Historical dream account · English · original text
My father asks what I am doing here
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. 234
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Friday, At night I dreamed, that my father (who died 46 years since) came to me; and, to my thinking, he was as well and as cheerful as ever I saw him. He asked me, what I did here? And after some speech, I asked him, how long he would stay with me? He answered, he would stay till he had me away with him. I am not moved with dreams; yet I thought fit to remember this.
January 24, printed source year 1639 (Old Style 1639/40); normalized date not supplied
Source & context
Laud's later diary entry is printed in his own English, not a translation by Wharton. Source date January 24 in printed Old Style year 1639, commonly distinguished as 1639/40. No modern date is assigned. His final caution, I am not moved with dreams; yet I thought fit to remember this, remains in the narrative. The account does not establish an apparition or fulfilled prediction.
William Laud (1573–1645), own 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 (1789–1857), Diary, printed p. 234. This later diary entry is Laud’s original English. Original-edition witness: Internet Archive. Printed dates and author qualifications retained; descriptive title and navigation themes added by Synastry.
January 24, printed source year 1639 (Old Style 1639/40); normalized date not supplied; exact modern date not assigned.
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Original 1853 edition of seventeenth-century diary text. The printed title page gives 1853 (not the archive series date 1847). IA metadata marks US status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. Publication predates 1931; author, old Latin-part translator Henry Wharton (1664–1695) and editor James Bliss (1789–1857) are long deceased. Underlying old published text has an expired-US-copyright basis; ordinary life-plus-70 terms have also elapsed. No new Creative Commons licence, modern translation rights or blanket worldwide clearance is asserted.
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Diary, printed p. 234
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