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 — 7 editions
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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

by William Prynne First published in 1641 — 6 editions

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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 — 6 editions

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soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes: divided into foure parts together with an appendix : wherein the superiority of our owne and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates (collectively considered), over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced ...

by William Prynne First published in 1643 — 5 editions

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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 of the Tower of London ...

by William Prynne First published in 1670 — 4 editions

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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 both to the King and subjects, the Parliaments and Sir John Hothams proceedings at Hull in the militia justified, Sr. John. Hothams actions provedto be neither treason, felony nor trespass... : with a most serious exhortation both to the King and subjects to embrace and preserve peace and abandon civil warres, with other matters worthy of consideration.

by William Prynne First published in 1642 — 4 editions

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The Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme: where in 7 anti-Arminian orthodox tenents 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 the Reformation to this present

by William Prynne First published in 1629 — 3 editions

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Healthes sicknesse: or, a compendious and briefe discourse, proving the drinking and pledging of healthes to be sinfull and utterly unlawfull unto Christians : ...

by William Prynne First published in 1628 — 3 editions

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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 — 3 editions

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Newes from Ipswich: discovering certaine late detestable practices of some domineering Lordly Prelates, to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our church, extirpate all orthodoxe sincere preachers, and preaching of Gods word, usher in popery, superstition, and idolatry; with their late notorious purgations of the new fast book, contrarie to his Majesties proclamation, and their intolerable affront therein offered to the most illustrious Lady Elizabeth, the Kings only sister, and her children (even whiles they are now loyall entertained at court) in blootting [sic] them out of the collect; and to His Majestie, his Queene, and their Royall Progeny, in blotting them out of the number of Gods elect. --

by William Prynne First published in 1636 — 3 editions

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opening of the great seale of England

by William Prynne First published in 1643 — 3 editions

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perpetuitie of a regenerate mans estate: Wherein it is manifestly proved by sundry arguments, reasonsand authorities that such as are once truly regenerated and ingrafted into Christ by a lively faith, can neither finally nor totally fall from grace ....

by William Prynne First published in 1626 — 3 editions

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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 — 3 editions

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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 — 3 editions

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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 — 3 editions

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A Fvll Reply To certaine briefe Observations and Anti-Queries On Master Prynnes twelve Questions about Church-Government: Wherein the Frivolousnesse, Falsenesse, and grosse Mistakes of this Anonymous Answerer and his weak grounds for Independency, and Separation, are modestly discovered, refelled. Together with certaine briefe Animadversions on Mr. Iohn Goodwins Theomachia, in justification of Independency examined, and of the Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction and Rights of Parlia- ment, which he fights against

by William Prynne First published in 1644 — 2 editions

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The Antipathie Of The English Lordly Prelacie, Both To Regall Monar- chy, And Civill Unity: Or, An Historicall collection of the severall exe- crable Treasons, Conspiracies, Rebellions, Sediti- ons, State-schismes, Contumacies, oppressions, & Anti-mo- narchicall practices, of our English, Brittish, French, Scot- tish, & Irish Lordly Prelates, against our Kings, Kingdomes, Laws, Liber- ties; and of the severall Warres, and Civill Dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our Realm, in former and latter ages. Together with the Judgement of our owne ancient Writers, & most judicious Authors, touching the pretended Divine jurisdiction, the Calling, Lordlinesse, Temporalties, Wealth, Secular imployments, Trayterous practises, unprofitablenesse, and mischievousnesse of Lordly Prelates, both to King, State, Church; with an Answer to the chiefe Objections made for the Di- vinity, or continuance of their Lordly Function. The first Part

by William Prynne First published in 1641 — 2 editions

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An excellent receipt to make a compleat common-wealth-oleo, or (if you please) a new senate fitted to the English-man's palate

by William Prynne First published in 1659 — 2 editions

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A breife memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto: touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute Charles Stewart, their lawful King

by William Prynne First published in 1649 — 2 editions

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Brevia parliamentaria rediviva: in XIII. sections, conteining several catalogues of the numbers, dates of all bundles of original writs of summons and elections, newly found, or formerly extant in the Tower of London ... Most of which ... hitherto unknown, were lately discovered, and here published for the benefit of posterity.

by William Prynne First published in 1662 — 2 editions

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English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure

Born	1600
Died	1669

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Library of Congress Names: n79061041
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