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Biographical Sketch
to use his influence with the Lutheran clergy, and advised Dury to go to England and lay his plans before the prelates, recommending him to Charles I, and influencing in his favour both the Puritan Archbishop Abbott and Bishop Laud. Dury was successful in England in so far that he was authorized to carry to Prussia the assurance of the coöperation of the English clergy in the recommendations that all parties abstain from disputes in the pulpit, from calling hard names and disturbing legal ceremonies of worship.
After a visit to Gustavus Adolphus, Dury undertook a tour of the Continent (1631-3), attend-
