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Early in that struggle the interests of wealth allied themselves to, and were mixed with, the violent religious passions of Puritanism. ... Therefore, as the struggle increased in violence, Laud became the target for a double attack. He had repressed Puritanism in religion; he had supported personal monarchy in politics. His person was seized by the rebels, he was imprisoned, and at last they put him to death.

A hundred years before, he would have been essentially by temperament one of those naturally supporting the authority of the great Councils and thinking them superior to Rome. Yet it was for that very point, which he had himself doubted, that he consented to die. (St. Thomas More)