Prynne was also one of the counsel for the parliament at the trial of Lord Maguire in February 1645.

They are entertained with the usual college theatricals, including productions of William Strode's allegory The Floating Island ( with music by Henry Lawes ), which mocks William Prynne as the play-hating Melancholico ; George Wilde's Love's Hospital ; and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave ( also with music by Lawes, and design by Inigo Jones ).

They were also important for the development of innovative British poetry since the 1960s, as evidenced by such poets as Tom Raworth and J. H. Prynne.

He was also apparently at this time much mixed up in the tortuous negotiations with the papacy which were conducted through Gregorio Panzani ; at the same time Montagu was asking license for his son to visit Rome, and the matter became in the hands of William Prynne a plausible accusation of romanising.

She reunited with Alan Rickman in a revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives ( 2001 – 2002 ), and won a Tony Award for Best Actress and a second Olivier Award for her performance as Amanda Prynne — she was also nominated the same year for her role in Mouth To Mouth by Kevin Elyot.

Notable also was the brutality which characterized his conduct as chief justice, particularly in the cases of William Prynne and John Langton.

In April 1648 Prynne accompanied Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke when he came as chancellor of Oxford to expel recalcitrant heads of houses.

Similarly, when the Protector set up a House of Lords, Prynne expanded the tract in defence of their rights which he had published in 1648 into an historical treatise of five hundred pages.

Prynne, girt with an old basket-hilted sword, marched into Westminster Hall at their head ; though the effect was spoiled when Sir William Waller tripped on the sword.

He steadily investigated the muniments of all the colleges, and in 1667 made his first journey to London, where he visited William Dugdale, who introduced him into the Cottonian Library, and William Prynne showed him the same civility for the Tower records.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter opens with an account of the author himself finding the letter and records which tell the story of Hester Prynne, which is narrated in the rest of the book.

In 1641, the Long Parliament, led by John Pym and inflamed by the severe treatment of John Lilburne, as well as that of other religious dissenters such as William Prynne, Alexander Leighton, John Bastwick and Henry Burton, abolished the Star Chamber with an Act of Parliament, the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.

His brother George Fellowes Prynne carved the Reredos with St Anselm and St George in the niches.

Leading poets associated with this movement include J. H. Prynne, Eric Mottram, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Lee Harwood.

Prynne was pilloried on 30 June in company with Henry Burton and John Bastwick, and Prynne was handled barbarously by the executioner.

Prynne supported the Restoration, and was rewarded with public office.

A young woman, named Hester Prynne, has been led from the town prison with her infant daughter in her arms, and on the breast of her gown " a rag of scarlet cloth " that " assumed the shape of a letter.

This book, together with his insistence on points of ritual in his cathedral church and his friendship with William Laud, exposed Cosin to the hostility of the Puritans ; and the book was criticised by William Prynne and Henry Burton.

Jeremy Halvard Prynne ( born June 24, 1936 ) is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival.

*' Rich in Vitamin C ', poem by J. H. Prynne, with a commentary by John Kinsella ( Jacket # 6, January 1999 )

The poets and writers who contributed and / or corresponded with the Intelligencer included Tom Raworth, Douglas Oliver, Lee Harwood, Jim Burns, Tom Pickard, Elaine Feinstein, Barry MacSweeney, John James, J. G. Ballard, Donald Davie, J. H. Prynne, John Riley, C. H. Sisson, Chris Torrance, Gael Turnbull, Jeff Nuttall.

Before A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, most anti-theatre pamphlets were merely nondescript diatribes ( e. g. William Prynne ’ s Histriomastix ( 1633 )), but with his innovative techniques, Collier comprehensively indicted the entire Restoration stage ( Cordner 215 ).

Bastwick with Prynne was a hard-liner on the Presbyterian side ; Burton wanted a less harsh approach, and by then Lilburne was a very popular Independent, beginning to found the Levellers.

( E. g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and John Dryden.

On 27 December when the parliament was again restored after its interruption by John Lambert, Prynne and his friends made a fresh attempt to enter, but were once more excluded.

The participants, including the Pickards, MacSweeney, Andrew Crozier, John James, John Temple, Pete Armstrong, Tim Longville, Peter Riley, John Hall, J. H. Prynne and Nick Waite, stayed in a group of four cottages in the village of Sparty Lea.

The Cambridge poets were a group centred around J. H. Prynne and included Andrew Crozier, John James, Douglas Oliver, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Peter Riley, Tim Longville and John Riley.

*' An introduction to the poetry of J. H. Prynne ', by Rod Mengham and John Kinsella ( Jacket # 7, April 1999 )

*' Socialist poetry of the 1960s: Prynne, John James, David Chaloner ' ( Angel Exhaust # 13 )

The witchfinder, Matthew Hopkins, John Desborough, parliamentarian general, and William Prynne, lawyer, all make appearances, and the character of Sidrophel is variously seen as either William Lilly or Paul Neale.

Among agitators imprisoned there by the British government were William Prynne and John Lilburne.

An example is the branding on both cheeks of William Prynne in 1637 for seditious libel.

A second time ( 18 June 1645 ) Prynne caused Lilburne to be brought before the same committee, on a charge of publishing unlicensed pamphlets, but he was again dismissed unpunished.

About 1624 Prynne had begun a book against stage-plays ; on 31 May 1630 he obtained a license to print it, and about November 1632 it was published.

Prynne was pilloried on 7 May and 10 May.

The purged Prynne protested in letters to Lord Fairfax, and by printed declarations on behalf of himself and the other arrested members.

In the debate on the bill Prynne asserted the rights of Charles II of England and claimed that the writs should be issued in his name.

Prynne died unmarried on 24 October 1669.

He made a bitter attack on William Prynne, who had attacked the stage in Histriomastix, and, when in 1634 a special masque was presented at Whitehall by the gentlemen of the Inns of Court as a practical reply to Prynne, Shirley supplied the text — The Triumph of Peace.

* Hester Prynne was loosely based on Hawthorne's wife, Sofia Peabody.

In Histriomastix, his 1632 polemic against the drama, William Prynne records the tale that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance of Faustus, " to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators ".

" But the attack on the Jews by Prynne and others could not go unanswered.

He was one of the committee of twenty-one appointed to suggest legal reforms, and he published his ideas on this subject, which included a register of wills and land titles and the destruction afterwards of the ancient records, in his tract, " Good Work for a Good Magistrate " ( in 1651 ), answered by R Vaughan and Prynne.