The copie of a letter sent from VVilliam Lavd, Archbishop of Canterbury, the 28 of June, MDCXLI, unto the Universitie of Oxford specifying his willingnesse to resigne his chancellor-ship, and withall deploring his sad estate now in the time of his imprisonship. Laud, William, 1573-1645. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49707 of text R23442 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L581). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. 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A49707) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 93544) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 254:E164, no 1) The copie of a letter sent from VVilliam Lavd, Archbishop of Canterbury, the 28 of June, MDCXLI, unto the Universitie of Oxford specifying his willingnesse to resigne his chancellor-ship, and withall deploring his sad estate now in the time of his imprisonship. Laud, William, 1573-1645. [2], 2 p. s.n.] [S.l. : 1641. A forgery of Laud's original letter. Not printed at Oxford. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library. eng Laud, William, 1573-1645. Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649. A49707 R23442 (Wing L581). civilwar no The copie of a letter sent from VVilliam Laud Archbishop of Canterbury the 28. of June MDCXLI. unto the Universitie of Oxford: specifying, h Laud, William 1641 443 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2002-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-02 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-03 TCP Staff (Michigan) Sampled and proofread 2002-03 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE COPIE OF A LETTER SENT From VVILLIAM LAVD Archbishop of Canterbury the 28. of June MDCXLI . unto the Universitie of OXFORD : SPECIFYING , His willingnesse to resigne his Chancellor-ship , And withall deploring his sad Estate now in the time of his Imprisonment . Printed in the yeare , 1641. The Arch-Bishops Letter to the University of OXFORD , declaring his willingnes to resigne up the Chancelorship . Dated June 28. 1641. MY present Condition is not unknowne to the whole world , yet by few pittied , or deplored ; The righteous God best knowes the justice of my sufferings , on whom both in life and death , I will ever depend , the last of which shall be most welcome , in that my life is now burthensome unto mee , my mind attended with sad , and grievious thoughts , my soule continually vexed with anxiety & trouble , groaning under the heavy burthen of a displeased Parliament ; my name disperst , and grossely abused by the multiplicity of Libellous Pamphlets , and my selfe bard from any wonted accesse to the best of Princes , and it is vox populi that I am Popishly affected : How earnest I have beene in my disputations , exhortations , and otherwise , to quench such sparks , least they should become coales . I hope after my decease , you will acknowledge , yet in the midst of my afflictions there is nothing hath so nearely touched me , as the remembrance of your free and joyfull acceptance of mee , to be your Chancellour , and that I am now shut up from being able to doe you that Service which you might justly expect from mee , when I first received this honour , I intended to have carryed it with mee to the Grave , neither were my hopes any lesse , since the Parliament by his Majesties Command , committed mee to this Royall Prison . But sith ( by reason of matters of greater consequence yet in hand ) the Parliament is pleased to procrastinate my triall , I do hereby as thankefully resigne my office of being Chancellour , as ever I received that dignity , intreating you to elect some honorable Person ; who upon all occasions may be ready to serve you ; I do beseech God to send you such a one as may doe all things for his glory , and the furtherance of your most famous University , This is the continuall Prayer of Your Dejected Friend and Chancellor , W. CANT. FINIS .