Historical dream account · English · original diary entry
A servant asks for a blessing
William Laud (1573–1645)
The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, vol. III: Devotions, Diary, and History (1853) · Diary, printed pp. 224–225
Dreamer identified by the source: William Laud
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Monday, This morning between four and five of the clock, lying at Hampton Court, I dreamed that I was going out in haste, and that when I came into my outer chamber, there was my servant, Wi. Pennell, in the same riding suit which he had on that day sevennight at Hampton Court with me. Methoughts I wondered to see him, (for I left him sick at home,) and asked him how he did, and what he made there. And that he answered me, he came to receive my blessing; and with that fell on his knees. That hereupon I laid my hand on his head, and prayed over him, and therewith awaked. When I was up, I told this to them of my chamber; and added, that I should find Pennell dead or dying. My coach came; and when I came home, I found him past sense, and giving up the ghost. So my prayers (as they had frequently before) commended him to God.
26 October, printed year 1635; the original calendar is retained.
Source & context
Laud records a dream at Hampton Court followed by his account of finding his already ill servant dying after returning home. The narrative retains the prior illness, awakening, prediction he says he made after waking, and reported waking aftermath. These are his historical recollections, not independent verification of an apparition or fulfilled prophecy. October 26 is printed under 1635, 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 pp. 224–225. Original-edition witness: Internet Archive. Printed dates and author qualifications retained; descriptive title and navigation themes added by Synastry.
26 October, printed year 1635; 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 pp. 224–225
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Remove unrelated editorial notes, running header and repeated marginal date/year. Scan Pennell corrects OCR Fennel I. Physical whitespace and punctuation spacing only otherwise.
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- Historical recollection
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