Key Dates after Laud is made Archbishop of Canterbury

1633

• Laud made Archbishop of Canterbury.

• Abolition of the feoffees of impropriations using the Star Chamber.

• Re-issue of the Jacobean Book of Sports, enforcing compliance with Sunday activities and targeting Puritan practices.

1632

Prynne's Histrio-mastix released, a Puritan critique of theatre and dramatic performance.

1634

• Irish Convocation adopts the Thirty-Nine Articles, aligning the Irish Church with England.

• All Scottish Bishops are made Justices of the Peace to regulate conformity in church and society.

1636

Scottish Canons promulgated, forcing Church laws on Scotland to align with the Church of England.

1637

• Trial of Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton—imprisoned for life for attacking the concept of bishops.

• Bishop Williams fined for attacking Laud's altar policy.

• Introduction of the new English prayer book in Edinburgh, leading to riots.

1638

• Liburne's trial for producing and circulating anti-Arminian pamphlets.

• National Covenant drawn up by Scottish Covenanters to defend Presbyterianism.

• Withdrawal of the English prayer book from Scotland and call of the Scottish Parliament, abolishing episcopacy.