William Prynne (1600 – 24 October 1669), an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church...

Prynne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:: William Prynne (1600–1669), English Puritan statesman George Fellowes Prynne (1853–1927)...

Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors...

1637) for printing and circulating unlicensed books, particularly William Prynne's News from Ipswich, that were not licensed by the Stationers' Company...

opponents such as William Prynne made him deeply unpopular. Laud was born at Reading, Berkshire, on 7 October 1573, the only son of William Laud, a clothier...

theatre and actors, written by the Puritan author and controversialist William Prynne. While the publishing history of the work is not absolutely clear, Histriomastix...

and in 1637 still other Puritans, John Bastwick, Henry Burton, and William Prynne. In Scotland one of the Covenanters, James Gavin of Douglas, Lanarkshire...

sometimes occurred as a standalone punishment (such as in the case of William Prynne for seditious libel), where criminals' ears would be cut off with a...

"abominable" practice of individuals toasting each other's health. William Prynne, the most rabid of the Puritan anti-toasters, wrote a book on the subject...

judgments favourable to the king, for example when Archbishop Laud had William Prynne branded on both cheeks through its agency in 1637 for seditious libel...

used. It was claimed by William Prynne that the new declaration was written by Charles' new Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, but Laud denied this...

"adulterate" male gender. Further tracts followed, and 50 years later William Prynne who described a man whom cross-dressing had caused to "degenerate" into...

concern to Puritan ministers on both sides of the Atlantic. In England, William Prynne and in New England, Roger Williams both denounced lovelocks from their...

first known appearance in English literature. The maxim was used by William Prynne in "Fresh Discovery of Prodigious Wandering New-Blazing Stars" (1646)...

England was fought in a pamphlet war. Conservative opponents including William Prynne opposed the return while the Quaker Margaret Fell was in favour. Christian...

the growth of antisemitism during the debate. This featured Puritan William Prynne writing in opposition and Margaret Fell, a founder of the Religious...

around them. In Histriomastix, his 1632 polemic against the drama, William Prynne records the tale that actual devils once appeared on the stage during...

Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then...

complained he had them arrested. In 1637, John Bastwick, Henry Burton, and William Prynne had their ears cut off for writing pamphlets attacking Laud's views...

roast meat only once a week. Similar proceedings were taken against William Prynne for his Histrio-Mastix, and Henry Burton for "seditious" sermons. Bastwick's...

or scourge. A well-known example is the 1632 book Histriomastix by William Prynne, against theatre, which caused legal proceedings against him because...

inflicting degrading punishments on gentlemen. For example, in 1637 William Prynne, Henry Burton and John Bastwick were pilloried, whipped and mutilated...

the need to send Christian preachers to the Jews. The Presbyterian William Prynne, in contrast to the Congregationalist Cromwell, was strongly opposed...

Burton (1578–1648), was an English puritan. Along with John Bastwick and William Prynne, Burton's ears were cut off in 1637 for writing pamphlets attacking...

novelist (d. 1674) Anna Alojza Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1654) William Prynne, English Puritan politician (d. 1669) Brian Walton, English bishop and...

doubts of earlier antiquaries, such as John Selden (1584–1654) and William Prynne (1600–1669). Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804–78) was a prominent historian...

surrounding William Prynne and his Histriomastix. Prynne's attack on women actors as "notorious whores" was taken as a direct insult to the Queen. Prynne denied...

tail". In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville quoted the speculations of jurist William Prynne, that the queen received the tail, in order to be supplied with whalebone...

vengée (The Flirt Avenged) Richard Lovelace – Lucasta (posthumous) William Prynne – Parliamentary Writs (further parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664) Johann...

play The Spartan Lady is performed, but has since been lost. May 7 – William Prynne is sentenced by the Star Chamber in England to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment...