Historical dream account · English · original diary entry
The missing order of marriage
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. 231
Dreamer identified by the source: William Laud
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Tuesday night, I dreamed, that K. C. was to be married to a minister's widow; and that I was called upon to do it. No Service-Book could be found; and in my own book, which I had, I could not find the Order for Marriage.
12 February, printed Old Style year 1638 (1638/39); the original calendar is retained.
Source & context
Laud’s personal dream concerns a wedding and an unavailable service-book order, not a claim that this wedding occurred. The source initials K. C. remain. February 12 appears under Old Style 1638, distinguished as 1638/39, with no normalized modern date supplied.
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. 231. Original-edition witness: Internet Archive. Printed dates and author qualifications retained; descriptive title and navigation themes added by Synastry.
12 February, printed Old Style year 1638 (1638/39); 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.
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Diary, printed p. 231
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