William Prynne
English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure · Writers · Lived 1600 to 1669 · aged 69
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.About this person
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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Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1600 to 1669 · aged 69
