the spring of 1644, he was brought to trial which ended without a verdict: as with Strafford, it proved impossible to point to any specific action seen as treasonable. Parliament took up the issue and eventually passed a bill of attainder, under which Laud was beheaded on Tower Hill on 10 January 1645, notwithstanding being granted a royal pardon. Laud was buried in the chapel of St John's College, Oxford, his alma mater. Legacy Laud is remembered in the Church of England and the Episcopal Church with a commemoration on 10 January. His collected works in seven volumes were published between 1847 and 1860 in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology. Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, Patrick Collinson, an expert in Elizabethan Puritans, in 1980 published this rebuke of Laud in his book on the decades until 1625: "the greatest calamity ever visited upon the English Church". In September 2016, following King's School, Gloucester, Reading School named their newest students' division Laud House after him. The pun "give great praise to the Lord, and little Laud to the devil" is a joke attributed to Archibald Armstrong, Charles's court jester; Laud was known to be touchy about his diminutive stature. See also Lectionary 20 References Notes Citations Sources External links 1573 births 1645 deaths 17th-century Anglican archbishops Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Anglican saints Anglo-Catholic bishops Anglo-Catholic theologians Archbishops of Canterbury Arminian ministers Arminian theologians Bishops of Bath and Wells Bishops of London Bishops of St Davids Burials in Oxfordshire Chancellors of the University of Dublin Chancellors of the University of Oxford Deans of the Chapel Royal English Anglican theologians English Anglo-Catholics Executed people from Berkshire Executed priests Executions at the Tower of London People associated with the Bodleian Library People convicted under a bill of attainder People educated at Reading School People executed by Stuart England by decapitation People from Reading, Berkshire People from West Tilbury Presidents of St John's College, Oxford Prisoners in the Tower of London 17th-century Church of England bishops 17th-century Welsh Anglican bishops 17th-century Anglican theologians 16th-century Anglican theologians Impeached British officials