William Prynne
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Prynne
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Puritan pamphleteer and later parliamentarian, author of 'Canterbury's Doome', cited as a documentary source.
Prynne’s Canterbury’s Doome, 88.
The Genius of the Common Law
Seventeenth-century controversialist who wrote against the readmission of the Jews under the Commonwealth.
Prynne, under the Commonwealth, wrote a violent controversial tract against their readmission, accepting all the medieval fables about sacrificial murder or circumcision of Christian children.