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William, son of Thomas Prynne and Marie Sherston, was born in 1600 in Swainswick, England.
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William, son of Thomas Prynne and Marie Sherston, was born in 1600 in Swainswick, England.
He was educated at Bath Grammar School, matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, in 1618, obtained his B. A. in 1621, was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn the same year, and was called to the Bar in 1628.
After a year's imprisonment in the Tower Prynne was sentenced by the star chamber on the 17th of February 1634 to be imprisoned for life, and also to be fined £5000, expelled from Lincoln's Inn, rendered incapable of returning to his profession, degraded from his degree in the university of Oxford, and set in the pillory, where he was to lose both his ears.
Beginning his attacks on Arminian doctrine in 1627, he soon earned the enmity of William Laud.
He continued his pamphleteering in jail and in 1637 was again fined, sentenced to life imprisonment, deprived of the remainder of his ears, and branded with the letters S. L. (for seditious libeler).
During the English civil war, Prynne strongly supported the parliamentary cause in his writings and took a vindictive part in prosecuting his old enemy, Laud.
In defending his moderate theological position, however, he found himself opposing both Presbyterians and Independents.
He also came into conflict with John Milton over Milton's advocacy of divorce.
He was removed to Carnarvon Castle, and thence to Mont Orgueil Castle in Jersey, where he occupied himself in writing against popery.
Immediately upon the meeting of the Long Parliament in 1640 Prynne was liberated.
In 1643 he took an active part in the proceedings against Nathaniel Fiennes for the surrender of Bristol, and showed a vindictive energy in the prosecution of Archbishop Laud.
He manipulated the evidefice against him, and having been entrusted with the search of Laud's papers, he published a garbled edition of the archbishop's private " Diary, " entitled A Breviate of the Life of Archbishop Laud.
Prynne took the side of the parliament against the army in 1647, supported the cause of the eleven impeached members, and visited the university of Oxford as one of the parliamentary commissioners.
Prynne entered Parliament in 1648; but he opposed the demand of the army for the execution of Charles I and so was expelled in Pride's Purge.
He wrote attacks against the Commonwealth, for which he was imprisoned (1650–53), and against the Protectorate, and later supported the Restoration of Charles II.
On the restoration of the Rump Parliament by the army of the 7th of May 1659 fourteen of the secluded members, with Prynne among them, claimed admittance.
The claim was refused, but on the 9th, through the inadvertence of the doorkeepers, Prynne, Annesly and Hungerford succeeded in taking their seats.
When they were observed the house purposely adjourned for dinner.
In the afternoon the doors were found guarded; the secluded members were not permitted to pass, and a vote was at once taken that they should not again be allowed to enter the house.
In England's Confusion, published on the 30th of May 1659, in the True and Full Narrative, and in The Brief Necessary Vindication, he gave long accounts of the attempt to enter the house and of his ejection, while in the Curtaine Drawne he held up the claims of the Rump to derision.
In 1660 he became keeper of the records of the Tower of London.
Indemnity.
He was foremost in support of the claims of the Presbyterians and against the bishops; advocated the indiscriminate infliction of penalties, and demanded that the officials of the commonwealth should be compelled to refund their salaries.
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He opposed violently the Presbyterian system, and denied the right of any Church to excommunicate except by leave of the state.
Prynne died unmarried.