BASTWICK, JOHN (1593-1654)

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BASTWICK, JOHN (1593-1654) , English physician and religious zealot, was born at Writtle, in Essex, in 1.593, and after a brief education at

Cambridge

, wandered on the continent and graduated in

medicine

MEDICINE

at Padua. On his return he settled in Colchester. His celebrity rests on his strong opposition to the Roman Catholic ceremonial. About 1633 he printed in Holland two Latin treatises, entitled Elenchus Religionis Papisticae, and Flagellum Pontificis et Episcoporum Latialium; and as Laud and other English prelates thought themselves aimed at, he was fined i000 in the court of high commission, excommunicated and prohibited from practising physic, while his books were ordered to be burnt and the author himself consigned to prison. Instead of recanting, however, he wrote A pologeticus ad Praesules Anglicanos, and another hook called The Litany, in. which he exclaimed vehemently against the proceedings of the court, and charged the bishops with being the enemies of God and " the tail of the beast." William

Prynne

PRYNNE, WILLIAM (1600-1669)

and

Henry

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-chamber court at the same time, they were allcensured as turbulent and seditious persons; and condemned to pay a fine of 5000 each, to be set in the pillory, to lose their ears, and to undergo imprisonment for life in remote parts of the kingdom, Bastwick being sent to Scilly. The

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

in 164o reversed these proceedings, and ordered Bastwick a reparation of 50oo, out of the estates of the commissioners and lords who had sentenced him. He joined the parliamentary army, but in later years showed bitter opposition to the Independents. He died in the latter part of 1654.

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