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William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

Also known as: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury; primary name: Laud, William
Details: individual; British; Male
Life dates: 1573-1645
Biography: 1611, chaplain to James I, and in the same year president of St John's College, Oxford. 1628, Bishop of London; 1629, chancellor of Oxford University; 1633, Archbishop of Canterbury. Suppressed puritan practices and reintroduced what were seen as popish ceremonies to the church in England. His attempts to impose Anglican forms of worship in Scotland provoked the "Bishops' Wars" in 1639. Imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1640; beheaded 1645.

100 related objects

die

Museum number: HARR.42 |
Producer name: BIOG114500 Engraved by:John Roettier |
Production date: 1645 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)

die

Museum number: HARR.40 |
Producer name: BIOG114500 Engraved by:John Roettier |
Production date: 1645 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: 1900,0824.508 |
Producer name: BIOG22246 Drawn by:George Cattermole |
Production date: 1800-1868

medal

Museum number: BNK,EngM.66 |
Producer name: BIOG114500 Made by:John Roettier |
Production date: 1660-1685 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: G3,FD.200 |
Producer name: BIOG114500 Made by:John Roettier |
Production date: 1660-1685 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.7187 |
Production date: 1645 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

print

Title: The Trial of Archbishop Laud, 1644 |
Museum number: 1919,0121.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Henry EgletonAfter:Alexander Johnston |
Production date: 1833-1860

print

Museum number: P,3.12 |
Producer name: BIOG49682 Print made by:George Vertue |
Production date: 1710s-1756

print

Title: William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... |
Museum number: P,3.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1641

print

Title: Effigies D. Wilhelmi Laudi Archiespiscopi Cantauariensis totius Angliæ |
Museum number: 1848,0911.470 |
Producer name: Published by:Claes Jansz. VisscherAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1642-1645

print

Title: The Earl of Strafford going to execution |
Museum number: 1998,U.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:John RogersAfter:Paul Delaroche |
Production date: 1830

print

Title: The Parallel |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3584 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1736

print

Title: Wilhelmus Laud, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis |
Museum number: P,3.4 |
Producer name: Published by:David LogganAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1684

print

Title: William Laud Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... |
Museum number: P,3.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert WhiteAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1684-1700

print; satirical print

Title: Portrait of Archbishop Laud and Mr. Henry Burton |
Museum number: 1861,1214.427 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1645

print

Title: William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.1737 |
Producer name: BIOG52265 After:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1737

print

Title: Gulielmus Laud |
Museum number: 1838,0420.126 |
Producer name: Print made by:David LogganAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1633-1645

print; fan

Museum number: 1891,0713.372 |
Producer name: BIOG49682 After:George Vertue |
Production date: 1733-1760

print; almanac

Title: The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God M The Oxford Almanac |
Museum number: 1854,0614.9 |
Producer name: BIOG49682 Print made by:George Vertue |
Production date: 1731

print

Title: AB.p Laud. |
Museum number: 1900,1231.38 |
Producer name: BIOG48855 Print made by:William Tringham |
Production date: 1740s-1770

print; book-illustration

Title: Laud & Strafford |
Museum number: 1892,0714.518 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel BullAfter:George Cattermole |
Production date: 1841

print

Title: William Laud Archbi[s]hop of Canterbury |
Museum number: 1870,0514.290 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard GaywoodAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1662

print; book-illustration

Title: Laud & Strafford |
Museum number: 1889,0724.49 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel BullAfter:George Cattermole |
Production date: 1841

print

Museum number: 1981,U.3025 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1660-1699

print

Title: Effigies D. Wilhelmi Laudi Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis Totius Angliae Primatis |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1900 |
Producer name: BIOG47822 Print made by:John Swaine |
Production date: 1800s-1860

print

Museum number: 1920,1211.831 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: early 19th century

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1867,0309.890 |
Producer name: BIOG221338 Print made by:Rawlins |
Production date: late 19thC

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1917,1208.3468 |
Producer name: BIOG52265 After:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1641

print; satirical print

Museum number: Q,6.27 |
Producer name: BIOG31869 Print made by:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1640

print

Title: William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... |
Museum number: Kk,5.1.230 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1641

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1870,0514.2631 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry Thomas RyallAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1821-1834

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud |
Museum number: 1872,1012.1697 |
Producer name: After:Anthony van DyckPublished by:Abraham Andriesz |
Production date: 1661 |
Production place: Published in:Dordrecht

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: K,67.81 |
Producer name: BIOG148426 Published by:John Hinton |
Production date: 1747-1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: John Bull's picture gallery. No. 4. Tories' chaunt. |
Museum number: 1951,0411.4.100 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Jameson GrantPublished by:W Chubb |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Laud |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3503 |
Producer name: Print made by:François StuerheltPublished by:Arent Pietersen |
Production date: 1645

print

Title: William Loud Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: 1856,0607.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1641 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: Des Bisschops van Cantelberghs Morgenwecker... |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3357 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1645

print; book of prints

Museum number: 1920,0604.53.1-21 |
Producer name: Published by:Laurie & WhittlePrint made by:Thomas Kitchin |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: Ll,6.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1850,1109.167 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1640 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: P,3.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1641 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud |
Museum number: 1874,0613.2260 |
Producer name: After:Anthony van DyckPublished by:Abraham Andriesz |
Production date: 1661 |
Production place: Published in:Dordrecht

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: 1856,0614.191 |
Producer name: BIOG223689 Print made by:John Fougeron |
Production date: 1750-1768

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6455 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: 1950,0520.368 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Loyalists |
Museum number: 1876,0708.121 |
Producer name: Print made by:George VertueAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1731 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; broadside

Museum number: 1893,0731.25 |
Producer name: BIOG31869 Print made by:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1640

print

Title: Guillaume Archevesque de Cantorbery et Primat Damg Portraits after Van Dyck published by Moncornet |
Museum number: 1868,0822.2419 |
Producer name: After:Anthony van DyckAfter:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1645-1668

print

Title: Lord Strafford |
Museum number: 1868,0822.964 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis Pierre Henriquel-DupontAfter:Paul Delaroche |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud |
Museum number: P,3.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:George VertueAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1709-1713

print

Title: William Arch-B: of Canterbury Primate of all England etc. |
Museum number: 1843,0513.110 |
Producer name: Print made by:William FaithorneAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1640-1645

print

Title: Wilhelmus Laud, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis |
Museum number: 1948,0315.8.88 |
Producer name: Published by:David LogganAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1684

print

Title: William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: 1865,0311.43 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1633-1645

print

Title: William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury 100 Portraits of Illustrious Characters |
Museum number: 2010,7081.2955 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert DunkartonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1813

print

Museum number: Q,6.20 |
Producer name: BIOG31869 Print made by:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1644

print; satirical print

Title: The Sound-Head, Rattle-Head, and Round-Head |
Museum number: 1848,0911.443 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1642

print

Title: William Laud, Archb.p of Canterbury |
Museum number: 1929,0208.4 |
Producer name: BIOG23202 Print made by:Benjamin Cole |
Production date: 1730s-1783

print

Title: William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury 100 Portraits of Illustrious Characters |
Museum number: 2010,7081.2954 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert DunkartonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1813

print

Title: Laud. |
Museum number: 1874,0411.15 |
Producer name: BIOG42693 Print made by:Thomas Abiel Prior |
Production date: 1839-1886

print

Title: William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: G,12.81 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1633-1645

print

Title: Effigies D. Wilhelmi Laudi Archiespiscopi Cantauariensis totius Angliæ |
Museum number: 1861,1214.428 |
Producer name: Published by:Claes Jansz. VisscherAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1642-1645

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud |
Museum number: P,3.9 |
Producer name: BIOG52265 After:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1649

print; satirical print

Title: Gull: Quondam Arch: Cant: |
Museum number: P,3.3 |
Producer name: BIOG37366 Print made by:William Marshall |
Production date: 1641

print

Title: The Earl of Strafford, on his way to execution |
Museum number: 1855,1208.284 |
Producer name: Print made by:Vizetelly & CoAfter:Paul Delaroche |
Production date: 1835-1855

print; frontispiece

Museum number: Ee,2.27 |
Producer name: BIOG31869 Print made by:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1644

print; frontispiece

Museum number: P,3.113 |
Producer name: Print made by:Michael BurghersAfter:Cornelius Johnson |
Production date: 1674

print

Title: Gulielmus Laud Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Martyr |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3113 |
Producer name: Published by:David LogganAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1680-1690

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1856,0112.377 |
Producer name: BIOG37366 Print made by:William Marshall |
Production date: 1641

print

Title: William Laud Archbishop of / Canterbury, Primate of all / England, etc |
Museum number: P,3.13 |
Producer name: BIOG31869 Print made by:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1636-1644

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud |
Museum number: 1874,0613.1429 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Salomon SaveryAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1649

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: P,3.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: P,3.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... |
Museum number: Ee,2.102 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1641

print; broadside

Title: Magna Britannia Divisa |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3355.1-4 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Pieter RodermondtFormerly attributed to:Dirk Stoop |
Production date: 1642

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: G,1.178 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Tories Chaunt John Bull's Picture Gallery |
Museum number: 1948,0202.1.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPrinted by:W Chubb |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Museum number: Y,1.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:William MarshallPublished by:John and Richard Marriott |
Production date: 1645 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Lord Strafford |
Museum number: 1863,0110.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Sidwell SandersAfter:Paul Delaroche |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: The World is Ruled & Governed by Opinion |
Museum number: 1850,0223.244 |
Producer name: BIOG31869 Print made by:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1642 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page

Museum number: P,3.10 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1643

print

Title: William Laud |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3779 |
Producer name: After:Anthony van DyckPublished by:Thomas Taylor |
Production date: 1710s-1720s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1868,0808.3232 |
Producer name: Print made by:William MarshallPublished by:John and Richard Marriott |
Production date: 1645 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: 1868,0822.4806 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1853,0112.1453 |
Producer name: Print made by:Michael van der GuchtPublished by:Rivington |
Production date: 1690s-1725 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The Times. Pl.2 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4409 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1768

print; satirical print; fan

Title: An Historical Emblematical Fan in Honour of the Church of England, and of Such her Pious Genuine Son |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3449 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1711

print

Title: William Laud Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis |
Museum number: P,3.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1640 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: 1915,0508.160 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry Thomas RyallAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1838-1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:New York (city)

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: 1920,1211.830 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: Warhafftiger verlauff vnd abbildung, von Wilhelm Laud... |
Museum number: 1875,0710.1533 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1645

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: Englands miraculous preservation emblematically described, erected for a perpetuall monument to post |
Museum number: Y,1.17 |
Producer name: BIOG150277 Published by:John Hancock |
Production date: 1646 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Tories' Chaunt John Bull's Picture Gallery |
Museum number: 1868,0808.11256 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:W Chubb |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The Committee; or Popery in Masquerade |
Museum number: 1849,0315.82 |
Producer name: After:Sir Roger L'EstrangePrinted by:Mary Clark |
Production date: 1680 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The Times Past, Present, and to Come |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4359 |
Producer name: BIOG143144 Published by:John Almon |
Production date: 1765

print; book-illustration

Title: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury |
Museum number: Nn,d.57.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Archbishop Laud |
Museum number: 1948,0315.7.93 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... |
Museum number: 1867,1012.596 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenceslaus HollarAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1641 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Like Coachman, Like Cause: Or, An Emblem Of what we must expect, if Low Church gets uppermost. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3429 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1709-1710

puncheon

Museum number: HARR.41 |
Producer name: BIOG114500 Engraved by:John Roettier |
Production date: 1645 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)

puncheon

Museum number: HARR.43 |
Producer name: BIOG114500 Engraved by:John Roettier |
Production date: 1645 |
Production place: Made in:London (England)

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