William Prynne

English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure

Born	1600
Died	1669

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Histriomastix.: With a pref. for the Garland ed. by Arthur Freeman.

by William Prynne First published in 1633
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Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations: raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed a poeticall description of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy ... (Motto.).

by William Prynne First published in 1641
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The re-publicans and others spurious good old cause, briefly and truly anatomized: To preserve our native country, kingdom, legal government, Church, parliaments, laws, liberties, privileges of Parliament, and Protestant religion from ruine, scandal, and perpetual infamy; to reform, reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced republicans, officers, soldiers, sectaries, heretofore, or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled good old cause, from any future pursute thereof, and engage them for ever to abominate it, as apparently tending to publike ruin, their own temporal and eternal condemnation, infamy, our religions reproach, in present and succeeding ages. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.

by William Prynne First published in 1659
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The soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes: divided into fovre parts. Together with an appendix

by William Prynne First published in 1643
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The history of King John, King Henry III, and the most illustrious King Edward the I.: Wherein the ancient sovereign dominion of the kings of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, over all persons in all causes, is asserted and vindicated, against all incroachments, and innovations whatsoever. The mistakes in some printed statutes, cannonists, law-books, histories, &c. and other matters of moment, are rectified, and rescued from oblivion. Collected out of the ancient records in the Tower of London: and now published for the better advancement of learning, maintainance of the kings supremacy, the subjects liberties, and the law of the realm, &c. ...

by William Prynne First published in 1670
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A soveraign antidote to prevent, appease, and determine our unnaturall and destructive civill warres and dissentions: wherein divers serious considerations tending to this purpose are propounded to both the the King and subjects, the Parliaments and Sir Iohn Hothams proceedings at Hull and in the militia justified : Sr. Iohn Hothams actions proved to be neither treason, felony, nor trespas, by the laws of the land, nor any just ground or cause at all for His Majestie to raise an army, or a more unnaturall civill warre in his kingdome : with a most serious exhortation both to the King and subjects to embrace and preserve peace and abandon civill warres with other matters worthy of consideration

by William Prynne First published in 1642
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Healthes sicknesse: or, A compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and utterly unlawfull unto Christians; by arguments, Scriptures, fathers, moderne diuines, Christian authors ... imperiall lawes and constitutions; and by the voyce, and verdict of prophane, and heathen writers.

by William Prynne First published in 1628
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Romes master-peece, or, The grand conspiracy of the Pope and his iesuited instruments, to extirpate the Protestant religion, re-establish popery, subvert lawes, liberties, peace, parliaments, by kindling a civill war in Scotland, and all His Majesties realmes, and to poyson the King himselfe in case hee comply not with them in these their execrable designes: revealed out of conscience to Andreas ab Habernfeld, by an agent sent from Rome into England, by Cardinall Barbarino, as an assistant to con the Popes late nuncio, to prosecute this most execrable plot, (in which he persisted a principall actor severall yeares) who discovered it to Sir William Boswell His Majesties agent at the Hague, 6 Sept. 1640. he, under an oath of secrecie, to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury (among whose papers it was casually found by Master Prynne, May, 31. 1643) who communicated it to the King, as the greatest businesse that ever was put to him

by William Prynne First published in 1644
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Historiarchos, or, The exact recorder: being the most faithfull remembrancer of the most remarkable transactions of estate and of all the English lawes ... : as most elabourately they are collected ... out of the antiquities of the Saxon and Danish kings, unto the coronation of William the Conqueror, and continued unto the present government of Richard, now Lord Protector

by William Prynne First published in 1657
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Newes from Ipswich: discovering certaine late detestable practises of some domineering lordly prelates, to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our church, extirpate all orthodox sincere preachers and preaching of Gods word, usher in popery, superstition and idolatry : with their late notorious purgations of the new fastbooke, contrary to His Majesties proclamation, and their intolerable affront therein offred to the most illustrious Lady Elizabeth, the Kinge onely sister, and her children, (even vvhiles they are novv royally entertained at court) [i]n blotting them out of the collect, and to His Majesty, His Queene, and their royall progeny, in blotting them out of the number of Gods elect

by William Prynne First published in 1636
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A new discovery of the prelates tyranny, in their late prosecutions of Mr. William Pryn, an eminent lawyer, Dr. Iohn 'Bastwick, a learned physitian, and Mr. Henry Burton, a reverent divine: wherein the separate, and joynt proceedings against them in the High-commission and Star-Chamber ... their removes to, and close imprisonments in the castles of Lanceston, Lancaster, Carnavan, and isles of Sylly, Garnsey and Jersy : the proceeddings against the Chestermen, and others before the lords, and high commissioners at Yorke, for visiting Mr. Prynne : the Bishop of Chesters order, for ministers to preach against M. Prynne, and the Yorke commissioners decree to deface, and burne his pictures at Chester High-Crosse : the House of Commons order for, and manner of their returnes from exile ... with M. Prynnes argument, proving all the parts of his censures, with the proceedings against him, and his Chester friends at York, to be against law, are truly related ...

by William Prynne First published in 1641
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The Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme.: Where in 7. Anti-Arminian orthodox tenets, are euidently proued; their 7. opposite Arminian (once Popish and Pelagian) errors are manifestly disproued, to be the ancient, established, and vndoubted doctrine of the Church of England; by the concurrent testimony of the seuerall records and writers of our church, from the beginning of her reformation to this present

by William Prynne First published in 1629
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The perpetuitie of a regenerate mans estate: Wherein it is manifestly proved: that such as are once truelyregenerated and ingrafted into Christ by a true and lively faith, can neither finally nor totally fall from grace....

by William Prynne First published in 1626
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The opening of the great seale of England

by William Prynne First published in 1643
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The time-serving Proteus, and ambidexter divine, uncased to the vvorld: containing two letters of M. John Dury (the great champion for the new ingagement, faithfully extracted out of the originalls under his own hand) : the first, to Joseph Hall, late Bishop of Exeter : the second, to William Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterbury : wherein he expresseth the reasons which moved him, not onely to scruple and dislike, but in some sort to renounce his ecclesiasticall orders and ministeriall function, formerly conferred on him in the reformed churches beyond the seas, because not given by a diœcesan bishop ..

by William Prynne First published in 1650
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A vindication of the imprisoned and secluded Members of the House of Commons: from the aspersions cast upon them, and the majority of the House, in a paper lately printed and published: intituled, An humble answer of the Generall Councel of the officers of the Army under his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, to the demands of the Honourable Commons of England in Parliament assembled: concerning the late securing or secluding some Members thereof

by William Prynne First published in 1649
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Demophilos, or, The assertor of the peoples liberty: plainly demonstrating by the principles even of nature itself, and by the primitive constitutions of all governments since the creation of the world that the very essence and the fundamentals of all governments and laws was meerly the safety of the people, and the advancement of their rights and liberties, to which is added the general consent of all Parliaments in the nation, and the concurrence of threescore and two kings since first this island was visible in earnest, and by commerce with other nations, hath been refined from fable and neglect

by William Prynne First published in 1658
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Vox populi, or, The peoples humble discovery of their own loyaltie and His Maiesties ungrounded iealousie

by William Prynne First published in 1642
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A vindication of Psalme 105:15: (touch not mine anoynted and doe my prophets no harme), from some false glosses lately obtruded on it by royallists, proving that this divine inhibition was given to kings ... with a brief exhortation to peace and unity

by William Prynne First published in 1644
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A looking-glasse for all lordly prelates: Wherein they may cleerely behold the true divine originall and laudable pedigree, whence they are descended; together with their holy lives and actions laid open in a double parallel, the first, betweene the Divell; the second, betweene the Iewish high-priests, and lordly prelates; and by their double dissimilitude from Christ, and his Apostles.

by William Prynne First published in 1636
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English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure

Born	1600
Died	1669

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OLID: OL323516A
ISNI: 0000000080819120
Library of Congress Names: n79061041
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): SBLV129255
VIAF: 2540641
Wikidata: Q4020129
Inventaire.io: wd:Q4020129

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