William Prynne, English lawyer and author (born 1600)

William Prynne

English lawyer, author and politician (1600–1669)

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 (1633–1645). His views were Presbyterian, but he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing…