. With Milton and the cavaliers . mself—Laud was devotedly loved to enrich and beautify its walls with thebooks and pictures he collected ; and one of the fewprivate wishes he uttered, at the end of his three-score years and twelve of troubled pilgrimage, wasthat his body might rest beneath the altar of thecollege chapel. And this came to pass after theRestoration, when he was laid in his chosen resting-place, between the college founder and his friendBishop Juxon, who had died three weeks before. Lauds promotion in ecclesiastical circles wasas swift as it had been at Oxford ; he w
. With Milton and the cavaliers . mself—Laud was devotedly loved to enrich and beautify its walls with thebooks and pictures he collected ; and one of the fewprivate wishes he uttered, at the end of his three-score years and twelve of troubled pilgrimage, wasthat his body might rest beneath the altar of thecollege chapel. And this came to pass after theRestoration, when he was laid in his chosen resting-place, between the college founder and his friendBishop Juxon, who had died three weeks before. Lauds promotion in ecclesiastical circles wasas swift as it had been at Oxford ; he was madeBishop of St. Davids in 1621, soon after trans-ferred to the See of Bath and Wells, and in 1628he accepted the still more important appointmentof the Bishopric of London. Though a lonely man, of no family ties, and fewstrong personal friends. Laud was the friend of thetwo great Royal favourites, Buckingham and Straf-ford ; his views, and his system of government, wereone with Wentworths, and they worked and From a carbon print by Braun. USnent &■ Co., Dornach (Alsace), Paris & NcTv yorlt. Archbishop Laud. Ft-om Ian Dycks original in the Hermitage Gallery^ St. Petersburg. LAUD AND JUXON 153 He and Strafford strove loyally for the King andthe Church, but the very strong points of Laudscharacter made him one of the worst advisersCharles could have had : his outlook was notbroader than the Kings own, and though he lackedthe insincerity that was Charles ruin, he had atenacity in carrying out his purposes, and a totalinability to feel the mind of the people or the trendof public opinion, which intensified the weaker sidein the Kings nature, and so tended to engulf himalways deeper in the sea of errors and misfortunes. Charles honoured Laud from the beginning ofhis reign ; he chose him to preach the special ser-mon at the opening of his first Parliament, whenLaud took as his text the words sadly inapplicableto the reign which was beginning, When I shallreceiv
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