Oxford and I returned home-wards the day after having first entertaind all the heads of Houses together October 14. Friday night I dreamed marvelously that the King was offended with me and would cast me off and tell me no cause why Avertat Deus for cause I have given none November 20. Sunday night my fearefull dreame Master Cob brought me word c. December 24. Saturday night Christmas Eve that night I dreamed I went to se●●e M. St. and found him with his Mother sitting in the roome it was a faire Chamber he went away and I went after but missed him and after tyred my selfe extreamly but neither could I find him nor so much as the house againe March 30. 1637. Thursday I Christened the Lady Princesse Anne King Charles his second Daughter shee was borne on Friday March 17 Iune 10. my book of Records in the Tower which concerned the Clergy and which I caused to be collected and written in Vellam was brought me finished T is ab A. 20. Ed. 1. ad An. 14. Ed. 4. Iune 14. This day Io. Bastwicke Doctor of Physicke Henry Burton Batchellor of Divinity and William Prynne Barrester at Law Were censured for their libells against the Hierarchy of the Church Iune 26. The speech J then spake in the Starre Chamber was commanded by the King to be Printed And it came out Iune 25. Iune 26. This day Munday the Prince Elector and his brother Prince Rupert began their Journey towards the Sea side to returne for Holland Iune 30. Friday The above named three Libellers lost their Eares Iuly 7. Friday a note was brought to me of a short Libell pasted on the Crosse in Cheapside That the Arch-bishop of Canterbury had his hand in persecuting the Saints and shedding the blood of the Martyrs Memento for the last of Iune Tuesday July 11. Doctor Williams L. Bishop of Lincolne was Censured in the Star-Chamber for tampering and corrupting of witnesses in the Kings cause Iuly 24. being Munday he was suspended by the High Commission c. August 3. Thursday I married Iames Duke of Lennox to the Lady Mary Villars sole Daughter to the Lord Duke of Buckingham the Mariage was in my Chappell at Lambeth the day raynie the King present August 23. Wednesday my Lord Major sent me a Libell found by the watch at the South-Gate of Paules That the Devill had left that house to me c. Aug. 25. Friday another Libell brought to me by an Officer of the High Commission fastned to the Northgate of Saint Pauls That the Government of the Church of England is a Candle in the snuffe going out in a stench The same day at night my Lord Major sent me another Libell hanged upon the Standard in Cheapside My Speech in the Starr-Chamber set in a kinde of Pillery c. Tuesday Aug. 29. Another short Libell against me in verse Sunday Oct. 22. A great noise about the perverting of the Lady New-port Speech of it at the Councell my free speech there to the King concerning the increasing of the Roman partie the freedom of Denmarke House the cariage of Mr. Walter Mountague and Sir Toby Mathew The Queene acquainted with all I said the very night and highly displeased with me and so continues Decem. 12. Tuesday I had speech with the Queene a good space and all about the businesse of Master Mountague but we parted faire Aprill 29. 1638. The tumults in Scotland about the service-Service-Booke offerd to bee brought in began July 23. 1637. And continued increasing by fitts and hath now brought that Kingdome in danger No question but there is a great concurrence between them and the Puritan partie in England a great ayme there to destroy mee in the Kings opinion c. May 26. Saturday James Lord Marquis Hamilton set forth as the Kings Commissioner to appease the tumults in Scotland God prosper him for God and the King June My visitation then began of Merton Colledge in Oxford by my visitors was adjourned to my own hearing against and upon Oct. 2. Oct. 2.3 4. I sate upon this busines these 3. dayes and adjourned it to July 1. Inter horas primam tertiam Lambeth The Warden appeared very soule Oct. 19. News was brought to us as we sate in the Star-Chamber that the Queen-Mother of France was landed at Harwitch Many and great apprehentions upon this busines Oct. 31. The Queen-Mother came into London and so to St. Jamses Nov. 13. The agreement between me and A.S. c. November 21. Wednesday the Generall Assembly in Scotland began to sit November 29. Thursday the Proclamation issued out for dissolving of the great Assembly in Scotland under paine of Treason Decemb. 20. They sate notwithstanding and made many strange Acts till December 20. which was Thursday And then they rose But have indicted another Assembly against July next Feb. 10. My booke against Fisher the Jesuite was printed and this day being Sunday I delivered a Coppy to His Majestie Tuesday Feb. 12. That night I Dreamed that K. C. was to bee married to a ministers Widdow And that I was called upon to do it no Service-Booke could bee found and in my owne booke which I had I could not finde the Order for Marriage Wednesday Coronation day March 27. 1639. King Charles tooke his journey Northward against the Scottish Covenanting Rebells God of his infinite mercy blesse him with health and successe Aprill 3. Wensday Before the Kings going I setled with him a great businesse for the Queene which I understood she would never move for her selfe The Queene gave me great thankes And this day I waited purposely on her to give her thankes for her Gratious acceptance she was pleased to be very free with me and to promise mee freedome Aprill 29. Munday This day the King went from Yorke towards New-Castle but stayes at Durham for a weeke at least May 28. His Majesty incamped two myles West from Barwick by Tweade June 4. Whitsun-Tuesday as I was going to doe my duty to the Queene an Officer of the Lord Majors met me and delivered mee two very seditious papers the one to the Lord Major and Aldermen The other to excite the Apprentices c. both subscribed by John Lilburne a prisoner in the Fleete sentensed in the Starre-Chamber c. June 5. Wednesday I delivered both these to the Lords of the Councell Saturday June 15. Munday June 17. The Peace concluded