Historical dream account · English · original diary entry
The king gives no reason
William Laud (1573–1645)
The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, vol. III: Devotions, Diary, and History (1853) · Diary, printed p. 227
Dreamer identified by the source: William Laud
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Friday night, I dreamed marvellously, 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.
14 October, printed year 1636; the original calendar is retained.
Source & context
A personal dream of the king’s displeasure, followed by Laud’s appeal that God avert it and his assertion that he has given no cause. The original Latin appeal remains; the entry is not evidence that the king actually dismissed him. Source date October 14, 1636, without a modern calendar conversion.
William Laud (1573–1645), own original English diary, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, vol. III: Devotions, Diary, and History (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1853), edited by James Bliss, Diary, printed p. 227. Original-edition witness: Internet Archive. Printed dates and author qualifications retained; descriptive title and navigation themes added by Synastry.
14 October, printed year 1636; the original calendar is retained.
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Original English diary entry published in the 1853 edition of Laud’s seventeenth-century diary. The printed title page verifies 1853; Internet Archive metadata marks US NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. The underlying 1853 text has an expired-US-publication basis. Laud and the historic editor are long deceased, beyond ordinary life-plus-70 terms. No modern edition or translation is copied; no new licence or blanket worldwide clearance is asserted.
Source locator and text provenance
Diary, printed p. 227
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Remove spurious OCR apostrophe after off; scan has a period after Deus, not OCR comma. Physical whitespace only otherwise.
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