Historical dream account · English · original diary entry
The house I could not find again
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. 228
Dreamer identified by the source: William Laud
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Saturday, Christmas-eve, That night I dreamed I went to seek M. St., and found him with his mother sitting in the room. It was a fair chamber. He went away, and I went after, but missed him; and after tired myself extremely; but neither could I find him, nor so much as the house again.
24 December, printed year 1636; the date follows the original page.
Source & context
A complete personal dream of following M. St. and then being unable to find either him or his house. The printed date is December 24, 1636; the OCR’s 21 is not retained as though authored. The original odd phrase and after tired myself remains unmodernized. No precise address or identity behind the initials is inferred.
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. 228. Original-edition witness: Internet Archive. Printed dates and author qualifications retained; descriptive title and navigation themes added by Synastry.
24 December, printed year 1636; the date follows the original page.
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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. 228
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Scan seek corrects OCR seel;, capital I corrects OCR1; punctuation spacing and physical whitespace only. Printed date24 is metadata only and does not alter dream prose.
- Account text SHA-256
- c01401f6ce3051d1997b1472f8ef4629df35827efe732cf490b110f13ffd7fb4
- Source file SHA-256
- 2b79f0ad06e290968e4bb704ac009b691b559d49c65903fb7b2b77296f17909c
Content notes
- Historical recollection
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