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Chapter II. William Prynne's Home and Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1877

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The home of William Prynne was one well suited for the nourishment of an earnest, serious spirit. That his father was a religious man is unquestionable. It is equally certain, from the explicit avowal of his theological opinions contained in the preface to his will, that, in the disputes of those days, he took the Puritan, or, as some people term it, the Calvinistic side. Such a man would be careful to teach his children and household to worship God in the way which he deemed right.

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Camden New Series , Volume 18: Documents Relating to the Proceedings against William Prynne, in 1634 and 1637. With a Biographical Fragment by the Late John Bruce , April 1877 , pp. viii - xxi
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1877

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page xi note a Autobiography, i. 46.

page xi note b Verney Papers, p. 210.

page xviii note a Dr. Miles Smith was celebrated for a wonderful knowledge of Hebrew and many other eastern languages. He and Bishop Bilson were the ultimate revisers of the authorised version of the Bible, and Dr. Smith wrote the preface to it. He never entered his cathedral after Dr. Laud's removal of the table and introduction of the practice of bowing towards it. (Wood's Athena, ed. Bliss, ii. 359 ; Heyling's Life of Laud, pp. 63, 64.)

page xx note a The Rev. John Tolson, the next master, proceeded immediately after his election to pull down a part of the old buildings of the college and lay out a legacy left by Dr. Blencowe for erecting the south and west side of the present fabric. The remainder of the present college was erected in 1637, mainly by the exertions of Dr. Tolson.

page xx note a Athenæ, Bliss's ed., iii. 179, 844.