‘That Bugbear Arminianism’: Archbishop Laud and Trinity College, Dublin

British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 135-160

  Ford, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511495731.009     Document Type: Chapter

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