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NEW YORK REVIEW.

No. XX.

APRIL, 1842.

ART. I. The Life of Archbishop Laud.

By CHARLES WEBB LE BAS, M. A., Professor in the East India College, Herts, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. London: 1836.

AMONG the mightiest dramas which the world has ever witnessed, may surely be classed that revolution which, in England, for a time prostrated the power of the Stuarts, hewed the throne down to a block, and subjected the Church to be trampled on by a party which hated its time-honored services. If we regard the high motives enlisted in this contest, the principles which were at stake, and the momentous consequences depending on its result, we must feel that it will be invested with a still increasing interest, as long as the English language shall continue to be spoken.

Nearly two centuries have now elapsed since these events took place. Six generations, too, have passed away since these busy actors "lived and moved and had their being," and we now know them only as their deeds are written on the page of history. It is surely time, therefore, that we form our estimate of these changes, unbiased by any whispers of prejudice. Yet the reality is far different. We question much whether this generation is, on the whole, more competent to form an impartial verdict, than were those whose fathers

had fought for the king at Newbury, or those who rejoiced when the man Charles Stuart," (as they contemptuously called him,) died in front of his palace at Whitehall. We still read those histories which favor our previous views, and seldom seek in the cotemporaneous records of that day to discover on which side was the truth, when, for the sake of principle, a nation was divided, and old friends parted to meet no more, except on the field of battle under opposing banners.

And the same diversity of opinion prevails with regard to the leaders in those scenes. Cromwell is eulogized on the one side as a saint and statesman, while he is stigmatized on the other as a fanatic and a buffoon. So it is too with all the minor actors. The characters of Strafford and of Vane are to this day subjects of discussion, as they perhaps always will be. The monarchist of these times can scarcely admit that there was anything good in the ranks of the Puritans, while the dissenter sneers at the idea of any religion existing among the adherents of the king. That intolerant tory, Dr. Johnson, could not yield his tribute of praise, even to the divine genius of Milton, and declared that the admiration expressed for him was nothing but cant. When he sat down to write the life of the poet, he was looking, not at the bard, but at the secretary of Cromwell. He forgot the author of Paradise Lost and those noble sonnets which shall live, long as the language in which they are written, and he remembered only the bigoted politician who denounced the prelacy and justified the execution of Charles.

It is to a test equally unfair that Archbishop Laud has usually been subjected, and by a similar standard have his claims to greatness been tried. His name has indeed been a party one, even down to this day. Holding the highest office in the English Church when the hour of her trial came, believers in the same faith with himself have sympathized in his sufferings and often felt themselves bound to defend his whole career. While on the other side of the water he has enjoyed the honor of being canonized by the Oxford divines, a late publication in our own country speaks of him as "England's best friend and bishop, her martyr Laud."* Were we to believe all we read, we should come to the conclusion that he was, even in this life, a striking instance of a

* The Origin and Compilation of the Prayer Book. Philadelphia, 1841.