Trial of William Laud
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Trial of William Laud
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The trial of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, took place in stages in the first half of the 1640s, and resulted in his execution on treason charges. At first an impeachment, the parliamentary legal proceedings became an act of attainder. Arrested in late 1640, Laud was held initially for tactical reasons in the struggle between Charles I of England and the English parliament. When charges were actually brought, their main thrust was that Laud had run an ecclesiastical state within a state
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1640s treason trial in the House of Lords
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_William_Laud
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2023-04-08T03:30:22Z
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