biography
pronunciation:
[prin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1600–69)
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| biography:
| Puritan pamphleteer, born in Swanswick, Somerset, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was called to the bar, but was early drawn into controversy. In 1633 appeared his Histrio-Mastix: the Players Scourge, which contained an apparent attack on the queen (Henrietta Maria); for this he was tortured, fined, and imprisoned. Released in 1640 by the Long Parliament, he prosecuted Laud (1644), and became an MP (1648). Purged from the House in 1650, he was again imprisoned (1650–2). After Cromwell's death he returned to parliament as a Royalist, for which he was made Keeper of the Tower Records. |
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