Prynne, William

Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon several subjects whereto is premis d a discourse about such kind of thoughts (London, 1665), p. 172. For the initial prompt for this discussion of twinkling stars, see J. H. Prynne, Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words , William Matthews Lecture, Birkbeck, University of London, 1993. Prynne addresses this passage on p. 47. 

J. H. Prynne, Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words , William Matthews Lecture, Birkbeck, University of London, 1993... 

William Prynne, Histriomastix The Player s Scourge (London, 1633), 467 and 3 8. 

The most famous exercise in this respect was to be Thomas Edwards Gangraem or a catalogue and discovery of many of the errors, heresies, blasphemies and pernicious practices of the Sectaries, which was published in three parts in 1646, beginning in February. But there were already other books attacking Independents and Sectaries, by authors like William Prynne and John Bastwick (puritan martyrs who had had their ears clipped in 1639 by the bishops) and by Robert Baillie, a Scots commissioner in London. 

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