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William Prynne

Born: 1600

Died: 1669

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Born: 1600

Died: 1669

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

1633

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

1641

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 ... 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 forever to abominate it, as apparently tending to publike ruin, their own temporal and eternal condemnation

1659

The 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 ...

1643

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 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.

1642

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.

1670

The 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 ....

1626

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.

1628

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

1629

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. --

1636

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 petitions, speeches, cariages at the hearing and execution of their last sentences ... : the proceeddings [sic] against the Chestermen and others before the lords and high commissioners at Yorke for visiting Mr. Pryane : the Bishop of Chesters order, for ministers to preach against M. Pryane ... : the House of Commons order for, and manner of their returnes from exile, their petitions to the Parliament, the votes of the Commons House upon the report of their cases declaring the proceedings and censures against them illegall groundiesse and against the subjects liberty 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 [?] ..

1641

The opening of the Great Seale of England: containing certain brief historicall and legall observations, touching the originall, antiquity, progresse, use, necessity of the Great Seal of the kings and kingdoms of England, in respect of charters, patents, writs, commissions, and other processe : together with the kings, kingdoms, parliaments severall interests in, and the power over the same, and over the Lord Chancellour, and the lords and keepers of it, both in regard of its new-making, custody, administration for the better execution of publike justice, the republique necessary safety and utility : occasioned by the over-rash censures of such who inveigh against the Parliament for ordering a new Great Seale to be engraven, to supply the wilfull absence, defects, abuses of the old, unduely withdrawne and detained from them

1643

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

1644

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 ...

1650

A seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen: with a chronological collection of their strenuous defenses ...

1657

The perpetuitie of a regenerate mans estate VVherein it is manifestly proued: that such as are once truely regenerated and ingrafted into Christ by a true and liuely faith, can neither finally nor totally fall from grace. As also, that this hath been the receiued and resolued doctrine, of the ancient fathers; of the Protestant churches beyond the seas; of the Church of England, and of all orthodox and solid writers both forraine and domestique. All the principall arguments that are, or may bee objected against it, eyther from Scripture, or from reason, are heere likewise cleared and answered

1627

William Prynne, William Jones

Healthes: sicknesse. Or, A compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking, and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and vtterly vnlawfull vnto Christians by arguments, Scriptures, fathers, moderne diuines, Christian authors, historians, councels; imperiall lawes and constitutions; and by the voyce, and verdict of prophane, and heathen writers: wherein all those ordinary obiections, excuses, or pretences which are made to iustifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking, or pledging of healthes, are likewise cleared and answered

1628

William Prynne, Augustine Matthewes

The unlovelinesse of lovelockes

1628

God, no impostor nor deluder, or, An answer to a popish and Arminian cauill, in the defence of free-will, and vniuersall grace: wherein God's tender of grace by the outward ministry of the gospel, to reprobates who neither doe, nor can receiue it, is vindicated from those aspersions of equiuocation, falsitie, and collusion, which some by way of obiection, cast vpon it

1629

Histrio-mastix the players scourge, or, Actors tragaedie : divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture, of the whole primitive church, both under the law and Gospell, of the 55 synodes and councels, of the 71 fathers and Christian writers before the yeare of our Lord 1200, of above 150 foraigne and domestique protestant and popish authors since, of 40 heathen philosophers, historians, poets : of many heathen, many Christian nations, republiques, emperors, princes, magistrates, of sundry apostolicall, canonicall, imperiall constitutions, and of our owne English statutes, magistrates, universities, writers, preachers : that popular stage-playes (the very pompes of the divell which we renounce in baptisme, if we beleeve the fathers) are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions : condemned in all ages as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men : and that the profession of play-poets, of stage players, together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians : all pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered, and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academical enterludes briefly discussed, besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you

1633

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

1636

William Prynne, George Anderson

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.

1636

Briefe instructions for church-wardens and others to observe in all episcopall or archdiaconall visitations and spirituall courts.

1637

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, Anti-Monarchi- call practices, & oppressions of our English, Brittish, French, Scottish, and Irish Lordly Prelates, against our Kingdomes, Lawes 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

1641

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, ... the proccedings against the Chestermen, ... the House of Commons order for, and manner of their returnes from exile, ... the votes of the Commons House upon the report of their cases ... are truly related ...

1641

Movnt-Orgveil: 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 VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed

1641

A vindication of Psalme 105.15 ... from some false glosses lately obtruded on it by royalists : Proving, that this divine inhibition was given to kings, not subjects ... : With a briefe exhortation to peace and unity

1642

A vindication of Psalme 105.15, touch not mine anoynted, and doe my prophets no harme, form some false glosses lately obtruded on it by royallists: proving that this divine inhibition was given to kings not subjects : to restraine them from injuring and oppressing Gods servants and their subjects : who are Gods anoynted as well as kings : and that it is more unlawfull for kings to plunder and make war upon their subjects by way of offence then for subjects to take up armes against kings in such cases by way of defence : with a briefe exhortation to peace and unity

1642

Vox populi, or, The peoples humble discovery of their own loyaltie and His Maiesties ungrounded iealousie

1642

The popish royall favourite: or, A full discovery of his majesties extraordinary favours to, and protections of notorious Papists, priests, Jesuits ... manifested by sundry Letters of Grace, warrants, and other writings under the Kings owne signe-manuall ... collected and published by authority of parliament.

1643

The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Soverajgnes, in Doctrine and Practise: Together with An exact Parallel of the Jurisdiction ... claimed and exercised by our Popish Parliaments ... in former times, with those now claimed and practised by the present Parliament, Lords and Commons ... : Wherein likewise the Traiterous ... Practises and Attempts of Papists upon their Soveraignes Prerogatives ... with the dangerous consequences ... of their present illegall Arming ... are briefly discovered ... And a briefe Exhortation to extirpate Popery&Papists, who else will speedily roote out Us, and our Religion; as the onely propable meanes of obtaining that settled Peace we all desire

1643

The soveraigne povver 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, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his counsell, royallists, malignants, delinquents, papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars.

1643

Twelve considerable serious questions touching church government: sadly propounded (out of a reall desire of unitie and tranquillity in church and state) to all sober-minded Christians, cordially affecting a speedy setled reformation and brotherly Christian union in all our churches and dominions, now miserably wasted with civill unnatural wars, and deplorably lacerated with ecclesiasticall dissentions

1644

A moderate apology against a pretended calumny: In answerto some passages in The preheminence (sic) of Parlement. Newly published by James Howell ... Wherein a reason is rendered, why The Popish royall favourite stiled him, no friend to parliaments, and a màlignant. And the copy of a letter written by George Gage from Rome to King Iames, inserted

1644

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

1644

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

1644

A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandering-blasing stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves new-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions: Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament,in speciall. Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegall, tyrannicall proceedings of some Independents there

1645

Canterburies doome: or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Lavd, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury ...

1646

Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury: containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world

1646

Mr. Prynnes demand of his liberty to the Generall, Decemb. 26, 1648: with his answer thereto, and his declaration and protestation thereupon.

1648

A briefe memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute, Charles Steward, their lawfull King.

1648

A remonstrance and declaration of severall counties, cities, and burroughs against the unfaithfulness, and late unwarrantable proceedings of some of their knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament: with their dissents thereunto, and revocation and resumption of their power therein.

1648

A brief apologie for all nonsubscribers, and looking-glasse for all apostate perjured prescribers & subscribers of the new engagement: wherein they may clearly behold their presidents, sin, horrour, punishment.

1649

A briefe memento to the present un-parliamentary junto: touching their present intentions and proceedings, to depose & execute Charles Steward, their lawfull King. By William Prynne Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons, and prisoner under the Armies tyranny; who, it seemes, have levyed war against the Houses of Parliament, their quandam-masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine captives, during their lawfull pleasures

1649

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

1649

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

1649

A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred remitter into England: Comprising, an exact chronological relation of their first admission ... and their total, final banishment by iudgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians and records

1656

The Lords Supper briefly vindicated: and clearly demonstrated by Scripture and other authorities, to be a grace-begetting, soul-converting (as well as confirming) ordinance ...

1657

Demophilos, or the assertor of the peoples liberty: plainly demonstrating by the principles even of natureitself, and by the primitive constitutions of all governments since the creation of the world. That the very essence and the fundamental of all governments and laws, was meerly the safety of the people, and the advancement of their rightsand liberries [sic.]. To which is added the general consent of all Parliaments in the nation ...

1658

The remainder, or second part of a Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the antient setled maintenance and tithes of the ministers of the Gospel: wherein the divine right of our ministers tithes is further asserted ...

1659