Humphrey Lynde
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Sir Humphrey Lynde was an English lay Puritan controversialist and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626.
Twickenham Meadows, engraving by John Landseer after John Webber (detail)
William Prynne
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William Prynne, an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. His views were Presb
Illustration of Prynne by Wenceslaus Hollar
The title page of Prynne's The First and Second Part of a Seasonable, Legal, and Historicall Vindication, and Chronological Collection of the Good, Old, Fundamentall Liberties, Franchises, Rights, Laws of All English Freemen [...] (2nd ed., 1655), one of the works published when Prynne was in Swainswick
The title page of Prynne's The First Part of a Brief Register, Kalendar and Survey of the Several Kinds, Forms of All Parliamentary VVrits (1st ed., 1659). Prynne went on to publish another three parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664.