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Excerpt from Life and Times of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
Sometimes embittered by the obstinate opposition which a resolute minority of the nation offered to his reforms in the administration of the Treasury and in the development of commerce, to his far reaching schemes for the improvement of educa tion, and, above all, to his efforts to make worship outwardly devout, and religious teaching liberal.
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