William Prynne, an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-1645).
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Illustration of Prynne by Wenceslaus Hollar![The title page of Prynne's The First and Second Part of a Seasonable, Legal, and Historicall Vindication, and Chronological Collection of the Good, Old, Fundamentall Liberties, Franchises, Rights, Laws of All English Freemen [...] (2nd ed., 1655),[22] one of the works published when Prynne was in Swainswick](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/William_Prynne%2C_The_First_and_Second_Part_of_a_Seasonable%2C_Legal%2C_and_Historicall_Vindication_..._%282nd_ed%2C_1655%2C_First_and_Second_Part_title_page%29.jpg/1280px-William_Prynne%2C_The_First_and_Second_Part_of_a_Seasonable%2C_Legal%2C_and_Historicall_Vindication_..._%282nd_ed%2C_1655%2C_First_and_Second_Part_title_page%29.jpg)
The title page of Prynne's The First and Second Part of a Seasonable, Legal, and Historicall Vindication, and Chronological Collection of the Good, Old, Fundamentall Liberties, Franchises, Rights, Laws of All English Freemen [...] (2nd ed., 1655),[22] one of the works published when Prynne was in Swainswick![The title page of Prynne's The First Part of a Brief Register, Kalendar and Survey of the Several Kinds, Forms of All Parliamentary VVrits (1st ed., 1659).[34] Prynne went on to publish another three parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/William_Prynne%2C_The_First_Part_of_a_Brief_Register%2C_Kalendar_and_Survey_of_the_Several_Kinds%2C_Forms_of_All_Parliamentary_VVrits_%281st_ed%2C_1659%2C_title_page%29_-_20141120.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg)
The title page of Prynne's The First Part of a Brief Register, Kalendar and Survey of the Several Kinds, Forms of All Parliamentary VVrits (1st ed., 1659).[34] Prynne went on to publish another three parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664.Writers born in the 1600s 6
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William Prynne, an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-1645). His views were Presbyterian, but he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing for overall state control of religious matters.
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1600 to 1669 · aged 69
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11 languages
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